January 1946; Year V opens with the wrapper's lower block reset in lighter mixed-case type — the first cover change since Nº 28.
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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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1This points to the duty incumbent on each one to know all that concerns the various bodies, or the Field, of which we are the Knower — using the phraseology of the sacred books.
2Such knowledge is essential as concerns the use and ordering of those bodies, as also that the attainment of the divine dispensation, or evolution, ordained as the human culmination, may be possible.
3In referring to man's bodies, one must guard against any idea that such bodies could be constructed of lifeless matter — for the very simple reason that no such thing exists anywhere.
4For this motive, these bodies — instinct with life, and possessing a peculiar will and feelings — impose on their owner the duty of keeping them in perfect harmony.
5And that duty proves inescapable, since we must work with and through them, and not otherwise, in the purpose inherent in the realisation of our elevated destiny.
6Expressed in other terms: we must consider and keep our bodies as if they were reliquaries in whose recondite folds dwells the All-beneficent Spirit — our real Self and only Redeemer.
7Thus, then, it is our duty to preserve them always pure, healthful and in condition to respond to our requirement.
8The value of the truths brought to light by the previous analysis of the constitution of the Macro- and Microcosm is evident.
9We mean by this what the four states of Samsara express, and the 24 elements sustained and animated by the ONE LIFE, immanent in things — which is invoked by the Aryan in its Iccha,
10Jnana and Kriya aspects, under the respective names of Savitri, the World Mother; Saraswati, the principal Fount of Wisdom and Knowledge; and Gayatri, the Saviour.
11It will be well to call attention to an explanation given by Hamsa Yogui in his masterly commentary on the Gita, concerning the true meaning and importance of the terms Sankhya and Yoga as used in the text.
12According to his criterion, the term Sankhya is used in the scripture in a very special sense and certainly does not connote the system of thought expounded by Kapila and his disciples.
13Sankhya is the generic term comprehending the three paths: Knowledge, Devotion and Action — that is, Jnana, Bhakti and Kriya; a term used in contradistinction to Yoga, which expresses the reunion and synthesis of those three; or, said in another manner, a term expressing their perfect fruition.
14This point of view of the commentator is founded on the elevated authority of ancient Masters of the Brahma Vidya, among whom stands the prominent Narada.
15The Karika of the Rishi, touching the point under consideration, says thus: The Sruti affirms that the Synthetic Science of the Absolute, of four feet, involves two principal points: the one is Sankhya and the other is Yoga.
16Those knowers teach that such science is twofold — that is, of triple nature (Tritwa) and Unitary (Ekatwa).
17Of these two principal divisions, Sankhya, the first, comprehends the three disciplines or paths: KNOWLEDGE (Jnana), DEVOTION (Bhakti) and ACTION (Kriya). · 13
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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