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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 22 · February 1944
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1of the movements.
2The 10 postures, as has been said, constitute a single asana or "salutation", which must be effected in no more than TWENTY SECONDS.
3After having executed all ten postures of this asana, one rests for the whole time it takes to count to seven, and then begins another cycle of movements.
4Each time a "salutation" is finished, pronounce the sacred monosyllable OM.
5It is indispensable, when performing the M.S.P., to be naked with only short trousers or a bathing suit, so that all the movements can be executed freely.
6It can be practised at any hour of the day, early morning or the evening at sunset being preferable.
7It is necessary to remember that it must be practised after having evacuated the intestine and before breakfast, for it would be very dangerous to perform it while the stomach is digesting food.
8After having finished the execution of this asana, rub the body with a dry towel, expose yourself for some minutes to the sun, and finally have a friction given with almond oil along the whole back and especially over the spinal column, which will bring a general toning of the whole nervous system.
9A complete "salutation" must last, as has been said, exactly twenty seconds — that is, an average of two seconds per posture.
10A young man or woman enjoying good health can do at least 21 complete "salutations" per day — that is, seven early in the morning, seven at midday and another seven in the evening.
11Children up to 10 years can do 12 to 16 "salutations" per day, likewise divided into three times.
12After 15 years the number can be increased until reaching 35 per day, 11 each time. [Sic: the arithmetic as printed does not resolve; the digits are kept as they stand.]
13Elderly persons should do no more than 15, also in three times.
14One begins with six "salutations" per day in three times, then increases by one or two per week.
15At the beginning difficulty will be found in the practice of these movements, and especially in their synchronisation with the respiration.
16It must be remembered that the postures of the M.S.P. must not be effected mechanically but with true devotion, thinking of the parts of the body one wishes to develop, tone or invigorate, imagining that this or that part of the body, internal or external, is developing or reducing itself, as the case may be.
17By thus applying the mental currents directed by the will to the physical exercise, a considerable benefit can be attained in a short time.
18Let readers observe that the M.S.P., performed as we have described it, puts into action three forces or energies: the physical, the respiratory and the mental.
19In ending the description of this marvellous asana, we permit ourselves to say to readers that all those who practise the M.S.P. with faith, method and perseverance will notice in a short time an immense well-being, the cure of their ills, the attainment of an astonishing agility, and a joy and inner peace they had sought in vain by other means.
20PEACE TO ALL BEINGS — U A M — (To be continued) · 12
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead stereotype carried from Nº 21 — the year's staffing now stable.
A new department appears in the SUMARIO: a Philosophical and Scientific Part, inaugurated by an outside contributor (Mario Antonioletti) — the first named author from outside the masthead since the run began.
The annual report, 1943: ~2,000 documents through the Grand Council's protocol ("almost six per day"), 31% membership growth, budget balanced by Surya, new Delegations across the Continent, and translations of Lévi, Sédir and Sévaka published by member translators. The run's most complete administrative self-portrait.
Written 31-12-1943: "1944… will also be the end of the great fratricidal physical trial. But the MORAL trial will continue." — the report predicts the war's end for the coming year, framed as the change of vibratory keynote the Fraternities awaited. The run's most direct wartime utterance, and a dated, checkable prophecy.
Papus's coachman analogy (coachman/horse/coach = spirit/life/body, each ternary) performs the 9→7 reduction: when the coachman mounts and takes the reins, two pairs fuse. The source is the Gurdjieffian-sounding image's older home — it is Papus's, taken in turn from the Vedantic chariot of the Katha Upanishad.
The correspondence table is photographed straight out of Papus's book (the folio 554 is visible in the plate) rather than reset in type — the review's physical dependence on its Paris library made visible. Extracted to the imagery layer; the seven names in five traditions (Ka/Atma/Wun/Yeshida …) transcribed on the face.
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"The mental plane is the domain of 'Logic' par excellence, and therefore of error… the only true and living thing is the heart" — Papus's anti-rationalism stated at maximum strength, and made the doctrinal ground for the dietetics that follow: logic alone about diet "leads to talking nonsense" because it forgets air and sensations, the two other foods.
