La Iniciación (GIDEE) — Vol. 3, No. 24 — April 1944

Document 80: Cover and Table of Contents - April 1944 Issue

Translation of: La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

Publication Details

Monthly Publication of the INDEPENDENT GROUP OF ESOTERIC STUDIES (GIDEE)

• Year III
• April 1944
• Number 24

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INITIATIC SECTION:

• Initiatic Concept of Liberty (Jehel, S∴I∴) ................................. Page 4
• Commentaries on the 1st Degree of Martinism: Androgony (Jehel, S∴I∴) ....... Page 8
• Practical Course in Judicial Astrology (Surya, S∴I∴) ....................... Page 10
• Progressive Course in Asana Yoga (A. Kapila, S∴I∴) ......................... Page 13
• Is it Possible to Prolong Youth? (continuation) (A. Kapila, S∴I∴) ......... Page 15
• Suddha Dharma Mandalam (Jehel) ............................................. Page 17

SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL SECTION:

• Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings: Variations of Terrestrial Magnetism (continuation) (Pitágoras, S∴I∴) .................................. Page 22

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Historical Note: This April 1944 issue represents a profound meditation on liberty during humanity's greatest crisis. As the Allied forces prepared for D-Day and the tide of World War II began to turn, Jehel's "Initiatic Concept of Liberty" offers timeless wisdom about true freedom that transcends external circumstances. The issue advances from philosophical contemplation to practical instruction in etheric nutrition, demonstrating how spiritual teachers maintained both visionary perspective and concrete guidance during wartime. The inclusion of the complete sacred "Hymn to Durga" from the newly discovered 26-chapter Bhagavad Gita represents a major contribution to Western understanding of Eastern spirituality. Asuri Kapila's "Prana-Juj-Asana" teaching provides systematic instruction for attracting and concentrating vital energy, while the cellular vibration theory anticipates modern understanding of how consciousness affects cellular function. Pitágoras S∴I∴ continues his pioneering research connecting ancient Chinese magnetic studies with contemporary scientific discovery, demonstrating how esoteric wisdom could illuminate emerging scientific understanding.

Document 81: The Initiatic Concept of Liberty - Spiritual Freedom During Global Crisis

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

By Jehel, S∴I∴

Initiatic Concept of Liberty

With the development of civilization, individual liberty has become increasingly ample, from the physical plane to the most subtle.

Physical and Technological Liberation

Physically, the "habeas corpus", the suppression of slavery, the increasingly democratic concept of habitation, circulation and assembly, has been completed by discoveries of science that have notably amplified the facility of locomotion, in rapidity, popularization and price.

Currently, the number of human beings who carry their body to the places where they need to act, with facility and rapidity, is rapidly increasing.

To this greater liberty of "physical movement," has been added the greater possibility of intellectual and mental movement, through printing, whether by means of books and even more by daily press, periodicals and magazines.

New impulse has been given to ideas by cinema, radio, and, in many countries already, television.

The Compression of Time and Space

Distances will be shortened and, if one wishes to meditate upon it, one sees that the factor "time" is being reduced in physical locomotion and almost annulled, by the instantaneity of radio information and its derivatives.

If humanity knew how to take advantage of this real amplitude of liberty of contact, it could make notable progress, for, just as we "ran" before, on foot or horseback, to the home of the sick relative or friend, upon receiving, sometimes tardily, the news, we can today "fly" either by airplane or with mind and radio—physical and mental—to the side of those who suffer.

The Promise of Universal Compassion

The evils caused in any part of the great collective body of humanity, whether by natural phenomena—earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, etc.—or by social phenomena: wars, revolutions, etc., reach the EAR or EYE of almost the totality of beings, with a rapidity that daily tends more toward "instantaneity," that is, simultaneity of happening and informing.

Let us now look at this INITIATICALLY:

If we were really free, not only by force of the democratic laws that govern us, not merely by the facility of locomotion and information that we enjoy, but if by internal liberty, that is, if we could come to feel ourselves "not curtailed" by hatreds, rancors, envies, passions and ambitions... what marvelous work could we accomplish!...

We would deserve, then, truly that liberty which technical means have granted us, because the minds and hearts of all beings could unite instantaneously and synchronically with the happening of scourges that concern a certain part of the great human family, and, just as millions of times in the year the prayer and sincere desire of millions of mothers have saved so many millions of sick children in their homes, so also millions of human breasts and fraternal minds could and should be able to cure the ills suffered by human beings from any point of the great human home: the Earth.

The Essential Requirement

But, to be able to go anywhere, to be able to express any thought, to be able to realize any work, it is necessary to be free.

And, to realize works like those I comment upon, which are of internal and intimate nature, it is necessary to be internally and intimately free.

What the Initiate Understands by Liberty

And, to realize works like those I comment upon, which are of internal and intimate nature, it is necessary to be internally and intimately free.

What the Initiate Understands by Liberty

The Initiate understands that liberty which no one can give us, grant, amplify nor even diminish, curtail or suppress. The liberty to understand without passion and to feel without negative modality.

The liberty to love infinitely all our fellow beings and to evade everything that others say, write or feel that tends to form separativities, whether in our family, professional, ideal, national or general human circle.

The Rose Analogy

Does the rose cease to be fragrant when in its proximity the cat empties the bird's nest?

Do we feel obliged to steal because a neighbor or compatriot has incurred in theft?

No, right? Well, neither are we obliged to adopt the sentiments or attitudes of anyone, relative, friend, partner or of any other position relative to us, that signifies a limitation to our broadest sense of universal love, of collective affection, of social, family or individual sentiment.

And, if the rose's perfume exhales continuously, without interruptions or discouragements, throughout all of its flowering existence, leaving upon dying perfume in potentiality, seeds of many other roses, it is because it does not lose time, nor energies, nor intimate qualities in discussing, disputing or battling.

Silently, enamored of its own beauty that it constructs as reflection of a General Law of Beauty and Life, it grows in color in form and in perfume.

