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La Iniciación: Mensuario del Grupo Independiente de Estudios Esotéricos
The Initiation: Monthly of the Independent Group of Esoteric Studies
La Iniciación · Año III, Nº 21 · January 1944
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1true Raja Yoga), he is granted the Ekakshara or Sacred Letter (which is distinct for each disciple) under the benign and immediate direction of Bhagavan Narayana; when this Ekakshara is intoned together with the sacred chants and the mystic syllables, the subtle atoms of his many bodies, physical and subtle, reconstituted by the pure and scientific diet, begin to vibrate in rhythm with the light of the Being that shines within.
2On reaching this stage of his path, a strict celibacy is imposed on him in order to entrust him with other, higher disciplines of the Raja Yoga.
3During the Raja Yoga, meditation is made principally on the formless (Nirguna) and transcendental (Suddha) aspects of the Deity.
4A considerable progress in such meditation enables the disciple to attain with happy success the states of the genuine Dasas, Thirtas, Brahmas and Anandas, which are the four principal orders of discipleship.
5One after another, the seven great initiations are conferred in due time, capacitating the aspirant to raise his consciousness to the planes of the higher worlds, which are invisible to material eyes.
6This is carried out by the growing faculty the disciple acquires for the function of his five various subtle bodies: Annamaya Kosha (the dense, but pure, physical body) [Sic: the original prints "Annmaya".], Manomaya Kosha (the mental body), Vignamaya Kosha (the cognitive body), and Anandamaya Kosha (the glorious body) [Sic: the original lists four koshas where the doctrine counts five.]; at this point the disciple, now a Yogi, places himself before the immediate presence of the Atma or Self in him, which presides over each of the aforesaid bodies and is called in order: Ahankara, Jiva, Atma, Paramatma and Purusha.
7When the faculties of his vision develop, he understands the "tatvic", or elemental constitution of the cosmos.
8Enormous vistas of knowledge open before him, and his vision embraces a rapid resplendence, if it may be so said [Sic: the original prints "si darse puede".], of the infinite spectacle of the universe moulded and shaped by the Great Cosmic Hierarchs of the Seven Primary Rays and the Great Hierarchy beneath them.
9The cosmos with the Cosmic Hierarchy and the Hierarchs, and all that relates to them, are but an "amsa" (fragment) of Brahman.
10Brahman embraces an infinity of cosmoses, and each cosmos overflows with life, energy and matter.
11The mutual play of life and matter may be explained simply thus: Brahman is said to have two bodies, the one called Atmic, that is, spiritual, and the other Anatmic or Prakritic, that is, material; both are eternally related and their reciprocal play is incessant and infinite; the energy or power that facilitates this mutual play [Sic: the original prints "muto juego".] is called sakti. [Sic: the original prints "satki" here and "Sakti" below.]
12By derivation from the very nature of Brahman, the trinity of Life, Force and Matter (Atma, Sakti and Prakriti, called together Vastu-trayam) is the characteristic note of every atom in the universe.
13Infinite series of such trinities constitute the universe.
14The matter (Prakriti) of a universe [Sic: the original prints "La material".] is the sum of the twenty-four elements (tatwa) which, in harmony with their variations of function, are classified [Sic: the original prints "con clasificados".] into four principal groups, more or less distinct in their proceeding.
15Each group is technically known as tatwakuta.
16Avyakta being the finest of them, it constitutes the first group, for the vibrations of Avyakta are such that their rhythm permits the realisation of the synthesis (Yoga) of the cosmos by the Being that functions in it. [Sic: the original prints "el primer grupo por las vibraciones".]
17The next group in the order of fineness or subtlety is called Mahat; the vibrations of Mahat are such that their rhythm permits the attainment of infinite science (Gnana) by the Being that functions in it.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
"WHAT HAS MARTINISM TO DO WITH MASONRY? … 'NOTHING'" — the year opens with a demarcation essay by the president of the Grand Council. The stated grounds: Masonry's "social finality, almost always with political tints", and the vengeance legacy (the Vehm, the Templars, the 30th degree) against which Papus is quoted preferring prayer.
Jehel signs with his full offices: President of the Grand Council of the Martinist Order of South America and General Delegate of the O.K.R.C. — the first time the run prints both titles under his name.
The long Papus quotation carries his hemisphere doctrine: East and West under reciprocal laws of evolution and involution, against applying Kali-Yuga to Europe. Reviewed against the concealment mandate: this is the tradition's own cyclology, quoted as doctrine — no evidence-claims about living peoples; it stands with commentary.
Volume III opens. The sunburst cover carries into 1944 unchanged; the date line reads Año III — Enero de 1944 — N.º 21.
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The GIDEE prospectus and the back-cover advertisements repeat Nº 20's stereotype unchanged into the new year — three GIDEEs, the Biblioteca Martinista, Bucheli's 1944 almanac.
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Masthead change with the new volume: Maya replaces Leona Constantia as secretary, Jehel's credentials line adds SDM (he signs the Suddha column as its representative), and Nulo's affiliations now read "A. M., P. C." — the only staffing shift the wrapper has shown since Nº 18.
Imp. Dornaleche Hnos., Cerro Largo 783 — the printer's imprint continues unchanged into Volume III.
Papus's nativity rhapsody culminates in "the Messiah of the White Race... CHRIST IS INCARNATE", with the Saviours of "the other races" placed at his right. Reviewed against the concealment mandate under the ratified boundary: comparative christology inside the school's own root-race cosmology, quoted verbatim from Papus — kept, with this note as the review's record. The ranking claim ("no comparison can be established") is doctrine about saviours, not claims about peoples.
