>>40951723
>divinity vs ego
>What the hell is going on here?
I don't think it's ever divinity vs ego. I think it's always layers and layers of ego vs ego. It's a cosmic war between egos aligned with Chaos or with Order. "Enlightenment" is to recognize Chaos and Order are fractals of each other (picrel), thus transcending the war by disaligning your ego, or transcending your ego. That's divinity.

Another angle: God contains all Chaos and all Order and creatively expresses them in all its forms. When aspects of Chaos and aspects of Order grow factions and forget they are part of the same One, they inevitably compete, and the competition may end in victory and loss, or balance and equilibrium. However even in balance, due to the law of entropy it take continuous work to keep things in balance. When left alone, things mechanically tip towards either Chaos or Order again, so divine intervention (i.e. free will and work) is necessary to keep things balanced.
We see this war happen in all aspects of the human condition. Balancing masculine vs feminine, conservative vs progressive, centralization vs decentralization, etc. Dogmas that worship only Chaos or worship only Order tend to be the ones that profit from causing wars in the name of either Chaos (mob rule aka "democracy") or in the name of Order (peace aka "new world order"). They use doublespeak to imbalance the world, though neither work without a critical mass of citizens who can find balance among themselves.

>tldr: divinity doesn't compete with ego. Ego tends to align with Chaos or Order. Divinity balances Chaos and Order as they dance. One path is to balance it, another path is to transcend it. Maybe yet another path is to enjoy it. My amateur guess is that Jesus taught the path of balancing it. Buddha taught the path of transcending it. Or maybe it's the other way around. I don't even know anymore. Just tossing ideas out there for the hive mind.