The Pentagram deals with the Light that has been given to humanity throughout time.The Light is also a theme in this issue. In the first article, Jan van Rijckenborgh shows how the Light, symbolised by the heavenly music of Or- pheus’ seven-stringed lyre, spiritually aroused thousands of people throughout Asia Minor approximately 12,000 years ago.
By contributions like The Gospel of Philip, Sowing and reaping and Only the Firebird defeats evil, we make a jour- ney through time and its various philosophies.With Loki (Lucifer), who killed the god Baldur, the light element in the human being, we go deeply into the past of our conscious- ness. In this way, we ultimately arrive at a path of insight, on which the true man can arise as a phoenix from the ashes. Once again we encounter Orpheus, but now in his expres- sion of the impossible love for Eurydice, and the opera about it. Music can transmit sparks of divine fire, and although Orpheus’ lyre indeed linked the earth with higher energies from the spheres of
