 Unlike Descartes, however, Leibniz does try to explain how God acts on creatures: “created substances depend on God, who conserves them and even produces them continually by a kind of emanation as we produce our thoughts” (Discourse on Metaphysics §14 GP iv 439/PM 26). This suggests Leibniz’s preferred way of reconciling God’s creation and concurrence with creaturely activity. Continual creation is to be understood in terms of God’s emanative activity. Emanation is how God sustains the activity of substances.