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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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1other hand on the carotid, at a point a couple of centimetres above and behind the angle of the jaw.
2The placing of Coulon's hands, in the form described, on the person experimented on had no further effect, and he could very easily be lifted, if the lifting experiment was performed on aluminium plates placed on other plates of ebonite — that is, if Coulon was "insulated" from the ground.
3From this case one must conclude — at least until a better explanation — that the vital energy emanated by Coulon's fingers produced an inhibition upon the experimenter's radial and pneumogastric nerves, and that this vital energy must have diminished when he was "insulated" from the earth.
4If this explanation of the phenomenon is not the true one, at least there is no doubt whatever that there exists a telluric influence acting upon subjects in "contact" with the earth, augmenting their muscular dynamism, and diminishing that dynamism when the subject is "insulated" from the soil — that is, in a position that prevents him from receiving it.
5Be that as it may, the Coulon case awakened the attention of investigators, who were thus able, after various experiments and studies, to establish, in strictly scientific and indisputable form, the influence of the terrestrial radiations upon subjects in "contact" with the soil and its diminution to annihilation upon "insulated" subjects.
6We cannot, in this brief article — to prevent it from becoming a small treatise — expound in detail and completely all the experiments performed and all that is known on the matter.
7We shall limit ourselves, then, to setting forth the essential in synthetic form.
8We know, first of all, that the atmospheric electric tension increases by almost one volt for each centimetre of height above the soil; consequently, in a subject 1.60 m tall there exists a difference of potential between head and feet of 160 volts — a difference which, if the subject is in "contact" with the earth, gives origin to a weak current that cannot fail to exert its influence on the subject's organism.
9If, on the contrary, the subject is "insulated", this current due to the difference of potential — as well as the charge of electricity produced by vital activity, by muscular movements, by the frictions between clothing and skin — cannot be discharged into the earth.
10A simple experiment demonstrates it very clearly.
11If a subject is made to sit on an insulating platform and is rubbed with a brush, the body [Sic: the original prints "el suelo" (the ground).] charges with an electric potential sufficient to make the gastrocnemius muscle of a previously prepared frog contract appreciably if he brings his finger near it.
12That contraction does not manifest itself if the subject is not insulated from the earth — which demonstrates that the increase of electric potential is discharged towards the earth.
13A similar but much more sensitive demonstration has been given by Dr. Jules Régnault, using an apparatus called an electrometer, by Cav.
14Alberto de Vita, of Rome.
15This thermo-ionic valve apparatus is so sensitive that it registers [Sic: the original prints "acuda".] oscillations in the needle of a milliammeter when a cat is stroked, variable from 6 to 15 metres' distance according to the fineness of the animal's fur.
16Thus Dr. Régnault relates his experiments with that apparatus: "To study the electric charge produced on a man by a determined movement, I placed myself at 50 centimetres from the apparatus and made the movement of flexing the knee joint until raising the foot 25 centimetres from the ground, then extending the leg to place the foot 5 centimetres from the ground; and I repeated this movement at the approximate rhythm of one movement per second.
17When I placed myself on an ebonite plate 4 millimetres thick, insulating myself from the earth, · 20
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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- PASS G11 alignment 316/316
- PASS G0 source kind 1/1
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- PASS G2 no unanchored English 361/361
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