 It is difficult to be sure precisely how closely More wants us to take the analogy between God and space. Clearly space and God are not one and the same, but More at the very least regards space as an instrument, or organ, through which God creates and maintains the world, and without which He could not have created it. It is this last point which is crucial. More insisted that for something to exist, it must exist in space. This included God himself, and More was the first theologian or philosopher to propose that God must be an extended infinite being (Grant 1981, 223). Given the intimate connection between God and space and the supposition that nothing could exist unless space existed, God did not have to will space into existence. Space was held to be an emanative effect of God. Accordingly, just as light spontaneously emanates from a lit candle, so space emanates from God. The world is necessarily dualistic, therefore. There cannot be a monistic world, comprised solely of matter. Matter requires space to accommodate its extended nature, but space is immaterial substance, and so the world must be dualist in nature (Grant 1981, 226–27; Reid 2012, 138; Leech 2013; Thomas 2018, 51–2).