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16th FACE (26’ to 30’): A large person, of dark complexion, with smallpox marks, with black eyes and hair; the men are strong, legs and arms short, the gait brisk.
2Degree 30 makes it smaller and darker; 26, larger and of lighter complexion; 28 makes it smaller, darker, and if the Moon is present indicates modesty; 27 gives a thick waist, dark complexion and an agreeable face.
3In degree 28 is found Regulus or the Lion’s Heart, a fixed star of the vibration of Mars and Jupiter, which indicates success in projects and enterprises and frequently raises to an elevated social position.
4INFLUENCES OF THE FACES OF LEO ON THE ASCENDANT (according to old authors). First face: A bold, daring and imprudent person, who respects nothing and judges rashly.
5Second face: A gentle, obliging, devoted person, but without will.
6Third face: A wise, prudent and discreet person, without malice, but who knows how to defend himself if occasion arises.
7Fourth face: A skilful person, malicious and astute, insinuating, who seeks to profit from others.
8Fifth face: A serious, honest person, of elevated sentiments and gifted with persuasive eloquence.
9Sixth face: An envious, wicked, slanderous person, who rejoices in the misfortune of others. [Sic: the conjunction is printed twice.]
10THE FACES OF LEO ON THE MIDHEAVEN. First face: It can grant success in the military profession, through feminine protection, but causes many enmities. [Sic: printed pro, for pero.]
11If Saturn is found there: disfavour; Mars: ruin and fall, collapse of position; Jupiter: more duration of position, which the Sun also indicates.
12If the person is of modest origin, he may become a chemist, a dentist, or a skilled artisan or worker in metals.
13Second face: It grants the protection of women of position; and, in the case of persons born in a modest milieu, success may be attained in professions related to decoration, tailoring, fashion, etc., their triumph being certain unless Saturn should occupy this face.
14Third face: Possible success in military life, but with danger of death or of falling into disgrace.
15In a feminine figure, it indicates marriage with a military man.
16Fourth face: Favourable for obtaining the protection of influential persons; it generally indicates physicians, chemists, pharmacists, and causes rivalries and jealousies.
17Fifth face: It promises honours and elevation far above the condition in which the person is born, who will become a skilful advocate, an esteemed public man, a magistrate of renown, a distinguished priest or an initiate of rank.
18Sixth face: It usually indicates workers in textiles and commercial employees of the same kind.
19When Mercury is found there, it will indicate men of business, notaries and court clerks, and police officials.
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.