The first Commandment

I am the lord thy God! Thou shalt have no other gods but me!

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!

GRAILMESSAGE:
The first Commandment

I am the lord thy God! Thou shalt have no other gods but me!

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!

u r just ranting!!!!
No biblical quotation to back up your claim!

fman:
u r just ranting!!!!
No biblical quotation to back up your claim!

I will advise you pay more attention to happening around you and in your daily lives!