Dearest friends:
I am sending you the Latin text and a translation of an engraving that appears in the same book: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus, written by Daniel Meisner.
The title of this engraving is as follows:
IN SUMMIS PERICULIS HOMO VIVIT SECURUS
─‘Man lives carefree also in extreme dangers’─
Phrase in Latin:
Mortales parvit pendunt discrimina Vitae, quodquod et audacter pro libitu peragunt.
‘Mortals value little the crucial moments of life and boldly live their lives for the sake of pleasure’.
THE POSSIBLE TRANSLATION OF THE GERMAN TEXT ALSO: ‘The children of this world have very little regard for the danger of death in which they find themselves. They do everything with reckless courage, only what pleases them’.
My dear readers:
This engraving illustrates the various consequences that arise when our consciousness becomes sleepy. Countless times that state of our Consciousness does not even perceive the risks and dangers in which we get into on many occasions in life, and all because we want to perhaps amaze our fellow men with our crazy acts.
Just as we see the gentleman in our engraving attempting to climb over some sharp thorns using a kind of rope to reach the top of a lamp post, such recklessness could very well cost him his life and all for the sake of wanting to prove to himself and to his fellow men that he is capable of making such maneuvers that, in his opinion, others could not perform.
Here, once again, we witness the lack of common sense, which, as our Venerable Master Samael so well expressed in his time: “It has become the least common of the senses.”
Our lives are already full of dangerous situations that can arise at any moment in our daily lives; we certainly do not need to go looking for such situations just to elevate ourselves and boast in front of others.
Let us remember here the trapeze artists who wander around as part of the circus staff who come to our cities to perform their stunts that on many occasions have cost the lives of such protagonists. There is no doubt that this kind of situation is caused by the “I” of EXHIBITIONISM and the “I” OF PRIDE. Both combine at such moments to satisfy an equally sleepy audience, which is amazed to contemplate such puppets.
When the atomic bomb was tested in the United States of America, a battalion of soldiers was taken to a desert in which the Machiavellian device would be detonated. These soldiers were asked to observe what would happen and not to be afraid while contemplating the atomic mushroom. Those poor soldiers, unaware of the dangers of radiation, obeyed what they were told and when the bomb exploded they were all irradiated. As a result, they all died of cancer, some immediately and others over the years. Such is our vaunted civilization, dear friends.
There are countless absurd things we do throughout our lives, and we justify them all with rhetoric about progress, the homeland, and an endless string of nonsense.
I now add a few quotations for your reflection:
“Men are not careful enough to guard against what should be avoided.”
Horace
“Recklessness always precedes calamity.”
Appian
“Rarely is a single act of imprudence committed. After the first recklessness, the second is usually committed and we still fall short.”
Nietzsche
“All men are crazy and, despite their best effort, they differ only in that some are crazier than others.”
Boileau
“It is better to be among crazy people than to be around a fool.”
Joaquín Setantí
LEGI, INTELLEXI, CONDEMNAVI.
─‘I read, I understood, I condemned’─.
KWEN KHAN KHU
