兄弟会的忠诚Brotherhood loyalty

48° Brotherhood loyalty. A young and penniless member of the Pythagorean Brotherhood fell desperately ill while traveling in foreign lands and was taken to the nearest inn. There the charitable innkeeper nursed him, even though the young man made it clear that he had neither money nor goods with which to repay his host. When it became certain that he was dying, the young man asked the innkeeper for a board on which to draw. With effort he managed to scrawl on the board the mystic pentagram symbol (see Figure 6) of his Brotherhood. Turning to the innkeeper, he said, "My good friend, hang this board outside your inn door. Some day a traveler who understands what I have drawn will pass this way and will stop and ask you about the sign. Tell him everything, and you will be rewarded." And just so did it happen.