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1progressive accumulation of inert substances in all the tissues, and especially in the walls of the veins and arteries, which thus become sclerotic.
2If the accumulation of these substances is not halted, other tissues will later suffer the consequences — a true deterioration being produced in them which will carry them to the loss of the elasticity characteristic of youth and the establishment of the inelasticity characteristic of old age.
3To halt that accumulation, and little by little to eliminate the calcareous substances already deposited, physical exercises are needed which will be indicated in due course.
4That readers may have a clear idea of what really occurs in the arteries and veins — especially the former — let them imagine the calcareous incrustations that appear in the tubes of a boiler or steam engine after a certain time, above all if the boiling water was saturated with salts.
5If those tubes are not cleaned they are very soon obstructed and become useless; but if the incrustations are removed they recover their original efficiency.
6Exactly the same happens with the arteries — with the sole difference that, while in the example given the salts deposit on the internal surface of the tubes, in the arteries they deposit in the intercellular spaces of the walls, thus giving origin to that syndrome well known under the name of arteriosclerosis.
7This characteristic senile manifestation cannot be cured by any medicinal preparation (despite the many existing for that end, among which we mention the best known: iodine), nor by any dietetic regime.
8It is true that by following a dietetic regime relatively poor in certain salts — such as a very suitable and balanced vegetarian regime based on much fruit — arteriosclerosis can be avoided; but once it is established, the regime mentioned no longer suffices to eliminate the salts deposited.
9Once arteriosclerosis is manifest — principally by deposit of carbonates and phosphates (a deposit that may also occur, and principally, in the gall-bladder and kidneys, giving origin to the well-known calculi) — the arteries become hard, losing their normal elasticity; and in consequence the irrigation and adequate distribution of the blood through the various organic territories becomes ever more difficult, even though the great sympathetic and the vagus nerve strive to maintain an adequate vasoconstriction or vasodilation.
10Then the poor circulation gradually determines the atrophy of the various tissues, with attenuation of the organic functions and visible manifestation of all those characteristics of senility.
11That is why, for example, the brain begins to function ever less intensely — confusion of ideas, loss of memory, failure of attention, etc., thus manifesting themselves, which, as is known, are prevalently manifestations of premature senility or of very advanced old age.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
The Nanak plate: the classic janamsakhi composition — Nanak haloed and seated, Mardana with the rabab, the attendant with the fly-whisk — reproduced full-page to open Kapila's Sikh article. The attendant is Bhai Bala of the popular tradition, whom the article never names; the plate carries more of the iconographic tradition than the text does. Extracted to the imagery layer.
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Wrapper photographs continue, transcribed by hand; masthead and back covers carry Nº 18's forms (the BIBLIOTECA MARTINISTA repeats at p. 25).
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The Zohar's inverted double man read as Kundalini-Yoga: Jehel's synthesis essay hangs on a single image — the six-pointed star of the upright and inverted man, chakras lettered kabbalistically, IOD at the brow and Hé at Muladhara. The identification of Kabbalah and Yoga as \"ONE ALONE, presented in distinct languages, symbols and epochs\" is the run's strongest statement of its perennialism — and the programme of the whole GIDEE curriculum in one sentence.
The chain of quotations is the shelf reading itself: Zanoni (held in the original in the Thread), the Martinist Ritual, Ramakrishna, Aurobindo (of the Nº 5 transmission diagram), Papus twice, the Buddha's sandalwood, the words of institution. The closing palindrome — RAMA : AMAR — compresses the East-West synthesis into four letters that read both ways.
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Papus's embryology is real embryology: the three germ layers (ectoderm, endoderm, mesoderm), their derivatives, the limb-bud sequence, and the digestive-tube development are sound for his era — he was a physician — and the numerological reading (1, 3, 2; \"the multiple is always external\"; the double mesoderm answering the double manas) is metaphysics built on genuine anatomy. The lecture voice (\"I hope you will grant it me\") suggests a transcribed course.
Three Jupiterians \"from our own collectivity\": Eliphas Levi, Cedaior, Nulo — the course sets a dead French magus, the run's own late Master, and a living masthead persona side by side as physiognomic specimens. No clearer proof that the personas are, to the run, as real as the tradition's great names.
Practice claims reproduced as printed, not endorsed: the five systems, the secret exercises moving \"pranic force individualised as sexual force\" to the brain — the rejuvenation series now names its constructive programme after four numbers of demolition. The arteriosclerosis exposition that follows (p. 14) is period-sound vascular medicine pressed into the argument; the boiler-scale analogy is Kapila's best teaching image.
