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1Curso Práctico de Astrología Judiciaria Enseñanzas de Surya.
2S:: I:: Ahora que hemos visto, en artículos anteriores, lo que deben representar para el astrólogo y el ocultista, los siete planetas “tradicionales” y Urano y Neptuno, abordaremos el estudio de los Signos Zodiacales, en su significado general, empezando por ARIES o el Carnero.
3Aries simboliza el sacrificio.
4Es el símbolo de nuestros instintos.
5Las personas nacidas bajo este signo suelen ser inteligentes, llenas de ardor, espíritu agresivo, voluntad enérgica e imperiosa.
6Son generalmente personas de acción, indomables, insumisas, despóticas, irritables y discutidoras.
7Da óptimos guerreros. J. J. Bugoyne, el Rosacruz autor de “La Luz de Egipto” nos indica también que: “Aries, bajo el aspecto simbólico, es el sacrificio.
8El ganado vacuno y ovino de nacimiento a sus pequeños en la parte del año en que el Sol ocupa este Signo.
9Además del sacrificio, Aries simboliza aún la primavera, el comienzo de un nuevo año o momento en que la vida, la luz y el amor serán dados a los hijos de la tierra, como consecuencia de la victoria que, una vez más consigue el Sol sobre el imperio del invierno y de la muerte.
10El símbolo del cordero inmolado sobre la cruz equinoccial es otra modalidad de representación de Aries.
11Kabalísticamente, Aries representa la cabeza y el cerebro del Gran Hombre del Cosmos.
12Es el principio pensante y actuante en la naturaleza, llamado, a veces instinto, y otras, inteligencia.
13Sobre el planisferio esotérico, este signo está ocupado por Benjamín, de quien Jacobo, — en la bendición a sus doce hijos dice: “Benjamín destrozará como un lobo, por la mañana devorará a su presa y por la tarde repartirá los despojos”.
14Entre todos los animales, el lobo está consagrado al planeta Marte y el signo de Aries está bajo el especial control de este ardiente planeta.
15Marte es el más ardiente de todos los planetas y Aries es la primera constelación de la triplicidad del Fuego.
16Tal correspondencia es significativa.
17Los hebreos ocultaban esta relación de la naturaleza planetaria de Marte, combinando el lobo y el cordero.
18La frase “El lobo es la vestimenta del cordero”, nos revela la acción mala de Marte cuando se halla maléficamente colocado en su propio signo Aries.
19La piedra característica de este signo es el amatista y aquellos que nacen son Aries en el Ascendente de su horóscopo, tendrán en ella un poderoso talismán magnético.
20Aries es la primera y más elevada emanación de la triplicidad de Fuego y es la constelación del planeta Marte.
21Sobre el plano intelectual, Aries significa el espíritu marciano de destructividad y de agresión.
22Gobierna a la cabeza y dice el Apocalipsis de San Juan: “De la boca salía un gladio de doble filo”.
23Es la voluntad activa guiada por las fuerzas ejecutivas del cerebro y los que tienen esta influencia no se dejan guiar jamás por terceros.
24Sobre el plano físico, Aries da, generalmente, un cuerpo delgado, pero robusto, de estatura mediana, rostro alargado, cejas abundantes, un cuello más bien largo, pecho amplio, tez más bien cetrina o amorenada; carácter valeroso, ambicioso, intrépido y 11
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1Practical Course of Judicial Astrology — Teachings of Surya.
2S∴I∴ — Now that we have seen, in previous articles, what the seven "traditional" planets, and Uranus and Neptune, must represent for the astrologer and the occultist, we shall approach the study of the Zodiacal Signs, in their general meaning, beginning with ARIES or the Ram.
3Aries symbolises sacrifice.
4It is the symbol of our instincts.
5Persons born under this sign are usually intelligent, full of ardour, of aggressive spirit, energetic and imperious will.
6They are generally persons of action — indomitable, insubmissive, despotic, irritable and argumentative.
7It gives excellent warriors. J. Burgoyne, the Rosicrucian author of "The Light of Egypt" [Sic: the original prints "J. J. Bugoyne".], also indicates to us that: "Aries, under the symbolic aspect, is sacrifice.
8Cattle and sheep give birth to their young in the part of the year in which the Sun occupies this Sign. [Sic: the original prints "de nacimiento" for "dan nacimiento".]
