| 单词 | metempsychosis |
| 例句 | Taking up Corinthians, Ortberg trumpets transition as ecstatic metempsychosis: flesh as the anticipation of resurrection, “an opportunity in the hands of the Lord.” The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z As to how Maf came by his feeling for history or his fancy prose style, not to mention an impressive knowledge of the works of numerous philosophers, especially Plutarch, the answer, it seems, is metempsychosis. The Life and Opinions of Maf the?Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z This was the famous theory of metempsychosis, which has permeated the whole of the East, and has made a permanent impression upon every one of the native religions. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Perhaps there is not a single throne that, if it was to be filled by this sort of voluntary metempsychosis, would not remain empty. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z If I were half the Pythagorean that I used to be, I should believe they were souls in punishment—expiating some lifetime sin in this restless metempsychosis. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Animals are humanized—i. e., the kinship between animal and human life is still strongly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature, which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Rebirth, rē-bėrth′, n. a new entrance into a living form, according to the doctrine of metempsychosis. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z This metempsychosis permits the soul which has not fulfilledxvi its destiny here below to be purified and worthy of a re-union with God. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z "We shall not eat breakfast bacon for some time, for fear of getting a slice of the editor of the Saturday Review, in his self-sought appropriate metempsychosis." Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z More than that, they could return bodily and resume this earthly life in other forms; for belief in metempsychosis is a common one among all these tribes. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The magicians of the Tao religion, or Taoist priests, play a great part in these stories, and the Buddhist ideas of metempsychosis give the opportunity of more complicated situations than we dream of. Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures 2011-10-17T02:00:17.420Z Believing in the doctrine of metempsychosis, he claims to have descended from the mouth of the Supreme Brahm�, the Creator according to the Hindoo triad. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z This last doctrine takes with them, as with the Hindoos, the form of metempsychosis. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Bahais reject metempsychosis, but they have a doctrine of "Return," which must be borne in mind. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But this seems only the veil of an allegory designed to explain their dark doctrine of the metempsychosis. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Life has, indeed, many phases, love has many a metempsychosis. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z At this moment the consolation leaped up within my hero like a fountain, that he was to begin on Thursday his metempsychosis through nature,–his journey. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Moreover, metempsychosis in the Greek sense was never an Egyptian doctrine. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Moreover, Albano and Schoppe, in such a mutual metempsychosis of their ideas, and such a near relationship of their pride and nobility, held each other far more dear than they showed to each other. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Thus, by a sort of multiplex metempsychosis, were Mrs. Grundy's virtues perpetuated, and she was endowed with a species of omnipresence. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Hang the fellow! he’s enough to make one believe in metempsychosis, and think he was once a serpent. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z According to the Hindoos, who believe in the doctrine of metempsychosis, the spirit passes from one form to another. Heathen Mythology Thus it has been said— "It gives the farther shore of metempsychosis: it is called párada." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy The daemonology of Pythagoras, along with the doctrine of metempsychosis in its moral aspect, was adopted by Plato, whether as a serious theory or as a philosophic myth. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The best translation is thus a re-embodiment of the author's spirit, a real metempsychosis. Maxims and Reflections By some horrible law of metempsychosis had his old spirit passed into this too fashionable married flirt at his side? A Republic Without a President and Other Stories The number of human beings admits neither of increase nor of decrease, and a regular process of metempsychosis goes on continually. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Are we always to be pestered with your notions of metempsychosis? Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] His school, for we can hardly speak of himself, connected the doctrine of daemons with the doctrines of metempsychosis and purification and atonement in another world. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In the subsequent tableaux, Adam, by a kind of metempsychosis, had been changed into Bonichon, an owner of house property in the Paris of the nineteenth century. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Call me Lockman, and believe in the metempsychosis. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors It's all about the doctrine of mpoola—reincarnation, or, if you prefer, metempsychosis. Once a Greech The worship of them, of other birds and beasts, of insects and vipers as well, ecclesiastically indorsed, hid the myth of metempsychosis. