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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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1If physical love exercised in natural form is fecund and produces the children of the body; if sentimental love notably felt is fecund and affords joy and dedication, which are children of the soul — impersonal love, which is the synthesis of the initiatic way, cannot be sterile and manifest itself merely in discourses, exchanges of opinion and eternal literary-theoretical commentaries.
2It must bear fruit.
3And that fructification can come only from the individual tree itself. Let us cultivate ourselves.
4Let us be the gardener, the garden and the tree.
5Let us prepare ourselves to bear fruit and really have something to give.
6It is possible that the greater clarity of this orientation may remove from our ranks some members who wished to remain "seated" in the comfort of the passivity of one who receives information and who, when he does not forget it, keeps it merely as a static asset, like "one more piece of furniture in the already overloaded memory".
7We hope it may be possible to stimulate in the totality of Martinists an interest in practical realisation; and, if any should not wish to do so, preferring to instal himself in other sectors of the theoretical divulgation of the initiatic teachings, the full liberty that Martinism has always left to its Members will permit him to do so.
8What is evident is that, in a place of work, where each one exercises an activity harmonious with the common purpose, the still inactive element has, in the long run, only two solutions: either to set himself also to work, or to feel uncomfortable in the midst of people who have too much to do to devote time to useless chatter.
9Those who know something more of the Order's possibilities, who have read the forecasts of its activity in the years to come published in "La Iniciación", and who meditate on what it has accomplished in the four and a half years already passed since its reorganisation in 1939, will realise that it is not with "discourses" that all this has been done, but with work, sacrifices and activity.
10A good part of all these constructive factors is due to many Brothers who are not part of the Grand Council and have devoted themselves with disinterested zeal to work "upon" themselves and "for" the rest.
11The Grand Council desires that the last words of this Introduction, to the book that marks the new working modality, should be to thank, with all affection and fraternal friendship, all the Martinists who, in whatever place, function or degree, have done something for their own preparation and for the Service of the Venerable Masters of our Order and of each and every concomitant initiatic Current.
12May the Serene Peace and the Love of one's Fellows that reigns in the heart of all the Gurus and Masters reign also in that of all.
13AUM et AMEN.
14Jehel, P. G. C.
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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