The three continue to make their way through the village when a woman sees Rosenkreutz through an open window of her home. She recognizes him immediately. She calls to him and pleads with him to enter her home and give a Last Rites blessing to her son who is dying of the bubonic plague. He enters the home and is accompanied into the room of the dying boy by the mother and father of the boy. The boy is very near death with a high fever and difficulty breathing. His face and body are riddled with buboes. Rosenkreutz begins to pray the ‘Our Father’ softly as he stands over the boy at the side of his bed. As he approaches the end of the prayer the boy stops breathing. His life has ended. Rosenkreutz then blesses the forehead of the boy and pulls the bed sheet over him. Both the mother and father begin to weep.

    After the death of the boy Rosenkreutz leaves the home as the father slowly closes the door behind the departing Rosenkreutz. He rejoins Maria and Eva. Eva removes a red rose from her basket and places it at the foot of the door. She then turns back to her mother and they continue their return home which is in the country beyond the village. Shortly after they had left the home of the deceased boy the red rose at the foot of the door also briefly transfigures into an ethereal golden rose. Finally they arrive at the rural home of Maria and Eva. Their conversation expresses great concern about the plague as Maria relates to Rosenkreutz her own experience with it as her own husband had died from it in another country while traveling abroad. She fears for the health of Eva as she has seen what has transpired today in the village and with the young boy.

     Rosenkreutz then begins to explain to her the causes behind this plague. He says, “They are the forces of the Principalities of Darkness. They are forces that keep the hearts and minds of everyone in despair of death and disease thereby losing faith in the Life and Resurrection. They are forces that keep them in darkness while also losing faith in the Christ." Rosenkreutz admonishes her to, "keep her faith in Him Who is the Resurrection and the Life. It is through Him that death is defeated.” As the sun is beginning to set Rosenkreutz then soon leaves the home of Maria and Eva.

    Later that night he is now in the study of the small rectory. There is a small desk with candle light for illumination. There are books on the shelves that line the walls plus a painting of the Risen Christ hanging on one wall. A glass window in another wall looks out to a wooded area that sets near the chapel, rectory and garden. Rosenkreutz is in the study reading his Bible. Suddenly the room is filling with white light as the Divine Sophia appears to him. She tells him that in the morning he is to start on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains. There he will meet a blind man who resides in the mountains. He is an individuality who will reveal to him knowledge of the Mystery of Golgotha; the ministry of the Christ on earth. He will entrust this knowledge to Rosenkreutz who was incarnated at the time of Christ and who observed the ministry and death of the Christ. With this knowledge Rosenkreutz will come to a deeper understanding of this event which was the most central and pivotal event in the evolution of the earth.

     With this event came the Impulse of Love - Universal Love - the new Impulse that is the mission of the earth’s and humanity’s evolution. She then finishes by telling him that as he journeys farther into the mountains, a dove will descend to him and feed from his hand. This dove will then pass through a transfiguration and will be his guide that leads him to the blind man. After telling him this, she slowly vanishes from the study room of the rectory thereby leaving Rosenkreutz to prepare for his long journey to the Carpathian Mountains.

    Late that morning as it is still dark, it is raining with strong winds, lightning and thunder. Rosenkreutz has a small travel bag filled with bread, water and salt. [In Christian esotericism bread, water and salt are symbolical of spirit, soul and body respectively]. The water is kept in a canister that he then places in the sack. After the travel bag is packed he wraps himself in a heavy cloak for the inclement weather. He then faces the painting of the Risen Christ, makes the sign of the cross, blows out the candle and leaves the rectory to begin his journey.