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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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1Them was Sarupa Prakriti, They subjected themselves to the limitations of that form of matter.
2Appearing, as they did appear, in the condition [Sic: the Spanish prints condici6n, with a numeral] of common men, They moulded themselves to that state of being.
3However, Bhagavan Mitra Deva, having incarnated in the most elevated form of matter and functioning in the best of the aspects of Atma Sakti, is beyond those limitations.
4Although he encloses a smaller amsa, or ray, of the Lord, Mitra Deva is capable of a greater end, because of the Prakriti, or body, in which he has his being; and it is very natural that it should be so, because while the mission of the other great Avataras was for one race, the object of the present Advent is the welfare and elevation of the whole world, which is composed of many races. iii GAMALAKAS: the book Adiveda, or the ancient one, uses this term to refer to the Siddha Kanhikas. [Sic: printed Mira Deva at the second mention.]
5_____________ Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings.
6Meteorological influences. By Pitágoras S∴I∴ Without occupying ourselves with the complex genesis of the meteoric influences, these — in their manifestations of barometric pressure, hygrometric state of the air and of the soil, and climate — exercise, as has been established from the remotest antiquity and is observed daily, the most different influences upon living beings.
7Barometric pressure.
8—Every living being must live in an ambience in which an adequate barometric pressure exists, and every variation of that pressure must consequently have repercussions on physiological and psychological life.
9Thus, living in elevated regions, where the barometric pressure is lower than at sea level, can produce phenomena at times transitory and fleeting, at other times grave.
10Mountain sickness belongs to this class of phenomena.
11In mountain sickness, in effect, we find diminution of muscular force, difficult and irregular respiration, a sensation of oppression in the thorax, cardiac palpitations and strong beating of the arteries, faintings, haemorrhages of the gums, lips, nose and lungs; somnolence and diminution of the psychic faculties.
12It was once believed that these disturbances were related to the fatigue produced by the ascent; but later observations made on aviators (who present a symptomatology identical to mountain sickness), and even experiments performed in the pneumatic chamber, in which pressures corresponding to altitudes of 10,000 and even 15,000 metres can be produced, have made it possible to establish that they depend on a modification of the gases of the blood — more exactly, on a diminution of oxygen (anoxaemia) and of carbonic anhydride (acapnia).
13These modifications of the gases produced in their turn respiratory modifications (mechanical and chemical) and circulatory ones (cardiac function, blood pressure, state of the vessels) which explained the symptomatology.
14In effect, for the nervous centres to function normally, the quantity of the gases must always be found at a · 24
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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