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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.

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).

"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…

The foolish world prefers the temporary good, Dirck Volckertsz

The foolish world prefers the temporary good
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
The foolish world prefers the temporary good 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

The character who gives his heart is the so-called foolish world ─humanity in general─, who, in addition to having his psyche always bottled up in various stupidities that the Mayavic illusion provides him, wears glasses trying to correct his myopia, but they are of no use to him.

A man prays to the Consciousness, Philip Galle

A man prays to the Consciousness 
Editor VOPUS
A man prays to the Consciousness  850 480 Editor VOPUS

The first engraving with its Latin phrases/sentences takes us to self-analysis for us to realize that, certainly, the Ego has its nooks and crannies, its recesses where it usually hides to continue bothering us with its psychological tricks.

Saint Lucy, Saint Geneviève. Domenico Beccafumi

“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

Estos grabados pertenecen a una serie de 14 dibujos llamada La Escalera de Jacob o La alegoría del camino a la salvación eterna, impresos por Dirck Volckertszoon en 1550. Los grabados llevan la firma del pintor neerlandés Maarten Van Heemskerck como su creador.

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.

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