Motif
Transmigration of an ancient law-giver’s soul into a later leader
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A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration family, within the sub-family Soul Transfer, Possession, and Transmigration. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam PREFACE / CHAPTER I / I.--THE IMPORT OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM / II.--EARLIER PHASES; lines 248-347 confidence: high
Babek teaches transmigration of souls and communism; the Khoramiyyah resist the Caliph’s troops; Babek claims the soul of Bod has passed into him, perhaps to pass for a Buddha.
Babek is said to have taught transmigration of souls and to have claimed that the soul of the ancient law-giver Bod had passed into him.
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