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.
“Specvlvm pvrgativm” (Mirror of Purification)
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
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”.
This engraving, companions of the Path, clearly shows us that everything is duly planned by the most holy THEOMEGALOGOS from the beginning of creation. This is the reason why we are shown in Latin and Hebrew, through beautiful phrases, the cosmic architecture that, since ancient times, has been discussed with those disciples truly interested in knowing the anatomy of the divine.
The Tree of the Sephiroth
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.
The weighing of the worlds
This beautiful engraving appears before our eyes to show us the balance of dimensions and worlds in interstellar space. That is why it is called the “Weighing of the Worlds.” That is, it shows how the Architect of the Universe considers that the energies of the Cosmos are distributed, and does so through a scale that designates where the superior energies are and where the inferior ones are.
By order of the most holy Theomegalogos, at the dawn of creation, the Elohim polarized themselves, masculine and feminine, performed an act of pure Sexual Magic and with words of power, mantras, gave form to the diverse dimensions of sidereal space.
Mvndvs delirans, non sapit, qvae dei svnt
The sleeping humanity, which has no sacred individuality, appreciates more the things that constitute the egoic fantasy instead of longing to get closer to the Christic world.
It is said that the alchemical transmutational art requires an enormous dose of patience and its ally, perseverance.
“STVLTITIAM PATIVNTVR OPES” (Wealth allows stupidity)
This engraving represents the decadence of mankind plunged into absolute disorder, a very low level of being, vanity. All this leads to the decadence of humanity plunged into absolute disorder, vanity… leads to stupidity, total entropy. Wealth allows stupidity and total entropy.