312. That these living beings seem to us to be of microscopic size is, of course, a question of cosmic perspective, that is to say, a question of sensory perception. But if it is a question of sensory perception, this means that the assessment of something will depend upon "the eye of the beholder". Consequently the sizes of all created things are relative; from one point of view a thing might appear enormous, while from another aspect the same thing might seem quite microscopic.
      According to cosmic analyses all sizes are exactly the same and we will be returning to this point later. Whether a created thing is "large" or "small" is not a correct definition of its intellectual value. A "large" thing can express to the highest degree a primitive state while a "small" thing can equally well express an intellectual state and of course the opposite may also be the case. In reality it makes no difference to our intellectual value or to our relationship to the Godhead or to existence whether one is master in a small "universe" (a micro-organism) or in a large universe (a milky way system). Micro-cosmos is in fact just as large as macro-cosmos and macro-cosmos is just as small as microcosmos. "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day". But, with regard to this subject, the reader must also refer to later special analyses in "Livets Bog".