Everlasting enemy (ICA)

This is the realization that nothing one can do will make a difference, for the mystery is always breaking one's illusions; when one knows that the mystery of life is working out history and that one is not ultimately in charge. An example is when the people in Ignazio Silone's novel "Bread and Wine" fight for a vision they have of the future; and experience that it all falls apart even as their vision is coming true.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of articulating the word of life (the life of knowing) the fourth formal aspect is one's experience of the final nothing in life or the glorious mystery of life. At the second phenomenological level, this occurs when one is somehow stripped of one's illusions, having to decide how to relate to their new universe.