The apparent world and the real world receives its most coherent expression in 'Plato's Cave'.
This is Plato's parable of men (us) sitting in a dark cave with their backs to the light watching the play of their shadows.
The shadows represent the 'world' and the light which enables us to watch the shadows comes from the
'real' world.
In this way Plato devalues the pshysical universe to a shadow-play on the wall.
Through this representation that the 'real' is elesewhere we witness the conceptual basis for Christianity.
All that is needed now is a God, who has dominion over the 'real'.
From Paul to Augustine the history of Christianity is the history of an ever widening gap between the two worlds until in its final form Christianity mean duality.
Eventually with the victory of Christianity all positive value is transferred to the Beyond. i.e the duality of this world/and the next, Heaven/and Earth, God/ and his creations, we are the fallen/he is the Chosen.
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