Sentence:  To appear again as identically the same, would require the <WSD>palingenesis</WSD> of Plato, that is, the recommencement of all things, so as to have the same series of causes and effects from the very beginning; but this creed implies the "finality" of God's power in the phenomenal universe, and Plato never thought that. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.