our compréhension of ourselves as we are. Each accession of 
knowledge must indicate with unmistakable accuracy the solution 
of some enigma which is propounded by the Sphynx of our own 
unknown birth-city, Thebes. The complicated situation in which 
we find ourselves is composed of éléments \ and no element of it 
came out of nothing. Newton’s First Law applies to every 
plane of thought. The theory of évolution is omniform. There 
is a reason for one’s prédisposition to goût, or the shape of one’s 
ear, in the past. The symbolism may change ; the facts do not. 
In one form or another, everything that exists is derived from 
some previous manifestation. Hâve it, if you will, fhat the 
memories of other incarnations are dreamsj but dreams are 
determined by reality just as much as the events of the day. The 
truth is to be apprehended by the correct translation of the 
symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master 
of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a 
particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory 
is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one 
of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 
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