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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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Masthead stereotype unchanged into the new year.

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Seven articles; a new serial appears — Rouxel's kabbalistic theory of music, translated mid-stream (it opens at Chapter II).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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THE MOON through the twelve houses — seventh planet of the reference series, completing Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus and Mercury.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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The photodynamism catalogue — acridine and paramecia, eosin tadpoles, haematoporphyrin mice — real experimental photobiology transmitted intact; the serial's scientific spine at its strongest.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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The skin-action summary — hyperaemia, erythema, pigment as protection, sweat and sebum — dermatological photobiology in period vocabulary, the serial's clinical core.