palingenesis

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • noun A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
  • noun The passing over of the soul of one person or animal into the body of another person or animal, at the time of the death of the first; the transmigration of souls. Called also metempsychosis.

Examples

  • In the first stage, a rural movement emerges to effect some kind of nationalist renewal (what Roger Griffin calls "palingenesis" -- a phoenix-like rebirth from the ashes).

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  • The eliminationist project is in many ways the signature of fascism, partly because it proceeds naturally from fascism's embrace of what Oxford Brookes scholar Roger Griffin calls palingenesis, or a Phoenix-like national rebirth, as its core myth.

    Crooks and Liars

  • It grew in conjunction with the theory of palingenesis, taken from the words "born" and "anew", which argued that the external representation of the "seed" of Christianity, contained in the Gospels, had periodically "died", merely to be revived in new and better form, Socialism representing its latest and best expression.

    Catholic Social Thought: Europe

  • Belief in rebirth is almost worldwide—it is also sometimes called reincarnation, metempsychosis, palingenesis, or transmigration of souls.

    Experiencing the Next World Now

  • The greatest of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have regarded palingenesis as the basis of life, but whereas in the past the pledge of initiation prevented its details from being promulgated, in our days, along with the flood of light which this cycle has brought us, the veil of secrecy has been partially lifted, and theosophy has been privileged to set forth this glorious teaching in its main outlines and its most important details.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution

Note

The word 'palingenesis' comes from Greek roots meaning 'again' and 'origin, creation'.