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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
From The Grail Message
The Second Commandment:
You must not take the Name of the Eternal, Your God, in vain.
The name awakens and gathers the concept in man! Whoever defiles a name and dares to debase it, thereby devalues the concept! Be mindful of this at all times!
But of all the ten commandments, this clear commandment of the Lord is the least respected and therefore the most transgressed. A thousandfold are the kinds of these disrespects. Even if people think that many of these transgressions are quite harmless, only slight sayings, they nevertheless remain transgressions of this distinctly clear commandment! It is precisely these thousandfold, supposedly harmless transgressions that degrade the Holy Name of God, and with it the concept of God, which is always closely connected with the Name, robbing it of its holiness before men, even before children, and defiling its sacredness by making it a commonplace, by reducing it to a common idiom. People do not shy away from making themselves ridiculous in the process. I will not cite one of the many speeches; for the Name is far too high and noble for that! A person needs only to pay attention to it even for one day; he will be dismayed at the vast accumulation of transgressions of the second commandment by people of both sexes, great and small, even down to children, who are scarcely able to form a proper sentence. For as the old sang, so do the young chirp! For this reason, the distortion of God is the first thing that the young learn in the apparently harmless transgression of God's Laws.
But the effect of this is the worst of all transgressions! It has literally spread devastatingly among all mankind, not only among Christians, but also among Mohammedans, Jews and Buddhists; everywhere the same is heard to the point of weariness. What then can the name "God" mean to mankind! It is devalued, is not even respected as the smallest of coins! Much worse than a worn-out piece of garment. And this otherwise so clever human being of the earth thinks it harmless, sins in it more than a hundred times in one day! Where is the contemplation? Where is the slightest stir of feeling? You, too, are completely numbed to it; listen calmly when the holiest of all concepts is thus trampled into the dirt of everyday life! But do not be mistaken! The account of guilt in the afterlife is mercilessly taxed for every one who has sinned in it! And it is not so easy to atone for this, because it has such far-reaching bad consequences, which must be avenged down to the third and fourth generation, if there is not a person in this generation who comes to understand and puts a stop to these evil doings.
Therefore, try to fight the harmful habit in your familiar circles. But, first of all, cut your own karmic threads with all the force that is still in you, so that the debt account does not become larger than it already is. Do not believe in an easy redemption, because up to now you did not think anything wrong of it! The harm is therefore exactly the same! And the sin against the commandment remains unconditionally! You knew it perfectly well. If you did not make a real effort to realize its implications, it is your fault! Therefore, nothing can possibly be reckoned with you! Listen and act, so that you will be able to redeem much while you are still on earth.
Otherwise, the quagmire that awaits you when you enter the beyond is frightening, and obstructs your ascent.
However, it is not only the individual, but also the authorities openly showed their resistance against this commandment and also against the Word of God through many centuries, by forcibly demanding oaths from people, forcibly urging them to transgress, under threat of severe earthly punishments, if they did not comply with the demand. But the punishment in the afterlife is much more severe, and falls on all those who demanded the oath, not on those who had to take it under pressure. Christ also said again expressly, "Let your speech be yea or nay; for that which is above is of evil! “
And yet the authorities had the power to give the decisive weight to the yes or the no, by punishing it in the case of deception in court just as they punished perjury! In doing so, they were able to raise the value of the words in court to that level which they needed for a verdict. It was therefore not necessary to lead people to the transgression of the commandment of God! Now, in return, they will have their judgment in the afterlife. More severe, more rigorous, than their ever mocking interaction. There is no escape from it!
Even worse were the churches and their representatives, who subjected their fellow men to the worst tortures under invocations of God, and finally burned them again under invocations of God, if they had not already been subjected to the torture beforehand. The Roman Emperor Nero, well known to all and notorious for his cruelty, was not so bad in his tortures of Christians, not so condemnable as the Catholic Church with its immense register of sins against the Laws of God! Firstly, he did not murder and torture as much, and secondly, he did not do it under such hypocritical invocations of God, which in this way must rank among the greatest blasphemies possible to be perpetrated by a human being!
