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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 IV, Nº 34 · February 1945
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1"The strings of the harp of their Heart were so subtle, so sensitive and so tuned, that they could feel and let resound the most delicate vibrations of the spiritual world.
2They had made of their heart, through multiple incarnations, a sensitive disc on which the divine images of the higher spheres could engrave themselves.
3"Such souls were always the precursors of the new era, those who traced the path for new ideals and more evolved cultures.
4"To these heralds of the spiritual Light humanity has always remained indebted in high degree.
5Their lives and actions remained — for centuries — incomprehensible or mysterious to their contemporaries.
6How many times did those souls sacrifice their lives for the expansion of divine ideals!
7"It is in the century to come that humanity will live its resurrection, and many new laws will yet be taught, and many spiritual forces will be given, which the humanity of today could neither bear nor understand — for example: the remembrance of past lives…" Let us now leave the text of the Master Iranschaehr, for we have reached the point that refers to Cedaior: New laws will yet be taught and new spiritual forces will be given to humanity, affording it, among other qualities: the remembrance of past lives.
8That is precisely what is found in the "Book of the Laws of Vayú", which Cedaior considered his principal work.
9The new scientific and psychic laws, which explain the development of a new human race, crystallisation and synthesis of those of the past, and the one that will people the sixth Continent.
10That sixth Continent already rises in the Pacific Ocean; a few days ago we had the proof of this theory of Cedaior, now accepted by official science: the last earthquake of San Juan (Argentine Republic), like the greater part of those that occur in the West of the continent, was tectonic and not volcanic.
11That means that such earthquakes occur through great "voids" produced in the interior of the earth, as a consequence of upliftings or eruptions happening in other places, probably near the site of the tectonic terrain — which, in the case cited, was not noticed, being probably within the Ocean.
12In truth, we are witnessing a grandiose spectacle of Nature.
13While on the one hand there is the collapse of civilisations and peoples, and great modifications of the terrestrial surface causing those seismic movements, a new continent is arising near us, and the sufferings of all the nations bring to our shores families of the old continent.
14The race that will people the Pacific Continent, Cedaior — by indication of his Master — called the Olympic Race, because it is "there and in it that will reincarnate all the powerful Entities that formerly formed the Olympi of the various Religions of the past".
15In it — which will be called the Great Race, as the 6th will be the Great Continent — will return all the Master Adepts.
16Apostles and Great Initiates; and that race will represent a more elevated and beautiful expression of human life.
17Someone will ask: How does what will happen after centuries or millennia concern us?
18It concerns us because, on this continent, there is now being born the sub-race of the Fifth Root Race that will give the precursors of the Sixth, and which is therefore called the Primitive Olympic Sub-Race, or pre-Olympic.
19The 5-pointed star is the symbol that represents the man of the 5th Race, or of concrete mind.
20The 6-pointed star represents the 6th Race, the man of abstract mind, endowed with the 6th sense; and, in Kabbalah, "6" is Love and Altruism.
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
The series' method stated plainly: Willermosism first because it works "on the masonic and social plane" and is rich in events; Martinism after, "individual, not a formal organisation… much less rich in events, but not for that reason less vital" — the column's own historiography of quiet transmission.
"Invited to rise, she stood up and was able to walk" — the examination scene runs on clinical detail (motility, reflexes, the vanished cold abscess) and on what is missing: no radiographs, no attending physician, no pilgrimage-train record. Boissarie's bureau shown doing evidence, not apologetics.
Seven articles, and the number's centre of gravity is memorial: Lorelair's lecture for the installation of Cedaior's portrait leads the SUMARIO.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype carries forward at its new position, page 25 of a 26-page number.
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February 1945; Year IV opens on the fine-rayed sunburst wrapper.
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Masthead and contributors stereotype unchanged from late 1944.
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The Cedaior memorial lecture, delivered 13-2-1944 at the Temple of the Tatwa Vivekananda, Porto Alegre — Lorelair speaking as Cedaior's disciple and widow of the work ("together we had embraced" the ideal). Cedaior is Luis Costet de Mascheville, the review's founder, dead the year before; the lecture builds on the Persian philosopher Iranschaehr (Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranschähr), whose "necessity of Esotericism" series she had been translating.
"That is precisely what is found in the Book of the Laws of Vayú, which Cedaior considered his principal work" — the Vayu corpus the estate holds; this lecture is its earliest printed frame: new laws of remembrance of past lives, delivered as Cedaior's legacy.
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The excision review, recorded: the lecture's Sixth-Race doctrine — a future "Olympic Race" on a rising Pacific continent, South America as cradle of its precursors — was reviewed under the operator boundary (excise only evidence-claims about real peoples). It is kept entire as self-cosmology: prophecy about beings to come, ranking no living people; its close is "LOVE ONE ANOTHER". The San Juan earthquake of January 1944 is pressed into service as geological confirmation — the era's habit of reading news as prophecy fulfilled.
