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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1Maha Boddhi Sangha. The Venerable Order of the Maha Boddhi Sangha (Great Buddhist Fraternity of the Perfect Wisdom) imparts its blessings to all beings, desiring that there may glow in their hearts the Sacred Fire which, when it begins to burn, purifies and elevates, preparing them to be borne up toward the sublime sphere where the Perfect dwell.
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2As this Venerable Fraternity begins its visible activity in the present year, it makes vows that the Light of the Wisdom of the Holy Buddha may be the refuge of those who long for knowledge, of those who suffer and are ignorant of the cause of their sorrows, of those who, being on the Path, desire to accelerate their evolution; and it makes vows also that the unalterable peace which its profound doctrine teaches us may be for all a constant realisation and profound Truth.
3May the blessing of the Venerable and Holy Buddha — Sublime and Perfect in his Great Wisdom, Master of Compassion — descend upon all beings, that Peace may be a Reality, Love a Truth, and Fraternity the common and noble longing of all Humanity.
4Let us meditate with deep devotion on the Holy Name of the Buddha, and invoke his Luminous Presence with the Sacred mantram NAMAH OM KWAZEON every Sunday at 10 in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon (Uruguayan time), when the Servers of the Buddha gather in their hidden Ashrams of the Cordillera; and every Thursday at 9 at night in the G.I.D.E.E. of Montevideo, where a course of Buddhism is given and his Holy Name is venerated (See No. 34 of La Iniciación).
5Let us meditate on — practising them — some essential points of the doctrine that HE taught for the realisation of the Path: Abstention from lying — Neither for one's own advantage, nor to favour the interests of others, nor to second any other class of interests.
6Abstention from gossip — What has been heard here, let it not be repeated there, so as not to occasion discords and distrusts; and what has been heard there, let it not be repeated here, so as not to occasion confusions and hatreds.
7Acting thus, one draws together those who are distanced and, moreover, consolidates those who are already united, becoming an instrument of harmonisation.
8Abstention from harsh language - To pronounce only words free of rudeness, agreeable to the ear, cordial, courteous, obliging, congratulatory and elevated.
9He who does not know how to use sweet and amiable language toward others is not yet on the Path.
10A soft, affable and fraternal word can save a life and show the Way to one who has lost everything. · 14
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
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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