"Apropos of your remarks on Reincarnation in your issue of June 4, may I say that I am rather familiar with Plato, Plotinus, Philo, Hermes, etc, and that my writings abound with citations from these authors. I share the view of Rene Guenon that all apparent references to reincarnation of the individual on this earth arc to be understood metaphorically. This was also the view of Hierocles, stated in his Commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, V.53. Passages can be cited also from Christian and Islamic authors which appear to enunciate a doctrine of reincarnation, yet cannot and do not really do so." - - Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy, Collected Letters