transmigrate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

From this veracious narrative we gather that sometimes the souls of the dead, instead of going away to the spirit-land, transmigrate into the bodies of animals.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

In Buddhism, though the Pitakas speak continually of rebirth, metempsychosis is an incorrect expression since there is no soul to transmigrate and there is strictly speaking nothing but karma.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir