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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 35 · March 1945
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1An artful character, subtle, reserved and melancholy.
2They are frequently miserly.
3Among plants, Capricorn rules: hemlock, henbane, belladonna and the black poppy.
4Among stones:
5Carbuncle, and all black or ash-coloured minerals.
6THE DECANATES OF CAPRICORN ON THE ASCENDANT (according to Julevno). Capricorn bestows, in a general way: a medium, rather small stature, thin, nervous, ill-proportioned.
7A long neck, pointed chin, sparse beard, little-developed chest, black hair, abundant and coarse.
8The nose is usually long and curved, and the ears without lobes.
9A subtle character, malign, ingenious, envious, melancholy, egoistic, capricious and independent.
10It must not be forgotten that very good aspects modify such indications; but something of the characteristics of the sign will always be noted in the person's conduct — and this is so for all signs situated on the Ascendant.
11Capricorn rules the knees and calves, being the domicile of Saturn.
12The first decanate (first 10 degrees) is under the influence of Jupiter, and indicates a fatalist spirit, anxious about its fortune, austere and religious, with good qualities but ambitious.
13It also indicates a life of struggles, over which some mysterious event projects permanent shadow and sorrow.
14The second decanate (degrees 11 to 20) is influenced by Mars, and gives a tenacious and ambitious character, very rash, too exalted in action, capable of becoming despotic and cruel.
15This decanate characterises the warrior and adventurer, who comes to acquire fame and position through audacity, with a lack of scruples.
16The third decanate (degrees 21 to 30) is under the influence of the Sun, giving a cold character, proud, reserved, not very sympathetic, with a dissembled melancholy.
17It prognosticates a difficult life, without friends or joys, with financial difficulties, sorrows caused by wife and children, and danger of premature death.
18THE FACES OF CAPRICORN (divisions of 5 degrees), according to classical opinions gathered by Dr. Salmón, indicate: lst FACE — (0 to 5 degrees) [Sic: the ordinal is printed with a letter ell].
19Tall stature, thin face, agreeable aspect.
20Dark hair, small mouth, a swarthy face with spots or freckles.
212nd FACE — (6 to 10 degrees).
22Small stature, an elongated but agreeable face, complexion and hair dark, a type similar to the preceding.
23Here there are influences of the Sun and Mars, which develop vanity and a high opinion of oneself.
243rd FACE — (11 to 15 degrees).
25The same type as the preceding, but with a more developed physique and a majestic aspect that inspires respect and even fear.
264th FACE — (16 to 20 degrees).
27A corpulent person, round face, light complexion, a mouth with thick lips, chestnut hair.
28If Saturn is in the face, it will make him darker and thinner, with a suspicious character.
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Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
The reform dossier: the Grand Council asked the review for extra pages to print the Introduction, the Decree of 15 July 1944 and the General Statutes in full. The stated 40-page expansion survives as 28 in this retype — the retype consolidates, it does not cut the documents. "Martinist Order of South America" becomes simply MARTINIST ORDER.
The renaming is grounded in "the voluminous and very well documented work on the History of Martinism" Pitágoras has been writing for three years — the chronology serial running in these very numbers is its published spine.
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The four-point contrast with Lyon: the European successor organisation (masons only, no women, no occultism, no East) against this Order's four counter-declarations — women initiated equally, all investigation admitted, East and West equivalent. The Río de la Plata Martinism defining itself against Papus's European heirs, by correspondence with them.
Masthead stereotype unchanged; the number opens straight into the Order's reform dossier.
March 1945; the wrapper drops the "de" from its date line this month.
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"There are no more lodges" — the whole masonic vocabulary is swept out: Centres are "true Temples", Study Groups are officialised, protocolary titles reduced to "Venerable" as "an ideal to realise". Degrees now by examination or by merit up to the third.
The identity reform: recognition by Identity Card and "constructive, cordial, altruistic acts", explicitly renouncing secret words and handshakes — "a cultural and spiritual society that is not secret". A de-occultation of membership mechanics rare for 1945.
Jehel's closing figure — "Let us be the gardener, the garden and the tree" — and the reform's motto: "speak less and realise more: the means are these".
The Decree, dated Montevideo 15 July 1944, signed by the working Grand Council: JEHEL president, ASURI KAPILA vice-president, PITÁGORAS secretary, SURYA administrator — the review's four pseudonymous pillars holding the Order's four offices.
