Considering attentively the traditional doctrine of the
transmigration, doctrine more Hindu than Buddhist, we have to admit that it
is just a theory of which there is no possible demonstration, and he who
accepts it, do it by faith, even if it's a matter, so to say, of a rational
faith. For that reason Evola, in his books, talks of pre-existence, of an
impersonal heritage, but refrains prudently from supporting the idea of a
continuity of the conscious principle from a life to another. Here he is in
accordance with the Milindapanha and with the texts in Pâli language, this
is the most ancient Buddhist text. He does not exclude that the continuity
of the consciousness could be the very state of being of the archaic
mankind, but asserting that already since the epoch of the historical
Buddha, this conscious, perennial principle, crossing like a silk threat,
the innumerable pearls symbolising the various existences, like in the Vedic
expression, does not correspond any longer to the reality, to the real
constitution of the human being, that, already during the sleep, falls into
states of reduced consciousness. Obviously he considers the possibility of
exceptions, like in the case of the Tibetan 'Tulkus' or of people capable,
by means of asceticism, to take possession again of the conscious
transpersonal principle and to free them from the ego-awareness, which is
what passes away together with the physical body eventually.
(transl. by Vandermok)