The autobiography of the I or ego

Part 2. In It and Its Activity is there Anything of the Being

of God.

Part 3. Supreme Consciousness and Still No Such Being. Part 4. Theism or Deism — Which? — Either, Neither, Both or What ?

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF THE

I OR EGO;

OR,

THE METAPHYSICS

OF AN INTERLOPER AND IMPOSTOR, HIMSELF IN THE ROLE OF CONFESSOR.' :

BY CHARLES K?RKLAN'D WFEI gR. \V

r

"Art thou not thyself, perchance,

But the universe in trance?

A reflection inly flung

By that world thou fanciest sprung

From thyself — thyself a dream —

Of the world's thinking thou the theme ?"

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.

9 Park Square.

Copyright Entry

CLASS v XXc. No.

7xro *r b

COPY B

Copyright ": by:* :

CHARLES K. WHEELER.

Preface

The present work is in effect a dissertation to show that the ego, as referring to the subject as distinguished from the object, is not, which is to say that I am not, that you the reader are not self-conscious, nor even conscious, yet that we are so sure that we are; that only the thinker — which is not you nor I — is conscious, and not even he (or it) is self-conscious; to show, in a word, that, that we are conscious and self-conscious is all illusion and even all delusion, except as we reason ourselves into a knowledge of the illusion as only the illusion that it is.

Contents

Page.

I — My Awareness of Myself. 11

II — The Illusion of My Being Self-Conscious