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1Sterra, Krishnamurti, Hilarión, El Veneciano, Sahib Serapis, etc. No es posible dar en algunas líneas un resumen de años de trabajo, de preparación y ejecución.
2Otro hermano que destaca con sus trabajos es el querido Hno.
3Flamel, con unos 40 objetos cincelados, casi todos en estado de trance o inspiración, que expresan, o rostros de personajes del mundo astral, o símbolos muy interesantes.
4Anillos brazaletes y otros objetos completan los trabajos muy raros y curiosos de este hermano, siendo algunos ejecutados en un metal llamado “solar” por el Hno.
5Flamel, quien no revela su composición.
6La Hna.
7Fátima ha expuesto retratos de los Maestros Maharishi, Saint Martin, una cabeza de “Meditación” y otros trabajos hechos según las sugestiones producidas al mirar cosas materiales, siendo los primeros trabajos citados muy dignos de nota.
8Otras personas que no han dado sus nombres, y de las cuales algunas no conocen dibujo, han expuesto cosas percibidas en momentos de éxtasis.
9Nuestro Hermano Jemard, de Buenos Aires, también expone delicados dibujos, finos y suaves como toda su personalidad.
10Kapila y Jehel exponen algunos esquemas de orden técnico, sobre Yoga, sobre Tantrismo.
11Finalmente 3 cuadros de la Sra. A. B. de Romero dan una cuota curiosa por su indefinible expresión y raro colorido.
12He tratado de dar, así, para nuestros hermanos que se hallan lejos de Montevideo, una sumaria idea de lo que es esta Exposición de Arte Espiritualista, realizada por el Gidee, por inspiración de la Orden y que llena así una de las finalidades necesarias y también recomendadas por Papus: difundir, hacer conocer; despertar espiritualismo bajo todos los aspectos, usando todas las manifestaciones nobles de la Verdad, tanto mediante el Arte como mediante la Ciencia.
13Esta es nuestra primera y modesta tentativa que ha sido muy bien recibida.
14Otras mayores vendrán, si es necesario.
15El Gran Consejo de la Orden deja aquí constancia de su gratitud a los Venerables Hermanos que han realizado los trabajos o que han prestado los que hacen parte de sus colecciones personales, así como a los profanos que han cedido las obras que poseían de nuestros hermanos y cuyos nombres se hallan en el catálogo de la Exposición.
16Viajes Iniciáticos. – Los viajes iniciáticos de este año han sido los siguientes: De Rivera a Montevideo. – El Venerable Hno.
17Lemerle y el Ven. H. Delaage, que nos visitaron uno después del otro, asistiendo a sesiones de la R. L. “Papus” de Montevideo.
18De Buenos Aires. – Varios queridos Hnos., como ser: el Pod. H. Vyasa (Delegación Martinista en Bs.
19Aires), la Hna.
20Theano, el Hno.
21Kabir, los Hnos.
22Ragon, Ayur, Grainville y Arnauld, que han estado ya más de una vez, y pudieron participar de sesiones de nuestro Templo Central y asistir a las actividades del Gidee y de la Administración Central de la Orden.
23En Buenos Aires estuvieron, en dos ocasiones, Miembros del Gran Consejo.
24En septiembre de 1942, estuvo el Presidente del Consejo y también la Hna.
25Leona Constantia.
26En diciembre estuvieron juntos, el Hno.
27Jehel y el Hno.
28Asuri Kapila.
29En ambas ocasiones, hubo un hermoso contacto y fecundo resultado en sesiones e iniciaciones, fundación de corporaciones y posibilidades de atender individualmente a muchos miembros de la Orden.
30Conferencias: Además de los Cursos del Gidee, de la Revista LA INICIACIÓN y del contacto epistolar con profanos (personas y sociedades), la Orden ha realizado, por intermedio de algunos de sus miembros, varias conferencias durante el año y que fueron las siguientes: 15
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.
1Sterra, Krishnamurti, Hilarion, the Venetian, Sahib Serapis, and others. It is not possible to give in a few lines a summary of years of work, preparation and execution.
2Another brother who stands out by his work is our dear Brother
3Flamel, with some 40 chased objects, almost all made in a state of trance or inspiration, expressing either faces of personages of the astral world or very interesting symbols.
4Rings, bracelets and other objects complete the very rare and curious works of this brother, some being executed in a metal called “solar” by Brother
5Flamel, who does not reveal its composition.
6Sister
7Fátima has exhibited portraits of the Masters Maharshi and Saint-Martin, a head of “Meditation” and other works made according to the suggestions produced on looking at material things, the first-named works being very worthy of note.
8Other persons who have not given their names, some of whom do not know how to draw, have exhibited things perceived in moments of ecstasy.
9Our Brother Jemard, of Buenos Aires, also exhibits delicate drawings, fine and gentle like his whole personality.
10Kapila and Jehel exhibit some schemes of a technical order, on Yoga and on Tantrism.
11Finally, 3 pictures by Sra. A. B. de Romero make a curious contribution by their indefinable expression and rare colouring.
12I have tried in this way to give, for our brothers who are far from Montevideo, a summary idea of what this Exhibition of Spiritualist Art is — carried out by the GIDEE, at the inspiration of the Order, and so fulfilling one of the necessary aims also recommended by Papus: to spread, to make known, to awaken spiritualism under all its aspects, using every noble manifestation of the Truth, by Art as much as by Science.
13This is our first and modest attempt, and it has been very well received.
14Greater ones will come, if it be necessary.
15The Grand Council of the Order here records its gratitude to the Venerable Brothers who made the works, or who lent those forming part of their personal collections, as well as to the profane who gave up the works they possessed by our brothers, and whose names are in the catalogue of the Exhibition.
16Initiatic journeys. — This year's initiatic journeys were the following. From Rivera to Montevideo — the Venerable Brother
17Lemerle and the Venerable Brother Delaage, who visited us one after the other, attending sessions of the Respectable Lodge “Papus” of Montevideo.
18From Buenos Aires — several dear Brothers, such as: the Powerful Brother Vyasa (Martinist Delegation in Buenos
19Aires), Sister
20Theano, Brother
21Kabir, and Brothers
22Ragon, Ayur, Grainville and Arnauld, who have been here more than once, and were able to take part in sessions of our Central Temple and to attend the activities of the GIDEE and of the Central Administration of the Order.
23Members of the Grand Council were in Buenos Aires on two occasions.
24In September 1942 the President of the Council was there, and also Sister
25Leona Constantia.
26In December, Brother
27Jehel and Brother
28Asuri Kapila were there together.
29On both occasions there was a fine contact and a fruitful result in sessions and initiations, the founding of corporations, and the possibility of attending individually to many members of the Order.
30Lectures. — Besides the GIDEE courses, the Review LA INICIACIÓN and correspondence with the profane (persons and societies), the Order has given, through some of its members, several lectures during the year, which were the following: 15
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.