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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 23 · March 1944
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1necessity, for in the scheme of things both coexist.
2Atma and Prakriti, Spirit and Matter.
3The teaching of the Suddha Dharma is directed to the necessity of recognising both from the transcendental point of view — the only one that will enable the Disciple to obtain the ideal (technically called Paraprapti).
4A constant approximation (Samipya) to Brahman, which is the Eternal Glory, is thus attainable only with the incessant practice of the Suddha Dharma.
5All the instructions referring to the actual practice of the Raja Yoga must be obtained directly from the duly constituted corporations; only their first principles are set down in books, for the profit of understanding disciples, and we are not permitted to publish all the said books [Sic: the original prints "y nos es permitido" where the sense requires "no nos es permitido".]; further courses of the discipline are imparted orally to the disciple, if he is worthy of being entrusted with the charge.
6So profound is this teaching and so vast its sense, that the mystery cannot be too soon revealed to the uninitiated. [Sic: the sense requires "cannot be revealed too soon" — i.e., must not be.]
7The study of the Universe in all its aspects and systems, the laws of its manifestation, of its being and of its consummation, as well as the whole mystery relative to the Divine Intervention that conducts it, constitutes the Gayatri; and the science that expounds the Gayatri is called Yoga-Brahma-Vidya, or Synthetic Science of the Absolute.
8This science is the exposition of the evolution of the world from both points of view, the analytic (Sankhya) and the synthetic (Yoga); the Sankhya system here mentioned is also called Suddha Sankhya, in order to distinguish it from the Kevala, or Niriswara or Asuddha Sankhya, which is a negation of the divine unity in the multiplicity or diversity of the world's evolution; while Suddha Sankhya is so called for recognising the divine unity in multiplicity.
9The Yoga here mentioned is the Suddha Raja Yoga, distinct from the other forms of disciplines pertaining to hatha yoga and the like, whose methods invariably make the aspirant contract an almost incurable illness.
10The Yoga Brahma Vidya, as a science, is based on the quadruple or quaternary constitution of Brahma, namely: Gnana, Iccha and Kriya (Suddha Sankhya) and Suddha Yoga, which is the synthesis of this trinity of Suddha Sankhya; in consequence it is called by another name: Tritwikatwa — that is, of the Triple and of the One.
11Each of these four is seen further in six aspects or Dharmas, of which five Dharmas are causal [Sic: the original prints "con causales".] and the sixth is consequential; thus, altogether, the Yoga Brahma Vidya treats of the twenty-four Dharmas that explain in its integrity the nature of Brahma, both the revealed and the unrevealed.
12To express the same in another manner, taking the Pranava or Sacred Word — AUM — to signify Brahman, it may be said that the science of the Yoga Brahma Vidya comprises the study of Vyhasti Pranava (that is, of the Pranava in its separative, distributive or analytic aspect), as also the study of Samashti Pranava (that is, of the Pranava in its unitary, collective or synthetic aspect). [Sic: the original prints "Samashti Paranava".]
13The Bhagavat Gita of Sri Krishna is eminently the scripture of this science.
14On the ancient battlefield of Kurukshetra, given as it was by Bhagavan Narayana, the Most Holy
15Lord in the appearance of
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead unchanged from Nos 21–22.
The SUMARIO's literary slot goes to an outside poet of stature — see the p. 22 note on Campos Cervera.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Back-cover advertisements and imprint unchanged.
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.
The asana's promised effects reach arterial decalcification — the rejuvenation series' arteriosclerosis theory and the yoga course meeting in one claim.
The dietetics turn domestic: mothers, bonbons, dates and figs — the counsel column voice that the praxis layer captures.
"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.
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.
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.
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