Why sanctuaries stand on heights: prana carried by uncontaminated air — the gaseous-foods doctrine explaining sacred geography.
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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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1Commentaries on the First Degree of Martinism — Androgony (Continuation) — Teachings of Jehel, S∴I∴ — In the preceding article I had occupied myself with the "buccal-way foods" — that is, the solids and liquids we ingest — and we had seen that, reciprocally, vegetarian and gentle foods are the basis of the alimentation of the most evolved beings, and that beings, as they refine themselves, FEEL the need to abandon the "rajasic and tamasic" foods — that is, "toxic or violent" as I called them: meats, various excitants, alcohols, fermented and preserved products, or products so "artificially refined" (!??) that they have no more vitality.
2As I had promised, we shall now pass to the study of: GASEOUS FOODS — In the first place stands out, of course, the air we breathe, for all agree that if we stop breathing we die.
3This is certain, and it has therefore already been proved that the better we breathe, in volume and in purity of air, the better we contribute to the oxygenation of our blood, and we charge it thus not only with what science calls oxygen but with something more: the vital ether, or prana, as spiritual science calls it.
4It must be observed that in this air we also absorb all the gases and odoriferous particles given off by thousands of beings and objects of the ambience surrounding us; therefore in this, as in almost everything, people in general look with too much superficiality: if on one hand they have compassion for the poor workman who breathes the confined and at times toxic air of certain mines, factories or tanneries and slaughterhouses, on the other they believe that the greater part of humanity breathes "acceptable" air.
5This is a fundamental error, since the air of all the great cities, of all places with numerous gatherings and gross labours or too exiguous spaces, is also improper — though in lesser degree than that of the factories — for the normal respiration of the human being.
6The proof is that we all long to "shoot off to the country" when a holiday presents itself, and to retemper ourselves with the air of the countryside, the beach or the mountain.
7It is therefore indispensable to compensate this respiratory part, trying to live not only in the most hygienic form possible but — if one cannot go to Nature frequently or periodically — to give oneself the "trouble" of rising early and doing some breathing exercises, more or less at sunrise, when · 7
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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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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