VOPUS Gnosis > Alchemy
Mirror of Creatures, Theodoor Galle

“Specvluvm creatvrarum” (Mirror of Creatures)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Specvluvm creatvrarum” (Mirror of Creatures) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving was made by the Jesuit Ioanne David (1546─1613) and he developed it in the eighth chapter of his book entitled Dvodecim specvla Devm aliqvando videre desideranti concinnata.

Mirror of Purification

“Specvlvm pvrgativm” (Mirror of Purification)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Specvlvm pvrgativm” (Mirror of Purification) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

Dear readers, this engraving leads us to question our degrees of purity or purification during our journey through the three-dimensional world:
“Specvlvm pvrgativm”, Mirror of Purification

The key to hidden things, Guillaume Postel

“Absconditorum a constitutiones mundi clavis” (The key to hidden things)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Absconditorum a constitutiones mundi clavis” (The key to hidden things) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving has a very profound significance for the scholars of Kabbalah and Alchemy, and, obviously, since we by means of Gnosis are scholars of these two sciences, it is clear that all this subject matter concerns us.

In which Nature represents eternity, Jeremías Drexel

“Consideratio segunda” (SECOND CONSIDERATION. In which Nature represents eternity)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Consideratio segunda” (SECOND CONSIDERATION. In which Nature represents eternity) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

The present engraving, in addition to its beauty, reminds us of the archetypes linked to eternity that we find in the sacred scriptures of all times.

Allegory of chastity, Lorenzo Lotto

Allegory of chastity
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Allegory of chastity 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am glad to send you this oil painting by an artist named Lorenzo Lotto, from the time of 1505. This work is preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The title of this artistic work is Allegory of chastity or Allegory of the Vigilant Sleep of the Soul

Specvlvm Vrens, Burning mirror: The purifying virtue of fire

Specvlvm vrens (Burning mirror)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Specvlvm vrens (Burning mirror) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

But what we must take into account above all, giving it priority in the science that interests us, is the high purifying virtue that fire possesses. Pure principle par excellence and physical manifestation of purity itself, it thus points out its spiritual origin and reveals its divine filiation.

Allégorie de la Prudence. National Gallery, Londres, Tiziano Vecello. (1488-1576)

Prudence 
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Prudence  850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

Prudence is the fundamental virtue we must attain in order to observe whether changes have occurred in our inner work.

Perseverantia, Perseverență, Hieronymus Cock (1510-1570)

Perseverantia 
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Perseverantia  850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

It is said that the alchemical transmutational art requires an enormous dose of patience and its ally, perseverance.

ALLEGORY OF LIFE, The Dream of Raphael - Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582)(1520-1582)

Allegory of life
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Allegory of life 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving shows us, with all its initiatic and alchemical symbols, the Hermetic Way that leads us to the inner self-realization of the Being.

NORMA VIRTUTE ─'Law by means of virtue'─

Norma virtute
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Norma virtute 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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.

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