Legion: Fragmentation Through Self-Relation

The Parasitical and Self-Negating Nature of Sin

According to tradition, Satan fell through his pride: 

Every story has only one beginning. And the story of sin has its beginning: pride. Among the myriad of sins, the lot of pride fell to begin the terrible, dark and woeful story of sin. From pride came the first sin in heaven: the falling away of Satan from the Creator.¹

St. Varnava Nastic describes pride as “the grave of love.” Pride is the “purest” sin as it is the most direct form of withdrawal from communion: it is self-assertion as such. Pride is the nonsensical affirmation of the self for no other reason than itself: it is the purest form of the fiction of self-relation.