| BkI:11.II.4 | The ego, in its creative potential, seeks to create a solitary reality—a reality in which each individual must cope by himself or herself to understand a world that neither loves, nor protects, nor can be understood, a world in which everyone lives alone, among other solitary selves who, like it, dedicate themselves to fighting each other and everything, a world in which everything has a desire to survive, despite knowing that death, which is the only certainty of that reality, will lead them to total and absolute separation by making them nothing. And all this is for the sole purpose of being able to sing a victory song of triumph over God. Thus the ego-consciousness seeks to create a solitary reality in which it lives without any real connection with anything, with the idea that an autonomous being can be real. For this to have been possible it was necessary to create the idea that God is an illusion. Yet only in illusion, only in a world of childish fantasies, could the reality of a solitary state be achievable. And that is what ego created: the great illusion of the world. |