created and uncreated light, any analogies drawn from the former are to be regarded as more helpful to ourselves than as appropriate to the latter. Analogies, comparisons or illustrations taken from created realities are properly employed, not to bring our understanding of the Creator within the measure of our creaturely conceptions, but rather to aid the expression and communication of what we apprehend apart from them. On the other hand, the point must be made that, far from discounting or depreciating