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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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1THY PATH. By Ramanuja, S. I. [Sic: the ordinal letter is printed as a numeral one.]
2The evolutionary state of humanity — however advanced it may seem to many — is such that man has not yet succeeded in breaking the most elementary bonds that deprive him of the liberty of deciding for himself about his own life.
3Without much risk it may be affirmed that the great majority of the acts man performs obey reasons foreign to his own conscience. [Sic: the Spanish prints e1, with a numeral.]
4The environment acts upon us, and we respond almost always by reaction and very seldom with intelligence or — what is more important still — with will placed at the service of that intelligence.
5The comfortable, the easy, what brings no complications, is the simplest to gear into the wheel of the times; and no one seems to care that it is precisely this that enslaves our dearest aspirations, that annuls the very essence of what each individual is conscious he ought to be.
6Let us be capable of giving our life if anyone presumes to give us the name of slaves — at the same time that we live enslaved without concern.
7It seems logical that in a world of appearances it should be appearances that govern things; the only lamentable thing is that the world is, in spite of appearances — and sooner or later the government of what is arrives.
8The very people who vociferate against the dictators who would deprive us of liberty have not yet been capable of understanding that true liberty depends only in the smallest degree on external causes. [Sic: the Spanish prints liberad, for libertad.]
9No one can deprive of liberty him who is inwardly free.
10It is only necessary to appreciate something more than the form of things to understand the terrible slavery to which our own passions submit us.
11Is it not true, perhaps, that we live dominated far more by our egoism and our own indolence than by anyone's will?
12When will man realise that his happiness does not depend on how much he has, but on how much he is capable of not having?
13Egoism is so false that it suffices that it should have made us attain a thing for that thing to cease to matter to us.
14For man's good fortune, conscience evolves in spite of the passions — perhaps more exactly with the very passions — and what man attains in conscience is permanent: hence the secret of happiness consists in nothing more than acting in accordance with our conscience.
15He who satisfies a passion does nothing but live a moment, of which there will remain to him only the physical consequences and the reactions of his own conscience — which may be, as regards the life of the man, of permanent disapproval.
16It is true that to attain happiness it is not enough to act in accordance with conscience; but it is also true that not to do so is a permanent motive of unhappiness.
17If we human beings were capable of feeling these truths — which each one can and ought to draw from the experience of his own life — we should give much less importance to all those things that have no more permanence than the beautiful light of a shooting star in the firmament.
18And if to this we added the knowledge and the certainty that this life does not end beyond death, and many other certainties…, it occurs to us that the reasons inducing us to think and act for what is really eternal ought to be very powerful.
19But, unhappily, we men content ourselves too much with what we believe we have come to know, and forget that true knowledge is not that which permits us to theorise but to realise; that it is not sufficient to understand certain things — it is necessary to feel them.
20We live as if this life of form and fantasy were eternal, confused perhaps by the sentiment of eternity that comes with us.
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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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