Of course this does not mean that these people have therefore become "evil". They can just as well be loving people even though they do not believe in a loving Providence. Many of them have lost their faith for the very reason that their capacity to love prevents them from acting in the negative ways that exist in the world. That is why they are unable to find any meaning in existence. They believe that an almighty, all-knowing and loving Godhead should be able to create absolute, unbroken peace, happiness and well-being for people.

Many people will perhaps find it strange that the Godhead's consciousness should be subject to renewal. In order to understand this renewing of the Godhead's consciousness one has to come to an understanding that consciousness certainly is eternal; but because it constitutes an eternal function, an eternal process of changing, an eternal creating and experiencing, it is based on a faculty. This faculty is what brings about the experience of life itself. But experiencing life consists of experiencing contrasts, and the beings' eternal faculty of experiencing life is based on two main contrasts, darkness and light, which terrestrial man experiences at the moment as "evil" and "goodness" respectively. An eternal principle - the mother energy - causes living beings to live through an epoch of life in which the primary factor is an extreme experience of darkness or "evil". Through this experience the beings reach a peak in their knowledge of the manifestations of darkness and its life-destroying and painful effects. This knowledge of the effects of darkness, felt in their own body and in their own consciousness, creates in the living beings such a colossal longing for the contrast to darkness that they begin to think and create in completely new ways. Humanity and the wisdom that is based on the personal experiencing of suffering begin to form an essential part of the beings' world of thought, until they reach a point where they no longer have the heart to create or manifest anything that does not promote humanity and love. A set of thoughts and a way of being like this causes the faculty of intuition in the beings to grow to a state of perfection and through this faculty the beings evolve until they attain the same wavelength as God's consciousness or the very highest knowledge in the universe and the capability that follows on from it. This means that the beings attain cosmic consciousness and a gradually release from reincarnation, no longer being born into physical matter, unless they have a specific task or mission to perform in it, they now experience an epoch of light in the highest spiritual spheres or worlds. So this state of light is the final outcome of the zone of darkness because the living beings' knowledge of darkness has given them the background they need for their experience and creative activity in the zones of light.

Because the beings' ability to live in the light and to manifest only the highest perfection is a reality that has been created, it cannot go on existing for ever. So it is in fact time- and space-dimensional. It had a beginning and must also have an end. Of course this takes place over a very long period of time and it does not happen contrary to the wishes of the living beings. By going on living in the same sphere of light and dealing with the same manifestations and creations the beings inevitably become satiated with these experiences. No matter how strange it may seem to terrestrial human beings, whose longing and striving is focussed on the worlds of light, there are beings in the universe for whom their manifestation of life in these worlds is becoming boring. And the more boring it becomes, the more the beings long to experience its opposite. This longing will lead these beings into a new sphere of life in which they once again experience the principle of darkness and reincarnation. They will now slip into a new, higher evolutionary spiral, in relation to which the one that they have just lived through becomes a part of their microcosmos, and the spiral cycles that were lived through even earlier move, in the perspective, further down into their microcosmos and make up the matter out of which they construct their future organisms. They are in fact led into physical worlds where they develop new kinds of organs and sets of senses that will give them the most extreme experience of darkness, darkness that is experienced as "evil" only when they are at the point of being satiated with it, and that thereby leads them towards the experiences of light in the spiral. So "evil" from a cosmic point of view, is the unpleasant good, the final outcome of which in an evolutionary spiral is the ability to live in the light of the highest spiritual worlds without having to incarnate in physical matter. So the beings' eternal life takes the form of an eternally ongoing cycle in which they succeed in experiencing alternately darkness and light, all according to their hunger and satiation. It must be said at this point that it is only the principles that are repeated, each fresh cycle being a new variation of the experience of darkness and light. These experiences of the contrast principle in the universe are a requirement for maintaining the living beings' eternal and renewed faculty to create and experience life.

As the Godhead is a living being that experiences and creates, it is clear that this same Godhead's consciousness must be subject to change and renewal otherwise the whole universe would be something that functions blindly and automatically, which it does not. The Godhead's faculty for experiencing life must, without any break whatsoever, be at its peak. As the Godhead is the foundation and maintainer of the whole universe, the renewal of the Godhead's consciousness cannot take place in the same way as it does with the living beings who "live, move and have their being" in him, that is, as it does with all the "sons of God" in the microcosmos, the mesocosmos and the macrocosmos. If the Godhead's consciousness also had to degenerate in order to be renewed what would happen to these living beings? How would the universe exist as an extreme form of perfection, where everything is very good? If the whole of the Godhead's consciousness had to undergo an evolutionary epoch and for a time - like terrestrial human beings at the moment - be governed by devil consciousness (animal consciousness plus intelligence) to whom could the living beings direct their prayers in times of need? In a gigantic epoch of darkness like this, in which the Godhead was an extremely unevolved, primitive being, there would be no help whatsoever available for absolutely any being. Everything would be enveloped in the flames of hell; death and destruction would be present in all universes, the primary state of affairs in the whole all-encompassing universe would be a single great horror dripping with blood, that is if anything resembling a universe could exist at all. But fortunately the opposite state of affairs is the case. The universe in its primary state as the consciousness and organism of God is the culmination of light. How is it possible for the Godhead's experience of life to be renewed in a completely different way to that of the living being? In the Godhead's consciousness there are six great spheres of experiencing life. Of these, three make up God's primary means of manifesting consciousness through experience and creation. Through these three spheres of experiencing life the Godhead manifests from the whole of its consciousness the very highest perfection of omniscience, all-embracing love and omnipotence; through these spheres it direct and leads the whole universe, causing it to be in itself a shining and extreme manifestation of light that overshadows all and everything. These three fields of consciousness or fields of experiencing life we know as "the perfect human kingdom", "the kingdom of wisdom" and "the divine world" in every single spiral cycle that exists at all. The kingdom in the spiral cycles that we know as "the kingdom of bliss" also belongs to God's primary consciousness. It is through this kingdom that the Godhead experiences everything that exists in the way of accumulated knowledge or wisdom. The experiences in this ocean of knowledge or wisdom are experiences that are turned in on themselves. These memories are not to be found in external matter, in neither physical nor spiritual matter. They are situated even deeper in the cosmic world structure than these types of matter. The effects of these memories, however, do appear in external matter and we know them as "the mineral kingdom", but of course they exist in other variations besides the ones that terrestrial humans experience. As all activity of consciousness in this sphere is turned in on itself, this matter can seem to be dead matter.