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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1hand, had need of the doctor’s vigilance. There were many in perfect health.
2Others, on the contrary, visibly ill, moved with great difficulty, or made known, by their pale and exhausted faces, by their tired and afflicted expression, the secret of their inner debilities.
3At first sight I already noted the profiles of the emaciated faces and the flushed cheeks of the tuberculous, of the sufferers from specific osteitis, of the spondylitics.
4On a stretcher lay stretched a paralytic, a paraplegic with limp, dead legs; on a wheeled chair waited a dropsical man with an enormous belly; badly hidden by the blankets, a cirrhotic, probably ill of the liver, with an emaciated, almost cadaverous face and great sorrowful eyes.
5Dejected, on a little bench, sat a poor man with his head bandaged and his neck wrapped in a great black scarf; he had a cancer of the cheek; the face was already destroyed in part by the tumour, so that it had become monstrous and had to be bandaged so as not to provoke repugnance; the neck, moreover, was swollen by the glandular obstructions and had also to be hidden by the scarf because of its repugnant deformity.
6A little further off, seated on another little bench, a singular couple drew my attention.
7They were a man and a woman of very modest condition, both young, evidently husband and wife.
8He held her by the arm, watching her lovingly and, almost as if comforting her, spoke to her with tenderness.
9Her face was tired but resigned; the eyes were very soft, cerulean… but extinguished.
10She was blind.
11Married a year before, she had been attacked, during her pregnancy, by a grave disease of the optic nerve and had lost her sight completely.
12The child had been born beautiful and robust, but she had not seen him, nor would she be able to see him all her life, as she would not be able to see the others that might be born of her, because the disease had been judged incurable by all.
13Nevertheless, her maternal soul had not lost hope.
14She having expressed the desire to go to Lourdes to implore from the Mother of Jesus the grace of being able to see her children, the husband, who was a poor railway watchman, had begun to gather a little money for the expenses of the journey; to complete the necessary sum the committee of the pilgrimage had provided; and so the two had departed and now sat on the little bench, embraced, awaiting the departure of the train.
15I looked, moved, at that beautiful and youthful face, at those cerulean eyes full of sweetness, adjusted to the infinite and deprived of light… Would the Virgin perform the miracle?
16To me it seemed she would, because She had seen her own Child well, and could not have denied such a grace to that unfortunate being, so trusting and good.
17But behold — a clatter of wheels and iron.
18Everyone stirs at the arrival of the train; then all hurry to climb aboard and occupy the best seats.
19I settle into my carriage, and am almost a little ashamed to be so privileged, with all that space and that equipment at my disposal.
20We depart, exactly at fifteen hours.
21Before nightfall we shall reach Marseille, where we shall sleep at the hotel.
22The convoy runs along the Côte d’Azur without ever stopping, almost as if it did not wish to linger in those places of profane delights, so far are they from the holy end of the journey.
23I see enchanting Menton among the palms and olives. The villas and gardens, the hills and the sea of those corners of leisure and pleasure contrast singularly with the miseries of the train.
24As we pass Monte Carlo, the pilgrims intone the litanies of the Blessed Virgin; from my carriage I hear the sacred chants and the invocations of the sick: · 18
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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