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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 V, Nº 45 · January 1946
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1Practical Course of Judicial Astrology — Teachings of Surya, S. I.
2THE INFLUENCE OF THE PLANETS IN EACH HOUSE. We have already seen, in previous numbers, the influences of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus and Mercury in the different houses of the figure.
3Now we shall study those of THE MOON (The planet of fecundation).
4THE MOON IN THE FIRST HOUSE makes the person timid, reserved, fickle, generous and fond of the common people.
5In air signs, or in Virgo, it gives a taste for the study of languages, of occultism and of the sciences.
6In a common or cardinal sign the person is more changeable and agitated.
7In a fixed sign he is more stable, but always erratic.
8He will always be sensitive — especially in the psychic signs Cancer or Pisces — of lively and intuitive imagination.
9Badly placed, it indicates bad health.
10Afflicted by the Sun it causes illnesses of the sight; but well aspected by it, it presages a good marriage. [Sic: the Spanish prints presagio.]
11Well placed in general, it gives good health.
12THE MOON IN THE SECOND HOUSE announces fluctuating financial conditions, good and middling — unless it receives good aspects from Jupiter or Venus, which improve them considerably, promising also public functions.
13Well aspected by the Sun, it signals prosperity.
14THE MOON IN THE THIRD HOUSE gives notoriety — especially when well aspected by Mercury — announcing favourable changes or journeys by land, as also when situated in the 1st, 9th and 12th house.
15It indicates good understanding with the brothers, and a fertile, imaginative mind with a taste for study and mental occupations, especially those of varied character.
16Being afflicted, it presages vexations caused by relatives and frequently the death of many of them.
17THE MOON IN THE FOURTH HOUSE indicates many changes of residence.
18If well aspected it signifies fortunate conditions of the home, a happy and independent old age, favours from women and fortune in foreign countries.
19Badly aspected, it indicates the contrary.
20This position gives a tendency to psychic experiences, especially when found in Cancer or Pisces.
21THE MOON IN THE FIFTH HOUSE gives success in speculations and in love.
22It indicates a fruitful marriage, above all situated in fertile or water signs, especially Scorpio; but badly aspected by Saturn, the children will hardly live.
23Even in the sterile sign of Leo it will give children, if the spouse's horoscope coincides in fertility. [Sic: the Spanish prints e signo.]
24THE MOON IN THE SIXTH HOUSE gives delicate health, especially to woman.
25Badly placed: in common signs it announces illnesses of the bronchi and nervous affections; in fixed signs, illnesses of the throat, heart and genital organs; in cardinal signs it produces affections of the brain, liver, kidneys and stomach.
26The bad aspects of Mars produce inflammations; those of Venus, illnesses of the stomach; those of Jupiter, of the liver or the blood; those of Mercury, mental or nervous ones; and those · 10
Our translation, period-faithful. Citable as our translation, never as the source.
Masthead stereotype unchanged into the new year.
Seven articles; a new serial appears — Rouxel's kabbalistic theory of music, translated mid-stream (it opens at Chapter II).
Wilhelmsbad concluded: the templar legend ratified away, Willermoz's statutes taken as the model, Dittfurth's federation counter-proposal defeated, the ritual commission stacked with professed knights — and the one defeat: the "sacred mystery" of the number 3, sacrificed so the rest would pass.
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The congress's closing theatre: silhouettes cut, medals struck — "Magnus magister totius ordinis" / "tandem aurora lucessit" — and Brunswick and Hesse themselves initiated into martinism by Willermoz during the congress: the column's quiet coup de grâce.
The verdict, double: Daruty quoted for the triumph, Le Forestier for the truth — "a prime work of incoherence". The chronology's habit of letting its sources disagree in public is its scholarship.
Rouxel's kabbalistic music theory: the octave as the circle of all sounds, arithmetic means generating fifth and third, "1+1 does not give 2 in music" — Pythagorean harmonics presented as Kabbalah, with Descartes' Compendium Musicae in the footnotes.
The Descartes footnote on salt and vinegar pleasing more than fresh water — the thirds and sixths defended by seventeenth-century sensualism: the serial's learning is real and cited.
THE MOON through the twelve houses — seventh planet of the reference series, completing Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus and Mercury.
The first Saint-Martin epigraph: "Spirit of man, learn to know thyself. Thou canst not die in essence…" — the review begins salting its pages with the Unknown Philosopher's own sentences, as the estate's Saint-Martin shelf does at full length.
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The four Samsaras (Kriya, Iccha, Jnana, Yoga) mapped in a footnote onto the theosophical bodies — etheric double, astral, causal — with their Sanskrit koshas: the S.D.M. serial translating itself into the vocabulary its Montevideo readers already know.
Sankhya redefined against Kapila's school: the generic term for the three paths (Jnana, Bhakti, Kriya) versus Yoga as their synthesis — the Suddha school's central terminological claim, argued from Narada's Karika.
YOGAH KARMASU KAUSALAM re-read: not "Yoga gives skill in action" but "among the Karmas, Yoga demands the most elevated ability" — the commentary's most consequential reversal of the popular reading, carried by the praxis layer.
The sixfold Dharma table arrives with its columns broken by the retype — glossed as printed, not repaired: the reader sees the type as transmitted, and the gloss says why the rows read strangely.
"Light is a modality of the astral light" — the fototherapy instalment opens by folding photobiology into the occult cosmology, then delivers competent 1940s science: wavelength bands, Finsen therapy, photosensitisation.
The photodynamism catalogue — acridine and paramecia, eosin tadpoles, haematoporphyrin mice — real experimental photobiology transmitted intact; the serial's scientific spine at its strongest.
The Dialogues conclude: the Moral Conscience as "the memory of the human species", the Ego as pearl-necklace of lives, and I.N.R.I. — Igne Natura Renovatur Integra — resolving the dialogue; Anteo's two-finger salute to the golden circle closes Wronski's serial.
Serapio's litany: "what is, is because it is" hammered through fourteen counsels against spiritual vanity — superiority as separateness, flattery as sweet poison, the Master who "wants no adhesions". La Plata's A∴M∴ voice at its most aphoristic.
The closing Saint-Martin epigraph — libraries as pharmacies, "proof of his illnesses… never to render him invulnerable" — the review ending its number by quoting the master against book-learning itself.
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GIDEE prospectus stereotype at page 23, unchanged into 1946.
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Library back cover and imprint open Year V as they closed Year IV.
"The numbers l and 2 are the beginning and end of music, its alpha and omega" — Rouxel's monochord arithmetic at its most kabbalistic; the compositor prints alta for alfa and a letter ell for the one, both mirrored.
The filter paragraph prints its two roles transposed (red passing chemical rays, blue killing thermal) — glossed as printed: the retype's physics faults are documented with the same discipline as its spelling.
The skin-action summary — hyperaemia, erythema, pigment as protection, sweat and sebum — dermatological photobiology in period vocabulary, the serial's clinical core.
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