VOPUS Gnosis > Alchemy
The paradise of the bridegroom and bride, Philip Galle

“Reciproca sponsae sponsiqve ad hortum suum invitatio” (A mutual invitation from the bride and groom to their garden)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Reciproca sponsae sponsiqve ad hortum suum invitatio” (A mutual invitation from the bride and groom to their garden) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

To experience the CHRISTIC LOVE we will need to be betrayed ─hence the bag of coins that appears in the Christic garden─, we will need to experience the three nails of the Redeemer’s cross, we will suffer the crown of thorns ─internally speaking─,  we will be victims of the insolence of the Ego ─see the whip─, we will have to acquire the Christic will ─marked by the hammer─, etc., etc., etc.

Hope, seed of faith, Hieronymus Wierix

“Speis fidei semen promissae firma salvtis anchora, per christvm gavdia restitvit” (Hope, seed of faith, firm anchor of promised salvation, restores happiness through Christ)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Speis fidei semen promissae firma salvtis anchora, per christvm gavdia restitvit” (Hope, seed of faith, firm anchor of promised salvation, restores happiness through Christ) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

We see in the center of it a winged female figure on an anchor, with a laurel wreath on her head, sowing wheat and pointing to the sky. She is the VIRGIN MOTHER NATURE ─that is why she wears laurels on her head─ and at her feet the ANCHOR that, in addition to allegorizing the three primary forces, represents in Masonry the end of the hermetic work.

Mirror of Rosicrucian wisdom, Theophilus Schweighardt Constanties

“Speculum sophicum rhodostauroticum” (Mirror of Rosicrucian wisdom)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Speculum sophicum rhodostauroticum” (Mirror of Rosicrucian wisdom) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am pleased to send you this engraving entitled: “Speculum sophicum rhodostauroticum” (Mirror of Rosicrucian wisdom). The book was signed with the name Theophilus Schweighardt Constanties.

God Mercury, Chapel of the Zodiac, the Malatestian Temple in Rimini, Italy. By Agostino di Duccio

God Mercury
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
God Mercury 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am sending you this image of the God Mercury, bas-relief in the Chapel of the Zodiac of the Malatestian Temple in Rimini, Italy. The author is the Italian sculptor Agostino di Duccio (1418-1481).

Laboratory of the common chemists, Johannes Friedrich von Rain

“Laboratorium chymicorum vulgarium” (Laboratory of the common chemists)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Laboratorium chymicorum vulgarium” (Laboratory of the common chemists) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This precious engraving, dear readers, is a call that this Slovenian Adept has made to all seekers who continue to pretend that the Golden Fleece is a material object, forgetting that it refers to that most sacred part that we call in Gnosis the intimate Christ.

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

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