The Initiate's Method

The Initiate understands liberty thus: he does not let hatreds, rancors, gossip, envies, that by chance float or circulate in the environment, penetrate into him and, like the rose, he feeds himself, in the silence of his meditation and of his action, solely on the constructive juices of knowledge and the solar rays of the Ideal, transforming in his individual life those elements, all constructive, into an affection and irradiation of union that attracts others, silently, as flowers attract children and adults, by their color, perfume and active symbolism.

And, to obtain that liberty, he does not ask it of anyone, does not criticize others in their ways of thinking or proceeding, because he has realized that his principal executioner, guardian or jailer, is his own imperfection, which creates in him jealousy, hatred, envy, intolerance, etc...

The Spider's Technique

Then, he works, silently to "liberate himself" and, for that, he does not even need to "cut" any thread with anything or anyone; for if he cut it, the "remainder" of the thread would drag one of the two: himself or the other person or fact, according to the point of the thread that had been sectioned.

His technique must then resemble that which the spider makes when it sees that a "thread" emitted by itself is useless to its work: it ABSORBS it again and places itself thus in the location it occupied before emitting it; it is as if nothing had happened.

So also, the Initiate must know, or learn how, to "reabsorb" the threads of prejudices, of hatreds, of rancors, of envy, of passions, of any modality of separativity, that he himself had emitted previously by ignorance or by lack of elevated sentiments.

He reabsorbs them and dissolves them in the silence of meditation, at the slow fire of affection, of faith, of patience, of tolerance, of the desire to be better and above all: more useful.

The New Form of Union

And, thus, little by little, he becomes really free, for he finds himself united to others solely by a new means of union, which does not curtail his liberty in any form: the atmospheric air, common to all breasts, the solar light, common to all eyes, human affection, common to all hearts, spiritual faith common to all souls, the desire for betterment and union, common to all Spirits, in their essence.

He passes, then, to be a small focus of light, free in his movement, free in his irradiation, free in his appetite to know and feel what goes in the minds and hearts of all his fellow beings, but solely to reinforce their joys and balm their sadnesses or their pains.

The Ray of Light

He reflects light, if he cannot yet emit it as his own, and as all light dissolves some shadow, as every little ray of sun gives warmth and life to some part of visible organicity, so He, passes silent and vivifying like a little ray, modest like it, silent to the physical ear, and nevertheless vibrant with the same force, the same energy, the same LIFE as the Sun in the Physical, as Light in the Moral and as the Divine in the Spiritual.

The Universal Promise

"In truth, without error, very true," that if all of us, as relatives, friends, spiritual brothers, fellow citizens or humans in general, tried to resemble more and more the way of being and proceeding of those Initiates, we would feel ourselves truly: Free, happy, joyful in body and mind and would have the pleasure, reiterated, almost constant and compensatory of the inevitable difficulties of existence.

The First Step

To achieve it, the first step is to struggle internally, silently and perseveringly, to hear, see and think and especially speak and act, with calm, with reflection, with the constant preoccupation of creating harmony, of facilitating understanding and of stimulating mutual affection among beings. As function creates organ, little by little, we will come to do it without "preoccupying" ourselves with it, it will be our new modality: Free and agreeable to others, like the perfume of the Flower.

Jehel, S∴I∴

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Jehel, S∴I∴

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Historical Analysis: Written during the critical spring of 1944 as Allied forces prepared for D-Day, this profound meditation on spiritual liberty demonstrates how authentic esoteric teaching addresses both personal transformation and global crisis. Jehel's recognition that technological advances in communication and transportation create unprecedented opportunities for collective compassion shows remarkable prescience about the potential of mass media for either division or unity.

The central insight that true freedom comes not from external liberation but from internal mastery of one's emotional reactions anticipates much of modern psychology and mindfulness practice. The spider analogy—reabsorbing rather than cutting threads of negative connection—offers a sophisticated alternative to the common approach of "cutting ties" that often creates more conflict.

Most significantly, the vision of global instantaneous communication enabling worldwide prayer for healing—"millions of human breasts and fraternal minds" uniting to cure suffering anywhere on Earth—represents a remarkable anticipation of how digital connectivity could serve collective spiritual purpose. Writing during humanity's darkest hour, Jehel maintained both practical wisdom about individual development and visionary hope for technological amplification of human compassion.

Document 82: Gaseous Foods and Etheric Nourishment - Advanced Teachings on Subtle Nutrition

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

Teachings of Jehel, S∴I∴

Commentaries on the First Degree of Martinism

Androgony (Continuation)

In the previous article, I had occupied myself with "foods via oral route," that is, solid and liquid that we ingest, and we had seen that, reciprocally, vegetarian and gentle foods are the base of alimentation of the most evolved beings and that beings, as they become refined, FEEL the necessity of abandoning "rajasic and tamasic" foods, that is, "toxic or violent" as I denominated them: meats, various excitants, alcohols, fermented and preserved products or so "artificially refined" (!!??) that they no longer have vitality. As I had promised, we will now pass to the study of:

GASEOUS FOODS

The Fundamental: Air and Prana

In first place, naturally air that we breathe stands out, since everyone agrees that, if we cease breathing we die. This is certain and therefore it has already been verified that the better we breathe, in volume and in purity of air, the better we contribute to the oxygenation of our blood and charge it thus, not only with what science calls oxygen, but with something more: vital ether, or prana, as spiritual science calls it.

It is necessary to observe that, in this air, we also absorb all the gases, odoriferous particles released by thousands of beings and objects of the environment that surrounds us, therefore, in this, as in almost everything, people in general look with too much superficiality, if on one side they have compassion for the poor worker who breathes the confined and sometimes toxic air of certain mines, factories or tanneries and slaughterhouses, on the other hand they believe that the greater part of humanity breathes "acceptable" air. This is a fundamental error, since the air of all large cities, of all places where numerous attendances and gross labors or excessively narrow spaces exist, is also improper, although to a lesser degree than that of factories, for normal breathing of the human being.

