Eight articles; the S.D.M. Avatara serial reaches its ceremonial climax, and the number closes with two literary pieces sharing page 21.
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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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1LET US SEEK THE SILENCE… Dedicated to the V. H. Kundala.
2Let us seek the silence, that we may hear the voice of the heights. [Sic: the Spanish prints a1uras, with a numeral, for alturas.]
3Woods, fields and beaches; let us mingle our feelings with the song of the birds, with the perfume of the flowers and with the hymn of the waves...
4The BELOVED speaks to our conscience in solitude, not in the bustle. Woods, fields and beaches — in them all is harmony; the whole of Nature is the musical instrument of GOD.
5Let us seek the silence — waters, woods and sky.
6Creation is all liberty, love and unity; there existing in it no chains, hatred, separation.
7Let us seek the silence and, in it, what the multitude does not understand: the idea, the creative thought.
8With his feet on the earth and his gaze toward the sky, man resembles God and, like the holy prophets, will bear on his brow a star, in his right hand a torch and in his left a heart.
9Let us seek the silence, like the Hindu sages who, at the birth of dawn, amid the flowers, feel themselves bathed in purest dew and celestial clarities.
10The stars are the flowers of the sky, and the earth is the sky of the flowers; a star explains to us the mystery of a rose, and a rose shows us the mystery of GOD.
11Let us seek the silence...
12Maya, S. I. __________ THE GURU, by Adhemar A. M. A disciple had the ardent desire to go and visit a holy Guru who lived on the mountain, to hear from his own mouth the teachings and the way to find the Truth. [Sic: the Spanish prints discpu1o, with a numeral.]
13Eagerly he began the search for the path that was to lead him into the Guru's presence.
14When the disciple believed he had "set his feet on the Path", he finds that an enormous block of stone obstructed the way by which he had to pass. [Sic: the Spanish prints boque, for bloque.]
15Every day the disciple returned and, in the same place, the rock grew larger and changed form.
16Days, months and years he passed given over to trying to get past that illusory rock, until the disciple, in a tremendous and desperate effort, sought to shatter the stone with the mallet of his will.
17He understood that it was hollow.
18He began to observe and analyse deeply and, with great surprise, discovered symbols and hieroglyphs he had not noticed before.
19Given over to this study he forgot the Guru and — strange thing — as he penetrated the secret of the symbols, the block of stone shrank almost to vanishing.
20At last he understood that the greatest of the obstacles on the Path of perfection was his enormous SELF — that SELF he wished to immortalise, thus creating separateness.
21He knew that the SELF, as a changing entity, was not real; that this SELF is the Great Illusion of which the books speak to us so veiledly.
22To wish to immortalise that SELF is to create separate consciousness, or egoism.
23The rock had disappeared.
24Before him remained other, smaller blocks.
25As he came to know what false prejudices or absurd ideas are — egoism, pride, etc. — the road cleared before him and, at the end, in a dazzling vision, he saw his radiant Guru who had been awaiting him for ages… "Come, I am thyself", said the Guru.
26La Plata 24/11/1944.
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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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