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If all possibility \-\- nondivine and divine \-\- can be said to belong to any one thing, it presumably belongs to creativity, or concrescence \-\- along the lines of Hartshorne's statement that "the very idea of potentiality or possibility is to be explicated through the idea of an existing creativity and its \[_sic\!_\] capacity to decide the previously unsettled" ("Can We Understand God?": 83. But what can be meant by "an _existing_ creativity" except creativity as somehow necessarily instantiated in God and the world? Of course, to speak of God _and_ the world is really to speak of God _as including_ the world.)