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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1On the physical plane, this sign gives a short body, with abundant flesh, dark hair, pale complexion, "humid" eyes, somewhat dull, like those of fishes; a negative character, timid, inoffensive and unconcerned.
2It gives persons of peaceable nature, whose conduct is influenced by their friendships and by the ambience.
3Among plants, this sign rules: all the marine herbs, ferns and aquatic mosses. Among stones: coral, marine rock, pumice stone, sand and gravel.
4Such are the teachings which, on Pisces, J. Burgoyne, the Rosicrucian author of "Light of Egypt", gives us. THE DECANATES OF PISCES ON THE ASCENDANT (according to Julevno). Pisces characterises, in a general way, persons of medium or small stature, somewhat corpulent, with a pale face whose gaze is dull and as if drowsy, with chestnut hair. [Sic: the Spanish prints estatua, statue, for estatura.]
5The arms and legs are usually short, the shoulders low and round, and the constitution rather weak or sickly.
6The character oscillates from indolent to lazy, of little energy, fond of comfort and rest.
7The person is of slow intelligence and with a tendency to drink.
8This sign governs the feet and is under the dominion of Jupiter and of Neptune.
9The first decanate (first 10 degrees) is ruled by Saturn and indicates a religious character, even fanatical, enthusiastic, but without practical activity.
10This decanate also prognosticates: false friends, difficulties and disturbances in one's position, worries proceeding from children, danger of drowning, quarrels, premature death or grave illness of one of the person's relatives.
11The second decanate (degrees 11 to 20) is under the influence of Jupiter and indicates: a good person, intelligent, very sympathetic, but lacking constancy.
12This decanate usually affords a good situation, success, two marriages or inconstancy in matrimony.
13It also indicates eminent friends, some distinctions, riches or gains through the person's position and merits.
14The third decanate (degrees 21 to 30) is under the influence of Mars and indicates a variable character, timid at certain moments and audacious at others, easily influenced by the opposite sex; a religious, poetic and loving person, but inconstant.
15It also indicates struggles and vicissitudes in fortune and position, help from powerful friends, disturbances in marriage and worries over children; possible success in a foreign country, but with constant danger.
16THE FACES OF PISCES (divisions of 5 degrees), according to classical opinions gathered by Dr. Salmón, indicate: 1st FACE (0.º to 5.°): Medium stature, strong shoulders, a thin and elongated face, dark hair, sunken eyes, a large nose, a wide mouth and a narrow or pointed chin.
17When Mars is found in this face, there is danger of smallpox marks.
18This face indicates diviners and prophets, according to the evolution that incarnates in it.
192nd FACE (6° to 10.°): This face indicates a person of taller stature than the preceding.
20The face is fuller, the complexion lighter and the aspect more agreeable.
21The hair is lighter chestnut, the eyebrows abundant, the mouth wide, and the fingers, arms, legs and feet long.
22Mars in this face indicates smallpox marks, but grants good moral qualities, as well as aptitudes for magnetism.
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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