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1Notes for a Study of Philosophy.
2By Apex A∴M∴ We are going to begin our study of Philosophy by trying to obtain, in this first excursion, some elements that may serve us for later philosophical investigations.
3Attending to its etymology, the term Philosophy signifies: Love of Wisdom (philo: love; and sophia: wisdom).
4The fixing of the sense of this word is attributed to Pythagoras.
5That author held that Wisdom in its full possession befitted only the Divinity, and that Man, limited by his nature, could only aspire to it.
6For this reason he called himself Philosopher, wishing to signify by this that he considered himself only a lover of Wisdom.
7We shall note that this first acceptation of the word is too vague and general.
8That meaning we could apply to the Sciences, to the Arts and, in short, to every human activity insofar as it implies assimilation of knowledge.
9We must, then, specify in what this philosophical knowledge consists.
10Not knowing ourselves what Philosophy is, we shall try to ask it of such persons as Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Bergson, etc., whose works Humanity has always considered true philosophical products.
11Nevertheless, as each philosopher defines this discipline from his own point of view, it is impossible, by a comparative study, to extract an essential and unitary definition.
12To surmount this obstacle, we shall try to obtain from all the known philosophical systems the common factors they contain.
13In all of them we find that their study tries to embrace the totality of objects — that is, that philosophical knowledge is characterised by being universal.
14And as we had said at the beginning that the philosopher was a lover of Wisdom, his attitude toward this universal study will be intellectual, one of knowledge. [Sic: the Spanish prints ducho for dicho, and le for el.]
15Of course each philosopher has his own way of approaching that study, but we can affirm that all move around two great fundamental problems: the nature of the Universe and the nature of the Self.
16Some authors go directly to the study of the Universe, for its knowledge — they affirm — permits them to know the Self, which is an integral element of that Universe; Philosophy presents itself for them as a CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE.
17Other authors, holding that it is more accessible to study first the Self and then, through its intermediary, the Universe, present their philosophy as a CONCEPTION OF THE SELF.
18Bearing this last characteristic we find the Socratic-Platonic system, and following the other direction we see the Aristotelian system.
19And from these two authors, through the historical evolution of the philosophical systems, both conceptions have succeeded one another, effecting a kind of pendular movement.
20Unifying the notions acquired, we have: 1) that in the philosopher we always find an intellectual, cognitive attitude; 2) that he will approach his study from an ample, universal point of view; 3) that he may direct his gaze now toward the Exterior World (Macrocrosmos), now toward the Interior World (Microcosmos), but always studying both elements. [Sic: printed Macrocrosmos, for Macrocosmos.]
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
October 1944; the sunburst cover of the Nº 28 redesign carries forward.
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The contributors' closing line is reset this number: the roll of friendly Orders now runs Suddha Dharma Mandalam, Asiatic Brothers of the Brilliant Mystery, Maha Boddhi Sangha, Ramana Ashrama and Ramakrishna Ashrama (printed "Ramakrishnka") before the Rose-Cross and Martinist Orders — and the Martinist Order drops its "of South America" qualifier.
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Seven articles across the three standing parts; the SUMARIO leads with a homage — Pasqually's name at the head of the number, above even the astrology course.
The Pasqually homage, written for the 170th anniversary of his death (Port-au-Prince, 20 September 1774). Pitágoras builds it from the biographical fragments the Martinist line preserves: the abbé Fournier's "sorcerer or the devil himself", Adolphe Franck's "found everywhere or nowhere", the missing portrait. Every quoted phrase is a real crumb of the Pasqually dossier.
"The Martinists of today… pass as thou didst among men… unknown… invisible" — the review folds its own membership into Pasqually's posture; the estate holds Pasqually's Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, the doctrinal source this homage assumes.
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LEO, fifth instalment of the zodiac course: Burgoyne's "Light of Egypt" is again the named source — the sign as the heart of the Grand Man, the "fluidic circulatory system of humanity", the ruby talisman.
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The esoteric planisphere sets Judah in Leo, quoting Jacob's blessing ("Judah is a lion's whelp") and pointing to Genesis 44 — Judah's appeal to Joseph — as the specimen of "leonine eloquence": the course's standing method of reading the twelve tribes as the twelve signs.
