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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 41 · September 1945
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1T. X. Second Demonstration. Man finds himself, nevertheless, in an absolute dependence on his physical and sensible ideas, because he can have no idea of any sensible object unless it communicates its impressions to him.
2Comparatively, ideas lead man to secondary ideas and, by a kind of induction, the knowledge of present objects makes him formulate conjectures about distant objects.
3T. XI. Besides sensible ideas, man possesses another class of ideas: those of a law, of a Power that directs the Universe, those of the Order that presides over it and, finally, those of the Harmony that seems to engender and conduct everything.
4Man, though he cannot create a single idea, has nevertheless that of a force and of a superior wisdom which is the term of all laws, that which is at the base of all harmony: the support and centre whence emanate, and where terminate, all the Virtues of beings. T. XII. Given that these last ideas, absolutely different from the first (physical and sensible), cannot be produced by the reflex action of the objects that surround us; and given that no idea in man can awaken without an external intervention — it results that Man finds himself in a state of dependence, whether as regards his intellectual ideas or as regards his sensible ones.
5He is neither their master nor their author, because he is obliged to wait for external or superior reactions to intervene to give them birth.
6Man cannot occupy himself with any object whatever and be sure of reaching the goal without being deflected from it by the influence of a thousand foreign ideas and painful, importunate rules that pursue him, obstructing and impeding his most agreeable intellectual enjoyments. T. XIII. Conclusion.
7— It having been demonstrated that Man and Nature possess invisible and immaterial faculties (Creative Powers) anterior and necessary to the production of their works; and it having been established, on the other hand, that Man is subordinated, in his physical and sensible or intellectual ideas, to an external or superior influence — it results incontestably that there exist Powers of an order much superior to his and to those of Nature: thinking intellectual faculties analogous to Man's, which produce in him the movers of his thought. T. XIV. Nevertheless Man, though passive in his sensible and intellectual ideas, possesses the faculty of examining the ideas presented to him, of judging them, of adopting or rejecting them, and of acting afterwards according to his choice — with the hope of attaining, one day, the enjoyment of pure thought.
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Six articles, and the number's centrepiece is textual scholarship: a theorem-form digest of Saint-Martin's second book, translated from the French review Eon.
The chronology approaches Wilhelmsbad: the Swedish protest (Charles of Sudermania's resignation), Joseph de Maistre's Memoir against the templar legend — proposing masonry devote itself to "the religion of humanity" and the reunion of the churches — and the opponents gathering: Bode the Aufklärer, Knigge directing Dittfurth from the shadows for Weishaupt's Illuminati.
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The planet-in-house series resumes with MARS through the twelve houses — the course's reference apparatus continuing after the twelve-sign arc; the malefic's catalogue kept with all its period severity (the twelfth house's "capital sentence with long detentions").
The orange monograph: Kapila's longevity serial devotes an entire instalment to one fruit — mineral-salt percentages, uterine therapeutics, the pregnant reader addressed directly, and the closing prescription of two or three glasses of juice daily. The praxis layer carries it.
The Gita Bashya introduction concludes: the six Gitas of the first section mapped, the 26-chapter INTEGRAL MAN, and Subramania's 1922 appeal for "the distinguished support necessary" to print a thousand-page volume — the Mandala's publishing programme documented from Guindy House.
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Hamsa Yogui's allegoresis: the blind King as the dark part of man, the Pandavas as the bright, and the Gita as the answer to "WHAT AM I IN THIS BUNDLE OF STRUGGLING ELEMENTS?" — sealed with Delphi's "KNOW THYSELF" and the hermetic "AS ABOVE, SO BELOW": the S.D.M. joining Sanskrit hermeneutics to the Western maxims its Montevideo readers already hold.
The three grades of discipleship (PARI PRASNA, PRANI PATHA, SEVA) with Arjuna typifying all three — the passage the praxis layer carries as the number's second practice text.
The Tableau Naturel, digested in theorems: an anonymous S. I. reduces each chapter of Saint-Martin's second book to numbered theorems with reasonings and axioms — published in Eon (May 1923), translated by Pitágoras. The estate holds the Tableau Naturel itself, repaired this season; this study is the run's reading-guide to it.
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The editorial note dates and places the source: composed in Paris "on the advice of some friends", published Lyon 1782 — the year of Wilhelmsbad, the same year the chronology two articles earlier has just reached: the number's quiet symmetry.
The study's honesty about its own source: Theorem V breaks off mid-sentence and the translator's footnote records "a printing error in the original publication: the same paragraph is repeated" — Eon's defect documented, not repaired, exactly as this edition treats its own retype faults.
Principle Liberty and Effect Liberty — the study's central distinction: the faculty of choosing even in slavery versus the freedom of the man who "admits only his own law". Saint-Martin's doctrine of liberty rendered as a two-term scheme a course-student can hold.
The two Causes: Evil as an inferior cause powerless against essence, able only to "insinuate her disordered action into particular Beings" — Pasqually's cosmology speaking through Saint-Martin's more abstract register; the chronology's doctrine and the study's doctrine are one lineage shown at two removes.
The strangest theorem printed this year: Evil's relation to Good given as arithmetic — "in quantity, nine to one; in intensity, zero to one; in duration, seven to one" (T. XXIX) — Saint-Martin's number-doctrine transmitted without softening or explanation.
The chemistry serial opens on the Adepts who render poisons innocuous by tuning wavelengths — "the modus operandi must remain secret" — then pivots, without blinking, to Marfori's university pharmacology textbook: the column's standing method of setting occult claim and academic source side by side.
Marfori quoted honestly to the edge of the argument: Schmiedeberg's stereochemistry preferred, and the confession that "we still do not know the reason why the molecule of one substance acts in a determinate manner" — the serial rests its occult wavelength theory exactly on academic ignorance, cited fairly.
The toxicology taxonomy — exogenous/endogenous, caustic/toxic, mithridatism among the defences — period pharmacology systematised for the lay reader before the promised turn to foods.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 24.
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Library back cover and imprint close the number.
Mars in the sixth house sorted by sign-quality — anginas in fixed signs, tuberculosis in common, burns in cardinal — the medical astrology layer at its most systematised.
The orange's percentages run improbably high (38-40 % potassium salts) — the serial's enthusiasm outrunning its chemistry; the figures are printed as transmitted.
Arjuna's three states close the introduction: confession of ignorance, self-offering, obedient combat "completely detached from personal motives" — the karma-yoga core the Mandala's edition builds its discipleship grades upon.
Theorems X-XIV: man passive in both sensible and intellectual ideas, yet retaining "the faculty of examining… judging… adopting or rejecting" — Saint-Martin's anthropology compressed to its hinge between dependence and freedom.
Theorem VII's image — the belly nourishing the superior organs as dung and dews nourish the Earth — the Tableau's earthy physiology of the intellectual order, kept whole in the digest.
"It is in the motive that Evil can reside, and not in the object" (T. XX) — the study's ethical centre: evil located in intention, God impassible, man the sole author of his corruption.
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