title: The Underworld Initiation: A Journey Towards Psychic Transformation
author:  R. J. Stewart 
description: R.J. Stewart is one of the leading authors of Celtic Magic, Mythology, UnderWorld and Faery traditions.
  						    	
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  The Return Of The Soul
  
  
    
  
  
    
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  # The Return Of The Soul
  
  
  ### Robert S. Hichens
  
  
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  THE RETURN OF THE SOUL
  
  By Robert S. Hichens
  
  1896
  
  “I have been here before, But when, or how, I cannot tell!”
  
  Rossetti.
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I.
  
  
  Tuesday Night, November 3rd.
  
  Theories! What is the good of theories? They are the scourges that lash our
  minds in modern days, lash them into confusion, perplexity, despair. I have
  never been troubled by them before. Why should I be troubled by them now? And
  the absurdity of Professor Black's is surely obvious. A child would laugh at
  it. Yes, a child! I have never been a diary writer. I have never been able to
  understand the amusement of sitting down late at night and scrawling minutely
  in some hidden book every palt