Cara Soror, 
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Are We Reincarnations 
of the Ancient Egyptians? 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
I do wish you would understand that all these speculations 
are not only idle and senseless because you cannot possibly 
verify their accuracy, but a deadly poison . You ask if we, 
meaning, I suppose, the English, are now reincarnating the 
Egyptians. When I was a boy it was the Romans, while the 
French undertook the same thankless office for the Greeks. I 
say "deadly poison"; because when you analyse you see at 
once that this is a device for flattering yourself. You have a 
great reverence for the people who produced Luxor and the 
Pyramids; and it makes you feel nice and comfortable inside 
if you think that you were running around in those days as 
Rameses II or a high priest in Thebes or something equally 
congenial. 
You may say that I am myself the chief of sinners in this 
respect because of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, but this was not my 
doing. It was imposed upon me by The Book of the Law, and 
I do not feel particularly flattered or comforted by this 
identification. The only interest to me is the remarkable 
manner in which this is interwoven with the existence of the 
"Cairo working." 
Your second and third questions are still worse. I should 
be ashamed of myself if I were to do so much as to refer to 
them. 
That must serve for that. But your fourth question I did 
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