The Testimony of Our Bodies

The proof is that we all yearn to "escape toward the countryside" when a holiday presents itself and refresh ourselves with the air of the countryside, beach or mountain. It is, then, indispensable to compensate this respiratory part, trying to live not only in the most hygienic form possible, but, if one cannot go to Nature, frequently or periodically, to give oneself the "work" of rising early and doing some breathing exercises, more or less at sunrise, when the streets or atmosphere have been "relatively sanitized" by the nocturnal pause of factory and other activities and Nature has done us the favor of employing that time to clean, with wind, rain, dew, insects and a thousand other various resources, everything that humanity had dirtied during the day with the various residues and eliminations of their bodies, apparatus and other activities.

Sacred Locations and Pure Air

That is the reason that explains that true sanctuaries are always situated in elevated parts, geographically speaking, little populated and in which the lungs can obtain prana vehiculated by air not contaminated or almost clean.

But, we do not breathe only through bronchial routes, but also through the skin, which explains the necessity of ablutions, to maintain respiration through the "pores" in good functional state, whether in the sense of elimination of toxins (perspiration), or in the sense of ingress via cutaneous route of the various gases, to call them thus generically.

Beyond Physical Air

But, when I speak of "gases" I do not refer only to air. In that air go "mixed" or in suspension or interpenetrated—that would be the most appropriate term—many other ponderable factors that we must take into account:

1st) Ozone - The Electrical Purifier

Beyond Physical Air

But, when I speak of "gases" I do not refer only to air. In that air go "mixed" or in suspension or interpenetrated—that would be the most appropriate term—many other ponderable factors that we must take into account:

1st) Ozone - The Electrical Purifier

Ozone, produced by a quantity of electrical discharges, from machines, from atmospheric reactions and from the electricity proper to objects and beings, phenomena to which due attention has not been paid, and which has great importance from the microbicidal and higher purification point of view. He who wishes to meditate on the fact that, in water, oxygen is in atomic state (one of oxygen for two of hydrogen)—in air, in molecular state O₂ and that ozone is precisely O₃, will easily understand the correspondence of that different form of agglomeration of the "support" physical of superior ethers.

2nd) The Ether Reception Network

By our respiratory routes, by the physical and etheric pores of the body, by the antennas of all poles and hairs of our body, and by all the receptor points (active-passive) and receptive (passive-passive) of our organism, there constantly enter all the diverse types of ethers, or states more subtle of MATTER in vibration which are: luminous, magnetic, telluric waves, and of all species that are in the environment in which we act.

The Vibrational Contamination of Food

Therefore, it is not the same that our alimentation be prepared by a healthy or sick person, clean or dirty, calm or nervous, happy or sad and, naturally, also, it is not the same air nor the same ether, that enters us with a beautiful fruit or with a sinister beefsteak that is soaked with all the suffering of the sacrificed animal, with all the air of slaughterhouse, with all the vibrations of the slaughterer, of the butcher, etc., etc...

The Master Key to Conscious Respiration

In the knowledge of these factors resides the key, which extends to minutiae of infinite complexity if one wanted to arrive at details, of the conscious handling of respiration and to not extend myself indefinitely, I will try to suggest the base of the key for those who WANT TO MEDITATE:

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

1) Food Environmental Resonance

Every food encloses gases and more subtle particles analogous to the environments from which it proceeds and to the facts that develop there.

2) Object Memory

Every garment preserves, as well as every piece of furniture, carpet, curtain, etc., the gaseous and etheric emanations, of all the facts and persons who with it have been in contact or presence—as a psychometer immediately reveals.

3) Consecrated Object Power

Every object reserved consecrated to a determined finality, by us or by third parties, puts us physically in contact with the special etheric vibration, of the person, the fact and the finality aimed at.

4) Sympathetic Resonance

All objects and beings destined and occupied in analogous tasks, are LINKED by a special modality of ether vibration that floats—let us say thus—in them, around them and from one to another of them.

5) Automatic Correspondence

There is such correspondence between all these forms of ethers and vibrations that, automatically, their contact awakens in us different sensations, independently of whether we become conscious of it or not.

The Environmental Signatures

Therefore, the air (and what follows with it) of a café, of a study hall, of a church, of a meditation hall, of a hospital, of a field or of a Sanctuary, are: CHEMICALLY, MAGNETICALLY, CALORICALLY and PSYCHICALLY diverse.

We all feel them, but not all understand them, upon shaking different hands, upon passing near certain persons, upon receiving certain foods, upon entering certain locations, upon grasping certain objects, upon reading certain books, upon looking at certain facts, etc., because this also enters through the LIGHT THAT PASSES THROUGH THE EYES and that is perhaps one of the mysteries least studied or at least not yet divulged.

The Double Etheric Ray

Meditate on the form in which the gaze convinces, threatens, caresses, etc., in presence and how it ALSO does so at distance and, believe it or not, between the eye of one who looks and the thing or person looked at there are TWO ETHERIC RAYS; one that goes and another that returns, both being able to be active, both passive or well one passive and another active...

The Three Levels of Practice

Finally, imagine, dear readers, that there are persons who know or firmly believe all that and who try to oppose their manner of breathing, of touching, of smelling, of tasting, of caressing, of looking, of thinking, of remembering, of meditating, etc., in harmony with all that, trying to SYNCHRONIZE themselves with the types of vibrations that seem convenient to them and to reject (if they are fearful or selfish) or to MODIFY FOR THE BETTER (if they are altruistic or Initiates) the negative, violent or improper vibrations...

It is evident that one would then pass to being able to classify humanity in series of very different persons according to the proportion in which, by means of their manner of feeding themselves, washing themselves, breathing, working, loving, meditating, praying, etc., they contributed to:

a) Unconscious Dense Practice

Absorb and re-irradiate gases, ethers and dense or dirty vibrations.

b) Unconscious Subtle Practice

Absorb or re-irradiate gases, ethers and subtle or noble vibrations.

c) Unconscious Execution

Execute all that process in unconscious form.

d) Conscious Personal Practice

Execute it in conscious form but personal or indifferent to others.

e) Conscious Altruistic Service

Execute it with persistence, frequency or continuity and finality each time more altruistic and solidary.

