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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
THE OUR FATHER
explained to mankind by Abd-ru-shin
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I AM THE LORD THY GOD!
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS
BESIDE ME!
He who is able to read these words aright will probably already see in them the verdict for many
who do not observe this most noble of all the commandments.
“Thou shalt have no other gods!”
Many a man imagines far too little in respect of 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 thinks also
of devil-worshippers and others similarly gone astray, at best thinking of them pityingly, but
here he does not think of himself.
Just take a look at yourselves for once, and examine yourselves as to whether perchance you
belong to them after all!
One has a child who actually means more to him than anything, for whom he is prepared to
make any sacrifice, for whose sake he forgets 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 which affords him a voluntary
decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly distinction,
and they all again in all these things love only … themselves!
That is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against, forbids!
And woe to him who does not obey it to the letter!
This infringement avenges itself immediately in that such a person must always remain
earthbound when he passes over into the fine-material realm. In reality however, only he himself
has bound himself to the earth through the propensity for something that exists on earth! He is
thus held back from further ascent, loses the time given to him for it, and runs the risk of not
being able to leave the fine-material realm in time in a resurrection therefrom to the luminous
realm of the free spirits.
He will then be swept along into the inevitable disintegration of all the material, which serves
for purification for its resurrection and its new formation. This however, is for the human soul
spiritual death of all that has become personal consciousness and therewith also the destruction
of his form as well as his name for eternity!
Compliance with the commandment is meant to give protection from this terrible consequence!
It is the most noble commandment, because, along with other things, it remains most necessary
to man! For unfortunately, he is all too apt to yield to some propensity which finally enslaves
him! But whatever he allows to become a propensity he therewith makes into a golden calf,
which he sets in the highest place, and thereby also as idol or false deity beside his God, very
often even above him!
Unfortunately there are simply too many “propensities” which man has created for himself, and
which with the utmost thoughtlessness he readily adopts! A propensity is the predilection for
something earthly, as I have already pointed out. There are naturally still many more of them.
But he who acquires a propensity gets “caught”, as the (German) word correctly indicates. As
a result, he is caught in the coarse-material when he enters the beyond for his further
development, and cannot easily detach himself again from it; he is thus hampered, held back!
One can indeed also call this a curse that remains weighing upon 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 imagination or merely
in words, but in his sensings, thus truly and genuinely, in reverential love that binds him as if
to a propensity, then through the binding he will at once strive further upwards through the same
effect when he enters the beyond; for he takes with him the reverence and the love for God, it
supports him and finally carries him into paradise, 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 observance of this commandment. You will be protected
thereby from many threads of fate of an unfavourable nature.
Abd-ru-shin
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