1090. But within the area of the ledge itself there are many smaller kinds of high or low viewpoints that are indeed so small that they do not change the perspective in the "wide horizon", but to a great extent determine the individual being's view of other individual beings. One being can certainly see or sense that another being is, for example, a "human being", an "animal" or a "plant", but it cannot always sense the other being's particular character in its entirety. In certain cases it can only discern the coarse nuances of its character, while various irregularities, thought waves or hazy thinking in its own consciousness prevent it from seeing its finer nuances. It therefore senses and judges the being concerned by the coarse nuances of consciousness that it can sense, sometimes judging it to be a "criminal", a "villain", an "evil" being, "stupid" or "naive" or the like, no matter how many good characteristics the being has. Because of perspective it is quite prevented from seeing them. On the other hand there can be another being who, because of perspective, is prevented from seeing the bad or coarse nuances of consciousness in the being in question, but has, on the contrary, an ample view of the "good" and "fine" nuances in its character, the "criminal's" or "villain's" lover, for instance. This being will then judge the former being as a "good", "loving", "clever" and "gifted" being. Thus we see here a great difference in perspective in the two beings' views, despite the fact that they find themselves on the same ledge on the "sensory mountain". These beings' reciprocal judgements or understanding of each other constitute the ledge's "micro-horizons", which thus means, the separate individuals' "views". Here we will therefore express the living beings as "micro-views". The ledge on which these "views" or the beings' mutual judgement of one another show the greatest differences in perspective is the one we call the "animal kingdom". Within this kingdom or on this ledge on the "sensory mountain" there is a profusion of obstacles to a clear and unobstructed view. Through these obstacles there arises the phenomena of perspective that turn the killing principle into "idealism", a "livelihood", "justice" and "love", and that turn real "love" into "immorality", "naivety", "injustice" and "degradation". On the other ledges of the "sensory mountain" the "micro-views" are more in harmony. The phenomena of perspective are more favourable for viewing fellow beings. These better phenomena of perspective reach a peak on the fifth ledge (the divine world) of the "sensory mountain". This ledge thus constitutes the "top of the sensory mountain". Here there is nothing in the phenomena of perspective that allows the "killing principle" to appear to the senses as "idealism", nor allows its opposite, "love", to appear as "primitivity", "sin" or "degradation". Since there is also a clear view from here down over all the ledges of the "mountain", and thereby a view of the living beings' entire journey from ledge to ledge, one attains here a complete picture of the "living being" and thereby of the "mountain" itself, which means the universe and the Godhead. It is this complete picture that constitutes "cosmic clear-sightedness" and shines through the "living being" as the "holy spirit".
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