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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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1We know, on the other hand, from what the CHOU-KING relates to us, that one of the first emperors who occupied himself with terrestrial radiations, with discovering objects hidden in the soil, and with giving valuable indications on the different epochs at which it was advisable to plant seeds or effect transplants and on the manner of working the earth, was the emperor YU of the HSIA dynasty, who reigned between 2200 and 2197 before Christ.
2Something analogous to what the Chinese did was practised by the Etruscans, who knew very well the emanations of the terrain.
3In effect, they investigated the nature of the terrain by means of the Haruspices, and favoured cultivation by planting stakes with the same ends as the Chinese.
4The Romans, as is known, learned those knowledges from the Etruscans and put them in practice for many centuries.
5Among all peoples and in all times, in short, the terrestrial radiations have been studied and intelligently applied for man's benefit.
6And if the Catholic Church had not condemned, through ignorance, these men who devoted themselves to those studies — considering them sorcerers who obtained certain results by the mere fact of having signed a pact with the devil — and if the representatives of so-called official science, for their part, had not considered as charlatans all those who produced visible effects by acting at a distance, surely the state of our knowledge in the matter would be much more advanced.
7Of nothing availed the verification of facts whose causes were unknown — facts which, nevertheless, being incontestable, ought to have drawn the attention of men of science worthy of the name and stimulated them to investigate their genesis.
8Of nothing availed the publication in 1693 of an excellent work by Le Lorrain, abbé de Vallemont and professor at the College of Cardinal Le Moine, on the terrestrial emanations, with the title "Physique occulte" — a work which, naturally, was placed on the Index.
9The position of the men of science was a definitive position.
10There could be no action at a distance; there could be no forces other than the known ones that could act upon objects and beings.
11And, consequently, every attempt to demonstrate the contrary was senseless; every phenomenon that could not be explained by the already known laws was deceit or… the work of the devil.
12Nevertheless, that definitive position — like so many others considered such, for men very reluctantly abandon the old for the new — had to be abandoned when the facts became so frequent, and when the discovery of multiple waves and radiations obliged a change in the ideas held until then about energy, force and matter.
13Those who were considered poor ignorant men and fanatics because they employed pendulums and rods to discover water currents in the subsoil — those men who performed their experiments in secret to evade the mockery and scorn of the… men of science — could at last show themselves openly when the Academy of Sciences of Paris resolved to name a commission for the study of the phenomena of rhabdomancy.
14Since then Radiesthesia has made great progress, and at present in England, Germany, Italy, France, etc., the dowsers are gathered in very well organised societies for the study of the terrestrial radiations.
15In Germany, for · 21
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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