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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 25 · May 1944
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1And we could continue giving examples, but we prefer to make known the result of some modern researches on the influence of orientation upon living beings, which come to confirm all that the ancients had said on the matter.
2As regards plants, we note first of all that, if we cut the trunk of any tree, on the surface of the cut the fibres dispose themselves in the form of concentric layers, exactly like the waves of a magnetic field around an electric current — and, if the cut has been made at a bifurcation, like the waves of an electric field around two currents.
3On the other hand, the dowsers, who use rods made from tree branches, know that the rod is more active if the position they give it corresponds to the position it occupied on the tree in relation to the terrestrial magnetic field — that is, if they give it its primitive orientation.
4And finally, the influence of orientation upon plants can be made evident when they are transplanted, because, as Virgil said, their revival is much more rapid if they are transplanted with the same orientation they primitively had.
5As regards the influence of orientation upon animals, we know that it manifests itself most visibly in the migratory birds, which follow determined terrestrial magnetic currents.
6Prince Albert of Monaco was able to observe a whale that followed a rectilinear course for several miles in a medium in which, like the water, there could be no points of reference.
7The phenomenon cannot be explained except by attributing it to the influence of a magnetic current upon the animal.
8As regards the influence of orientation upon men, the observations and experiences are more numerous.
9Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, California, had noted during his experiments on reflexes that the maximum of excitability occurred when the subject stood oriented towards the geographic West and on aluminium plates earthed to the ground.
10Dr. Star-White had observed that the zones of full or dull sound of the internal organs, delimited by percussion, changed when the subject's orientation was changed.
11These variations were, moreover, different according to the state of health of the subject and the influence of variously coloured lights.
12Those same variations due to the change of orientation can be obtained if, orienting the subject towards the West, one of the poles of a magnetised rod situated at 4 or 5 cm distance is made to act.
13The effect of the various radiations and of terrestrial magnetism makes itself felt, then, with greater or lesser intensity if the subject is oriented towards the West.
14(To be continued).
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead unchanged.
The lead article is signed only "by a Br∴ Ill∴ of the O∴K∴R∴C∴" — internal evidence (the first-person interpreter of Lorelair's chart, the "little worm" phrase) points to Jehel himself.
The Order's own founding scene, dated and placed: 10 July 1941, Grand Council seat in Porto Alegre, twelve present of whom seven Rosicrucians — Cedaior "still in full vigour", Jehel presiding, Solón vice-president, Mauá secretary, and the Uruguayan delegation (Pitágoras with Asuri Kapila, Surya and Maya) visiting. The single densest page of institutional history the run has printed: the Order was Brazilian-seated before Montevideo.
The Prophecy: Lorelair's reading of the Order's foundation chart, published with per-period verdicts ("IT HAS BEEN FULFILLED INTEGRALLY") and a forecast ladder running to the Order's 29th–30th years — 1969-70-71 as the predicted maximum. A checkable long-range prophecy printed in 1944; the 1947-48 entry promises the "grandiose realisation" at 15 years (1955-56).
The support-evidence list names the Kabbalistic Rosicrucian Library as a realised creation, and healing assistance attributed to "the Venerable Masters AMO, PAPUS and others" — AMO the same name the Nº 5 lineage diagram carries.
The Androgony food-series reaches its third register: the soul fed on states of mind as literally as the stomach on bread, with digestion as the working metaphor throughout — and everything read, said or desired leaving "traces in our blood, in our aura and in the secret light".
The essay ends in an arithmetic of effort: physical care worth 10, passional discipline its square (100), disinterested acts its cube (1,000) — the run's fondness for quantified ethics at its plainest.
The planetary course opens its trans-Saturnian annex: Neptune and Uranus now, with Lorelair promised for a special article on Pluto (discovered only fourteen years earlier) tied to Scorpio — the course keeping pace with the astronomy of its decade.
The Aquarius dating stated numerically: the Era begins "around the year 2140", when "the Moral Capital of the Western World is magnetically fixed in the United States" — offered as the explanation for the migration of initiatic fraternities from Europe to the Americas (the editors' own migration among them).
