Socrates
Greek Philosopher, c.470-399 bc
"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman and General, 106-43 bc
"It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them."
Julius Caesar
Roman Statesman and General, c.100-44 bc
"The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another."
Josephus
Jewish Historian, AD 37-100
"All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in the course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies."
"The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again."
Epictetus
Greek Philosopher, c. AD 55-135
"As a man casting off worn garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body entereth into ones that are new."
Krishna, Bhagavad Gita
India, c. AD 100-200
"Learn thou! The Life is, spreading life through all. It cannot anywhere, by any means, be anywise diminished, stayed, or changed. But for these fleeting frames which it informs with spirit deathless, endless, infinite, they perish. Let them perish, Prince! and fight! He who shall say, 'Lo, I have slain a man!' He who shall think, 'Lo! I am slain!' Those both know naught! Life cannot slay. Life is not slain!"
"As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body."
"Inpenetrable, unentered, unassailed, unharmed, untouched, immortal, all-arriving, stable, sure, invisible, ineffable, by word and thought unencompassed, ever all itself, Thus is the Soul declared! How wilt thou, then, knowing it so, grieve when thou shouldst not grieve? How, if thou hearest that the man new-dead is, like the man new-born, still living man - one same, existent spirit - wilt thou weep? Then end of birth is death; the end of death is birth: this is ordained!"
Origen
Egyptian, c. AD 185-254
"It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body...then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing."
Plotinus
Roman Philosopher, AD 205-270
"The soul, still a dragged captive, will tell of all the man did and felt; but upon death there will appear, as time passes, memories of the lives lived before, some of the events of the most recent life being dismissed as trivial. As it grows away from the body, it will revive things forgotten in the corporeal state. And if it passes in and out of one body after another, it will tell over the events of the discarded life. It will treat as present that which it has just left, and it will remember much from the former existence. But with lapse of time it will come to forgetfulness of many things that were mere accretion."
Koran
Muslim Sacred Text
"God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to Him."
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