9Besides sacrifice, Aries symbolises also the spring — the beginning of a new year, the moment in which life, light and love will be given to the children of the earth, as a consequence of the victory that the Sun once more achieves over the empire of winter and of death.
10The symbol of the lamb immolated upon the equinoctial cross is another modality of representation of Aries.
11Kabbalistically, Aries represents the head and brain of the Grand Man of the Cosmos.
12It is the thinking and acting principle in nature, called at times instinct, and at others intelligence.
13On the esoteric planisphere this sign is occupied by Benjamin, of whom Jacob — in the blessing of his twelve sons — says: "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil".
14Among all the animals, the wolf is consecrated to the planet Mars, and the sign of Aries is under the special control of this ardent planet.
15Mars is the most ardent of all the planets, and Aries is the first constellation of the Fire triplicity.
16Such a correspondence is significant.
17The Hebrews concealed this relation of the planetary nature of Mars by combining the wolf and the lamb.
18The phrase "The wolf is the clothing of the lamb" reveals to us the evil action of Mars when malefically placed in his own sign Aries.
19The characteristic stone of this sign is the amethyst, and those born with Aries in the Ascendant of their horoscope will have in it a powerful magnetic talisman.
20Aries is the first and most elevated emanation of the Fire triplicity and is the constellation of the planet Mars.
21On the intellectual plane, Aries signifies the Martian spirit of destructiveness and aggression.
22It governs the head, and the Apocalypse of Saint John says: "Out of his mouth went a two-edged sword".
23It is the active will guided by the executive forces of the brain, and those who have this influence never let themselves be guided by third parties.
24On the physical plane, Aries generally gives a thin but robust body, of medium stature, elongated face, abundant eyebrows, a rather long neck, ample chest, complexion rather sallow or brownish; a valorous, ambitious, intrepid and · 11
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New masthead line: "For remittances from abroad, we prefer N. City Bank" — the National City Bank of New York's Montevideo branch; the review's foreign readership now warrants banking instructions.
The SUMARIO announces the Janardanam translation from Madras — the Suddha column now imports whole essays.
Jehel's initiatic curriculum vitae, printed: initiated 1922, visible direction of the Order assumed 1936, administrative and ritual structure reorganised 1939 — the reform decree's preamble is the most exact autobiographical dating he has given.
The June 1944 reforms: decreed for 9 June ("the date of greatest moral force of each year" — Lévi's commemoration), announced publicly in the review on the argument that Martinism hides only the too-sacred. The reform's five planks: de-masonisation (all resemblance to masonic rites eliminated, "the time of secret societies has passed"), suppression of pompous titles, briefer theory / more practice, corporeal preparation entering every degree, and visible East-West union.
Reviewed against the concealment mandate: the reform text describes its own collectivity ("enormous majority… of white race and Christian formation") and ranks the Christian revelation as fittest for "the present white civilisation" — self-description and supersessionist doctrine, not evidence-claims about living peoples; and the same page immediately mandates equal honour to Buddhism and Taoism and declares woman's absolute initiatic equality. Kept under the ratified boundary, with this note as the review's record.
"Martinism definitively refuses to place woman in a situation of inferiority and recognises in her the most absolute equality of spiritual — that is to say, initiatic — possibility" — printed June 1944, and consistent with the run's practice: Lorelair, Maya, Martha and Upasika all hold teaching or council positions.
The fraternities named as beyond the Martinist door now include Gnosticism and spell out H.A.B.M. for the first time: "Hermanos Asiáticos del Brillante Misterio" (Asiatic Brothers of the Brilliant Mystery) — the masthead's most mysterious initials finally glossed by the editor himself.
The three-list system (never mix List One with List Three; List Two goes with anything) — trophology's food-combining doctrine, printed as a complete household technology with the 127-item alphabetical list that follows.
The 127-entry food list is a Rioplatense pantry inventory of 1944 — boniato, choclo, zapallitos, radicheta, dulce staples and the porteño ravioli — the run's most concrete document of its material culture, preserved item by item.
The morning lemon, the weekly fast, the no-supper ideal, and the strike-through method for building a personal regime — the counsel column at its most practical; kidney and liver regimens follow with period clinical detail.
The pennyroyal (poleo) infusion, six or seven leaves, covered a quarter hour, "always without sugar" — herbalism enters the run's pharmacopoeia.
