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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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121 June.—After many difficulties encountered by Pierre Jacques in his task — which, for that matter, he discharged without much enthusiasm — Prost de Royer, Dr. Boyer de Rouquet and Paganucci gave their adhesions on 21 June. 24 June.—A meeting is held to lay the bases of the new foundation of the Strict Observance in Lyon; but on this occasion obstacles and dissensions arise, giving origin to the drafting of a report to be submitted to the brothers of Strasbourg, asking clarification on the doubtful points.
2The 11 brothers present manifest unanimously their conditional vote to link themselves to the Strict Observance.
323 July.—J. B. Willermoz writes to Baron von Hundt asking the rectification of the lodges of Lyon to the new system — not without having first set some conditions, such as that of wishing to remain faithful to the duke of Chartres.
41 August.—A clarifying letter arrives from Baron von Weiler, "one of the agents of the reunion charged with all the correspondence with the lodges that might desire to unite", dispelling the doubts.
51774—July.—The negotiations, however, continue for a long time, owing to new obstacles that arose, until — exactly two years after the beginning of the correspondence with the lodge Candeur and one year after the official request — the Grand Provincial Chapter of the Strict Observance was finally founded at Lyon, with almost 20 members, of whom the martinists were Prost de Royer, J. B. Willermoz, Bacon de la Chevalerie, Barbier de Lescoët, the two Savaron brothers, Pierre Jacques Willermoz, Boyer de Rouquet, Selloni, Lambert, Perisse du Lac, Paganucci, Gay and Jean Marie Bruyzet.
6The installation of that Grand Chapter was witnessed by Baron von Weiler, who came to Lyon expressly. 21 July.—On that date the first session of the Grand Chapter of the Province of Auvergne is held, under the presidency of Baron von Weiler.
7The martinists thus took an official position in a masonic organisation and, under the orientation of J. B. Willermoz, laid the first bases for manifesting, in the years that followed, a great spiritualising influence in masonry. 21 August.—Baron von Weiler, having finished his mission in Lyon, departed to continue his work of propaganda in Montpellier and Bordeaux.
817 September.—The efforts of the martinists directed at consolidating the recently founded Grand Chapter of the Province of Auvergne were crowned with success because, on 17 September, another 18 new brothers were initiated; and there was founded, moreover, the lodge of La Bienfaisance, which will afterwards constitute, and for many years, the true headquarters of the Lyon martinists. 1775—The lodge La Sincerité of Chambery is rectified by Weiler and placed under the dependence of the Grand Provincial Chapter of Auvergne.
9Its Grand Master, the marquis de La Serraz, is named prefect of Chambery — that is, of the Prefecture of Chambery, a lesser organisation dependent on the Province of Auvergne.
10(To be continued).
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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