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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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1which were also sprinkled with holy water.
2The Avabhritam of the Avatara took place effectively on 19 October 1923 in the Maha Vana.
3He was seated on a dais of gold beneath a great banyan tree; before him he had a Kamandalu of gold and a Yogadanda, or sceptre of Yoga, likewise of gold.
4He wore a garment woven entirely with laces of gold, and strings of pearls hung from his person.
5Behind him stood two Siddha Kannikas; and Sri Yoga Devi herself bathed him in water that had been used in the bath of Náráyana and Yoga Devi, who remained in their own bodies in Uttara Badari.
6This bath of the Avatara is known as Yoga-Abhisheka, and was executed during the Navarathri, when Mitra Deva conducted the Navarathri Puja of Sri Yoga Devi.
7The Siddhas who were present sang in praise of the Avatara the few following verses: (1 and 2) I invoke, and in Him seek refuge, the Master of the World, Bhagavan Mitra Deva, the Child of Lotus eyes, with divine smile on his countenance, who — being adored by all the Siddhas and Mahatmas — is seated on a dais of gold, having his left leg extended and his right leg bent. (3) Resting the left hand on the left knee, showing with the right hand the Atmic sign, and radiant with divine effulgence. (4) Attended by two Siddha Kannikas (celestial Nymphs), and by Yogis, Mahatmas, Siddhas, Maharishis, Dazas, Tirthas and others. (5) Glorified thus with sacred canticles; wearing bracelets of gold, dressed in golden raiment, his breast adorned with strings of pearls and his face radiant with divine felicity. (6) Grasping the sceptre of Yoga, serene, having before him the golden Kamandalu, resplendent with supreme glory, meditating on the self that dwells in the heart.
8These stanzas (Slokas) describe the Lord as he then appeared.
9The Navarathri ceremony of the year 1923 is especially sacred because at that time was executed the Yoga Abhisheka (sacred bath) of the Lord, and also because He himself officiated the cult of Yoga Devi (Puja) that is customarily executed during the said period.
10Attended by Mahatmas and other advanced Beings, and ever watching over the welfare of the world, the Lord continues dwelling in Maha Vana.
11_________ PEACE TO THE WHOLE UNIVERSE.
12GLORY TO ALL THE MAHATMAS, SIDDHAS AND GURUS.
13OM.
14By copy: Jehel-9-3-45.
15That the Disciples and Readers may better imagine WHAT the ceremonies described really represent, it is necessary to meditate on this: that the Lord Náráyana is the King of our Universe, Nara "the representative of the Human Kind", Yoga Devi is the "Mother of the World, Great Virgin, etc." — that is · 16
- EL AVATARA SRI BHAGAVAN MITRA DEVA
- THE AVATARA SRI BHAGAVAN MITRA DEVA
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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