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal This connects Buddhism with the doctrine of metempsychosis; a doctrine which the incarnations of Brahminism also suggest. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Have you not got rid of your ideas of metempsychosis yet, eh? The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 It was as if one of the spirits in the metempsychosis imagined by Fourier, had returned to the brilliant sphere from which death had driven him in temporary exile. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 The doctrine of metempsychosis, a form of the same idea, was held by the ancient Egyptians and is still maintained by the Buddhists. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Abruptly, the categories of the infinite, the infant gods, shapes divine and demoniac, the entire phantasmagoria of metempsychosis, seemed really absorbed and Brahm himself ablated. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The doctrine of metempsychosis is not found here, except perhaps in germ. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Like the "souls" in Ted's ingenious masterpiece, Audrey had suffered a metempsychosis, and her very memory was changed. Audrey Craven That the Greeks believed in the metempsychosis, in a state of beatitude for the just, and pains of a thousand years duration for the wicked. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Two and a half years at Murder Point had made Granger undogmatic on problems of metempsychosis, and of the extent to which the barriers which hedge in Man's spiritual life may be pushed back. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Let us take, for example, the doctrine of metempsychosis, or, as it is commonly called, the “transmigration of souls.” Religion in Japan Descriptions were also given, answering to the growing sense of personal responsibility, of the abodes of Hades and of the fate of souls there, and of the metempsychoses through which the soul must pass. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Ennius also believed in the Pythagorean theory of metempsychosis, and considered that his soul had animated the body of a peacock. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors We have, for instance, M. Pierre Leroux, most distinguished of the Humanitarians, the last sect which figures on the scene, bidding for disciples—with what, will our readers think?—with the doctrine of metempsychosis! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 As to the process of this salvation we are here taught, as in all Hindu writing, that it is attained through metempsychosis, or reincarnation. India, Its Life and Thought That the doctrine of metempsychosis should have been applied by Buddhists to their great Master himself, is only what we should expect to find. Religion in Japan You wouldn't think it, to look at me, but I believe in metempsychosis, in the transmigration of souls. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Aaron ben Elijah rejects metempsychosis on the ground that there is some relation between a soul and its body, and not every body can receive every soul. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The soul has its immortality only in an eternal metempsychosis--a cycle of life which sweeps through all the brute creation. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles I see absolutely no reason why this interminable process of metempsychosis should lead to the perfection of the soul rather than to its complete demoralization. India, Its Life and Thought The Brahman theosophist taught that all souls emanated from Brâhm and must return to their source along the way of metempsychosis. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ He is no Proteus, no Wizard of critical metempsychosis. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Transmigration of souls, a metempsychosis, deals solely with the passing of the soul after death into another mortal form. Werwolves On the other hand, his psychogony, based on the idea of metempsychosis borrowed from the Orient, gives itself up to numerical vagaries. Essay on the Creative Imagination Speaking of the Jewish Kaballists, an authority states: "Like Origen and other church Fathers, the Kaballists used as their main argument in favor of the doctrine of metempsychosis, the justice of God." Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect At the same time they held and taught to the Greeks the doctrine of metempsychosis. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 There are very few primitive folk, comparatively speaking, who believe in metempsychosis. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire So that although there is nothing to associate lycanthropy with metempsychosis, there is, at all events, something in common between lycanthropy and animism. Werwolves The term is derived from a religious sect in the East, who, believing in metempsychosis, eat of no creature endued with life. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As an ancient Grecian philosopher once said: "Without the doctrine of metempsychosis, it is not possible to justify the ways of God," and many other philosophers and theologians have followed him in this thought. Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect The new theory of metempsychosis saw the light about fifty years ago. Modern Saints and Seers In India Fate was rather an inevitable consequence of actions done in births antecedent to one's present state of existence, and was therefore connected with the doctrine of metempsychosis. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Possibly, I thought, the doctrine of the metempsychosis may be true, and this brute, in the early stages of its development, once have been in love. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive A prevalent kind of sorcery was that of lycanthropy, as it was called, a prejudice derived, it seems, in part from the Pythagorean metempsychosis. The Superstitions of Witchcraft The Druidic cult of belief in immortality, metempsychosis, ritual of the grove, augury, human sacrifice, is all set out and discussed. Folklore as an Historical Science The opinion of the metempsychosis spread in almost every region of the earth; and it continues, even to the present time, in all its force amongst those nations who have not yet embraced Christianity. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 In Asiatic Researches, Colebrooke states that the present Mohammedan sect of the Bohrahs believes in metempsychosis, as do the Hindus, and, like the latter, abstains from flesh, for the same reason. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution It means the whole system of the laws of metempsychosis, running in a long chain forward into the future, and back into the past. The Substance of a Dream You become a devout believer in the Pythagorean and Platonic doctrine of metempsychosis and reminiscence, and are awed by the mysterious consciousness of the thought "Before!" Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Animal fables generally may have originated in India, where the doctrine of metempsychosis obtains currency to this day; but, still, Egypt, Greece, and other countries, have also produced stories of the same nature. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature Whether any nations accepted the doctrine of metempsychosis, and thought that “the souls of their grandams might haply inhabit a partridge,” we are without the means of knowing. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America It comprises pre-existence and even those special associations of certain human souls with animal souls, which we have just spoken of and which form one of the chief mysteries of metempsychosis. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution One is that which the Hindustani people believe, and even that is subdivided into two: reincarnation and metempsychosis. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The doctrine of metempsychosis upheld by the Hindus is fallacious. Dawn of a New Day In common with all the other orient tribes, they believe in good and evil principles, and in metempsychosis. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The general doctrine of metempsychosis is stated and implied very frequently in many of the Platonic dialogues. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life I am not ashamed of my half-brothers the brutes; on the contrary, so far as I am concerned, I am a great advocate of metempsychosis. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution May not metempsychosis be a scourge of two worlds? Lore of Proserpine The idea of metempsychosis is perhaps the most ancient dogma of the known universe, and it still reigns in a large part of India and China. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary "Mother, what did you say to her, by way of a dose of orthodoxy to antidote the metempsychosis poison?" asked Mr. Lindsay, who could not forbear laughing, at the astonished expression of his uncle's countenance. Infelice Secondly, the conception of the metempsychosis is thoroughly coherent with Plato's whole philosophy. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life If metempsychosis is included in the scheme of the divine government of the world, this difficulty disappears altogether. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Mystics, people who believe in metempsychosis, in the progress upward and immortality of the soul, idealists—they would cry out against me as a rank materialist. Bella Donna A Novel There is Birch the sculptor, author of the "Godiva" and "The Last Call," exhibited here, and well appreciated by me as another Durham,—really a metempsychosis of character. My Life as an Author Some of those who affirm this pre-existence have gone as far as metempsychosis. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Secondly, that they inculcated the belief in a future life in inseparable connection with the great dogma of metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Here we have the doctrine of metempsychosis which Plotinus found all around, among the Egyptians, the Jews, the Neoplatonists, his predecessors, and finally in Plato himself. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution You may now read these long words as they are here presented, without a division of the syllables, as follows: valetudinarian, indefatigability, hypochondriacal, metempsychosis, hallucination, zoonomia, sesquipedality. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. It was a mixture of northern myth and oriental dreams of metempsychosis, coarse, mystical, and cruel. A Short History of France It is not true that Aristotle refuted metempsychosis, or that he proved the eternity of the human kind; and after all, it is quite untrue that an actual infinity is impossible. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil There is a strange grandeur, an affecting mystery, in the view of the creation from the stand point of the metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Here a short explanation must be given of what has been said regarding transmigration or metempsychosis, in order that all misunderstanding may be removed. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution But they may have been Iranians, and it may be doubted if the Aryan Indians of this date believed in metempsychosis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 They have an imperfect notion of a metempsychosis, but not in any degree systematic, nor considered as an article of religious faith. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The human kind is eternal, according to Aristotle, therefore if individual souls die not, one must resort to the metempsychosis rejected by that philosopher. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil There are three necessary purposes of metempsychosis: to collect the materials and properties of every nature; to collect the knowledge of every thing; to collect power towards removing whatever is pernicious. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life In his commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Hierocles expresses himself thus: "The ways of the Lord can be justified only by metempsychosis." Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Egyptologists consider that metempsychosis is not part of the earlier strata of Egyptian religion but appears first about 500 B.C., and Flinders Petrie refers to this period the originals of the earliest Hermetic literature. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It is probable that in practice this belief differed little from the ordinary Brahmanic doctrine of metempsychosis and this may be one reason for the prevalence of the sect. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 "The great Samian, sir, could hear it; but only in his heart and intellect, and after he had discovered the truthful doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls." The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The pre existence of the soul, whether taught by Pythagoras, sung by Empedocles, dreamed by Fludd, or contended for by Beecher, is the principal foundation of the belief in the metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The following is a quotation from the same philosopher, dealing with metempsychosis, and which, when compared with the foregoing sentences, appears strangely absurd. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution But it is possible that the doctrine of metempsychosis and the ideal of the ascetic life are echoes of India. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It was here he imbibed his doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Again we were in session at the Café des Souris, and the talk had turned upon metempsychosis. Grey Roses The idea of a metempsychosis, or soul wandering, as the Germans call it, has been broached in various forms widely differing in the extent of their application. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life However important Plato may have considered metempsychosis, it can scarcely be imagined that Plotinus took it seriously.... Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution In the Gospels Christ teaches neither asceticism nor metempsychosis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Its leading doctrine is the transmigration of souls, also called by that tough word, metempsychosis, though other Hindu systems adopt this belief. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East By a very humanly understandable metempsychosis she became just a little less shining because more reachable; some of her shine transferred to him. Captivity Hierocles said, and distinguished philosophers both before and since have said, "Without the doctrine of metempsychosis it is not possible to justify the ways of Providence." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life This sympathy with animals grows directly out of the doctrine of metempsychosis. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji But it seems indisputable that there were widely spread both in Greece and Italy societies called Pythagorean or Orphic which inculcated a common rule of life and believed in metempsychosis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The most characteristic doctrine of Indian religion—rarely absent in India and imported by Buddhism into all the countries which it influenced—is that called metempsychosis, the transmigration of the soul or reincarnation. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Always Africa is giving us something new or some metempsychosis of a world-old thing. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Such examples as these exactly met the weakest point in the metempsychosis theory, and must have had vast influence in fostering the common faith. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Thus unconsciously the daisy undergoes a metempsychosis; its soul is transferred at will from meadow to book and from book to meadow, without losing a particle of its vitality. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal The date, if somewhat early, is not far removed from the time when metempsychosis became part of Egyptian religion. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Philosophically, they are an early manifestation of the mental bias which leads to pantheism, metempsychosis, and the feeling that all things and persons are transitory and partial aspects of the one reality. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 If there be any truth in metempsychosis, Jocky Campbell must be the goose that laid golden eggs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 The conception of the metempsychosis is strikingly fitted for the purposes of humor, satire, and ethical hortation; and literature abounds with such applications of it. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The metempsychosis, a prominent article of this creed, may have been derived from the Pythagoreans, but more probably it was one of the many relics of patriarchal belief which were engrafted on all pagan religions. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 According to the Chinese annals the chief doctrines preached by the first Buddhist missionaries were the sanctity of all animal life, metempsychosis, meditation, asceticism and Karma. