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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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1With these tables it is impossible to be mistaken, and it becomes easy to follow the teachings of one school or another and to verify whether the terms are duly employed in their writings.
2We saw, then, that this human being constituted of 9 elements turns out septenary: 3 higher, 3 middle and 3 lower.
3We also saw that the third and the fifth fuse during terrestrial existence.
4That fifth principle, we also saw, is called "THAN" in Chinese, "MANAS" in Sanskrit, and the Latins called it "MENS".
5It is the famous Mind, the mental, or "reason".
6Now, the Master PAPUS SAYS: "The mental plane is the domain of 'Logic' par excellence, and therefore of error.
7In the human being the only true and living thing is the heart.
8It is by it, then, that we really live, and not by the brain.
9Moreover it was so before the Adamic fall.
10But man wished to show that he was "Somebody" — when really he was nothing by himself and everything came to him from God. Then the mental took preponderance over all the rest, and the human Régime (régime in the mechanical sense), or the "hominal" Kingdom, demonised itself.
11Such then is the origin of the mental plane, which is almost nothing for the universe, though it represents so much for us.
12Therefore we do not fear to affirm that everything that comes exclusively from the mental is false and illusory.
13The employment of 'logic' can consequently lead us to nothing but talking nonsense, as you will see when we come to the question of 'alimentary regimes'.
14The regime and the renewal of the cells.
15"In the first place, what are the foods by which we can maintain our life? [Sic: the original prints "podemos mantener para mantener".]
16Well, they are of three species, and I shall have you note that we generally forget two of them.
17People sit at table three times a day in the centre and north of France, five times in England and a dozen times in the southern countries; but all that is not enormous compared with what is done some twenty times per minute — respiration — and with what is done a thousand times per minute — the perception of sensations.
18Thus, then, we use three species of foods: The first comprises the solid or liquid foods ingested by the stomach.
19The second, the air one breathes.
20The third, sensations.
21Each of these three things nourishes an essential part of our individuality.
22Consequently, if you forget atmospheric air and sensations among the foods, you may apparently reason with much logic in the matter of alimentary regimes, but everything you say in the matter of theories will be incomplete and even erroneous.
23It must also be remembered that alimentation must differ according to the being for which it is destined and according to the environment in which that being must act or live.
24Thus, for example, a puppy will be raised with a little atmospheric air, some bones, some vegetables and the sensation of the whip if it soils the apartment.
25But such a regime would not suffice to develop man, for he must be given the education that characterises his environment.
26Well then: the social milieu of the individual derives from his sensations; the pulmonary milieu, from the air he breathes; and the physical milieu, from the foods he absorbs.
27(To be continued).
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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