If the "ways of the Lord" really were "beyond understanding", or why the world kingdoms or cultures of the past have been "statues with feet of clay"
1385. To conclude the living being's course of evolution, which took millions of years, with the concept that "the ways of the Lord are beyond understanding" must be disheartening for the universe's greatest Creator, for this would mean that the Creator would never be able to get into contact with His own life (The living beings are of course God's life. What else could God's life consist of?). If the Godhead or the Creator cannot get into contact with His own life, this life, which thus means, the living beings, cannot get into contact with the Godhead, the Creator or Providence either. Both parties must thus in reality constitute two dead parties within the same organism. The Godhead and the living beings would have to sense one another for all eternity as nothing but unreality. But being able to sense "reality" in this way as nothing but "unreality" is of course the same as never being able to experience the absolute "truth". But if this were the case, the Earth, the final, great result or aim of the millions-of-years-long epochs of creation, would thus be nothing but a world without any real mental light and its living beings would be a region of cosmic blind man's buff. Is it conceivable that this result could ever be in contact with the real facts, which are based on the study of the principal details of these epochs of evolution? Is it conceivable that this "blind-man's-buff existence" is "God's image in His likeness", and that this dark zone of existence devoid of hope is the "kingdom of heaven"? Who could live by such a philosophy of life or world view? Could it be accepted by beings other than precisely those who rush in where angels fear to tread? It is, indeed, not so surprising that the world's greatest cultures and world kingdoms up to now have all without exception had to crumble and become sand in the desert. They have all been "statues with feet of clay".