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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 30 · October 1944
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1Martines de Pasqually, by Pitágoras S∴I∴ — Who wert thou, strange man, enigmatic and mysterious, who left us not even a portrait, and of whom not even thy disciples made a physiognomic description?
2Who wert thou, "sorcerer or the devil himself in person", as the pious and mystical abbé Forunier believed thee to be on knowing thee? [Sic: printed Forunier, for Fournier.]
3Who wert thou, "mysterious personage come from no one knows where, who is found everywhere or who can be found nowhere", as one of thy illustrious biographers, Adolfo Franck, said?
4Who wert thou, man of whom the strangest legends have run from mouth to mouth — legends which, when thou heardest them, made thee smile?
5Come from no one knows where, thou didst pass the greater part of thine existence as a true Unknown Philosopher, as an authentic Unknown Superior, as a real Philosopher of Unity.
6Thy life, for the very little we know of it, was a life of sufferings, of privations, of miseries, of anguish.
7Thy life was dedicated, in the supreme forgetting of thy Personality, to work, to teaching, to the fulfilment of thy noble mission of sowing in the arid hearts and in the cold minds of men a seed of Truth and of Love.
8Thy life passed, like that of all the Great and True Initiates, like a sudden ray of most luminous Light arisen in the immense obscurity of ignorance and in the glacial cold of hearts without Love.
9For thee it was suffering.
10For the infinite train of thy disciples it was a ray of Light and a wave of Love.
11Afterwards… on a far-off island… at Port-au-Prince… while the year 1774 was running… on a 20th day of September… thou didst disappear.
12Without leaving traces.
13Just as thou hadst come.
14To return to the lofty Region whence thou hadst come.
15And, on earth, in an unknown place, thou didst abandon thy mortal remains.
16Since then 170 years have passed.
17But what is time for the life of the Soul and of the Spirit?
18Thy memory is more alive than ever in thy far-off disciples, in the Martinists of today who, following thy example, also pass as thou didst among men… unknown… invisible….
19Radiating for their blind and sorrowing brothers, as thou didst, Love and Truth.
20Martínes de Pasqually.
21Human synthesis of Christic Love and of the Pure Spirit, thou hast not disappeared.
22Thou who representest in the Invisible the Divine Incarnation, thou livest unceasingly in each one of us.
23May all our joy, made fruitful by all thy sorrows, continue to magnetise our Action toward thy Astrality.
24Amén et Aum · 4
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
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.
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