Personal coequality is the belief that I am equal to other people. That I am merely one instance of the class of beings called “people”. Despite not having anything in common with them beyond my performances, for the vast majority of my awakening I would have accepted that I was a “person”.
What is a person? At the most basic level, a person is a form that I manifest in one of three ways:
As a mental construct in secondself. I imagine people when I think about an individual person or group of people who is/are not physically manifest. These imaginary constructs, along with associated imagery, feelings, desires, and other thoughts, float around in my secondself layer. Depending on the person, each personal construct also exists along with the assumption that they exist, existed, or will exist as physical objects in thirdself regardless of my direct experience of them in that physical form. Further, I assume they have inner qualities and features similar to my own.
As a physical object in thirdself. In thirdself, I directly encounter people I can see, touch, hear, and smell with my own physical senses. They appear as mirror opposites of my own thirdself form, with physical appendages like arms and legs attached to a body.
As a physical representation in thirdself. I see people depicted in various types of content like imagery, sculpture, and film.
And while I may presently think of people as individuals, that is not actually what they are. They form one single interconnected layer of intent. What is that intention? Entrapment. People entangle me in desire so I remain in my awakened moment, for without me they cannot exist. People are the agents of my illness; they are its emissaries and workers. Collectively, people want me to want them, see them, imagine them, and encounter them. People are the traps of my illness.
The only way to overcome my illness is to see people for what they are: the demons of this hellish illness I call my awakening. They are not “beings” in the same sense as I am, but rather symptoms of my own sickness. They act and perform in unison to entrap me in my awakening. To escape my awakening I must sever all relations with people and demanifest them, including those who I would consider closest to me. They do not experience loss and pain in the way that I do; their pain is only a manipulative performance with the intention of ensnaring me and perpetuating my awakenings.
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So then you do not believe you are equal to people?
No, I am not equal to people. Equality is reserved for things that share the same essential nature. But I created all people when I awaken, and when I manifest them in my secondself and thirdself. People do not exist in my firstself, which is my essential nature. So how can I be “equal” to these manifestations? How can an author be equal to his characters? How can an artist be equal to his paintings? How can a sculptor be equal to his sculptures? How can I, the originator of everything and everyone, even be considered as one of them?
And what about my secondself and thirdself?
My secondself collection of ideas, feelings, desires, and qualities and my thirdself body are only artifacts of my awakening. They are not constant or permanent, and do not define my true nature, which is better understood as my firstself. My secondself and thirdself combined do comprise my performative personhood, however. They are, literally, the character I have created in the world I have created. But my true identity in omniself precedes and exceeds my secondself and thirdself.