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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.