It is of no use for these same churches to condemn today that which, alas, was then all too long perpetrated by them; for they did not leave it voluntarily!
And still today it is not much different mutually, only quieter contempt and in a different, more modern form! In this, too, only its form has changed with time, not the living core! And this core alone, which one so gladly conceals, counts before the Judgment of God, never the outer form!
And this present form, only apparently harmless, was born of the same unspeakable arrogance of spirit on the part of the representatives of all the churches, as before. And where there is not the damnable arrogance, there is an empty conceit based on the earthly power of the churches. These vices often enough result in the most adverse animosities, which are still interwoven with earthly calculations of spreading influence, if not even to the point of longing for a great political importance.
And all this with the name "God" on their lips, so that once again I would like to cry out to the Son of God: "By your actions, you have stamped my Father's houses as murder pits in your honour! Servants of the Word of God you call yourselves, but you have become servants of your own arrogance!"
Every Catholic thinks himself far better before God than a Protestant, without there being any reason for it; but every Protestant thinks himself more knowledgeable, more advanced, and therefore nearer to his God than the Catholic! And these are all those who claim to be followers of Christ, to be educated according to His Word.
Fools are both sides, who base themselves on something that does not count at all before God's Will! These all sin far more against the second commandment than the followers of the other religions, for they abuse the Name of God not only in word but in deed, in their whole way of life, even in their so-called "worship".
They give to every thinking and well observing person only a chilling example of forms without content, of empty thinking. It is precisely in their boundless conceit of wanting to make themselves and their surroundings believe that they have a place in heaven ahead of those of other faiths that they most profoundly desecrate the concept of God. The outward appearance of church customs, a baptism, and so many other things, do not do it! The inner man alone is to stand before the Judgment! Mark this, you arrogant ones, to whom it has already been proclaimed that on the Day of Judgment they will parade proudly, with flags and splendid robes, in order joyfully to get their reward. But they never reach the Spiritual Realm at the feet of the Throne of God, because they receive the reward due them before they get there. A breath of ice shall blow them away like chaff that has no value, for they lack pure humility within themselves and true love for their neighbour!
They are, by their ways, the worst abusers of the name "God”, the worst transgressors of the second commandment!
They all served Lucifer, not God! And thereby mocked all God's commandments! From the first to the last! But especially this second one, whose transgression here is the most dark defilement of the concept of God in the name!
Beware of going lightly over the commandment! Pay close attention to yourselves and your surroundings. Remember, if you faithfully obey nine commandments and do not obey one of them, you will be lost in the end. When a commandment is given by God, therein already lies the proof that it must not be taken lightly, that it must be fulfilled in absolute necessity! Otherwise it would never have been given to you.
Do not dare to pray unless you are able to resonate with your whole soul in the words, and beware of presenting thoughtless babblers to your God; for you would thereby be guilty of an abuse of God's name before Him. Consider carefully before you ask Him for anything, whether it is urgently needed! Do not become entangled in formal prayers, which at certain times have become the custom in all religious practices. This is not only abuse, but blasphemy of the Name of God! In joy or distress, a burning feeling without words is worth much more than a thousand word-prayers, even if this feeling lasts only a fraction of a moment. For such feeling is then always genuine, and not hypocrisy! Therefore, never misuse the term God. It is a sacred moment when the spirit of man wants to throw itself before the steps of the Throne of God in supplication or thanksgiving! This must never become habitual chatter! Not even by the servants of a church!
The man who manages to use the name God on all possible and impossible occasions of the day has never had the slightest idea of the concept of God! He is an animal, but not a man! For, as a human spirit, he must have the capacity to feel God's wonders within him, even if it were only once in his earthly life! But this one time alone would be enough to take away from him absolutely all desire for the reckless transgression of the second commandment! He will then eternally feel the need to pronounce the name "God" only kneeling down in the highest purity of his whole inner being!