The Power of Initiates

All the above, perhaps will permit you to better orient your own existence and utility and, very importantly, perhaps will permit you to understand why the instructors, the Initiates, the Adepts and the Great Masters or Gurus have the Power to irradiate what I profoundly desire for you in this moment:

HEALTH, PEACE and UNION.

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Historical Analysis: This sophisticated exposition on etheric nutrition represents one of the most advanced teachings on subtle energy available in Western esoteric literature of the 1940s. Jehel's understanding that food carries not only physical nutrients but also the vibrational patterns of its environment, preparation, and emotional context anticipates modern research in fields ranging from psychoneuroimmunology to quantum biology.

The recognition that urban air contains not only physical pollutants but also psychic contamination from human emotions and activities demonstrates profound understanding of how environmental factors affect consciousness. The insight that "true sanctuaries are always situated in elevated parts... where the lungs can obtain prana vehiculated by air not contaminated" shows awareness of how spiritual practices require specific environmental conditions.

Most remarkably, the teaching about "double etheric rays" between observer and observed anticipates quantum physics research on observer effects and non-local correlations. The systematic classification of practitioners into five levels—from unconscious dense absorption through conscious altruistic service—provides a practical framework for evaluating and developing spiritual practice that remains relevant for contemporary students.

Document 83: Practical Course in Judicial Astrology - The Moon as Great Astrological Medium

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

Teachings of Surya, S∴I∴

Practical Course in Judicial Astrology (Continuation)

Having completed the study of the general characteristics of the Planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus and Mercury, let us now see those of:

THE MOON

Says J. BURGOYNE, the Rosicrucian and author of "La Luz de Egipto" "The Light of Egypt," cited by the Venerable Master PAPUS:

"El aspecto simbólico de la Luna no puede ser detallado, como lo ha sido el del Sol. Desde tiempos inmemoriales, la hermana diosa de la noche ha sido venerada y adorada como la madre universal, el principio femenino fecundador de todas las cosas. En el concepto poético de los Hebreos, la Luna era llamada Ashnem o Shenim, estado de sueño y de cambio."

Desde tiempos inmemoriales, la hermana diosa de la noche ha sido venerada y adorada como la madre universal, el principio femenino fecundador de todas las cosas. En el concepto poético de los Hebreos, la Luna era llamada Ashnem o Shenim, estado de sueño y de cambio."]

"The symbolic aspect of the Moon cannot be detailed, as has been that of the Sun. Since immemorial times, the sister goddess of the night has been venerated and adored as the universal mother, the feminine fecundating principle of all things. In the poetic concept of the Hebrews, the Moon was called Ashnem or Shenim, state of sleep and change. Without complete knowledge of astrological science, the marvelous truths hidden under the veil of Isis can never be well understood. Astrology alone is the real key to the fundamental mysteries of Occultism. The secret of the tides, the mysteries of gestation and the alternating periods of sterility and fecundity caused by flow and reflux of magnetic currents of life through all sectors of nature, cannot be discovered except by understanding the divine goddess of our midnight skies. This knowledge was the sublime privilege of the wise 'who,'—says Bulwer-Lytton—'were the first to discover the starred truths that shine above the great ensemble of Chaldean science.' The Chandra of the Hindus, the Isis of the Egyptians, the Diana of the Greeks and other feminine representations, are all: The Moon."

Kabbalistic Significance

Kabbalistically, the Moon represents the soul of the Great Man. Therefore, in its mystical application, the Celestial Virgin of the world is the emblem of the Anima-Mundi. Upon the esoteric planisphere, the Moon transforms into the Angel Gabriel. Upon the universal map, we see her expressed by the divine Isis, the woman "clothed" with Sun. As Isis, she represents the great initiator of the soul into the sublime mysteries of spirit. The Moon also represents the formative attributes of astral light. She is also the symbol of matter. All that originates that she, by her double character, reveals to us her forces, which are purely magnetic, and, as such, are the opposite pole of solar forces, which are electric. In their mutual relation, they represent man and woman.

Astrological Considerations

All that originates that she, by her double character, reveals to us her forces, which are purely magnetic, and, as such, are the opposite pole of solar forces, which are electric. In their mutual relation, they represent man and woman.

Astrological Considerations

Astrologically considered, this star could occupy entire volumes. When we consider its proximity to "our" Earth, as well as the rapidity of its movement, it is not possible to deny it the most important place as active agent in all branches of judicial astrology. Its influence is however purely "negative," in itself, and when it is found deprived of the configuration of the Sun and other planets, it is neither favorable nor unfavorable. But when it enters into relation (aspects) with other stars, its influence becomes extraordinarily powerful by the manner in which it receives and transmits to us the intensified influence of the stars that irradiate toward it. It is for this reason that the Moon can be called the great astrological medium of the heavens.

Intellectual Influence

On the Intellectual plane, the Moon governs the physical senses, and, in great proportion the animal passions also. She rules the inferior forms of domestic qualities and the inferior group of intellectual faculties. Those who are dominated by her flow are of changeable nature, submissive and inoffensive. Magnetically, the "odic" sphere of said beings is purely mediumistic, for which they become inactive and dreamy. Generally, it can be said that those who are born under the influence of the Moon are rather of indifferent character, lacking all that can be called strong or decisive. They pass as wandering beings, continuously changing their residence, thoughts or sensations from one place or subject to others.

Physical Influence

On the Physical plane, the influence of the Moon is of changeable modality, being harmonic or discordant, according to its opposition in relation to the Sun and to the major planets.

