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While we have recognized that the ego’s plan for salvation is the opposite of God’s, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God.
The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
Having an idea has nothing at all to do with the idea itself.
The incredible distance between Hegel and Kierkegaard’s attempts to define self is very obvious here. While they both appear to be existentialists, the difference between their rationale is the exact distance between chaos and order (enlightenment). There is a gap between Hegel’s cause and effect. Very few human minds can as yet accept with certainty the universal truth that to have is to be. Yet this is what enlightenment is.
It is finally the only manner that death can awaken to eternity.
