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BELIEF IN RE-BIRTH. below and rise to the intellectual world, that we may not fall into a purely sensilbe life by allowing ourselves to follow sensible images etc."
Philo of Alexandria, a contemporary of Christ, says “The company of m
Modern phidisembodied souls is distributed in various descoperites orders. The law of some of them is to enter mortal bodies, and after certain prescribed periods (as according to our ayuh-kara) be again set free"
Besides these, copious passages could be gleaned from the philosophical writings and dissertations of such eminent men and leaders of thought as Kant, Schelling, Fichte, Schapenhauer, Goethe and the like. Even the most astute moulder of the Sensationist school of thought, Hume, the sceptic, in his Essay on the 'Immortality of Soul' had to acknowledge the truth and validity of the theory of rebirths. He says : "The metempsychoses is therefore the only system of this kind that philosophy can' harken to".
Prof. Huxley of the modern scientific world somewhere remarks · "None but the
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