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... a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of
metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself
undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to
gain the power ...
... a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of
metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself
undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to
gain the power ...
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Doctrines transmigrate , if souls do not ; and metempsychosis , wandering along
the course of ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame
Jenyns . Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage
after ...
Doctrines transmigrate , if souls do not ; and metempsychosis , wandering along
the course of ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame
Jenyns . Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage
after ...
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Perhaps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological
doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in
the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the ...
Perhaps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological
doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in
the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the ...
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Lucian ' s graphic tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 1 Shortland ,
Traditions of New Zealand , ' p . 150 . The idea in this Maori story , that the living
who tastes the food of the dead may not return , appears again among the Sioux
of ...
Lucian ' s graphic tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 1 Shortland ,
Traditions of New Zealand , ' p . 150 . The idea in this Maori story , that the living
who tastes the food of the dead may not return , appears again among the Sioux
of ...
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tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks
down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in
companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his
bald ...
tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks
down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in
companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his
bald ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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