La Iniciación (GIDEE) — Vol. 3, No. 27 — July 1944

Document 107: Cover and Table of Contents - July 1944 Issue

Translation of: La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

Publication Details

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

• Year III
• July 1944
• Number 27

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY SECTION:

• Awaken! (Ramanuja, A∴M∴) ................................................. Page 4

INITIATIC SECTION:

• Incantation by the 10 Divine Names (Víctor Emile Michelet, S∴I∴) ....... Page 5
• Practical Course in Astrology (Surya, S∴I∴) ............................ Page 9
• Commentaries on the 1st Degree of Martinism: Androgony, Synoptic Chart of the Human Being (Jehel, S∴I∴) ......................................... Page 13
• Suddha Dharma Mandalam - Central Ashrama News and "Glimpse of the Future World Religion" (by T.M. Janardam) ................................. Page 15

SCIENTIFIC SECTION:

• Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings: Influence of "Isolation" and "Contact" with the Earth (Pitágoras, S∴I∴) .......................... Page 19

Historical Note: This July 1944 issue represents a profound convergence of mystical vision, practical instruction, and scientific validation during World War II's climactic summer period. Published as the Battle of Normandy raged and the Soviet offensive began, the issue demonstrates the remarkable spiritual maturity achieved by South American esotericism during humanity's darkest hour.

The inclusion of Ramanuja's awakening call from the United States shows the international scope of authentic spiritual work transcending wartime disruptions. Victor Emile Michelet's complete Kabbalistic invocation—written by Papus's contemporary—provides access to profound ceremonial magic from the French Martinist golden age. Jehel's systematic chart bridging all Eastern and Western terminologies for human constitution represents one of the most comprehensive comparative studies available in any language.

Most significantly, T.M. Janardanam's visionary essay on Suddha Dharma as the future world religion, written in 1937 and translated in 1944, demonstrates the prophetic understanding that authentic spirituality must transcend sectarian boundaries while preserving essential wisdom. The continued growth to 93 Suddha Dharma disciples despite wartime conditions shows how genuine spiritual teaching attracts sincere seekers even during global crisis.

Document 108: Awaken! - A Spiritual Call from the United States

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

By Ramanuja, A∴M∴

This article, full of spirituality, has reached us from the United States, where our dear Brother Ramanuja still finds himself. Many will especially evoke his gentle personality upon reading these lines. - (Editor's Note)

Awaken!

3 No. 27, July 1944

By Ramanuja, A∴M∴

This article, full of spirituality, has reached us from the United States, where our dear Brother Ramanuja still finds himself. Many will especially evoke his gentle personality upon reading these lines. - (Editor's Note)

Awaken!

If you dream among the smoke of vain fantasy, if your life passes without joys or sorrows, if you flee from silence and fear solitude, if you only believe in pleasure, beware! for you are a soul that sleeps although in a body that sleeps and awakens; you are less than a tree, perhaps less than a stone.

If it is true that you do not love children nor care about the beauty of flowers, if you feel nothing with music, believe me, you sleep... and with the semi-eternal sleep of things.

Awaken! Live the joy of suffering for those who suffer, love peace, feel it! and only then will you come to understand the beautiful truths that hide beyond the deformed forms of your world.

When you have achieved peace for your spirit, from silence you will listen in the hours of meditation, the sacred music revealing eternal truth, which only those who have made themselves worthy of feeling it possess, since being truth it has no translation to the relative language of men. Truth is eternal and being so will always escape the finite conception of the known senses. It has no translation to the world of reasoning, although it does have one to a very different world, the world of feelings, cause and reason for the existence of creative geniuses, who have only been men whose sensitivity has permitted them to be closer to truth than the rest of the men of their epoch.

The Power of Feeling Over Reasoning

Reasoning makes of the individual a scientific brain, which serves little or nothing to humanity, while feeling makes of the scientific brain a genius, always a powerful contribution to the progressive development of beings and things.

Unique is the Law, and if you do not awaken by your own means and by all those that you will find so marvelously disposed around you, as soon as you have the good will to want to observe them, you will awaken after the wound has burned upon the flesh of your own body, after the marvelous tool of pain has converted you to the world of feelings, the only one in which it is really worth living, since it is also the only one where it is possible to experience the true happiness that men of all times have sought in vain in pleasure.

The Path of Love

The Path of Love

Unique is the Path, be serene, for your soul is a very delicate and conveniently disposed instrument, capable of harmonizing with the most subtle vibrations of Nature, which will bring to your consciousness the experience of a happiness, for being true, indescribable. You will then understand how gross are the sensations of our material world, how far pleasure is from happiness, despite men having confused them so pitifully. While passion thickens the veil in which truth is hidden, love is the only artificer capable of dematerializing it.

Love, for only loving will you be on the Path, until you become the Path itself!

OM and AMEN.

Historical Analysis: This profound spiritual call from Ramanuja A∴M∴, writing from the United States during World War II's most intense period, demonstrates the international scope of authentic Martinist teaching. The recognition that most people live in "semi-eternal sleep of things" while believing themselves awake provides a framework for understanding spiritual evolution that transcends cultural and national boundaries.

The teaching that "reasoning makes of the individual a scientific brain, which serves little or nothing to humanity, while feeling makes of the scientific brain a genius" offers crucial insight into the relationship between intellectual development and spiritual realization. This distinction becomes particularly relevant during wartime when pure intellectual analysis fails to provide adequate response to human suffering.

Most significantly, the recognition that "pain" serves as a "marvelous tool" for conversion to "the world of feelings" demonstrates mature understanding of how crisis and suffering can catalyze authentic spiritual awakening. The ultimate teaching that love "is the only artificer capable of dematerializing" the veil that hides truth points toward the essential nature of spiritual transformation: the replacement of ego-driven passion with genuine love that dissolves the barriers between self and universal consciousness.

Written during the Battle of Normandy, this teaching provides timeless guidance for maintaining spiritual perspective during humanity's most challenging historical periods.

