At the end of the summer of 2012, the Pentagram begins with an article from 1929 by one of the found- ers of the modern Rosycross.The topic of a fascinating consideration about Jakob Boehme’s seven spirits leads us further back, to the seventeenth century; and it does not stop there: a book review about Marsilio Ficino, Platonist and Hermetic-Christian thinker, leads us even further back to the fourteenth-century Renaissance. And as if this is not yet sufficiently far back in time, we also cast some light on a workers’ community from Egyptian antiquity, now 3,500 years ago.
Did we go astray? Have we turned into a history maga- zine?
Or do we succeed in showing how universal the think- ing about the Light is? Do we succeed in transmitting the extent to which the unknowable divine element is always active? Do you discover with us that the truth about
the eternally other aspect in the human being exists through all times? Do you, reader, see how every new- born human being on earth knows this longing, but al
