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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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1body to the Guru, and who puts himself immediately in contact with the Spiritual Currents of the Great Fraternities, it will be like "plunging gently into a sweet sleep without dream"; he performs this labour with ease and full consciousness, without any kind of discomfort or disturbance.
2Generally the Gurus borrow a body when they believe it necessary to live in the proximity of men.
3The temporary occupation made by an Adept in one of his disciples must not be confused with the permanent occupation and adoption of a body already prepared by a Master whose work and mission obliged him to act physically here on Earth.
4The Great Hierarchs who construct their own Body to carry out their immense labour necessarily make it very sensitive, and for this reason it requires the utmost and most delicate care, since it must always be "well tuned" and in unsurpassable condition, to be a perfect "radio antenna" by which he may receive and transmit messages related to his Labour.
5If the Great Hierarchs lived with their Body among us — surrounded by every kind of noise, by the maleficent vibrations of the low Mental Planes and by the continual bombardment of dense vibrations of the Physical Plane — they would soon fall ill; hence it is necessary for them to withdraw from the worldly bustle and isolate themselves in far-off, inaccessible retreats.
6The Royal and Divine Hierarchy once established in Shamballa, the Great Instructors began to prepare for their labour — some of whom would incarnate physically again in different epochs and personalities.
7So did the Lord Buddha, who was successively Vyasa, Hermes Trismegistus, the first of the twenty-nine Zoroasters — Instructors of the Fire — Orpheus in Greece, and incarnated at last in the North of India as Prince Gautama, wandering through the Valley of the Sacred Ganges for forty-five years, tirelessly preaching the Divine Law and the Perfect Wisdom and gathering around him those who in previous lives had been his disciples.
8Shamballa sent also Him who was at one time the Divine Master Jesus, who at present occupies the body of a great Master living in the Middle East.
9The Governor of the World, the Great King of Shamballa, the Sole Initiator of the Great Hierarchs, sends from time to time One of his Favourite Sons into the World to re-establish the Law, when men sink into iniquity and materialism.
10He sent lately the Lord Buddha, Sankaracharya, Ramakrishna, the Maharishi and others of Lesser Hierarchy, who during a short life established in the East certain Spiritual Centres called Mathas, Ashrams, Temples, Monasteries, and influenced, each in his own way, the spiritual life of India and other places — founding also Schools which were Beacons of Light that illumine the hearts of men, awakening in them the Divine Spark and setting in action the Sacred Fire of Devotion and Love for spiritual things.
11Now we shall make pass panoramically before our eyes all the Sacred Places, the Mathas, the Ashrams, the Temples and Monasteries where veneration and work are carried on by the Great Hierarchs, beginning with Asia and ending with the Americas.
12May the Blessings of the Great Hierarchs and of the
13H. A. B. M. pour themselves upon all those who suffer sorrows in these terrible moments for humanity.
14May the Spiritual Forces reigning in Shamballa, on the day of the Full Moon of Wesak, spread themselves over the world of the afflicted — over the sorrowing mothers whose sons were sacrificed by the egoism of men. [Sic: the Spanish prints Wewak.]
15OM Mani Padme Hum · 14
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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