Document 109: Incantation by the Ten Divine Names - Sacred Kabbalistic Invocation

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

By Víctor Emile Michelet, S∴I∴

Writer and Martinist Initiate from the epoch of Papus

Incantation of the Ten Divine Names

Document 109: Incantation by the Ten Divine Names - Sacred Kabbalistic Invocation

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

By Víctor Emile Michelet, S∴I∴

Writer and Martinist Initiate from the epoch of Papus

Incantation of the Ten Divine Names

AIN SOPH, nocturnal mantle that no pupil contemplates, threshold of shadow in which remained, exhausted for having penetrated the 49 preceding gates, Apollonius and Moses! One day, splendorous with glory, we will penetrate into your abyss with confidence of reaching the shores of the homeland! May the vertigo of directing ourselves toward you, through the paths of sorrow, magnetize our flanks pained by efforts lacerated by arrows! Essence of all things that crowns with eternity the hours of time, with Infinity, the zones of space and the multiplicities of number, whatever may be my pride for having glimpsed your mystery, I will not blaspheme until projecting my vain voice of man toward your silence. I know you too distant from me, oh primordial modality of Being, you whose differentiation, source of my life and source of universal evil, was perhaps—and still are the limits of terror—only an immemorial accident! But, by the ten hours of light that your central shadow projects, by the ten builders of vibrations, by the ten chosen of your Love, I call upon the virtues of your principal emanations. Organs of a body of which you are the invisible heart, I want each of them to startle at my voice and respond with an influx of its energy toward my bosom. My strength commands them and my weakness supplicates them.

I - EHEIEH

EHEIEH! The eye never saw your simple majesty reign in the Empyrean, nor, in your long face girded by the crown of lightning, your mouth that orders the Holy Animals their vertiginous races in the depth of the first mover and utters the names, signifying things. I want the Prince of the faces of serenity to introduce before your shadowed countenance, the multiple theory of my violent desires, which toward you gravitate, cursed and flagellated, the nine steps of the ladder of the heavens.

II - IAH

I want the Prince of the faces of serenity to introduce before your shadowed countenance, the multiple theory of my violent desires, which toward you gravitate, cursed and flagellated, the nine steps of the ladder of the heavens.

II - IAH

IAH! My poet's imagination humanizing your essence and nesting it in the vault of Space, glimpsed the gesture of your hands on a night populated with stars, beyond the orb of planets of which our sun is the center. The races from which I arose believed to see your reflection in the gentle eyes of a man with reddish hair, who, born in a manger, between the ox and the ass, was nailed upon a cross and women adored, around the bloodied brow of that youth, your pallid reflection. Your Bosom, clothed with Wisdom, emerges from the seed of a father. May your hands occupied in playing with the Wheels, with the spheres symbolizing your ideas, clothe my dimmed prayers with lucidity! The human spirit easily shipwrecks in chaos. May Raziel, your confidential genius, make his voice heard in the burning bush that tinges my desires with your flame reflection!

III - IODHEVAUHÉ

IODHEVAUHÉ! I saw, from the horizon a ray of sun illuminate with leonine reddish the white belly of the dove, incrustating upon the sky, by the perpendicularity of its spread wings, a crucial appearance. Thus you brighten with a vibration of your intelligence the manifested life. From your bosom, the Great and Strong Angels go to invest ancient Saturn with the power to command creation and the extinguishing of forms. With liturgical black cape, constellated with garnets, diademed the brow with sad lead, behold me here burning the flower of sulfur, so that you may carry me in spirit, oh! smoke of blue, to the supreme limits of the sidereal domain, to the threshold of the empyrean world. You will guide me Zaphkiel, in the darkness of the Mystery in which my audacity abysses and you will aureole me with immortality, despite the sinister demon Zazel, who sardonically laughs for soon bringing to decrepitude, and afterward to definitive putrefaction, my form and my blood.

IV - EL

EL! In your right hand, the scepter of three branches, and, with the index rigid like a juvenile phallus, it is you whom Orpheus distinguishes upon the summit of Olympus, magnificent and merciful, projecting the luminous swarm of the Dominations toward the sphere of Jupiter. The aloe wood and nutmeg consumed in the censers, cloud with their smoke my brow circled with tin, my limbs rest under the celestial tunic dotted with topazes. You bring me the scepter, Zadkiel, the rod of your command. Inaccessible to the suggestions of Ismael, I will not raise it except in the name of justice, and of adorable mercy.

V - ELOHIM GIBOR

You bring me the scepter, Zadkiel, the rod of your command. Inaccessible to the suggestions of Ismael, I will not raise it except in the name of justice, and of adorable mercy.

V - ELOHIM GIBOR

ELOHIM GIBOR! For the gods also, like men and planetary genii, have a body carved in the beauty of matter. In your leonine flesh, runs marvelous blood, oh dispenser of strength! Father of heroic hearts, to the kiss of the Powers, which you delegate, Mars takes new strength for struggles. Behold here helmeted with steel, with short mantle that inflames a sparkling of rubies, the vapors of storax dilate his nostrils, Samael, archangel of whom one glimpses the powerful face, in the living reflection of the sword, upon my waist girded with leather, you will pour the oil of strength, and will give the aggressive energy and resistance for the perpetual combat of living, for the holy rebellion and just anger. And, against Barzabel, the violent demon of brutality, hate and destruction, I will extend the point of the consecrated gladius.

VI - ELOHA

ELOHA! You meditate the luminous dream of beauty. Upon the wings of the Kings of Splendor, your gazes arrive through the vital brazier of the Sun, to the brow of the poet aureolated with gold. Through the radial choir of the Apollonides, oh Beauty, I was born to adore your face! Upon my hair the golden tiara of triple plane, with cape embroidered like a chasuble, starred with carbuncles, behold those I cast upon the burning coals, the tears of bitumen and the flowers of laurel. Raphael or Phoebus, oh! prince of glory, you will fill my bosom with the glory of being in the world. From the sensual trembling before the graces of form and the seductions of colors, to the ecstasy raised in flight toward unreachable entelechies I ascend in your trail, toward the summit where absolute beauty shines. Beauty, what brute has told you to be perishable? Your unfading essence, like your mortal appearance, the Light that procreated them, propagates its reflections in the sphere of eternity. For the eyes of the Seers, there are no extinguished splendors. I conjure you Sorath!

