We have now come so far in the analysis of matter that we have reached recognition of the fact that this matter or the substances are life or signify the manifestation of living beings. They each signify a particular kind of energy or vibration. Gold, silver, copper, iron and all metals each has its own particular vibration, just as meat, blood, juices, acids, sugar, salt, fruit, roots, kernels, leaves, stalks and so on each have theirs. As the human being, by virtue of his identity as a "life-unit", also constitutes a particle of a "substance" made up of all terrestrial human beings together, this "substance" has naturally its particular kind of vibration too. This kind of vibration is so close to us that we are here not physically excluded from seeing its details, as we are with the vibrations of ordinary substances; one sees these in all their particulars. The details in the kind of vibration that is emitted from the substance in which people are life-units comprise all the things and traditions created by the human consciousness, such as houses, bridges, dams, engines, works of art, clothing and jewelry as well as unions, sects, cultures, fashions, manners, customs and so on. All these realities express various strong, and less strong, vibrations, together of necessity representing a particular standard of force, which in turn means a particular unit of measure of energy or vibration. This unit of measure constitutes "substance" for a sufficiently superior layer of consciousness, for example such as belongs to globe- or planet-beings. For the terrestrial human being himself it does not of course constitute "substance". He has to go just as far down in the ladder of evolution beneath him as he himself is under the planet-being's place on the same ladder before he begins to regard things as substance. In this connection it may be pointed out that the "substance" that is made up of the collected manifestation of terrestrial mankind, and in which the human being is a "life-unit", is the cerebral matter of the earth. The world cultures with their religions that pass over the planet are the workings of the earth's brain, are the earth's "thoughts". These cultures are the amounts of energy through which it forms its influence on its "fellow-beings", that is other planet-beings, other globes. But here we are at the limit of the "cosmic sight" within the reach of the human being. We cannot sense what the earth "tells" one of its fellow being or another planet, since the prerequisite for this is based on that part of evolution by which the earth is ahead of us and which we as yet have not travelled. We can just manage faintly to discern its "messages" so much that we can see if they are "evil" or "good". We can thus feel if they are "hot-tempered". World wars are thus "outbursts of anger" by the earth. But to which planet, to which "fellow-being" of the earth the amounts of energy of such outbursts are directed is quite another topic. I will therefore not go into further detail about this here.
      When I have ventured into the present problem it is in order to show how the small beings are dependent on the large, and the large dependent on the small. Just as the earth during its "outburst of anger" in 1914-18 suffered terribly, got many of its brain cells (people) killed, others mutilated, or, in brief, had large parts of its "cerebral matter" (terrestrial human society) destroyed or deranged, so too does a human being derange large parts of his cerebral matter through his fits of temper. Here many of the life-units in his brain are likewise killed or mutilated. As the brain is normally the seat of physical vital function, this function is necessarily to a corresponding degree undermined by every fit of temper. This in turn results in disharmonies in the experience of life itself for the individual concerned; it can even poison the blood. So we see through this that a certain interplay is promoted between the substance and the individual using the substance as material for his manifestation; this in turn means between the intrinsic vibration of the substance and the intrinsic vibration of the individual. During an outburst of anger these two vibrations collide with one another and disharmony arises. These kinds of vibration do not harmonize with each other.
      So every living being has to do with two general forms of vibration: its own intrinsic vibration and the intrinsic vibration of the substance. To create and make use of one's manifestation on the basis of the harmony between these two kinds of vibration is the highest goal on every plane of existence. To live in this harmony is the culmination of happiness in each of existence's six general forms of experience of life. (See "Livets Bog".)
      We have with this come through the most difficult analyses connected with the ideal food. For some readers they have perhaps been just as boring as they have been difficult. But for those who have had sufficient energy and interest to study these and have thereby got the correct view of the problems, this view will now give them access to understanding the substantiation of the following analyses of the ideal food to such a degree that these analyses will be science or facts for the same beings.