| BkV:14.III.6 | Giving meaning to things is how the ego tries to be equal to God. This egoistic desire to be equal with the Creator is a substitute for the truth that your true self—not the egoic self—is one with God. The mind always knew it came from something other than itself, despite the confusion introduced by the ego. To attempt to resolve the dilemma of its origin, ego identified with the body. To do so it had to assign meaning to the body, and did exactly that. Thus arose the ancestral mechanism of the mind to grant a purpose to everything. |