VII - IODHEVAUHÉ TSEBAOTH

Your unfading essence, like your mortal appearance, the Light that procreated them, propagates its reflections in the sphere of eternity. For the eyes of the Seers, there are no extinguished splendors. I conjure you Sorath!

VII - IODHEVAUHÉ TSEBAOTH

IODHEVAUHÉ TSEBAOTH! It is through Victory that you manifest, through the victory of life over death. Your seed raises the Elohim toward the smiling sphere of Venus, genitrix of love. Of clear and green toga, dotted with emeralds, girded the temples by the twisted copper band, flowered with verbenas and roses, transported by the affluences of musk and saffron, I invoke you, Anael, in the hour when your planetary body comes to enchant with its beauty the Taurus of the Zodiac. The violent ecstasy of love carrying the soul outside of life, to the threshold of death—for to possess an ideal, is to modify the form of one's life as profoundly as through death—that ecstasy of love, you can pour it from the cup that your enchanting hand displays. The beloved who was destined for me before the earth, the lost half of the androgyne that I was, you will send her toward my kiss. Prevent, I supplicate you, the queens of the striges, Lilith and Nahemah, from holding her captive in the unknown night. Put in the womb of the armed woman the vibration of love that perpetuates itself, through the marrow of the Elohim, to the very heart of God. And neutralize, with your embalmed breath, the malefices of the demon jealous of happy couples, Anteros or Kedemel!

VIII - ELOHIM TSEBAOTH

ELOHIM TSEBAOTH! Upon the left column you erect yourself in a nimbus of glory, and, from there your servants the sons of the Gods, take flight toward the agile planet Mercury. Upon my nape rests a crown of quicksilver; I have put on the mauve tunic sprinkled with crystals, from which emerge my naked worker's arms. In a smoke of juniper and cinnamon, behold you here, Michael, you who counseled Solomon, the king of Mystery! Through you, I want the penetration of hidden propulsors, I want to fabricate the key that violates the services of the Occult. You will not disturb, Taphthartharat, the good worker, diligently curved over his labor!

IX - SHADDAI

SHADDAI! Your feet rest upon the Foundation and your fingers make the signs to the ministers of Fire, who follow the course of the moon around our earth. I have placed in my hair a crescent of fine silver; togaed in the white dalmatic starred with argyrolites and sapphires, I burn myrrh, pronouncing the words that oblige the powers. You incline toward me, Gabriel, like Artemis triform to the call of Endymion. Soul of the moon, your gaze invests with a guardian angel each of the sons of woman and pours the somber fire of genius into the predestined chests, your aspiration makes us grow, your expiration perish, and, the perfume of your breath attracts through the horror of the auric torrents, the spirit of the dead whom we love, the imagination of poets and women.

Mirror that reflects upon our brows the wounded rays of all the planes of the abyss, choose with love what you will project toward my flanks. At the trembling of the prolonged enchantment of spiritual waves, shed, I order you, the indifference of your frequent neutrality, so that, alive, my gazes of Seer may launch beyond your domain.

And, when the kiss of welcome death touches me, I will not be the plaything of astral storms, prey of the infernal embrace of the servants of Hasmodai, the Lemures and Larvae.

X - ADONAI MELECH

ADONAI MELECH! You have realized it, the unfathomable dream of the Long Face that the eye did not see! The distant crowned Macroprosopus, you have established it upon the Kingdom of forms, which the whip of perpetual Becoming harasses. Great Maker venerated by the Hermeticists, you have constructed the Temple. From your work, Being can look at itself in the symbol that manifests its virtualities. The shadow has a body. Great Pan is alive. At his order, the Intelligences of glory offer to men the wine of Knowledge, of integral Gnosis, which only the strong and audacious can taste. I know that the flavor is bitter and mortal. But, in that Cup I can put my lips, for, in the subterranean of Eleusis, I absorbed pain and drank memory.

Víctor Emile MICHELET

Writer and Martinist Initiate from the epoch of Papus

Historical Analysis: This extraordinary Kabbalistic invocation by Víctor Emile Michelet represents one of the most complete ceremonial magical texts available in Spanish translation. As a contemporary of Papus and member of the original French Martinist movement, Michelet demonstrates the profound depth of practical Kabbalah that characterized authentic Western esotericism at its zenith.

The systematic invocation of the Ten Sephirothic divine names, from Ain Soph through the complete Tree of Life, shows sophisticated understanding of how consciousness can align with cosmic principles through ritual invocation. The poetic imagery—from the "nocturnal mantle that no pupil contemplates" to the final achievement where "Great Pan is alive"—demonstrates how authentic ceremonial magic operates through imagination as a bridge between ordinary consciousness and transcendent reality.

Most significantly, the recognition that this represents the "unfathomable dream of the Long Face" realized in manifestation points toward the ultimate purpose of Kabbalistic practice: the conscious participation in cosmic evolution through alignment with divine emanation. The final image of drinking from the Cup of Knowledge "in the subterranean of Eleusis" after having "absorbed pain and drank memory" shows mature understanding of how initiation integrates suffering and wisdom into unified spiritual realization.

Document 110: Taurus - The Bull in Judicial Astrology with Decanates and Faces

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

Teachings of Surya, S∴I∴

Document 110: Taurus - The Bull in Judicial Astrology with Decanates and Faces

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

Teachings of Surya, S∴I∴

Practical Course in Judicial Astrology (Continuation)

Continuing the study of the Zodiacal Signs, we will examine, in today's article, the characteristics of:

TAURUS or the Bull

Taurus symbolizes fecundity and procreative forces. It gives a harsh and reserved character, slow to anger, but afterward violent and even furious, with certain avidity and inclination toward sensual pleasures and gluttony. It makes, however, the person careful, laborious and persevering. It presides over industrial activity and its applications, as well as over the vivifying faculties of silent and isolated thought.

Symbolic Representation

In the Symbolic Plane, representing the faculties of fecundity and procreation, in all parts of nature, its genius was figured by Aphrodite, generally represented with two horns on the head, like the Bull. Many mythologists have erred with this symbol, thinking that they represent the lunar crescent on the head of Isis, while it really figured the planet Venus which the Ancients placed thus to allude to the fact that this goddess—Venus—rules the constellation of Taurus, through its sympathetic forces. Apis, the sacred bull of the Egyptians is another representation of the Bull and, as the Sun passes through said sign in the months of earth cultivation, it is used as a sign of agriculture.