Venus as "the proud Lucifer… precursor and genius of wisdom" — Burgoyne's morning-star reading keeps the pre-Christian valence of the name; Anael, prince of the astral light, with Isis/Luna as the fluid at rest and in movement.
The worked-example list again names the collectivity's own: Asuri Kapila, Leona Constantia, Lorelair, Ragón, Giordano born under Venusian signs — including the just-departed secretary and a name (Ragón) not on the masthead; the editors keep disclosing their own natal data as teaching material.
Postures 6–10 complete the M.S.P.: the new plate (Fig. 17) carries the serpent and mountain; postures 8–10 are the mirror return through Fig. 16's positions — the ten-movement cycle closes exactly as the Nº 20 caption promised.
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The complete protocol: one salutation in twenty seconds, rest for a count of seven, OM after each; 21 daily for healthy adults (7+7+7), 12–16 for children, 15 for the elderly, entry at six per day — with sun, dry towel and an almond-oil spinal friction to close. The run's praxis at its most prescriptive.
The second surviving asana plate (Fig. Nº 17): postures six and seven — cobra and mountain — completing the visual record the Nº 20 plate began. Extracted to the imagery layer.
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Chitta and vrittis put to dietetic use: mental matter "charged with dense atoms" by bad food — Patañjali's vocabulary bent through the Theosophical vehicle-doctrine (Vital Body, Desire Body, aura) that this series has been assembling.
The Gita's three-food doctrine quoted at length and cited "Cap. XVIII, 8-10" — the passage is XVII.8-10; the slip is glossed on the face. The sattva/rajas/tamas classification is then read as a complete dietetics: milk, fruit and cereals sattvic; eggs, fish and meats rajasic; pork, fowl and fermented dishes tamasic.
Next number promises the case against meat — the vegetarian argument the whole series has been building towards.
The purge announced in Nº 21 lands: 94 → 77 disciples at year-end (Argentina 39, Brazil 13, Uruguay 25 — Brazil halved), and the full-year funnel published with actuarial candour: 159 invited in all, 77 practising, the heaviest attrition in the first exercise, 8 reaching the fifth.
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"The heart is the bow and the mantram is the arrow" — the teaching Being's formula, from the Suddha diaries. The seven lettered examples (A–G) are the run's first publication of raw practice records: apparitional instruction, the mattress with wool-worms, etheric ritual objects, the solar-system vision keyed to Sirius, congregational telepathy.
Disciple "X"'s vision — the Sun drawn towards Sirius and another invisible centre — is noted by the editor as matching "secret teachings of the Rose Cross" the disciple did not know: the corroboration-by-ignorance argument the era's occult orders prized.
Year-end blessing dated 31-12-1943, wishing some readers the "Great Promises" that open definitive entry to the Work — the Suddha column and the President's report were written the same night, and read as a diptych.
Antonioletti's debut essay works from economic statistics (840 million tons of yearly produce) to Francis of Assisi, the four-element cross, and the bee — a scientific-devotional register new to the run, matching the new department's name.
The fleur-de-lys traced from Bourbon insignia to the Boy Scouts and to Ortega y Gasset's Truth-Goodness-Beauty — the essay's modernity is itself notable: scouting and contemporary Spanish philosophy cited beside the Sephirothic tree.
The Magdalene rose-legend (the red rose flowering on the cross at Tiberias, at the Crucified's heart-side) given as the emblem of doctrine perpetually re-flowering after persecution — a Rosicrucian etiology told as hagiography.
Kapila's hymn to hands — dated 27 August 1943 "of the E∴C∴" (Era Cristiana) — dedicates the poem to the hands of the Masters and closes on Isaiah's swords-into-ploughshares; a typo prints "poemas inmorales" for "inmortales", glossed on the face.
The poem's ending — "when they transform the sword into a plough… the World shall be saved" — printed in February 1944, joins the annual report's war-end prophecy as the number's second pacifist utterance.
Prospectus and advertisements repeat the standing stereotype.
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