An Intimate Connection there Exists
We all know I think that there is a connection between pride
and fear. However, we may not be fully aware of what exactly it is that links
them.
We have all had that experience of having an argument with
someone and then feeling a little scared having to face them a few days later at
a meeting. Or perhaps feeling scared of meeting people that we know from work
or Gnosis while we are out shopping, at the cinema, walking in the city, at the
markets, or inviting the same people to our home.
Justice is the Link
Justice is inherent in pride. Pride hates justice and wishes
intently to escape it. It always feels to be above justice and it always feels
that justice is unfair.
When pride knows that we must face justice then fear immediately
appears.
In all the examples mentioned above there is justice to be
faced and pride uses fear to avoid having to face justice.
You may ask where is justice in meeting people at the shops?
Well, there is justice to do with image, consistency and word.
We for example, at Gnosis present a good image of ourselves to
other Gnostics with our word and behaviour, and in justice it is understood that
that good image be upheld in every environment. It just happens that we feel
while at the cinemas that we are not upholding the values of that good image
and so we feel fear that justice is going to strike where our contradictory reality
will become exposed. In other words we must face justice for the lies we have been
projecting.
The exact same thing applies to meeting with someone after
an argument where we feel that justice will come upon us after we have hurt
another with our pride.
Conclusion
If what we do is just we have no cause for pride and fear.
Being just, which is done by exercising justice in our thoughts, feelings,
actions and words keeps out of pride and fear.
There is a saying in Spanish that goes: “El que no la debe, no la teme”, meaning
the one who owes nothing has nothing to fear. That saying sums it all up. If we
have been just, that is we have not allowed our pride to go beyond the limits
of balance then we shall have nothing to fear.
End (2175).
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