Second birth

With the crossing of the second threshold, the developed and harmonized Personality will be born. This is the second birth, analogous to physical birth from every point of view. It passes through the same phases. The Doctrine describes detailed parallels between the two, which help the disciple and master to control the order of evolution…Having crossed the second threshold thre Personality unites itself with the real “I”. Its provisional “I” which has not been destroyed but has been developed to its limit, will forevermore be one with the real “I”: Man 4 then becomes man 5.

This indissoluble union forms the Individuality. It is from this moment that man really exists. He is, and only at this moment will he be able to say with certainty that he is happy to have been born. The experiment so often repeated has ended with success.

Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis Vol. I 1961/1989 Praxis press

The Staircase symbolizes the period of Gestation, and the crossing of the second threshold represents the second birth, the birth of the individuality.

Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis Vol. I 1961/1989 Praxis press