Kabbalistic Significance

Kabbalistically, Taurus represents the ears, neck and throat of the Great Ancient of the Heavens, which signifies that this sign is the silent, patient, attentive principle of humanity and also the regulator of the lymphatic system in the organism. In the esoteric planisphere, the Bull is represented by the patriarch Issachar—name that signifies mercenary, servant, healer. The patriarch, in his paternal blessing to Issachar, alludes to the obedient and laborious nature of this sign, in these terms:

"Issachar is a robust ass, lying down between the bundles." This paints the Taurine nature of Earth, as well as the ass and ox being equally notable for their resistance and as beasts of burden.

The Kabbalistic precious stone of this sign is the agate, being it a natural talisman for those born with the Bull in their Ascendant. Taurus is the highest emanation of the Earth Triplicity and is the constellation of Venus.

Intellectual Influence

The Kabbalistic precious stone of this sign is the agate, being it a natural talisman for those born with the Bull in their Ascendant. Taurus is the highest emanation of the Earth Triplicity and is the constellation of Venus.

Intellectual Influence

On the Intellectual plane, Taurus signifies the vivifying and fecundating faculties of silent thought, representing what is lovable and good; therefore, those who are dominated by its influence know how to choose what is good and assimilate it with profoundly practical and realistic sense. They are slow in forming an opinion, careful, laborious and confident in themselves and know how to patiently await the results of their silent action. Their intellectual traits are industry and its application.

Physical Influence

On the Physical plane, Taurus gives medium stature, a vigorous, ample and robust body, a strong, thick, rather short neck, like that of the ox, and a broad forehead, generally dark hair, matte complexion and large mouth.

Those who belong to the negative part of the sign are of little amiable, sad and reserved genius. They are slow to anger, but when they do they become furious and obstinate.

Botanical and Mineral Correspondences

Among plants, Taurus rules chard, plantain, flax, larkspur, columbine, daisy, dandelion, pumpkin, myrtle, coltsfoot, lilac, moss and spinach. Among stones, white coral, alabaster and all common opaque white stones.

THE DECANATES OF TAURUS ON THE ASCENDANT

(according to Julevno)

Taurus gives, in general, a massive corpulence, medium stature, round face, short and thick neck, large eyes, broad shoulders, strong or at least broad nose and mouth. The complexion is usually somewhat matte and freckled, the eyes rather dark or blue with greenish and brownish tint, the hair has some tendency to wave a little.

For women, this sign indicates—as a general rule—that the features blend in a harmonious and pleasant whole, being round in forms, with much of what today is called "sex-appeal."

This sign rules the throat and nape, having Venus as its "Lord."

The character it grants is generally vain, superstitious, violent, even when slow to become emotional, little sensitive, confident in itself. Those born under Taurine influence are great eaters and sometimes drinkers, making their comfort, their ease and their "sans-façon," greatly enjoying pleasures and diversions.

The Three Decanates

The first decanate of Taurus (first 10 degrees), is governed by Mercury and confers intuition, spirit with rich gifts, poetic, with artistic tastes, tendency toward comfort and luxury, and sensual love for life. It grants success in theater, music, fine arts and through feminine protection.

It grants success in theater, music, fine arts and through feminine protection.

The second decanate (degrees 11 to 20) has, in addition to Venus's influence over the entire sign, that of the Moon, making imagination vivid, romantic, character variable, inclined to pleasures and good table. It grants success through travel, wealth or comfortable position, through real estate especially.

The third decanate (degrees 21 to 30) belongs to Saturn, making the person sensitive and sad, faithful in their affections. It causes deception in sentimental matters, great difficulty in reaching material fortune, enmities, especially in marriage, sorrows in the home, situation of dependence or servitude.

THE "FACES" OF TAURUS (divisions of 5 degrees)

According to classical opinions collected by Dr. Salmón, they signify:

FACE 1st (0° to 5°):

Short and medium stature, dark hair, somewhat wavy, matte to swarthy complexion, dark and somewhat pronounced eyebrows. In this face is found the star "Horn of the Ram" with unfavorable influence. If the Moon is here with Uranus, Saturn or Mars, it produces affections of the throat.

FACE 2nd (6° to 10°):

Indicates medium stature, elongated face and fairly ample forehead, full cheeks, poorly aligned teeth, dark hair and swarthy complexion, melancholic aspect. It has some influence of Saturn and through it prognosticates difficulties in building construction and mine exploitation, when dealing with such. Makes friends of good table.

FACE 3rd (11° to 15°):

Gives small stature, pale and swarthy aspect, small eyes, gaze toward the ground, frequently frowning eyebrows, broad and high forehead, rather thick lips, fat nose, sparse beard, strong shoulders and little sympathetic physiognomy.

It suffers the influence of fixed stars of Saturnian nature, like "Menkar" and "Jaw of the Whale", which announce little fortune, misfortunes, illnesses or dangers caused by large animals.

However, the 15th degree elevates to fortune, grants good moral qualities and great firmness of character; it causes great travels, especially if Venus or the Moon are found there.

FACE 4th (16° to 20°):

Small stature, well proportioned, face almost always pleasant, chestnut hair, high forehead and grayish eyes; women born in this "face" are generally beautiful, for Venus's influence is here preponderant.

FACE 5th (21° to 25°):

The fifth face denotes small persons, with accentuated coloring complexion, frequently with freckles, pimples or blackheads. Saturn grants an oval face, bad breath, black hair, and short legs, arms, hands and fingers with a body strong in flesh. In this face exists a mixed influence of Saturn, Moon and Mars.

FACE 6th (26° to 30°):

Saturn grants an oval face, bad breath, black hair, and short legs, arms, hands and fingers with a body strong in flesh. In this face exists a mixed influence of Saturn, Moon and Mars.

This face indicates robust persons, with square face, darker complexion, black hair, medium stature, brusque manners, with a mark or scar on the face. This face is under the influence of Mars and Moon and in the 28th degree is found a "Bright One of the Pleiades" that causes eye disease, almost always as a consequence of smallpox.

