On the level with the man who says he is a poached egg ?

Does "on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg" mean "it is the same to the man who admits he's just nobody"?

Context:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg– or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.<sup>[64]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#.22Trilemma.22