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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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1Kabbalistic Theory of Music (Continuation). By Rouxel.
2CHAPTER II. Constitution of the pitch of sounds. We have said that all music is contained in sound — ergo, in timbre.
3It is now a matter of drawing it out of it.
4What constitutes the difference in the height of sounds — whatever the sonorous source from which they emanate — is the number of vibrations in a given time.
5This number (all else remaining equal) is in inverse ratio to the length of the strings or tubes that produce the sound.
6The longer the string, the slower are the vibrations and the graver the sound; and reciprocally, the shorter it is, the more rapid are the vibrations and the more acute the sound.
7Let us take, for example, a string of such length, diameter and tension that it gives 100 vibrations per second.
8Its half will give, in the same time, 200; its fourth part will give 400; its eighth part will give 800, and so on successively.
9The half will give two vibrations while the whole string gives one; the fourth part will give four, or two against one of the half; the eighth part will give eight against the whole string, four against its half, two against its fourth part.
10If the number of vibrations is considered, we have a geometric progression whose ratio is 2; if the length of the strings is considered, we have the inverse progression whose ratio is -2.
11The sounds corresponding to these dimensions of the string — or, what is the same, to this multiplication of the vibrations — are: the octave (2), the double octave (4), the triple octave (8).
12All these sounds have the same harmonics and, consequently, merge into one another.
13They make two in one and, as can be seen, 1+1 does not give 2 in music.
14With the sounds 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., variety cannot be obtained — an essential condition (with unity) of all the fine arts.
15The division -2 of the string cannot, then, procure us new sounds.
16To obtain new sounds and constitute a tonality, a musical system, one must proceed in another manner — have recourse to another mode of division.
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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