This issue deals with the great difference between being and survival, inward and outward, decline and transmutation, solid and volatile and truth and error. The Gospel of Truth, the loving fate of Karma-Nemesis and the pure alchemy of the spirit fix our attention on the promise and essence of being human: transfiguration, the genesis of the spirit-soul human being. ‘It is not possible for anyone to see anything of the things that actually exist unless he becomes like them’, the Gospel of Philip says. ‘This is not the way with man in the world: he sees the sun without being a sun, and he sees the heaven and the earth and all other things, but he is not these things. This is quite in keeping with the truth. But you saw something of that place, and you became those things. You saw the Spirit, you became spirit. You saw Christ, you became Christ. You saw the Father, you shall become Father. So in this place you see everything and do not see yourself, but in that place you do see yourself - and what you see you shall become.’