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.
“Nicomaxia vitae” (The victorious battle of life)
The title of our engraving invites us to fight for our lives, to fight for our Christ, and the Latin words, translated, tell us that everything is, in truth, an absolute vanity…
“Dvm tempvs labitvr, occasionem frente capillatam remorantvr” (While time flees, they retain, apparently, the long-haired opportunity)
This engraving clearly speaks to us of the imperative need to seize the opportunity ─Occasio─ and retain it in order to take advantage of it, as the engraving shows us. Young people represent humanity in general when they become ─at least temporarily─ aware of knowing how to steal from time the opportunities that sometimes appear in the course of it.
“Tempvs et occasio sva explicant mvnia” (Time and opportunity declare their duties, Theodoor Galle)
V.M. Samael always insisted on the need to break with the implacable destiny that always leads us to stupidly comply with the mechanicity with which we are manipulated from existence to existence. This struggle is posed in the so-called Revolution of Consciousness, with its three factors that are well-defined in our doctrine…
“Horologium auxiliaris tutelaris angeli” (The Angel-Guardian’s Clock)
Unquestionably, all of us who try to live the Secret Path that Gnosis teaches us, must be very clear about the immediate need to know how to pray, to know how to live and to know how to die.
Mystical enthusiasm is a basic ingredient in the permanent search for the BEING.
It is such enthusiasm that opens to us the doors of ideas, superior archetypes, the COMPREHENSION of the Gnostic work and the corresponding continuity of purposes.
“Natura conspice sortem” (Observe the fate of Nature)
Mysteriously, this engraving illustrates to all of us those two aspects of God Mother that our V.M. Samael Aun Weor comments abundantly in his works.
Mvndvs delirans, non sapit, qvae dei svnt
The sleeping humanity, which has no sacred individuality, appreciates more the things that constitute the egoic fantasy instead of longing to get closer to the Christic world.
Prudence is the fundamental virtue we must attain in order to observe whether changes have occurred in our inner work.
This artistic work represents the cruelty, hypocrisy, selfishness that poisoned the heart of human societies now living on the face of the Earth.