Consider for a moment the body, the brain and the Earth experience being a kind of sensory deprivation chamber (for beings capable of awareness across multiple dimensions). When it is necessary for a higher level of awareness to be acquired, perhaps DMT is released as part of allowing the experiential limitation filters to be bypassed. That is, perhaps there is so much information on so many levels, the body and Earth experience is a kind of multi-level and multi-dimensional "sensory deprivation chamber". Proofs of this found in the Ganzfield Experiments which cause the occular systems to CEASE the supression of experiential irrelevant information--just like a sensory deprivation chamber. Perhaps the body and brain are doing the same thing!
The body makes one focus in the same way a cockpit makes the pilot focus--minus 500 MPH winds and all kind of noise or freezing temperatures. Binoculars also make one focus (removing all of the other inputs). There is more to life than meets the eye. Taking in the experience of what happens when one of two pilots eject from a fighter plane might help with the notion of how the cockpit helps limit information and input and helps a pilot focus. Anti-overload prevention of sensory systems is also found in physics (i.e. inverse square law).
Well its rather obviated in Ezekiel and in the NT that its not all necessarily about physical land or physically observable kingdoms. It might be that a polity even in Ancient Greece was made up of men not buildings or soil. The tangible systems can be teaching tools to teach about the spiritual by using parallels and allegories. The tangible systems are not necessarily merely allegorical themselves. Even in modern times, there are two distinct types of governments or kingdoms: a territorial system (based on land) and one based on the heart or mind (personal). The U.S. is unabashed about its recognition of personal jurisdiction. In this perspective "playing God" takes a richer meaning.
Even the dances in European and other royal courts are said to have specific meaning. The dance is actually real and tangible in the physical but yet it points to allegory. The dance of history has been much the same.
Unless someone really insists on willfully turning a blind eye to the truth, Freemasonry itself is full of physical representations of intangible concepts. The phallic symbol is tangible it is not allegorical stone, it is real but it symbolizes something. Likewise, rites/rituals are actually physically carried out --even war could be said to be a ritual--even though they might tend to lean to the symbolic. Millions of people act out rites every day (from war to marriage) and somehow we are supposed to think everything in the past to have been merely allegorical. Perplexing.
Perhaps MJ might be interested in R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz's work Symbol and the Symbolic: Ancient Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousness?