¶ False Property Illusion (1)
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False Property Illusion:
"Inevitably, the phantom captain’s habitual association of his infinite self with his subconsciously subservient mechanisms has inclined him to a dual presumption: (1) that this mechanism is an actual (by extension) part of his phantom self, whereas it is purely an electrochemical combination of inanimate energy molecules that are intrinsically the ship the phantom captain commands, and (2) an attitude of ownership: the mechanism of ordination for his will is ‘his’ permanent ‘possession,’ whereas in reality it is only temporarily in his custody. This illusion of ‘possession’ of the mechanism has been further extended, through accustomed relationship, to include ‘possession’ of one’s clothes, pencils, house in general, land, friends, wife, and children, business, state, nation, world, and finally ‘god’ – the last named quite naturally being ‘pictured’ in the exclusively original form of his ‘own’ egotistically important, special mechanistic and chemical process arrangement.
“As the ‘possessor’ of all has extensions, the phantom captain automatically evolves a myriad of illusory necessities for which he assumes a vain egotistical responsibility. This false-possession and always innocuous myth (which is consumptive of”
