‘To find out who he is and to enter the Kingdom of Heaven is the common goal of all, and it is the only true career of man.’ In this quest for the self, this issue of the pentagram tries to be of help. It is an issue that perceives signs of the activity of the Spirit along very diverse paths: in history, in the Bible, in the present, within and outside Europe and even in quantum physics, although we do not yet understand it by a long shot, in search of the soul, in search of what keeps us young inwardly. Elsewhere in this issue, the American author, Emerson, sighs: ‘Is there another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.’ Would they exist? Being agelessly young, independent of the body that nevertheless wholly fills it? It is the profound Lao Zi who deepens our insight, as he, in the contributions about quantum thinking and spirituality, describes this place as follows: ‘So bottomless deep that the holy place seems to be where the whole of creation might come from, because it is older than the symbol of the great forefather.’