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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13rd FACE (11.° to 15°): Indicates a person of more abundant flesh, more agreeable aspect, a full and oval face, beautiful broad eyebrows and a developed forehead.
2A person of rather small stature; straight, and not very thick of waist.
3If Saturn, Venus or the Dragon's Tail are found in this face, they will indicate a wandering, agitated, vagabond life and a mediocre intelligence.
44th FACE (16.° to 20.°): Medium stature, an elongated and freckled face, a broad forehead and abundant eyebrows, small eyes, dark or black, a narrow chin.
5The hair is black and at times wavy, and the arms, hands and feet are small.
65th FACE (21.° to 25.°): A very well proportioned person, regular features, a rounded face, greyish eyes, a fleshy well-made nose, a dimpled chin, a good and smiling aspect and dark hair.
7Degree 25 makes the person paler and extremely amiable.
8Degree 22 contains the fixed star Markab, which announces violent accidents and wounds by fire, electricity or steam.
96th FACE (26.° to 30.°): A small person, slight, weak or thin.
10The face is marked by freckles or pimples and at times by small spots; the complexion is dark and the hair dark.
11This face contains the fixed star Scheat of Pegasus, which is violent, of the vibration of Saturn, and prognosticates danger of death by water. [Sic: printed Scheal.]
12INFLUENCES OF THE FACES OF PISCES ON THE ASCENDANT (according to old authors). lst FACE [Sic: the ordinal is printed with a letter ell]: A dexterous and ingenious person, a lover of study, of arts or sciences — especially astronomy and astrology, in which they may distinguish themselves.
132nd FACE: A prudent person, wise, intelligent, just and honest, calm, who bears injuries with patience, but difficult to appease when he comes to be seized by indignation or wrath.
143rd FACE: A good character, just and honest; but if Saturn, Venus or the Dragon's Tail should be present, there will be a lack of will and of energy.
154th FACE: A loyal, honest and obliging person, of good judgment, good intelligence and inclined to the study of arts and sciences.
165th FACE: An affable person, amiable and frank, good to his friends but implacable with his enemies, who desires the good of human society. 6th FACE: A very intelligent person but somewhat rustic and pretentious, in continual dispute with those who do not share his opinions.
17THE FACES OF PISCES ON THE MIDHEAVEN. FIRST: Honours and popular consideration, common and local fame.
18This is more clearly noted if Saturn or the Dragon's tail is found here, or if this place receives the opposition of Mars.
19SECOND: Indicates a modest but happy situation throughout life, with the consideration and esteem of those around.
20THIRD: Effeminate tastes and disdain for serious occupations.
21FOURTH: Religious elevation, or a position in the magistracy or the like.
22FIFTH: Success through women or the people of the Church.
23SIXTH: Displeasure, adversities and an existence full of obstacles and misery. · 8
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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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