is only one modern process thinker who follows Plato’s lead and suggests that, as with the demiurge in the Timaeus, God is limited by matter which is not entirely under his control.39 Although not a widely accepted notion, a final suggestion regarding the origin of evil, especially natural evil, is the idea that much evil results from the machinations of satan and his cohorts. Modern westerners might find such a thesis untenable, but that attitude reveals our own intellectual and cultural provincialisms,