The world exists, not for what it means, but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms; wine is in order to be wine: Things are precious before they are contributory. It is false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good, but for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, it’s whole reason for being must be in it’s own goodness; He has no use for it; only delight.