no loneliness, then, imaginable in God’s existence; the Divine Life would have full scope for its activities, even if there were nothing else. No, there is no really satisfactory account of why Creation ever happened. We know that it did, because here we are. But the most the theologians can tell us is that it is the nature of goodness to diffuse itself, so that God uses Creation as a kind of reservoir for the overflow of his inexhaustible love. We can’t, after all, form any real picture in our minds