Let us not allow our pride and ego to consume us. We will fall, certainly. We will succumb to the trickery of the ego that inflates our Self importance---Like Icarus we will fall when we fly and be killed.
This kind of Self-importance is false---it is a defense only against our Low Self-esteem:---not true Self-worth based in Light and Love--only a defense to hold us up against our negative feelings about ourselves. This is why Icarus falls, and why Narcissus in the other myth succumbs to narcsissm--he is in love with his own reflection, reaches down to embrace it because he is falsely enamored and then drowns.
This archetypal story is very important. We cannot be so taken with ourselves that we become Self-absorbed. This is what is meant by "no other gods before me"---Not the issue of "idol worship"---misrepresented for centuries.
"No other gods" means we cannot allow our ego to rule our life and completely hypnotize us. The Dark uses this as a weapon against us. It flatters us, makes us what we are not and then throws us away after draining us of our life force and our Light.
If we fall for it, we are the ones who end up the loser, for they move onto others: there are plenty out there who are fooled by their ego.
DR. R
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