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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 26 · June 1944
Gate passedSeeker and aboveModern transcription — not a facsimileOperator ruling: no copyright implications asserted for this work. Uruguay life+50 (Leo d. 1970 → PD 2020); US URAA restoration assessed at ~2041 in the collection plan and overridden by the operator.
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1Comentarios sobre el Primer Grado del Martinismo Androgonía Enseñanzas de Jehel, S:: I:: Todos los artículos precedentes han puesto en evidencia, sea bajo el aspecto simbólico, sea directamente en la enseñanza androgónica, lo que es realmente un ser humano, como funciona y cuál es su verdadera finalidad.
2Cuando terminemos completamente la serie androgónica, por lo menos en lo que corresponde a los estudios del primer grado, publicaremos un cuadro que será el resumen completo de la constitución humana, detallada en todos sus aspectos.
3Hoy, deseamos llenar una necesidad evidente.
4Hemos aconsejado, sea en estos artículos, sea en los que el hermano Asuri Kapila publica, la alimentación racional como base, no solamente de la conservación de la salud física, sino como fundamento imprescindible de la realización mística, ya que “mente sana in corpore sano”, etc.
5Para que los Discípulos y Lectores no tengan que preocuparse por buscar en fuentes diversas la base de tal alimentación racional, hemos resuelto publicar las tres listas que permiten alimentarse armónicamente, sea en la modalidad vegetariana, sea en la carnívora.
6FUNDAMENTO DEL SISTEMA DE ALIMENTACIÓN RACIONAL Consiste en no mezclar jamás los alimentos de la lista UNO con los de las lista TRES, es decir, no comer en la misma ocasión, cosas ácidas con alimentos dulces o almidones.
7Los alimentos de la lista DOS siendo intermediarios, pueden ser absorbidos, indiferentemente, solos, o con cualquiera de las otras dos listas: UNO y TRES.
8Debe tratarse de eliminar de la alimentación las substancias llamadas “refinadas”: azúcar blanca, harina blanca, no integral, aceites, sal y condimentos fuertes.
9El vinagre debe ser substituido por el jugo de limón.
10En cada lista, los alimentos están por orden alfabético, estando el primero de cada letra escrito en tipo más grande para facilitar la búsqueda.
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.
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1Commentaries on the First Degree of Martinism — Androgony — Teachings of Jehel, S∴I∴ — All the preceding articles have placed in evidence — whether under the symbolic aspect or directly in the androgonic teaching — what a human being really is, how it functions and what its true finality is.
2When we completely finish the androgonic series — at least in what corresponds to the studies of the first degree — we shall publish a table that will be the complete summary of the human constitution, detailed in all its aspects.
3Today we wish to fill an evident necessity.
4We have counselled, whether in these articles or in those Brother Asuri Kapila publishes, rational alimentation as the basis not only of the conservation of physical health but as the indispensable foundation of mystical realisation — since "mens sana in corpore sano", etc. [Sic: the original prints "mente sana".]
5So that Disciples and Readers need not trouble themselves searching diverse sources for the basis of such rational alimentation, we have resolved to publish the three lists that permit eating harmoniously, whether in the vegetarian modality or in the carnivorous.
6FOUNDATION OF THE SYSTEM OF RATIONAL ALIMENTATION — It consists in never mixing the foods of list ONE with those of list THREE — that is, not eating on the same occasion acid things with sweet foods or starches.
7The foods of list TWO, being intermediary, can be absorbed indifferently, alone or with either of the other two lists: ONE and THREE.
8One should try to eliminate from the diet the substances called "refined": white sugar, white (non-integral) flour, oils, salt and strong condiments.
9Vinegar should be substituted by lemon juice.
10In each list the foods are in alphabetical order, the first of each letter being written in larger type to facilitate the search.
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
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.
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