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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1If we do not transmute the inferior into superior, the suffering it will cause in our wounded personality will be ever greater, and this will increase our degeneration and impurity until we remain enslaved by the vices and gross passions, which will put an end to all our possibilities of advancement.
2The Astral body is built by its prisons. [Sic: the Spanish prints lo construye las prisiones; the sentence is defective as printed.]
3The purer the desire-material, the purer will our dense body be.
4If, in spite of discomforts, an equanimous temperament is cultivated, our artistic or literary tastes will make us engender noble sentiments and exquisite pure emotions in the desire body.
5The cultivation of the higher sentiments is the food of our vehicles.
6Sentiments for loving, intelligence for understanding, and will to unite both and give them life in action.
7The desire body acts through the cerebro-spinal system.
8The occultist who has turned into a bundle of nerves has mistaken the road at some point of the journey...
9The Astral world is the illusory world — but real for him who creates it; and often man is the victim of that plane created by himself.
10The known illnesses of that plane are: hallucinations, obsession, fixed ideas, etc. It is said that the new era will bring mental disturbances.
11Persons dominated by the desire world are more easily made prey of these influences.
12When persons lose control — or those who grow excited and are commonly called nervous — in reality those disequilibria are produced by the foreign forces that act upon the nervous system.
13Gross vibrations widen the astral channels, and through them the foreign forces penetrate the body.
14On the other hand, subtle vibrations open new intellectual and emotional roads that enrich the being.
15The discipline of the Path serves to define the character — that is, to master the emotions and desires.
16All that the Instructors can do in the physical world is to prepare the candidate.
17The Instructor, when he gives the initiation, stimulates the internal part, awakens the subtler emotions and sentiments.
18These vibrations affect in their turn the astral and mental bodies, with the consequent effect on the physical, giving the disciple equilibrium and peace.
19For our meditation we are told: "The Initiator is not a human Being, and the Path is the perfect way of living".
20One of the means of purifying the Astral and mental body is to steep oneself lovingly in the following practices, putting them into action: TO REVERENCE SACRED THINGS AND TO RENDER DISINTERESTED SERVICE TO OTHERS.
21PEACE TO ALL BEINGS · 9
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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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