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1Orientación Presión arterial índice Glóbulos Máx.
2Mín.
3Oscilom.
4rojos blancos Cabeza al Oeste 14,5 10,0 2 , 5 - 7 6.100.000 12.000 Cabeza al Norte 14,5 10,5 3 - 6 , 5 5.540.000 10.000 Cabeza al Este 15 9,0 3 - 7 , 5 5.200.000 11.000 Cabeza al Sur 15 11,0 2,5-7,5 5.000.000 10.000 Como se puede constatar en la posición “cabeza al Este” que corresponde en la posición del sujeto de pie “frente al Oeste”, se obtiene la mayor Máx. y la menor Mín. y la mayor amplitud oscilométrica.
5Estos datos están de acuerdo por lo observado por el Dr. Alberto Abrams que, en esta orientación obtuvo reflejos que presentaban al máximum de sensibilidad y el máximum de trabajo además de hacernos comprender lo que ha sido muchas veces constatado, es decir, que las grandes emigraciones se ha hecho siempre con éxito, cuando han sido efectuadas de Oriente hacia Occidente.
6En la posición “cabeza al Norte”, que corresponde a la posición del sujeto de pie “frente al Sur”, constatamos, al contrario, los más débiles valores, es decir, las menores variaciones.
7Estos datos confirman, pues, lo que habían afirmado los antiguos, es decir, que para dormir mejor era preciso colocar la cabeza hacia el Norte, porque en tal posición las influencias magnéticas son mínimas.
8Estos resultados están de acuerdo con las experiencias realizadas por el Ing.
9Müller, de Zurich, sobre la variación de resistencia de un sujeto a una corriente eléctrica con el variar de la orientación.
10Müller construyó un aparato (que denominó neurómetro, y que permite medir esta resistencia del cuerpo humano) que le facultó constatar como la mayor resistencia a la corriente eléctrica se obtiene cuando el sujeto está orientado con la cabeza al Norte, es decir, cuando esas influencias son mínimas.
11Como se puede constatar, las modernas experiencias destinadas a establecer la influencia de la orientación, es decir, de la posición que permite recibir mayores o menores influencias del magnetismo terrestre, confirman las antiguas creencias y hacemos votos de que estos estudios experimentales sean continuados en los laboratorios científicos para poder contribuir a un conocimiento siempre más completo de las manifestaciones fisiológicas humanas relacionada con las variaciones de las influencias externas.
12En el próximo artículo diremos algo sobre la influencia del magnetismo terrestre en los hombres “aislados” o en “contacto” con la tierra.
13Esperamos que los Discípulos y Lectores sepan meditar esto y deducir las aplicaciones prácticas que permite.
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1Orientation · Arterial pressure · index · Corpuscles · Max.
2Min.
3Oscillom.
4red · white — Head to the West: 14,5 · 10,0 · 2 , 5 - 7 · 6.100.000 · 12.000 — Head to the North: 14,5 · 10,5 · 3 - 6 , 5 · 5.540.000 · 10.000 — Head to the East: 15 · 9,0 · 3 - 7 , 5 · 5.200.000 · 11.000 — Head to the South: 15 · 11,0 · 2,5-7,5 · 5.000.000 · 10.000 — As can be verified, in the position "head to the East", which corresponds to the standing subject's position "facing the West", the greatest Max. and the least Min. and the greatest oscillometric amplitude are obtained. [Editorial gloss: the figures keep the printed decimal commas and spacing of the source table.]
5These data are in accord with what was observed by Dr. Albert Abrams who, in this orientation, obtained reflexes presenting the maximum of sensibility and the maximum of work — besides making us understand what has many times been verified, namely, that the great migrations have always been made with success when they were effected from East to West.
6In the position "head to the North", which corresponds to the standing subject's position "facing the South", we verify, on the contrary, the weakest values — that is, the least variations.
7These data confirm, then, what the ancients had affirmed — that to sleep better one must place the head towards the North, because in that position the magnetic influences are minimal.
8These results are in accord with the experiments performed by Engineer
9Müller, of Zurich, on the variation of a subject's resistance to an electric current with the varying of orientation.
10Müller constructed an apparatus (which he named the neurometer, and which permits measuring this resistance of the human body) that enabled him to verify how the greatest resistance to the electric current is obtained when the subject is oriented with the head to the North — that is, when those influences are minimal.
11As can be verified, the modern experiments destined to establish the influence of orientation — that is, of the position that permits receiving greater or lesser influences of the terrestrial magnetism — confirm the ancient beliefs, and we express the wish that these experimental studies be continued in the scientific laboratories, so as to contribute to an ever more complete knowledge of the human physiological manifestations related to the variations of external influences.
12In the next article we shall say something on the influence of terrestrial magnetism on men "insulated" from or in "contact" with the earth.
13We hope that Disciples and Readers will know how to meditate this and deduce the practical applications it permits.
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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.