Becoming a Knight of the Rose and Cross is a lifelong dream, because Entering the Pleroma, preserving individuality and creative activity, is the essence of the Rosicrucian teaching on Reintegration
The symbol of the Rose and Cross itself, with both of its constituent elements, expresses the reintegration of a being into the center of this state and the full flowering of its individual abilities proceeding from this center; it very accurately denotes the restoration of the original state
It is individuality, since the personality dissolves in the very desire for Reintegration: this desire leads to the disappearance of personal desires and passions; the reintegrated Rosicrucian is the conscious, individual part that consciously shares the will impulses of the World Man
In principle, the process of evolution in its continuation is aimed precisely at such a Reintegration, which occurs simultaneously and in parallel with the expansion of awareness, and it is the Overcoming of the dividing force of Nahash that is the goal of the aspirations of the Rosicrucians, and their path erases this division step by step