With the planets done, the course opens the zodiac: Aries first, on the standing pair of authorities, plus the faces (5° divisions) from "Dr. Salmon" — the seventeenth-century Christian Astrology tradition — and Julevno's decanates. The physiognomic detail is the densest yet.
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The fourth surviving asana plate: Fig. 20, the Maha-Asana's two positions printed head-to-head on a landscape page. Extracted to the imagery layer.
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The closed-fist variant "closes the electric circuit" to receive terrestrial prana — the asana course and Kapila's electricity-of-the-body article (three pages later) are one doctrine in two genres.
The three vibratory temperaments — Neutral (the adepts'), Electric (projectors, hypnotisers), Magnetic (mystics, sensitives, mediums) — with organs and foods sorted into the same polarity scheme: the series' whole dietetics resolving into Mesmerist physics.
Census: 88 → 92 (Argentina 50, Brazil 11, Uruguay 31 — Argentina now the majority). April protocol 797–963: 167 documents in one month, by far the run's heaviest traffic.
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The Wesak report: Montevideo's 4 a.m. ceremonial "attended by almost all", synchronised with the Chilean Section and with "the Solemn Act which the Great Siddhas celebrated at Visala Badari" — the mythic Badari ashram of the S.D.M. hierarchy — with a telegram from Santiago as the visible relic.
Janardanam's essay (from The Suddha Dharma, Nov-Dec 1936) — the S.D.M. Director's defence of organised religion — translated whole: the run now serialises the Madras organ directly, not only the Pandit's notes.
The essay ends in the S.D.M.'s messianic key: the world's chaos correctable only by a Superhuman Being — "when the Lord Mitra Deva comes to act among men" — the same Avatara whose 25th incarnation anniversary Chile feasted in Nº 24. Printed in June 1944, the week of Normandy.
Régnault's orientation experiments tabulated with dates (19-3-1923, 30-6/1-7-1925 with Lancelin, 17-5-1926): lymphocyte shifts, blood-pressure and corpuscle counts by compass heading — the run reproducing French biodynamics' raw tables, decimal commas and all.
The conclusion circles back to the ancients: head-north sleep vindicated by minimal magnetic influence, Müller's Zurich neurometer concurring — the column's standing thesis (modern instruments confirm initiate practice) at its most complete.
The GIDEE prospectus is rebuilt: courses now listed by teacher — Jehel (Cosmogony, Kabbalah, Alchemy, Magnetism), Kapila (Yogas, Dietetics, Chiromancy), Pitágoras (Androgony), Surya (Judicial astrology), Martha (History of the Hermetic Traditions), and a new name: Sister UPASIKA: The doctrine of the Buddha — a Buddhism chair at the Montevideo school. Buenos Aires reopens April 1944 with a telephone (42-4129); La Plata's contact changes to B. Rodríguez Meitín, Calle 60.
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A second publishing line appears: the Library of the Kabbalistic Rose Cross Order, at Editorial Kier — Sevaka's novel El Hijo de Zanoni (the Bulwer-Lytton continuation by Lorenz), Sédir's Hindu Fakirism, and Franz Hartmann's In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom. The Martinist Library adds Schuré's Divine Evolution. Kier — the Buenos Aires esoteric house that would dominate the century — enters the run by name.
The printer changes: Dornaleche Hnos. (Cerro Largo 783) gives way to Tall. Gráf. Castro y Cía., Yi 1657 — read from a marginally legible photographed line and flagged uncertain in the transcription.
The faces of Aries with their fixed stars (Tail of the Whale, Head and Girdle of Andromeda) — the older star-lore layer beneath the decanates, kept with its printed typos glossed.
The rejuvenation series restates its vibratory thesis with the ionic chemistry of the day — tropisms, semipermeable membranes, cathodic and anodic tendencies — the medicalised register at its most current.
Janaka as the king who held both offices — the essay's proof-text that rule and realisation can coexist, from the Gita the S.D.M. reads in 26 chapters.
Aries on the Midheaven by faces: soldiers, surgeons, butchers, metal-workers — the trade-list astrology that keyed the era's vocational counselling.
"Religion is at once subjective and objective, spiritual and material" — the essay's refrain; its sociology of hypocrisy (verbiage convincing neither speaker nor hearer) is its sharpest page.
Electric men project, magnetic men receive — with mystics, saints, artists and mediums on the receptive pole: the temperament typology that underwrites the whole feeding-by-polarity table on this page.