As the entire universe or cosmos constitutes a unit maintained eternally by the previously mentioned logic or the fact that everything has to be a joy and blessing for living beings, every course of action that is not on this wavelength will sooner or later cause a short circuit. This short circuit will thus constitute a greater or smaller catastrophe or unhappy fate for the being in question. But through the catastrophe or short circuit this being learns how it should act, and how it should not act. In this way wisdom gradually becomes an integral part of the being. And as the sufferings or catastrophes in a similar way also cause humaneness and love to become integral parts of the being's mode of existence, we see how God creates the human being in His image after His likeness. And we see here that suffering is an absolute necessity for the human being in order that it can attain "cosmic consciousness" and become one with God. As the sufferings are a result of mistakes or illogical acts, they absolutely cannot constitute any kind of punishment for sins. When analysed cosmically, they are sources of wisdom and are thus the road to light, to love, to the experience of God and thereby to the culmination of the experience of life.