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Not how often, but how well, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum

“Non qvam crebro, sed qvam bene” (Not how often, but how well)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Non qvam crebro, sed qvam bene” (Not how often, but how well) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

Os envío el vigésimo quinto emblema del libro Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘el núcleo de los emblemas más selectos’.

Virtue does not know how to fall and Wherever it is taken, Selectorum Emblematum

“NESCIT LABI VIRTUS” (Virtue does not know how to fall) and “QUOCUNQUE FERAR” (Wherever it is taken)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“NESCIT LABI VIRTUS” (Virtue does not know how to fall) and “QUOCUNQUE FERAR” (Wherever it is taken) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

On this occasion I send you two emblems from the same book: Selectorum emblematum, with the text in Latin and Old French.

Engravings 9 and 59, Selected Emblems, Gabriel Rollenhagen

Two engravings
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Two engravings 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am sending you two emblems or engravings, number 9 and number 59, both from the book Selectorum emblematum – ‘Selected Emblems’ – written by the German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen.

Hope and patience win, Daniel Cramer

“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

In 1630 a book of emblems by Daniel Cramer was published called OCTOGINTA EMBLEMATA MORALIA NOVA ─’eighty new moral emblems’─.
This is the emblem number 31.

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.

"Nicomaxia vitae", the victorious battle of life

“Nicomaxia vitae” (The victorious battle of life)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Nicomaxia vitae” (The victorious battle of life) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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…

While time flees, they retain, apparently, the long-haired opportunity, Theodoor Galle

“Dvm tempvs labitvr, occasionem frente capillatam remorantvr” (While time flees, they retain, apparently, the long-haired opportunity)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Dvm tempvs labitvr, occasionem frente capillatam remorantvr” (While time flees, they retain, apparently, the long-haired opportunity) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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.

Kairos, Turin, Museum of Antiquities

“Tempvs et occasio sva explicant mvnia” (Time and opportunity declare their duties, Theodoor Galle)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Tempvs et occasio sva explicant mvnia” (Time and opportunity declare their duties, Theodoor Galle) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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…

The Angel-Guardian’s Clock, Jeremías Drexel

“Horologium auxiliaris tutelaris angeli” (The Angel-Guardian’s Clock)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Horologium auxiliaris tutelaris angeli” (The Angel-Guardian’s Clock) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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, VM Kwen Khan Khu

Mystical enthusiasm
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Mystical enthusiasm 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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.

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