Livets Bog, vol. 5
How the "half beings" are also "half beings" from an intellectual point of view
1659. But since the entire universe or cosmos consists of a cosmic sphere and a physical sphere, that is to say a spiritual sphere and a material sphere respectively, beings that have no realistic knowledge of real "spirit" but have a flourishing knowledge of the physical world can be defined only as "half beings" in the area of real life too. They live in a world whose structure comprises two great eternal principles of revelation, namely an external one, the "principle of matter", and an internal one, the "principle of spirit", but has a sensory apparatus for day-consciously experiencing only the "principle of matter".