 More has a ready answer to those for whom extension implies divisibility, and who therefore object that, if More were right, God and souls would be divisible. More concedes that extended things can be divided conceptually, but immaterial spirits, such as God and souls, cannot be physically divided in any way. Moving away from the concept of divisibility, More introduces the notion of what he calls “discerpibility”, deriving from the Latin word for tearing in pieces. He draws on the long-standing exemplar of Neoplatonic emanation theory to make his point—light. A luminous orb of light, he says, “does very much resemble the nature of a Spirit, which is diffus’d and extended, and yet indivisible” (More 1662, Antidote Against Atheism, separately paginated, 150). No engine or art could separate one luminous ray from another, and