Note 66 — Chapter V · WORSHIP OF THE MALEVOLENT DEAD.
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The sinful expiate their sins by passing through a cycle of 8,400,000 births.66 They have to be born 2,100,000 times in the class of creatures born of eggs, 2,100,000 times in the species of worms produced from sweat, 2,100,000 times from embryonic birth and a similar number of times in the vegetable kingdom.