this movement taught “metempsychosis.” See D. P. Walker, The Decline of Hell, pp. 137–46. For a survey of the patristic references to reincarnation see Louis Bukowski, SJ, “Le reincarnation selon les Pères de l’Eglise,” in Gregorianum, vol. IX (1928), pp. 65–91. It has been said, again by Leslie Weatherhead, that “one prominent sect, the Essenes, definitely taught it (i.e., reincarnation), and Josephus makes reference to it as if it were commonly accepted” (The Christian Agnostic, p. 209). He is