Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
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Transmigration
Synonyms for "transmigration" (92 found)
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mutual transferosmosisout-migrationpassagepassing overperfusionpermutationpersonificationreembodimentreincarnationremigrationrunsportspreadspreadingsubstantiationswarmswarmingtransanimationtransduction
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transfertransfer of propertytransferencetransfigurationtransfigurementtransformationtransformismtransfusiontransittransitiontranslationtranslocationtransmigration of soulstransmissiontransmittaltransmittancetransmogrificationtransmutationtransplacementtransplantationtransposaltranspositiontransubstantiationtraveltrek
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40 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- μεταγγισμός noun (movement of a soul)
- μετεμψύχωσις noun (movement of a soul)
- μετενσωμάτωσις noun (movement of a soul)
Bulgarian
2 entries- превъплъщение noun (movement of a soul)
- преселване noun (departure)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 移居 noun (departure)
- 移民 noun (departure)
- 輪迴 /轮回 noun (movement of a soul)
- 轉世 /转世 noun (movement of a soul)
Esperanto
4 entries- animomigrado noun (movement of a soul)
- metempsikozo noun (movement of a soul)
- transmigrado noun (departure)
- transmigrado noun (movement of a soul)
Finnish
2 entries- muutto toiseen maahan noun (departure)
- sielunvaellus noun (movement of a soul)
French
2 entries- transmigration noun (departure)
- transmigration noun (movement of a soul)
Galician
1 entries- transmigración noun (movement of a soul)
Greek
3 entries- αποδημία noun (departure)
- μετανάστευση noun (departure)
- μετεμψύχωση noun (movement of a soul)
Indonesian
1 entries- transmigrasi noun (departure)
Irish
4 entries- anamimirce noun (movement of a soul)
- athchollúchas noun (movement of a soul)
- imaistriú noun (departure)
- trasimirce noun (departure)
Japanese
2 entries- 転生 noun (movement of a soul)
- 転生 noun (movement of a soul)
Khmer
2 entries- ចំណាកស្រុក noun (departure)
- សង្សារ noun (movement of a soul)
Latin
4 entries- metempsȳchōsis noun (movement of a soul)
- metensōmatōsis noun (movement of a soul)
- trānsmigrātiō noun (departure)
- trānsmigrātiō noun (movement of a soul)
Spanish
2 entries- migración noun (departure)
- transmigración noun (movement of a soul)
Swedish
2 entries- själavandring noun (movement of a soul)
- transmigration noun (departure)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཕོ noun (movement of a soul)
Vietnamese
1 entries- luân hồi noun (movement of a soul)
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The theory of reincarnation is not an invention of spiritualism, on the contrary, you can find this idea in the theory of transmigration of Pythagoras.
Source: tatoeba (3120670)
Buddhist "rebirth" and Hindu "reincarnation" are technically different. Rebirth is the transmigration of "karmic tendencies" or "stream of consciousness." Meanwhile, reincarnation is the transmigration of "soul."
Source: tatoeba (10518635)
We see in nature the cycling or spiralling of things. Subsequently, we can surmise that a being may have such cycling or spiralling of life and death by some element, soul or consciousness stream, of that being. My father, before his death, told me that he would be reborn through "mind" transmigration in a new body, a baby, in a different world, "planet," he clarified. There, he would live a new life. Everywhere in nature, there is cycling or spiralling.
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