Chapter 96: (SOM) The Ten Commandments [1-4]

The Ten Command/ments 1-4

1️⃣ Thou shalt have no other God but me. 2️⃣ Thou shalt not carve (make an image) of an idol. 3️⃣ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God in vain. 4️⃣ Remember the Sabbath.

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God gave the Ten Commandments unto men; upon the mountain Moses saw the words of God; he wrote them down on solid rock 🪨; they cannot be destroyed.
These Ten Commandments show the justice side of God; but now the love of God made manifest brings mercy on the wings of Holy Breath.
Upon the unity of God the law was built. In all the world there is one force; Jehovah is Almighty God.
Jehovah wrote upon the heavens and Moses read,
I am Almighty God and you shall have no God but me.
There is one force, but many phases of that force; these phases men call powers.
All powers of God; and they are manifests of God; they are Spirits of God.
If men could seem to find another force and worship at its shrine, they would but court illusions, vain.
A shadow of the One, Jehovah, God, and they who worship shadows are but shadows on the wall; for men are what court.
And God would have all men to be the substance, and in mercy he commanded, “You shall seek no other God but me.” 1️⃣
And finite men can never comprehend infinite things. Man cannot make an image of the Infinite in force.
And when men make a God of stone, or wood, or clay, they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.
So God in Mercy said: “You shall not carve out images of wood, clay, or stone.” 2️⃣
Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.
The God of Spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.
But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.
The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.
In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accused.