Who does not have this is far from being worthy even of God's Word, how much less to enter God's Kingdom! How much less to enjoy His blissful nearness! For this reason it is forbidden to make an image of God the Father in the image of men. Every attempt to do so must lead to a pitiful diminution, for neither the spirit of man nor the hand of man is capable of seeing even the smallest part of reality in a visionary way and of capturing it in an earthly way. The greatest work of art in this could only mean profound degradation. One eye alone, in its ineffable brilliance, indicates all. – So sublime is the greatness, incomprehensible to you, which you sum up in the word "God," and which, in reckless presumption, you often venture to use as the most common of empty and thoughtless phrases! You will have to give an account of this action of yours!
______________
But of all the ten commandments, this clear commandment of the Lord is the least respected and therefore the most transgressed. A thousandfold are the kinds of these disrespects. Even if people think that many of these transgressions are quite harmless, only slight sayings, they nevertheless remain transgressions of this distinctly clear commandment! It is precisely these thousandfold, supposedly harmless transgressions that degrade the Holy Name of God, and with it the concept of God, which is always closely connected with the Name, robbing it of its holiness before men, even before children, and defiling its sacredness by making it a commonplace, by reducing it to a common idiom. People do not shy away from making themselves ridiculous in the process. I will not cite one of the many speeches; for the Name is far too high and noble for that! A person needs only to pay attention to it even for one day; he will be dismayed at the vast accumulation of transgressions of the second commandment by people of both sexes, great and small, even down to children, who are scarcely able to form a proper sentence. For as the old sang, so do the young chirp! For this reason, the distortion of God is the first thing that the young learn in the apparently harmless transgression of God's Laws.
But the effect of this is the worst of all transgressions! It has literally spread devastatingly among all mankind, not only among Christians, but also among Mohammedans, Jews and Buddhists; everywhere the same is heard to the point of weariness. What then can the name "God" mean to mankind! It is devalued, is not even respected as the smallest of coins! Much worse than a worn-out piece of garment. And this otherwise so clever human being of the earth thinks it harmless, sins in it more than a hundred times in one day! Where is the contemplation? Where is the slightest stir of feeling? You, too, are completely numbed to it; listen calmly when the holiest of all concepts is thus trampled into the dirt of everyday life! But do not be mistaken! The account of guilt in the afterlife is mercilessly taxed for every one who has sinned in it! And it is not so easy to atone for this, because it has such far-reaching bad consequences, which must be avenged down to the third and fourth generation, if there is not a person in this generation who comes to understand and puts a stop to these evil doings.
Therefore, try to fight the harmful habit in your familiar circles. But, first of all, cut your own karmic threads with all the force that is still in you, so that the debt account does not become larger than it already is. Do not believe in an easy redemption, because up to now you did not think anything wrong of it! The harm is therefore exactly the same! And the sin against the commandment remains unconditionally! You knew it perfectly well. If you did not make a real effort to realize its implications, it is your fault! Therefore, nothing can possibly be reckoned with you! Listen and act, so that you will be able to redeem much while you are still on earth.
Otherwise, the quagmire that awaits you when you enter the beyond is frightening, and obstructs your ascent.
However, it is not only the individual, but also the authorities openly showed their resistance against this commandment and also against the Word of God through many centuries, by forcibly demanding oaths from people, forcibly urging them to transgress, under threat of severe earthly punishments, if they did not comply with the demand. But the punishment in the afterlife is much more severe, and falls on all those who demanded the oath, not on those who had to take it under pressure. Christ also said again expressly, "Let your speech be yea or nay; for that which is above is of evil! “
And yet the authorities had the power to give the decisive weight to the yes or the no, by punishing it in the case of deception in court just as they punished perjury! In doing so, they were able to raise the value of the words in court to that level which they needed for a verdict. It was therefore not necessary to lead people to the transgression of the commandment of God! Now, in return, they will have their judgment in the afterlife. More severe, more rigorous, than their ever mocking interaction. There is no escape from it!
