Hinduism advocates the reincarnation and transmigration of souls according to one's karma.

The Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus was of the opinion that Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great " in another body " via transmigration of souls, " in accordance with the teachings of Pythagoras and Plato ".

As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, largely because he believed in the pre-existence and transmigration of souls, and apokatastasis, or universal reconciliation, ideas acknowledged to be beyond the pale of Christianity.

Saba deMishpatim (" The Elder on Statutes ") is the commentary of Rav Yiba Saba regarding transmigration of souls, and punishments of the body in the grave.

In Plato's view the number of souls was fixed ; birth therefore is never the creation of a soul, but only a transmigration from one body to another.

Matthew and Levi were two different people, but rather the belief in the " Abominable doctrine of the transmigration of souls ".

The Pythagoreans are known for their theory of the transmigration of souls, and also for their theory that numbers constitute the true nature of things.

Apart from being linked with this, Pythagoras is also closely linked with Pherecydes of Syros, the man ancient commentators tend to credit as the first Greek to teach a transmigration of souls.

The Pythagoreans were well known in antiquity for their vegetarianism, which they practised for religious, ethical and ascetic reasons, in particular the idea of metempsychosis – the transmigration of souls into the bodies of other animals.

Recurring events like the transmigration of the souls related with morality, appear in the Pythagorean and Orphic beliefs, in some poems of Pindar, and especially in the work of Empedocles ( 5 th century BC ), who represents Ananke as the immemorial ordinance of men and gods.

Among the further details are these: that Scythianus lived " in the time of the Apostles "; that Terebinthus said the name of Buddas had been imposed on him ; that in the mountains he had been brought up by an angel ; that he had been convicted of imposture by a Persian prophet named Parcus, and by Labdacus, son of Mithra ; that in the disputation he taught concerning the sphere, the two luminaries, the transmigration of souls, and the war of the Principia against God ; that " Corbicius " or Corbicus, about the age of sixty, translated the books of Terebinthus ; that he made three chief disciples, Thomas, Addas, and Hermas, of whom he sent the first to Egypt, and the second to Scythia, keeping the third with him ; that the two former returned when he was in prison, and that he sent them to procure for him the books of the Christians, which he then studied.

One class of souls, which qualify for liberation ( Mukti-yogyas ), another subject to eternal rebirth or eternal transmigration ( Nitya-samsarins ) and a third class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or andhatamas ( Tamo-yogyas ).

Madhva divides souls into three classes: one class of souls which qualify for liberation ( Mukti-yogyas ), another subject to eternal rebirth or eternal transmigration ( Nitya-samsarins ), and a third class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or Andhatamas ( Tamo-yogyas ).

Madhva divides souls into three classes: one class of souls which qualify for liberation ( Mukti-yogyas ), another subject to eternal rebirth or eternal transmigration ( Nitya-samsarins ), and a third class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or Andhatamas ( Tamo-yogyas ).

Madhva divides souls into three classes: one class of souls which qualify for liberation ( Mukti-yogyas ), another subject to eternal rebirth or eternal transmigration ( Nitya-samsarins ), and a third class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or Andhatamas ( Tamo-yogyas ).

Additionally, books of Kabbalah — Jewish mysticism — teach a belief in gilgul, transmigration of souls, and hence the belief is universal in Hasidic Judaism, which regards the Kabbalah as sacred and authoritative.

For example, he divides souls into three classes: one class of souls which qualify for liberation ( Mukti-yogyas ), another subject to eternal rebirth or eternal transmigration ( Nitya-samsarins ), and a third class that is eventually condemned to eternal hell or Andhatamas ( Tamo-yogyas ).

In this work he attacks the philosophers of religion and deals with the human soul as " a likeness of its heavenly prototype ," with its state after death, with its resurrection, and with the transmigration of souls.

* by characterizing human souls as divine and immortal but doomed to live ( for a period ) in a " grievous circle " of successive bodily lives through metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls.

When Rampa's original body became too worn out to continue, he took over Hoskin's body in a process of transmigration of the soul.

In Indian religions, for example, the concept of salvation ( which is called moksha ) involves being free from an endless process of transmigration of the soul, a belief that is absent from Abrahamic soteriology.

