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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1Suddha Dharma Mandalam. The Avatara of BHAGAVAN MITRA DEVA, Instructor of the World. In this article we shall make known the Instructions for the Celebration of the Full Moon of Vaisaka; but first, and as a reverent homage to our Guru — the gentle, pure, wise and humble Swami Subramaniananda — we wish to reproduce the text of a Circular that the Guru sent to all the Members of the S. D. M., in which he announced, six days in advance, the Birth of the Avatara Sri Bhagavan Mitra Deva.
- ॐ (AUM)
- AUM
- सुद्ध धर्म मण्डलम्
- Suddha Dharma Mandalam
2May it be a theme of meditation and reverence for all Disciples.
3It runs thus: "Suddha Dharma Mandalam— Subhamastu Sarvajagatam Namasté Mahadbhya, Siddhebyo, Gurubyascha, Namó, Nahmá— On the 16th of the present month, One of the elevated members of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam will reincarnate in order to carry out, by himself, a work for the good of the world. [Sic: the Spanish prints E1, with a numeral.]
4This day, therefore, is worthy of being kept by all the members of the Mandalam; let them have the goodness to celebrate it as such.
5At about 6 ½ P.M., after the customary daily Anushatanam, the members shall offer a supplication in their own language to Yoga Devi and to the Hierarchs of the Mandalam, that prosperity may be granted to the whole world.
6The house shall be adorned with lights, as much as possible, as a demonstration of the joy felt on such an occasion.
7Let a feast be celebrated that same night, in harmony with the circumstances.
8Beach House, Mylapore, Madras, 10 January 1919… (Signed): S. Subramaniem.
9OBSERVANCES OF THE [Sic: the Spanish prints DEI. for DEL.]
10FULL MOON OF VAISAKA. On the night of Saturday 26 May, the Members of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam must bathe before sunset (on the Saturday), having fasted all that day.
11Besides the practice or meditation they may have done on the Saturday morning, they will again do their daily meditation or practice at night, before the hour fixed for the Ceremony of the Full Moon of Vaisaka; and at that hour they will be in the Ashram where the celebration is to be held — or, if it were not possible for them to attend, they will join it from their homes or a suitable place.
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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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