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 In one way metempsychosis raises insuperable difficulties to the survival of personality, for if you become someone else, especially an animal, you are no longer yourself according to any ordinary use of language. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Their doctrine of metempsychosis, if it was really taught, involved no ethical content as in Pythagoreanism. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Out of the old asceticism of the East the false spiritualism which regarded matter as the source of evil and this life as a penance arose the dogma of metempsychosis. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But, except in the building up of a Father-god, theology is at bottom not much altered, and the eschatological conceptions remain about as they were, despite a preliminary sign of the doctrine of metempsychosis. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow No parallel has yet been quoted to this account of metempsychosis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The doctrine of metempsychosis is also interesting as affecting the relations of men and animals. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 But the analogy is distinctly stated to have lain in the doctrine of immortality or metempsychosis. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The advocates of the resurrection should not confine their attention to the repellent or the ludicrous aspects of metempsychosis, but do justice to its claim and its charm. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The esoteric wisdom is here the transfer of the doctrine of metempsychosis to spring. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Zoroastrianism has little sympathy for pantheism or asceticism: it does not teach metempsychosis or the sinfulness of taking life. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It is not really consistent with any doctrine of metempsychosis or with Buddhist teaching as to the impermanence of the Ego. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 It is also needful that thou shouldst know that the Kabbalists believe in metempsychosis from the body of one species into the body of another species. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Accordingly, the mysterious doctrine of the metempsychosis has held the entire mind, sentiment and civilization of the East, through every period of its history, as with an irreversible spell. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Dream not of any kind of metempsychosis or transanimation, but into thine own body, and that after a long time; and then also unto wail or bliss, according to thy first and fundamental life. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 These are metempsychosis and pantheism, which we have so often found to have some connection with India when they exist in an extreme form. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Such expressions as the transmigration of souls or metempsychosis imperfectly represent Indian ideas. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Sometimes the souls of pious Jews pass by metempsychosis into Gentiles, in order that they may plead on behalf of Israel and treat them kindly. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala It seems to me, a firm and well-grounded faith in the doctrine of Christian metempsychosis might help to regenerate the world. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga His practical brain refused to speculate even upon the doctrine of metempsychosis. The Conqueror The idea of metempsychosis is also the same. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 They nevertheless believed in metempsychosis and practised asceticism. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 So much has been written on metempsychosis and reïncarnation of late that it is hardly necessary to dwell on a now so familiar idea. Simon Magus If we could legitimately determine any question of belief by the number of its adherents, the —— would apply to metempsychosis more fitly than to any other. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga A few drops of alcohol bring about a confusion of mind not unlike this poetical metempsychosis. Ralph Waldo Emerson The best metempsychosis is for us to appear again in others. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The character of the successive appearances or tenements of the soul is determined by the law of Karma, which even more than metempsychosis is the basis of Indian ideas about the universe. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Who now shall doubt the metempsychosis Of the great Author, that shall peruse this? The Lucasta Poems A admirable Chrishna again by metempsychosis; the religion of the family, with whom I am very intimate, is the Romish. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society I cannot believe the wisdom of Pythagoras did ever positively, and in a literal sense, affirm his metempsychosis, or impossible transmigration of the souls of men into beasts. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend We are drifting into metempsychosis—are in a fair way to get ourselves excommunicated. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 In Buddhism, though the Pitakas speak continually of rebirth, metempsychosis is an incorrect expression since there is no soul to transmigrate and there is strictly speaking nothing but karma. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 He seems to have a leaning for metempsychosis and the doctrines of Pythagoras. The Captain of the Polestar It is a fantastical story with digressions on music and on popular songs, but running through it all, with the persistency of a fixed idea, are divagations on the subject of earthly metempsychosis. