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1agradece con honda emoción, así como sus Miembros Efectivos prometen dar todavía más servicio, si es posible en el año 1943.
2Las realizaciones más salientes del año, colectivamente hablando, fueron: a) Decisión y realización de crear el Gidee (Grupo Independiente de Estudios Esotéricos) que fue todo un éxito.
3Éxito material, éxito intelectual y lo que más interesa, éxito iniciático, pues muchos de los estudiantes del Gidee se hicieron martinistas o realizaron esotéricamente bastante.
4b) Decisión y realización de publicar “LA INICIACIÓN”, revista hecha a “imagen y semejanza” de la que Papus creara.
5Éxito también completo y utilidad real verificada.
6c) Decisión y realización de servir indistintamente a todas las Corrientes Iniciáticas de Oriente u Occidente, que se presenten apoyando o pidiendo nuestra colaboración.
7Éxito bastante apreciable, por lo que está realizando simultáneamente para: La Orden Kabalística de la Rosa-Cruz. – La Orden Martinista propiamente dicha (Enseñanza tradicional).
8El Suddha Dharma Mandalam. – La Ramana Ashrama (Ven.:: Maestro Maharishi).
9Los H. A. B. M.
10Y sobre estos últimos temas (párrafos a, b y c) debo destacar que el Gran Consejo ha mirado muy atentamente todo el movimiento del año y ha llegado a conclusiones que, felizmente, coinciden plenamente con sus previsiones de 1941 y por lo tanto, determinan de manera cada vez más firme e irrevocable mientras no vengan otras instrucciones de los Venerables Maestros, las siguientes directrices: 1º Se siente la Mano del Ven.:: Maestro Papus sobre nuestra Venerable Orden y no hay duda de que la vía debe ser la que él siempre indicó: iniciación mixta (mujeres y hombres); vía mixta (intelecto y corazón); actividad mixta (difusión y ayuda al exterior y esoterismo práctico al interior).
112º Se siente que la acogida fraternal a toda enseñanza oriental u occidental, sin fanatismo ni exclusivismos de ninguna especie, es la única vía razonable y lógica para quienes deseen ser sintetistas y fraternales, sin preferencias raciales, continentales ni sectarias o de predominio de un sexo sobre otro.
12Exposición de Arte Espiritualista. – Aunque el mayor movimiento de esta Exposición está calculado para 1943, se ha inaugurado ya en 1942 nuestra Exposición de Arte Espiritualista.
13Cerca de 250 trabajos se hallan expuestos en dos Salas de la Sede de la Orden en Montevideo y en marzo de 1943, dicha exposición será llevada a B. Aires, acompañando un nuevo ciclo de conferencias de algunos hermanos.
14En dicha Exposición se destacan, por su valor espiritual y artístico, los trabajos del Hno.
15Sadananda, quien, mereció, por el dolor y la devoción, percibir elevadas manifestaciones de seres y ceremonias espirituales.
16Sus trabajos, todos admirables, expuestos, llegan a un total de 106, de los cuales solamente unos cuarenta y cinco son de técnica yoguística.
17Todos los demás son de arte místico, salvo algunas composiciones técnicas sobre temas como las auras humanas de acuerdo al desarrollo evolutivo.
18Algunas de sus grandes composiciones místicas por visión o percepción, son maravillas de arte y de devocional expresión de la Verdad, como por ejemplo: el nacimiento del Cristo en el corazón del hombre, Plenilunio de Vaysak, la Contemplación del Yogui, la Adoración del Portal, la Bendición del Maestro, Devas (seres angélicos) de muchas Jerarquías y especies, Chela Brahmánico en éxtasis, Retrato de Grandes Maestros como: Pedro Danoff, Pancho 14
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1gives thanks with deep emotion; and its Effective Members promise to give still more service, if it be possible, in the year 1943.
2The most salient achievements of the year, collectively speaking, were: a) The decision and the accomplishment of creating the GIDEE (Independent Group of Esoteric Studies), which was a complete success.
3A material success, an intellectual success, and — what matters most — an initiatic success, for many of the GIDEE's students became Martinists or accomplished a good deal esoterically.
