December 1944; the sunburst wrapper carries forward — a fresh cut of the device, longer-rayed than Nº 30's.
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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 32 · December 1944
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1Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings.
2Direct Mechanical Actions and mechanical vibrations of bodies. By Pitágoras S∴I∴ In order to understand well what the mechanical vibrations of bodies are, before occupying ourselves with their influence on living beings, it is necessary to give some very simple examples.
3If we deflect from the vertical position a mass suspended from a thread, we see that this mass — once the force that had deflected it from its primitive position of equilibrium has ceased — returns to the vertical position, passes beyond it to reach a point of space exactly opposite that from which it had begun the movement, then returns to the vertical position, passes beyond it, and so on successively.
4We obtain, as can be seen, the well-known pendular movement, which would be perpetual if the resistance of the air did not come, little by little, to attenuate the amplitude of the oscillations.
5Exactly the same happens if we deflect from its position of vertical equilibrium the free extremity of an elastic rod whose other extremity is fixed at any point.
6We see that this rod also presents an oscillatory movement whose oscillations are much more rapid than those of the above-mentioned pendular movement — that is, much more frequent.
7In this case too, the vibrations would be perpetual if the resistance of the air did not damp them little by little.
8These two examples let us verify experimentally how oscillations, or mechanical vibrations, are produced in a gaseous medium such as air.
9In a liquid medium, such as water, exactly the same happens.
10In effect, we all know that, if we throw a stone into water, we immediately see formed on the surface, concentrically to the point where the stone fell, a series of waves that go on receding ever further toward the periphery, and which would continue their propagation infinitely if the resistance opposed by the liquid mass did not damp them little by little until making them disappear.
11This simple experiment lets us verify that the propagation of mechanical vibrations is effected, in a liquid medium, exactly as in a gaseous medium.
12If, finally, we place side by side a series of coins on the surface of a table, so that they touch at their circumference, and — keeping fixed all the intermediate coins except the last — we strike a blow at one of the extremities of the row of coins, we see that the coin at the other extremity moves away, losing contact with the coin beside it.
13This last experiment shows us that in a solid medium also, vibrations are transmitted exactly as in gaseous and liquid media, transmitting themselves through all the intermediate coins.
14The last coin, which moved away on receiving the blow, would have continued its movement if friction and the resistance of the air had not stopped it.
15All these very simple and well-known experiments show us that mechanical vibrations or oscillations are transmitted through matter, whether it be in the gaseous state or in the liquid, solid and etheric states.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead and contributors page print from the same stereotype as Nº 30, "Ramakrishnka" typo included.
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Six articles; Nº 31 is absent from the surviving run, so this SUMARIO is the first witness after October — the Martinist chronology and the Libra instalment resume mid-series without visible gap.
The Martinist chronology continues, year by year: the 1767 Sovereign Tribunal of the Elect Cohens (Bacon de La Chevalerie, Lusignan, Du Guers), Willermoz initiated at Versailles, Pasqually's marriage to Marguerite Collas de Saint Michel — the review compiling the standard French sources (Papus, van Rijnberk lineage-histories) into a Spanish-language reference that had no precedent in the Río de la Plata.
Saint-Martin enters the chronology: born Amboise 1743, lieutenant in the Regiment of Foix, initiated among the Cohens "probably by de Balzac" between August and October 1768 — then secretary to Pasqually from 1771, the post from which, the column argues, "the true organisational work of the Order really began".
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"Martines de Pasqually begins to write the Treatise on Reintegration" — 1771 in this chronology; the estate holds the Treatise itself, the work whose composition this line dates.
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The death entry, richer than Nº 30's homage: the two infected boils, the unknown grave, the widow's vision at Bordeaux at the hour of death ("Ah my God, my husband is dead!"), and Saint-Martin's presentiment letter of 2 October quoted verbatim — the Martinist necrology's standard marvels, printed as history. A "Siciembre" for Diciembre and a numeral-1 for the letter ell mark the compositor's haste through this dense page.
LIBRA, seventh sign (the Virgo instalment fell in the missing Nº 31): Burgoyne again the source — the Balance as reins of the Grand Celestial Man, Dan's blessing, Enoch the perfect man, the diamond talisman.
