Triangulating Self: Cesarean, Epictetus, and the Higher Self: The Caesarean goal or means is never to take on risks; it is to remove them. The goal is always defensive. Caesar already has the initiative and keeps it, defends it. He already has the resource. All “revolution” and “overturning” is the job of the thinker, the philosopher … and ultimate revolution is Epictetan. Epictetus needs to start a new war, by introducing new aims … “superior aims” by which all onlookers suddenly find themselves scrambling for new ranks within the sudden introduction of a new hierarchy. The “surprise” attack is a great motivator for all such philosophers. Caesar wants the old standard to prevail: resources … to keep them, to compound them. The conscious self is a little self and can only travel between two extremes as far as rank is concerned. The will to remain Caesar or the will to become like Caesar. On the other hand, The Real Self, the highest of all is never realized …. Ever. It is merely calculated, and necessarily so. One is (whether from Caesar’s or Epictetus’ advantage) subordinate to that higher self and must know it, or lose any claim whatsoever to either of the three ranks available. One must travel to each of the three corners of this triangle, being Caesarean and Epictetan, and conversing through the wall with the higher self – going even so far as to perform transactions with it. One gives what it demands for what it can give back … one learns what it demands (it wants nothing, it only demands).