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March 1944; wrapper stereotype unchanged.

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Masthead unchanged from Nos 21–22.

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The SUMARIO's literary slot goes to an outside poet of stature — see the p. 22 note on Campos Cervera.

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Jehel's dietetic instalment recalls "the admirable drawings I published in Nº 18… extracted from works of the Master PAPUS" — the physiognomic animal plates; the symbolic-animal doctrine (the man who "feels like a hyena") now grounds a typology of eaters.

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The run's most humane page on diet: between "the hyena that feeds on carrion and the saint who feeds on contemplation there is AN INFINITE DIVERSITY OF BEINGS" who must be helped, never pushed — closing against vegetarian self-righteousness: better a steak eaten with pity for the hungry neighbour than sanctimonious chicory beside indifference. A deliberate counterweight to Kapila's absolutism elsewhere in the same number.

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Burgoyne's Mercury carries his Americanism intact: the "Yankee adage" and the United States under Gemini — the Chicago-published Light of Egypt speaking through a Montevideo monthly.

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Jehel's own observations name two more Brothers — Géminis and Mauá — as chart examples; Mauá is a new name in the run. The section closes with initiatic gatekeeping by horoscope: Mercury afflicted in the twelfth marks "the perjurers… those who cannot stop lying".

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The Adhirathasana — progressive cataleptic rigidity over stacked books (to seven), then stools — with its Fig. 18 referenced but not printed in this number: the plate either never ran or ran in a number that does not survive; flagged for the facsimile hunt.

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Kapila's case against meat is argued in the vocabulary of 1940s biochemistry — ptomaines, indole, skatole, cadaverine, putrescine — the medicalised register at its most technical; "95% of illnesses" from diet is the series' strongest claim.

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Census stabilises: 77 → 78 (Argentina 38, Brazil 13, Uruguay 27), and a sixth exercise appears with 3 practitioners — the practice ladder is growing at the top while the base has been pruned.

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Suddha Raja Yoga is set explicitly against hatha yoga, "whose methods invariably make the aspirant contract an almost incurable illness" — a striking condemnation to print in the same number as an asana course; the two columns hold opposed positions the editors never reconcile.

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The Yoga-Brahma-Vidya exposition: Gayatri as the whole science of the universe, the 24 Dharmas, Vyashti/Samashti Pranava, Suddha vs Kevala Sankhya — the most technical Sanskrit doctrine the run has printed, closing the Pandit's notes on the Hierarchy (signed off 31-1-1944).

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Pitágoras's new science column opens with the alchemical INRI (Igne Natura Renovatur Integra), Heraclitus, Agni and the swastika-as-fire — written in March 1944, when the symbol's other career was at its darkest; the text keeps strictly to its archaeological sense.

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The Tai-Ki / Yang-Yin exposition with the Pa-Kua of Fu-Hsi, equated in one breath to the Hebrews' AOR and Ob/Od, Sushumna and Ida/Pingala, the Martinists' Astral Light, and Louis Lucas's "movement" — the run's correspondence method applied to Chinese cosmology for the first time.

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The scientific apparatus is genuine and datable: Dr. Loir (Pasteur's collaborator) in La Côte d'Azur Médicale 1933, Jules Régnault's 1927 appeal for a Société de Biodynamique, and the Nice Institut d'étude des radiations under Maurice Faure — French cosmobiology's actual institutions, cited with the wry aside that these "new ideas (!!!)" are 3,600-year-old Chinese knowledge.

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The magnetism primer (declination from the 1666 Paris baseline, isogonic/isoclinic/isodynamic lines, Bécédéef's 1666–1915 series) breaks off with (Continuará) — the science column now runs serials like the initiatic ones.

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Hérib Campos Cervera — Paraguay's major modern poet (1905–1953), then in political exile — gives the run Elegía para la décima noche, dated Asunción, 11 August 1943. A find for the literary record: a Campos Cervera elegy printed in a Montevideo esoteric monthly two years before his landmark Ceniza redimida; the nine-nights dissolution of the body reads here as an initiatic death.

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The elegy's end — another life "stripped of the long punishment of memory: a tree or a stone" — sits in the reader's hands two pages after the Suddha column's Turiya doctrine; the editors' juxtaposition does the commentary itself.

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Prospectus stereotype unchanged.

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Back-cover advertisements and imprint unchanged.

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Jehel's gendered occupational typology (Gemini typists and women of letters; Virgo seamstresses) is 1944 Montevideo's labour market read as astrology — kept as period evidence, with the era's assumptions on its face.

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The asana's promised effects reach arterial decalcification — the rejuvenation series' arteriosclerosis theory and the yoga course meeting in one claim.

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The dietetics turn domestic: mothers, bonbons, dates and figs — the counsel column voice that the praxis layer captures.

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"We know by heart the constitution of a machine… but almost nothing of the constitution of our body" — the series' recurring modernity critique, here aimed at the era's engineers.

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The triple Sakti (Gunamaya, Esha, Devi) with its function-names — the Suddha column's most compressed metaphysics; the translation keeps every transliterated term as printed.

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The eight supreme virtues, paired: tolerance/compassion, tranquillity/non-ambition, purity/disinterestedness, unwearying service/yearning for the world's good — the Suddha ethic in its final catechetical form.