Change the arrangement of anchor points in a continuous line

[Inge Paessens]

 

How can I, or can I at all, change the order/overlay of the line at these two points (see screenshot)?
This should look like a spatial spiral.

[Monika Gause]

Revert the path direction?

[Inge Paessens]

Thanks Monika, but that changes only the gradiant.

[Monika Gause]

This is how I understood your request. So that's not what you want? 

https://youtu.be/NI5kH31nCDM 

[Inge Paessens]

Non actually, I want the darker line behind the brighter one, just where these parts overlap

 

[Monika Gause]

You'll have to cut the path.

[Inge Paessens]

Dear Monika,
as Kurt mentions it below the gradiant will be affectet by clipping it.
Thanks for your support!

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

If you are talking about a gradient along a path, cutting and rearranging the paths may produce some undesired results and things can get pretty complicated.

I would probably just use a compound clipping path to do it. See sample Illustrator file below.

Grad Spiral

[Inge Paessens]

Dear Kurt,
thanks for the file! That works and I will adapt your sollution to my file. Thank you!

Nevertheless, I had thought that there was a tool for changing the order of intersecting elements. Somehow a kind of lasso tool is buzzing around in my head. But maybe that was in a different programme.

[Kurt Gold]

Recent Illustrator versions have the Intertwine tool, but it doesn't work in your specific case. It is useful in many other cases.

Behind the scenes, the Intertwine tool just uses clipping path constructions, by the way.

[Inge Paessens]

Thanks!

[Monika Gause]

Intertwine does not work with one object.