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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 28 · August 1944
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1THE SUDDHA DHARMA MANDALAM — Generalities.
2In this world, composed at once of animate and inanimate creation, there exists one that is the noblest of all: it is the human race; and man is a creature subject to the Influence of the course of the time in which he lives.
3The world in which man is, is also subject to the course of Time, and thence is born a correlation between man and the Jagat (evolutionary process of the world).
4It being inherent in man's nature to be always seeking progress, his efforts are constantly influenced by the conditions of the Time in which he lives, just as his relation with the Jagat is external because of the correlation existing between him and the Jagat.
5The advancement or progress thus sought by man can be classified in three groups: There is the Prakritic, or Material — consequently worldly; the Atmic, or Spiritual; and the Suddha, the Pure or Absolute.
6It is also a perfectly proven fact that, to aid man in his efforts towards progress, there exists an Almighty God, and a Hierarchy to execute his divine mandates.
7Under this Hierarchy there is a body of Elder Brothers and Mahatmas, who observe and direct the course of aspirants, who, according to their degrees of advancement, are divided into four groups: Dasas, Thirtas, Brahmas and Anandas.
8This Esoteric Organisation exists externally for the well-being and due spiritual advancement of the people on the face of the globe.
9The members of this Organisation are always dedicated to the administration, for each race and country, of particular laws, or aspects of the true religion, as occasions and circumstances require.
10This Assembly, which has its abode towards the north of the forests of Badari, situated in the Himalayas, consists of many Mahatmas, Siddhas (Adepts) and great Rishis.
11Among its members are found individuals of every class and community on the face of the globe, independently of unequal social condition here in the physical world.
12Among them are also found many women, who by their efforts and intense discipline have advanced until becoming Siddhas (Adepts).
13This Organisation recognises: a) BHAGAVAN NARAYANA, as its Head; b) YOGA DEVI, personification of all Sakti (power), as executrix of his divine will; and c) NARADEVA, representative of the human race, as its secretary.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead unchanged.
Kapila signs the closing poem as Swami Asuri Kapilananda — the fullest form of the name yet printed.
Secrets and Mysteries — Jehel's most quotable essay: the sects that could not say "I do not know"; secrecy about publishing-house names as "children's business"; the Beethoven analogy (knowing the biography does not let you feel the symphony). Secret = convention; Mystery = what only the actor lives.
The spectators' rites as "a declaration of love, in absolute solitude, to an absent and unknown beloved whose name they swear — with reason — not to reveal" — the essay's cruellest and best image, resolving into the Goddess with the mirror: know yourself first.
"Secrets of Polichinelle" — the essay names Martinism's own mirror rite while dismissing conventional secrecy: continuous with the June reforms' de-masonisation (Nº 26) and their public announcement; this is the reform's theology.
The promised Quaternary Character of Martinism arrives: Trinity + Manifestation = the Kingdom; the three unconsciouses + Consciousness; IHVH and INRI expounded in parallel as quaternaries; Destiny–Will–Providence–LIFE as the synthetic square.
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The degree structure printed plainly: Associate (body), Initiate (soul/astral), Unknown Superior (mind), and the fourth — "Fil… Des…" (Philosophe Inconnu? the abbreviation kept as printed) or Initiator — with the four temple offices given their polarities (positive of the positive … negative of the positive). The run's most explicit publication of its own ritual architecture, consistent with the new no-secrecy doctrine.
Gemini third in the zodiac treatise: Castor/Pollux read against Simeon and Levi, the twin-souls doctrine, beryl, and the "Yankee people" under the Twins (Burgoyne's Americanism again — the USA was under Gemini in Nº 23's Mercury too).
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The Mula-Uddiyana-Jalandhara Bandhas — "one of the most secret" practices — printed with full technique (Padmasana, heel pressure, anal contraction, diaphragm lock, thumb-index circuit), the Apana/Prana Vayu doctrine, Sushumna entry and the Anahata sounds; benefits include the disappearance of grey hair. Fig. 21 is referenced but no plate survives in this copy — facsimile-hunt flag, joining Fig. 18.
