42. Thus, the people on this Globe - for as long as they have belonged to the concept "people" - have been led in their development by "older brothers", first by the dark and now later by the light world redeemers, but on account of people's primitive standards their view of these their cosmic leaders has sometimes taken on quite a fantastic form. Generally these special beings have been met by their contemporaries with great mistrust and misunderstanding, and then later when the divine effect of their mission was made plain, posterity has met them with such unshakeable faith and unreserved recognition that the result has been worship. And the more these beings became of the past, became myths, legends and traditions, the more belief in them changed into superstition. There was free scope for the play of primitive imagination, and eventually these beings became recognized and worshipped as pure godheads. This fantastic adoring and worshipping of "older brothers" in development instead of the true Godhead became at a later time one of the great hindrances in the development of those communities in question, and it is, of course, just as applicable today for thousands of people within the world religions. But this hindrance will not be repeated to such a degree in the new world civilization, because through the new world impulse people's consciousness will become directly focused on the Father or the Godhead.
      Before we continue in our analyses of the Creative Principle it will be useful to get a firmly concentrated view of what has already been analysed in the Introduction concerning that principle. We will get this view by going over the description with the help of Symbol No. 1.