God and the God Ideal may be explained as the sun and the light. Just as there come times when the sun becomes covered by clouds, so there come times when the God Ideal becomes covered by materialism. But if the cloud for a moment covers the sun, that does not mean that the sun is lost to you. So if in the reign of materialism the God Ideal seems to have disappeared, yet God is there all the same. The condition of the world is just like the ever rising and falling waves. Sometimes they seem to rise and sometimes to fall, but with every rising and falling wave the sea is the same; so with all its changes life is the same.