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Term: Reincarnation

DEFINITION:
Also known as transmigration of the soul, reincarnation is the belief that after a person dies that person’s personality or soul is reborn in a new body.
SOURCE:  The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, by John Michael Greer
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by John Michael Greer
The belief that souls of the dead are reborn in other bodies, human or animal; also called transmigration. Far and away the most common teaching on the afterlife in Western occult traditions… The rise of Christianity, with its insistence on eternal salvation or damnation after a single lifetime, ...
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