Even worse were the churches and their representatives, who subjected their fellow men to the worst tortures under invocations of God, and finally burned them again under invocations of God, if they had not already been subjected to the torture beforehand. The Roman Emperor Nero, well known to all and notorious for his cruelty, was not so bad in his tortures of Christians, not so condemnable as the Catholic Church with its immense register of sins against the Laws of God! Firstly, he did not murder and torture as much, and secondly, he did not do it under such hypocritical invocations of God, which in this way must rank among the greatest blasphemies possible to be perpetrated by a human being!
It is of no use for these same churches to condemn today that which, alas, was then all too long perpetrated by them; for they did not leave it voluntarily!
And still today it is not much different mutually, only quieter contempt and in a different, more modern form! In this, too, only its form has changed with time, not the living core! And this core alone, which one so gladly conceals, counts before the Judgment of God, never the outer form!
And this present form, only apparently harmless, was born of the same unspeakable arrogance of spirit on the part of the representatives of all the churches, as before. And where there is not the damnable arrogance, there is an empty conceit based on the earthly power of the churches. These vices often enough result in the most adverse animosities, which are still interwoven with earthly calculations of spreading influence, if not even to the point of longing for a great political importance.
And all this with the name "God" on their lips, so that once again I would like to cry out to the Son of God: "By your actions, you have stamped my Father's houses as murder pits in your honour! Servants of the Word of God you call yourselves, but you have become servants of your own arrogance!"
Every Catholic thinks himself far better before God than a Protestant, without there being any reason for it; but every Protestant thinks himself more knowledgeable, more advanced, and therefore nearer to his God than the Catholic! And these are all those who claim to be followers of Christ, to be educated according to His Word.
Fools are both sides, who base themselves on something that does not count at all before God's Will! These all sin far more against the second commandment than the followers of the other religions, for they abuse the Name of God not only in word but in deed, in their whole way of life, even in their so-called "worship".
They give to every thinking and well observing person only a chilling example of forms without content, of empty thinking. It is precisely in their boundless conceit of wanting to make themselves and their surroundings believe that they have a place in heaven ahead of those of other faiths that they most profoundly desecrate the concept of God. The outward appearance of church customs, a baptism, and so many other things, do not do it! The inner man alone is to stand before the Judgment! Mark this, you arrogant ones, to whom it has already been proclaimed that on the Day of Judgment they will parade proudly, with flags and splendid robes, in order joyfully to get their reward. But they never reach the Spiritual Realm at the feet of the Throne of God, because they receive the reward due them before they get there. A breath of ice shall blow them away like chaff that has no value, for they lack pure humility within themselves and true love for their neighbour!
They are, by their ways, the worst abusers of the name "God”, the worst transgressors of the second commandment!
They all served Lucifer, not God! And thereby mocked all God's commandments! From the first to the last! But especially this second one, whose transgression here is the most dark defilement of the concept of God in the name!
Beware of going lightly over the commandment! Pay close attention to yourselves and your surroundings. Remember, if you faithfully obey nine commandments and do not obey one of them, you will be lost in the end. When a commandment is given by God, therein already lies the proof that it must not be taken lightly, that it must be fulfilled in absolute necessity! Otherwise it would never have been given to you.
Do not dare to pray unless you are able to resonate with your whole soul in the words, and beware of presenting thoughtless babblers to your God; for you would thereby be guilty of an abuse of God's name before Him. Consider carefully before you ask Him for anything, whether it is urgently needed! Do not become entangled in formal prayers, which at certain times have become the custom in all religious practices. This is not only abuse, but blasphemy of the Name of God! In joy or distress, a burning feeling without words is worth much more than a thousand word-prayers, even if this feeling lasts only a fraction of a moment. For such feeling is then always genuine, and not hypocrisy! Therefore, never misuse the term God. It is a sacred moment when the spirit of man wants to throw itself before the steps of the Throne of God in supplication or thanksgiving! This must never become habitual chatter! Not even by the servants of a church!
