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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 36 · April 1945
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1It is from there that Wisdom — like a sun that illumines and gives life to a whole universe — radiates over all human beings, so that its light and its warmth may be a guide and a force to sustain them, in their supreme ascension, on the difficult road that leads them toward the Father.
2It is from there that its inhabitants — possessors, by their efforts and virtues, of the divine universal knowledge — radiate it toward the four cardinal points where their Ashrams, their Temples, their Holy Places exist, throb with life and operate; as a sun, centre of a universe, sends its light and life to all the planets of the system.
3It is from there that flow, intelligently directed, the energetic currents on the physical, animic, mental and spiritual planes in which human beings live.
4It is there that its holy and pure inhabitants handle with their candid hands, exempt from every stain, the powerful universal energies — transforming them, directing them and sublimating them — thus fulfilling their persevering and loving work, whose beneficent effects make themselves felt in the saddened souls of men, giving them, like the crystalline dew, new life and new hopes.
5There are the sages versed in the Divine Science, the True and Only Science — the one that begins where the presumptuous human science ends, ridiculously and grotesquely attired in its mantle of brocade and translucent stones to hide its miseries and its weakness.
6What, in effect, are our most brilliant scientific discoveries — which so inordinately inflate our vanity and tickle our self-regard to the point of making us believe ourselves supermen and demigods — but crumbs of that Science which our geniuses have had the fortune and the mission of gathering and giving to us, not that we might boast, but that with them we might satisfy our intellectual hunger?
7What are our so magnified powers, obtained by the application — unhappily almost always to destructive ends — of those few knowledges that have been generously granted us? [Sic: the Spanish prints podares, for poderes.]
8Oh!
9If men could have a glimpse of what the Science of the Men of Shamballa is, and of the divine powers it affords them — powers that make them accomplish what our astonished minds would call "miracles" — they would feel a deep shame at having been so immoderately vain and proud and, above all, at having applied to destructive and fratricidal ends those knowledges which at present, through their darkened minds and insensible hearts, they ingenuously consider the product of their own genius.
10Oh!
11If men could know how many marvels exist in the Universe, so abundantly granted by the Creator, they would realise the true place they occupy in Creation — and which one they might occupy if, through their humility, fraternity and love, they could see with the eyes of the Spirit and feel with the senses of the Soul.
12But the Holy Sages of Shamballa watch, work and pray; and one day we too shall enter through that Gate beyond which we shall be able to contemplate the marvellous panorama of the spiritual regions.
13OM MANI PADME HUM · 12
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
April 1945; the wrapper carries forward.
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Masthead stereotype unchanged.
The chronology reaches high politics: the duke of Chartres named Grand Master (1772), the Grand Orient of France created — and the Lyon martinists unsatisfied, seeing "with an eye very different from that of common masons". Willermoz turns to Strasbourg and the Strict Observance.
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The Lyon rectification lands: two years of negotiation to the Grand Provincial Chapter of Auvergne (July 1774), thirteen martinists named among its ~20 founders, baron von Weiler presiding; then La Bienfaisance founded — "the true headquarters of the Lyon martinists" for years to come. Pasqually dies two months after this founding: the column's quiet hinge between eras.
AQUARIUS: Burgoyne's urn of Minos, baptismal fonts as "remains of that great astral religion", Reuben's blessing — and the sign of inductive science, whose natives "cannot advance one step beyond" the demonstrable: the course's critique of positivism folded into a sign-reading.
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Julevno's Aquarius is gentler than his Capricorn — constancy, sciences, music; the compositor prints ajos (garlics) for ojos twice, mirrored with glosses.
The sixth face's trades update the old authors for 1945: "a tendency to mechanics, radio, etc." — the one place the course's French sources are visibly modernised by the Montevideo desk.
Kapila's food taxonomy — Plastic, Energetic, Catalytic, Hydric — braids 1940s dietetics with prana: energetic foods "contain little substance and a greater quantity of prana". The anti-meat, raw-fruit hygiene of the era given a yogic frame.
"Physiological water" — the claim that the body wants the water of fruits, not of rivers or bottles: the serial's most quotable dietetic doctrine, argued from the phenomenology of thirst.
The H.A.B.M. Shamballa hymn — the fraternity's page rises to its fullest cosmology yet: Shamballa as "the seat of the spiritual government of the world", invisible, inviolable, "the only reality amid the illusions". Printed in April 1945, its rebuke of science "applied to destructive and fratricidal ends" reads against the war's final weeks.
The Shamballa page's anti-scientism — discoveries as "crumbs" of the true Science — completes the number's pairing: Aquarius's inductive school on page 6, its rebuke on page 12.
The invocation mantra printed in full — AUM… Om, Om, Om, JRIM, IM NAM NAMAH — with Yoga Devi's ordinance that members repeat it daily: the serial crosses from narrative into practice; the praxis layer carries it.
The Yoga Devi Diksha (11 May 1922): the lake of one hundred and eight steps, the bathing by hierarchs in their hundreds, the ray of light circling thousands of miles and seen worldwide — the S.D.M.'s central miracle-narrative, printed with its arithmetic intact.
The Mitra Brinda founded: the principal Yantra consecrated 4 May 1923 with sixty-four lesser yantras for members' persons — the order's talismanic layer documented; Vanga Pitta places the Mandala's seat in Bengal.
The enthronement slokas — the Child on the golden dais, Kamandalu and Yoga-sceptre, the Atmic sign — and Jehel's copy-date 9-3-45: Montevideo transcribing Madras's 1923 ceremonies twenty-two years on.
The Chilean Section photograph: Vajra Yogi Dasa, ritually vested, before his own painted portrait of the young Avatara — the only photograph of a living officiant the run has printed, and the first documentary trace of the S.D.M.'s Chilean ashrama in these pages. Registered to the imagery layer with its caption as printed.
The weather-lore catalogue — swallows, bees, the Almanach Hachette's rhymes — argued as fact "much more exact than the Observatories": the serial's standing defence of peasant empiricism against academic dismissal.
Linnaeus's lemmings, marching their straight line to the sea, as seasonal sensitivity; then Dr. Sardou's "meteoric sensitivity" and the rheumatic on the bell-tower — the column's humour is its method: the body as the better barometer.
Galeotti's acclimatisation passage — Europeans in the tropics, children "weak and often sterile, as has frequently been observed in the English Indies" — quoted from the 1928 pathology textbook: period colonial medicine transmitted as textbook fact; kept as printed with its source cited.
Maya's prose-poem "Let Us Seek the Silence", dedicated to the V. H. Kundala — "the stars are the flowers of the sky, and the earth is the sky of the flowers" — beside Adhemar's La Plata tale of the Guru: the rock on the path that proves hollow, covered in symbols, and is the disciple's own SELF; "Come, I am thyself". Two registers of the same lesson sharing one page.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 22.
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Library back cover and imprint close the number.
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