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	AllRefer.com - transmigration of souls (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		transmigration of souls or metempsychosis[mutem´´sukO´sis] Pronunciation Key [Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures, in which the soul passes from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate.
		The Druids of Gaul supposedly taught that after death the soul left one body to enter another, but the second body was not necessarily earthly; little else is known of their beliefs.
		The belief in transmigration was rare in ancient Egypt, although occasional instances occur of a soul uniting with a god, a soul entering an animal for a lifetime, or a voluntary metamorphosis of a person into another form for his own benefit.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/transmig.html (731 words)

	transmigration of souls
		A theological doctrine (also known as "metempsychosis" or "palingenesis") which became popular during the Enlightenment as the scale of the Universe, and the vast number of planets that might exist, began to become clear.
		It taught that the soul, after death, would inhabit a succession of other worlds, becoming progressively more perfect.
		The vast public readership of Flammarion's writings, in particular, ensured that belief in transmigration remained in circulation until the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/T/transmigration.html (235 words)

	Gilgul (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" and neshamot is the plural for "souls." Souls are seen to "cycle" through "lives" or "incarnations", being attached to different human bodies over time.
		The most basic component of the soul is called the nefesh and is always part of the gilgul process, as it must leave at the cessation of blood production (a stage of death).
		There are four other soul components and different nations of the world possess different forms of souls with different purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transmigration_of_souls (237 words)

	Review: On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the Transmigration of Souls was given its premiere by the New York Philharmonic on 19 September 2002 at Lincoln Center.
		According to Adams, "Transmigration means 'the movement from one place to another' or 'the transition from one state of being to another.' But in this case I mean it to imply the movement of the soul from one state to another.
		On the Transmigration of Souls is unequaled in its poignancy and optimism, and in its capacity to pose the eternal question of existence.
	www.starsend.org /Transmigration.html (560 words)

	John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"On the Transmigration of Souls" was requested by the New York Philharmonic as the opening work of its 2002-3 season and to commemorate the lives of those killed on the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
		You feel you are in the presence of many souls, generations upon generations of them, and you sense their collected energy as if they were all congregated or clustered in that one spot.
		"Transmigration" means "the movement from one place to another" or "the transition from one state of being to another." It could apply to populations of people, to migrations of species, to changes of chemical compositon, or to the passage of cells through a membrane.
	www.earbox.com /sub-html/comp-details/souls-de.html (1852 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metempsychosis
		The doctrine of transmigration is not found in the oldest of the sacred books of India, viz., the Rig-Veda; but in the later works it appears as an uncontested dogma, and as such it has been received by the two great religions of India.
		Josephus tells us that transmigration was a doctrine of the Pharisees, who taught that the righteous should be allowed to return to life, while the wicked were to be doomed to eternal imprisonment.
		A few such causes may be mentioned: (1) The practically universal conviction that the soul is a real entity distinct from the body and that it survives death; (2) connected with this, there is the imperative moral demand for an equitable future retribution of rewards and punishments in accordance with good or ill conduct here.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10234d.htm (2682 words)

	Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: The World Within
		The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, alternately accepted and refuted by Jewish religious leaders and scholars, was raised to a dogma by Kabbalah.
		The soul of the biblical commentator Moses Alsheikh, he said, was united with that of the Amora Samuel ben Nahman, from which he derived his great talent as a preacher; sixteenth-century Safed kabbalists Moses Cordovera and Elijah de Vidas were such great friends because both shared the soul of the good King Zechariah.
		The soul of Moses which had once been in the body of Simeon ben Yohai, the "father of Kabbalah," was now in the body of Isaac Luria, who assured his disciple Vital that this soul was one which remained untainted by Adam's sin.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/loc/loc11b.html (1319 words)

	transmigration of souls on Encyclopedia.com
		TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS [transmigration of souls] or metempsychosis [Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures, in which the soul passes from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate.
		A Requiem From a Heavyweight.(John Adams's "On the Transmigration of Souls")
		NY Philharmonic premieres John Adams' Sept. 11 tribute 'On the Transmigration of Souls'
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/transmig.asp (796 words)

