metempsychosis
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After Darth Vader cut down Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel, the latter returned via metempsychosis as a Force Ghost.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019
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.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010
Japanese approved, last week, certain pious rites ordered and paid for at Kyoto by one Yozo Fuyubayashi, a rich seller of flypaper, a gentleman, and a devout believer in metempsychosis or transmigration of souls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The worship of them, of other birds and beasts, of insects and vipers as well, ecclesiastically indorsed, hid the myth of metempsychosis.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
This metempsychosis permits the soul which has not fulfilledxvi its destiny here below to be purified and worthy of a re-union with God.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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 From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
