For us, though, mere historical and temporal distance will not suffice. In the history of magic, the Hennetica do not come from Egypt-if by Egypt we mean the historical time and place known to Egyptologists-but from Ægypt. In Ægypt, man and gods had constant communication, divinity and truth were always present, and magic worked. It was a land of wonders, and nearly every magician since entry to that land was barred has looked back on it with reverence, awe, and nostalgia. And it is Ægypt, not Egypt, that we fallen moderns must learn to explore and map.