To 'know' the Creator is our Ultimate journey's end
Number can't compare.
Like a good fren, only you know more in full than in part about them, their person, invisible being but tangible in feeling, thought and heart

Sometimes the very things we think can bring us closer to the One Who Loves us can do the opposite
Consider the jews (no longer God's people) who got caught up in black magik #s , that led them to the 'god of this world' who rewards them for loyalty - worker of divination and inequity