48. As the earthly Globe - which we will come to know more about later on in Livets Bog - constitutes a "living being" so it, too, has its cosmic radiance. And it is to this I have tried to give physical expression and make it accessible to physical sight on the present symbol's main figure. We see this Globe surrounded by a radiating cruciform body from which a dark halo is visible. This radiating body expresses the Globe's representation of the Creative Principle's light radiation, while the dark body expresses the Globe's unfolding of the same principle's dark radiation. In this way there is depicted here the combined value of these two radiations and their present-day relationship to the Globe. The radiating body around the Globe is the whole basis for the so-called "good" in earthly existence and the dark one for the so-called "evil". These two bodies gradually change character in that the radiating body, as we already know, is on the increase and the dark one is decreasing. In order to obtain a little insight into this process of change it will be useful to point out that about two thousand years ago the radiating body consisted merely of a faint light rim around the Globe, while the very dense darkness - which now lies directly outside the shining cruciform halo - at that time nearly filled out the whole field of dark radiation. This process of change will develop during our time and onwards with a very strongly increased speed through the power of the previously mentioned new spiritual world impulse, so that in three thousand years the light body of radiation will have long out-distanced the area of the very dense darkness within the dark radiating halo. This will gradually indicate to terrestrial mankind that the "good" and the principle: "Love one another", meaning sacrifice, altruism, tolerance and honesty has by then neutralized "evil" on Earth so strongly that all the misfortunes and sufferings prevailing nowadays, such as war, murder, killing, illness, poverty, strikes, lock-outs and unemployment will have ceased, in the same way as all poisonous and dangerous animals will be no more. The Earth will consist of only one kingdom - "the United States of the World" - "One flock and one shepherd". The real human kingdom (kingdom No. 3) which is still not of this world, or at least is present only in embryo, will have become a terrestrial fact by that time and will be the absolute ruler over all material matters as well as spiritual phenomena.