Enigmas of symbologyhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/enigmas-de-la-simbologia-kwen-khan-khu.png850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I am pleased to send you, on this occasion, another engraving by Karl Von Eckartshausen, which was published in 1790, two years after the first edition. Enigmas of symbology
The four Tetrasustainershttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/los-cuatro-tetrasustentadores-kwen-khan-khu.png850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
It is important to note that the word tetrasustainers must be interpreted as ‘the four who sustain’… And what do they sustain? Answer: Nothing less and nothing more than our Universe.
The alchemical mystery of the jesterhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/el-misterio-alquimico-del-bufon-kwen-khan-khu.png850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I am pleased to send you all a very interesting comment about the figure who in medieval times was called the JESTER.
Tree of light and darknesshttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/arbol-de-la-luz-y-de-la-oscuridad-kwen-khan-khu.png850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
First of all, appreciated reader, we must say that this illustration appears in the book entitled Studium Universale, written by Valentine Weigel, who was a German philosopher, writer and mystic from Saxony and, according to some, a precursor of Theosophy.
Temptation of the idlerhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/la-tentacion-del-ocioso-albert-durero-default.jpg364257V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
En el mismo se aprecia que, ciertamente, estos artistas, independientemente de ser grandes exponentes del arte, tenían grandes inquietudes místicas sobre el destino del hombre en su estancia en la tierra. Por ello, el título de este grabado viene a ser, según el artista…
Allegory of transience or allegory of what is ephemeralhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/grabado-alegoria-de-lo-efimero.jpg14001150V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I approach you on this occasion to make you take part of the content of the present engraving that bears the title…
…ALLEGORY OF TRANSIENCE OR ALLEGORY OF WHAT IS EPHEMERAL
Child with bow and arrow and all-seeing eye of Godhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nino-con-arco-y-flecha-y-ojo-de-dios-que-todo-lo-ve-kwen-khan-khu.png850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
It was one of the most pious works known in seventeenth-century Europe. The central theme of these works was always divine love and the human soul, and many authors claim that the artist always liked to represent these virtues in childlike forms, whether associating their engravings with Eros Cupid or with the baby Jesus.
