“He has his thoughts ‘from above’ and gets no further” (Ego, 44). Those who submit themselves to being possessed by these ideals and intentions rather than possessing them in their own subjectivity are rightly called “unselfish” or, as Stirner would also have it, “possessed.” As he notes: “Is it perchance only people possessed by the devil that meet us, or do we as often come upon people possessed in the contrary way—possessed by ‘the good,’ by virtue, morality, the law, or some ‘principle’ or other? Possessions of the devil are not the only ones. God works on us, and the devil does; the former ‘workings of grace,’ the latter ‘workings of the devil.’ Possessed [bessessene] people are set [versessen] in their opinions” (Ego, 45). In short, thoughts, ideals, are to Stirner alienable property: “The thought is my own only when I have no misgivings about bringing it in danger of death every moment, when I do not have to fear its loss as a loss for me” (Ego, 342)
The revolution aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and sets no glittering hopes on ‘institutions’. It is not a fight against the established [...] it is only a working forth of me out of the established. [...] Now, as my object is not an overthrow of the established order but my elevation above it, my purpose and deed are not political or social but (as directed toward myself and my ownness alone) an egoistic purpose indeed. ….” (280)
Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's.
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.
