transmigrate
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The Vedânta is on the one hand a scheme of salvation for liberating souls which transmigrate unceasingly in a world ruled by a personal God.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
When the saint of Djachi-Loumbo, when the Bandchan-Remboutchi dies, he will not transmigrate as heretofore, in Further Thibet.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
"Frogs," interposed Musaello, "must have been experimental philosophers, and experimental philosophers must all transmigrate into frogs."
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!
From Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Whether the soul of Georges transmigrated is a matter for metaphysicians.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2015
SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music.
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It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach.
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Many the Manichaans, for instance taught that human souls transmigrated not only through the lowest animal bodies but even through all forms of vegetable life.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
The world, therefore, will always exist, and each soul will continue to be transmigrated for any number of ages until it gets absorbed into God.
From India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin
That outlives us.That starts off wholly physical and thenis slowly transmigrating as it must,a voice, a face, a bike left on the lawn,because love's also made of metaphorsof other things.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2011
This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls.
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Novels are getting restless, shrugging off their expensive papery husks and transmigrating digitally into other forms.
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There is in reality no transmigrating soul different from the Lord.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
Who knows how long thy transmigrating soul Might from Boeotian to Boeotian roll?
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan
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