The mineral-salts-and-vitamins instalment is a full nutrient table of 1944 biochemistry — para-amino-benzoic acid, pantothenic acid, inositol — organ by organ, ending on mother's milk as the one complete food: the series' scientific register at its most current.
The protocol crosses one thousand (June: Nos. 1,000–1,022). Census dips 93 → 90 (Argentina 47, Brazil 11, Uruguay 32), and the column publishes its own attrition rate with characteristic candour: of 180 ever invited, "exactly 50% have not known how to persevere".
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A new serial announced: the S.D.M.'s own organisation and Hierarchy, promising "the names and functions of the 32 Great Siddhas" of the mystic-salute sloka — the run is about to print the order's celestial personnel roster.
The Generalities instalment: the Hierarchy north of the Badari forests in the Himalayas — Narayana as Head, Yoga Devi as executrix, Naradeva as secretary — with membership "independently of unequal social condition" and many women Siddhas expressly included. The excision candidate on this page (laws administered "for each race and country") cleared as administrative-theological doctrine.
Caste read as body-deep only — divisions "affect only the physical or exterior body" and their rules are "not of universal application" — the Suddha teaching's own relativisation of caste, worth marking against the column's exclusivist moments.
The mystic salute printed as initials — "N. N. N. N. / B. V. N. Y. P. N." — the sloka whose expansion the announced serial promises; Jehel signs 15-7-1944.
The science serial turns to Radiesthesia: Chinese Foung-Choei with the steel-tipped bamboo, the emperor Yu of Hsia (2200 BC) from the Chou-King, Etruscan haruspices, Vallemont's Physique occulte (1693) on the Index, and the modern institutionalisation — Paris Academy commission, Avignon congress 1932 (201 members, eleven nations), 200 Soviet investigators — with a formal bibliography in the footnote.
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The column's double indictment — the Church that burned the dowsers as devil-pact sorcerers and the official science that mocked them as charlatans — with Socrates as the verdict: truth imposes itself.
The Song of Unity is dedicated to "the Twelve Luminaries… THE ASIATIC BROTHERS OF THE BRILLIANT MYSTERY" — the H.A.B.M. counted for the first time (twelve) — "as also to OTOKO MASARE", a Japanese-styled name new to the run and nowhere else explained: a lead for the H.A.B.M. dossier.
The Song's pantheism — Perfect "in the structure of the heart, as in the humblest hair", in the perverse man as in the seraph — is Pope's Essay on Man Book I in devotional Spanish; the "great chain" stanzas that follow confirm the model. An unmarked adaptation worth the source-note.
Prospectus stereotype repeats.
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Library advertisements and Castro y Cía imprint repeat.
INRI expanded as Igne Natura Renovatur Integra — the same solve the science column used in Nº 23; the doctrinal and scientific serials share their fire.
"Mosca muerta" — the Rioplatense idiom deployed as an astrological type: the translation layer keeps the era's Spanish inside the French source's frame.
"Does one food contain all? No — with the exception of mother's milk" — the series' arc from anti-gluttony polemic to a single maternal image.
Socrates misattributed or loosely quoted ("truth… imposes itself by itself") — the column's habit of sealing arguments with classical authority, glossed only by its own confidence.
Gemini's decanates: Jupiter's self-sabotaging talent ("author of their own bad luck"), Mars's life of chicanery, the Sun's brilliance with poverty — Julevno's moral portraiture at its most novelistic.
"The Swami who has penetrated this Wisdom… makes also that 'Nothing in the World Be Alone'" — the Song's closing turn from cosmology to vocation; the typo ("Esté Splo") glossed on the face.
The dedication names OTOKO MASARE beside the 'Twelve Luminaries' of the Asiatic Brothers of the Brilliant Mystery. A search of the entire reader corpus returns this passage and no other: OTOKO MASARE is a single attestation across all 46 issues and every book in the estate. The name is recorded here as it stands, with no biography attached to it, because the corpus supplies none. The H.A.B.M. itself appears 21 times — almost always in the masthead's list of fraternal orders.
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