Magick Without Tears

47 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 296