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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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1Is it possible to prolong youth?
2Does a Spiritual Alchemy exist capable of restoring our youth? – Causes of old age and of death.
3(Continuation) By Asuri Kapila S∴I∴ — Alimentation provides our Physical Body with all the aliments necessary for the constant renewal of its tissues, such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts, water and vitamins.
4Alimentation also provides energy to our Vital Body — that is, the one composed of ether, which interpenetrates the physical body totally, in the same manner that ether interpenetrates all matter.
5This "sattvic" energy carried by the elements is transported by the blood to the Vital Body.
6Foods provide energy also to our Desire Body — that is, the one that constitutes [Sic: the original prints "el constituye".] all our emotional nature and interpenetrates both the Physical Body and the Vital, being visible to the clairvoyant, since it exceeds the limits of the physical body and constitutes what is called the "aura".
7Gross foods intoxicate the Desire Body, thus making man passionate, violent and vicious.
8The mind, which is really a mirror in which the external world is reflected — thus permitting the Ego to transmit its influences to thought — is also intoxicated by inadequate alimentation.
9The mental matter we irradiate (Chitta) when we emanate a thought (Vrittis) is found charged with dense atoms, thus preventing us from having pure, serene and constructive thoughts.
10We all know the cases of mental intoxication produced after what is customarily called "a good meal", and the cases of psychic disequilibrium produced by a mental auto-intoxication in consequence of the ingestion of drugs, alcohols, etc.
11From all the foregoing we can realise what a powerful influence foods have [Sic: the original prints "que la poderosa influencia".] upon all our vehicles, from the densest to the subtlest — they being, then, in great part responsible for our more rapid or slower physical, moral, mental and spiritual evolution.
12So that the purer the fuel that feeds our machine, the greater the yield and function it will be possible to obtain from it.
13What slowly kills and poisons beings are the toxins gradually formed by the bad chemical combinations developed during the digestive and assimilative processes, the excessive mixtures of inharmonious foods, and the incompatibility of these foods.
14The ancient yogis of India, the wise Spiritual Masters, already knew the occult chemistry of foods; they knew that those who let themselves be carried away by gluttony could never be Yogis, Ascetics, Spiritual Masters; these Masters knew that all gross, dead, synthetic foods could not favour the awakening of the spiritual faculties and yogic powers in those who nourished themselves on them [Sic: the original prints "o los que de ellos se alimentaran".]; they knew also that all those who longed to keep their body and mind always agile and · 14
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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