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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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1constant level.
2Now, as this quantity depends on the barometric pressure, when the latter varies, so does the former; when the barometric pressure diminishes, the content of gases in the blood diminishes, and the nervous centres feel this diminution, beginning to manifest different actions to re-establish the disturbed equilibrium.
3Owing to the researches of Bert, Muntz, Viault, etc., a greater quantity of iron has been found in the blood of persons who live on very high mountains.
4Carlos Poa also found an increase of the red globules almost an hour after having arrived at 3,000 metres of altitude, but attributed this hyperglobulia to an irregular distribution of the corpuscles, in the sense that they accumulate more in the capillaries of the body's surface than in the blood of the thick arteries and veins.
5But if this hyperglobulia is apparent — being due not to a true increase but to a variation in the distribution of the corpuscles — when it manifests itself after arrival at that altitude, it becomes true in the case of a prolonged stay in the high mountains; for, from 8 to 10 days later, the haematopoietic tissue, and especially that of the bone marrow, enters into an effective hyperactivity.
6Naturally, as the number of corpuscles increases, their haemoglobin content also increases; and this is due, very probably, to a compensating activity of the organism, for as the gaseous interchange increases, the material substrate of this interchange — that is, the haemoglobin — must increase.
7Naturally, everything returns to the primitive conditions with the return to the plain.
8The increase in the activity of the haematopoietic organs, as well as a greater activity of all the organic tissues, has also been established by Jacquet and Stahelín, who have studied the variations of metabolism in man living for prolonged periods in the high mountains.
9Galeotti has found in animals and in man a notable diminution of the alkalinity of the blood at more than 4,000 metres of altitude.
10Schröfter has found, in organisms subjected to a strong and lasting diminution of pressure, various chronic alterations in the tissues — among them the fatty degeneration of the striated muscles and internal organs such as heart, liver and kidneys. Not only the diminution of barometric pressure, but also its increase, produces various physiological modifications; but these are of lesser gravity.
11It is known, in effect, how divers, obliged to live for some hours in their diving-suits, in which the pressure is from 3 to 4 atmospheres, manifest a slower and deeper respiration.
12Grave disturbances, however, can be produced (asphyxia, haemorrhages, faintings) if the return to the normal ambience — and, consequently, the change of pressure — is made too rapidly.
13Deficiency of oxygen — Everyone knows that oxygen is indispensable to the maintenance of life and that its deficiency can produce illness and death.
14The deficiency of oxygen produces an excitation of the bulbar respiratory centres which in its turn originates that syndrome known under the name of dyspnoea.
15But if any cause obstructs the entry of air into the lungs, or the oxygen is found in the atmosphere at a partial pressure lower than 0.04 — which is the minimum value indispensable for respiration — then the symptomatological picture of dyspnoea intensifies, giving place to asphyxia.
16In this, the excitation of the respiratory centres is very characteristic; they can come to excite even the accessory muscles of · 25
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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