I agree with the thought that guilt is derived from a feeling of inadequacy and of feeling externally controlled, which in my mind means this person has not yet fully integrated that they are in essence manifestations of divine energy in all its multiple variations, along with the potential power lying within them.
I believe a "self" is both fabricated illusion and fabricated reality in the sense that it exists also because it is one of so many facets of the manifestation of divine energy. It is the "stuff" we can play with in this world of relativity in order to help us discern what really is from what is not.

Lynne T.