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free just because, as an individual, I express by my existence no will except my own. And that is precisely how my existence expresses, or results from, God’s Will. That this same existence of mine also has, besides its individuality, its dependence, its natural relations, its temporal origin, means that I am not only I, but also the Self along with all other Selves. But that the One Will of God is expressed through the Many individual wills, — this results from that view of the relation of the One and the Many which our former series so extensively discussed. Simple unity is a mere impossibility. God cannot be One except by being Many. Nor can we various Selves be Many, unless in Him we are One. To know just this is to win the deepest truth that religion has been seeking to teach humanity.