4b) The decision and the accomplishment of publishing “LA INICIACIÓN”, a review made in the “image and likeness” of the one Papus created.
5A complete success also, and a real usefulness verified.
6c) The decision and the accomplishment of serving indistinctly all the Initiatic Currents of East or West that present themselves supporting or asking our collaboration.
7A considerable success, by what is being accomplished simultaneously for: The Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross. — The Martinist Order properly so called (traditional Teaching).
8The Suddha Dharma Mandalam. — The Ramana Ashrama (the Venerable Master Maharshi).
9The H∴A∴B∴M∴
10And on these last matters (paragraphs a, b and c) I must point out that the Grand Council has watched the whole movement of the year very attentively and has reached conclusions which, happily, coincide fully with its forecasts of 1941, and therefore determine ever more firmly and irrevocably — until other instructions come from the Venerable Masters — the following directives. 1st: the Hand of the Venerable Master Papus is felt upon our Venerable Order, and there is no doubt that the way must be the one he always indicated: mixed initiation (women and men); a mixed way (intellect and heart); mixed activity (diffusion and help outward, practical esotericism within).
112nd: it is felt that a fraternal welcome to every teaching, eastern or western, without fanaticism or exclusivism of any kind, is the only reasonable and logical way for those who wish to be synthetists and fraternal — without preferences of race, of continent or of sect, and without the predominance of one sex over the other.
12Exhibition of Spiritualist Art. — Although the greater movement of this Exhibition is planned for 1943, our Exhibition of Spiritualist Art was already inaugurated in 1942.
13Nearly 250 works are on show in two Rooms of the Order's headquarters in Montevideo, and in March 1943 that exhibition will be taken to Buenos Aires, accompanying a new cycle of lectures by some of the brothers.
14In that Exhibition there stand out, for their spiritual and artistic value, the works of Brother
15Sadananda, who merited, through pain and devotion, to perceive elevated manifestations of beings and spiritual ceremonies.
16His works on show, all admirable, come to a total of 106, of which only some forty-five are of yogic technique.
17All the rest are of mystical art, save for a few technical compositions on themes such as the human auras according to evolutionary development.
18Some of his great mystical compositions, by vision or perception, are marvels of art and of devotional expression of the Truth — as for example: the birth of the Christ in the heart of man, the Full Moon of Wesak, the Contemplation of the Yogi, the Adoration of the Portal, the Blessing of the Master, Devas (angelic beings) of many Hierarchies and kinds, a Brahmanical Chela in ecstasy, and Portraits of Great Masters such as Peter Deunov, Pancho 14
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Here the article states the real difference between the two branches, and does not pretend it is small: Bricaud's Martinism excluded mixed initiation and admitted only masons, and therefore grew more slowly than Papus's "by virtue of the necessity of gathering only masons and of excluding women". Montevideo follows Papus, and says so.
And then the generosity: although Bricaud's branch went another way, "all who work for the same ideal… ought to feel themselves brothers", and he is commemorated every 21 February regardless. The magazine states a disagreement and then refuses to make it a quarrel.
The correct date, in the body of the article: Bricaud died 21 February 1934, aged 53, having named Chevillon his successor. Chevillon was alive when this was printed and was murdered in March 1944, fourteen months later.
"1872 – CEDAIOR – 1943." The founder of the South American Martinist Order died on 22 January 1943, three weeks before this number went out, and the magazine announces it in five lines with the biography promised for the next issue. Nº 9 p. 2, printed the month before, had described him installing the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross at Curitiba in 1927 and continuing as its President "in Active Silence". This is the last issue in which he is written of as living.
The 21st of February carries three commemorations at once — Willermoz, the Unknown Martinists, and Bricaud — and the issue gives one article to each. It is the only number in the run built entirely around a single date.
Willermoz was indeed a contemporary of Martines de Pasqually and the pivotal figure of Lyon masonry. The dates here are close but not exact against the standard references, which give his birth as 10 July 1730 rather than the 1st, and his death as 29 May 1824 rather than the 20th. The internal arithmetic holds either way: 1730 to 1824 is the 94 years the article states.
