One of the largest impediments for being able to perceive the real world is the inertia of the human heart.The human being has become ‘heavy’ by all the impressions and the pressure
of matter, burdening the heart. The heart still hardly reacts to the life and the needs of others, and the inner impulses of the soul penetrate the consciousness only with difficulty.
In this issue, the Pentagram aims at awakening the spiritual heart by a few provoking articles, because with the activity of an alert consciousness it is possible to break through the iner tia, and to perceive the outlines of a new era, and even a new world, with the inner eye.This is also what the German Romanticist Friedrich Hölderlin saw before him in a poem that he wrote in 1796:
‘We are like fire, slumbering in dry branches or in stone, and unceasingly wrestle and seek to escape
from the oppressive captivity.
And they come, and offset ages of struggle, these moments of liberation,
in which the divine breaks open the dungeon and the flame