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Reincarnation
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[German Version]
I. The word
reincarnation, like the similar expression transmigration of souls (I), from which it is generally not distinguished, refers to various notions of how a person’s soul or spirit may be reembodied for a new life (or series of lives) on earth. A possible terminological distinction might be made between transmigration and reincarnation by restricting
reincarnation primarily to the modern Western variant first proposed by G.E. Lessing (
Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts, 1780, §§94ff.; ET:
The Education of the Human Race, 1858), but a certain overla…
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