	Dybbuk
		The soul simply enters the body at birth (not at conception), just as the infant is about to leave the mother's body, and prepares to live whatever normal life span has been allotted to it.
		The second form of transmigration is the Dybbuk, a disembodied spirit possessing a living body that belongs to another soul.
		The dybbuk may be the soul of a sinner, who wishes to escape the just punishment meted to it by the angels of the grave (see the article Afterlife) who seek to beat them, or to avoid another form of soul punishment, which is wandering the earth.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/dybbuk.html (691 words)

	Transmigration of Souls
		Transmigration of souls, sometimes called metempsychosis, is based on the idea that a soul may pass out of one body and reside in another (human or animal) or in an inanimate object.
		Each soul passes from one body to another in a continuous cycle of births and deaths, their condition in each existence being determined by their actions in previous births.
		The cycle of karma and transmigration may extend through innumerable lives; the ultimate goal is the reabsorption of the soul into the ocean of divinity from whence it came.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txo/transmig.htm (415 words)

	Transmigration of Souls, Part One
		Disembodied souls (dybbukim) that enter the bodies of humans with souls of their own in anticipation of their correction through exorcism (the fourth situation will be discussed later,(2) and therefore this chapter concentrates on the first three basic story situations only).
		Also the one who makes light of netilat yadayim is transmigrated in water; this is the hidden meaning of "[Who has not] given us as a prey to their teeth,"(37) for the initial letters of [this verse,] netananu teref le-shineihem spell out the word natal [to wash].
		Transmigration into an impure fowl(59) or into an impure beast negates from the outset the possibility of correction of the soul by the proper slaughtering and consumption of the slaughtered animal and therefore constitutes a much more severe punishment than the aforementioned transmigrations.
	www.storypower.com /hasidic/Articles/Themes_In_Hasidic_Stories/nigal_1transf.html (4294 words)

	Transmigration
		So much of human identity depends on the possession of a soul that most people would be hard pressed to even say what human means, or is, if the idea of the soul is not included as the first and most fundamental element of its description.
		Since possession of a soul necessarily elevates a person to a higher moral ground, it must be true that instituting slavery and practicing genocide against people who do not embrace that concept must rise to a higher level of moral probity than the one reached by its victims.
		The point here is that, as likely as not, belief in the existence of a human soul has not elevated anyone's behavior and may, in fact, have generated, and certainly did justify, practices of enslavement and genocide against people who did not share a similar belief.
	www.mayanastro.freeservers.com /01bloch5.HTM (2024 words)

	Transmigration Of Souls -A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge
		IS there any foundation for the doctrine of transmigration of souls which was once believed in and is now held by some classes of Hindus?" is a question sent to the PATH.
		The student of the theosophic scheme admits that after death the astral soul either dies and dissipates at once, or remains wandering for a space in Kama Loca.
		Considering the question of the atoms in their march along the path of evolution, another cause for a belief wrongly held in transmigration into lower forms can be found.
	www.blavatsky.net /theosophy/judge/articles/transmigration-of-souls.htm (615 words)

	transmigration of souls. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		) [Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures, in which the soul passes from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate.
		He believed that souls were reincarnated in various bodily shapes.
		It is possible that these beliefs were influenced by contact with Indian religion.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/transmig.html (662 words)

	Infoplease Search: soul
		(Encyclopedia) soul, the vital, immaterial, life principle, generally conceived as existing within humans and...
		anima mundi, in philosophy, term denoting a universal spirit or soul that...
		(Encyclopedia) transmigration of souls or metempsychosis[Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures,...
	www.infoplease.com /search.php3?query=soul&in=encyclopedia&go.x=19&go.y=14 (208 words)

	Returning Lost Souls
		By allowing a soul to return to earth once more, it is given a "second chance" to rehabilitate itself and recapture its original place in the world of the spirits.
		This principle of transmigration of souls is applied in three different ways, corresponding to the attributes in which our three patriarchs excelled respectively.
		Some souls do not return to earth because they have to rehabilitate themselves for positive commandments neglected, or for negative commandments which they transgressed when they were on earth previously.
	www.kabbalaonline.org /WeeklyTorah/MysticalClassics/Returning_Lost_Souls.asp (957 words)

	Readings on the Transmigration of Soul in the Upanishads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the most important concepts examined in the Upanishads is the transmigration of souls, a process of death and rebirth that lasts until the individual human soul attains a level of absolute purity.
		At that point, individuality is surrendered, and the soul becomes one with Brahman, a state of existence associated with the chief god of the Hindu pantheon (Brahma), but usually treated as a state of absolute perfection instead of an ascension to the godhead.
		When a soul is reborn, good karma in its past existence allows its new physical body to be that of a higher caste.
	www.people.memphis.edu /~kenichls/1301Upanishads.html (1027 words)

