Unity/Infinity/One

[anagogy]

I wonder if Intelligent Infinity of itself is not so much different than an "ego" that encompassed infinite experiences of itself.

Real within illusions yet still not the Source of itself.

The way I see it, the Primal Ego or Self, you are referencing is the 2nd distortion, otherwise known as the "Logos", which is the focusing of infinite energy. Prior to that, I think intelligent infinity was ego-less in its unfocused state. With the state of consciousness of ego, there is self recognition, and a sort of inner/outer dichotomy because that is the boundary of self recognition, or identity. It represents the proto self, that all individuations are holographic reflections of.

In intelligent infinity prior to distortions, I don't think there are any conceptions of self, because there are no boundaries in true infinity. It is almost like it is the embodiment of all possible choices at once (which is why free will is a distortion from the base reality--it is choiceless). Sort of like the difference between a block of wood, and all the "potential carvings" that exist within that block of wood. Intelligent infinity embodies the block of wood, to continue the analogy, thus embodying all potential carvings, but it doesn't see them as separate carvings as the other creative and primal distortions do.

When it chooses to focus on a particular array of choices, out of the infinity of possible choices, this represents the 1st distortion (or first "narrowing" of infinity), and then finds focus as the collection of chosen probabilities as the 2nd distortion, or the mind of the Logos.