Definition of "metempsychosis" [me•temp•sy•cho•sis]

• Reincarnation. (noun)

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• "The second doctrine is commonly known as metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls or reincarnation, the last name being the most correct."
• "It must have grown up among a people to whom the idea of metempsychosis was well known, but who at the same time held a skeptical view of that doctrine."
• "This passage contains the explanation of what might be called the metempsychosis of certain human souls at the present time; we once heard a great Teacher fully reveal this mystery to a chosen group of"