(according to old authors)

First face: Character little serious, ingenious and resolute, who will triumph by his own means.

Second face: Person little happy, exposed to numerous reverses, trials and difficulties, except if the Moon were present in said face, well aspected.

Third face: Ungrateful person, negligent, lazy, incapable of gratitude or of dedicating themselves to someone or something, except powerful aspects to the contrary.

Fourth face: Affable person, without much luck, capable of the greatest sacrifices when feeling affection for someone, and resolves to dedicate themselves to him, or her.

Fifth face: Pretentious character, without frankness, bad and critical, without honesty. Very good aspects and positions would be required to modify this indication.

Sixth face: Person of argumentative tendency, ill-intentioned and perverse.

First face: Concedes feminine protections and tranquility in a modest position.

Second face: Protection of powerful persons, especially if Saturn, Mercury or benefic planets are found here.

Third face: Obscure life, of work and trials.

Fourth face: Success through the support of women and persons of social influence, especially if the Moon were found here.

Fifth face: Position obtained through acts of evil, treason or duplicity.

Sixth face: Little success in life, but with possibilities of obtaining it in old age if some good aspect supports this signification.

As our Readers and Students can verify, it is a true Treatise of Interpretation that we are publishing in this Course of Astrology, and we hope they meditate and APPLY these knowledges, from which they will be able to obtain great benefits in the study of their own destiny, of the tendencies to correct and to understand others, govern themselves better in life and make themselves more tolerant.

Historical Analysis: This comprehensive astrological analysis of Taurus demonstrates the remarkable depth of traditional planetary knowledge preserved in South American Martinism during World War II. The integration of symbolic, kabbalistic, and practical interpretative methods shows the scholarly approach that characterized authentic astrological instruction.

The integration of symbolic, kabbalistic, and practical interpretative methods shows the scholarly approach that characterized authentic astrological instruction.

The recognition that Taurus represents "the ears, neck and throat of the Great Ancient of the Heavens" demonstrates understanding of how individual psychological patterns reflect cosmic anatomical principles. The detailed correspondence between degree positions and specific physical characteristics reflects ancient knowledge of how celestial influences manifest through observable traits.

Most significantly, the teaching that Taurus governs "the vivifying and fecundating faculties of silent thought" provides insight into how this earth sign contributes to spiritual development through patient, persistent inner work. The emphasis on practical application rather than mere theoretical knowledge—"we hope they meditate and APPLY these knowledges"—reflects the reformed Martinist emphasis on realization rather than academic study.

The detailed analysis of both positive and negative expressions for each decanate and face provides practical guidance for understanding personality patterns and evolutionary possibilities, demonstrating how authentic astrological teaching serves both psychological understanding and spiritual development.

Document 111: Synoptic Chart of Human Constitution - The Complete Microcosmos

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

Teachings of Jehel, S∴I∴

Commentaries on the First Degree of Martinism: Androgony

As we promised in the article of the preceding number, we publish today a general chart of the ternary and septenary composition of the Human Being, under all its aspects and with the correspondences between the diverse terminologies used by the various schools of Orient and Occident.

With this chart, which we owe to the patient labor of our dear Bro. Pitágoras S∴I∴, we consider finished our teaching, relative to the androgonic part of the first degree. Readers and Students have, with all that has already been published, more than sufficient material to understand how man is constituted, how he functions and what are the physical, animic and mental rules necessary for that yearned-for progress, which, we repeat again, cannot result from reading. That reading is, solely, the necessary information to guide practice, which, when well oriented and persistent, will lead inevitably to beautiful results.

We hope that the referenced chart serves, then, not only to synthesize in one whole, all the teachings previously exposed, but also as a theme for individual and collective meditations, because, while each one is not capable of having in mind a clear panorama of the various parts that compose his own person, how they relate and what effects they produce or receive, one cannot expect it to be easy for him to guide his efforts on the path of realization.

From the next number we will approach, in this section, the theme: "Quaternary Character of Martinism" which interests not only members of the Order, because it contains valuable teachings on symbolism and natural laws.

HEALTH, PEACE AND UNION.

THE COMPLETE SYNOPTIC CHART OF HUMAN CONSTITUTION

THE THREE GREAT BODIES

1. PHYSICAL BODY

Material or Substantial — Form

World of Facts — Comes from the physical plane and to it returns

Terminologies:

• Khat (Egyptian)
• Rupa (Hindu)
• Xoung (Chinese)
• Nephesch (Hebrew)
• Corpus (Latin)
• Soma (Spiritualists)

4. ASTRAL BODY

Moral or Natural — Formative

World of Laws — Comes from the astral plane and to it returns

Terminologies:

• Kha (Egyptian)
• Linga Sharira (Hindu)
• Ruah (Hebrew)
• Ochema (Greek)
• Anima (Latin)
• Kehephas (Zoroaster)
• Kaleb (Persian)
• Archeus (Paracelsus)
• Limbus (Swedenborg)
• Somurgo or Perispirit (Spiritualists)
• Soul, Life or Plastic Mediator (Occultists)

7. PSYCHIC BODY

Intellectual or Psychic — Formative

World of Principles — Comes from the Spiritual Plane and to it returns

Terminologies:

• Khou (Egyptian)
• Atma (Hindu)
• Wun (Chinese)
• Neschamah (Hebrew)
• Psyche (Greek)
• Mens (Latin)
• Spirit (Spiritualists and Occultists)

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES IN DETAIL

THE PERSONALITY (Transitory and Mortal) ⟷ Link between ⟷ THE INDIVIDUALITY or EGO or Higher Self (Immortal)

1st Principle - Dense Physical Matter

Xu (Egyptian) — Rupa or Sthula Sharira (Hindu) — Xoung (Chinese) — Guph (Hebrew) — Dense Body (Theosophical) — Matter of Physical Body

Matter protoplasmic of the cells of tissues — Material part of body that renews itself through diverse functions exercised by the belly (digestion) and transported by blood to tissues (anabolism) or from tissues to exterior (catabolism).

