John 16:7 read as the necessary disappearance of God. It is to your advantage that I go away, for unless I go away the Comforter will not come - and a little while and you will see me no more, again a little while and you will see me. While God was visible he moved men as a conductor moves an orchestra and they obeyed; to make persons instead of puppets he had to stop dwelling among them and start dwelling in them, which means becoming invisible to mortal eyes and looking, to us, like absence. So God was never more present than when he was absent. The image Neville uses is a father leaving a son at camp: to the son the father is caught up into a cloud and gone. And the same law is the grain of wheat - unless it falls into the earth and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it brings forth much. The mystery of life through death.