That there should be a godhead, a living, thinking, gigantic being behind matter, with the universe as its organism, is inconceivable to such beings who are very strongly orientated towards matter and material science. They see only death. Their recognition of life stretches in the microworld only as far as what they can observe to be living beings through using their physical eyes or a microscope, which extends what they can see with these eyes, just as the limit of their vision up towards the macrocosmos already comes to a halt with these very beings' own identity or species representing the very culmination of life or its highest limit for living beings. Truly, an extremely microscopic panorama of life, when one considers the immense distances and space between the visible worlds and sun cities in the night sky and what a microscopically infinitesimal speck of dust the planet Earth is in this lavish, limitless panorama. That such a tiny speck of life as the terrestrial human being should be the highest representation of life in this panorama, in which the planet that the human being is on disappears, on account of its insignificance, into the universe as a mere speck of dust, can absolutely only be tantamount to seeing death everywhere in the universe; it can only be to worship this death instead of life. It is not so remarkable that the world redeemer gave utterance to the words: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". Primitive man knows nothing about the speed of light, he knows nothing about how to bind the elements into power-driven machinery thereby making himself master of these elements. He cannot weigh the sun or scientifically measure the course of the stars. He cannot manoeuvre with atomic energy or study the lives of molecules and cells or juggle in a perfect way with any of the material phenomena that civilised man has become expert in, but he still lives in a state in which he can take his worries to a godhead or a living providence and can allow this providence to determine his morality and character, and at the same time prostrate himself on the ground in submission to the absolute foundation of life. He therefore knows absolutely nothing of the sphere of hopelessness and nervous breakdown that civilised man to a colossal extent suffers from. In primitive man and civilised man we see a confirmation of the effects that are the result of eating of the tree of knowledge. Here we are witnessing how the beings are eating of the tree of knowledge and are "dying". Primitive man is not "cosmically conscious", but lives with an instinctive sense of the existence of Providence or the Godhead, to such an extent that this godhead still determines his morality and behaviour. He is thus not completely "cosmically alive", but neither is he completely "cosmically dead". Civilised man, on the other hand, we see as a being who is totally "cosmically dead". And due to the fact that he, on account of his animal tendencies and dispositions, is revealed as still to a certain extent a primitive human being, differing from this being only in his well-developed interest in and talent for – not life – but death, which means matter or dead things, as well as his total lack of ability to believe in a godhead, and due also to the fact that there does not exist a clearly defined boundary, but an extremely subtle, stepwise transition, so fine that one cannot say where primitive man ends and where civilised man begins, it hereby becomes a fact that civilised man is merely a primitive man who is further advanced in the cosmic spiral cycle. Primitive man is therefore today on his way to becoming civilised man, which means that he is very gradually in the process of losing his faculty to believe in a godhead and his faculty to believe that everything is living. He is thus in the process of losing his cosmic terrain, his cosmic sensing or instinctive feeling of his own immortal life or his eternal existence. He is beginning more and more to believe in death, in his own final total cessation, just as he more and more believes that he was at some point created in the same way as any other created thing and will therefore only be identified as a temporary combination of matter that will eventually be broken down.