(02-04-2018, 11:29 PM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: How can one claim to be The One from within the one? That's like my finger trying to say it's all me and everything I do comes from my finger because it is me and the me I think I am is just a part of my finger.
I think that's where we have a misunderstanding. You identify the OIC to limits of focus while I think the OIC is what has focus. Whether it is the body (Universe) or the finger (microcosm of it), both are equally focuses of the OIC.
"How can one claim to be The One from within the one?" Simple, the One is intelligence and so any intelligence expresses the One and nothing other. The OIC is just the truth of you, it is not external to you but the core of your focus. You are the OIC, there's literally nothing other that you could be that's not just a paradoxical thought not perceiving the truth of yourself. You are the OIC.
I think your question here should write this way : "How can the one claim to be the one from within the one". Well by realizing the truth of it, it is not any single personality but all personalities and can realize itself from each of them. To say something is not the OIC is to make the OIC nothing.