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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1emanation and the separate measurements of the ionisations due to these rays, given that the same law of decrease rules them.
2By this means is determined the period of the product, in hours: a delicate measurement resting on simple variations of induced currents.
3The period, or life, of a radioactive body, calculated by this method, oscillates between a few minutes and 4 to 5 thousands of millions of years; it is, as can be seen, very great.
4The radioactive transformations set in play the colossal intra-atomic energies, by transmutation or by disintegration.
5Each radioactive body would be a well-determined element, but less stable than those that constitute ordinary matter.
6The phenomena of transformation of the radioactive elements remain until now inexplicable to the savants. One perceives the confusion of their ideas in this respect.
7They have recourse either to the theory of the spontaneously explosive atom, or to the theory of the atom rendered explosive by the action of ultra-X rays.
8Some affirm that these dissociations are exothermic; others, that they are endothermic.
9Jean Becquerel thinks that chance presides over these states of disintegration, but recognises, on the other hand, that atomic evolution is rigorously determined.
10My God, how clear all this is!
11And yet, when one of these gentlemen sees white, another sees black — or the same gentleman says at once yes and no.
12For the alchemist, on the contrary, the question is clean: the atomic splittings — neither more nor less mysterious than the other phenomena of life — correspond to the states of death and of birth, always simultaneous, of the infinite number of atomic individualities that compose the Universe. [Sic: the Spanish prints interno, for infinito.]
13These phenomena are of an order subtler than those affecting the combinations of atoms or molecules known to classical chemistry; but they are of the same nature.
14Radioactivity is simply a state of atomic energy in which electro-magnetism — that is, the psychism or soul of the atoms — appears, in some manner, in its nakedness; but, in reality, it is always the same power that works: that gathers and disperses, that creates and destroys, that clashes and overturns myriads of ephemeral individualities, with the purpose of maintaining, in a rhythm that surpasses us and consequently escapes us, the harmony of the Cosmos, whose incessant disequilibria are necessary for the integral equilibrium.
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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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