66. As we have mentioned in the foregoing section, the Creative Principle releases itself through impulses of greatly differing sizes. It releases itself through impulses just as suitable for macrocosmic as for microcosmic beings. To those impulses suitable for mankind we have given the name "world impulses". Symbol No. 2 is a material expression of terrestrial mankind's relationship to these world impulses. We must, then, imagine the whole symbol as an expression of a section of the universe itself. In this the Creative Principle appears as an unshakeable basis for all formation of contrast or creation of opposing conditions, and therefore as the determining main factor in every form of life experience. At the top of the symbol that principle is expressed in the form of a shining body marked with a flaming cross - the Creative Principle's sign or hallmark throughout Livets Bog. From this shining body we see ring-shaped radiations spreading out. These are the expression of world impulses. On their way through the universe they pass through species of humanity in both large and small worlds. These are shown on the symbol as large and small circles. Approximately in the middle of the picture appears a circle with a double circumference. This represents mankind on this Earth. We see further that three impulses are going through these terrestrial people, namely one at the bottom which is about to disappear completely from them, one which nearly fills the space, or dominates them, and one at the top which is beginning to gain a foothold. Of these three the first one lies at the root of primitive mankind's religious and divine worship, and the second one indicates that impulse from which Buddhism, Islam and Christianity gradually developed and which in Livets Bog is expressed as the "old world impulse". The third, on the other hand, expresses the "new world impulse" which now in our time is vigorously in the process of being born on Earth. We thus obtain here a solidly concentrated picture of terrestrial mankind's relationship to the creative impulses.