2nd Principle - Vital Force

Hati (Egyptian) — Jiva or Jivatma (Hindu) — Mau (Chinese) — Nephesch-Chajim (Hebrew) — Vital Body (Theosophical) — Vitality (Occultists)

Life of the cells of the physical body — Mediating part of the body that permits combination between physical body and astral body — NEVER LEAVES THE BODY

3rd Principle - Astral Double

Tet (Egyptian) — Linga Sharira (Hindu) — Than (Chinese) — Nephesh (Hebrew) — Body of Desires or Ethereal Body or Fluidic Body or Double (Theosophical)

Simultaneously the soul of the physical body and the matter of the astral body — Renews itself through functions exercised in the chest (respiration).

Note: Being a common element to physical body and astral body, it constitutes the material part of the astral body and the animating part of the physical body — Spiritualization of blood under influence of vegetative nervous system — Located in red blood corpuscles and in ganglia of the great sympathetic — CAN EXIT CONSCIOUSLY (INITIATES) OR UNCONSCIOUSLY (MEDIUMS) OUTSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY

4th Principle - Emotional Nature

Xaibit (Egyptian) — Kama Rupa (Hindu) — Khi (Chinese) — Ruah (Hebrew) — Mental Body, Concrete Mind or Lower Self (Theosophical) — Animal Soul (Occultists)

Passionate nature — Life or mediating part of the astral body — Combination with the immediately superior element — Proper life of the astral body — Located in plexuses of the great sympathetic — Origin of instinct, egoism and passions.

5th Principle - Higher Mind

Sahu, Ab (Egyptian) — Manas (Hindu) — Han (Chinese) — Neschamah (Hebrew) — Abstract or Rational Mind (Theosophical) — Human Soul or Intellect or Human Spirit (Occultists)

Simultaneously the matter of the psychic body and soul of the astral body — As soul of the astral body it is the seat of Intelligence and memory and is located in cerebral convolutions.

Note: Animating part of the astral body — Spiritualization of nervous fluid under influence of conscious nervous system. Renews itself through functions of the head — As inferior or material part of psychic body it is seat of intellectuality, sustenance of superior principles and is located in the brain.

6th Principle - Spiritual Intuition

Ba (Egyptian) — Buddhi (Hindu) — Tuh (Chinese) — Chayah (Hebrew) — Spirit of Life (Theosophical) — Angelic or Spiritual Soul (Occultists)

Life of psychic body or mediating part of psychic body — Combination of soul with 7th principle — Partial influence of 7th principle over 5th — Located in some superior nervous cells — In germ in current races — Seat of Inspiration, double sight (prophecy) and morality.

7th Principle - Divine Spirit

Ka (Egyptian) — Atma (Hindu) — Wun (Chinese) — Yeshida (Hebrew) — Pure or Divine Spirit (Theosophical) — Divine Soul or Spirit (Occultists)

Animating part of psychic body — Spiritualization of human faculties under influence of divine verb — Not localized in man and represents for him the highest ideal to achieve — Principle of Nirvana and definitive Immortality.

THE MICROCOSMOS (Man)

This complete chart demonstrates how Man functions as a complete microcosmos, containing within himself all the principles and levels of universal manifestation. The correspondence between Eastern and Western terminologies shows that authentic spiritual traditions recognize the same fundamental constitution despite using different descriptive systems.

Key Understanding Points:

The correspondence between Eastern and Western terminologies shows that authentic spiritual traditions recognize the same fundamental constitution despite using different descriptive systems.

Key Understanding Points:

1. The Three Worlds: Man simultaneously exists in the World of Facts (physical), World of Laws (astral), and World of Principles (spiritual).
2. The Personality-Individuality Bridge: Principles 1-4 constitute the transitory personality, while principles 5-7 form the immortal individuality, with the 5th principle serving as the crucial link.
3. Conscious Development: Understanding this constitution permits conscious work on each level rather than unconscious evolution through experience alone.
4. Practical Application: Knowledge of which principles can "exit the body" (3rd principle) versus those that remain (2nd principle) provides foundation for understanding mediumship, projection, and initiatic practices.
5. Evolutionary Goal: The ultimate aim is spiritualization of all lower principles under guidance of the Divine Spirit (7th principle), leading to conscious immortality.

Historical Analysis: This comprehensive synoptic chart represents one of the most complete comparative studies of human constitution available in any Western esoteric literature. The systematic correlation of Egyptian, Hindu, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Theosophical, and Occult terminologies demonstrates the scholarly rigor that characterized mature Martinist instruction.

The recognition that this knowledge serves "not only to synthesize all the teachings previously exposed, but also as a theme for individual and collective meditations" shows mature understanding of how theoretical knowledge must become the foundation for practical realization. The emphasis that progress "cannot result from reading" but requires "well oriented and persistent" practice demonstrates the reformed Martinist emphasis on achievement rather than mere study.

Most significantly, the detailed explanation of how each principle functions and interrelates provides a complete framework for understanding consciousness, death, reincarnation, mediumship, and spiritual development. This systematic presentation enables students to "have in mind a clear panorama of the various parts that compose their own person" as foundation for "guiding their efforts on the path of realization."

Document 112: Suddha Dharma Growth and the Future World Religion Vision

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

By Jehel

Suddha Dharma Mandalam

Aspirants to spiritual practices: Any person, member or not of Initiatic Orders, who desires to follow spiritual and respiratory practices, meditation, etc., can address: Dr. Jehel (S.D.M.), P.O. Box 317, Montevideo

Internal News from the Central Ashrama of Montevideo:

Protocol of May: Numbers 964 to 999 inclusive.

Situation of Disciples

Jehel (S.D.M.), P.O. Box 317, Montevideo

Internal News from the Central Ashrama of Montevideo:

Protocol of May: Numbers 964 to 999 inclusive.

Situation of Disciples

| Status | April 30 | May 31 |

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

| Performing 1st Exercise | 26 | 26 |

| Performing 2nd Exercise | 20 | 21 |

| Performing 3rd Exercise | 14 | 13 |

| Performing 4th Exercise | 15 | 16 |

| Performing 5th Exercise | 10 | 10 |

| Performing 6th Exercise | 6 | 6 |

| Performing 7th Exercise | 1 | 1 |

| Total | 92 | 93 |

Ashramas by Countries:

The aforementioned 93 Disciples are distributed as follows: Argentina 50; Brazil 11 and Uruguay 32.

