To begin our description, we will say that, if we look at the center of this artistic engraving, we will immediately see the figure of Satan seated on the sphere that represents our world, and this is to show us that, indeed, it is he who, unfortunately, governs the destinies of this human anthill.
I now send you the second engraving of the sequence of four in total made by the Flemish artist Gérard Van Groeningen in 1573. This is the series of engravings encompassed under the title The Four Ways of Living on Earth.
When we talk about audacity, we are referring to a quality that not all people possess. It is a quality that a person either already brings from previous existences, or it can be, perhaps, an energy that a human creature has had to develop after having faced various circumstances in his life.
As part of his Machiavellianism, the humanoid of our times has often chosen to want to enrich his impoverished mind with an unpleasant habit, and such a habit is none other than the horrible habit of responding by means of cynicism.
Dearly beloved companions of the path: I am pleased to send you an explanation about a painting created by the Flemish Renaissance artist named Pieter Brueghel the Elder. It is called: The Misanthrope
The tragedy of our psychic and physical negligence
Permitidme haceros llegar desde mi atalaya unas palabras acerca de La tragedia de nuestro abandono psíquico y físico.
The danger of losing our ethical values until becoming animal-like creatures
When we try to remember and compare our present with our past we realize that, certainly, through the way of living that exists in our days we have been losing a great many values over time, and this has dragged us toward an enormously superfluous, artificial life devoid of transcendental things.
A reflection on our lifestyle
In this way the human race has lost its status as a thinking creature endowed with metaphysical faculties latent in its depths, to end up being a larva that walks but goes nowhere.
The soul, tied to a yoke, moving the stone of a mill or oil mill
Tomo la pluma para dirigirme a vosotros y, en esta oportunidad, para hablaros de dos grabados ─similares─ y que son originarios del libro Pia Desideria. En ambos se trata del alma, atada a un yugo, moviendo la piedra de un molino o almazara
The contradictions of the animal Ego
To study this magnificent engraving, first of all we have to say that it was created between the years 1575-1618 and is found in the Rijksmuseum, located in the city of Amsterdam ─Holland─.