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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1reforms of an administrative and liturgical nature, and Saltzmann, in his turn, would help Willermoz to obtain the creation of the new degree.
2This degree, called the Profession, in reality comprised two: Knight Professed and Grand Professed. In it Willermoz proposed to teach "the scientific part relative to primitive masonry". [Sic: the Spanish prints ensañar, for enseñar.]
3In effect, and as we have said, this "scientific part" was nothing other than the doctrine of the Reintegration of Martines de Pasqually — a doctrine already taught in the elevated degrees of the Cohens.
4It was, then, the skilful incorporation into Hundt's templar freemasonry of the doctrine of the Cohens; it was to constitute, in the bosom of that masonry, an "élite" formed of select spirits worthy of knowing and understanding the doctrine which, in hermetic form, was taught in the Cohen Chapters.
5It was, in a word, the continuation of the Order of the Elect Cohens within the Strict Observance — the beginning of the Willermozist movement. ______________ Practical Course of Judicial Astrology — Teachings of Surya, S. I.
6We shall study today the influences of the 12th zodiacal sign: PISCIS, or The Fishes.
7This sign symbolises the flood — principally because, when the Sun passes through this constellation, the rainy season begins (in the Northern hemisphere), washing away the snows of winter which, on melting, are transformed into torrents that flood the valleys and low regions.
8This sign is also the end of Apollo's journey through the twelve signs.
9"Near their beloved waves remain the cold fishes; they join the Ram and complete the cycle".
10Kabbalistically, the sign of Pisces indicates the feet of the Grand Cosmic Man, and thereby represents the base or foundation of all external things, as well as the mechanical forces of humanity.
11It is the natural emblem of patient servitude and of obedience.
12On the esoteric planisphere, this sign is occupied by Ephraim and Manasseh, the two sons of Joseph, who received their portion in Israel as being the two feet of the Grand Archetypal Man. [Sic: the Spanish prints las dos hijas, the two daughters.]
13This sign also indicates to us the divine project of the great cycle of necessity — begun with the eruptive, dazzling and dominating fire of Aries, to end at the opposite pole, water, symbol of universal equilibrium. [Sic: the Spanish prints cielo for ciclo, and Artes for Aries.]
14The mystic gem of Pisces is the chrysolite (white and refulgent).
15Pisces is the last emanation of the trigon of Water and the domicile of Neptune (and that of Jupiter in nocturnal birth, according to traditional astrology).
16On the intellectual plane, Pisces represents mental indifference.
17It is the pole opposite the head.
18Those who are governed by its influence manifest a particular indifference toward all that generally interests others.
19They take all things as they come, paying attention to none.
20They live and die according to the words of Saint Paul: "being all things to all men".
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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