1164. The passage of the living being through the spiral cycle from the "divine world" to the culmination of the "animal kingdom" in the terrestrial human being is thus an "adaptation" to darkness. The beings in the first zones of this passage, namely, the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom and the beginning of the animal kingdom, do not of course see the details of the darkness to the extent that the terrestrial human being does. Indeed, is it not so that the latter being's sight in the darkness is so far-reaching that it can no longer see or "endure" seeing any of the greatest or principal details of the light? Is it not such a being that we have before us in the cold, brutal but intelligent, atheistic materialist? Is this not precisely the reason why "world redemption" is needed in order to guide and support the being in its journey towards the light, until its senses have become adapted to the light, and it can find its bearings by means of its own visual power and see the details in the regions of light? Does the same not also hold true when a "serpent" is needed in order to "beguile" the living being into "eating of the tree of knowledge", and a "voice of a godhead" is needed in order to say what would happen after this "eating"? Was it not because "Adam" and "Eve", who were emerging from the "light", were still so unaccustomed to the "darkness", it being therefore very dense and opaque, that they themselves temporarily could not see the details in this "darkness"? The "principle of world redemption" was thus necessary here too.
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