With virtue as a guide, with luck as a companion, Gabriel Rollenhagen

“Virtute duce comite fortuna” (With virtue as a guide, with luck as a companion)

“Virtute duce comite fortuna” (With virtue as a guide, with luck as a companion) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

We must mortify and decompose this earth, which amounts to killing the griffin and fishing the fish, or separating the fire from the earth, the subtle from the gross, “gently, with great skill and prudence”, as Hermes teaches in his Emerald Tablet.

The importance of sanctity, VM Kwen Khan Khu

The importance of sanctity

The importance of sanctity 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

In this message I intend to send you some quotations by our beloved Guru, V.M. Samael Aun Weor, accompanied also by some others that I have poured into several of my works, on the Importance of sanctity.

United virtue is stronger, Baro Urbigerus

“Virtus unita fortior” (United virtue is stronger)

“Virtus unita fortior” (United virtue is stronger) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

It is the frontispiece of a book published in 1690 in London and entitled Aphorismi Urbigerani. This engraving takes us back again to the study of the Sacred ARCANUM A.Z.F. and its alchemical concomitances.

Tristitia, ‘sadness’, Negative human traits

“Tristitia” (Sadness)

“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.

"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)

“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)

“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

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.

Hope and patience win, Daniel Cramer

“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win)

“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.

Saint Lucy, Saint Geneviève. Domenico Beccafumi

“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God)

“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

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.

Cultura mundi, The Four Ways of Living on Earth

Cultura mundi

Cultura mundi 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I now send you the second engraving of the sequence of four in total made by the Flemish artist Gérard Van Groeningen in 1573. This is the series of engravings encompassed under the title The Four Ways of Living on Earth.