metempsychosis

• The idea of metempsychosis was very much in vogue at this epoch. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• David Hume, the skeptical philosopher, dwells upon the weakness of the immortality of soul, even as he concludes that the metempsychosis is the only system of immortality concept that convinces.
• "[193 This passage contains the explanation of what might be called the metempsychosis of certain human souls at the present time; we once heard a great Teacher fully reveal this mystery to a chosen group of Hindus, but it must for some time to come remain a mystery to the western world. —  Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
• But that was always an exception, and the exception has long ago become an impossibility We think these explanations, along with those given in other portions of this work, will throw as much light as is permitted publicly on the subject of metempsychosis--a subject frequently discussed and one that has hitherto been so obscure. —  Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
• The great chorus of his interpreters, from Plotinus to Leroux, with scarcely a dissentient voice, approve the opinion pronounced by the learned German historian of philosophy, that "the conception of the metempsychosis is so closely interwoven both with his physical system and with his ethical as to justify the conviction that Plato looked upon it as legitimate and valid, and not as a merely figurative exposition of the soul's life after death." —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

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