 Suppose, however, that the causal history of the desk is traced all the way back to the very beginning of the world. Surely the starting point of the universe — that from which all the subsequent objects and events necessarily follow — surely that initial mode follows from God’s nature or from one of God’s infinite modes. Where else could it come from? If so, then by the modal transfer principle, the first finite mode will exist necessarily, and so everything that follows from it, including the desk, will exist necessarily too.