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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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1Saturnine influence of this face confers a melancholy aspect, jealousy, finesse and penetration, as well as pleasure in obtaining the approval and esteem of all.
26th FACE (26 to 30 degrees): An agreeable and sympathetic person, medium stature, robust complexion, an agreeable face, round and well filled.
3The hair is usually fair or light.
4This face has the vibration of Uranus and a tendency to mechanics, radio, etc. If Jupiter occupies it, it gives generosity and dedication; Venus gives prodigality; Saturn brings misery; Mars inclines to the military career; and the Sun will make the person an intendant, administrator or manager, while the Moon would make him the proprietor of a laundry, bath-house or bathing establishment.
5INFLUENCES OF THE FACES OF AQUARIUS ON THE ASCENDANT (according to old authors).
61st face: a bad person, astute, wilful, scheming, dissembling, capable of deceiving and of committing injustices.
72nd face: A bad and libertine person, cowardly and deceiving, dishonest, who seeks to flatter others to obtain what he desires.
83rd face: A wise, prudent, generous, intelligent and affable person.
9Jupiter or Venus in this face give generosity, Mars gives audacity, Venus gives effeminate tendencies, and Uranus makes the person original and even eccentric.
104th face: A penetrating and lively spirit, affable and generous, proud of his capacity and an ardent defender of his ideas and principles.
115th face: A well-mannered person, but jealous and perspicacious, reserved and somewhat dissembling or astute.
12In love with science, art or literature; a skilful creator who knows how to expound his knowledge.
136th face: A cheerful nature, jovial, frank, sympathetic, prudent.
14Good constitution and long life.
15The presence in this face of the various stars signifies: that of Venus, prodigality; that of Jupiter, fortune and savour; that of Saturn, jealousy and poverty, an inclination to withdraw from everyone; that of Mars, haughtiness and daring; that of Uranus, little happiness and much originality and independence.
16THE FACES OF AQUARIUS ON THE MIDHEAVEN. FIRST: Sorrows, obstacles caused by persons influenced by Saturn or Mercury.
17SECOND: Disregard and scorn — unless the Sun or Venus were here; but in any case he will obtain little consideration, living almost ignored.
18THIRD: Elevation by the pen or the sword.
19FOURTH: Honours and success in the external ambience.
20FIFTH: Struggles with numerous disappointments.
21SIXTH: Success and fortune that begin slowly but go on consolidating.
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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