483. While "microcosmic matter" is so distant and so far outside terrestrial man's cosmic horizon that its local details escape his physical perception and thus remain visible only as an integrated haze or mass of substance, "macrocosmic matter" lies extremely close to the centre of the aforesaid horizon and so the local details are of such a perspective that for terrestrial man it is physically impossible to be able to estimate them. Each one of these details appears thus in sheer gigantic proportions and takes on such a form, or character, that terrestrial man cannot see any kind of similarity with things he is accustomed to recognize as parts of a living being's organism. Therefore to the ordinary terrestrial person this "macrocosmic matter" is apparently of just as lifeless a nature as the "microcosmic", while "mesocosmic" matter, on the other hand, is in the correct perspective relationship, that is at such a suitable cosmic distance to the central region of the horizon, or to the I's view-point in that horizon, that the individual can easily survey this matter both in its overall manifestation and in its local details. And this "matter" is therefore the only one of the three kinds mentioned which a terrestrial person with his physical perception, can see in its true cosmic analysis. The other two kinds are respectively too near or too far away in cosmic distance for them to be observed with physical senses for correct analysis. And this is also the reason why terrestrial man cannot see life itself underlying these two kinds of matter and so considers them partly as "lifeless forces of Nature" and partly as "dead matter" which is exactly the opposite of the absolute reality.