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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1Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings.
2Influence of Temperature. By Pitágoras S∴I∴ …so, besides the symptoms described, others may present themselves, all of a nervous nature — such as paralysis or paresis, hemiplegia, etc. — which at times last a long time or may be permanent. [Editorial gloss: the retype has transposed the article; this paragraph belongs to its close, and the opening resumes below.]
3At times, death may occur suddenly.
4The disturbances described are almost exclusively functional, because the anatomical lesions found in the tissues of the corpses of those dead by heat-stroke or sunstroke are of very— Another modality of energy, which is perceived by living beings in its two polarities of heat and cold according as its intensity is above or below the specific mean existing in them, is what is called temperature. [Editorial gloss: the sentence breaks off mid-word in the retype and the article's true opening follows.]
5The sources of that characteristic modality of energy are multiple — as for example the combustion of wood, coal, petroleum and other combustible materials; friction between the surfaces of bodies; resistance to an electric current; the deeper layers of the earth; and living beings themselves — but all these sources of thermal radiation are only indirect sources, for they limit themselves to emitting the energy they had previously received from the sun.
6So that we may say that the only source of energy — and in our case, thermal energy — is the sun.
7In effect, if a solar ray falls on a prism of salt — a gem that stops the radiations less than a prism of glass — a visible spectrum is obtained, that is, the decomposition of the solar ray into its constituent elements.
8Now, if we explore the visible spectrum with a sensitive thermometer, we find a maximum of temperature in correspondence with the red — that is, in correspondence with those radiations that have 6,980 ångström, or O micron 69; and if we explore outside that visible spectrum, that is, below the red, in the band of the infrared, we likewise obtain a maximum of temperature. [Sic: the micron figure is printed with a letter O.]
9In other parts of the spectrum, on the contrary, we find lower temperatures.
10It was believed in the past that the solar radiations, and especially the thermal one, were more intense the nearer they were to their origin.
11The myth of Icarus falling into the sea because, wishing to rise too high, the heat of the sun had melted his wings of wax, is a proof of belief in this error.
12In reality, the high atmosphere is very cold, as was demonstrated by Prof. Van Bennelen who, having sent up into the sky of Java, in April 1913, a sounding balloon to the height of 17,000 metres, registered a temperature of 91º C. below zero.
13The radiations emitted by the sun become thermal, then, only when they strike an obstacle that stops them and absorbs or stores them.
14That modality of energy called temperature plays a primordial role in the maintenance of life, which at present is very imperfectly known.
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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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