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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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1The "HYMN TO DURGA" — The Hymn to Durga has been translated into Spanish from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, from the first English edition of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, published in Madras, S. India, in the year 1939.
2Translated from the Sanskrit by Mr. R. Vasudeva Row, President of the Association of the S.D.M., in collaboration with T. M. Janardam, Director of the same Organisation.
3Worthy of attention is the fact that this edition presents, for the first time in the world, the complete Gita, composed of 26 chapters with 745 slokas.
4The previously known editions have only 18 chapters.
5The official translation into Spanish has been made by Br.
6Augusto Ghío, member of the Chilean Section
7of the S. D. M., assisted by its President, Vajra Yogui Dasa.
8It is hoped that within a short time it will be possible to offer the Spanish-speaking Brothers the complete edition of so notable a work.
9In publishing today this "Hymn to Durga" (slokas 14 to 25), it is done with the intention that this Sacred Hymn — a true Invocation to the Divine Creative and Conserving Energy (Durga, Yoga Devi, Maha Mariah, etc.) — be read by the heart of the Disciples and used in their great prayers or in the mystical ceremonies of the Full Moons, especially in the cases in which it is so indicated to them, in concomitance with the various Ashramas.
10By this part of the "Srimad Bhagavad Gita", published today as a first-fruit of the future edition to which we allude above, the Disciples and Readers who know the current editions will be able to realise that, besides the 8 chapters unknown until today in the West, the complete version of the B. Gita which the Suddha Dharma grants to those who reverently seek the Light is restored in its directly initiatic sense, with special notes wherever it has been convenient to clarify still further the Disciple's comprehension.
11We believe the Disciples will raise their hearts also towards the Sacred Hierarchy of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, which permits them in this form to have a more direct and simple access to the Vedic and pre-Vedic Truth, bestower of the Practical Keys of comprehension and realisation.
12That the sacred vibration and blessing irradiated by the slokas (strophes) of the Sacred Hymn may penetrate the purified hearts and minds of all, and stimulate them on the Path of Service — such are the wishes I formulate in transcribing this version which the affection of the venerable Vajra Yogui Dasa permits us to publish today.
13(Jehel, 21-3-1944).
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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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