ABSTRACT
It has to be speculative because Weil allows that an answer to the question of why existence should have come to be must remain a mystery. It is beyond our comprehension, not least because it presumes a mode of being as unlike our own as it is possible to be. Nonetheless, while acknowledging, often arguing, that it is beyond comprehension, Weil believes that this underlying reality is one to which one can become indirectly related by means of mediation. This can be attained through contact with aspects of mediation—the intermediaries—that appear within existence here below in the forms of beauty, order, necessity, justice and love, among others.
