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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1perfectly in this heat without grave disturbances manifesting themselves in his vital functions.
2We know, moreover, that those who by their trade must work near places where the production of heat is very great — as for example near the boilers of ships, that is, in an ambience where the heat reaches 60º — can remain for some hours without morbid phenomena presenting themselves, because the mechanisms of self-regulation permit the internal temperature not to rise beyond a normal mean.
3If, on the contrary, the temperature rises above 60° — or if, at a lower temperature, the mechanisms of regulation function badly — there may present themselves suddenly, first, some nervous disturbances of various nature and then those grave perturbations known by the names of heat-stroke and sunstroke, which at times are followed by immediate death. [Sic: the Spanish prints subo, for sube.]
4Heat-stroke is caused by a great increase of atmospheric heat, whether owing to the solar rays or to any other artificial source of heat; while sunstroke, or insolation, is caused by the direct action of the solar rays, specifically upon the head.
5Hiller, who has much studied the causal factors of heat-stroke, affirms that, for it to be produced, there is needed: 1) A prolonged stay in regions where the air is overheated.
62) A limited muscular labour, which paralyses the mechanisms of self-regulation of temperature.
73) An excess of muscular labour in a temperate ambience, in which case there is produced a disturbance in the equilibrium of the internal temperature, and paralysis or paresis of the heart and of the respiratory muscles, besides grave disturbances in the composition of the blood and of the metabolism.
8Hiller thus arrives at the conclusion that there are three forms of heat-stroke: the asphyctic form, the paralytic or dyscrasic, and the psychopathic.
9Both in the case of heat-stroke and in that of sunstroke, the temperature of the body increases notably, and may reach as much as 43°. [Sic: the Spanish prints l1egur, for llegar.]
10The physiological disturbances produced in light cases (40º) are: frequent respiration and pulse, increase in the elimination of sweat, increase of thirst and general fatigue.
11In the graver cases the pulse may reach a frequency of 130 to 140 pulsations per minute, the thirst is unbearable, the sweat is most abundant, and there manifest themselves hemicranias, deliriums, vertigos and, at times, epileptiform cramps — death being able to occur in this state.
12If the symptomatology described gradually disappears, there nevertheless remain some persistent symptoms, such as nervous depression or exaltation, hemicrania and visual disturbances.
13In the case of insolation, in which the action of the solar rays is exercised directly upon the nervous system— …scant importance. [Editorial gloss: the retype splice closes here; the sentence continues the paragraph transposed to the head of the article.]
14These lesions consist of chromatolysis of the nerve cells of the central nervous system, destruction of the nerve fibrils of the cells of the cortex and medulla, small haemorrhages in the medulla oblongata, digestive tube, endocardium and liver.
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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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