The retyped source itself records a lacuna here: mid-article, the transcript carries the words "Faltan 2 páginas" (two pages missing). The gap is preserved and glossed on the face of the translation — what was lost fell between the poison-immunity examples and the dietary-transition counsel. Flag for the facsimile hunt: a complete copy of Nº 25 would fill it.
Kapila reports a self-experiment — a vegetarian deliberately gorging on meat and recording the symptoms and the aura shift (red up, orange-yellow down, blue sharply down) — the series' method at its most empirical and its most seer-dependent in one page.
Census: 83 → 88 (Argentina 42, Brazil 13, Uruguay 33), and a seventh exercise appears with its first practitioner. The March protocol numbers as printed (776–796) leave 756–775 unaccounted against February's close — glossed on the face.
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The May Full Moon — "the most important of the year" — scheduled to the minute: 8 May 1944, 7:28 a.m. Greenwich, with members instructed to convert to civil time and be "in full and serene action" at the instant. The Wesak observance, unnamed but exact.
Sir S. Subramania Iyer enters the run: Pandit Morli Dhar's memoir (from The Suddha Dharma, January 1935) of initiation at the hands of the retired Madras High Court judge and Theosophical grandee, External Head of the S.D.M. — with the 1915 postal initiation, the 1919 Bangalore diksha by rod-touch, and Srinivasachariar in Purasawalkam holding "all the ancient manuscripts". The run's Suddha column acquires its human lineage.
Subramania Iyer's answer on politics, printed in May 1944: the forces that once used him "are working through the Mahatma Gandhi" — and his emphatic 1919 prophecy, "India will succeed in federating without shedding of blood", set before Spanish-American readers three years before independence. The run's second dated political prophecy in two numbers.
Pitágoras grounds the orientation doctrine in Pasqually's letters to Willermoz (1767–1774) — citing their physical location (Lyon municipal library) and both editions: Papus's fragments and Van Rijnberk's integral second volume. The run documents the very correspondence tradition behind the Traité on our shelf; the operative instructions (circles, cardinal words, candles, celebrant's orientation) are summarised from it.
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Reichenbach's od-experiments, Virgil's Georgics on transplant orientation, Japanese north-heads and church apses — the column's method: one doctrine (orientation) traced through agriculture, liturgy, domestic custom and laboratory.
The modern evidence: Abrams's west-facing reflex maximum on earthed aluminium plates, Star-White's percussion zones, the whale of Prince Albert of Monaco — the same Abrams whose "electronic reactions" were the era's great medical heterodoxy, cited here without controversy.
Adhémar's diptych: the same teaching voiced twice — turbaned (Lanoo, Bodhi tree, HARI) and "très chic" Western (Virginal Spirits, Karma, the first breath's stamp) — with the same crowd dismissing both, and the naked claim "I am He" earning only "a madman who says he is God". A La Plata Martinist's essay on register itself; dated 14-2-1944.
The Western version's natal-breath doctrine — each atom stamped by the first inspiration, the stamp acting for life — is the astrological first-breath thesis in Rosicrucian dress; the essay's two voices are the review's own two languages.
Prospectus stereotype unchanged.
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The forecast ladder's far end — fructification "fully at 22 years", maximum at 29–30 (1969-71) — now reads against what happened: the Order's Uruguayan phase, these very pages, and the movements that later grew from this milieu. The run hands its own future a measuring stick.
Srinivasachariar described in life: Sanskrit-and-Tamil only, interpreter required, "restorer of the S.D.M. in the world" with the manuscript corpus in his keeping — the same Pandit whose doctrinal notes the run has been serialising since Nº 19.
Gossip, criticism and rancour as "moral poisons" that sicken the soul the way bad food sickens the body — the alimentation analogy carried into ethics, with bicarbonate-and-lemon as the comic register of repentance.
The diksha itself: the Guru upright on the woollen couch, cylindrical rod in the right hand, mala on — initiation granted by rod-touch after "certain Suddha truths". The memoir's physical detail is the best description of S.D.M. ritual the run has printed.
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- PASS G11 alignment 269/269
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- PASS G6 page anchoring 307/307
- PASS G3 bracket legality 307/307
- PASS G10 numeric fidelity 307/307
- PASS G2 no unanchored English 307/307
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