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Reincarnation

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concept of rebirth in some religions and cultures

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Reincarnation. New and Enlarged Edition. Paper, 40 cents. Cloth, 60 cents. Postage, 3 and 7 cents. I. What is Reincarnation? II. Heredity and Reincarnation. III. Evolution and Reincarnation. IV. Which is Scientific, Resurrection or Reincarnation? V. Theory of Transmigration.
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
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According to the teaching of history, the consciousness of owing debts to the deity by no means came to an end with the decay of the clan organisation of society; just as mankind has inherited the ideas of "good" and "bad" from the race-nobility (together with its fundamental tendency towards establishing social distinctions), so with the heritage of the racial and tribal gods it has also inherited the incubus of…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
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It is when they treat of the experience of “union” with it that their speculative differences appear most clearly. Over this point pantheism and theism, nature and second birth, works and grace and karma, immortality and reincarnation, rationalism and mysticism, carry on inveterate disputes.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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