metempsychosis

noun

Etymology: From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsúkhōsis).

1. Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

   “Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].”

   “The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.”