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| The 1st Commandment I Am The Lord Thy God! Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me" by Remilekun101: 11:41am On Oct 10, 2015 |
He who is able to read these words aright will doubtless already see in them the sentence for many who do not observe this most exalted of all the Commandments. “Thou shalt have no other gods!” Many a man reads far too little into these words. He has made it too easy for himself! In the first place he probably thinks of idolaters only as those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each one of which represents a particular god; perhaps he also thinks of demon-worshippers and others similarly gone astray, at best calling them to mind with pity, but he does not include himself among them. Just take a look at yourselves calmly for once, and examine yourselves as to whether perchance you belong to them after all! One person has a child who really means more to him than anything, for whom he would be able to make any sacrifice, forgetting all else, another sets earthly pleasure far above everything, and with the best volition would in the end be absolutely incapable of renouncing this pleasure for anything, if he were faced with such a challenge as afforded him a voluntary decision. Yet a third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly recognition, and again in all these things they all ultimately love only... themselves! That is idolatry in the truest sense. The First Commandment warns against it! Forbids it! And woe to him who does not obey it to the letter! This infringement avenges itself immediately, for such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the Ethereal Realm. In reality however he has only bound himself to the earth through the attachment to something which is upon the earth! He is thus held back from further ascent, loses the time given to him for it, and runs the risk of not emerging from the Ethereal Realm in time to rise therefrom to the Luminous Realm of the free spirits. He will then be swept along into the inevitable disintegration of all material substance, which serves to purify it for its resurrection and its new formation. But for the human soul this is ethereal and spiritual death of all the personal consciousness it had developed, and therewith also the destruction of its form and its name for all eternity! Obedience to this Commandment is meant to give protection from this terrible fate! It is one of the most exalted Commandments, because it remains the one most necessary to man! Unfortunately, he is all too apt to yield to some attachment which finally enslaves him! But whatever he allows to become an attachment he therewith makes into a golden calf, setting it in the highest place, making it a false god or idol beside his God, and very often even above Him! Unfortunately there are only too many “attachments” which man has created for himself, and which, with the utmost thoughtlessness, he readily adopts! An attachment is the predilection for something earthly, as I have already pointed out. Naturally there are still many more of them. But he who acquires an attachment is “attached” as the word correctly indicates. He is thereby attached to the gross material when he enters the beyond for his further development, and cannot easily detach himself again from it; he is thus retarded, held back! This can indeed also be called a curse that remains a perpetual burden to him. The process is the same, no matter how it is expressed in words. If in his life on earth, however, he puts God above all else, not only in his perception or merely in words, but in his intuition, thus truly and genuinely, in reverential love that binds him as to an attachment, then through the same effect this binding will at once cause him to strive upwards when he enters the beyond; for he takes with him the reverence and love for God; it supports him and bears him finally towards God’s vicinity, into Paradise, the Primordial Creation, the abode of the pure spirits who have become free from all burdens, and whose binding leads only to God’s Luminous Truth! Therefore pay strict attention to the keeping of this Commandment. You will be protected thereby from many unfavorable blows of fate, for the release of which there may not be enough time remaining! Grail Message by Abdrushin |
| Re: The 1st Commandment I Am The Lord Thy God! Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me" by jaey(m): 11:55am On Oct 10, 2015 |
Don't dwell on the old law that Christ himself has fulfilled. If you fail in any of the law then you have failed in all of the 10 laws of moses. The law was given to show us our inadequacies and turn our attention totally to God and this God sent Christ to reconcile us back to him. The only thing we have to do now is to BELIEVE that we are made right with God through Christ's death on the cross. This is the time of GRACE NOT OF THE LAWS. |
| Re: The 1st Commandment I Am The Lord Thy God! Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me" by Remilekun101: 12:22pm On Oct 10, 2015 |
jaey: Read this Accursed now be those who through leading millions of people astray have so enslaved them that today they no longer dare to open their eyes to the Light, but blindly revile anything coming to their knowledge that sounds different from what they have hitherto heard, instead of at last listening attentively and examining inwardly to see whether the new does not come nearer to their understanding than what they have learned in the past. Their ears are stopped, and anxiously they see to it that no breath of fresh air penetrates to them. Actually just out of laziness and fear that this fresh air, through the ensuing recovery, implies spiritual activity, demanding and enforcing self-exertion. In contrast to the present apparently comfortable spiritual slumber, which is followed by the heavy permanent sleep, and thereby only gives a free hand to the cunning of the distorted, debased intellect! But it is of no avail to stop your ears against the new Word, to shut your eyes lest the Light dazzle and startle you! You will now be forcibly roused from this deplorable stupor! You will have to stand shivering before the cold Light that mercilessly strips you of all false wrappings. Shivering because your spirit-spark can no longer be kindled within you, and thus generate the warmth from within that will unite with the Light. Indeed it is all too easy for you to believe the unbelievable; for then you need not trouble to think and examine for yourselves. Just because it cannot stand up to any test that is in accordance with the Divine Laws of Nature, you simply have to believe, without questioning the why or wherefore; you have to believe blindly, and this you imagine to be great! You who so conveniently imagine you are particularly devout, simply raise yourselves above all doubts in this matter, and . . . feel happy, secure, noble, pious and sure of a place in Heaven! However, you have not thereby raised yourselves above all doubt, but only bypassed it in a cowardly way! You were too spiritually indolent to bestir yourselves, and preferred blind faith to a knowledge of the natural happening in the Law of God’s Will. Fictions devised by the human brain aided you in this. For the more absurd and incomprehensible the things you are supposed to believe, the easier it also becomes literally to believe in them blindly, because in such matters it is quite impossible to do otherwise. Knowledge and conviction must be eliminated then. Only the impossible demands blind, unreserved faith; for whatever is possible immediately stimulates independent thinking. Wherever there is Truth, which is always characterized by naturalness and consistency, thinking and deep intuitive sensing automatically set in. This only ceases where it no longer finds anything natural, thus where Truth does not exist. And it is only through deep intuitive sensing that anything can become conviction, which alone brings values to the human spirit. |
| Re: The 1st Commandment I Am The Lord Thy God! Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me" by jaey(m): 12:36pm On Oct 10, 2015 |
Remilekun101: Well, no point in engaging your fixed mindset. |
| Re: The 1st Commandment I Am The Lord Thy God! Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me" by Remilekun101: 1:00pm On Oct 10, 2015 |
jaey: What if your mind is the Fixed Mind? |
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