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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1As regards the constitution of climates, we know how temperature exercises a preponderant influence, and we know too how fauna and flora are, in the various parts of the terrestrial surface, in direct dependence on the climate and, consequently, on one of its most important constituent factors: temperature. [Sic: the Spanish prints sanemos, for sabemos.]
2We all know the exuberance of the tropical flora and the steppes of the cold regions; the variable nature of the various animal species according to the regions in which they live; and the migration of some during certain seasons of the year — that is, during those epochs in which, owing to the inclination of the earth's axis of rotation and the movement of precession of the equinoxes, the intensity of thermal energy on the earth varies.
3We know, moreover, how temperature influences the evaporation of the waters on the surface of the soil and of the seas — waters which, transformed into clouds, will fall again upon the soil, fertilising it.
4All these variations of temperature cannot fail to exercise their influence on living beings which, as is known, possess a delicate mechanism for regulating it, to adapt themselves, within certain limits, to its variations.
5To be synthetic, we shall treat of the influences of temperature on living beings, and of their reactions to it, speaking first of the influence exercised by its positive polarity, or heat, and afterwards of that exercised by its negative polarity, or cold.
6Influence of heat.—We have already said that every living being possesses a specific temperature.
7Now, for its life to develop normally, the temperature of the ambience in which it lives must not pass certain limits, for heat as for cold, because its mechanisms for regulating the internal temperature can function only between those limits — which, moreover, vary from being to being.
8The greater part of vegetable and animal cells cannot live in an ambience where the maximum temperature is above 40º - 47°.
9Max Schulze demonstrated that a temperature above 47º provokes the death of vegetable cells, and C. Kühne found that the protoplasm of amoebae coagulates, at times, at 40º.
10There exist, however, other living beings that tolerate much higher temperatures — such as certain algae that live in thermal waters whose temperature reaches 63°.
11Ehrenberg found infusoria that can live at a temperature of 8lº - 85º, and all bacteriologists know that the spores of the anthrax bacillus bear well temperatures above 100º, and that only after three hours at a dry heat of 140° do they surely lose all vitality. [Sic: the first figure is printed with a letter ell.]
12As can be seen, the maximum limit of temperature at which living beings can live is very variable and, moreover, their power of adaptation to the variations of temperature is also quite different.
13As far as man is concerned, the optimum of temperature is also quite variable according to the races and the climates in which he is accustomed to live; but it may be said, in a general manner, that he lives better at low than at high temperatures, and that the latter must not exceed 37º. [Sic: the Spanish prints genera1, with a numeral.]
14It is true that man can live at higher temperatures; but in that case his mechanisms of regulation must come into function.
15We know how, in some countries of Asia, Africa and South America, the temperature can reach as much as 40° and 45°, and man can nevertheless live · 21
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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