VOPUS Gnosis https://vopus.org/en/ The heritage of light Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:18:27 +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 “In summis periculis homo vivit securus” (Man lives carefree also in extreme dangers) https://vopus.org/en/man-lives-carefree-also-in-extreme-dangers/ https://vopus.org/en/man-lives-carefree-also-in-extreme-dangers/#respond Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/el-hombre-vive-despreocupado-tambien-en-sumos-peligros/ This engraving illustrates the various consequences that arise when our consciousness becomes sleepy.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/man-lives-carefree-also-in-extreme-dangers/feed/ 0 “Benignita” (Benignity) https://vopus.org/en/benignity/ https://vopus.org/en/benignity/#respond Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/benignidad/ Undoubtedly, the woman who gives her milk to all creatures is none other than the ancient Egyptians’ interpretation of NUT ─Mother Space─.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/benignity/feed/ 0 “Huius seculi status” (The state of this age) https://vopus.org/en/the-state-of-this-age/ https://vopus.org/en/the-state-of-this-age/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/el-estado-de-esta-epoca/ This engraving refers us to what our Patriarch tells us about THE INTERMEDIATE MIND. When we are prisoners of the intermediate mind we only act in the form of contradictions, like the characters pulling the cart in opposite directions.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/the-state-of-this-age/feed/ 0 “Hortus nec amoenior ullus” (No garden is more enjoyable) https://vopus.org/en/no-garden-is-more-enjoyable/ https://vopus.org/en/no-garden-is-more-enjoyable/#respond Sat, 30 May 2026 12:45:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/ningun-jardin-es-mas-ameno/ The present artistic illustration, eminently alchemical, refers to our Philosophical Earth ─our material body or physical vehicle, with which we must accomplish the GREAT WORK.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/no-garden-is-more-enjoyable/feed/ 0 “Qvi benè docet” (He who teaches well) https://vopus.org/en/he-who-teaches-well/ https://vopus.org/en/he-who-teaches-well/#respond Sat, 23 May 2026 18:10:16 +0000 https://vopus.org/aquel-que-ensena-bien/ Friends, this illustration shown in this engraving points out to us the nefarious presence of the psychological aggregate of selfishness and greed in our psychic anatomy.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/he-who-teaches-well/feed/ 0 “Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum” (From the error of others, the sage amends his own) https://vopus.org/en/from-the-error-of-others-the-sage-amends-his-own/ https://vopus.org/en/from-the-error-of-others-the-sage-amends-his-own/#respond Sat, 23 May 2026 12:34:00 +0000 https://vopus.org/a-partir-del-error-ajeno-el-sabio-enmienda-el-suyo/ First, we must begin by pointing out that this engraving alludes to the alchemical art. That is why we see the alchemist looking at himself in a mirror, and this brings us to the topic directly related to the subject that speaks to us: the mirror of Alchemy.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/from-the-error-of-others-the-sage-amends-his-own/feed/ 0 “Ars nostro spernitur ævo” ([Hermetic] art is despised in our age) https://vopus.org/en/hermetic-art-is-despised-in-our-age/ https://vopus.org/en/hermetic-art-is-despised-in-our-age/#respond Sat, 16 May 2026 16:51:26 +0000 https://vopus.org/el-arte-hermetico-es-despreciado-en-nuestra-epoca/ The central figure is an old man, a scholar or artist, walking and carrying on his back a huge basket full of instruments and tools: a compass, a square, a ruler, an ancient astronomical instrument that resembles a cross and that is used to calculate the distance between two celestial bodies, a globe of the Earth, etc.  etc.

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]]> https://vopus.org/en/hermetic-art-is-despised-in-our-age/feed/ 0 “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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