39. As the people on Earth, in their development, have already entered that half of the spiral when the light radiation from the Creative Principle begins to show itself, so to the same degree all of them begin to be inspired by this radiation. Therefore the viewpoint in their consciousness is such that essentially they can only recognize this radiation as being divine, while on the other hand the dark radiation is shrouded in mystery for them. But, as we shall see later, this is quite natural. Concerning mankind's moral development, the Creative Principle is actually manifested through specially initiated beings, or beings who are so advanced in evolution that through their own personal experience they have acquired a view of life and its laws in such dimensions that they are able to shape the morals and idealism on which the civilization of mankind can be built. Each of such genuine spiritual reformers or builders of civilization is identical with that kind of being who in ordinary life would be called a "messiah" but who here in Livets Bog has been termed a "world redeemer". Such beings are recognized by the fact that their mission always results in the community acquiring a new and more complete spiritual civilization which releases it from the primitive traditions, superstitions and resultant sufferings of the old outworn civilization.