The cover is redesigned — new masthead setting, and the back pages of this number carry the largest set of changes since the run began.
→ ini:3.25
Fetching
One moment.
Fetching
One moment.
1enfermarnos?
2¿Debemos maravillamos si, no presentándose la enfermedad en una forma evidente y aguda con fiebre, dolores, etc., vamos arrastrando nuestra existencia atormentada con mil malestares, envejecidos y ya inservibles física, moral y espiritualmente?
3LA ELECTRICIDAD DEL CUERPO HUMANO.
4— Todos conocemos si no la electricidad en su última esencia, por lo menos en sus infinitas aplicaciones, pero muy pocos saben de que, también el cuerpo humano es un acumulador y transformador de energía electro-magnética.
5Todas las células, o mejor dicho todas las moléculas, materiales que constituyen en su conjunto el protoplasma celular, así como todas las substancias asimiladas que son llevadas por la sangre a dichas células para reparar las pérdidas ocasionadas por las funciones celulares, están cargadas de electricidad.
6La Química Biológica ya ha demostrado experimentalmente la existencia de iones positivos o negativos que desempeñan un papel preponderante, para no decir esencial, en las normales funciones de la vida celular, como por ejemplo en las manifestaciones osmóticas a través de membranas semipermeables (Líquido intercelular-ectoplasma o membrana celular- protoplasma), corrientes energéticas existentes ente protoplasma y núcleo celular, secreción de varias substancias, etc. Ahora bien, si estos iones, por causas diferentes por las cuales no podemos hablar aquí, se descargan, es decir, pierden su energía positiva o negativa, se vuelven, por este solo hecho inútiles, inservibles para contribuir a las funciones de la vida celular y son, por consiguiente, eliminados del proceso vital.
7La Química Biológica ya conoce desde hace bastante tiempo esas manifestaciones vitales debidas a los iones positivos o negativos y que ha denominado “tropismos”.
8Existen así, fototropismos, termotropismos, electrotropismos, etc., negativos y positivos, según si hay tendencia para el polo positivo o negativo, catódico o anódico, de la luz, calor, electricidad, etc.
9Todos los procesos vitales que se manifiestan como actividad funcional de los órganos, están, pues, determinados por la acción de estas cargas positivas o negativas de los iones.
10Es así que el músculo puede contraerse, el nervio dar paso al fluido nervioso, la glándula agregar substancias diversas como la saliva, bilis, jugo pancreático, hormonas, etc., el corazón contraerse rítmicamente, para asegurar la normal distribución hidráulica de la sangre, los pulmones dilatarse y contraerse para asegurar los intercambios gaseosos o hematosis, etc.
11El hombre manifiesta, en síntesis, ese constante trabajo vital en todos sus órganos, trabajo que puede expresarse desde las manifestaciones de la vida vegetativa hasta las más sublimes concepciones del pensamiento, de la inteligencia y de la imaginación en su “aura”.
12Y es la naturaleza electromagnética del “aura” que permite conocer, sirviéndose de medios adecuados, el temperamento vibratorio de cada hombre.
13Podemos en general, decir que todos los hombres pueden manifestar ese temperamento vibratorio en tres modalidades: Neutro, Eléctrico y Magnético.
14El neutro es extremadamente raro, pues es la manifestación de un completo equilibrio dinámico entre todas las funciones vitales de naturaleza vegetativa y de relación por una parte y las funciones anímicas o emotivas y mentales o espirituales, por otra.
15Ese temperamento neutro es el que ya han alcanzado los “adeptos” o maestros y el que todos nosotros nos esforzamos 17
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.
1fall ill?
2Must we marvel if — the illness not presenting itself in an evident and acute form with fever, pains, etc. — we go dragging out our existence tormented with a thousand discomforts, aged and already useless physically, morally and spiritually?
3THE ELECTRICITY OF THE HUMAN BODY.
4— We all know electricity, if not in its ultimate essence, at least in its infinite applications; but very few know that the human body, too, is an accumulator and transformer of electro-magnetic energy.
5All the cells — or better said, all the material molecules that constitute in their ensemble the cellular protoplasm — as well as all the assimilated substances carried by the blood to those cells to repair the losses occasioned by the cellular functions, are charged with electricity.
6Biological Chemistry has already demonstrated experimentally the existence of positive or negative ions that play a preponderant — not to say essential — role in the normal functions of cellular life, as for example in the osmotic manifestations through semipermeable membranes (intercellular liquid–ectoplasm, or cellular membrane–protoplasm), the energetic currents existing between protoplasm and cellular nucleus, the secretion of various substances, etc. Now, if these ions — through different causes of which we cannot speak here — discharge themselves, that is, lose their positive or negative energy, they become by that single fact useless, unserviceable for contributing to the functions of cellular life, and are consequently eliminated from the vital process.
7Biological Chemistry has known for quite some time those vital manifestations due to the positive or negative ions, which it has named "tropisms".
8There exist thus phototropisms, thermotropisms, electrotropisms, etc., negative and positive, according to whether there is a tendency towards the positive or negative pole — cathodic or anodic — of light, heat, electricity, etc.
9All the vital processes that manifest themselves as functional activity of the organs are, then, determined by the action of these positive or negative charges of the ions.
10It is thus that the muscle can contract, the nerve give passage to the nervous fluid, the gland secrete [Sic: the original prints "agregar".] diverse substances such as saliva, bile, pancreatic juice, hormones, etc., the heart contract rhythmically to assure the normal hydraulic distribution of the blood, the lungs dilate and contract to assure the gaseous interchanges or haematosis, etc.
11Man manifests, in synthesis, that constant vital work in all his organs — work that can express itself from the manifestations of vegetative life up to the most sublime conceptions of thought, intelligence and imagination — in his "aura".
12And it is the electromagnetic nature of the "aura" that permits knowing, by adequate means, the vibratory temperament of each man.
13We can in general say that all men can manifest that vibratory temperament in three modalities: Neutral, Electric and Magnetic.
14The neutral is extremely rare, for it is the manifestation of a complete dynamic equilibrium between all the vital functions of vegetative and relational nature on one side, and the animic or emotive and mental or spiritual functions on the other.
15That neutral temperament is the one already attained by the "adepts" or masters, and the one all of us strive · 17
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
The cover is redesigned — new masthead setting, and the back pages of this number carry the largest set of changes since the run began.
→ ini:3.25
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.
→ ini:3.25:10:001
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.
→ ini:3.26:15:008
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.
→ ini:3.25:14:007
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.
→ ini:3.25:24:003
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.