Gibran Khalil Gibran, Mikhail Naimy, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Goethe, Ovid, Schopenhauer, Chiron, Giordano Bruno, Helmont, Spinoza, Leibniz, Swedenborg, Benjamin Franklin, Immanuel Kant, Taylor, Kierkegaard, Edison, Carl Gustav Jung, and Tolstoy.
The Noble Quran pointed to the concept of the return to embodiment in more than one verse, the clearest of which is:{ How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned } 1 . Pierre Lory indicates that the Jabirian works of Jabir ibn Hayyan are permeated by a doctrine of transmigration; from one cycle to another cycle, the gnostics ascend to higher and higher stations in gnosis. One life among the lives of the physical body is but a day among the days of the rational soul, and one life among the lives of the rational soul is but a day among the days of the Atma "the Spirit," and one life among the lives of the Atma is but a day among the days of Brahma, and one life among the lives of Brahma is but a day.