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Bennett's translation of the tenn, "Recollection", is as near 
as one can get in English. One can strain the meaning slightly 
to include Re-collection, to imply the ranging of one's facts, 
and the fitting of them into an organised structure. The tenn 
"sati" 
suggests 
an identification 
of Being with 
Knowledge-see 
The Soldier and the Hunchback! 
(The 
Equinox, Vol. I, No. 1). So far as it applies to the Magical 
Memory, it lays stress on some such expedient, very much as 
is explained in Liber Thisharb (Magick, pp. 415-422). 
This is a case where "clean thinking" is most absolutely 
helpful. The truth is of exquisite texture; it blazons the 
escutcheon of the Unity of Nature in such delicate yet 
forceful colours that the Postulant may well come thereby to 
the Opening of the Trance of Wonder; yet religious theories 
and personal pernicketiness have erected against its impact 
the very stoutest of their hedgehogs of prejudice. 
Who shall help us here? Not the sonorous Vedas, not the 
Upanishads, not Apollonius, Plotinus, Ruysbroeck , Molinos; 
not any gleaner in the field of a priori; no, a mere devotee of 
natural history and biology: Ernst Haeckel. 
Enormous , elephantine, 
his work's bulk is almost 
incredible; for us, his one revolutionary discovery is pertinent 
to this matter of Sammasati and the revelations of one's 
inmost subtle structure. 
He discovered, and he demonstrated, that the history of 
any animal throughout the course of its evolution is repeated 
in the stages of the individual. To put it crudely, the growth 
of a child from the fertilized ovum to the adult repeats the 
adventures of its species. 
This doctrine is tremendously important, and I feel that I 
do not know how to emphasize it as it deserves. I want to be 
exceptionally accurate; yet the use of his meticulous 
scientific terms, with an armoury of quotations, would 
almost certainly result in your missing the point, "unable to 
see the wood for the trees." 
Let me put it that the body is formed by the 
super-position of layers, each representing a stage in the