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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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1H. A. B. M.
- H A B M
- H A B M
2The Heavens Trembled.
3Fire covered all the Firmament; Wrapped in Tongues of Fire Of Inconceivable Height, Thundering and Lightening, There descended the "Regal Chariot" With the Divine "Sons of the Fire", Bringing the "August King", The "Governor of the World",
4Accompanied by the Three Kumaras.
5And his Retinue: the "Regal Chariot" alighted Upon the imperishable "White Island"… Thus was born Shamballa the Divine, The Resplendent Seat Of the Invisible International Government.
6Millions of years ago, it became necessary to prepare the arrival of the "King of the World", so as with his advent to found at the same time the Directing Spiritual Centre, from which would radiate all the different Religious Currents and where the Great Hierarch Founders of the same would also be prepared.
7From Shamballa the Divine Messengers would go forth to preach among men the Holy Law and lead Humanity toward a Road of Wisdom and Perfection.
8To prepare the arrival of the "Sons of the Fire" the epoch had to be chosen in which our Earth should find itself in the most favourable magnetic conditions, a special conjunction of planets being sought for such a happy event.
9When the announced hour arrived — with the Firmament kindled in tongues of fire, wrapped in igneous clouds, with thunderous noise as if the Heavens trembled and all Nature rejoiced — the arrival was announced of the "Lords of the Fire", known also in Shamballa by the name of "Sons of the Flame".
10Then descended the "Regal Chariot" from Inconceivable Heights; the "Lords of the Flame", the Three Great Kumaras and all their Royal Retinue, come from Venus, accompanied the "Governor of the World" and set their Divine Feet for the first time upon the "White Island", the Resplendent and Invisible Shamballa.
11Light of the World...
12Then Shamballa filled with green foliage and perfumed flowers.
13As an offering at the arrival of its King, as homage at the arrival of the "Lord of Eternal and Virginal Youth", as a salute to the New Governor and Administrator of the Invisible International Government, the whole of Nature sent over Shamballa its Perfumed Breath, and the Earth trembled with rejoicing.
14The Supreme Governor of the World, in company with his Three Great Hierarchs, his Assistants and Disciples, took possession of their High Offices for the direction of the Hidden Government.
15The Hierarchs clothed themselves in Glorious Bodies which They themselves formed by the Supreme Power of Divine Yoga called Kriyashakti — since, come from so far, they possessed no physical body properly so called, like mortals, and had the · 12
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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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