The man who manages to use the name God on all possible and impossible occasions of the day has never had the slightest idea of the concept of God! He is an animal, but not a man! For, as a human spirit, he must have the capacity to feel God's wonders within him, even if it were only once in his earthly life! But this one time alone would be enough to take away from him absolutely all desire for the reckless transgression of the second commandment! He will then eternally feel the need to pronounce the name "God" only kneeling down in the highest purity of his whole inner being!
Who does not have this is far from being worthy even of God's Word, how much less to enter God's Kingdom! How much less to enjoy His blissful nearness! For this reason it is forbidden to make an image of God the Father in the image of men. Every attempt to do so must lead to a pitiful diminution, for neither the spirit of man nor the hand of man is capable of seeing even the smallest part of reality in a visionary way and of capturing it in an earthly way. The greatest work of art in this could only mean profound degradation. One eye alone, in its ineffable brilliance, indicates all. – So sublime is the greatness, incomprehensible to you, which you sum up in the word "God," and which, in reckless presumption, you often venture to use as the most common of empty and thoughtless phrases! You will have to give an account of this action of yours!
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Suggested Reading From The GRAIL MESSAGE: Appendix: The Ten Commandments
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Readers of the Grail Message do have the Teachings of the Lord which should help us to act well in any situation that arises in front of us, in our lives. But often the Principals and Spiritual Helpers can see how people do not act on this knowledge when they find themselves in a situation where they have to use their knowledge to get by.
For humanity to begin to grasp and live these never-before-given teachings in their purity so as to act well, therefore, there has be a shift in our mindset, which shapes our backgrounds of interpretation. A reprogramming of our subconscious (awakening) mind*, which in our awakening convictions has so far caused distortions and resulting confusion in the experiencing of many things in our lives.
It is with the joy in seeing our present human spiritual awakening that Master John offers these teachings, to help ALL humanity lift its mindset in the splendour of its pure form, so as to know how to behave rightly in given situations. Teachings that provide answers to questions that can help us in connecting our subconscious mind to its highest knowing: intuitive intelligence. In so doing, we give opening to the Light and no longer to grope in darkness in looking downward to our conscious (reasoning) mind – the lower personal "ego" which, in never coming to the point of experiencing spiritually therefore knows nothing, never truly lives ___
Readers of the Grail Message do have the Teachings of the Lord which should help us to act well in any situation that arises in front of us, in our lives. But often the Principals and Spiritual Helpers can see how people do not act on this knowledge when they find themselves in a situation where they have to use their knowledge to get by.
For humanity to begin to grasp and live these never-before-given teachings in their purity so as to act well, therefore, there has be a shift in our mindset, which shapes our backgrounds of interpretation. A reprogramming of our subconscious (awakening) mind*, which in our awakening convictions has so far caused distortions and resulting confusion in the experiencing of many things in our lives.
It is with the joy in seeing our present human spiritual awakening that Master John offers these teachings, to help ALL humanity lift its mindset in the splendour of its pure form, so as to know how to behave rightly in given situations. Teachings that provide answers to questions that can help us in connecting our subconscious mind to its highest knowing: intuitive intelligence. In so doing, we give opening to the Light and no longer to grope in darkness in looking downward to our conscious (reasoning) mind – the lower personal "ego" which, in never coming to the point of experiencing spiritually therefore knows nothing, never truly lives ___
* The ability to think creatively and to understand concepts depend on our awareness factor termed the subconscious mind. It is in the subconscious mind that all our mental processes take place – without consciousness. Every thought we generate immediately takes on a form that embodies the expression that gives meaning of the thought in the subconscious mind. As we conceive a thought, the subconscious mind accepts, affirms, and advances with certainty the suggestion it receives whether the reciprocation is good or bad. As the edifice of order, judgement and reciprocity, therefore, the subconscious mind is responsible for the internal programming that forms our beliefs, memories of experience, judgments and habits; in other words, it forms our mindset.