The star-symbolism summary: five-pointed star = fifth-race concrete mind, six-pointed = sixth-race abstract mind, "6" as Love and Altruism in Kabbalah — theosophical root-race arithmetic folded into the house's kabbalistic idiom.
The Martinist chronology closes its first period: the Cohens' "absolute silence" under the unidentified Master G∴Z∴W∴J∴ (Bacon de la Chevalerie's 1807 letter to Chefdebien, Fabre's failed identification), and the column's own periodisation — Martinesism → Willermosism → Martinism — announced as the plan of the whole series. A printed "1880" where the sense wants the end of the eighteenth century is glossed.
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SAGITTARIUS (Scorpio's instalment fell in the missing Nº 33): Burgoyne's frame with Mackey quoted on the starry Centaur; Joseph as the sign's patriarch; "the powers that BE" and legal codes — the course's most political sign-reading.
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Fixed stars continue: Antares in the second face (activity, success). The compositor's numerals wander this month — a letter O for zero, an ell for ten, "1a" for la — each mirrored with a gloss.
The instalment's summary trait: Sagittarius as the sign of "administration" — the capacity, tendency or opportunity to administer other people's goods, done "well or badly" per face. Burgoyne's satire again surviving translation.
Kapila's Yoga Mudra essay — printed with the disclaimer that it "ought not to be brought to light", being an advanced part of the Yogas he proposes to publish as a book: the review trailing its contributors' future volumes again.
The comparative sweep: Egyptian hierophants, priests "of all the Religions", Kabbalists, the Lamas of Tibet — and the Catholic Church itself, whose papal blessing-gestures are read as "a true collection of mudras". The house's standing method of universalising ritual.
The five mudras named and functioned: Abhaya (protection), Anjali Hasta (adoration), Dhyana (meditation), Shuci Hasta (polarisation), Kartari Mukha (bodily electricity) — keyed to the full-page charcoal plate on the facing leaf.
The five-mudra plate — a hand-drawn charcoal study, five hands numbered I–V, the review's most ambitious original figure since the asana plates. Extracted and registered to the imagery layer this session.
The Maha Boddhi Sangha's New Year Sangha Mantra, printed in wartime: "May all warlike activities be dissolved and annulled" — a Buddhist peace liturgy issued from Montevideo in February 1945, with the Dhammapada's summary verse ("Do no evil…") embedded.
The healing broadcast instruction: Sunday receptive half-hours, and the visualisation key — a Serpent encircling a Heart emitting Rosy Rays, mantra NAMAH OM KWAZEON — the Asiatic Brothers' practice layer printed as an open invitation.
The Avatara serial begins: Subramania Iyer's proem on Bhagavan Mitra Deva, the World Instructor — the S.D.M.'s counterpart to the theosophical World-Teacher expectation, complete with a five-hundred-page Sanskrit archive-history. The printed footnote dates contradict (1933/1923) and are glossed, not repaired.
The Mandala goes missionary: Swami Sivananda, Swami Atreyananda "and two others" reported already in the United States studying conditions — the 1930s S.D.M. expansion the Montevideo group is downstream of.
The Prophecy machinery: Vaisakh Full Moon of the 500th Sankalpa = 11 May 1892; Avataras since the 476th Sankalpa (~1450 A.D.); seven Avataras named among the thirty-two Siddhas — one identified as Lord Gauranga (Chaitanya), another as a Trichinopoly sannyasin. The order writing its own sacred chronology in civil dates.
The restoration timetable: begins ~1916, an AMSA of Náráyana manifesting 1918-1919 through a chosen Siddha — the years of the Mandalam's own public founding: the prophecy is the order's origin story told forward.
The Miracle concludes: the Blessed Sacrament procession, the spondylitic girl rising from her stretcher, and Dr. Boissarie of the Bureau des constatations — the real Lourdes verification office — examining her with a clinician's reserve: "keep the girl under observation, postponing all judgment."
Majocchi's differential diagnosis of a miracle, intact in Spanish: every naturalistic escape route tried (mistaken diagnosis, healed inflammation, psychic shock as whiplash, abscess ruptured into a hollow organ) and each found wanting — the surgeon's honest impasse, not an apologetic.
The ending the review chose this story for: the blind wife returns unhealed and content — "I shall see my children in Paradise" — and the surgeon's final question, "was not this alone a miracle?", lands on resignation, not cure. The Literary Part's finest serial to date closes.
One of the most completely specified practices in the whole run, and a rarity in that it is scheduled to the clock: every Sunday, from ten to half past ten in the morning and four to half past four in the afternoon, Uruguayan time. The reader is asked to take a receptive state, to mentalise as 'Key of Connection' a serpent encircling a heart that emits rosy rays, and to pronounce inwardly the mantra NAMAH OM KWAZEON — while the Servers of the Asiatic Brothers, in their secluded Cordillera ashrams, irradiate health toward the sick. Cadence, hour, duration, posture, visualisation and mantra are all given: everything a practice needs to be scheduled rather than merely described.
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