De-demonizing Ego
The absolute, being all that is, must contain the idea of its own opposite. But being all, the absolute cannot have an opposite. So, the idea of the opposite of the absolute can only ever be an idea , and one that is simultaneously undone by the onlyness of the absolute. This idea and its simultaneous undoing are represented as consciousness . Consciousness is a symbolic depiction of an idea of a truth (represented by pure consciousness ) being opposed by ideas (represented by ego and its world) that appear in it and that it undoes over time. Pure consciousness (the truth of consciousness) is whole and does not have parts. But ego, as the idea of denial of truth, makes it seem that it does have parts: Conscious awareness (what is in immediate awareness), subconscious (what is just out of conscious awareness), and unconscious (what is out of conscious awareness). Ego’s occupation of conscious awareness pushes truth into the unconscious...