	Transmigration of Souls, Part 2
		Transmigration for the purpose of arranging monetary matters is already mentioned in the Safed stories.
		At the same time, however, it may be stated that most of the transmigrations in the stories have the purpose of correcting transgressions.
		According to Rabbi Hayim Vital, the souls of women do not transmigrate, for "gilgul applies to men and not to women, for women receive their punishment in Gehinnom, which is not the case for men, who study Torah....
	www.storypower.com /hasidic/Articles/Themes_In_Hasidic_Stories/nigal_2transf.html (2953 words)

	Transmigration
		The doctrines of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals.
		When a human being dies, his soul will face judgement there and if found sinful, the soul will then have to pass through all the Tribunals, to be punished according to the magnitude of his sins, and then to the Tenth Tribunal to await retribution.
		This Department is in charge of deciding what classification of metempsychosis (transmigration of the soul, after death, to another body) a soul should be reborn.
	www.white-sun.com /Transmigration.htm (3616 words)

	The Death of Socrates
		In this present life, I reckon that we make the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible intercourse or communion with the body, and are not surfeited with the bodily nature, but keep ourselves pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release us.
		As a philosopher he must have some reasoned argument that the souls of men are immortal and that after death they are reborn into a another body.
		Suppose we consider the question whether the souls of men after death are or are not in the world below.
	n4bz.org /gsr2/gsr204.htm (1567 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Moral (and Musical) Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		...Among the first was On the Transmigration of Souls, a 25-minute-long choral cantata byJohn Adams, jointly commissioned by Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic and premiered in September by Lorin Maazel, the Philharmonic's new music director...
		...True, Adams's avowed purpose in writing On the Transmigration of Souls was to create what he calls a "memory space," a static, cathedral-like sound environment in which the listener would be free to meditate at will on the deaths of the victims of September 11...
		...The first sound heard at the performance of On the Transmigration of Souls was that of a prerecorded tape on which the names of victims were spoken by friends and family members...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V114I4P62-1.htm (2594 words)

	On the Transmigration of Souls: Quotes from John Adams
		The PACIFIC CHORALE presents the West Coast Premiere of John Adams' ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS' - its second performance in the US and its fourth worldwide - at Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 7 pm.
		"Transmigration" means "the movement from one place to another" or "the transition from one state of being to another." It could apply to populations of people, to migrations of species, to changes of chemical composition, or to the passage of cells through a membrane.
		I mixed this with taped sounds of the city — traffic, people walking, distant voices of laughter or shouting, trucks, cars, sirens, steel doors shutting, brakes squealing — all the familiar sounds of the big city which are so common that we usually never notice them.
	www.ffaire.com /johnadams/transmigration.htm (426 words)

	ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (ix.iii.xxxiv)
		Chapter XXXIII.—Absurdity of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls.
		We may subvert their doctrine as to transmigration from body to body by this fact, that souls remember nothing whatever of the events which took place in their previous states of existence.
		He attempted no kind of proof [of his supposition], but simply replied dogmatically [to the objection in question], that when souls enter into this life, they are caused to drink of oblivion by that demon who watches their entrance [into the world], before they effect an entrance into the bodies [assigned them].
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iii.xxxiv.html (853 words)

	Classical Net Review - Adams - On The Transmigration Of Souls
		There is no talk of God and no flag-waving, only a gaping space that those who remain behind try to fill, each in his or her own way.
		No doubt there are those who wanted this work to tell us that God had gathered these thousands of souls to His bosom, and that the flag of the United States still waves to honor these fallen heroes.
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	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/n/non79816a.html (465 words)

	John Adams - On The Transmigration of Souls - Nonesuch Records - CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This short epic, “On The Transmigration Of Souls” clocking in at less than a half-hour, might one day be mandatory listening for serious students of music.
		It was a cool night and the air smelled of the coming of Fall, pinpointed with the occasional whiff of a fireplace flue or two.
		Someday, “On The Transmigration Of Souls” will wedge its way among the ranks of storied modern composition and Adams will be there with Copeland and Gershwin; this piece is that iconic, important and, all at once, terrifying.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/AdamsJohnSoulsCD.html (513 words)

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