Some rough notes after reading this interesting compendium of essays about the great man, in Macao September 2011:

In Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, Lewis contemplates the possibility that creation is a tragedy, an inevitable separation of creatures from their divine ground. Students of the second century will hear in these words the voice of Valentinus, for whom creation was the result of some primal flaw.

Lewis: ‘I stick to [Owen Barfield’s] view. All creatures, from the angel to the atom, are other than God: with an otherness to which there is no parallel: incommensurable. The very words “to be” cannot be applied to Him and to them in exactly the same sense. But also no creature is other than He in the same way in which it is other than all the rest. He is in it as they can never be in one another. In each of them as the ground and root and continual supply of its reality… Therefore of each creature we can say “This also is Thou: neither is this Thou”. (pp. 166-7)