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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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1Awake!
2By RAMANUJA, A∴M∴ — This article, full of spirituality, has reached us from the United States, where our dear Brother Ramanuja still finds himself.
3Many will especially recall his gentle personality on reading these lines.— (Editor's note).
4If you dream amid the smoke of vain fantasy, if your life passes without joys or sorrows, if you flee from silence and fear solitude, if you believe only in pleasure — take care! — you are a soul that sleeps, though in a body that sleeps and wakes; you are less than a tree, perhaps less than a stone.
5If it is true that you do not love children, nor does the beauty of flowers matter to you, if you feel nothing with music — believe me, you sleep…. and with the semi-eternal sleep of things.
6Awake! — live the joy of suffering for those who suffer, love peace, feel it! — and only then will you come to understand the beautiful truths hidden beyond the deformed forms of your world.
7When you have attained peace for your spirit, you will hear from the silence, in the hours of meditation, the sacred music that reveals the eternal truth — possessed only by those who have made themselves worthy of feeling it, since, being truth, it has no translation into the relative language of men. [Sic: the original prints "por ser vedad".]
8Truth is eternal, and being so it will always escape the finite conception of the known senses.
9It has no translation into the world of reasoning, though it has one into a very different world — the world of feelings, cause and reason of the existence of the creative geniuses, who have only been men whose sensibility permitted them to be nearer the truth than the rest of the men of their epoch.
10Reasoning makes of the individual a scientific brain, which serves humanity little or nothing; while feeling makes of the scientific brain a genius — always a powerful contribution to the progressive development of beings and things.
11Single is the Law; and if you do not awaken by your own means, and by all those you will find so marvellously disposed around you as soon as you have the good will to observe them, you will awaken after the wound has burned upon the flesh of your own body — after the marvellous tool of pain has converted you to the world of feelings, the only one in which it is really worth living, since it is also the only one where it is possible to experience the true happiness that the men of all times have sought in vain in pleasure.
12Single is the Road; grow serene, for your soul is a very delicate and conveniently disposed instrument, capable of harmonising with the subtlest vibrations of Nature, which will carry to your consciousness the experience of a happiness indescribable because true.
13You will then understand how gross the sensations of our material world are, how far pleasure is from happiness, though men have confused them so lamentably.
14While passion thickens the veil in which truth hides, love is the only artificer capable of immaterialising it.
15Love! — for only loving will you be on the Road, until you are the Road itself!
16OM et AMEN.
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
- PASS G6 page anchoring 361/361
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- PASS G10 numeric fidelity 361/361
- PASS G2 no unanchored English 361/361
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