Livets Bog, vol. 1
The light radiation
36. While the effects of the Creative Principle in the first half of the evolutionary spiral have the purpose of allowing living beings to culminate in the experience of darkness and thereby making it possible later on to experience light, in the last half of that spiral, or evolutionary section, the purpose of that same principle has the opposite effect of allowing the individuals to culminate in the experience of light. These latter effects appear, therefore, as an undermining of the individual's strongly developed desire for material things experienced in the first half of the spiral. This undermining in that same individual consequently awakens an interest, or a love, towards the other living beings in existence. Thereby these beings become the fundamental point for the said individual, and material things only of secondary importance. But when material things in this way become as nothing and fellow beings as everything it is the same as saying that the said individual comes to experience a feeling of his interrelationship with all other living beings in existence. Their well-being is his own well-being. The culmination of this will be identical with that feeling which allows the individual to experience himself as being "one with the Father", which constitutes the greatest contrast to the Creative Principle's results in the spiral's first half, where the individual, with his love of material things instead of other living beings, experiences the greatest separation from the latter, which is the same as the greatest separation from the Father. As the effects of the Creative Principle in the last half of the evolutionary spiral promote the development of unselfishness, or "universal love", and so liberate the individual from all strife and suffering and bring him into the harmony, peace and happiness of the universe - the highest form of cosmic light - to this side of that principle I have given the expression the "light radiation".