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The first fallacy in all the thinking of these cults is the ascription to the ego of qualities which properly belong to the Overself. To take a single instance: deathlessness is claimed as a possible achievement for the physical body, which is a formed and compounded thing, when it can only belong by nature to the Overself, which is simple and unitary. The second fallacy is the belief of the ego that it can issue orders to the Overself and actually get them obeyed--orders, of course, which confer riches, position, and other satisfactions upon itself.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 10 : The Is Is Not an Ism > # 76