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Our souls hold our essence, our past, present maybe even future. This thought comforts me, in that when I cease with this husk, my essence will move on, like a flowing river, a growing bud, or to a new born babe. © JLB 31/01/2015 15:10 GMT
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 10:12 AM UTC
Palingenesis
Our souls hold our essence, our past, present maybe even future. This thought comforts me, in that when I cease with this husk, my essence will move on, like a flowing river, a growing bud, or to a new born babe. © JLB 31/01/2015 15:10 GMT
Robert Burton in the Anatomy of Melancholy (1628) writes, "The Pythagoreans defend metempsychosis and palingenesia, that souls go from one body to another."
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Jan 31, 2015 at 10:12 AM UTC
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