transmigration

Philosophy majors might know that transmigration is a synonym for reincarnation.

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By Don Marquis, in "archy and mehitabel," 1927 listen to me i have been mobbed almost theres an old simp cockroach here who thinks he has been to hell and all the young cockroaches make a hero out of him and admire him he sits and runs his front feet through his long white beard and tells the story one day he says he crawled into a yawning cavern and suddenly came on a vast abyss full of whirling smoke there was a light at the bottom billows and billows of yellow smoke swirled up at him and through the horrid gloom he saw things with wings flying and dropping and dying they veered and fluttered like damned spirits through that sulphurous mist listen i says to him old man youve never been to hell at all there isn t any hell transmigration is the game i used to be a human vers libre poet and i died and went into a cockroach s body if there was a hell id know it wouldn t i you re irreligious says the old simp combing his whiskers excitedly ancient one i says to him while all those other cockroaches gathered into a ring around us what you beheld was not hell all that was natural some one was fumigating

the cockroach who had been to hell 1927

This is what is known as the transmigration of souls.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

To the educated Hindu, who may not consciously have rejected the idea of transmigration, the doctrine is really now no more than a current and convenient explanation of any misfortune that has befallen a person.

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

Bound up as the idea of transmigration has been with the pessimism and pantheism of India, we are prepared to find that it too is yielding.

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

This doctrine of re-birth is known as the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis).

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

They believe in what is called the transmigration of souls, or the passing of the soul, after death, into another body.

Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder

In criticism it may be said that the notion of transmigration is not primitive, for with Tylor Totemism is regarded as primitive.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Galilee is as much to say as transmigration, that is to say dying.

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

The Pantheistic tendency which possessed and overwhelmed the Brahminic mind, shaping and tinging its views opened the whole range of sentient existences to an indiscriminate sympathy, and made the idea of transmigration natural, and more pleasing than repugnant.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863