The meeting that matters: Willermoz, in Paris on silk business in early 1767, is initiated by Martines de Pasqually into the Rite of the Élus Coëns — "the basis of the future Martinism". The article is careful to date it and to explain why he was in Paris at all, which is the kind of detail that makes a chronology checkable.
A striking piece of internal criticism: Martines protests that Willermoz was raised to Rose-Croix prematurely by a badly executed ceremonial, and predicts it will mark his whole initiatic life. The article then endorses the prediction — "Willermoz never achieved much either in the magical or in the mystical way". A commemorative piece that declines to flatter its subject.
The Convent des Gaules of 1778 and the Convent of Wilhelmsbad of 1782 are both historical, as is Willermoz's achievement in carrying the grades of Profès and Grand Profès — Élus Coën teaching in masonic dress — into the Strict Observance. The article's account of the backlash is also fair: the reform did not take in the lodges.
Willermoz's turn to magnetism in 1784 and his entry into "La Concorde" belong to the real Lyon story, and Mesmer was in France in exactly those years. The diagnosis of diseases in horses "afterwards verified by autopsy" is reported by the article, not evidenced.
The Cahier de l'Agent Inconnu is genuine and is the best-known document of the Lyon circle — revelations received from 1785 through a young woman described as a magnetic subject. The article calls this the summit of Willermoz's personal mystical career, and on the evidence of the archive that is a defensible judgement.
The verdict is the most honest sentence in the article: revere in him "not a great initiate but, especially, the man of heart", who attempted the hardest thing — "to try to re-spiritualise masonic rites" — and then, drily, "whoever has tried it knows what it means."
The closing point is made deliberately and is the magazine's own position: women have always had the right to be initiated in truly initiatic rites, and Willermoz initiated his own sister and Mlle. de Chevrier. It sets up the criticism of Bricaud two pages later for excluding them.
The heading is wrong. It prints "Jean Bricaud (1881–1943)"; the article itself gives his death correctly at p. 6 as 21 February 1934, at the age of 53 — which is right, and which is why the 21st of February is a commemoration at all. 1881 to 1934 is 53 years; 1881 to 1943 would be 62. The compositor appears to have set the current year. Marked [Sic] in the translation.
Two threads open here. Bricaud studied magnetism with Maître Philippe of Lyon — "Philippe Nizier (Amo)" — who reappears on p. 17 as one of the Masters most often seen or felt by members of the Order. And he studied Kabbalah with Jacques Charrot, "one of the disciples of Eliphas Lévi", which puts the magazine two steps from Lévi by its own account.
The chain of office is accurately given: Téder (Charles Détré) succeeded Papus and died on 25 September 1918, leaving the Memphis-Misraïm hierophancy vacant until Bricaud assumed it on 10 December 1919. The dates are the ones the Order's own records give.
The commemoration of the Unknown Martinists is analysed on three planes — moral, astral, spiritual — and the middle one is the most revealing: performing the ceremony is said to set the accumulated work of the dead vibrating in the terrestrial atmosphere and so to "re-vitalise the Invisible Current of the Order". Memory is treated as a mechanism, not a sentiment.
Paschimottanasana is correctly named and described — seated, legs extended, forehead to the knees, the great toes grasped — and the instruction to hold the breath throughout and to increase by one minute a day to a maximum of ten is specific enough to follow. The half posture offered to those who cannot fold is sound teaching.
The claims made for this posture are the most extensive in the run: cure of liver inflammation, gastritis, lumbago, rheumatic pain, haemorrhoids, constipation, and the disappearance of neck wrinkles. These are reproduced as printed and are not endorsed. The account of the spleen absorbing solar energy and individualising it as "pale rose" particles is period occult physiology, not anatomy.
The glossary on Ida, Pingala and Sushumna is accurate to the tradition: the left current negative and lunar, the right positive and solar, the central channel between them, with Sushumna also identified with the spinal cord. Naming Pingala "the Vehicle of the Gods" and locating the doctrine in a Taraka Raja Yoga school is a Theosophical framing rather than a Sanskrit one.
