The Transmigration of Souls
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How far the Greeks regarded these merely as pictorial or typical representations, how far, that is, they regarded the soul as actually incarnate in the winged insect, is a question that will naturally occur to us. As regards antiquity, it is hardly a suitable question, for it may be said in general that the ancient world was unable to make that distinction between the symbolical and the actual which is perfectly familiar to modern thought. (This observation, it may be said, will also apply to M...att, xxvi, 26. ) Anyone who now looks at the mosaic butterflies on the ascent to the Campo Santo at Florence will at once realise that these butterflies are not copies, but types of the human soul after death. ; In one Irish district popular belief actually 31 THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS regards the souls of "the grandfathers' 1 as incarnate in the butterflies : in Sweden the name for butterfly is " old woman's soul/' In Germany there is a saying that children before birth fly about with the butterflies.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
How far the Greeks regarded these merely as pictorial or typical representations, how far, that is, they regarded the soul as actually incarnate in the winged insect, is a question that will naturally occur to us. As regards antiquity, it is hardly a suitable question, for it may be said in general that the ancient world was unable to make that distinction between the symbolical and the actual which is perfectly familiar to modern thought. (This observation, it may be said, will also apply to M...att, xxvi, 26. ) Anyone who now looks at the mosaic butterflies on the ascent to the Campo Santo at Florence will at once realise that these butterflies are not copies, but types of the human soul after death. ; In one Irish district popular belief actually 31 THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS regards the souls of "the grandfathers' 1 as incarnate in the butterflies : in Sweden the name for butterfly is " old woman's soul/' In Germany there is a saying that children before birth fly about with the butterflies.
What to read after The Transmigration of Souls?
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