Article 6 of the Statutes: membership unlimited, "no distinctions of race, colour, sex, nationality or religion will be made" — the excision scan flagged the sentence; it is the boundary's opposite: an explicit anti-discrimination clause, printed 1945.
The Civil Directorate names civil names: Léo Alvarez Costet de Mascheville president — the Mascheville family continuing at the head after Cedaior's death — with Della Rosa, Bernardi, Cantalupo (the review's own administrator), Stern, Morales Leal de Della Rosa and Escalá. Three of seven are women. The fullest civil-name roster the run has printed.
Willermosism opens: the chronology restarts at Lyon 1730 — the silk-trade apprenticeship, the unidentified 1750 lodge, Venerable at 22, the Parfaite Amitié and the Grand Mother Lodge of the Regular Masters. The compositor's numerals wander again (WILLERMOS1SMO), mirrored with glosses.
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The Chevaliers de l'Aigle Noir Rose Croix (1763) — astrological, kabbalistic and alchemical masonry, with the future Cohens (Bacon de la Chevalerie, Rozier, Paganucci, Monge) already assembled — the column's argument that Willermoz's Lyon was Cohen soil before Pasqually arrived.
CAPRICORN: Burgoyne's harshest sign-reading — sin, the scapegoat, "material servitude", natives on "the initial steps of true spirituality" — printed without softening; the course keeps its source's severity as faithfully as its praise.
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Julevno's Capricorn portrait — "subtle, malign, ingenious, envious" — with the course's standing caveat: "very good aspects modify such indications". The severity is doctrinal, not personal.
The sixth face's "effeminate, libertine person… all by way of pastime" — the old authors' moralising typology transmitted verbatim; the course's historical honesty extends to its sources' prejudices.
Baddha Padmasana — the asana course resumes with the bound lotus: numbered steps, the 7-7-7 breath with OM, the "half posture" for the first two months, and nine claimed benefits — keyed to the charcoal plate on the next page.
The Baddha-Padmasana plate — the fifth asana figure of Kapila's series, charcoal like the Nº 34 mudras, captioned in the block. Registered to the imagery layer; the 40-minute-to-an-hour target printed beside it.
The Buddhist calendar promised in Nº 34 arrives: Maitreya on 1 January, Mitra Deva's birth on 16 January (the S.D.M. date folded into the Buddhist year), Nirvana day, Wesak, the White Lotus day for Blavatsky ("Upasika"), Bodhidharma, Amitabha, Tson-Kha-Pa — with fasting hours in Uruguayan time throughout.
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Lhasa and Kumbum's "Feast of the flowers" for Tson-Kha-Pa, the Uposatha fast-days, Ceylon's Poson for Mahinda — the calendar's reach is genuinely pan-Buddhist, assembled from the standard orientalist literature into a devotional almanac.
The Avatara serial, part II: Rinkhana's Daivi Prakriti vesture, the Kshatriya household of Maharashtra, birth at the Full Moon of Pushya — dated 16 January 1919 here where the calendar page prints 1916: the order's own sources disagree by three years, and both printings are preserved.
The ten-verse Mangala Sloka sung at the child's entry into the Maha Guha — "to instruct the race in the truths… of the Ancient Dharma": reviewed under the boundary; "the race" is humanity entire, and the passage is kept as the order's liturgy.
The Prakriti footnote is the serial's doctrinal core: Maya as Brahma-Sakti "never illusion", the three vestures (Daivi, Kalyani, Sarupa) — and the argument that Mitra Deva, though a smaller amsa than Rama or Krishna, is freer, because his vesture is higher: "the mission of the other great Avataras was for one race; the object of the present Advent is… the whole world, composed of many races."
The science serial turns meteorological: barometric pressure, mountain sickness read through aviators and the pneumatic chamber, anoxaemia and acapnia — 1940s aviation physiology cited to Bert, Viault, Jacquet and Galeotti.
The altitude-adaptation account is textbook-accurate for its date: apparent hyperglobulia resolving into true marrow hyperactivity after 8-10 days — the column at its most soberly scientific, no hermetic key this month.
Dhyâna's poem "To Be" closes the number: the drop that would be sea — "to wish to be much and to be little" — the Literary Part's smallest and most exact devotional lyric to date.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 27.
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Library back cover and imprint carry forward; the reform number closes the same as its neighbours.
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