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1FAZ 5o. (2U a 25’): Personas de estatura mediana o más, cabellos negros, rostro moreno y alargado, dientes mal alineados y que caerán tempranamente, piernas torcidas y todo el cuerpo tiende a inclinarse hacia delante.
2La influencia de Saturno sobre esta faz hace al carácter testarudo, reservado.
3Marte aquí da fogosidad y violencia; Marte en Aries siempre da ojos hundidos y genio batallador; Saturno en Aries da voz fuerte, profunda y una frente desarrollada.
4FAZ 6o. (26’ a 30’): Estatura más bien alta, salvo si la Luna estuviera allí presente, presencia austera, cejas espesas, cabellos negros y ondulados, boca grande nariz ancha, cuerpo sólido y bien aplomado, el rostro, de máscula expresión es frecuentemente marcado por una cicatriz.
5Si Urano está presente, hace el rostro más largo, dientes fuertes y mal colocados.
6Esta faz se halla bajo la influencia de Marte y Saturno y contiene la “Faja de Andrómeda”, estrella fija de la naturaleza de Venus, muy favorable para los navegantes, los químicos y los criadores.
7Júpiter presente da una tez con verrugas o colores fuertes; Mercurio ahueca las mejillas, hace la tez más clara así como las cejas y pestañas y aplasta en algo la nariz.
8LA INFLUENCIAS DE ARIES EN EL ASCENDENTE (según viejos autores) Primera faz: Carácter audaz, valiente, ingenioso, alocución fácil.
9Segunda: Lo mismo, pero con éxito en la primera mitad de la vida y reveses después.
10Tercera: Consejeros y políticos hábiles, espíritu juicioso y prudente.
11Cuarta: Carácter afable, simpático, triunfando en muchas profesiones.
12Quinta: Persona falsa, tonta y discutidora.
13Sexta: Valor, confianza en sí mismo, suerte en todo en general.
14FACES DE ARIES SOBRE EL MEDIO CIELO Primera: Soldados, cirujanos, médicos, carniceros, obreros en metales.
15Segunda: Suerte que cambia mucho, alternativamente.
16Tercera: Exito en general.
17Indica a los orfebres y jornaleros.
18Cuarta: Elevación, honras, cargos públicos, militares o civiles.
19Quinta: Vida vulgar, oscura y profesiones correspondientes.
20Sexta: Elevación como militar, pero peligro de muerte en combate.
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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.
15th FACE (21° to 25°) [Sic: the original prints "2U" for "21".]: Persons of medium stature or more, black hair, dark and elongated face, badly aligned teeth that will fall early, crooked legs, and the whole body tends to lean forward.
2The influence of Saturn on this face makes the character stubborn, reserved.
3Mars here gives fieriness and violence; Mars in Aries always gives sunken eyes and a combative temper; Saturn in Aries gives a strong, deep voice and a developed forehead.
46th FACE (26° to 30°): Stature rather tall — unless the Moon were present there — austere presence, thick eyebrows, black and wavy hair, large mouth, broad nose, a solid and well-poised body; the face, of masculine expression, is frequently marked by a scar.
5If Uranus is present, it makes the face longer, the teeth strong and badly placed.
6This face is under the influence of Mars and Saturn and contains the "Girdle of Andromeda", a fixed star of the nature of Venus, very favourable for navigators, chemists and breeders.
7Jupiter present gives a complexion with warts or strong colours; Mercury hollows the cheeks, makes the complexion lighter, as also the eyebrows and lashes, and somewhat flattens the nose.
8THE INFLUENCES OF ARIES ON THE ASCENDANT (according to old authors) — First face: A bold, valiant, ingenious character, easy speech.
9Second: The same, but with success in the first half of life and reverses afterwards.
10Third: Skilful counsellors and politicians, a judicious and prudent spirit.
11Fourth: An affable, sympathetic character, triumphing in many professions.
12Fifth: A false, foolish and argumentative person.
13Sixth: Valour, self-confidence, luck in everything in general.
14FACES OF ARIES ON THE MIDHEAVEN — First: Soldiers, surgeons, physicians, butchers, metal-workers.
15Second: Luck that changes much, alternately.
16Third: Success in general.
17It indicates goldsmiths and day-labourers.
18Fourth: Elevation, honours, public posts, military or civil.
19Fifth: A vulgar, obscure life and corresponding professions.
20Sixth: Elevation as a military man, but danger of death in combat.
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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.