Man is the aim of the creation and the highest being, because it is man alone who knows the purpose for which he was manifested, the reason why he is here. Cats and dogs do not know this, because their intelligence is not developed enough for this, and also because their self is before their eyes. The prophets had renounced their self. That is why they were prophets. When the self is gone, then all the other selves come. When the self is before the eyes, then the soul is blinded.