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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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1THE DECANATES OF AQUARIUS ON THE ASCENDANT (according to Julevno). AQUARIUS bestows, in a general way, a solid constitution, sanguine complexion, chestnut, fair or reddish hair — very beautiful in feminine persons — eyes blue or almost violet, a somewhat elongated, oval face. [Sic: the Spanish prints ajos, garlics, for ojos, eyes.]
2The character is good, devoted, constant — in its affections as in everything — inclined to sciences or letters, generally with aptitudes for singing or instrumental music.
3This sign rules the legs, especially the calves and ankles, and corresponds to the influence of Saturn and of Uranus.
4The first decanate (first 10 degrees) is under the influence of Venus, and indicates an elevated, loving, artistic and seductive nature.
5It gives a spirit apt for the sciences and the fine arts, in relation to industry and literature.
6This decanate prognosticates success abroad, fortune in real property, and a happy marriage.
7The second decanate (degrees 11 to 20) is ruled by Mercury.
8It indicates great patience in study, much independence, great penetration and assimilation, a taste for mathematics, astronomy, hygiene or medicine — occupations in which fame and fortune may be obtained.
9The third decanate (degrees 21 to 20) is governed by the Moon. [Sic: so printed; the third decanate ends at the thirtieth degree.]
10It confers on the imagination a certain sombre tint, the character being influenced by dreams, hallucinations or ideas of a pessimistic nature.
11He takes life sadly.
12Nevertheless, continual changes of place, or journeys, may occur.
13There are also often defects or diseases of the organs of vision.
14THE FACES OF AQUARIUS (divisions of 5 degrees), according to classical opinions gathered by Dr. Salmón, indicate: 1st FACE (0 to 5 degrees): Tall stature, a long, dark face, long legs and arms, dark hair, a wide mouth, an aquiline nose, dark eyes. [Sic: the Spanish again prints ajos for ojos.]
15In this face are found the fixed stars of the upper and lower horns of Capricorn, which are favourable and indicate ideal, dexterity and fortune.
162nd FACE (6 to 10 degrees): Stature less tall, thinner, mouth and nostrils wide.
17If Mars were in this face, it indicates a mark or scar at the root of the nose, between the eyes.
18The 8th degree raises the stature.
193rd FACE (11 to 15 degrees): A tall, thin person, with a broad forehead, a long face and rosy complexion, a pointed chin and dark hair.
204th FACE (16 to 20 degrees): A corpulent person, of medium stature, light complexion, full face, wide mouth and nostrils, straight chestnut hair, short legs and arms.
21If Jupiter is found in this face, it raises the stature and develops the intelligence.
22Venus here gives harmony to the features, and Mars bestows a haughty or daring aspect, with a mark or spot on the face.
235th FACE (21 to 25 degrees): A slender person, thin face, long nose, broad forehead, prominent cheekbones, and the upper jaw likewise prominent in relation to the lower.
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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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