October 1945; the last surviving number of Year IV.
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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 42 · October 1945
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1The gamma rays seem to owe their origin to the sudden expulsion of an electron; they are very penetrating X-rays.
2They are electromagnetic waves whose wavelengths are extremely small.
3They are not of a corpuscular nature. [Sic: the Spanish adds sino metálica, an evident corruption.]
4The secondary rays are of the same nature as the beta; they are formed by electrons whose mean velocity exceeds half the velocity of light.
5The trajectories of these rays are strongly curved and diffuse.
6Finally, the beta rays likewise give origin to secondary beta rays.
7Besides these rays, there exist the luminous rays, visible and invisible, the X-rays, the Hertzian waves.
8All these rays are radiant energy without material support, in the form of electromagnetic waves.
9The Universe may be defined, then, as an irradiation of energy; and we see that force and matter merge in it into a unity, so to speak, absolute — weight being one of the properties of energy.
10Present-day science returns, then, to the ancient doctrine of the hermetists, who taught that the world is an immense organism, a Macrocosm to which the Microcosm is identical.
11It is the Grand Man of the Kabbalah, the body of the Eternal Spirit.
12In reality, the Universe is a Thought, a Power, a living Idea whose integral reality escapes us.
13It is seen, too, how delicate are these divisions of rays and particles, whose frontiers it is almost impossible to trace, and which constitute the undulations or vibrations of the single substance.
14The so-called electronic and ionic irradiation is nothing else than the perpetual manifestation of the soul of Matter, of its eternal life — but ever transformed and renewed.
15THE RADIOACTIVE EMANATIONS. The emanations of radioactive bodies undergo a series of transformations that are revealed by the measure of the induced activity of the emanation upon an object (a plate or metallic wire) charged with negative electricity; this measurement is effected after the cessation of the exposure of the said object to the emanation. [Sic: the printed heading reads EMANCIPACIONES.]
16A decrease of the induced activity is then found, following the exponential law; and a correlation is established between the various rays produced by the · 16
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead stereotype unchanged.
Six articles; Lorelair returns to open the number with her prophecy's reckoning.
The forecast scored: Lorelair's June 1944 prediction — peace visible only "from the end of September to October of this year onward" — is recalled and claimed, the war having ended in August-September 1945. The Nº 29 loading already carries the forward edge to this article; here is its landing. The SUMARIO drops Neptune from her title; the article restores it.
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The article's injunction after victory: "Nor must he permit feelings of defeat or of victory. Only one word must reign: PEACE!" — the review's first postwar number setting reconciliation as practice, closing on "Love one another".
The SUN through the twelve houses — the fourth planet of the reference series; the sixth house named its worst seat, the tenth its surest.
The twelfth house's close: the Sun there "also inclines toward occultism" — the series' habit of ending each planet on the esoteric register.
"Desire" closes on the four powers: TO WILL TO KNOW, TO WILL TO KEEP SILENT, TO WILL TO DARE, TO WILL TO WILL — the Sphinx's to-know/to-dare/to-will/to-keep-silent recast with QUERER as the operator; Mabel Collins's "Light on the Path" quoted; signed only "La Plata".
The Astral Plane page's meditation text — "The Initiator is not a human Being, and the Path is the perfect way of living" — with its two purifying practices in capitals; the praxis layer carries the passage.
The Gita Bashya synthesis resumes: the three invocation verses, Krishna and Arjuna as members of the Spiritual Hierarchy, and AHAMSA — "I AM THAT" — as the Prachina Hamsas' office.
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Why does Vyasa visit the blind King? Compassion for his son, and the Master's duty — the introduction's narrative frame treated as initiation-doctrine: the King as the disciple who cannot yet be taken directly.
The three discipleship grades return with their full Sanskrit apparatus (Jnana Dipa, Viveka, Vairagya, Tapas) and Arjuna's "I am THY disciple. Save me, O Lord" — the number's central practice text, carried by the praxis layer.
Sanjaya's tutorship of the King — Aparaprakriti and Paraprakriti, the Gayatri as the key, the war as "an incident already foreseen" — the S.D.M.'s Gita reading turning the epic's frame-story into a manual of spiritual direction.
The unsigned coda states the three aims of Yoga — know Brahman, know the purpose of individual existence, co-operate in the divine plan — the tidiest summary of the Mandalam's programme the run has printed.
Jollivet Castelot arrives: Papus's collaborator, President of the Alchemical Society of France, translated from Le Voile d'Isis (April 1925) with a full editorial biography — Hyperchimie, Le Rose Croix, La synthèse de l'or. The estate's French-occult shelf gains its chemistry wing; the run's alchemy coverage now has an author with a laboratory.
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Becquerel's physics folded back into Hermes: "present-day science returns to the ancient doctrine of the hermetists… the Grand Man of the Kabbalah" — Castelot's standing move, and the reason the review adopted him.
Castelot's polemical voice survives translation intact: "My God, how clear all this is! And yet, when one of these gentlemen sees white, another sees black" — the alchemist mocking the physicists' confusion over disintegration, 1925.
The hermetist atom: structure as masculine-feminine affinity, "the primordial and absolutely universal law" — set beside Thomson and Rutherford as an equal hypothesis; atoms and stars under identical laws.
The five recipes for gold — thallium minus one alpha, lead minus two alphas and a beta — Rutherford's transmutation results rewritten as alchemical recipes, then dismissed for their "deplorable" yield in favour of the chemical way.
The Lestrade letter, Lyon, 28 November 1924: 125 grammes of virgin silver, orpiment and kermes, the furnace at 1150/1200º, and an assayer's verdict of unweighable traces "approximately 1/4 of a gramme" — the run's most detailed laboratory protocol, printed as testimony.
The Appeal to the Young Chemists: distrust "fashionable theories, algebrism à outrance and the magister dixit… The future of Chemistry is not confined, thank God, to the laboratories of the Sorbonne" — Castelot's manifesto closing the last surviving number of Year IV.
Castelot's critique of infinite divisibility — "the ion and the electron: might they not correspond rather to vital manifestations… of the atomic being?" — hylozoism offered as physics; the era's occult-scientific frontier in one question.
GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 23.
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Library back cover and imprint close Year IV's surviving run.
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