55. Just as mankind and all other known forms of living beings live under the light and dark impulses from the Creative Principle, stimulated and carried forward in eternal evolution, so do the macrocosmic beings also live under those impulses, carried forward in a continuous process of development. But as these beings in relation to human beings appear in gigantic forms, so the impulses from the Creative Principle which have to promote their particular development also have to appear of gigantic proportions. One must not, therefore, think because the impulses from the Creative Principle which touch mankind are almighty from a cosmic viewpoint, that a possible world redeemer from such an impulse is almighty or omnipotent. On the contrary, such a being, although naturally appearing to earthly human beings as having a superior cosmic consciousness, is still limited and attuned by the particularly suitable world impulse of that time which it is that being's task to manifest. In order to understand this better, one has to learn to distinguish between our own connection to the Creative Principle in the form of "world impulses" and these macrocosmic beings' connection to the same principle.