Capitolo 54
if the animal, human, angelic or of the of the. The substance that he/she emigrates
being a fixed quantity, with fixed quality it chooses his/her form
according to his/her taste, desire and tendency of character. This idea
prevailed among the ancient Egyptians, according to who the soul,
after having left the dead body, it would travel from a body to another for
thousand and thousand of years to earn experiment in each
of the different stages of the life.
Among the Greek philosophers we find those Pythagorases, Plato and them
followers believed in this theory of Metempsychosis or Transmigration
of souls. It says Pythagoras: "After died the rational mind having,
is freed by the chains of the body, it supposes an ethereal vehicle
and passages in the region of the corpse where he/she remains up to him it is
expeditious again to this world to deal with the other human body or
animal. After having suffered following purgations, when it is
sufficiently purified, you/he/she is received among the of the and he/she returns to
the eternal source from which first it proceeded." Plato also believed
in this theory. We cannot clearly say precisely from from where
Pythagoras and Plato found these ideas. Some say that they learned
these doctrines from Egypt; others believed that, or directly or
indirectly, they learned the theory of transmigration from
India. Plato describes in "Phaedrus", in mythological language because
and as the souls they take their birth on this airplane, or as human creature or
animal. He says: "In the sky Zeus, his/her Father and God of everybody
creatures, guide his/her winged car, while ordering all the things and
superintending them. An innkeeper of the divinities and spirits it follows him/it each,
his/her own function that carries out. Whoever wants and it is able it follows them. Later
taking this circle, they advances from a steep course along the inside
circumference of the paradisiacal time and it proceeds to a banquet. The
wagons of the of the, good and driven good being balanced, advance
easily; others with difficulty; for the vicious horse, unless the