459. Yet, these two states are characteristic of terrestrial man. And it is these states that form the basis for the concepts of "good" and "evil". "Evil" is thus an expression for the inherited habitual animal-like mentality with its brutal tendencies, while "good" defines those humane tendencies which are "new-born" in the history of mankind and have not yet become to any great extent a habitual state of mind, and therefore for the most part can only be furthered as a day-conscious function of the will, or "B knowledge". These humane tendencies will gradually become all-dominating habits of mind, or "C knowledge", through which a being can once more be in contact with the highest powers which determine the return of "cosmic-consciousness" in the individual's mental life as permanent day-consciousness.