Pride and Fear Intimately Linked - (2175)

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.

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