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.
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