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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1Commentary on the First Degree of Martinism — Historical-chronological notes on the Martinist Order.
2by Pitágoras, S.I.
3(Continuation) 1776—Owing to the activity of the marquis de la Serraz, assisted by Marc Revoire and Joseph Daquin, many persons of high social position — nobles, officers, advocates, physicians, members of the Senate, etc. — were initiated in 1776 in the lodge La Sincerité of Chambery.
4Among them we mention Pierre de Montfort, Bernard des Maisons, senator Hipolyte Deville de la Milatiére, the advocate Jean Baptiste, count de Salteur, and the great French writer Joseph de Maistre, brother of that other great writer who was Xavier de Maistre.
531 May — The tireless activity of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz in the Strict Observance had not diminished his activity in French masonry and, in effect, after some months of negotiations with the Grand Orient of France — negotiations in which Bacon de la Chevalerie and the abbé Rozier played an important role — there was concluded, on 31 May, a treaty of union between the Grand Orient of France and the three Directories of the three French Provinces (Lyon, Bordeaux and Strasbourg) of the Strict Observance.
6In that treaty, signed by the duke of Chartres, the Grand Orient recognised the Strict Observance.
7Owing to the incompatibility existing between the principles of French masonry and those of the Strict Observance, it was not possible, however — in spite of the signed treaty — to obtain a true fraternal understanding.
8The struggles and dissensions thus continued for a long time until, after many negotiations, it was possible, in the second half of 1779, to make union and peace reign among the lodges of the different systems.
9In the discharge of all these harmonising negotiations the martinists Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, Paganucci, Bacon de la Chevalerie, the abbé Rozier, Belz and Perisse Du Luc distinguished themselves.
10December — After the death of Baron von Weiler at Turin on 19 November 1775 — through whom relations were maintained between the Grand Provincial Chapter of Lyon and the Grand Master of the Order, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick — these continued through Baron Charles von Hundt until the end of 1.776, the year in which, owing to his death at Melrichstadt, they continued through Christian Ehrbrechl, baron de Durkeim, minister of the ducal court of Saxe-Meiningen and Commissary of the Chapter of the Province of Bourgogne. [Sic: the year is printed with a full stop, 1.776.]
111777 — February — In a congress held in this month, promoted by the duke of Brunswick and attended by the duke of Saxe and another 24 brothers, there was resolved, among other things, the adhesion of the Illuminati of Sweden to the Strict Observance.
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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