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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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1placed, he may often gain money and squander it, being exposed to be left in poverty.
2MARS IN THE THIRD HOUSE, well placed, makes the person astute, brilliant and alert, ingenious, inventive and resourceful.
3If it is not well placed it makes the person an atheist and a fault-finder, causes displeasures and disagreements with the family, gives attraction to travel and produces locomotion accidents in every class of transport.
4MARS IN THE FOURTH HOUSE, well placed, gives a strong constitution with good digestive faculties; an eager disposition to acquire property against adverse times, the person being able to receive an inheritance from his parents.
5Badly placed, it presages danger to the father's life, loss of inheritance, a bad old age, digestive disturbances, an embittered and disputatious character and dangers of death at an early age. [Sic: the Spanish prints presagio, for presagia.]
6MARS IN THE FIFTH HOUSE, well placed, gives an ardent and demonstrative nature in loves, but dominating; a friend of sports and physical exercises.
7If a woman, she will be an inseparable companion.
8Badly placed, it indicates that the person will be fickle and fond of change in his loves, with displeasures and disappointments.
9If a woman, she will have dangers or difficulties in childbirth.
10In either sex it gives danger of the death of at least one child, as well as losses in gaming and in speculations.
11MARS IN THE SIXTH HOUSE, well aspected, gives much vitality, energy and rapidity, but is not favourable for having one's own business.
12If it is not well placed it is harmful to health: in fixed signs it produces anginas, diphtheria, illnesses of the heart and gravel in the kidneys; in common signs, tuberculosis and dejection; in cardinal ones, wounds, burns, affections of the liver and kidneys, rheumatism, fevers and ear-aches.
13In any sign, it produces displeasures with employers, employees and workmates.
14MARS IN THE SEVENTH HOUSE, well placed, in a horoscope of either sex, gives a hard-working spouse, active and devoted to the family.
15In a masculine figure it indicates that the wife will be domineering.
16If it is not well placed it produces a marriage lacking happiness.
17If it is afflicted it occasions divorce, or an accident, or the death of the spouse — who will be disputatious or domineering; and if it is found in water signs he will also be a drunkard or unfaithful — this last especially when situated in Scorpio, in which sign it produces inflammations of the genital organs or of the rectum.
18It also affords unfaithful partners of doubtful morality.
19In quadrature with the Moon there is danger of burns.
20MARS IN THE EIGHTH HOUSE, well placed, gives financial benefits by marriage, probabilities of inheritance and of gains with partners or through judicial litigation.
21Badly placed, it presages violent death, loss of fortune or of inheritances, and a worsening of finances owing to the spouse's extravagances.
22MARS IN THE NINTH HOUSE, very well placed, gives an ample mind, liberal, progressive, elevated and spiritual.
23The person will be a lover of the comfortable life and of journeys, from which he will benefit.
24If it is badly placed, the person will be despotic, · 6
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
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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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