The Upanishads say with great emphasis:‘Know thou the One, the Soul. It is the bridge leading to the immortal being. This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.’ The quest for this one that is within a human being is the theme of this issue of the Pentagram lying before you.You will perhaps say:‘But don’t all texts published in the Pen- tagram deal with this?’ Let us then formulate it differently: The theme is the unmasking of this quest. On the basis of an article by the Grandmasters, J. van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri, a large part of the misleading methods, based on false emotions, is separated from what is true and meaningful.The articleVistas also tries to shake us awake from a complacent self-consciousness; therein the author states:‘We actually have hardly any idea of where we are, who we are and what we have come to do here.We live in a kind