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings This is the doctrine of metempsychosis, which had many adherents in ancient days, and also in a more or less fanciful fashion in modern times. Initiation into Philosophy This process of metempsychosis might be repeated far into the indefinite future. Outline of Universal History The second doctrine is commonly known as metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls or reincarnation, the last name being the most correct. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 But to judge them fairly, it is first necessary to sweep the mind clear of all Western ideas of metempsychosis. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints The idea of metempsychosis was very much in vogue at this epoch. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings It must have grown up among a people to whom the idea of metempsychosis was well known, but who at the same time held a skeptical view of that doctrine. Filipino Popular Tales Exalted by their peculiar belief in pantheism and metempsychosis, they consider the universe and themselves as directly emanating from Brahm, and they strive to lose their own individuality, in its infinite essence. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities For the greatest deities of Hinduism, Siva, Krishna, Râma, Durgâ and some of its most essential doctrines such as metempsychosis and divine incarnations, are either totally unknown to the Veda or obscurely adumbrated in it. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The metempsychosis which he taught under Orphic and Pythagorean inspiration is an essential ingredient of his theory of the world, and is, therefore, perpetually recurring in his more important works. Purgatory Indeed, a believer in the metempsychosis might easily imagine these Gothic-looking birds to be the embodied souls of the ancient friars still hovering about their sanctified abode. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Like many of the Church Fathers the Cabalists used as their main argument in favor of the doctrine of metempsychosis the justice of God. Five Lectures on Reincarnation PHILOSOPHY.—The object of Hindu philosophy consists in obtaining emancipation from metempsychosis, through the absorption of the soul into Brahm, or the universal being. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities To the earlier views was added the doctrine of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, which, acting as a means of reward and retribution, seemed fully to account for man's sufferings. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 So much of George Herbert's intellectual and moral character repeat themselves in Emerson that if I believed in metempsychosis I should think that the English saint had reappeared in the American philosopher. Our Hundred Days in Europe Certain it is, however, that fable flourished very anciently with the people whose faith embraces the doctrine of metempsychosis. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes But for the belief in metempsychosis, they maintained, the question why God often permits the wicked to lead a happy life while many righteous are miserable would be unanswerable. Five Lectures on Reincarnation The Tao is the primitive existence and intelligence, the great principle of the spiritual and material world, which must be worshiped through the purification of the soul, by retirement, abnegation, contemplation, and metempsychosis. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis. Indian Fairy Tales What do we care about his ideas on love, on metempsychosis, on friendship, etc.? Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship But to the change the tale supposes,-- In learned phrase, metempsychosis. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes The great skeptic Hume says in his posthumous essay on "The Immortality of the Soul," "The metempsychosis is therefore the only system of this kind that philosophy can hearken to." Five Lectures on Reincarnation According to Buddha, the object of philosophy, as well as of religion, is the deliverance of the soul from metempsychosis, and therefore from all pain and illusion. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities He represented him as coming into the world with a given tendency, which was the result of the feelings and character already attaching to him in accordance with the doctrine of metempsychosis. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature He was a pretender to learning, and, entertaining with Dryden strong convictions of the reality of a literary metempsychosis, believed himself the heir of Jonson's genius and erudition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 "According to the latest scientific hypotheses, the metempsychosis—" Tom threw up his hands. Man Size So the original meaning of transmigration or metempsychosis was the revolution of the soul from body to body whether animal, human, angelic or of the gods. Five Lectures on Reincarnation You have your metempsychosis, and your theories of progressive incarnation, and your monads, and your spirits of the stars and flowers. Yeast: a Problem Every man carries with him the reward and the disgrace that he deserves; and this is no other than the doctrine of the Brahmins and Buddhists as it is taught in the theory of metempsychosis. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature The more superstitious believed that he had, by a kind of metempsychosis, taken a new shape, which, by some magical or supernatural power, he could assume and put off at pleasure. A Voyage to the Moon All the metempsychoses depend on the imagination of the family Gurus, who receive for their kind offices from one hundred to one hundred and fifty rupees a year. