 It us debatable whether Bennett fully grasps Leibniz’s analogy. The point of Leibniz’s analogy between substantial thought or perception and God’s conservation is to reveal two important aspects of emanation: (1) that God’s causal influence on us is continual (just as substances always perceive); and (2) that this influence does not diminish God’s causal power (just as thinking does not seem to diminish our ability to think) (Mercer, 189).