37.14  The orange-coloured area with the many black and white sections at the very bottom of the symbol symbolises the unfinished human being at various stages in its evolution from animal to human being. Reading from left to right we see here in the symbol how the black parts of the sections, which mean the evil, animal or devilish aspects of the human being are decreasing, while the white sections, which mean the good, humane aspects of the living being are increasing from stage to stage. We can also symbolise these stages as the human being's terrestrial physical lives, but then we must here reckon on a number of lives that is many times greater than the number of sections shown in the symbol. Thus the black and white sections together symbolise how darkness or evil is decreasing while light or goodness is increasing in the unfinished human being. Here we thus see symbolised the evolutionary epoch of the human being from as far back as its primitive appearance as an animal human to as far forward as its appearance as a finished human being in God's image after his likeness. The animal human is symbolised by the black and white sections furthest to the left, where the animal aspect or darkness almost totally governs the being. But we see that it is decreasing and finally disappears in the last stage of evolution furthest to the right in the symbol. So here the light or the purely humane aspect, which in turn means universal love or the eternal light, has now developed from a tentative beginning through the stages of evolution to constitute the being's entire mentality and way of being. The being has therefore reached so far that it has become a finished human being with cosmic consciousness and has been liberated from reincarnation or rebirth in physical matter. This being is thus symbolised furthest to the right in the symbol as the final stage in the row of the being's stages of evolution. We see here that the being, quite without hindrance, receives the rays directly from the eternal light or God's holy spirit, which is symbolised in the symbol by the impulses of rays that emanate from the triangle, which symbolises the Godhead or the all-penetrating, eternal originator of the universe.