Memra.
Studii de traditie ezoterica / Etudes de traditions esoteriques.
1934--1935 Monthly, quarterly (?)
Bucharest, Romania.
Language: Romanian.
Editor: Marcel-Mihail Avramescu.
1/1, December 1934-1/2-5, January-April 1935.

Only two numbers were issued. This was published by Marcel Avramescu (1909-1984), a Jew who had been converted to Orthodoxy and a surrealist and Guenonian, translator of Dante, and future Orthodox cleric, as a journal of "studies of the esoteric tradition." Mircea Eliade, who may have introduced Avramescu to the works of Guenon, contributed several articles, including an article on Sri Auribindo, under the pseudonym "KRM," which is unexplained, and several others, and several articles under his own name.

Guenon planned to contribute a series on the initiatic possibilities in Western traditional forms, but published only "Conditiile initierii" ("Y'a-t-il encore des possibilites initiaques dans les formes traditionnelles occidentales?") which was republished in Etudes Traditionnelles, January-February 1973. The title of the journal means "word" in Hebrew and Aramaic. On the journal, see Paul Cernat, "Recuperarea lui Ionathan X. Uranus," online at http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Recuperarea-lui-Ionathan-X.-Uranus*articleID_14491-articles_details.html. On Eliade's involvement, see Marcello De Martino, Mircea Eliade esoterico: Ioan Petru Culianu e i "non detti" (Roma: Edizioni Settimo Sigilio, 2008), 64, 395-396; and Marcel Tolcea, Eliade L'Esoterique (2017).

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