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XXXV FEBRUARY 1922 N o. 2 NOTES OF THE MONTH A BOOK entitled Reincarnation,* claiming to be “ the true chroni­ cles of rebirth of two affinities, recorded by one of them,” has quite recently seen the light. In a foreword the recorder states that these chronicles “ are not fiction, nor the flight of fancy or , imagination, but the records of solid facts of human r e b i r t h can be verified if needs be.” Though ' the recorder tells us the manner in which he received these records, he does not enlighten us as to how it is possible to verify them, and indeed it is pretty obvious in certain instances that some of the episodes (which follow each other chronologi­ cally in this narrative) are not only not susceptible of verification, but readily capable of disproof by anyone who has access to ordinary historical works of reference. Thus, for instance, the third narrative in the volume relates to lives supposed to have been passed in ancient Greece. “ It followed,” says the writer, “ close on our Syrian incarnation over two thousand years ago, in the time when Alexis II was king.” The writer tells us that * London : Cecil Palmer, 14 Bloomsbury St., W.C.i. Price 10s. 6d. net. 67 68 T H E OCCULT R E V IE W in this incarnation his name was Pperanio. Incidentally, it may be noted that no Greek word begins with two “ p’s,” nor has the name in question otherwise a Greek ring about it. This, however, is a trifling matter compared with the h is t o r y Greece ^rst became a kingdom nearly ‘ two thousand years later, i.e., in 1834, some six years after the Battle of Navarino, in which the Turkish fleet was destroyed by the British. As a matter of fact, Greece was conquered by the Romans about 160 b .c ., and the incarnation in question would presumably, therefore, fall during the first century of the period of Roman occupation. The narrator tells us that he found favour with King Alexis, who appointed him head of the universities in Greece. Subsequently he was sent on a mission to the King of “ Abessynia.” Whether the writer is thinking of Abyssinia on the south-eastern confines of Egypt, or whether he had some other unknown country in mind, does not appear clear. Our hero’s next recorded incarnation is also somewhat surprising. " We were,” he writes, “ incarnated together in Rome at the time when Julius Caesar was Emperor, about half a century before the present era.” Evidently our author’s knowledge of Shakespeare is on a par with his acquaintance with ancient history. He might, however, one would think, recall the lines put into the mouth of Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Casar, when Antony makes the funeral oration over his slain friend: You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition ? Antony is emphasizing the point that Caesar might have over­ thrown the Republic had he so chosen, but declined to do so. The interminable civil wars that followed Caesar’s death made the Romans thankful in the end to accept an autocracy which meant peace and good government, but Augustus was even then careful to veil his absolutism under the veil of Republican forms. To the Roman of the days of Julius Caesar absolutism was only conceivable in one of two forms, that of kingly rule, or of a dictatorship— that is to say, a temporary power conferred on some one individual by which he was empowered to override the ordinary law in order to tide the State over some great crisis or danger. Caesar was, of course, never more than princeps Senatús, or, ais one might say, first magistrate of the Roman Republic, and our NOTES OF THE MONTH 69 author is guilty of an anachronism in associating the idea of imperial authority and “ the Emperor’s court,” as J he phrases it, with this era of history.