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In one of the best known of these sects the Skoptsi, or Eunuchs fanaticism has led to physical mutilation. Sects which pay little or no attention to Scripture, and derive their doctrine from the supposed inspiration of their living teachers. Sects which believe in the re-incarnation of Christ. Sects which confound religion with nervous excitement, and are more or less erotic in their character.
Andre Pezzani's book on The Plurality of the Soul's Lives works out the system on the Roman Catholic idea of expiation." E.D. WALKER, in "Re-Incarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth."
For example, it would be impossible for me to say much about the current, though gradually waning, belief in the force of heredity, without saying something about its Far Eastern equivalent, the belief in re-incarnation, in other words, without asking whether a man inherits from his parents and other ancestors, or from his former selves.
It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.
But if I could: if I could imagine I had ever met you in some bygone time, and you were like what you are at this moment, I should have loved you, I MUST have loved you! You see I cannot leave the subject of love alone; and your re-incarnation idea gives my fancy something to work upon.
I believed in a god to whom I could pray to change earthly conditions to suit my fancies; a god willing to grant me favors even at the expense of others. "'He believed in re-incarnation, and the power of the soul to eventually master the flesh and create a heaven on earth.
We who hold the Doctrine do not sorrow for the dead: we only sorrow for ourselves who are left to wait until we may, perhaps, meet again." "The Doctrine, Miss Marmion?" he asked, as he placed a chair for her at his right hand. "May I ask what the Doctrine is?" "Of re-incarnation," she replied, sitting down and looking at him across the corner of the table. "Really?
"But alchemy must therefore be an atheistical science. "A materialist science, sire, which is a very different thing. Materialism is the outcome of Indian doctrines, transmitted through the mysteries of Isis to Chaldea and Egypt, and brought to Greece by Pythagoras, one of the demigods of humanity. His doctrine of re-incarnation is the mathematics of materialism, the vital law of its phases.
'His Highness the Sacred, by which it was meant that he was, for this age, what the sacred prophet Muḥammad was to an earlier age, or, speaking loosely, that holy prophet's 're-incarnation. It is interesting to learn that that heroic woman Ḳurratu'l 'Ayn was regarded as the 'reincarnation' of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muḥammad.
At length it was revealed to him, our friend Kou-en, when a young man, that he was a re-incarnation of one of the old monks of this monastery, who also was named Kou-en, and that it was his duty during his present life to return thither, as by so doing he would win much merit and receive many wonderful revelations.
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