who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine -- a possession for all time. [...] and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations. (emphasis mine).

By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, religion, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.