Compared to the Farham, who seemed to have a hint of life or even self-awareness in their eyes, the colossal being wielding the tridents seemed a lot more mechanical, and lifeless. That wasn't just because the being didn't have eyes to begin with - no, it was because it seemed entirely like a puppet. A powerful puppet, yes, but a puppet nonetheless.
As such, Lex, in his strengthened state after being baptized in Heavenly lightning, could see the strings pulling at it. They were laws, governing its every movement, its every action.
The complexity and abstract nature of those laws was so esoteric that Lex could state without a hint of doubt that if he had seen them as a mortal, he might have gone crazy. His mortal mind would have struggled to understand, to explain something that didn't operate in his limited understanding of what constituted reality.
