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1Practical Course of Judicial Astrology — By Surya.
2S∴I∴ — Continuing the study of the Signs of the Zodiac, we shall examine, in today's article, the characteristics of TAURUS or the Bull. Taurus symbolises fecundity and the procreative forces.
3It gives a rough and reserved character, slow to anger but afterwards violent and even furious, with a certain avidity and inclination towards sensual pleasures and gluttony.
4It makes the person, however, careful, laborious and persevering.
5It presides over industrial activity and its applications, as well as over the vivifying faculties of silent and isolated thought.
6On the Symbolic Plane, representing the faculties of fecundity and procreation in all parts of nature, its genius was figured by Aphrodite, generally represented with two horns upon her head, like the Bull.
7Many mythologists have been mistaken about this symbol, thinking it represents the crescent moon upon the head of Isis, whereas it really figured the planet Venus, which the Ancients placed thus to allude to the fact that this goddess — Venus — rules the constellation of Taurus by her sympathetic forces. Apis, the sacred ox of the Egyptians, is another representation of the Bull; and, as the Sun passes through this sign in the months of tilling the earth, it is used as the sign of agriculture.
8Kabbalistically, Taurus represents the ears, neck and throat of the Grand Ancient of the Heavens — which signifies that this sign is the silent, patient, attentive principle of humanity, and also the regulator of the lymphatic system in the organism.
9On the esoteric planisphere the Bull is represented by the patriarch Issachar — a name signifying hireling, servant, healer.
10The patriarch, in his paternal blessing of Issachar [Sic: the original prints "Ossachar".], alludes to the obedient and laborious nature of this sign in these terms: "Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens".
11This paints the taurine nature of the Earth, just as the ass and the ox are equally notable for their endurance and as beasts of burden.
12The kabbalistic precious stone of this sign is the agate, it being a natural talisman for those born with the Bull in their ascendant.
13The Bull is the most elevated emanation of the Earth Trigon and is the constellation of Venus.
14On the intellectual plane, the Bull signifies the vivifying and fecundating faculties of silent thought, representing what is amiable and good; therefore those dominated by its influence know how to choose what is good and assimilate it with a profoundly practical and realistic sense.
15They are slow in forming an opinion, careful, laborious and self-confident, and know how to await patiently the results of their silent action.
16Their intellectual traits are industry and its application.
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Census: 92 → 93 (Argentina 50, Brazil 11, Uruguay 32); May protocol 964–999 — the thousandth document falls due next month.
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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.