transmigrate

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Ladder�If the 20th Century does not suit, transmigrate to the 25th.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Lama dies, his soul enters immediately into the body of some child, so that he is simply said to transmigrate.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

So we may justly say that this "character"—this moral and intellectual essence of a man—does veritably pass over from one fleshly tabernacle to another, and does really transmigrate from generation to generation.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

It is Manas, the animal intelligence, and the animal soul or Jiva, both half material illusions, that sin and suffer and transmigrate from one body into the other till they purify themselves.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

No doubt many of these wretched sufferers would have consented to transmigrate instantly into the bodies of any of the animals who were ending so snugly their earthly careers.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)