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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 27 · July 1944
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1Cosmic influences and reactions of living beings.
2Influence of orientation and of magnets upon living beings.
3By Pitágoras S∴I∴ — We have verified, in the preceding articles, the existence and the variations of terrestrial magnetism produced by different causes, and the variable influences of this magnetism with the varying of the orientation of everything, and upon everything, that "lives" upon the earth.
4In this article we are going to occupy ourselves particularly with the influences the terrestrial magnetic currents can exert upon living beings according as these are in "contact" with mother earth or "insulated" from her.
5A priori, and in a general manner, we can affirm that the telluric influence manifests itself more efficaciously upon living beings when they are in "contact" with the soil than when they are "insulated", or living in the "magnetic aura" of the earth.
6Hence the convenience, for all living beings, of being in good electromagnetic conductibility with the earth — unless, in determined cases, prejudicial influences are involved, as for example receiving the magnetic influences originating in regions traversed by subterranean water currents, or other influences of another nature.
7This knowledge, too, was not unknown to the ancients.
8In effect, the unfavourable telluric influences were symbolised in the well-known myth of Antaeus [Sic: the original prints "miro de Antero".], son of the Earth, who, fighting against Hercules, could recover his forces when he was in contact with the soil — and the latter could vanquish his adversary only by insulating him, holding him lifted in his arms.
9The necessity of insulation — that is, of the position indispensable for protecting oneself from the telluric and astral influences — was, moreover, infinitely often placed in relief by all the magi, who have always enclosed themselves in circles traced upon the soil to "insulate" themselves, during their magical operations, from those dangerous influences.
10In effect, the "forces" set in movement by virtue of the magical operation would have annihilated the operator (had he not taken the indispensable precaution of insulating himself in his circle), as would happen, for example, with a potent electro-magnet approached by a small U-shaped magnet.
11The modern experiments on the influences of insulation and contact with the earth were carried out, as far as man is concerned, after the multiple discussions and great interest aroused for these studies by the case of Johnny Coulon, called the "unliftable man".2 In effect, in 1920 this American "featherweight" boxer — for he weighed only 49 kilos, and was of normal muscular strength — while he could be lifted from the ground by anyone who seized him with the hands by the waist, could no longer be lifted, however robust the person attempting to lift him, if Coulon placed one hand on the experimenter's wrist, touching the radial artery as if to take his pulse, and a finger of the — 2 Dr. Foveau de Courmelles: "Phénomène de Johnny Coulon" in "Auto".
12Numbers of December 1920 and January 1921.
13Dr. Jules Régnault: "Le phénomène de Johnny Coulon l'homme insoulevable". [Sic: the original prints "inéoulevable".]
14Communication to the "Société de Pathologie Comparée" in February 1921, published in the "Revue de Pathologie comparée et d'Hygiène générale" on 5 March 1921.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
July 1944; the redesigned wrapper of Nº 26 carries forward.
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Masthead unchanged from Nº 26, N. City Bank line included.
The SUMARIO misprints the author of the lead poem as "Mahanuja"; the article signs RAMANUJA — a Brother writing from the United States, the run's first contributor on North American soil.
Ramanuja's ¡Despierta! argues the primacy of feeling over reasoning — "the marvellous tool of pain" as converter — an A∴M∴ manifesto in the direct second person, unusual for the run's courses.
*Victor-Émile Michelet's Incantation of the Ten Divine Names in Spanish* — the French Symbolist poet of Papus's circle (the footnote identifies him only as "man of letters and Martinist Initiate of the epoch of Papus"). The prose-poem walks the ten Sephirothic god-names with their archangels (Raziel, Zaphkiel, Zadkiel, Samael, Raphael, Anael, Michael, Gabriel) and their demons (Zazel, Barzabel, Sorath, Kedemel, Taphthartharat, Hasmodai) — the planetary spirits-and-intelligences table of Agrippa turned into liturgy. A significant translation: Michelet's occult poetry has next to no Spanish-language record.
Reviewed against the concealment mandate: "the races from which I sprang believed they saw your reflection…" is the poet's self-genealogy introducing the Crucified — devotional first-person, no claims about living peoples; it stands. The other two candidates (astral storms; the synoptic table's "in germ in the present races") cleared on the same reading.
