“Virtute duce comite fortuna” (With virtue as a guide, with luck as a companion)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/virtud-como-guia-suerte-como-companera-gabriel-rollenhagen-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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 sanctityhttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/la-importancia-de-la-santidad-kwen-khan-khu.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
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.
“DVRABO” (I will resist) and “VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI” (Patience is victorious in difficulties)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dvrabo-y-victrix-patientia-dvri-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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’.
“NESCIT LABI VIRTUS” (Virtue does not know how to fall) and “QUOCUNQUE FERAR” (Wherever it is taken)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/nescit-labi-virtus-y-quocunque-ferar-selectorum-emblemata.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
On this occasion I send you two emblems from the same book: Selectorum emblematum, with the text in Latin and Old French.
Two engravingshttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/grabados-9-y-59-selectorum-emblematum-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.
“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.
“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.
Cultura mundihttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cultura-mundi-gerard-van-groeningen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
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.