THE MAY PLENILUNIUM

The fact that Brother Jehel has been extremely occupied with the reforms in progress in the Martinist Order, has prevented, until now, the drafting and distribution to interested parties of the most salient facts occurred in the Ashramas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, on the occasion of the Celebration of the Mystical Date of the Plenilunium of Vaishak. Nevertheless, it can be advanced that in said celebrations, perceptions were had of the evident development of many Disciples of the real internal devotion that many of them already cultivate and live and of very profound bonds between several of them, the Instructors and the Influence of the Great Beings of Suddha Dharma.

In Buenos Aires, several groups of Suddhists celebrated said Mystical commemoration, obtaining beautiful devotional states and in an environment of elevated vibration that has had reflection in their activities in all the media in which they act.

In Montevideo, the two celebrations (in early dawn at the precious instant of Full Moon and, at night, in reiteration), both with the presence of the Venerable Swami Asuri Kapila, of Jehel and of the dear Sister Upasika, representative of the Maha Bodhi-Sanga, gave opportunity to live unforgettable hours, Asuri Kapila having manifested his perception of very real bonds between the small local commemoration and the Great Yagna offered in India, in Visala Badari.

Many Disciples had, during the realization of their practices before the ceremony, or during the same, or in the practice of the two subsequent days, manifestations more ample of the Internal Light and an ascending cycle in their internal realization is verified.

In the Ashrama of Montevideo, the commented reading of the translation of the Bhagavad Gita, made by Brother Giordano Bruno, beautiful work of more than a year of labor, has been initiated, which permitted all to go appreciating the marvels of the esoteric sense of the Great Book of the Song of the Lord.

Said Reading is always accompanied by influences that have been translated, among other more subtle manifestations difficult to perceive by all, by the aura or breath of the N.E. that has been clearly and reiteratively felt by all the assistants in the small Temple of Suddha existing in the Ashrama of Montevideo.

Various elements or necessities for which prayer or petition has been made in the meetings of the local Suddha Dharma Mandalam, have received help from the Hierarchy, for which we raise our most heartfelt vibrations of gratitude to the Great Beings.

GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE WORLD RELIGION

By T. M. Janardam

(Translated from "The Suddha Dharma," June 1937)

The Religion of Suddha Dharma, which is the future World Religion, constitutes the maximum common integral in which all current religions of the world converge, at the same time that each of them conserves its own characteristics.

Many are the routes that lead to London, let us say for example, but to render homage to His Majesty the King in his own antechamber there is only one path. Similarly, all religions of the world can facilitate their protagonists to create certain comprehension of God and thus give solid root to their faith in God, but the religion of Suddha Dharma is the only one that conducts the aspirant to the Divine Presence. For this reason the great Adi Shankara has said: "Suddha Dharma sanchitha nimithena... dharsitha yoga margaha".

The Ancient Authority of Suddha Dharma

This declaration, made no less than by such an authority, as was that Great expositor of the famous "advaita" and "maya-vada" doctrine, strongly highlights two important facts. First, that the Religion of Suddha Dharma already existed prior to him, and second, that this is a Science of Yoga.

It also follows from this that Shankara's own exposition of the doctrine on the Unity of God is only a partial representation of the great postulates of Suddha Dharma, of yogic origin, and that, by the very nature of its most elevated goodness, this Science guarded its secret even from Shankara himself, permitting him barely to know its name. If this were not true, Shankara himself would have made it known to us.

The Limitations of Partial Truth

As Adi Shankara's Advaita (Monism) doctrine was only a partial aspect of the Total Truth, despite its bold conception, it was possible for the doctrines of Vishistadvaita (Qualified Monism) and Dvaita (Dualism) to achieve their respective place in the religious thought of India. And these three doctrines together, with certain additional elements, are designated with the name of Vedanta.

And these three doctrines together, with certain additional elements, are designated with the name of Vedanta.

Each of these disputes, claims and sustains through arguments its victory over the others, offering with this a spectacle not at all enviable. These belligerent elements are what is known as "Hinduism," this most repugnant name to designate the religion of this country. This name honors as little the one who gives it as the designated object, because this name demonstrates very clearly, that neither one nor the other knows anything of what has really been the Religion of the people of this country since ancient times.

The Fossilized Remains of Ancient Truth

Be that as it may, this Hinduism—this name has come to stay—is nothing more than a fossilized remains of an aspect of Suddha Dharma, which now only has the character of verbal message, very contradictory of itself and which has excluded the very important aspect of Yoga as something entirely apart.

However, only in times we remember has Yoga been dragged into the fold of this religion, so atrociously and improperly denominated Hinduism.

But, what Yoga is this? It is not the Yoga that Adi Shankara knew as Suddha Dharma, but rather those processes of mental and physical gymnastics that usually bear the name of Yoga, processes evidently lacking all spiritual efficacy that a Master, from Pondicherry, has believed himself entitled to declare that all existing yogas are insufficient, and he pretends to be the inaugurator of a new Yoga system and, moreover, that his system unites with that of the Gita, even when he well knows that none of this is true.

The Era of Spiritual Awakening

We live in an admirable era, an era in which we not only see the marvels of material sciences springing up everywhere, but spiritual instructors also sprout en masse. Wherever one travels in this country, it is certain that one will stumble upon some "spiritual prodigy." This amuses us greatly. And yet, it seems that both tendencies are necessary, according to divine will, perhaps because they represent sporadic prakritic and atmic shoots of Suddha Dharma. If it were not so, these things could not endure here for so long.

I believe it was a Hindu who said that India is struggling to feel its own soul. There is some truth in this affirmation, even if the animating impulse of this movement is absolutely misdirected. In reality, India has launched itself to rediscover the lost principles of Suddha Dharma; but she is dangerously wasting her energies, in diverse directions, because she has not yet realized this. All those voices that clamor asking for some crumb, in reality only seek the manner to reach this sound food of Suddha Dharma.

The Universal Yearning

Not only India; the entire World is clamoring for this nectar of Suddha Dharma, and this is the Yoga that leads us to spiritual and material realization.

The Universal Yearning

Not only India; the entire World is clamoring for this nectar of Suddha Dharma, and this is the Yoga that leads us to spiritual and material realization.

