270. Consequently the greatest living being with which we are in contact is the universe, which itself constitutes one single huge living organism serviceable for just such a living being. In the organism of this living being all other living beings' bodies and organisms live and move.
      The next largest organism to which we are related in our experience of life is that consisting of the galaxy to which our solar system belongs and which is known in everyday terms as the milky way. There are numberless systems of this kind in the universe, as well as systems which are still greater; indeed, there are even systems representing such dimensions and life-forms that what we call solar systems and planets could only be identified within the former as atoms and electrons. As such life-forms lie outside what is of interest for Livets Bog we shall not go further into these aspects. But the milky way system we find ourselves inside is also a living being. There is found within this being, just as within all other living beings, organs serviceable for all its experience of life. One single organ in that being's bodily structure is made up of our solar system. But as organs again, to cosmic senses, are unable to exist without constituting, each by its own nature, a bodily structure for a living being, then our solar system is also recognisable as a living being. In the same way we see that the Globe belongs to the organs of the solar system and is thus to be seen also as a living being. And so all the living beings having their experience of life within the area of the Globe appear as "organs". Consequently these beings are all without exception to be regarded as "organ units", even though it is not usual to identify them as such.