The basic moral message behind the Golden Rule is that one treats others as how one treats oneself, or bow one wants to be treated. This suggestion seems both reasonable and plausible.
If we would be a good person, we should have love ourselves more than we do not, and we would self-realize more than just exist without artistic ambition. Then, if one is well on the way to becoming an artistic individuator, then one could feel proper pride in one’s personal effort and outcome, and yet be humble, knowing that the self is mortal, flawed and limited, accepting that in comparison to the creative talent demonstrated by a good deity that we follow, our comparative efforts, though meaningful and impressive, fall far short of what our divine friend has achieved, and this is proper humility to state the obvious openly.
It would seem then that we should esteem others more than we would try to humble them, and we also should be objective and impartial in how we judge their actions and character, and that will influence how we esteem or respect them or not, and we should still generally treat people with affection and respect, as that is how we should want to be treated in return.
If we are good persons and are individuating, we should still be more proud than humble, but mostly we should act modestly with courtesy towards ourselves, others and the good deities. We should be more logical and emotional in our interactions with others, neither too theatrical, too emotional, nor catatonic or without affect.
We can be as ambitious for good as we want to be, but we should not be haughty in our relations with others, for that is bad form. We should give most but not all glory to God.
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