The criterion the school offers for Christ's uniqueness is concrete: return through death in the same body — Boehme, Swedenborg and Saint-Martin cited as the "Illuminated Hermetists" for whom Jesus is the Verb come in flesh, against the "evolved man" reading it attributes to oriental and Pythagorean schools; the Dalai-Lama's succession offered as the counter-model of continuation by substitution of vehicle.
The companion essay defines the Invisible Chain on three planes — Spiritual (the commemorated Martyrs of Martinist Thought), Astral (the two-century collective current, with Comte quoted on the dead governing the living), and Visible (the multiform tie of convictions and synchronised acts).
The astral chain is given a hydraulic ethics: the collective current of two centuries of like-directed acts supports only what runs with it — "sound, good, altruistic" — and resists the negative. Protection by alignment, not by petition.
The worked example is a four-step intercession — prayer, invocation, double petition — for the cure of tuberculosis, written for a bacteriologist who must first renounce being the "glorious" discoverer. The run's most complete specimen of its practical theurgy, and its choice of disease is contemporary: TB was Uruguay's great killer in 1944.
Androgony reaches the nine-element table (physical/astral/spiritual, each in each), quoting Papus's lesson with the Pythagorean table conceit; the two anatomical tables (III and IV) map the ennead onto head/chest/belly and nervous force/blood/lymph.
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Life as the arc-lamp spark — present only while current passes through the two carbons — Papus's standing electrical analogy for incarnation, here completing the ennead lesson.
The planetary course reaches the SUN, fourth after Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, on the same two authorities (Burgoyne via Papus, then Julevno). Burgoyne's "Asead" for the Hebrew sun-name and the Michael-planisphere material run parallel to the Mars/Samael treatment last number.
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Venus is announced next — the course's order (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus…) is the Chaldean descending order, taken over from Papus's curriculum.
Postures 2–5 of the Maha-Surya-Pranasana arrive with their Sanskrit names (Hasta-Agnitejas, Naga, Hasta-Pado, Maha-Satva-Salam), each keyed to "Fig. 16 in Nº 20" — the surviving plate published last number now does duty as the course's referenced illustration across issues.
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With five of ten postures described, the sequence so far tracks the Sūrya Namaskār half-cycle (salutation, forward fold, equestrian, plank, eight-limbed prostration) under Kapila's own nomenclature — the return postures are promised for the next number.
The dietetic instalment opens at full rhetorical pitch — "food has caused more deaths than all the wars" — written in a January when the war was at Monte Cassino and Leningrad. The excision review cleared p. 17's "de todas las razas" (all epochs, all races = all humankind) as plainly universalising.
The polemic's ethnography is Rioplatense: Thursday and Sunday ravioles o tallarines con tucos, the suckling pig admired at table, coffee with milk morning and afternoon — the periodical's Montevideo is visible through its dietetics.
The census turns down for the first time: 98 → 94, with the editors announcing a deliberate purge — Representatives instructed to report Disciples lacking "discretion, devotion or perseverance". November protocol: documents 583–615. The run's actuarial honesty extends to shrinkage.
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The kosha enumeration prints four names where the doctrine counts five (Pranamaya is skipped), and "Raya Yoga" throughout for Raja — the Suddha column's transmission wear, glossed on the face of the translation.
Pravritti/nivritti as descent-into-action and ascent-from-it, each legitimate and each to be mastered altruistically — Suddha's both-paths doctrine, consistent with the sannyasa-as-completion teaching of Nº 20.
The Martinist commemorations calendar, printed in full: Pasqually (20-9-1774), Saint-Martin (13-10-1803), Papus (25-10-1916), Guaita (19-12-1897), Cedaior (22-1-1943), Saint-Yves (5-2-1909), Willermoz and the Unknown Martinists (21-2), Swedenborg (29-3-1772), Lévi (9-6-1875), Delaage (21-7-1882). The Order's liturgical year, stated as such.
The South American necrology identifies its pseudonyms in print: Cedaior = Alberto Costet, Count of Mascheville (d. 22-1-1943) — the review's founder-lineage stated on its own page a year after his death.
Lotusia = Jeanne Marie l. Costet de Mascheville, "wife of Br∴ Jehel", three Brazilian lodges, d. 11 June 1941 — the family structure of the Order's leadership recorded in its own commemoration list. Around her: Capet (Hermanubis lodge, Curitiba), De Fersen (F. Fedar), Fidelis (Ignacio Witoldo Kubiak), De Nerval (Nerval de Araujo Silva), Dettre (Dr. Alberto Costa Podestá, R.L. "PAPUS", Montevideo, d. 14-12-1942), Violeta (Iris Diana, d. 24-11-1943).
Via-Crucis (Jehel, 1920) — dated twenty-four years before printing: the director's own conversion poem, from years of darkness through the Awakening to the vow of the Path of Pain. With Nº 20's Scorpio self-disclosure and this, the run's editor is progressively writing his autobiography in fragments.
The poem's sanctuary is "of the Lotus Flower" — the Christian via-crucis resolving into an oriental emblem: the same East-West suture the whole review practises, compressed into a quatrain.
The "glorious body" is anchored to Saint Paul's spiritual body (1 Cor. 15:44) — the lesson naturalises its subtle-body doctrine inside Pauline vocabulary before mapping it anatomically.
"We are the result of what we eat" — the body as "Temple of our Immortal Soul" nourished into etheric fineness: Kapila's dietetics restates Feuerbach's aphorism in a devotional key, with the vibratory-quality doctrine (food's vibrations pass to all the vehicles) promised a mechanism next number.
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