The incantation ends at Malkuth with Pan alive and the Eleusinian cup — "I absorbed pain and drank remembrance" — the Symbolist's Greece and the kabbalist's Tree fused in one closing cadence.
Taurus follows Aries: Aphrodite's horns read as Venus not Luna, Apis, Issachar's blessing, the agate talisman — and the era's vernacular slipping in ("what today is called 'sex-appeal'").
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The course names its own ambition: "a true Treatise of Interpretation… APPLY this knowledge" — the zodiac series is being written as a manual, not a column.
The Androgony series closes its first-degree arc with the synoptic table credited to Pitágoras — "the patient labour of the dear Brother" — and announces the next theme: the Quaternary Character of Martinism.
The synoptic table of the sevenfold constitution: Egyptian, Hindu, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Zoroastrian, Persian, Paracelsian, Swedenborgian, spiritist and Theosophical terms aligned across the 3×3→7 scheme the course built over six numbers — with the operational notes (the vital body "NEVER goes out"; the astral "CAN go out consciously (INITIATES) or unconsciously (MEDIUMS)"). The run's densest single doctrinal object, kept whole in the transcription.
The Vaishakh report names the officiants: Swami Asuri Kapila, Jehel, and Sister Upasika "representative of the Maha Boddhi-Shanga" — the new Buddhism teacher of the Nº 26 prospectus appears in ceremony, and Kapila now carries the Swami title in the run's own pages.
Brother Giordano Bruno has translated the Bhagavad Gita — "a beautiful work of more than a year's labour" — now read with commentary in the Montevideo ashrama's small Suddha temple. A second in-house Gita alongside the Chilean official translation announced in Nº 24; the masthead's Giordano gains a full lodge-name.
Janardam's polemic strikes near targets: "Hinduism" called "a name most repugnant", the Vedanta schools "bellicose elements" — and "a Master, of Pondicherry" who "claims to be the inaugurator of a new system of Yoga" — an unmistakable swipe at Sri Aurobindo, printed in Montevideo. The Suddha column's exclusivism ("the only one that leads the aspirant to the Divine Presence") is at its sharpest here, sitting oddly beside the run's own eclecticism — a tension the editors leave unresolved.
The Mitra Deva mantra printed for daily recitation, with its seed-syllables ("JRIM IM NAM NAMAH") — the run's messianic liturgy made practical; the praxis layer carries it.
Johnny Coulon, "the unliftable man" — the Chicago bantamweight whose 1920 Paris demonstrations (unliftable while touching wrist and carotid, liftable on ebonite) ran through Foveau de Courmelles and Régnault's papers, cited here with full bibliography. The science column's most vivid case, marshalled for the earth-contact doctrine.
The 160-volt head-to-feet gradient, the brushed subject firing a frog's gastrocnemius, de Vita's electrometer registering a stroked cat at 6–15 metres — the column's electro-physiology at its most theatrical, all in service of grounding (in both senses).
The sexed polarity doctrine — left hand negative in man, everything inverse in woman — connects the science serial to the magnetism course the GIDEE teaches; Achéff's novel S.O.S. supplies the modern anxiety (rubber tyres, linoleum) and the earthed bracelet its remedy.
Régnault's 1927 "Pantin aux réflexes", Tchijevsky's caged rats, the German terrain-radiation cancer studies, Larvaron's plants at Rennes — the serial closes its earth-contact instalment with its densest apparatus roll-call.
The rebuilt prospectus of Nº 26 (teachers by name, Upasika's Buddhism chair) repeats unchanged.
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Both library advertisements (Ateneo and Editorial Kier) and the Castro y Cía imprint repeat.
Each Name arrives with its full ritual kit — Saturn's black cape and garnets and burning sulphur, Jupiter's tin and topazes, Mars's steel and storax, the Moon's silver crescent and myrrh — Michelet versifying the planetary correspondences the course teaches in prose.
Julevno's Taurus with the era's own voice — "sex-appeal" in quotation marks, sans-façon — the 1944 translation layer visible inside the 1900s French source.
The Venus section's definition — "to possess an ideal is to modify the form of one's life as profoundly as by death" — and the lost half of the androgyne asked back from Lilith and Nahemah: Michelet's erotic kabbalism at its most personal.
Menkar and the "Jaw of the Whale" threatening dangers from large animals; the 15th degree redeeming — Taurus's face-lore keeps the fixed-star layer running through the treatise.
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