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Burgoyne's sting at the sign's expense survives translation: Libra natives are "firm defenders of universal fraternity… except in the case that they profit something by it" — the course keeps its source's satirical edges intact.
The faces bring fixed stars now: Sinistra (activity, intelligence, widowhood), then Spica and "Arcurus" [Arcturus] promising wealth, honours and fame — the fixed-star layer that entered the course at Leo's Regulus continues.
The "Portrait of Jesus" — the Publius Lentulus letter, presented as "just found" in the Vatican Library under Pius XI. The text is a well-travelled medieval forgery (known since the fifteenth century, long circulated in devotional print); its appearance here as news, capped with "Jesus had Libra as ascendant", shows the review's wire-clipping habit at its least critical.
Kapila's longevity serial continues into trace-element dietetics: copper as catalyst of hair pigment, the "filtered fraction" of the B group, para-amino-benzoic acid — 1940s nutritional biochemistry braided with yogic practice ("exercises, diet, breathing and mentalisations").
The Hindu-copper conjecture — abundant hair attributed to millennia of copper vessels — is offered as an open question ("it would be interesting to make observations"), the serial's habit of framing folklore as researchable hypothesis.
The S.D.M. serial names its own synonyms: Kalachakra, the Era of Vibration, Aquarius, Agniyoga, Shambala — explicitly joining the Mandalam's cosmology to the Roerich-era vocabulary its readers would know from other movements.
The Abode: Badari Vana in three parts — Dakshina Badari the public pilgrimage temple (Badarinath in Garhwal, "23,000 feet"), Visala Badari the Siddhas' mansion barred to the unworthy, Uttara Badari the dwelling of Náráyana himself. Geography graded by initiation: the real pilgrimage site is the outermost shell of the cosmological one.
The five villages — Bráhmala, Sankhala, Pámala, Kalápa and Sambala — set the Shambhala of theosophical literature inside a concrete village-roster, each with its eight officials (king, librarian, physician, astrologer-astronomer, expositor, initiator, master of rites, priest).
The village rosters name Somatirtha "born of a family of workers in metals" and Bradbhanu "of Chandala lineage" — the Mandalam's hierarchy pointedly includes artisan and outcaste birth among its Siddhas; reviewed under the excision boundary and kept as the order's own inclusive self-description.
Jehel signs and dates the synthesis — "OM Jehel, 13-11-1944" — a rare dated signature inside a serial, fixing the editorial desk's working calendar a month before cover date.
The science serial opens its mechanics unit from first principles: pendulum, elastic rod, ripples, the row of coins — a lyceum physics lesson staged as the foundation for the coming argument about vibration and life.
Chladni figures read esoterically: form arises where "energy… is directed in a determinate direction by something unknown", sealed with Hermes — "The visible is the manifestation of the invisible". The serial's standing method: legitimate physics up to the last paragraph, then the hermetic key.
The vegetable evidence is real literature — Sachs's nodes, George Bohn's 1920 "every organised being is a vibrating system", Albert Mary's Phaseolus experiments — the French vibration-biology current the column transmits into Spanish.
A new literary serial: "The Miracle", from Andrea Majocchi's Vita di Chirurgo (Treves, Milan), translated from the Italian by Pitágoras — a celebrated surgeon's Lourdes memoir, opened under Hamlet's "more things in heaven and earth". The review's literary part turns to the debate between clinical medicine and faith-cure.
The blind wife of the railway watchman — struck in pregnancy, her child never seen — is set up as the story's test case for the miracle, against the panorama of the sick-train (the cancer patient behind his black scarf, the paralytic, the dropsical man).
Majocchi's counterpoint travels intact: litanies rising past the Casino of Monte Carlo, "the train of the suffering" against "that Garden of Armida" — and the healthy Genoese pilgrims travelling for "devotion... and also of pleasure", the surgeon's irony kept whole in the Spanish.
The pilgrimage priest's sermon — do not expect many miracles; if the body stays ill "this might be for the good of the soul" — closes the instalment on the review's own terms: faith examined respectfully, verdict suspended to the next number.
GIDEE prospectus and library back cover print from the Nº 30 stereotypes unchanged, La Plata alone beside Montevideo.
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Same imprint photograph as Nº 30 — the back matter of these late-1944 numbers survives as one shared sheet.
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