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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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13.º) Arrangement to transfer and move the Pittas, or seats, of the official centres, and to create or re-establish Sankhus, investing such centres with power.
24.°) The means of inspiring the disciples and the members engaged in propagating the Suddha Dharma. 5.°) The establishment of twenty-four Yoga-Ashrams in this and other regions.
36.°) The issuing of written authority to those Mahatmas who are to propagate the Suddha Dharma in different centres.
4VIII: THE CELEBRATION OF THE MAHA YAGNA FOR THE AID OF THE FUTURE AVATARAS AND FOR THE INSTITUTION OF THE MITRA BRINDA, OR ORDER OF MITRA DEVA. [Sic: the printed heading reads CELEBRAC1ÓN, with a numeral.]
5This Yagna was begun after a lapse of five days of the fifth month of the fifth year from the birth of Bhagavan Mitra Deva; from the beginning of the Yagna to its conclusion, Bhagavan Mitra Deva, together with some other Mahatmas, was in Samadhi1 in Brahma Vana, inspiring the two Mahatmas Vajra Deva2 and Ratna Deva, who officiated as his representatives in the sacrifice — in one of whom the feminine principle was at the time predominant, though he, like the other officiant, was of masculine aspect.
6In connection with the execution of this Maha Yagna there gathered twenty-four Maha Rishis, twenty-four persons who had reached the state of Ananda, and twelve persons of lower degrees.
7All of them, including the two who officiated as Masters, were in total one hundred and ten in number.
8Here, on 4 May 1923, was consecrated the principal Yantra of the Mitra Brinda; and together with it were consecrated another sixty-four lesser Yantras, for the various members of the Order to carry on their persons.
9This Yagna was executed near Vanga Pitta, seat of the Mandala in Bengal; and the Avabhritam, the final ceremony of consummation, was performed in a place to the east of the Pitta, at the foot of the Himalayas.
10This Avabhritam was executed in three parts: The first, related to Bhagavan Mitra Deva, was performed formally here and, effectively, later, in Brahma Vana.
11Its second part, destined for the two Mahatmas, was executed on 3 July 1923, these alone taking part in it.
12The third was related to the rest of the members of the Mandala and was fixed for 6 July 1923.
13After the second Avabhritam was finished, another three Mahatmas — Vaidurya Deva, Mukta Deva and Pravala Deva — arrived at the place of the Avabhritam; and on 6 July 1923 a general Avabhritam was performed for all the members, five Mahatmas taking part in it.
14On the occasion of the third Avabhritam there were exposed, in the midst of those gathered, the throne, the crown, the armlet, the bracelet, the necklace of pearls, the necklace of precious stones, and other ornaments and vessels of gold that are to be used by Bhagavan Mitra Deva — 1 SAMADHI: thus is called the state of consciousness of a person who has come to be capable of universal knowledge, having raised his individual consciousness to the Atmic plane (of pure Spirit). [Sic: the Spanish prints Mita Deva here.]
152 The thirty-two Siddhas who are used to receive the influence of the Lords Náráyana, Nara, Yogadevi, Dakshinamurti and the Kumaras are known collectively as Vajra Deva, Mukta Deva, Ratna Deva, Pravala Deva and Vaidurya Deva; those who served in the Yagna are in direct spiritual descent from these great Siddhas.
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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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