Highly esteemed readers:
I approach you to show you four engravings in which is illustrated…
…THE INVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
These four engravings were made in 1550 by the Dutch artist, copperplate engraver, poet and politician Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert (1519-1590). From about 1541 he began to work with the famous Dutch painter Maarten Van Heemskerck, to whom the concept and drawings of this series belong.
That said, we clarify that the first engraving is entitled The World Disposing of Justice. For us Gnostics, the concepts of equity, balance and harmony go hand in hand together. We have to emphasize that when man forgets himself AND FALLS VICTIM TO ENTROPY, then all the values of society begin to totter and this precipitates the CHAOS of the masses and, likewise, the chaos of the individuals. Let us remember that society is nothing else than the extension of the individual…
Undoubtedly, when we stop valuing ethics, morals, respect for the values of Consciousness, etc., etc., then we move away from the divine precepts and that is when we want to take justice into our own hands. That is very serious.
That is why we see the goddess of Justice falling from her horse, carrying in her left hand the sword of justice, and with her right hand she carries the scales, which are out of control, thus indicating the disorder of humanity.
Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, (1519-1590) —
First engraving
Continuing with the observation of our engravings, we can see foolish knowledge and foolish love trying to constrain the world.
Explanation: Foolish love and foolish knowledge is what has been left for our humanity as a result of the abandonment of the values of the BEING.
People do not know what LOVE is, and neither do they know how to LOVE. The sphere of the world is on the back of the runaway horse to show us that knowledge and love, wrapped in foolishness, are two incomprehensible things.
The children at the feet of the woman are a sign of the bewilderment of human souls, and they try to hide among the clothes of the woman in our engraving. We could say that intellect without love only produces scoundrels and love without Consciousness takes us nowhere…
Second engraving
The third engraving was called The World Carrying Away Foolish Knowledge and Foolish Love.
Explanation: When the world, the social masses, have no conscious guide to direct and control them, then foolish knowledge and foolish love are swept away by worldly madness. In our days all guidance and control has been lost, and therefore it is the world and its worldliness that drags pseudo-love and pseudo-knowledge along. In such a case we say that mankind has lost its way and transcendental values are dragged into chaos. No one watches over anyone, no one is interested in the values of the BEING, the values of the Spirit, and only confusion reigns.
Third engraving
Finally in the fourth engraving: The World Perishing Together With Foolish Knowledge and Foolish Love.
Explanation: In this last engraving we can clearly observe unconscious love and foolish knowledge —intellectualoid and not springing from the bowels of Consciousness— both rushing into emptiness and chaos. This is the end of the humanities that want to survive without the values of the Spirit –namely: of the BEING–. Everything is engulfed in confusion and disharmony, and this becomes a failed seed. That is the reality that we are living today in the four corners of our world.
Fourth engraving
Allow me now to give you a few timely sentences that are worth reflecting on:
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.”
Biblical proverb
“Being good is easy, the hard thing is being righteous.”
Victor Hugo
“The righteous in good repute have a wide inheritance.”
Spanish proverb
“He who prides himself on his knowledge is as if he were blind in broad daylight.”
Franklin
“If you suffer injustices, take comfort because the real misfortune is to commit them.”
Pythagoras
QUOD SCRIPSI, SCRIPSI.
─‘What I wrote is written’─.
KWEN KHAN KHU