The interwar period saw the development of a new form of criticism towards Spiritism: René Guénon's influential book The Spiritist Fallacy, which criticized both the more general concepts of Spiritualism, which he considered to be a superficial mix of moralism and spiritual materialism, as well as Spiritism's specific contributions, such as its belief in what he saw as a post-Cartesian, modernist concept of reincarnation that is distinct from and opposed to its two western predecessors, metempsychosis and transmigration.

Some sources claim that Anan borrowed the belief in the transmigration of the soul ( metempsychosis ) from Muslim sectarians.

The belief in transmigration is also found in Kabbalah.

The belief in transmigration of the soul and reincarnation is widespread, as their life is largely centred on the Tawang monastery in Tawang district, where many of the young Monpa boys would join the monastery and grow up as Buddhist Lamas.

The transmigration of souls is a strongly held belief in Serer religion as evident in Serer funeral rituals.

Among other important pillars of their belief system are that the Divine Essence has successive manifestations in human form ( mazhariyyat, derived from zahir ) and the belief in transmigration of the soul ( or dunaduni in Kurdish ).

At its peak between 1979 and 1984, 535, 000 families ( almost 2. 5 million people ) moved under the transmigration program.

The program has resulted in communal clashes between ethnic groups that have come into contact through transmigration.

White charts the transmigration of a soul through three different identities — Eudoxia, Eddie, and Eadith — two of them in female guise.

Jain monks and nuns practice strict asceticism and strive to make their current birth their last, thus ending their cycle of transmigration.

Due to migration within Indonesia ( as part of government transmigration programs or otherwise ), there are significant populations of ethnic groups who reside outside of their traditional regions.

It is believed that the person, who dies during the period of Uttarayana, becomes free from transmigration ( rebirth ).

There are also sizeable populations of Balinese and Maduranese who were settled there in the Suharto era transmigration.

".... those who, renouncing all actions in Me, and regarding Me as the Supreme, worship Me ... of those whose thoughts have entered into Me, I am soon the deliverer from the ocean of death and transmigration, Arjuna.

As part of the transmigration program in the 1980s, the Suharto government relocated many migrants, most of them Muslim, from densely overpopulated Java.

The establishment of transmigration villages in the 1960s led to land shortages in certain regions, but the success of the Saramakas in their lawsuit against the government of Suriname will now permit them to manage their lands with less outside interference.

He was cognizant of the concept of transmigration ( metensomatosis transformation, and loses what it once was, the human soul will not be what it was ) from Greek philosophy, but it is repeatedly stated that this concept is not a part of the Christian teaching or scripture.

In the story's discussion of the circularity of time, eternity, and the transmigration of the soul through several bodies the author uses a quote of Luke 12: 59, translated as " no one will be released from prison until he has paid the last obolus.

: But the subjectively emotional, often ecstatic tone of Karl's first-person narrative may make young readers uneasy ; the book's preoccupation with death and its hints about transmigration of souls may be confusing ; and the final, cool acceptance of suicide, too shocking.

Whereas deforestation was primarily driven by subsistence activities and government-sponsored development projects like transmigration in countries like Indonesia and colonization in Latin America, India, Java, and so on, during late 19th century and the earlier half of the 20th century.

In his Comment on the Gospel of Matthew, which stems from a 6th century Latin translation, it is written: " In this place Jesus said Elijah was come and referred to John the Baptist it does not appear to me that by Elijah the soul is spoken of, lest I fall into the doctrine of transmigration, which is foreign to the Church of God, and not handed down by the apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures " ( ibid., 13: 1: 46 – 53 ).

The script of this telenovela, is about transmigration, the passing of a soul into another body after death, a closely related subject to, reincarnation, coinciding with García's beliefs on this subject.

These migrants came on their initiative, in search of more land than was available on the more densely populated islands, and as part of the national government's transmigration program, for which Lampung was one of the earliest and most significant transmigration destinations.

Under the restructured Department of Manpower and Transmigration ( Indonesian: Departemen Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi ) the Indonesian government maintains the transmigration program, although on a far smaller scale than in previous decades.

* Ibn Sina and Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi on the origination of the soul and the invalidation of its transmigration.

They emphasized transmigration of souls and three souls per person, and placed great emphasis on spiritual energy.