Magick Without Tears

Cara Soror, 41 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 271