Livets Bog, vol. 4
The unintellectual being's contact with the absolute truth is not a question of a scientific explanation of this truth, but on the contrary a question of a simplification or adaptation for this being's primitive faculty to understand
1162. This contact does not of course apply to the "truth" expressed in scientific detail, but, because of the being's lack of intellectual endowment, it does not want such scientific detail. On the contrary, it wants contact with the truth only where this is expressed in a form that is sufficiently unintellectual to suit its particular primitive mental step; in this way the truth can be made analogous with this being's primitive daily experiences. A being's contact with the absolute truth or reality is thus, for the unintellectual being, not a question of a scientific, detailed explanation, but on the contrary a question of so great a simplification, pruning or dimming of the scientific details that the interpretation of the truth becomes so simple in its details that it can be understood or sensed within a mental level that is as primitive as that of the above-mentioned being. If the opposite were the case, the unintellectual being would never be able to attain day-conscious contact with the absolute truth. A high-intellectual interpretation of it would of course constitute a phenomenon that it entirely lacks the faculties to sense or understand. Giving the being such an interpretation of the universe would of course be the same as giving it stones instead of bread. Only the being endowed with high-intellectuality would be able to understand the truth of a high-intellectual analysis and would naturally be in contact with the truth only through such an analysis.