The annual report is the most administratively candid document in the run. The Grand Council grew from 13 members to 17; it aims at 21 "as it was in the time of Papus and as it ought to be, in accordance with our internal Law Nº 1". An occult order publishing its own constitutional arithmetic is unusual.
1,122 documents passed through the register, and the writer stops to note "the influence of the numbers 11 and 22". The count is real and the numerology is imposed on it — the same move as the fifteen conspirators becoming Tarot XV in Nº 9. Worth marking because the arithmetic elsewhere in this report is scrupulous.
The cash account reconciles, but only on the second of two figures given for receipts. A balance of $411.00 brought forward and a closing balance of $3,147.85 require receipts of $2,736.85 — which is the figure the article itself uses two lines later. The $2,736.65 printed here is a slip of two digits.
The most human passage in the volume. Outsiders ask, "fraternally", what these men live on — and the President answers in public, by name: Asuri Kapila, Surya and Pitágoras have small private incomes and live very modestly on them; Jehel gives language lessons. And then the detail that settles it: the Order owes Surya $550, more than a third of its annual dues income. Nobody is drawing from it; one of them is lending to it.
"In our Order the Degrees are not given away out of friendship nor sold for gain." The claim is then supported with numbers — 17 members raised across all grades in a year, out of hundreds — which is a low enough proportion to be credible.
Third statement of parentage in three issues: the review is "made in the image and likeness of the one Papus created". Nº 2.9 p. 1 said it of the body, Nº 1.6 p. 4 named him founder of both; here it is listed as one of the year's achievements.
And here the Ramana thread closes a circle. Among the currents the Order reports serving in 1942 is "The Ramana Ashrama (the Venerable Master Maharshi)" — the same ashram a Uruguayan contributor had described visiting in Nº 1, pp. 22–25. What read as one traveller's account turns out to have been an institutional relationship.
The stated directive is explicit and worth recording given what the run is screened for: a fraternal welcome to every teaching, eastern or western, "without preferences of race, of continent or of sect, and without the predominance of one sex over the other". Printed in February 1943.
The exhibition included portraits of "the Masters Maharshi and Saint-Martin" by Sister Fátima, and 106 works by Brother Sadananda including portraits of Peter Deunov and Krishnamurti. Deunov and Krishnamurti were living men in 1942. The Press has not located the catalogue; the works are recorded as described.
A three-month radio programme — "The Hour of the Mysterious Sciences", on La Voz del Aire — and a "Chain of Thought" of hundreds petitioning nightly at 21h30 for the sick. It was discontinued for want of money. This is the magazine at its most concretely institutional: a broadcast schedule, a station name, and an hour.
The cures reported here — a cardiac case given up by doctors, pulmonary lesions cicatrised in under three months, a "miraculous" operation, an obstetric intervention — are reproduced as printed and are not endorsed. No records are cited beyond the Order's own minutes, and no physician is named. Note that the writer himself sets "miraculous" in quotation marks and follows it with "(??)".
The five Masters said to be most often seen or felt are named: Amo (Maître Philippe of Lyon), Maharshi, Papus, Subrahmaniayananda and Aurobindo. Four of the five appear elsewhere in the run as historical figures with documented lives; the list reads as a map of the Order's actual affiliations rather than a pantheon.
Stanislas de Guaita and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky are named among beings seen on special occasions. The Press holds Guaita's Le Serpent de la Genèse, acquired for Nº 9 — so a figure the Order reports encountering in vision is one whose actual book now sits in the library beside this issue.
The balance sheet checks out almost everywhere and fails in two places. Correct: furniture 1,022.78 less 120 gives 902.78; publications 309.30 less 26.40 gives 282.90; cash 3,147.85 less 3,054.55 gives 93.30; the GIDEE contribution 410.16 less 44 gives 366.16; and both grand totals balance exactly at 9,699.84 and 4,309.88. Wrong: rents 1,775 less 600 is 1,175, not the 1,165 printed. And Objects of Worship at 230.60 less a deduction printed as 2.36 gives 228.24, not the 218.24 shown — the true deduction must be 12.36, a digit lost at the column edge. For a hand-set table of twenty accounts, two slips is a good showing.