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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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1Man and the Vegetable Kingdom.
2By Mario Antonioletti — There exists a mysterious relation between the evolution of Humanity and that of the other kingdoms of Nature.
3Man progresses and evolves by extracting minerals, forging metals, cultivating plants, raising animals.
4Annually there are produced in the whole world around eight hundred and forty million tons of the principal edible agricultural products.
5This quantity represents the crystallisation of an immense labour of human beings, in close collaboration with the earth, the water, the air and the terrestrial and solar fire.
6The Cross of the traditional four elements shines resplendent in the circle that signs the rolling of the seasons and the years.
7The vegetable and animal aspects are selected by man, who thus imprints his hand of power on the evolution of the terraqueous globe.
8His collaboration with Nature is, in general, very self-interested, and at times cruel and implacable; but self-interested solidarity is the germ of what is to become the understanding love of a Francis of Assisi, who converses jubilantly with sister water, with the sister birds, with brother Sun and with sister Death.
9It is frequently said that man "struggles" against nature to capture her secrets and put them at the service of progress.
10Doubtless there is something real in this concept of belligerence; but the struggle is in reality against the darkness that obscures understanding.
11With respect to Nature, the action of the scientist, the miner and the farmer might rather be likened to the action of the diligent bee that extracts nectar from the flowers.
12In truth, rather than of struggle one should speak of forces amalgamated by pain, which is the coin or drachma with which entry must be purchased to each of the mansions of the "kingdom" of the divinity manifested in Nature.
13Pain is always an index of birth, in the flesh or in the Spirit.
14If this concept of solidarity and cosmic collaboration [Sic: the original prints "colaboración cómica" (comic).] penetrated more deeply into human consciousness, individual and collective understanding would widen its horizons.
15One would discover the marvellous reality of the maternal tenderness with which Nature elaborates in her bosom all that is to permit the divine to manifest itself in the economic-social sphere: Abundance.
16The minerals that have been used by man have been recently elaborated in the entrails of the Earth: marble, metals and precious stones, which are the flowers of the mineral kingdom.
17And the vegetable kingdom not only elaborates the aliment of human blood, but is also the laboratory in which the soul can study the technique and the art of transmutation.
18The white lily raises itself above the mud; this single fact is sufficient to see in the vegetable kingdom a "mansion" or aspect of the divine manifestation.
19There is something essentially identical that links the human soul to the vegetable world.
20Not for nothing does the Bible present man as a "garden" in which every class of plants grows.
21Who has not at some time felt an idea "flower" in his own mind?
22It is a sensation of prodigious beauty, which lightly touches the senses of the spirit, like the petals of a rose.
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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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