Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1092

1092. Since the above-mentioned reactions are the life forms of "living beings", each living being constitutes, as mentioned above, a "micro-view" in one or another of the "wide horizons" or ledges of the "sensory mountain". Present terrestrial mankind thus consists of individual "micro-views" from the second ledge or "wide horizon" of the "sensory mountain", which is in turn the same as the "animal kingdom". But even though each of these "micro-views" is individual, they will, however, appear to be more or less related since, depending on how close to or far away from one another they are on the sensory ledge, they to a corresponding degree have senses that are subject to the same reactions, thereby giving them almost the same phenomena of perspective in their range of sensory perception as their closest mental "neighbour". We express these related "micro-views" (living beings) as "species" or "races", which in turn come within the "wide horizons" of the ledges or the "sensory mountain". Everything that appears as "species" or "races" is thus the same as common mental views within which each single individual has its own individual view, which is the reason why we previously called it a "micro-view". A "micro-view" is thus the same as the local view within the common view or the particular "wide horizon" that the species in question constitutes.