[Gutenberg 13402] • The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath

This Annotated version of REINCARNATION AND THE LAW OF KARMA A STUDY OF THE OLD-NEW WORLD-DOCTRINE OF REBIRTH, AND SPIRITUAL CAUSE AND EFFECT contains a William Walker Atkinson Mini Biography .

"Reincarnation" we mean the repeated incarnation, or embodiment in

flesh, of the soul or immaterial part of man's nature. The term

"Metempsychosis" is frequently employed in the same sense, the

definition of the latter term being: "The passage of the soul, as an

immortal essence, at the death of the body, into another living body."

The term "Transmigration of Souls" is sometimes employed, the term being

used in the sense of "passing from one body into another." But the term

"Transmigration" is often used in connection with the belief of certain

undeveloped races who held that the soul of men sometimes passed into

the bodies of the lower animals, as a punishment for their sins

committed during the human life. But this belief is held in disrepute

by the adherents of Reincarnation or Metempsychosis, and has no

connection with their philosophy or beliefs, the ideas having sprung

from an entirely different source, and having nothing in common.