Nine pieces; the Literary Part carries the Commemorations list and a poem by the director himself — the most institutional number the run has yet printed: two of its nine pieces are about the Order's own structure.
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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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1Templars, etc., which Masonry contains, also parts us from her, since, as our Grand Master PAPUS said: "The 30th degree of Masonry was always reproved by the Martinists, who prefer prayer to political vengeance and who desire to be loyal servants of Him who said 'Whoever wounds by the sword, by the sword shall perish'."
2This point is thus clarified, and I shall return to it if necessary.
3MARTINISM BEING OF CHRISTIAN ORIENTATION. [Sic: the heading opens with an inverted question mark carried to the next segment.]
4DOES IT CONSIDER JESUS CHRIST AS BEING ONLY ONE OF THE MANY INSTRUCTORS THE WORLD HAS HAD?
5No.
6Martinism, a school of Christian esotericism, respects each one's manner of thinking and acting, since it has for one of its principles the respect of individual liberty; but doctrinally it teaches what can be extracted from the several paragraphs I shall cite from our venerated Master PAPUS, which remain the expression of the conviction of every true Martinist who has studied, understood, felt and lived the doctrine of Martinism: ……..
7"Each terrestrial hemisphere has laws of evolution and involution reciprocally complementary"….
8"at present, the Orient and especially Asia are in the epoch of wisdom and old age, while Europe, the central axis, is finishing adolescence, and America is already in full youth…." …."The Brahmins of India know perfectly well that Europe had its Messiah only 20 centuries ago, while Asia had its own more than 87 centuries ago; nevertheless certain writers of the West would wish to apply to our hemisphere cyclic laws that rule the Orient, and come [Sic: the original prints "cienen" for "vienen".] to claim that we are in a period of "obscuration and involution" (Kali-Yuga).
9This is a very great error, for it would hold very great danger for the intellectuality of our race"… "… around 500 years before J. C., we see born the most extensive and beautiful manifestation of the flowering of the divine plane.
10The Great celestial Messengers multiply and the whole Earth hears the voices from on High. [Sic: the original prints "las voces de los Alto".]
11In China, it is LAO-TZE and KONG-TZEE; in Japan, it is SON-MOU; in India, it is the 4th BUDDHA (who must not be confounded with Sakya, the preceding one); in Persia, it is the principal redactor of the Zend-Avesta, the LAST ZOROASTER; in Egypt, the Great University reveals itself under the name of HERMES; among the Jews, it is ESDRAS who re-establishes the Sepher, thanks to the Chaldean Daniel; in Greece and in all the West, it is the powerful voice of PYTHAGORAS which reveals to the whole West the principle of its future evolution; even in the future Rome, it is NUMA who re-binds the Etruscan tradition [Sic: the original prints "la tradición etrusca rosa".] to the fables brought by the new masters of the world — What historian will then be blind enough not to see and not to understand?
12Shall we speak of the years that precede Christianity?
13Will it be necessary to recall the Buddhist missions that reach as far as the school of Alexandria and strike roots even among the Essenes?
14Will it be necessary to name among these last HILLEL and JOHN THE BAPTIST, the two great Voices that preceded the Verb made flesh? · 5
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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