God bless you and keep you from harm, this day and forever..
Pride is First on the list of seven deadly sins.
NPCs fresh from leadership seminars rave about it, but pride is a sin, especially pride in what is.
It is also first on the list of the seven deadly sins.
"Hubris, Satiety, Ate. '' said the Greeks.
In Greek mythology, Ate, Até or Aite (/ˈeɪtiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτη) was the goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. She also led both gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering.
and in Shakespeare:
''And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_(mythology)
==X. The Key=
The Corpus Hermeticum
translated by G.R.S. Mead
X. The Key
This longer tractate presents itself explicitly as a summary or abridgement of the General Sermons (CH II-IX), and discusses the Hermetic view of knowledge and its role in the lives and afterlives of human beings. The attentive reader will notice certain contradictions between the afterlife-teachings of this and previous tractates.
One of the central concepts of The Key, and of Hermetic thought generally, is the distinction between ordinary discursive knowledge which can be expressed in words (in Greek, episteme, which Mead translates somewhat clumsily as “science”) and transcendent, unitive knowledge which cannot be communicated (in Greek, gnosis, which Mead simply and sensibly leaves untranslated). The same distinction can be found in many systems of mystical thought. Unlike most of these, though, the Hermetic teachings place value on both.
Readers without much experience in the jargon of Classical philosophy will want to remember that “hylic” means “material”, “passible” means “subject to outside forces or to suffering”, and “intelligible” means “belonging to the realm of the Mind”, and “motion” includes all kinds of change. The special implications of “good” in Greek thought - of self-sufficiency and desirability - should also be kept in mind.
The delightful irony of the Zen moment early in section 9, when Hermes - in the middle of this very substantial lecture - defines the good and pious man as “he who doth not say much or lend his ear to much”
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Hermes: My yesterday's discourse (logos) I did devote to thee, Asclepius, and so 'tis [only] right I should devote toafy's to Tat; and this the more because 'tis the abridgement of the General Sermons (Logoi) which he has had addressed to him.
“God, Father and the Good”, then, Tat, hath the same nature, or more exactly, energy.
https://hermetic.com/texts/hermetica/hermes10
God's prohibitions seem unnecessary to human beings because certain practices only produce their negative effects over generations - a time frame long enough to conceal the danger from short lived creatures.
changing a few symbols can change an entire civilization.