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan The ideas of heaven and hell did not exist among the primitive Japanese, nor any notion of metempsychosis. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Metamorphosis is a common art amongst Mpongwe magicians: this vulgar materialism, of which Ovid sang, must not be confounded with the poetical Hindu metempsychosis or transmigration of souls which explains empirically certain physiological mysteries. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Then—for there may be a metempsychosis—your songful spirit might revive to inform a nightingale, then . Serapis — Volume 05 In India, on account of the prevalence of the doctrine of metempsychosis, the belief in transformation is widely diffused. The Book of Were-Wolves It may be conceived as something like an energy, by the influence of which beings undergo metempsychosis. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan To appreciate the direct influence of Buddhist teaching upon the minds of the common people, we must remember that in Shinto there was no doctrine of metempsychosis. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation If ever there is a metempsychosis, his soul will pass into a vulture and prey upon carcases after a battle, and then go and bode at the windows of their relations. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 His disciples aver that, although Bruno did not enforce the doctrine of metempsychosis, he held it to be very well worthy of consideration. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries And failing to distinguish this, they naturally fell into the belief in metempsychosis. The Book of Were-Wolves And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin. Ulysses The Elysian Fields were vague, wearisome to contemplate; even metempsychosis had no adherents. Imperial Purple Before this he has gone through all the transmigrations of 'Indur,' and the final metempsychosis, gave him to the world a Celestial. Beulah "What extraordinary heathenish ideas!" said Miss Phillips, who in her Derbyshire retreat had never heard anything of pantheism, or of this doctrine of metempsychosis as being entertained by sane Englishmen. Mr. Hogarth's Will And I have shown that both the doctrine of metempsychosis and the mythological explanations of meteorological changes have given rise to abundant fable, and among others to the popular and wide-spread superstition of lycanthropy. The Book of Were-Wolves Then there were lessons to be gathered from Tom Armstrongs's prompt acceptance of such alibi evidence, touching myself, as would have merely tended to unfathomable speculations on metempsychosis in an ether-poised Hamlet-mind. Such Is Life The sharpers' trick is common in Eastern folk-lore, and the idea that underlies is always metempsychosis or metamorphosis. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 He could not help seeing in her all that he knew of another, and veiling in her all that did not harmonize with his sense of metempsychosis. The Well-Beloved Pythagoras borrowed from thence his kindred theory of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls. Canterbury Pieces The doctrine of metempsychosis is founded on the consciousness of gradation between beasts and men. The Book of Were-Wolves There is a dash of metempsychosis in it—and it is the strength of the piece. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature. Essays — First Series That it differs widely from the Egyptian metempsychosis is clear. Evolution and Ethics There is a perpetual metempsychosis of thought, and the knowledge of to-day finds a soil in the forgotten facts of yesterday. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Thus the doctrine of metempsychosis was emphatically one of rewards and punishments, for the condition of the soul after death depended on its training during life. The Book of Were-Wolves "That is metempsychosis," said Sonya, who had always learned well, and remembered everything. War and Peace A Hindu refers at once to metempsychosis, as naturally as a modern Swedenborgian to spiritism. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Their ideas of metempsychosis are more definite, but this, I think, is to be accounted for by the influence and proximity of Buddhism. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan The notion of "the metempsychosis" was just that in which all the ninety-six erroneous systems agreed among themselves and with Buddhism. A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline One of the tales of the Sanskrit book of fables, the Pantschatantra, affords such a remarkable testimony to the Indian belief in metempsychosis, that I am tempted to give it in abstract. The Book of Were-Wolves Many of their works, also, undergo a kind of metempsychosis, and spring up under new forms. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Now, if I believed in metempsychosis, I should think you were Mark Antony brought down to date. The Darrow Enigma He has the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when stimulated. The Gentle Grafter Hence, also its transmigrations, known by the name of metempsychosis, that is, the passage of the vital principle from one body to another; an idea which arose from the real transmigration of the material elements. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature But besides the doctrine of metempsychosis, which proved such a fertile mother of fable, there was another article of popular mythology which gave rise to stories of transformation. The Book of Were-Wolves It will be very extraordinary to observe, that this disgusting ceremony is connected with a profound philosophical system, to wit, that of the metempsychosis, admitted by the Lamas. 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