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La Iniciación — GIDEE Esoteric Journal (1942–1947), English Translation
Contents — 6 chapters
- Presentation of the Magazine (Vol.1 No.1, May 1942)
- Vivisection or Veneration Toward All Masters? (Dr. Jehel, S∴I∴)
- Awakening — poetry (Krish)
- The 72 Types of Individuals — dietary anthropology (Jehel, March 1944)
- The Path of Progressive Superation (on vegetarianism)
- Suddha Dharma Mandalam — the teaching (Jehel)
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Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallels · medium
Read the original · iapsop ↗Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounds · high
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinModern process/evolutionary theology · 1881–1955 CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“L'homme n'est rien d'autre que l'évolution devenue consciente d'elle-même.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Le Phénomène humain (1955), conclusion — 'Man is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.'