40. As development can only take place through living beings experiencing darkness as much as light, then in the first half of an evolutionary spiral, the task for world redeemers is the moral instruction of mankind based on the Divine Creative Principle's dark radiation, while in the last half of the same spiral the redeemers will guide mankind's development with ideals founded on that principle's light radiation. In this way the world redeemers are inspired in the first half of an evolutionary spiral by the dark radiation from the Creative Principle, while in the last half, on the contrary, they are inspired by the light radiation of that same principle.
      As mentioned before, because terrestrial mankind has crossed the boundary into the last half of a spiral and has already been guided for thousands of years by the light radiation's world redeemers, while the direct leadership by the dark radiation's initiated beings is of a far older date, for terrestrial mankind these latter beings will fade away deep into the darkness of the past. But the aftermath of their existence still lives on in the form of ideas such as "Lucifer", "Ahriman", "Devil" or "Satan", in the same way as the colossal animals which lived on Earth in a long-vanished past are now referred to as "dragons" in fairytales. But just as there is no lack of proof that these animals did exist because of the discoveries of fossils and skeletons, neither is evidence lacking that dark world redeemers also existed in the zone of the Earth, in that the world's morals, founded and established by them, still in our day rule over the development of the people, and dominate them to a far greater extent than does the commencement by the light world redeemers of a new cultural foundation which, with its few thousand years of duration, is from a cosmic viewpoint only just at the beginning or in embryo. This is better understood when one sees that all concepts which stimulate and defend ideas of hatred, war, murder, killing, punishment, meat-eating, "righteous indignation", or "holy wrath", can be identified as being details in the moral standard of the dark radiation. Naturally, included in this is every form of worship which results in the sacrifice of animals and human beings. So this moral standard is in complete contrast to that of the light radiation, from which we know such concepts as: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do; "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"; "Avenge not yourselves - vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord".
      Thus terrestrial mankind finds itself at a point in that evolutionary spiral section where the light radiation is in embryo while the dark radiation from the same principle is strongly in decline. This decline is quite fundamental in that the Globe has already passed the culmination of the dark radiation which was long ago accepted in mankind's consciousness as a natural capacity. Thereby the mission of the dark world redeemers to the earthly zone is rendered superfluous. As it is the mission of world redeemers to implant in mankind's consciousness both the dark and the light radiation from the Creative Principle in such a way that the effect can become a natural aptitude for living beings, and so promote a culmination, then one can understand that the mission of each dark or light world redeemer is finished - in other words lacks the necessary conditions - at the point where those radiations have already culminated.