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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.

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.

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…

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.”

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