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Julius Caesar - "De Bello Gallico", VI, 13
Identifier
013906
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
When the Romans started to make a record of the beliefs of the Druids, one belief which was universal was that of reincarnation.
"The principal point of their doctrine", says Caesar, "is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another". Caesar wrote:
A description of the experience
Julius Caesar - "De Bello Gallico", VI, 13
"With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed. Subsidiary to the teachings of this main principle, they hold various lectures and discussions on astronomy, on the extent and geographical distribution of the globe, on the different branches of natural philosophy, and on many problems connected with religion".