“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/no-haya-nada-en-la-boca-que-antes-no-haya-estado-en-el-sentido-daniel-cramer-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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)
“Pavpertate premor subleuor ingenio” (I am brought down by poverty, and lifted up by natural inclination)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/soy-abatido-por-la-pobreza-y-levantado-por-la-inclinacion-natural-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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).
“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/la-esperanza-y-la-paciencia-vencen-daniel-cramer-emblema-31-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
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 Mercuryhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/caduceo-del-dios-mercurio-rimini.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/nicomaxia-vitae-kwen-khan-khu.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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 goodhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/el-mundo-necio-elige-el-bien-temporal-dirck-volckertsz-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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 https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/un-hombre-reza-a-la-conciencia-philip-galle-default.jpg850480Editor VOPUSEditor VOPUShttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/da2736838b11fa68bd81be593e0d9d69149683f26c789ef95ad39ca72425872e?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/la-tolerancia-en-la-adversidad-produce-conocimiento-de-dios-marten-van-heemskerck-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
“Laboratorium chymicorum vulgarium” (Laboratory of the common chemists)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/laboratorium-chymicorum-vulgarium-janez-friderik-von-rain-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
