May 1945; the war in Europe ends this month, and the number prints its usual serials without a word of it — the review's wartime reticence holds to the last.
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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 37 · May 1945
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1in approximately the same quantity as that introduced, through the various ways of elimination, either in the form of water and NH3 or in the form of complex combinations in the catabolic products.
2Oxygen — It enters into the constitution of almost all the organic substances and of many inorganic ones, among which principally water.
3It exists weakly combined with the haemoglobin of the red globules, constituting oxyhaemoglobin; in the state of solution in the blood plasma, lymph and other liquids of the organism; in the state of free gas in the airways, and in small quantity in the upper part of the digestive tube.
4We introduce it with the air and with foods.
5Phosphorus — It enters into the constitution of the nucleins and lecithin, and into many phosphates, among them those of Na, K, Mg, Ca, etc. The phosphates of K are found in the muscles, cells in general and brain; those of Ca in milk, bones and teeth.
6Phosphorus is introduced with organic and inorganic foods, and is eliminated with the urine and faeces in the form of phosphoric acid.
7The physiological function of the phosphates is very important, as is indicated by their presence in all the tissues and their predominance in the red globules, muscles, nerves and growing cells.
8In the blood, the alkaline phosphates — and especially the phosphate of sodium — contribute to maintaining alkalinity, favour the solution of the protein substances and exert influence on the absorption of CO2 by the blood, etc.
9The lack of phosphorus in the organism translates into nervous depression, hysteria, neurosis and mental dullness.
10The foods rich in phosphorus are: coconut, olives, grapes, strawberries, chestnuts, apples, pears, cherries, oranges, lettuce, escarole, potatoes, spinach, cauliflower, onions, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, artichokes, milk, beans, fresh cheeses, lentils, chickpeas, barley, maize flour, oats, wholemeal bread, walnuts, squash, almonds, whole wheat, rye and egg yolks — in which it reaches as much as 70 %.
11Phosphorus, too, must be introduced in organic form, for otherwise it produces a series of grave disturbances, chiefly of the nervous system.
12Chlorine — It is found in the free state, or combined with three protein substances, in the gastric juice. [Sic: the Spanish prints tres; the sense wants las.]
13This intestinal chlorine combines again with the alkalis and is reabsorbed, returning to the blood whence it had come, in the form of sodium chloride.
14It is found in the form of chloride of Na, K and Ca in all the liquids and tissues of the body.
15These chlorides are in great part in solution, but are also combined with the protein substances.
16Chlorine is a purifying element and a great cellular stimulant.
17The deficiency of chlorine translates into nervousness, catarrhs and colds, intestinal congestion, pallor of countenance, bad humour, fear, anxiety, pyorrhoea and albuminuria.
18The foods rich in chlorine are: carrots, lettuces, spinach, radishes, beetroot, lentils, asparagus, mushrooms, cucumbers and egg yolks.
19Potassium — Potassium is found in the organism, in greater or lesser quantity, in all the tissues and liquids, combined with the inorganic and organic acids.
20The most important combination of potassium is the chloride of K, which everywhere accompanies the chloride of sodium.
21But while the salts of Na are found more in the liquids, and exceptionally in the red globules of some animals, the salts of potassium are found more in the morphological elements — such as red globules, muscular and nervous tissue, etc. — and exceptionally in milk.
22The salts of K come from feeding, especially vegetable, and are easily absorbed.
23Their elimination takes place through the urine and faeces.
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Masthead stereotype unchanged.
Six articles; the S.D.M. section turns liturgical — Vaisakh observances with civil clock-times for four countries.
Joseph de Maistre enters the chronology: initiated 1776 in La Sincerité of Chambery, named beside his brother Xavier — the column's biggest literary name yet, with the Savoy lodge's aristocratic roll printed around him.
Willermoz's secret design told plainly: the Profession degrees (Knight and Grand Professed) as the vehicle for carrying Pasqually's Reintegration doctrine into templar masonry — "the continuation of the Order of the Elect Cohens within the Strict Observance". Saltzmann initiated as ally; the Congress of the Gauls convoked for 28 October 1778.
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PISCES closes the zodiac course begun in 1944: Ephraim and Manasseh as the two feet, "the end of Apollo's journey" — twelve signs complete, the course's longest finished arc.
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The first face of Pisces "indicates diviners and prophets, according to the evolution that incarnates in it" — the only face-reading in the course that makes mediumship a birth-indication.
Markab and Scheat of Pegasus close the fixed-star layer: wounds by "fire, electricity or steam" and death by water — the maritime dooms of the old star-catalogues, unsoftened.
The 22-element table: 12 principal and 10 secondary elements of the body, each with functions, deficiency symptoms and food sources — the serial's most systematic instalment, an orthomolecular handbook avant la lettre.
The phosphorus food-list runs to thirty-nine items — the shelves of a Montevideo greengrocer readable behind the biochemistry: chauchas, zapallo, alcauciles.
Potassium's pharmacology is stated straight — small doses cardiotonic, "in larger doses powerful poisons for the protoplasm" — the serial's habit of keeping real toxicology beside its nature-cure creed.
"The fixer of calcium is the lemon" — the daily fasting lemon juice prescription; the warning against injected mineral calcium is period nature-cure doctrine kept intact.
The four conclusions cap the arc: every disturbance a deficiency, every emotion "a cry of alarm… asking for calcium, fluorine, magnesium", trust the "undegenerate instinct" — reviewed under the boundary and kept: dietetic doctrine, no claim about peoples.
The Maha Boddhi Sangha goes visible: "its visible activity in the present year" announced — Thursday Buddhism courses at the GIDEE seat join the Sunday cordillera broadcasts, and the right-speech abstentions (lying, gossip, harsh words, idle talk) are printed as practice.
The promised glossary begins: Pali terms first (the eightfold path entries, Bikku, Kamma, Nibbana), with the reader told to keep a notebook alphabetically — the review teaching its audience to build its own reference apparatus.
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The Guru's prediction circular, reproduced: Beach House, Mylapore, Madras, 10 January 1919 — Subramania Iyer announcing the Avatara's birth six days in advance, houses to be lit "as a demonstration of joy". The review's most direct documentary relic of the Madras founding generation.
The Vaisakh liturgy in full: Greenwich 1.48 converted to four national clock-times, the leaf and water-vessel altar, two red flowers whose meaning "the Members know", white flowers offered per verse, thirty minutes' adoration, written reports to the Officiant — the S.D.M.'s complete ritual mechanics, printed for scattered members to perform in synchrony.
The versicles pray to be "free from feelings of class hatreds" and for friendship "between governors and governed" — the order's social prayer, printed as the war ends.
A second glossary — Sanskrit liturgical terms this time, with the editorial note that OM "pronounced for egoistic ends… is to do harm": the apparatus pages now teach reverence alongside vocabulary.
A retype transposition documented: the temperature article opens mid-sentence with its own closing paragraph, breaks off mid-word ("de muy e—"), and the severed half surfaces at page 22 ("—scasa importancia"). Editorial glosses mark the splice at both ends; the text is preserved exactly as the retype transmits it.
The heat-tolerance ladder — 47° kills plant cells, algae at 63°, Ehrenberg's infusoria at 85°, anthrax spores past 100° — period thermobiology with its sources named; the human optimum "variable according to races and climates" is acclimatisation physiology, reviewed and kept.
Hiller's three forms of heat-stroke (asphyctic, paralytic, psychopathic) and the stokers working at 60° — occupational medicine of the steamship age, transmitted into the esoteric monthly's science pages.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 23.
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Library back cover and imprint close the number.
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