"By reason of three things man is subjected to 'Abred' (or transmigration): by the absence of the effort to attain knowledge, by non-attachment to good, and by attachment to evil. As the result of these, he descends into 'Abred,' to the stage corresponding to his development, and begins his transmigrations anew." Triad 25.
"The three foundations of science are: complete transmigration through every state of being, the memory of the details of each transmigration, the power to pass again at will through any state, to acquire experience and judgment, (a) This comes to pass in the circle of Gwynvyd." Triad 36.
(a) The liberated being has power to call up the past, to tune his consciousness with that of every being, to feel everything that being feels, to be that being.
[125] In the poem Cad-Godden, quoted by Pezzani in La Pluralité des Existences de l'Âme, p. 93. Taliesin is a generic name indicating a function rather than the name of an individual.
[126] Gallic War (Book 2, chap. 6). Valerius Maximus relates that these nations lent one another money which was to be paid back in the other world, and that at Marseilles a sweet-tasted poison was given to anyone who, wishing to commit suicide, offered the judges satisfactory reasons for leaving his body.
[127] The Mystery of the Ages, by the Duchesse de Pomar.
[128] In Theologia or the Seven Adyta.
[129] The "Cycle of Necessity" extends from the time when the soul begins to evolve to the moment when it attains to liberation.
[130] Life of Pythagoras. Book 8, chap. 14.
[131] Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book 15.