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Reincarnation 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
You are within your rights when you insist on knowing if I 
believe in Reincarnation; and, if so, why; and how do I feel 
about it. In other letters there is quite a lot of detail about 
the constitution of Man, and there is my Essay No. I, in 
Little Essays Toward Truth; you had better get these well 
fixed in your mind, in case some of what now follows should 
prove obscure. lean 't be bothered to define all the technical 
terms all over again. 
Do I believe in it? 
Yes. 
Why? 
1. Because I remember a dozen or so of my previous lives 
on earth . (See Magick, Chapter VI.) 
2. Because no other theory 
satisfies my feeling for 
justesse, for equilibrium, for Newton's Third Law of Motion . 
3. Because every religion asserts, or at least implies, it in 
some sense or other. 
Even the Judaism - Christianity - Islam line of thought 
contains some such element. The Jews were always expecting 
Elias to return; the disciples of Christ constantly asked 
questions involving it; and I feel that the Mohammedan 
doctrine of Antichrist and the Judgment at least toys with 
the idea. Were I not so ignorant, I could dig up all sorts of 
support for this thesis. But it doesn't matter so much in any 
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