This engraving teaches us that for our alchemical garden to flourish we need to work with our Lucifer and the three primary Forces of Creation, all watched over by our Divine Mother, Stella Maris within.
When humanity wants to subsist without the values of the Spirit, of the BEING, which are love, ethics, morality, etc., everything is shrouded in confusion and disharmony and becomes a failed germ.
The mysteries of Alchemy intertwined with Greek Mythology show us the great realities that exist in the background of the greatest of the arcana in the history of mankind.
The prudent virgins and the foolish virgins
When we want to study the subject of Alchemy, it is necessary to study the prudent virgins and on the other side the foolish virgins of the portico of the Cathedral of Erfurt in Germany.
Este grabado de Albert Durero es la alegoría de la juventud, la madurez y la vejez. El autor quiere enseñarnos como se exprimen la belleza de la juventud, nunca perder la inspiración, la imaginación y no caer en la entropía y la dejadez.This engraving by Albrecht Dürer is an allegory of youth, maturity and old age. The author wants to show us how to express the beauty of youth, never lose inspiration or imagination, and never fall into entropy or complacency.
“Visit the interior of your philosophical land that by rectifying you will find the hidden stone’ – the Philosopher’s Stone ─ it is the path to the Intimate Self-Realization of the Self. Such is the teaching of this engraving entitled “The reward of work and diligence”.
Este grabado que pertenece a la Biblioteca Herzog August, Alemania, nos enseña que para ingresar en el reino del Espacio Abstracto Absoluto necesitaremos del pensamiento lógico superior que a se vez, pertenece a la razón objetiva del SER.
Este presente grabado, atribuido a Marten de Vos (1532-1603), nos muestra que las virtudes conquistan los vicios.
This engraving entitled “The Power of Truth” shows us that it is shocking, raw and truthful, that it is fairness, equanimity, balance. Truth is the very core of our own IMMUTABLE AND OMNISCIENT BEING.
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu wants to share with us some reflections on four important and very enlightening alchemical engravings.
Epistle or letter to a hungry and thirsty soul. The convincing devil.
This engraving, produced by the illustrious Jakob Böhme (1575 and 1624), is a dialogue between a hungry soul, the devil, and an enlightened soul, directly to an addressee, Siegmund Johann von Schweinichen.
This engraving by the German philosopher Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), is an allusion to the work on ourself and to what we Gnostically call SECOND BIRTH or TO BE BORN AGAIN.
On the choice of grace
But what do we refer to when we speak of the STATE OF GRACE? Without a doubt, we are referring to the search for the salvation of our soul or the values that pertain to it, that is to be in a state of GRACE.
Contemplation of divine revelation
First of all, we must know that this illustration was the work of the great German mystic named Jacob Böhme. This engraving is the title page of a work by the aforementioned author and the publishers asked Jacob Böhme 177 theosophical questions, of which the author answered 15.
Signatura rerum
The engraving in question was made by Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) in one of his posthumous works. For many of the researchers this book is considered one of the most difficult of his writings.