 The centre of Wycliffe's philosophical system is formed by the doctrine of the prior existence in the thought of God of all things and events.While Platonic realism would view "beauty' as a property that exists in an ideal form independently of any mind or thing, "for Wycliffe every universal, as part of creation, derived its existence from God, the Creator".Wycliffe was a close follower of Augustine, and always upheld the primacy of the Creator over the created reality.