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Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor - On metempsychosis
Identifier
013907
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor referred to the Druids as philosophers and called their doctrine of the immortality of the soul and reincarnation or metempsychosis "Pythagorean":
A description of the experience
Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor
"The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body."