Repeated and diverse embodiment is nothing but a journey of knowledge and science undertaken by the soul in various fields of living beings, from human to animal, after which it returns to its human body to resume its life therein. If it finds it mummified, or vanished, or decomposed, it departs to another embryo and settles in it to resume a new earthly life. This is a brief idea of what the ancient Egyptians said about embodiment.

THE THIRD CHAPTER

"REINCARNATION AMONG THE HINDUS"

Embodiment is that which the god Vishnu began applying to himself and which he generalized to all creatures. He embodied seven times, the last and greatest of which was in Krishna, who was born in a prison and performed wonders, as he healed the sick—especially the chronic among them—the lepers, the deaf, and the blind, and he raised the dead; and his birth was from the virgin Devaki, whom no impurity had touched.

The Book of Katha—one of the Upanishad books—says: The mortal perishes just as the grain perishes, and returns to life in a new birth just as the grain returns. Indeed, the creed of transmigration stands prominently in the teachings and beliefs of the three great Indian religions, which are Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.