Martinist Astrological Teaching

The Martinist Astrologer JULEVNO teaches us that THE MOON:

"tiene su dominio sobre el pecho, el estómago, el ojo izquierdo, los humores, la saliva y la linfa, el cerebro y sobre la 'fuerza' de los órganos. Rige también las partes inferiores del espíritu y de la imaginación, indica el destino de la madre de la persona considerada y nos informa sobre los viajes, sobre los cambios, influye sobre la imaginación a la cual hace romántica, sobre la popularidad y la vida pública, indica las enfermedades que pueda producir el signo en que se encuentra y representa al pueblo, a las mujeres en general y al océano."

"has its domain over the chest, stomach, left eye, humors, saliva and lymph, brain and over the 'force' of organs. It also rules the inferior parts of spirit and imagination, indicates the destiny of the mother of the person considered and informs us about voyages, about changes, influences imagination which it makes romantic, over popularity and public life, indicates the illnesses that the sign in which it is found might produce and represents the people, women in general and the ocean. In general manner, it makes the person inconstant, somewhat fantastical, capable of arriving at public honors, but with possibility of fall."

The Moon Well Disposed

THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON WHEN WELL DISPOSED: gives tendency to reading, but of novels or tales of voyages and adventures; inclines to reverie, to poetry, to novelty and to voyages and changes. "Lunars" are somewhat "lunatic" in general, comfort-loving, but lazy, phlegmatic, fearful, mystical, having powerful imagination, without energy to realize their conceptions (except for strong aspects from other planets) and they like peaceful and comfortable life.

The Moon Ill Disposed

THE MOON ILL DISPOSED IN A THEME: indicates person without intelligence, disordered, without care, of notorious laziness and sometimes dirty, with tendency to disordered life, morally speaking, to drink, who leads a hollow, foolish, unhappy or wandering existence.

Physical Characteristics of Lunars

THE TYPICAL LUNARS have, as frequent characteristics, when there is no predominant influence from another planet: medium stature and soft body, rather round, with round and agreeable face. The complexion is generally pale or yellowish, hair light brown or blonde and soft, the head generally round and endowed with slow movements. The forehead is round and not very high, eyebrows fine and not very arched, eyes generally light blue or gray, always of dreamy and soft gaze; the nose short and round in its lower part. The body is generally well-formed but soft, the bearing harmonious but without energy. Generally the hips are developed and the foot rather small in relation to stature. The Lunars have tendency to walk slowly with soft and silent step.

Contemporary Examples and Practical Observations

For observation of our students we will point out some persons from our collectivity with marked Lunar influence: Born in Lunar signs: [Names omitted for privacy].

We will add that a characteristic that permits identifying the person who has strong Lunar influence, is the search for comfort, tranquility and the avoidance of responsibilities, as well as a notable tendency toward imagination, reverie and changeability of residence, occupation or affections.

Final Characteristics

Final Characteristics

The pure Lunar is essentially mediumistic, that is, he receives and transmits influences from others, but rarely creates or initiates anything by himself. He is like a mirror that reflects the images that are presented to it, but when the images disappear, the mirror remains empty until new images appear.

This is why, in the ancient traditions, the Moon was always considered the great passive principle, receptor and distributor of influences, in opposition to the Sun, which was considered the great active principle, creator and generator of influences.

In the next article, we will begin the study of the aspects and houses of the astrological theme.

(To be continued)

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Historical Analysis: This comprehensive analysis of lunar influences demonstrates the sophisticated psychological understanding embedded within traditional astrology. The recognition of the Moon as "the great astrological medium of the heavens" that receives and transmits rather than generates influence provides a remarkably accurate metaphor for how receptive, impressionable personalities function in social situations.

The description of lunar types as "essentially mediumistic... like a mirror that reflects the images that are presented to it" anticipates modern understanding of highly sensitive personalities and their tendency toward emotional absorption from their environment. The connection between lunar influence and "powerful imagination, without energy to realize their conceptions" describes a common personality pattern still recognized by contemporary psychology.

The inclusion of contemporary practitioners as examples shows the practical application of astrological knowledge within the community, while the detailed physical descriptions demonstrate the belief that planetary influences manifest through observable characteristics. Most significantly, the balanced presentation of both positive qualities (mystical, imaginative, comfort-loving) and potential problems (lazy, disordered, changeable) shows mature understanding that astrological influences can manifest constructively or destructively depending on the individual's level of consciousness and self-discipline.

Document 84: Prana-Juj-Asana - Sacred Posture for Attracting and Concentrating Vital Energy

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

By Asuri Kapila, S∴I∴

Progressive Course in Asana Yoga (Continuation)

PRANA-JUJ-ASANA

This beautiful asana is denominated Prana-Juj-Asana (from Prana: vital energy, Juj: to unite Asana: posture) that is, posture that permits attracting toward oneself and fixing in the Chakras the vital energy or Prana.

TECHNIQUE

TECHNIQUE

Standing upright, with chest bare and with arms naturally extended to the sides of the body, make a deep inspiration during which the letter A of the sacred monosyllable AUM is pronounced, retain the breath during which time the letter U is pronounced and exhale slowly at the same time as the letter M is pronounced.

Repeat three times this deep breathing.

During all the time that the three deep breaths are made, visualize the color PINK.

Then raise the right arm with the palm of the hand and fingers well open, as Figure 19 indicates, then impress upon the arm a rotatory movement. 21 rotations must be made and pronounce all the time that the first 10 rotations last the letter O of the mantram OM and during all the time that the other 11 rotations last the letter M of the mantram OM. One can alternate the rotational movements of the arm once with the right and another with the left.

Practice Requirements

This asana must be practiced always with empty stomach and with gentleness in the arm movements.

It must be practiced three times per day: in the morning facing East, at midday facing South and in the afternoon facing West. If one wishes to practice it a fourth time, at night, before going to sleep, place oneself facing North.

BENEFITS DERIVED FROM PRANA-JUJ-ASANA

The beneficial effects of Prana-Juj-Asana can be summarized as follows:

1) Respiratory and Abdominal Benefits

Tonification of the abdominal muscles and diaphragm as consequence of the respiratory movements and progressive disappearance of bulging bellies.

