La Iniciación · Año IV, Nº 38 · June 1945

June 1945; the wrapper prints "Nº." with its period displaced this month — the smallest of the compositor's wanderings, mirrored as printed.

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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 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.

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.