Livets Bog, vol. 1
A zone in which animal manifestations were not the same as the "Fall"
87. Until the Divine Creative Principle's light radiation began to take effect, terrestrial mankind had been living in a "paradise zone of consciousness", but in essence this was guided by the dark radiation from the same principle, while the animal instinct of self-preservation - or the animal manifestation in this zone - had not yet become the "Fall" but existed, on the contrary, in the form of "heroic deeds", and "idealism". This zone does not have any real importance for this Introduction, but we will come back to it later on in Livets Bog. However, here we are going to give a brief outline of the direction in which evolution will guide mankind out of the last part of the animal kingdom where it still finds itself, and lead it forward to the birth on this Globe of the "real human kingdom", thereby abolishing those factors which at present prevent this same kingdom from "being of this world". We are now going to indicate those factors which are the conditions for a "new Garden of Paradise" and an all-embracing peace on Earth.