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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…

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

Know thyself, Theodoor Galle

Know thyself
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Know thyself 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am sending you the sixth drawing with which Theodor Galle illustrated the book ‘Twelve mirrors duly arranged for the person who wishes to see God one day’, written by the Jesuit Ioanne David.
The present engraving is entitled “Know thyself”.

The mirror that deceives, Theodoor Galle

“Specvlvm fallax” (The mirror that deceives)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Specvlvm fallax” (The mirror that deceives) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I take the pen to send you some comments related to the profound importance of approaching the TECHNIQUE OF TRUE self-observation and our longings to live within reality and not within fantasies.

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.

The pentalpha and the five wounds, Willem de Wael van Vronesteyn

Considerationes de vulnere (Considerations regarding the pentalpha and the five wounds)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Considerationes de vulnere (Considerations regarding the pentalpha and the five wounds) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

To begin trying to make a description of this very beautiful engraving, we have to remember, first of all, the man that Leonardo da Vinci drew in his time with his legs and arms open forming a Pentalpha to tell history that the REAL MAN is the Pentalpha-Man, in other words, the self-realized man.

Moral theatre of human life

Moral theatre of human life
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
Moral theatre of human life 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving, friends, is entitled at the top of it with these words: “STUDY IS THE CAUSE OF TRANQUILITY.”
However, Gnostically speaking, it would be better to entitle it “MEDITATION AND PRAYER ARE THE CAUSE OF TRANQUILITY.”

The Tree of the Sephiroth, Robert Fludd

The Tree of the Sephiroth
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
The Tree of the Sephiroth 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

Through Gnosis we have come to know, within the doctrinaire Kabbalah, what we Gnostics call the Sephirotic Tree represents to us, with all the unfoldments that emerge from it and that correspond to various most sacred parts of our Being.

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