VOPUS Gnosis https://vopus.org/en/ The heritage of light Sun, 03 May 2026 03:12:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-vopus_favicon-32x32.png VOPUS Gnosis https://vopus.org/en/ 32 32 “Homo interdum asperior fera” (Man is more ferocious than the beast) https://vopus.org/en/man-is-more-ferocious-than-the-beast/ https://vopus.org/en/man-is-more-ferocious-than-the-beast/#respond Sat, 02 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/?p=44753 The present engraving belongs to the same book Thesaurus Philo-Politicus published from 1623 by the poet Daniel Meisner and the engraver and publisher Eberhard Kieser.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/man-is-more-ferocious-than-the-beast/feed/ 0 “Omnis dies, omnis hora, qvam nihil sumus, ostendit” (Every day, every hour shows us how insignificant we are) https://vopus.org/en/how-insignificant-we-are/ https://vopus.org/en/how-insignificant-we-are/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/lo-insignificantes-que-somos/ The image is an allegorical engraving from the 17th century entitled Omnis dies, omnis hora, qvam nihil sumus, ostendit, 'Every day, every hour shows us how insignificant we are', which makes us see our own nothingness. The work is part of the famous Thesaurus Philo-Politicus series, published by Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser in Frankfurt from 1623 onwards.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/how-insignificant-we-are/feed/ 0 “Considera cuid, cui et qvo” (Consider what [you say] to whom [you say it] and where [you are]) https://vopus.org/en/consider-what-you-say-to-whom-and-where/ https://vopus.org/en/consider-what-you-say-to-whom-and-where/#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:02:14 +0000 https://vopus.org/considera-que-a-quien-y-donde-lo-dices/ This engraving is part of a vast and famous series of drawings made for the book Thesaurus Philopoliticus (1623). The series consists of more than eight hundred reproductions of urban landscapes to which the German poet Daniel Meisner and the publisher Eberhar Kieser added a message and a symbolic image.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/consider-what-you-say-to-whom-and-where/feed/ 0 “Emblema 5 – Avri potabilis chimice praeparatio” (Alchemically prepared potable gold) https://vopus.org/en/alchemically-prepared-potable-gold/ https://vopus.org/en/alchemically-prepared-potable-gold/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:59:03 +0000 https://vopus.org/oro-potable-preparado-alquimicamente/ This engraving was made by the German artist Wolfgang Kilian and was published in an alchemical and medical book written by the German physician Malachias Geiger entitled Microcosmus Hypochondriaca Tractatus (1652) 'The Hypochondriac Microcosm on Hypochondriac Melancholy'.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/alchemically-prepared-potable-gold/feed/ 0 “Omnia mercurio, sulphure et sale” (All things exist through Mercury, Sulphur and Salt) https://vopus.org/en/all-things-exist-through-mercury-sulphur-and-salt-azufre-y-salt/ https://vopus.org/en/all-things-exist-through-mercury-sulphur-and-salt-azufre-y-salt/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/todas-las-cosas-existen-por-medio-de-mercurio-azufre-y-sal/ I am sending you this engraving which is the forty-fifth emblem of the book Emblematum sacrorum et civilium miscellaneorum ─'Various Sacred and Civil Emblems'─, written by Jacob Bornitz.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/all-things-exist-through-mercury-sulphur-and-salt-azufre-y-salt/feed/ 0 Cognitio https://vopus.org/en/cognitio/ https://vopus.org/en/cognitio/#respond Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/cognitio/ I am pleased to send you this engraving entitled: Cognitio. The scene, allegorical and mythological, shows us the seat of the nine muses on Mount Helicon, presided over by the Gods Apollo ─identified by his luminous aura and his harp─ and Pallas Athena ─who appears in the upper left corner on a cloud, with a helmet and a spear.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/cognitio/feed/ 0 Clarifying concepts -Part Four- https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-4/ https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-4/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/aclarando-conceptos-4a-parte/ I share with you these new clarifications on eternal Gnostic concepts: What are the gunas? What are the tattvas? What is Totemism? What is the firmament as mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis? etc.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-4/feed/ 0 “Finitum producit infinitum” (The finite produces the infinite) https://vopus.org/en/the-finite-produces-the-infinite/ https://vopus.org/en/the-finite-produces-the-infinite/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/lo-finito-produce-lo-infinito/ We can see a cloth on which musical notes are written, giving us to understand that the basis of creation lies in them and in the octaves that we can perceive. This is one of the mysteries that surround the THEOMEGALOGOS Himself.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/the-finite-produces-the-infinite/feed/ 0 “Mutua rerum metamorphosis” (Mutual metamorphosis of things) https://vopus.org/en/mutual-metamorphosis-of-things/ https://vopus.org/en/mutual-metamorphosis-of-things/#respond Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/metamorfosis-mutua-de-las-cosas/ This engraving is telling us what the true Masters of the Hermetic Art affirmed and continue to affirm: "In the water the fire sleeps"...

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/mutual-metamorphosis-of-things/feed/ 0 Mercury and Virtue https://vopus.org/en/mercury-and-virtue/ https://vopus.org/en/mercury-and-virtue/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/mercurio-y-la-virtud/ I am pleased to bring you, on this occasion, this beautiful artistic work by the Italian Renaissance painter Dosso Dossi (1489-1542). The painting is preserved in the Royal Castle of Wawel, Krakow.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/mercury-and-virtue/feed/ 0 Clarifying Concepts ─Part Three─ https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-3/ https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-3/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/aclarando-conceptos-3/ Is the Earth karmic? What is our main feature? What is the black sun? Can you travel to the future? Why is blood spiritual?

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-3/feed/ 0 Revelations about the mysteries of the tinctures of the seven metals https://vopus.org/en/revelations-about-the-mysteries-of-the-tinctures-of-the-seven-metals/ https://vopus.org/en/revelations-about-the-mysteries-of-the-tinctures-of-the-seven-metals/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/revelaciones-sobre-los-misterios-de-las-tinturas-de-los-siete-metales/ The cover depicts Basil Valentine and Hermes Trismegistus with alchemical and musical instruments; twelve woodcuts within the text that show alembics and various alchemical tools; an engraving by Senlecque with seven emblematic medallions and at the end an alchemical drawing in the form of a shield.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/revelations-about-the-mysteries-of-the-tinctures-of-the-seven-metals/feed/ 0 Clarifying concepts -Part Two- https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-2/ https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-2/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:14:25 +0000 https://vopus.org/aclarando-conceptos-2/ Esteemed reader friends:
I send you these other answers for your reflection.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts-2/feed/ 0 “Symbola divina & humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum” (Divine and human symbols of pontiffs, emperors and kings) https://vopus.org/en/divine-and-human-symbols-of-pontiffs-emperors-and-kings/ https://vopus.org/en/divine-and-human-symbols-of-pontiffs-emperors-and-kings/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:43:10 +0000 https://vopus.org/simbolos-divinos-y-humanos-de-pontifices-emperadores-y-reyes/ I am sending you an image that appears in the book Symbola divina & humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum ─'DIVINE AND HUMAN SYMBOLS OF PONTIFFS, EMPERORS AND KINGS'─ published in 1601 in Prague.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/divine-and-human-symbols-of-pontiffs-emperors-and-kings/feed/ 0 Clarifying concepts https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts/ https://vopus.org/en/clarifying-concepts/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:56:03 +0000 https://vopus.org/aclarando-conceptos/ Dear Master, please allow me to ask you a few questions. Although these are things that you have already explained several times, it would help me to review and receive more food for thought from you.

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