"Aseitas--the English equivalent is a transliteration: aseity--simply means the power of a being to exist absolutely in virtue of itself, not as caused by itself, but as requiring no cause, no other justification for its existence except that its very nature is to exist. There can be only one such Being: that is God. And to say that God exists a se, of and by and by reason of Himself, is merely to say that God is Being Itself. Ego sum qui sum. And this means that God must enjoy 'complete independence not only as regards everything outside but also as regards everything within Himself.'"
--Thomas Merton Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt Publishers, p. 189)
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