The Suddha census matures: 82 → 92, with a FIFTH exercise cohort appearing (3) and redistribution down the funnel (45→43 first-exercise). The extracts continue with the Mandalam's four orders of discipleship (Dasas, Thistas, Brahmas, Anandas) and the six great Dikshas — Parthiva, Vayu, Agni, Chandra, Aditya, Yoga Devi: the initiation-name VAYU printed in the Suddha ladder, two years before the Book of the Laws of Vayú's own cosmology was serialised. The estate's Vayu thread has its Indian anchor here.
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Bhagavan Narayana as Kumara and Dakshinamurthy, the three Maha aspects, initiation \"under immediate superintendence\" with physical presence dispensable — the Suddha theology at its most specific, faithfully carried from Srinivasachariar's notes. The unguents-and-elixirs detail is the tradition's own; the run adds nothing.
The cadaver in the amphitheatre: Wronsky's finale opens at the dissection table and reasons by his standing triple-premise method to \"what the cadaver lacks is not life but movement\" — then stacks the occult anatomy (etheric, astral as plastic mediator, mental, soul, spirit) in one paragraph. The essay's honest close — psychology cannot unveil the I; only meditation can — hands the series over to the practice courses.
The closing reading list: Ramacharaka (Atkinson), Besant, Mulford, Richet, then \"reading with attention\" Lévi, Papus, Sédir, Barlet, Castellot, Agrippa — a real map of the run's library, popular yoga and psychical research on one shelf, the French occult canon on the other. \"Osly\" is likely d'Ourches or a garble of \"Oxley\"; \"Fortuni\" plausibly Dion Fortune — the retype's spellings stand.
The dedication is datable: \"JIT SINGH, Prince of Kapurtala, whose presence in Argentina…\" — Prince Karamjit Singh of Kapurthala travelled South America in the early 1940s; the Kapurthala house was famously francophile and cosmopolitan. The article's Nanak biography (Talwandi 1469, Kabir's influence, the Japji, Mardana, Mecca and Baghdad, the Ravi) follows the standard janamsakhi tradition via English-language accounts, with the run's universalist epigraph set in capitals above it.
Nanak's credo as printed — \"There is one God whose name is true…\" — is the Mul Mantar in Spanish dress, and the Baghdad correction (\"Mahomet is the Prophet of God, and not God\") reproduces the tradition's interfaith audacity. The article's closing gloss of \"Sikh\" as \"divinely taught\" and Mardana's river-burial carry the story to its continuation promised for Nº 20.
The prospectus and BIBLIOTECA MARTINISTA plates repeat Nº 18's forms at pages 24–25, folios adjusted; the network state (three branches, Montegnacco) holds.
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The masthead holds its late-1943 form; the roster is stable through the volume's close.
The SUMARIO leads with a new essay — \"Kabbalah, Yoga and Rosicrucian Synthesis\" — signed Jehel, Dr. Kab.: the doctoral style from Cedaior's own titulature (Nº 16-17) now on the son's byline. With the biography finished, Jehel writes doctrine.
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The four-point parallel (theology, correspondences, single end, same realisers) is the essay's scaffold, and its \"height x… the maximum that individual can attain this time\" quietly imports the reincarnational frame into a comparative-religion argument.
The germ-layer table (endoderm/ectoderm/mesoderm with their organ derivatives) is printed as a mid-page inset the retype ran into the text; the English sets it as a plain list at the folio break. The embryology remains sound.
\"Those who make classifications of 20 principles or more are merely exoterists\" — Papus's numerological polemic lands on the hand's phalanges: the multiple as external becomes a criterion for ranking rival esoteric systems. The 1-3-2 law is the lecture's whole yield, offered as the key to every organ.
Thor's-day for Jupiter's day is sound comparative mythology; Zachariel/Zadkiel is the standard angelic attribution; and the \"largest planet, after Saturn the most powerful\" ranking is Burgoyne's astrology, not astronomy. The generous Jupiterian portrait continues the Light of Egypt's temperament series.
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Garbhasana with ear-grasp, reproduced as printed and not endorsed; \"exactly as the figure indicates\" — and again no figure survives in our witness: the fifth consecutive missing asana plate. The U A M seal recurs.
The boiler-scale analogy for arteriosclerosis — incrustations in the tubes, cleaned versus obstructed — is the series' clearest teaching image, and the physiological chain (deposits → hardened arteries → poor irrigation → tissue atrophy → senile signs) is period-sound medicine serving the argument for the \"natural means\".
The triple-premise engine (positive, negative, neutral) runs one last time on Life itself — the essay's signature method closing on its largest object before the occult anatomy is stacked and the series ends.
Nanak at Baghdad correcting the shahada — \"Mahomet is the Prophet of God, and not God\" — as the janamsakhi tradition tells it; the printed \"Mahomed Alñ Rassul Allah\" garbles the Arabic and stands as set. The flight across the Persian Gulf and Mardana's death at Kartarpur close the instalment.
The BIBLIOTECA MARTINISTA and Bucheli advertisements repeat at the back cover; the Dornaleche imprint continues.