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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
The First Commandment:
I am the Lord, your God! You shall have no other gods before Me!
Anyone who can read these words correctly will probably already see in them the judgement of many who do not observe this most noble of all commandments.
"You shall have no other gods!" Many a human being imagine far too little under these words. They have made it too easy for themselves! Among idol worshippers, one probably thinks first and foremost only of those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each of which represents a particular god, perhaps also thinks of devil worshippers and similar aberrants, whom he reflects on with pity at best, but he does not think of himself. Just take a look at yourselves and see if you might be one of them after all!
One has a child, who really is more important to him than anything else, for whom he could make any sacrifice, and over whom he forgets everything else. Another places earthly enjoyment far above everything, but would not, even with the best of intentions in the world, be willing to give up this enjoyment for anything, if such a demand were to come to him that would grant him a voluntary decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly honour, and all again in all, in the end, only ... himself!
This is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against! Forbids it! And woe to those who do not obey it literally! This transgression is immediately avenged by the fact that such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the afterlife. In reality, however, he has only bound himself to earth by his attachment to something that is on earth! He is thereby prevented from ascending further, loses the time granted him for this purpose, and runs the risk of not coming out of Fine Dense Matter in time in a resurrection from it into the luminous realm of free spirits. Then he will be carried away into the inevitable decomposition of all worlds of matter that serves to purify it for its resurrection and its new formation. This, however, is the ethereal and spiritual death of the human soul of all personal consciousness, and thus also the destruction of its form as well as its name for eternity!
The observance of the commandment is to protect against this dreadful thing! It is the most noble commandment because it is one that remains most necessary for the human being! Unfortunately, he tends far too easily to surrender to any inclination that finally enslaves him! But what he allows to become an inclination, he makes into a golden calf, which he places in the highest place, and thus also into an idol or idolatrous god next to his God, even very often above Him!
Unfortunately, there are only too many "inclinations" that man has created for himself and which he likes to make his own in the greatest carelessness! An inclination is a preference for something earthly, as I have already mentioned. There are, of course, many more. But he who acquires an inclination "hangs on", as the word correctly expresses it. He is thus attached to the gross matter when he enters the afterlife for his further evolution, and cannot easily detach himself from it again, is therefore inhibited, held back! One can also call it a curse that remains upon him. The process is the same, no matter how it is expressed literally.
If, however, in his existence on earth, he places God above all, not only in his imagination or only literally, but in his intuition, thus truly and genuinely in reverent love that binds him as to an inclination, he will, through the bond in the same effect, immediately strive further upwards when he comes into the afterlife; for he takes the reverence and love for God with him, it holds and carries him at last to his proximity, to Paradise, the Primordial Creation, the abode of the Pure Spirits, freed from all burdens, the bond of which leads only to God's Luminous Truth!
Therefore, pay strict attention to the observance of this commandment. In this way you will be saved from many strokes of fate of an unfortunate kind, which you might not have enough time to redeem!
"You shall have no other gods!" Many a human being imagine far too little under these words. They have made it too easy for themselves! Among idol worshippers, one probably thinks first and foremost only of those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each of which represents a particular god, perhaps also thinks of devil worshippers and similar aberrants, whom he reflects on with pity at best, but he does not think of himself. Just take a look at yourselves and see if you might be one of them after all!
One has a child, who really is more important to him than anything else, for whom he could make any sacrifice, and over whom he forgets everything else. Another places earthly enjoyment far above everything, but would not, even with the best of intentions in the world, be willing to give up this enjoyment for anything, if such a demand were to come to him that would grant him a voluntary decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly honour, and all again in all, in the end, only ... himself!
This is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against! Forbids it! And woe to those who do not obey it literally! This transgression is immediately avenged by the fact that such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the afterlife. In reality, however, he has only bound himself to earth by his attachment to something that is on earth! He is thereby prevented from ascending further, loses the time granted him for this purpose, and runs the risk of not coming out of Fine Dense Matter in time in a resurrection from it into the luminous realm of free spirits. Then he will be carried away into the inevitable decomposition of all worlds of matter that serves to purify it for its resurrection and its new formation. This, however, is the ethereal and spiritual death of the human soul of all personal consciousness, and thus also the destruction of its form as well as its name for eternity!
The observance of the commandment is to protect against this dreadful thing! It is the most noble commandment because it is one that remains most necessary for the human being! Unfortunately, he tends far too easily to surrender to any inclination that finally enslaves him! But what he allows to become an inclination, he makes into a golden calf, which he places in the highest place, and thus also into an idol or idolatrous god next to his God, even very often above Him!
Unfortunately, there are only too many "inclinations" that man has created for himself and which he likes to make his own in the greatest carelessness! An inclination is a preference for something earthly, as I have already mentioned. There are, of course, many more. But he who acquires an inclination "hangs on", as the word correctly expresses it. He is thus attached to the gross matter when he enters the afterlife for his further evolution, and cannot easily detach himself from it again, is therefore inhibited, held back! One can also call it a curse that remains upon him. The process is the same, no matter how it is expressed literally.
If, however, in his existence on earth, he places God above all, not only in his imagination or only literally, but in his intuition, thus truly and genuinely in reverent love that binds him as to an inclination, he will, through the bond in the same effect, immediately strive further upwards when he comes into the afterlife; for he takes the reverence and love for God with him, it holds and carries him at last to his proximity, to Paradise, the Primordial Creation, the abode of the Pure Spirits, freed from all burdens, the bond of which leads only to God's Luminous Truth!
Therefore, pay strict attention to the observance of this commandment. In this way you will be saved from many strokes of fate of an unfortunate kind, which you might not have enough time to redeem!
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Suggested Reading From The GRAIL MESSAGE: The Ten Commandments
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In the midst of despair, however, helpers in the service of the Grail will begin their task! The great construction begins. No one else is able to bring help to the broken....
Abdruschin, "Submission" – Resonance 1: Vol.20.
The Mastermind Teachings is essentially an invitation to quicken the rhythm of your spiritual evolution. Master John, along with the Helpers in the Beyond, see how people are suffering for lack of this spiritual knowledge which is necessary for them to live well. This lack of knowledge and also ignorance means that we often do not know how to act well in certain situations and in certain problems that come our way in our 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 ___
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.
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