Eastern thinking calls the world an “illusion” and treats it as something that needs to be gotten rid of. This view dictates a retreat from activity and immersion in self-concentration with the ultimate goal of dissolving consciousness in the world of infinity

The Western Path calls the perceived world a “picture”, a “description”, which also indicates its, in general, unreality, but at the same time does not have the negative connotation that the idea of ​​“illusion” gives. Therefore, on this Path the emphasis is on active awareness, and the goal is the transition of this awareness into the active-creative fullness of the Pleroma

But one way or another, both views agree that it is necessary to somehow fight the falseness of the world, since it itself is destructive in relation to consciousness and is aimed at its enslavement and suffering, respectively, overcoming illusion by the magician means precisely the desire to break out of the state of general consumption , or at least minimize this consumption

Therefore, "getting rid of the illusion" does not mean the calming of consciousness that Eastern ascetics strive for, it means, first of all, the exit of consciousness "from the shadow", from that state of blindness into which it is plunged by external and internal predators