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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1he squared himself before the golden circle.
2Then, very slowly, with a devotion that had almost nothing human about it, he carried the index and middle finger of his right hand to the centre of his forehead and pronounced this word: To thee the glory, the justice and the mercy, for ever and ever.
3Amen. ____________________ WHAT IS, IS BECAUSE IT IS, WITHOUT OTHER CONJECTURE. By Serapio, A. M.
4Little will it avail the initiate if, obstinate in his error, he employs his progress in clothing it with appearances, and his technical efficiency in presenting it to others as a legitimate conquest; because what is, is — and that is error.
5Spiritual conquests are not to be seen as conquests of the self in relation to others, but in relation to the Divinity; because to pretend superiority is to distance oneself from the Absolute and establish separateness.
6And separateness is negation of the Divinity, being error; because what is, is.
7The initiate is not to delight in the contemplation of his own work, with disparagement of that of others; because the first is self-worship and the second pride, children of egoism… and what is, is, because it is. [Sic: the Spanish prints contemp1ación, with a numeral.]
8To magnify one's virtues, to diminish those of others, is not to walk the straight road but, on the contrary, to take the short cut; and the royal road is one thing and the short cut another; because what is, is because it is.
9If, knowing the real value of a thing, he should try to discredit or disown it — as the thing will remain unalterable in its real value, the initiate will lose thereby the time with which to create something similar, or even of greater value.
10And it will be obstinacy; and what is, is.
11The constructive, the destructive, the good, the bad, the better, the worse must exist, from every point of view; more still — one must live with it, in spite of it and drawing experience from it, since it is because it is and must be.
12There will not, there cannot be Hierarchy or degree to justify feelings of superiority; because someone beneath us will be involving what will permit him to outstrip us, and those above may pause to take up again the threads they had left loose — because so it is.
13The initiate may be in disagreement with something, but he cannot be so with someone — because precisely he must be in disagreement with that something of someone; and so it is, it is because it is.
14The initiate must flee flattery as a sweet poison; only his conscience can give him the measure of his merits… and to yield to flattery is complacency, because what is, is because it is.
15If the initiate encourages those who favour his purposes or ambitions — of whatever kind they be, even those called spiritual — forgetting to stretch out his hand to those who with noble purposes are on the road, he will not be upright: because likewise, what is not, is not — and he must be.
16Nor is the initiate to give his adhesion to the Master, because the Master wants no adhesions, nor does he stimulate them.
17He must understand, on the contrary, the Truth on his lips, supporting and defending it.
18And he will recognise the Master because in him is the Truth, apart from all adhesion — and what is, is. · 21
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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