2) Digestive Normalization

Normalization of all digestive functions.

3) Upper Body Development

Tonification of chest, arm, forearm and hand muscles.

4) Circulatory Restoration

Reestablishment of perfect blood circulation.

5) Cardiac Healing

Disappearance of functional heart disturbances.

6) Hepatic Normalization

Return to normality of all hepatic functions.

7) Endocrine Synchronization

Reestablishment of harmonic synchronism between all functions of internal secretion glands.

8) Aesthetic Perfection

Gradual obtaining of aesthetic perfection of forms, especially of arms and breasts, in women, which will recover their youthful aspect in case they had fallen as consequence of nursing.

9) Sensorial Enhancement

Increase of functional sensitivity of all sensorial organs, especially touch, smell and taste.

10) Mental Concentration

Greater facility in the practice of mental concentration.

11) Devotional States

Obtaining of always more intense devotional states, especially for all those who follow the path of Yoga, remembering in passing that this posture is the one adopted by ancient Mages, Adepts and Priests when they invoked the elements of Nature and established intimate contact with the Superior Hierarchies of the Astral and Spiritual Worlds.

12) Spiritual Transformation

As consequence of the increased physical and vital vigor due to this posture truly ideal for the attraction and concentration of Prana and as consequence of greater purity of our noble and altruistic sentiments and of the current of thoughts that flows to our mind, the practitioners of this asana will be able to verify, with amazement, how, in a short time, vulgar thoughts and actions will flee, it will be easier to dominate egoism and they will be able to verify how, gradually, there will be installed in their hearts that internal PEACE, absolutely indispensable to be able to be truly fraternal with all our fellow beings and irradiate to them, with our aura, peace, harmony and FRATERNITY.

COSMIC PRINCIPLES OF LIFE

La vida de la célula proviene de la individualización por esta célula de la vida general del ser humano.

The life of the cell comes from the individualization by this cell of the general life of the human being.

La vida proviene de la individualización por este hombre de la vida general del ser terrestre.

The life comes from the individualization by this man of the general life of the terrestrial being.

La vida de la tierra proviene de la individualización por esta tierra de la vida general del universo.

The life of the earth comes from the individualization by this earth of the general life of the universe.

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE

LIFE IS TRANSFORMED SOLAR FORCE.

(To be continued)

Sacred Closing

PEACE TO ALL BEINGS

U

A M

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Historical Analysis: This systematic instruction in Prana-Juj-Asana represents one of the most complete teachings on vital energy cultivation available in Western esoteric literature of the 1940s. The integration of breath control, mantric pronunciation, color visualization, directional orientation, and rotatory movement demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how multiple factors combine to affect subtle energy.

The emphasis on practicing "with empty stomach" and the specific timing requirements (morning East, midday South, afternoon West, optional night North) show awareness of how biological rhythms and geomagnetic orientations affect energy cultivation. The detailed progression from 3 deep AUM breaths through 21 rotations (10 with O, 11 with M) indicates precise understanding of numerical harmonics in spiritual practice.

The detailed progression from 3 deep AUM breaths through 21 rotations (10 with O, 11 with M) indicates precise understanding of numerical harmonics in spiritual practice.

Most significantly, the 12th benefit describing how "vulgar thoughts and actions will flee" and practitioners will develop "internal PEACE... to irradiate peace, harmony and FRATERNITY" demonstrates understanding that authentic spiritual practice must result in moral transformation and service to others. The inclusion of the cosmic life principle—that cellular, human, planetary, and universal life represent ascending scales of individualized solar force—provides the metaphysical foundation for understanding how individual practice serves cosmic evolution.

The historical context is crucial: writing during World War II's most violent period, Asuri Kapila offered practical instruction for cultivating the inner peace and fraternal consciousness desperately needed for global healing.

Document 85: Cellular Vibration and Disease Theory - The Vibratory Basis of Health and Illness

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

By Asuri Kapila, S∴I∴

Is it Possible to Prolong Youth?

Does there exist a Spiritual Alchemy capable of returning youth to us? - Causes of old age and death.

CELLULAR VIBRATION, INDIVIDUAL VIBRATORY TONIC, ILLNESS AS CAUSE OF CELLULAR DISEQUILIBRIUM

Why, after having submitted ourselves for a long time to a natural regime of fruits and vegetables, do we not feel lighter, that is, more etheric? Why, conversely, do we feel heavier? Why do we suddenly become sick without apparent causes? These are the problems we are going to study in this chapter.

The Individual Vibratory Signature

It is necessary to know, first, that each cell of our body has a very special vibration, and that each of them vibrates truly like small oscillating circuits. Now, the ensemble of all these cells that sum millions and millions of vibrations, form, "the great vibration" that synthesized forms what can be called "the personal vibratory tonic."

Now, the disarrangement, the disharmony of that great vibratory circuit translates into illness, which we provoke as we will see by some examples, by our mistaken alimentation and unnatural way of living.

The Universal Nature of Disease

New illnesses are not born in certain epochs, but rather the new ones, (if one wishes to call them thus) are nothing more than derivations of the old ones, the classic illnesses, which are produced in all parts of the world, in all races and climates. Cold, rheumatism, ulcer, cancer, tuberculosis, bronchitis, asthma, flu, urticaria, eczema, paralysis in all its manifestations, are all illnesses old as the world and universally known. The Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Hindu, Italian, Spanish, Eskimo and all beings of all races and latitudes are attacked in greater or lesser degree by all these classic illnesses.

The Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Hindu, Italian, Spanish, Eskimo and all beings of all races and latitudes are attacked in greater or lesser degree by all these classic illnesses.

The Example of Civilizational Disease Progression

If a people is apathetic and phlegmatic due to its state of stagnation in material progress, suddenly lets itself be dragged by a wave of "progress," beginning to live a more feverish, more hurried, more mechanical, more nervous, more material, grosser life, where the struggle to earn daily bread and sustenance obliges it to lie, to cheat, to deceive, to compete, in the long run this people begins to feel the first symptoms of nervous and cardiac illness. Does a new illness then arise? No! Provoke the cause and the effect is born as the Law of Karma.

