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Ouarda. No woman ever lived who was more ignorant of, or 
less interested in, anything to do with politics, or the welfare 
of the race; she cared for nothing beyond her personal 
comfort and pleasure. When the communications ceased, she 
dropped the whole affair without a thought. 
She nearly always referred to the authors of these messages 
as "They"; when asked who "They" were, she would say 
haltingly and stupidly "the gods," or some equally unhelpful 
term. But she was always absolutely clear and precise as to 
the instructions . The New Aeon was to supersede the old; my 
special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a 
new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden 
Light, I was accordingly to make a Quintessence of the 
Ancient Wisdom, and publish it in as permanent a form as 
possible. This I did in The Equinox . I should perhaps have 
been strictly classical, and admitted only the "Publication in 
Class A," "A-B," "8" and "0" material. But I had the idea 
that it would be a good plan to add all sorts of other stuff, so 
that people who were not in any way interested in the real 
Work might preserve their copies. 
This by the way: the essence of this letter is to show that 
"They," not one person but a number acting in concert, not 
only foresaw a planet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on 
measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom 
worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six 
hundred years later, when a new current should revive the 
shattered thought of mankind. 
The Equinox. in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. 
There is one other matter of incomparable importance: the 
wars which have begun the disintegration of the world have 
followed, each at an interval of nine months, the operative 
publications of The Book of the Law. This again seems to 
make it almost certain that "They" not only know the 
future, at least in broad outline, but are at pains to arrange it. 
I have no doubt that the advance of Natural Science is in the 
charge of a certain group of "Masters." Even the spiritually