The decanate scheme is credited to Julevno (Jules Éveno), the French manual astrologer, and the six five-degree "faces" to Dr. Salmón — the course's usual splice of the Franco-Uruguayan manual tradition onto Burgoyne's kabbalistic frame.
Regulus, "the Lion's Heart", placed at the 28th degree with the vibration of Mars and Jupiter — fixed-star doctrine entering a course that has so far worked only with signs, decanates and faces.
Kapila opens against the perennial shortcut: no Instructor can "pour in" a key that opens chakras. The Master "must only point out the road" — the anti-thaumaturgic line the review's yoga teaching has held since the first courses.
The night-work doctrine: the Yogi active in the astral while the body sleeps, "chelas or Guru or Adept" succouring the sick — but the ladder starts on the ground: "to be an Invisible Protector, one must begin by being a visible protector", with the golden rule quoted as the entry precept.
The examination of conscience turns economic: the neglected resource is time — "is each hour of waking consciousness truly valued?" — and the student is told to reclaim the hours of the night for study. Discipline framed as accounting, ending in the salute PEACE TO ALL BEINGS.
The S.D.M. serial continues its Generalities: Náráyana's three teaching manifestations — Dakshinamurti (the young master under the Banyan who "teaches by silence"), Nara-Náráyana, and the four Kumaras. Self-cosmology of the order, printed as the members received it.
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Nara as "representative of Humanity on the globe, presenting to Náráyana the particular necessities of the race" — reviewed under the excision boundary and kept: "the race" here is the human race entire, the order's own cosmology, not an evidence-claim about any people.
The footnote is the historically anchorable point of the whole instalment: it distinguishes the Sapta Rishi Subrahmanya from Sri Subrahmanya Iyer (Swami Subrahmanyananda), retired Chief Justice of Madras and the S.D.M.'s "External Initiator" — the real jurist through whom the Mandalam went public.
The roll of the thirty-two Siddhas prints only thirty names — a lacuna the editorial gloss documents rather than repairs. Six of the thirty-two carry the feminine principles and serve as Sri Yoga Devi's vehicles.
The radiesthesia serial's animal evidence: ants siting their nests over underground water, and Dr. Dosel's Clermont guinea-pigs surviving strychnine on favourable rock — 1944 géobiologie lore reported as laboratory fact.
The cancer-etiology canon of interwar radiesthesia in one page: Lakhowsky 1927, Kritzinger 1929, von Pohl's topographic surveys, the "cancer house" doctrine — the same names the French and German dowsing societies were citing; the column transmits the literature wholesale.
The column polices its own field: neutralising apparatus from Regnault-Larvaron and Nussbaumer's "Repulsor" are credited, but "charlatans… propagating marvellous apparatus completely ineffective" are called out — the serial's recurring gesture of scientific self-respect.
A new serial begins: Apex A∴M∴'s "Notes for a Study of Philosophy" — a philosophy primer from first etymology (philo/sophia, fixed by Pythagoras) toward Logic. The review adding a fourth register to its initiatic, scientific and literary parts.
The primer's founding principle — "As it is in the Universe, so it is in the Self" — is the Hermetic macrocosm-microcosm axiom restated as epistemology: the equality of Universe and Self is what licenses self-reflection as a road to knowledge of the whole.
The serial's close — philosophical contemplation dissolving egoism into "the BROTHERHOOD formed by the Human Race, making us Citizens of the World" — reviewed under the excision boundary and kept: universalist humanism, the opposite pole of the doctrine the boundary excises.
Ramanuja's ladder — stone, animal, Initiate, Master — with the thought-form doctrine attached: the Initiate "thinks by creating ideas with form, colours and force". The vocabulary of Besant and Leadbeater's Thought-Forms, absorbed into the review's literary page.
The closing meditation instruction — losing the physical world's "apparent reality" in active silence until the inner voice of the Ego is heard — is the page's practice payload, signed AUM et AMÉN.
The GIDEE prospectus carries forward, but trimmed: the Buenos Aires branch paragraph of Nº 27 is gone — only La Plata remains beside Montevideo. Six teachers listed, UPASIKA still holding the Buddhism chair created in Nº 26.
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Library advertisements repeat; the Castro y Cía imprint prints a new job number, of marginal legibility in this copy.