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Aseity (noun) means the quality of existing entirely through oneself, with no need to depend on anything else.

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The quality of existing entirely through oneself, with no need to depend on anything else.

"‘Transcendence’ — he is the Lord, perfect in freedom, sovereignty, aseity, uncontained, unrestrained, self-willing sovereign God." — Simon Ponsonby, God Inside Out (2007)

"He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted." — William James, Lecture XVIII: Philosophy (1902)

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