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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 24 · April 1944
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1Progressive Course of Asana Yoga (Continuation) — By Asuri Kapila, S∴I∴ — PRANA-JUJ-ASANA.
2This beautiful asana is named Prana-Juj-Asana (from Prana: vital energy; Juj: to unite; Asana: posture) — that is, the posture that permits attracting to oneself and fixing in the Chakras the vital energy or Prana.
3TECHNIQUE.— Standing, with the chest bare and the arms naturally extended at the sides of the body, make a deep inhalation during which the letter A of the sacred monosyllable AUM is pronounced; retain the breath, during which time the letter U is pronounced; and exhale slowly while pronouncing the letter M.
4Repeat this deep respiration three times.
5During the whole time the three deep respirations are made, mentalise the colour ROSE.
6Immediately raise the right arm with the palm of the hand and the fingers well open, as indicated in Fig. 19; then impress on the arm a rotary movement.
721 rotations must be made, pronouncing during the whole time the first 10 rotations last the letter O of the mantram OM, and during the whole time the other 11 rotations last, the letter M of the mantram OM.
8The rotary movements of the arm may be alternated, once with the right and once with the left.
9This asana must always be practised with the stomach empty and with gentleness in the movements of the arms.
10It must be practised three times a day: in the morning facing East, at midday facing South, and in the evening facing West.
11If one wishes to practise it a fourth time, at night before going to bed, place oneself facing North.
12BENEFITS DERIVED FROM THE PRANA-JUJ-ASANA.
13The beneficial effects of the Prana-Juj-Asana may be summed up as follows: 1) Toning of the abdominal muscles and the diaphragm as a consequence of the respiratory movements, with progressive disappearance of bulging bellies; 2) Normalisation of all the digestive functions; 3) Toning of the muscles of the chest, arms, forearms and hands.
144) Re-establishment of a perfect circulation of the blood; 5) Disappearance of the functional disturbances of the heart; 6) Return to normality of all the hepatic functions; 7) Re-establishment of the harmonic synchronism among all the functions of the glands of internal secretion; 8) Gradual attainment of the aesthetic perfection of the forms, especially of the arms and breasts in women, which will recover their youthful aspect in case they had fallen as a consequence of nursing; · 13
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
"The 'lunars' are somewhat 'lunatic'" — Julevno's lunar typology, completing the seven-planet physiognomic series begun with Saturn.
The two worked shock-examples (physical accident + moral distress; the lifelong vegetarian's sudden gorge) make the vibratory doctrine clinical — uraemia as vibration shock.
The rose beside the cat emptying the bird's nest — the essay argues inner liberty from the flower's indifference to nearby evil; the rose imagery then carries the whole page.
Sloka 22 names Durga "Supreme YOGA DEVI… mother of the Vedas" — the title under which the Suddha column has been invoking her since Nº 23's closing blessing; the hymn supplies the liturgy the column had been assuming.
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April 1944; wrapper stereotype unchanged.
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The number opens with a signed leader on liberty — the run's genre widening from courses to essay.
Jehel's 1944 media inventory: print, cinema, radio — "and, in many countries already, television" — with the observation that information time is being "almost annulled" into simultaneity. A remarkably early instantaneity argument, put to devotional use: synchronised compassion as the initiatic upgrade of broadcast news.
The essay's central figure: the spider that reabsorbs its own useless thread. Liberation not by cutting ties (the severed thread drags someone) but by reabsorbing one's own emitted prejudices — the run's most original ethical image, and pure Saint-Martin in temper.
Androgony's food trilogy continues: after buccal foods, the gaseous foods — air, prana, ozone (with the O/O2/O3 correspondence read as etheric doctrine), and the ethers carried on air, clothes, objects and the gaze.
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The two etheric rays between eye and object — "one that goes and another that returns" — extends the psychometry doctrine to vision; the essay ends by classifying humanity by what it absorbs and re-irradiates.
"The Moon may be called the great astrological medium of the heavens" — Burgoyne's electric/magnetic polarity applied: the Moon's influence purely negative in itself, powerful only in aspect.
The third surviving asana plate: Figura 19, the Prana-Juj-Asana — the standing figure tracing the dotted pranic circle overhead. Extracted to the imagery layer.
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The Prana-Juj protocol in full: AUM distributed over inhalation-retention-exhalation, the colour ROSE mentalised, 21 arm rotations split 10/11 over the letters of OM, practised facing East/South/West (North at night) — the run's most liturgically precise asana, claimed as the invocatory posture of "the ancient Magi, Adepts and Priests".
The filler paragraph is a Papus doctrine in miniature: cell↔man↔earth↔universe individualisation, closing "LIFE IS TRANSFORMED SOLAR FORCE".
The rejuvenation series turns vibratory: cells as "small oscillating circuits", the personal vibratory keynote, illness as dissonance with the Archetype's Keynote — Rosicrucian (Heindel) sound-body doctrine dressed in radio-age vocabulary. The excision review cleared both candidates: p. 15's race references are universalising (all races suffer the same classic illnesses — an explicitly anti-differentialist claim).
Census recovers: 78 → 83 (Argentina 42, Brazil 13, Uruguay 28). February protocol 730–755.
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The Chilean Section surfaces at scale: some five hundred Brothers at the January full-moon feast for the 25th anniversary of the incarnation of the Avatara Sri Bhagaban Mitra Deva, under President Vajra Yogui Dasa — the S.D.M.'s Chilean branch (founded around J. E. Bucheli's Santiago circle) an order of magnitude larger than the Montevideo ashramas' 83; synchronised plenilune ceremonies agreed.
The Suddha canon claim stated plainly: the Madras 1939 S.D.M. edition presents "for the first time in the world, the complete Gita, composed of 26 chapters with 745 slokas" against the known 18 — with an official Spanish translation under way by Augusto Ghío (Chilean Section) assisted by Vajra Yogui Dasa. The run becomes the Spanish-language organ of the expanded-Gita tradition.
The Hymn to Durga (slokas 14–25) printed as liturgy for the full-moon ceremonies — Durga as High Directress of the Hierarchy of Adepts, resident in the Mandara (glossed in the footnote as the brow plexus) and the muladhara; the footnotes graft chakra anatomy onto the hymn. First Sanskrit hymn the run prints entire.
The hymn's final sloka brings the Ida/Pingala currents — the same pair the science column equated with Yang/Yin last number; the two departments are converging on one physiology.
The magnetism serial's evidence base: Secchi's diurnal oscillations, Copin's Tunis clock observations (1928–31), the 15'–18' annual swing, undecennial sunspot dependence — real geophysics, accurately reported, marshalled towards the magical-orientation thesis.
Captain Bruch's 1,040-year national cycle (520 up, 520 down, in 16-year periods) and Tchijevsky's sunspot-history correlations — cyclic history via geomagnetism, ending with the Nice Institute of Cosmobiology; the column promises orientation-of-beings next.
Papus appears here in his medical person — the magnet experiments of Drs. Luys and Papus beside Bourru and Burot — the review citing its own founder as clinical literature.
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