480. Thus, any form of human society established on account of common wishes or desires is identical with "matter". But, as mentioned above, we are not accustomed to call such phenomena "matter". We are indeed accustomed to see "matter" at such an enormous cosmic distance that we cannot perceive the local details in it, and consequently neither the living beings, or individuals, which constitute the basic elements of the "matter". In "Livets Bog", therefore, we shall call this "matter" – which consists of human associations, unions and movements – "mesocosmic matter".
      Together with this form of "matter" there must also be included beings which belong to the same race or species. Each one of the various human races, as well as the different types of animals and plants, all consist of a certain kind of "matter". All these beings are united by virtue of their common step in evolution, their wishes and their vital needs. But the difference between these integrations and the religious and commercial ones already mentioned, is simply that the latter are based on "A knowledge" and find themselves still only at a day-conscious stage, while the former have long since been based on "C knowledge", in other words, their common wishes and desires have become unconscious, automatic functions. But in principle there is no difference between these two specified forms of integration. Outwardly they represent "block-formations" and belong to "mesocosmic matter".