The secret of your current existence is in your past lives. The point is, what you did in the past can influence your current existence. No not in a Karma way. Many people don't believe in all that stuff and there is no real evidence to support it. If that was the case than everybody has been set up. We don't know what we did in other lives so it isn't fair that we should be held responsible. Unless we knew from birth what we were supposed to have done, then we could never put it right. It's like telling someone to collect water in a bucket full of holes. Like in the film 'Running Man' you would never have a fair chance. It's lop-sided thinking, a kind of automatic badness. If you have amnesia, you don't know your identity, you become a new person. If you are born a new person and have no knowledge of past lives, then it is not fair you are punished (or punish yourself) for something you can't remember doing. It is simple logic. It is better to say don't accept that blame. You are as good as the next man.

Dion Fortune wrote many unusual works. They really bring out the feel of the 1920's and 1930's. She could probably have written Agatha Christie type novels if she had a mind to do so. Because they are occult works her skills as an actual writer go unnoticed. Her books have a hidden kick. She captures the time perfectly in her writing. Some may think it very old fashioned but there were obviously many weird and wonderful goings on in the first half of the 20th Century.