METEMPSYCHOSIS

(transmigration of soul to another body)

I AM GOD by Peter O . Erbe , Chapter 1, Page 15,

Metempsychosis, On the Law of Reincarnation, The Lost
Knowledge. At the Ecumenical Council under the Emperor
Justinian in the year 533 A.D., the fathers of the Catholic Church
removed the teachings concerning reincarnation from the
scriptures. With the teachings intact, the image of hell and brim
fire, of a God to be feared, could not have been upheld. Therefore
the power of the Church would have lacked its foundation, which
is Fear. The understanding of the wheel of rebirths would have
completely done away with the concept of punishment, with the
concept of a judging God. Such concept lacking, who would fear
God?

http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/m2/metempsychos
is.html
METEMPSYCHOSIS (Gr. j uETEt.L0xceoLs), or Transmigration Of
The Soul., the doctrine that at death the soul passes into another
living creature, man, animal, or even plant. This 'doctrine, famous
in antiquity and still held as a religious tenet by certain sects of
the civilized world, has its roots far back in primitive culture. It is
developed out of three universal savage beliefs: (i) that man has
a soul, connected in some vague way with the breath, which can
be separated from his material body, temporarily in sleep,
permanently at death; (2) that animals and even plants have
souls, and are possessed to a large extent of human powers and
passions; (3) that souls can be transferred from one organism to
another. Innumerable examples might be mentioned of the notion
that a new-born child is the reincarnation of someone departed,
as in Tibet the soul of the Dalai-Lama is supposed to pass into an

infant born nine months after his decease. Transmigration of

human souls into non-human bodies is implied in totemism, for,
as Professor Frazer says, "it is an article of faith that as the clan
sprang from the totem, so each clansman at death reassumes the
totem form." All these savage notions are to be regarded as
presuppositions of metempsychosis, rather than identified with
that doctrine itself as a reasoned theory.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/292397?
seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Metempsychosis was introduced into the Greek world by
Pythagoras andspread from Pythagorean centers
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/
Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient
Greek philosophers, lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE.
Pythagoras succeeded in promulgating a new more optimistic
view of the fate of the soul after death and in founding a way of
life that was attractive for its rigor and discipline and that drew to
him numerous devoted followers.
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/transmigrationsouls.html
Metempsychosis is a fundamental doctrine of several religions
originating in India. In Hinduism, the individual soul enters a new
existence after the death of the body.
The Greek version, an indigenous product, appeared in the Orphic
Mysteries, but its best-known proponent was Pythagoras. He
believed that souls were reincarnated in various bodily shapes.
The Celtic version of metempsychosis does not have the ethical
aspect of its Indian counterpart.
The Druids of Gaul supposedly taught that after death the soul
left one body to enter another, but the second body was not
necessarily earthly; little else is known of their beliefs.