150. In order to understand Symbol No. 3 it will be helpful to look back at Symbol No. 2 (page 57). As we know already, this symbol expresses the spiritual Divine Creative Principle. We know further that these energies are released as rhythms or impulses and that the Globe - expressed in the symbol by the dominating double circle near the middle - is in direct contact with three of those important cosmic world impulses. Thus, at the bottom we see an impulse that is fading away from the Globe. It is the remains of this impulse which form the basis for nature people's religious concepts. Then we see another impulse which dominates most of the circle. From this emerge the present world religions: Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. This impulse, now very much outdated, is defined in Livets Bog as the "old world impulse". Then above this we see another impulse which is about to gain a foothold. This is the one defined as the "new world impulse". In Symbol No. 3 we recognize the circle representing the Globe, but now it appears orange-coloured. And the white body passing through this circle can be recognized as the expression for the old world impulse.
      As we have described already, a very large number of the people on Earth have outgrown the old world impulse and so their religious life can be developed further only by the new world impulse. These people, collectively forming Group A and subdivided into three categories according to their individual states of consciousness, are shown in the three yellow-green figures on the left at the top of the symbol. Each of the figures therefore represents a human being from each of the three special categories. Following the dotted lines, we see that the figures are uniting into a star on the right. This star is thus a symbol for Group A. In the same way we see at the bottom three figures also uniting into a star. This is a symbol for Group B, and those figures symbolize the three categories to which all those people belong who have not yet outgrown the old world impulse but, on the contrary, have, or are able to have, their religious nutrition and needs satisfactorily supplied by that impulse. As the yellow colour expresses feeling, and green expresses intelligence, the figures therefore represent the mutual combination of these two important factors of consciousness in the people from those categories. As the figures show, and as has been previously mentioned, that combination can appear in three different forms. For some people it indicates an equal degree of intelligence and feeling, for others too much feeling in relation to intelligence, and for others, again, too much intelligence in relation to feeling. These conditions - in connection with that special stage of development of the person in question - will then decide that individual's identity as belonging to one or other of the specified categories.