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   AN  ACCOUNT  of a Communication made to Fra. Perdurabo in
A  1904 W-V. through the seer Ouarda is to be found in _The_
_Equinox_ No. VII of Vol. I.
      This Ouarda, disobedient unto her high calling, suffered in
detail those things prophesied of her, and the final catastrophe, or
an equivalent even more terrible, occurred on the 27th of
September, 1911 W-V.
      At least this catastrophe (dementia in its most hopeless form)
precluded the possibility of her ever serving Fra. P. as a messenger
from the Great White Brotherhood whom he serves.
      Of the occurrence of this catastrophe Fra. P. was ignorant until
the 19th (I think, it may have been later, it was not earlier) of
October.
      Late in the evening of the 11th October, within a few minutes of
midnight, he was taken by the well-known _raconteur_ Mr. Hener
Skene, to the Savoy Hotel in London, and there introduced to a
Mrs. Mary d'Este Sturges.
      The astrological figure for this hour is subjoined.
      This astounding figure is unintelligible without a reference to
certain previous figures.

   At Fra. P.'s birth Luna, Caput, and Neptune were culminating.
Saturn in the 8th the only figure above the horizon.
   At Fra. P.'s first initiation (November 18, 1898 W-V. about 6 P.M.)
the same three were again alone in the heaven.
   At the Equinox of the Gods this again took place.
   At Fra. P.'s reception into the grade of Magister Templi this
configuration was again seen. Mars was (I think) just risen.

      These figures are all subjoined here, and must astonish the
astrological student.*
      Of this heavenly disposition Fra. P. was of course ignorant at the
time; but he was in wise ignorant of the profound and occult
emotion caused by the meeting, an emotion which was not
peculiar to himself alone.
      On the 13th he took tea with the lady, and returning after
dinner, did not leave the suite until he had expressed (however
unworthily) the nature of his feelings. On the 14th he dined with
her, and after partaking subsequently of chocolate and rolls, left for
the North of England.
      He returned to the Savoy Hotel on the 29th, somewhat
disturbed in his mind by the silence with which his letters to her
had been treated, but, meeting her, forgave her, and passed several
hours in her company, the parting being dictated by her being
obliged to take the 11 o'clock train to Paris, on the morning of the
30th.
      He rejoined at lunchtime on the 14th of November at her flat in
Paris, took her to Montparnasse on the night of the 18th and left
Paris with her for Switzerland on the evening of the 19th.