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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 38 · June 1945
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1of the Great Sacred Flower which, in Mysterious, Millennial and Mystical India, is commemorated with especial rejoicing.
2White Lotus!
3Sacred flower!
4Thou symbolisest the evolutionary process of man!
5Thy roots in the mire, thy daring stem crossing the still or turbulent waters of the lake sustain thy magnificent flower, which opens at the surface to receive directly the vivifying effluvia of the radiant Solar Light.
6The fundamental idea of this symbol is very beautiful.
7It represents the incarnation of the subjective in the objective; it is the Divine Ideation, passing from the concrete abstract form to the concrete visible form.
8The future immaculate petals of the Lotus are conformed within its seeds, absolutely complete, such as they will be in their future form.
9So too is the being that forms in the maternal womb.
10Here is one of the many analogies of this plant with the human being.
11The Lotus is, then, that delicate flower of philosophical and religious significance, consecrated to Nature and to the Gods, and representing the Universe in the abstract and in the concrete, being the emblem of the productive powers, of spiritual as of physical nature.
12It is a plant of highly occult qualities.
13Sacred in Egypt, in India, in Tibet and in all Asia, they call it "The Son of the Universe", because it bears in its bosom the likeness of the mother.
14Maha Maya, Mother of Gautama the Buddha, the Saviour of the world, is annunciated by the Bodhi Satwa with a Lotus flower between his hands.
15Thus the expression of the Bhagavad Gita — "O Thou Eternal One, I see Brahma the Creator enthroned in thee, upon the Lotus" — is confirmed in the perfect realisation of the Holy Buddha.
16This marvellous flower symbolises also the man who, fallen into the mud of materiality, passes through the sorrows and struggles of life across multiple incarnations, geared into the Wheel of Eternal Life, finally to open his spiritual corolla at the summit of his marvellous evolution.
17Exquisite and mysterious flower, that symbolisest all that is sacred!
18Thou wast chosen by a people of Sages and Saints from the remotest times of ancient India.
19Thou openest thy corolla too in the serene, perfumed penumbra of all the Sacred Temples of Tibet — temples so loved by the Great Teacher Helena Petrowna Blavatsky.
20May the chaste perfume of all these white flowers pour their essence upon her soul, as homage to her tireless labour.
21Honour and praises to thee, Great Soul consecrated to the good of Humanity! Honour also to thy distinguished companion of labour, the Venerable Colonel Henri Steel Olcott, honoured servant during the hard and heroic struggles to sustain the Truth unimpaired!
22A faithful and sincere collaborator, he helped thee to found the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875 — a work that radiated its light, scattering knowledge through the whole world.
23Venerable and beloved Upasika!
24May, by the virtue of thy love, all the wickednesses, the vexations, the jealousies, the hatreds, the calumnies, the envies and the lies which thy knowledge and thy greatness awakened in the hearts of the mediocre and small of soul, be transformed into beautiful and perfumed lotus flowers; and so may thy memory be ever remembered with affection and with respect, on the day of Universal Love, of the White Lotus, the day of Peace, 8 May, when once more in our year · 11
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead stereotype unchanged.
Seven articles; the number pairs its two fraternity pages — the White Lotus memorial and the Shamballa foundation myth — around the twelve houses.
The Profession's secrecy anatomised: the degree itself to be unknown, its name borrowed from a mere dignity as camouflage, Joly quoted on the "delicate task" of grafting Reintegration doctrine into rituals not destined for Cohens — while the Cohens alone kept "the secret of its singular cult… its marvellous theurgy".
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The dissident Cohens speak: Pierre Jacques's 1774 letter ("You yourself ought to withdraw from it"), Antonio's 1777 indictment of Hundt's "schisms" and "very chimerical or very veiled" purposes, Saint-Martin's reluctant name on the 1773 petition — the column prints the opposition's correspondence at length, and lets Willermoz be wrong before he is right.
The verdict, balanced: despite the Strict Observance's decadence, the Profession "made it possible to diffuse a parcel of the Master's doctrine" — the chronology's justification of Willermoz, delivered only after his critics have had their full say.
The twelve houses: the course pivots from signs to houses — Julevno's meanings with Jehel's additions printed inline: the 2nd house extended to education, the 8th to "occult inheritance… contact with the true occult traditions", the 12th to "all the Occult Centres of Initiation". The house system esotericised by the editorial desk itself.
Jehel's 12th-house gloss — secret societies read astrologically, "which explains the importance of its astrological relations with the ninth" — the course's most explicit self-reference: the Order reading its own kind in the heavens.
The White Lotus message: Blavatsky memorialised as Upasika with her three books named — The Secret Doctrine "will only be understood and valued at the end of this century" — and Olcott honoured beside her; the Foundation date 17 November 1875 printed. The review's fullest act of theosophical filiation.
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The memorial's closing prayer transforms Blavatsky's enemies' "calumnies, envies and lies… into beautiful and perfumed lotus flowers" — the wounds of the Coulomb era remembered fifty years on, and answered with flowers.
The Shamballa foundation myth in verse and prose: the Regal Chariot from Venus, the Lords of the Flame, Kriyashakti bodies immutable for millions of years — the H.A.B.M. page delivering the Theosophical cosmogony (Sanat Kumara's descent) in its own liturgical register.
The borrowed-body doctrine applied to named figures: Jesus "at present occupies the body of a great Master living in the Middle East"; Buddha's prior lives as Vyasa, Hermes, the first Zoroaster, Orpheus; Ramakrishna and the Maharishi among the recent envoys — and the page ends on the war: blessings "over the sorrowing mothers whose sons were sacrificed by the egoism of men".
The Krishnamurti question, addressed by name: does Mitra Deva's "Instructor of the World" clash with the title "already borne by the Beloved Krishnamurti"? The reply — "The sacred admits no polemic" — declines the fight while the whole article answers it doctrinally: hierarchies of Lord, Amsa, Instructor, disciple. The run's only direct engagement with the Order of the Star controversy.
The sixteen-Krishna scheme: Mitra Deva first of NINE Great Masters before the sixteenth Krishnavatara "12,000 years from then" — the Mandala's deep-time table printed with its Devi Bhagavata citation; a footnote corrects the circular's date and reports the Avatara "has at times come down from the Himalayas".
Jehel's synthesis joins the estates: Iodhevauhe and Adam-Eve beside Nara — "each human being is also the partial amsa of Nara" — and "Suddhas and Martinists, among others, raise their Mystic Song to the Unity of Life": the review's two doctrinal families formally married, signed 8 May 1945 — VE Day.
The burn-degree table with its survival arithmetic (half the body: death in 6-16 hours; an eighth: after 92) — period surgical pathology, and the serial's coda that heat "is neither beneficent nor maleficent": the energy-neutrality doctrine applied to trauma medicine.
Pictet's frozen fish revived from -15°, frogs at -28°, bacteria at -100° — the cold-tolerance ladder mirroring last month's heat ladder; the serial's symmetry across polarities is deliberate architecture.
"Like heat, cold is in itself indifferent" — the paired conclusion, with cryotherapy and thermocautery as the proof that the same energy heals or destroys by circumstance: the column's recurring monism of energy.
Ramanuja's "Thy Path", June 1945: "The very people who vociferate against the dictators… have not yet been capable of understanding that true liberty depends only in the smallest degree on external causes" — the review's sole, oblique acknowledgment of the war's end: liberation read inward.
The meditation's close — marching "with a pure heart and a mind ample and exempt from prejudices" — ends the number on the individual path, as the run's literary part has done since its first issue.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 23.
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Library back cover and imprint close the number.
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