26. In what does this sin consist? The is the movement in which the poisoned soul no longer understands itself as one among many finite beings. It awards itself the role of center. It holds itself accountable only for what pleases itself. This is the core of sin, from its most extreme examples in the Hitlers and Stalins and Maos, large and small, right down to the bad driver in each of us, willfully ignoring the safety, peace, and well-being of those around us. (Not that all sins are equal. Only that they share the same root.) The soul obsessed by fear can no longer see anything of value, anything of kinship, in the rest of the finite world. Fear thus becomes enmity and eventually hatred.