That was the dharma of that ancient country and that was its religion in the past. That will also be the World's Religion in the future, in light of divine dispensation.

The persons who follow this path of Suddha Dharma, know the truth about this Sanatana Dharma, as well as about the dramas of determined times, places and personalities. Without any confusion they follow the path of spiritual and worldly Glory, in complete peace with themselves, without need to face the problems related to acceptance or renunciation of the world.

The Liberated Life

These persons live an existence free of all elective differentiation, because their life requires the simultaneous realization of both things, that is, the mundane and the spiritual, and this they achieve as a result of the direct perception generated by the Suddha Diksha that is conferred upon them by the Great Beings of SUDDHA DHARMA MANDALAM.

Without the Suddha Diksha, it is said that such Yoga is difficult to achieve, moreover, it is impossible, however much one may strive for it. This has been said by Hamsa Yogi in unequivocal terms: "Prayatnasadhyo Na bhaveth Kalpakotichathirapi, thathascha dikshithir yogaha prapyaha ayadhithisattama".

The Coming Avatar

Well then, we are on the eve of an extremely grandiose advent, whose public appearance we await: the manifestation of Avatar Lord MITRA DEVA. This signifies that the difficulties indicated by Hamsa Yogi will be eliminated by his divine intervention.

Let us pray with all humility that his Divine Manifestation be very soon. May Suddha Dharma prosper.

It has been favorable to contribute to Service for the diffusion of the Influence of Lord Mitra Deva, the daily recitation of this Mantra:

"AUM, Glory to Mitra Deva, the Guru of Brahmanic Splendor.

OM, OM, OM, JRIM IM NAM NAMAH".

Historical Analysis: T.M. Janardam's visionary essay, written in 1937 and translated in 1944, demonstrates remarkable prescience about the spiritual crisis and renewal that would characterize the later 20th century. His recognition that authentic religion must provide "the maximum common integral in which all current religions converge" while preserving individual characteristics anticipates the interfaith movement by decades.

His recognition that authentic religion must provide "the maximum common integral in which all current religions converge" while preserving individual characteristics anticipates the interfaith movement by decades.

The critique that traditional "Hinduism" represents only "fossilized remains" of authentic Suddha Dharma provides a framework for understanding how all religious forms can degenerate into mere intellectualism when separated from direct spiritual realization. The observation that modern yoga often consists of "mental and physical gymnastics" lacking "spiritual efficacy" proves remarkably accurate regarding contemporary spiritual commercialization.

Most significantly, the prophecy of Avatar Lord Mitra Deva's manifestation during humanity's crisis demonstrates understanding of how spiritual evolution requires divine intervention during critical historical periods. The growth to 93 Suddha Dharma disciples despite global warfare shows how authentic spiritual teaching continues to attract sincere seekers even during humanity's darkest periods, providing foundation for the coming spiritual renewal.

Document 113: Terrestrial Isolation versus Contact - The Johnny Coulon Phenomenon and Bioelectric Research

Translation from La Iniciación Vol. 3 No. 27, July 1944

By Pitágoras, S∴I∴

Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings

Influence of Orientation and Magnets on Living Beings

We have verified, in the preceding articles, the existence and variations of terrestrial magnetism produced by different causes and the variable influences of this magnetism with the variation of orientation on everything and above all on what "lives" on the earth. In this article we are going to occupy ourselves particularly with the influences that terrestrial magnetic currents can exercise on living beings according to whether they are in "contact" with mother earth or "isolated" from her.

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE

A priori, and in general manner, we can affirm that telluric influence manifests more efficaciously on living beings when these are in "contact" with the soil than when they are "isolated" or living in the "magnetic aura" of the earth. Hence the convenience for all living beings of being in good electromagnetic conductibility with the earth unless it deals with, in determined cases, prejudicial influences, such as for example, receiving magnetic influences that originate in regions crossed by subterranean water currents or other influences of different nature.

Ancient Knowledge of Telluric Forces

Ancient Knowledge of Telluric Forces

This knowledge was also not ignored by the ancients. In effect, unfavorable telluric influences were symbolized in the well-known myth of Antaeus, son of Earth who, fighting against Hercules, could recover his forces when he was in contact with the soil and could conquer his adversary when he isolated the latter maintaining him elevated in his arms. The necessity of isolation, that is, of the indispensable position to protect oneself from telluric and astral influences was, on the other hand, infinitely times emphasized by all mages who have always enclosed themselves in circles traced on the ground to "isolate themselves," during their magical operations, from said dangerous influences. In effect, the "forces" set in motion by virtue of magical operation, would have annihilated the operator (if he had not taken the indispensable precaution of isolating himself in his circle), as would be done for example by a powerful electromagnet to which is approached a small U-shaped magnet.

THE JOHNNY COULON PHENOMENON

The modern experiences on the influences of isolation and contact with earth, were realized, as regards man, after the multiple discussions and great interest that, for these studies, awakened the case of Johnny Coulon, called the "unliftable man."

In effect, in 1920, this American "featherweight" boxer, for he weighed only 49 kilos, and of normal muscular force, while he could be lifted from the ground by anyone who grasped him with hands by the waist, could no longer be lifted, however robust the subject who experimented to lift him, if Coulon placed one hand on the fist of the experimenter touching his radial artery as if wanting to take his pulse and a finger of the other hand on the carotid in correspondence of a pair of centimeters above and behind the angle of the jaw.

The Isolation Effect

The placement of Coulon's hands, in the exposed form, on the experimenter produced no more effect, and he could very easily be lifted if the lifting experience was realized on aluminum plates placed on ebonite plates, that is, if Coulon was "isolated" from the soil.

From this case one must reach the conclusion that, at least until better explanation, the vital energy emanated by Coulon's fingers, produced an inhibition on the radial and pneumogastric nerves of the experimenter and that this vital energy should diminish when he was "isolated" from earth. If the explanation of the phenomenon is not the true one, at least there is no doubt that there exists a telluric influence that works on subjects in "contact" with earth, increasing their muscular dynamism and diminishing this dynamism when the subject is "isolated" from the soil, that is, in a position that impedes him from being able to receive it.

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS