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Tristitia, ‘sadness’, Negative human traits

“Tristitia” (Sadness)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Tristitia” (Sadness) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving belongs to a four-part series on negative human traits. The series was engraved and published in 1592 in Cologne ─Germany.

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’.

"DVRABO" (I will resist) and "VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI" (Patience is victorious in difficulties), Gabriel Rollenhagen

“DVRABO” (I will resist) and “VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI” (Patience is victorious in difficulties)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“DVRABO” (I will resist) and “VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI” (Patience is victorious in difficulties) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I send you the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth of a book of poems written by the same German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen. The book is entitled Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘The Nucleus of the Most Select Emblems’.

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.

There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before, Daniel Cramer

“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I send you this forty-fifth emblem from Daniel Cramer’s book of emblems entitled: “Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)

I am brought down by poverty, and lifted up by natural inclination

“Pavpertate premor subleuor ingenio” (I am brought down by poverty, and lifted up by natural inclination)
V.M. Kwen Khan Khu
“Pavpertate premor subleuor ingenio” (I am brought down by poverty, and lifted up by natural inclination) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

On this occasion, I am sending you a drawing that appears in another book of emblems entitled Selectorum emblematum ─’Selected emblems’─. The texts belong to the German poet Gabrielis Rollenhagi (1583-1619), and the engravings to Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson (1588-1664).

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.

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