Dearly beloved friends:
I am sending you this engraving which appeared in a book written by the Jesuit Willem de Wael van Vronesteyn (1583-1659) and which was entitled Corona sacratíssimorum Iesu Christi Vulnerum (1694), ‘Crown of the most sacred wounds of Jesus Christ', in chapter 10, entitled “Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum”, ‘The wounds of Christ are the medicine of souls’. The illustrations were made by Peter Danoot from drawings by the Flemish painter Anthonis Sallaert (1594-1650).
Thus, in this way, we can subtitle our engraving as follows:
CONSIDERATIONES DE VULNERE
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE PENTALPHA AND THE FIVE WOUNDS
To begin trying to make a description of this very beautiful engraving, we have to remember, first of all, the man that Leonardo da Vinci drew in his time with his legs and arms open forming a Pentalpha to tell history that the REAL MAN is the Pentalpha-Man, in other words, the self-realized man.
Certainly, this Pentalpha-Man was eternally represented by the Great Kabir of Nazareth, and therefore it is not surprising that the artists who made this image combined the luminous Pentalpha with the Master of Masters: Aberamentho.
That man who was crucified on the mount of skulls 2025 years ago, has passed into eternity figured with five very significant wounds. Each of these wounds is an eminently luminous chakra that confirms the perfection of the Mastery of the one who bears them. The high significance of such wounds is confirmed by some people who, having known the mysteries in past existences, have reappeared by the Law of Return and, mysteriously, at one point in their lives they began to bleed in the five points that were stigmatized in the person of the Nazarene.
Remember Padre Pio, who was bleeding from his hands and feet until the hour of his death. Recently his body was exhumed and, to the amazement of many, his physical vehicle was not decomposed.
I do not mean to say here, in these lines, that Padre Pio was a fully self-realized BEING, no. But it is true that, wherever there was a Mastery linked to the mysteries of Fire, this Fire left its mark for many future existences.
Unquestionably, everyone who fuses with the Kether of the Kabbalah becomes the Shining Star of the New Day. And this is the secret reason why we see, in this engraving, the star associated with the Lord of Perfections ─the intimate Christ─.
Without a doubt, it must be said that the wounds of Christ are the medicine of souls, for those who manage to obtain them in their pilgrimage on the Secret Path will have the bodies of perfections or Christified vehicles.
Curiously, the Greek Goddess Hygeia, Goddess of Health, one of the daughters of Aesculapius ─read in English Asclepius─, had the Pentalpha as her symbol, and in the book Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum there are representations of the Pentalpha written with the Greek letters that form Hygeia or ‘Health', affirming the function of Christ's wounds as medicine… Although primarily concerned with spiritual health, the text and image of the book also claim the benefits of the five wounds for the body.
Here is the Pentalpha written with the Greek letters that form the word HEALTH ─hygeia─, a drawing that appears on the cover of the same book:
An attribute of the Goddess Hygeia, Sanitas ─'Health'─, is the Pentagram. I send you this drawing as an example:
The Goddess of Health has sometimes been depicted with the symbol of the Pentagram on her head.
Another interesting detail is the staff or rod on which the Goddess Sanitas ─'Health'─ leans, made up of a snake that coils around it.
This other engraving has a legend at its feet that tells us:
«Intortus baculo serpens Epidauris, impar Et quinquangulos hic, signa salutis habent».
Translation: ‘The serpent of Epidaurus ─a city where there was a temple dedicated to Asclepius─ coiled around a staff and this irregular pentagon, are considered symbols of health'.
I now give you some phrases for reflection:
“No one can regret being sincere.”
Molière
“Sincerity is the mother of truth, and the sign of the honest man guarantees our words and fixes our thoughts.”
Quevedo
“When one does not think what one says, that is when one says what one thinks.”
Benavente
“God wanted man's gaze to be the only thing that cannot be hidden.”
Dumas son
“When sincerity is thrown out of the house, flattery sits in the hall.”
Thomas Fuller
JESUS NAZARENUS REX IUDAEORUM.
─‘Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews’─.
KWEN KHAN KHU
