Chapter 14Dealing with Hostile Attacks · Fear of Attacks

Yes, the adverse forces take advantage of any perturbation of that kind [mental anxiety and fear when something bad hap-pens] — for it opens as it were a passage to their action. Fear is the one thing that one must never feel in face of them, for it makes them bold and aggressive. Moreover fear, as you justly say, calls the thing feared — it must therefore be thrown out altogether.

* If you are afraid of the hostile forces when they try to come, you expose yourself to their power.