Women in Love - Deus Ex Machina

The following again is from Gerald Crich's stock of crystalised visions and presents a beautiful yet perhaps obtuse bit of prose communicating an extension to his beliefs around man's purpose in life, productivity and industry - read previous post first: Man's Purpose 

[Bear in mind, Gerald Crich is a colliery owner/ manager]

Immediately he SAW the firm, he realised what he could do. He had a
fight to fight with Matter, with the earth and the coal it enclosed.
This was the sole idea, to turn upon the inanimate matter of the
underground, and reduce it to his will. And for this fight with matter,
one must have perfect instruments in perfect organisation, a mechanism
so subtle and harmonious in its workings that it represents the single
mind of man, and by its relentless repetition of given movement, will
accomplish a purpose irresistibly, inhumanly. It was this inhuman
principle in the mechanism he wanted to construct that inspired Gerald
with an almost religious exaltation. He, the man, could interpose a
perfect, changeless, godlike medium between himself and the Matter he
had to subjugate. There were two opposites, his will and the resistant
Matter of the earth. And between these he could establish the very
expression of his will, the incarnation of his power, a great and
perfect machine, a system, an activity of pure order, pure mechanical
repetition, repetition ad infinitum, hence eternal and infinite. He
found his eternal and his infinite in the pure machine-principle of
perfect co-ordination into one pure, complex, infinitely repeated
motion, like the spinning of a wheel; but a productive spinning, as the
revolving of the universe may be called a productive spinning, a
productive repetition through eternity, to infinity. And this is the
Godmotion, this productive repetition ad infinitum. And Gerald was the
God of the machine, Deus ex Machina. And the whole productive will of
man was the Godhead.

He had his life-work now, to extend over the earth a great and perfect
system in which the will of man ran smooth and unthwarted, timeless, a
Godhead in process. -pp.197-98

Anyone working in consultancy, performance improvement, business effectiveness etc. should take heart and certainly commit this passage to memory as it will invariably provide greater credence to such work in effect imbuing it with a most profound and ultimately deified significance.

But something that interests and maybe puzzles me is whether the passage fundamentally equates godliness to automation? hmmmmm...... Honestly, I don't have a clear idea of how to interpret this passage, but what I do know is that I like it and it sounds very interesting - as always, extremely keen to read any thoughts and comments