The Single Cause: Cellular Disequilibrium

And, then, why does one become sick, what is the true cause? The unique cause is "cellular disequilibrium," this being provoked by the vibratory changes of all those masses of cells that, in ensemble, form what we call the human body.

Now, this change is provoked by the shock of the abrupt change from one vibration to another, when we subject our body to brutal, excessive, heavy or gentle, frugal and light alimentation according to the case.

The Vibratory Signature of Foods

Every food contains, in addition to its material, nutritive part, energetic, electrical or Pranic elements, that saturate all our body and communicate to it a "sui generis" vibration. A man who eats only rice does not have the same vibrations as one who nourishes himself only on meat or fruits; proteins, fats, carbohydrates and starches each have separately their own virtues, their molecular compositions give them a particular electrical vibration.

The Sound of Life

It must not be forgotten that, the vital body emits a sound similar to the buzzing of a bumblebee; this etheric sound (which is vibration) is what attracts and fixes the chemical elements of our body to form organs and tissues.

The Archetypal Key Note

While the sound waves of our vital body are in harmony with the Key Note of our Archetype, the chemical elements with which we nourish our dense body, when adequately distributed and assimilated, are those that provoke the state of health, fatness, pallor, weakness, etc., etc.

When the sound waves of the vital body go out of tune with the Key Note of the Archetype, this dissonance provokes disorders in the grouping of chemical elements of our foods, projecting them out of place in relation to the Archetypal lines of force. Then there manifests in the body, an imperfect elimination of residues, an accumulation of toxins and other abnormal growths or sickly states is formed, then illness continues until the harmony of the vital body has been reestablished.

The Invisible Precedes the Visible

The Invisible Precedes the Visible

This means that, once the invisible cause has been eliminated, the visible effects disappear and then health is restored. Illness manifests in the vital body before the physical body begins to show signs of perturbations and, also the restoration of the vital body precedes convalescence.

Practical Example: Accident and Shock

Let us give an example. If we are in good health and suddenly suffer an accident, a terrible moral upset, etc., two things occur not perceptible to us.

1st) If the physical body is injured or shaken, it would seem that the vital body suffered nothing from such cause, and therefore, may not feel all the extension of damage caused, until several days later; now, if the physical and mental "shock" produced by a fall or moral upset occurs at the same time, there occurs the maximum dissonance between the vital body and the archetype and, then, even being very injured, a vibratory disequilibrium occurs after a few days.

On the other hand, if a person who is already "graduated," "formed," "tuned" to a certain tonality of joy, happiness or love, the rupture in principle or total of that molecular equilibrium, will provoke serious disturbances in the person, even not having any physical illness, their body will remain without strength, loose, as if they had taken life from it.

Dietary Shock Example

2nd) A person who never in her life had eaten meat, cold cuts, preserves and other foods of this species, and who suddenly began to give herself a tremendous binge of these foods, what would happen? This person would be exposed to various dangers, the terrible "shock" from the sudden change of alimentation can provoke serious disturbances that will translate into grave illnesses to the liver, kidneys and even the heart will be affected, sudden death being able to occur. Why? For the simple reason that the body that was at an X vibration by methodical and natural alimentation, by the same molecular group, suddenly receives a tremendous "shock" upon receiving and admitting suddenly groups of strange, heavy and inharmonic vibrations that not only will attack the vital body but will affect the physical body itself.

The Organic Rebellion

All its organs will rebel, because the liver, spleen, gallbladder, kidneys, especially will become ill, provoking a terrible uremia that will have it prostrated several days in bed, when not, a cerebral or cardiac attack, provoked by blood intoxication.

The Fundamental Principle

This same principle that we have just expounded is applicable to the foods that we ingest. The fundamental law is that any abrupt change in the vibratory pattern of the body, whether through trauma, emotional shock, or dietary change, creates dissonance between the vital body and its archetypal pattern, resulting in illness until harmony is restored.

(To be continued)

Sacred Blessing

HEALTH AND PEACE TO ALL BEINGS OF GOOD WILL

OM

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Historical Analysis: This sophisticated exposition on the vibratory basis of health and disease represents one of the most advanced integrations of subtle energy concepts with medical understanding available in the 1940s. Asuri Kapila's recognition that each cell functions as an "oscillating circuit" and that the ensemble creates a "personal vibratory tonic" anticipates modern research in bioelectromagnetics and quantum biology by decades.

The insight that illness manifests first in the vital body before appearing physically parallels contemporary understanding of how stress and emotional factors precede physical symptoms. The concept of an "Archetypal Key Note" that maintains cellular harmony provides a metaphysical framework for understanding how consciousness affects physical health.

Most remarkably, the recognition that "any abrupt change in the vibratory pattern of the body... creates dissonance between the vital body and its archetypal pattern" anticipates modern research on how sudden lifestyle changes, trauma, and dietary shifts can trigger illness through disruption of homeostatic mechanisms. The example of dietary shock causing organ rebellion demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how the body's regulatory systems respond to incompatible inputs.

Writing during World War II, when millions were experiencing unprecedented trauma and dietary disruption, this teaching provided both theoretical understanding and practical guidance for maintaining health during catastrophic change. The emphasis on gradual dietary transition rather than abrupt shifts shows mature understanding of how to implement health practices without creating additional stress on already challenged systems.

Document 86: Suddha Dharma Mandalam - Sacred Hymn to Durga and Advanced Statistics

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 24, April 1944

By Jehel

Suddha Dharma Mandalam

Aspirants to spiritual practices: Any person who desires to follow spiritual and respiratory practices, meditation, etc., can address: Dr. Jehel (S.D.M.), P.O. Box 317, Montevideo

Internal News

Protocol of February 1944: Documents from numbers 730 to 755, inclusive.

Situation of Disciples

| Status | January 31 | February 29 |

|--------|------------|-------------|

| Performing Exercise No. 1 | 20 | 24 |

| Performing Exercise No. 2 | 18 | 18 |

| Performing Exercise No. 3 | 18 | 19 |

| Performing Exercise No. 4 | 12 | 18 |

| Performing Exercise No. 5 | 7 | 8 |

| Performing Exercise No. 6 | 3 | 3 |

| Total | 78 | 83 |

Geographic Distribution by Ashramas

The 83 aforementioned Disciples are distributed as follows: Argentina: 42, Brazil: 13, and Uruguay: 28.

News from Chilean Ashrama

5 | 7 | 8 |

| Performing Exercise No. 6 | 3 | 3 |

| Total | 78 | 83 |

Geographic Distribution by Ashramas

The 83 aforementioned Disciples are distributed as follows: Argentina: 42, Brazil: 13, and Uruguay: 28.

News from Chilean Ashrama

By correspondence from the Chilean Section of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, we learn with fraternal pleasure that in the month of January (Full Moon) the devotional festival in homage to the 25th anniversary of the Incarnation of Avatara Sri Bhagavan Mitra Deva was celebrated. An attendance of some five hundred Brothers of the Suddha attended the act and the ceremonial of the following day, according to the invitations that, to unite us spiritually and ceremonially to the act, we received opportunely from the President of the Chilean Branch, venerable and beloved Brother Vajra Yogui Dasa. A frequent epistolary exchange will permit many mystical meetings, especially the Full Moons, to be celebrated synchronically by our Ashramas with the Chilean Ashrama.

THE "HYMN TO DURGA"

The Hymn to Durga has been translated into Spanish, from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, from the first English edition of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, published in Madras, S. India, in the year 1939. Translated from Sanskrit by Mr. R. Vasudeva Row, President of the S.D.M. Association in collaboration with T. M. Janardam, Director of the same Organization.

It is worthy of attention the fact that this edition presents, for the first time in the world, the complete Gita, composed of 26 chapters with 745 slokas. The previous known editions only have 18 chapters.

The official Spanish translation has been realized by Brother Augusto Ghío, member of the Chilean Section of the S.D.M., assisted by its President, Vajra Yogui Dasa. It is expected that soon it will be possible to offer to Brothers of Spanish speech the complete edition of such notable work.

Sacred Purpose of Publication

In publishing, today, this "Hymn to Durga" (slokas 14 to 25), it is done with the intention that this Sacred Hymn, true Invocation to the Divine Creative and Conservative Energy (Durga, Yoga Devi, Maha Maya, etc.), be read by the heart of the Disciples and used in their great prayers or in the mystical ceremonies of the Full Moons, especially in cases where it is so indicated to them, in concomitance with the diverse Ashramas.

Editorial Significance

By this part of the "Srimad Bhagavad Gita," today published as preview of the future edition to which we allude above, the Disciples and Readers, who know the current editions, will be able to realize that, in addition to the 8 chapters unknown until today in the West, the complete version of B. Gita that the Suddha Dharma grants to those who reverently seek Light, is restored in its directly initiatic sense, with special notes each time it has been convenient to clarify even more the Disciple's comprehension.

Gita that the Suddha Dharma grants to those who reverently seek Light, is restored in its directly initiatic sense, with special notes each time it has been convenient to clarify even more the Disciple's comprehension.

We believe that the Disciples will raise their hearts also toward the Sacred Hierarchy of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, which permits them in this form, to have a more direct and simple access with Vedic and pre-Vedic Truth, grantress of the Practical Keys of comprehension and realization.

Sacred Invocation

May the sacred vibration and blessing that irradiate the slokas (strophes) of the Sacred Hymn, penetrate into the purified hearts and minds of all and stimulate them on the Path of Service, are the desires that I formulate when transcribing that version that the affection of the venerable Vajra Yogui Dasa permits us, today, to publish.

(Jehel, 21-3-1944)

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HYMN TO DURGA

14.

Salutations to Thee, O Thou, High Director of the Hierarchy of the Adepts;

Revealer of the Synthetic Wisdom.

Thou, who commandest in the Mandala¹

Immaculate vanquisher of dark desires;

Thou, sacred Energy of creative action and powerful convergent force of all objective functioning.

Thou deity, Giver of all beneficent prosperity;

Thou, also whom all the wicked fear and all the just adore.

15.

Thou, Grantor of supreme wisdom and prosperity, I incline before Thee

My salutations to Thee, O Turner of the eternal wheel;

Thou, Deity of healthful and irresistible power and elevated Despoiler of adverse emotions, I unite with Thee, great Liberator from all dangers of those who seek truth;

Thou, who eternally maintains the solemn vow of the world's exaltation.

16.

To Thee also to whom all adoration is owed.

Thou, active Energy who conducts to Paramatma bhava;

Thou, who inspires all action to vanquish oppositions contrary to spirituality.

Thou, the Conqueror who conducts to triumph in battle and Fulfiller of efforts realized by aspirants;

Thou, Goddess of the occult destiny of the world;

Thou, who hast always been implored by seekers of wisdom, devotion and just action.

17.

Thou, who wields formidable and invincible weapons, possesses skilled arms of sacred prowess;

Thou, moreover art similar to the Creative Power and grantor of the world's welfare;

Thou, eternal Terror of iniquitous designs;

Thou, art also the internal Dweller in the heart of Yogis, palpitating with divine ecstasy.

18.

Thou, art the eternal Inspirer of the death of egocentric passions;

Thou, manifesting in the ether of the heart, with thy fire reduces to ashes the impediments of separativity;

Thou, Grantor of sacred discernment;

Thou, who confers jubilation to the mind of devotees;

Thou, who carries every aspirant to harmonic action. I incline before Thee.

Thou, lover of sacred battle.

19.

Thou, Spirit of all austerity and Sustainer of life's animation;

Thou, great Radiance;