45. Across the step formation there is a conical figure which expresses the mutual conditions between the dark and light radiations through a spiral section. The violet areas at the sides express those cosmic realities which later in Livets Bog are described as X2, in which the Creative Principle in its highest analysis proves to be the dominating factor. Between these two areas we see that the Creative Principle's light radiation (expressed by the white area going from the middle of the first kingdom No. 5 at its highest or culminating point, through kingdoms No. 6 and No. 1) is steadily decreasing, so that it appears in the middle of kingdom No. 2 in its most latent form, thereafter increasing again through kingdoms No. 3 and No. 4 and then reaching a new culmination in a new kingdom No. 5. Following the Creative Principle's dark radiation, which is expressed in the symbol by the black area, we see that it has its culmination where the light radiation is latent, and its latent form where the light one is culminating. Thus, existence for living beings is created by alternating periods of experiencing darkness and light. And one evolutionary spiral with its light and dark halves becomes in this way the expression of the individual's highest experience of the principle of "day and night". Evolutionary spirals should be regarded as the "days and nights" of eternal life. These "days and nights" have only 6 "hours", but each single "hour" constitutes no less than one of the above-mentioned kingdoms or planes of existence. And then again each of these "hours" has its thousands of "minutes", one indicating a living being's single life. The "seconds" in these "minutes" can again be identified with the individual's single years of life.
      With reference to the above passage, we get a first faint intimation of the enormous panorama of time represented by one evolutionary spiral. We have before us a panorama compared with which people's ordinary maximum conception of time is lost in the purely microscopic. As well as this, the "spiral days and nights" become absolutely the only division of time that can be used in cosmic sense perspectives.