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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1At 1 and 48 (Greenwich Mean Time1) of the 27th they must sit in the Ashram — or suitable place — facing north.
2In the centre of the place of ceremony, or before each isolated member, there shall be a vegetable leaf, and in its centre must be placed — without touching the ground — a clean metal vessel, fairly wide of mouth, three-quarters full of limpid water. [Sic: the Spanish prints sue1o, with a numeral.]
3Two fragrant red flowers (whose significance the Members know) shall be put in the vessel.
4On the right side, white and fragrant flowers shall be kept on a clean plate.
5The Members are to think of their Instructor, of the Guru, and of this: that before them are gathered in Assembly the Siddhas belonging to the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, celebrating rites for the good of the world for the next twelve months.
6Then, with joined hands, they will repeat the verses given further on, and will offer one of the white flowers, placing it in the vessel after reciting each verse.
7The recitation of the verses we publish today being finished, they will remain in meditation and adoration for more than 30 minutes.
8That lapse (more or less) being past, the Officiant of each Ashram (or the isolated member) will recite the 10 verses published on page number 22 of La Iniciación number 35 and, immediately after, the 6 stanzas published in the review of April 19442. [Sic: the Spanish prints ais1ado, with a numeral.]
9A new adorative stillness, and whatever is spontaneously translated into mudras, etc., by those present, will serve as closure of the Celebration.
10Each Disciple will afterwards make a written account of his impressions or perceptions and hand it to the Officiant of his Ashram (or send it to him, if he should have been obliged to perform the Celebration in isolation).
11Such celebrations shall be made with soft light during the Celebration, which may be preceded by suitable music (Handel's Largo, Clair de Lune, etc.).
12______________ That Celebration ended, the fast may be broken with a sweet and light diet, festively celebrating the fraternal gathering, illuminating the place in sign of rejoicing.
13At night (the night of Sunday to Monday), at 22.30, Uruguayan time, after bathing, each Member — in isolation, or again gathered in their Ashrams — placing themselves facing the East and, if possible, exposed to the Light of the Moon, will recite the versicles we give further on; and then, in absolute stillness and repose, they may ask that they be permitted to unite themselves internally, and in the appropriate place, to the Great Celebration, to offer their Service in aid of the Mission of the Avatara and receive internally the seed of what they must realise in the immediate future. [Sic: the Spanish prints semil1a, with a numeral.]
14That offering made, with mind and heart, they must give themselves to adorative meditation and let themselves be carried… 1 The said Greenwich mean time corresponds to the following civil (clock) times: Argentina: If there are no changes, at the same time as Uruguay.
15Brazil: At 22.48 of the 26th.
16Chile: At 21.48 of the 26th.
17Uruguay: At 22.48 of the 26th.
18It is of course understood that the participants in those Celebrations will be in the respective places, and already in silent recollection, at least 30 minutes before the hours indicated.
192 La Iniciación No. 24, pages 19 to 21 inclusive.
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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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