The
Divine Law through the Ages
The
Divine Law is Eternal. Simultaneously, it takes on different forms of
manifestation throughout the Ages.
We
will see here the evolution of the manifestation of the Law through the last
three Revelations given in the Line of
Israel, in
the Ages of Aries, Pisces and Aquarius.
In the Age of Aries, in which the Tora (Hebrew word for the Divine Law, literally meaning “The Teaching”) was revealed, through Moshe (Moses), the emphasis was on keeping the Commandments. At the same time, the Tora presents the essence of the Commandments:
Love of the Supreme:
You shall love YHWH your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
(Deut 6: 5)
and of Mankind:
You
shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Lev 19: 18),
and the fundamental Service of
the soul, the Proclamation of the Divine Unity, the “Shema”, which is
the essence of the spirituality of Israel to this day:
Shema Israel, YHWH Elohenu, YHWH Eĥad.
Hear, Israel, YHWH
our God, YHWH is ONE. (Deut 6: 4)
The most intimate Holy Name YHWH, composed of the four Letters
Yod Hey Waw Hey, displays the Dimension of the Father and Mother: the Yod indicates He, and
the Hey indicates She, and so do the Waw and the second Hey respectively.
Therefore the proclamation that YHWH is ONE, beyond the obvious
meaning that there is only ONE Supreme Entity, is the proclamation of
Unity of the Father and Mother.
In
the Revelation of the Age of Pisces, given through Yashua (Jesus), the
emphasis was on Love. The Sacrifice of the Anointed One on the physical cross
imprinted the collective human soul with the image of the sacrifice of the soul
on the spiritual Cross, which is the spiritual dimension of Love in its two
manifestations: Vertical (between the soul and the Original Person) and
Horizontal (towards Humanity).
Though
in the new Revelation the emphasis was on Love, the Commandments of the Tora-
crowned by the Proclamation of Unity- were still to be kept, as can be seen from
these passages from the Scriptures of the Age of Pisces:
Yashua
answered:
The
first [Commandment] is:
Hear, Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is ONE.
You shall love YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul (…)
and with all your strength.
The second is: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no commandment greater than these.
(Mark 12: 29-31)
Do
not think that i have come to abolish the Tora or the Prophets; i have come not to abolish but to accomplish. For truly
i tell you, until
Heaven and Earth pass away, not one Yod [the smallest of the Hebrew letters],
not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the Tora until all is accomplished.
Therefore, whoever does away with one of the least of these Commandments, and
teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven;
but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of
Heaven.
(Matthew
5: 17-19)
Some
of the Instructions given in the Age of Aries were indeed specific to the times
and circumstances, and with the new Revelation were to be maintained not in
their literal form, but in their essence.
Ultimately
when Yashua proclaimed having come not to abolish, but to fulfill, the Tora,
this applied to both the perpetuation of the Commandments which are to be
literally kept at all times, and a higher expression of others, no longer to be
literally kept: in both cases the Tora was now being reformulated, with the
emphasis being placed on its essence of Love. And his mentioning having come not
to abolish but to fulfill the Tora had the two main intents to proclaim the
eternity of the Tora, and to state that the Anointed One has the Divine Authority to
present the Tora, the Law, as it has to be understood and kept at a given Age.
However,
at a certain point the idea that the Commandments were now to be fulfilled in
their essence of Love, and no longer literally kept, which was true of a part of
them, came to be exaggerated in Christianity, which interpreted it in a
systematic way and globally did not keep the body of Commandments.
Now this was actually part of the Divine Plan; a simplified form of the Message of Yashua had to be presented to the masses, which otherwise would not have been able to embrace it.
In
the present Age of Aquarius, the Father and Mother reveal all Their Truth, Their
Eternal Book.
The emphasis is on Knowledge, Understanding, but simultaneously, the Essence is always Love, and the Commandments- now manifest in their final expression- are still to be kept.
It
all sums up in Love: the more we keep the Commandments, the more we grow in
Love. The more we grow in Knowledge, the more we grow in Love (when the
motivation is Love, of course; accumulation of knowledge based on intellectual
ambition fosters not Love, but pride; whereas when the basis is Love, the more
we know the Object of our Love, the Father and Mother, the more we love Them…)
Now
inversely, the more we grow in Love, the more we know Them, and the more we
naturally keep Their Commandments…
The basic structure of the Principles appears in the Ten Words, the Ten Commandments given by the Divine on Mount Sinay.
Here is a presentation of these Ten Principles; first are mentioned the main Words of the Commandments, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 20), followed by short commentaries explaining their fields of manifestation, in particular as can be understood today, in the Light of the Eternal Book
1: I am YHWH your God, Who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of
slaves.
The essence of this Commandment is: recognizing and proclaiming the Reality of
the Supreme Person, and centering our consciousness on Him, Who reveals Himself,
and now in fullness in His Eternal Book: the
Eternal Divine Couple, our Source and our Redeemer.
2: You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a
carved image or representation of anything that is in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow
down to them, nor serve them.
The basic meaning of this Principle is: No polytheism/idolatry. Not
conceiving, worshiping or enslaving ourselves to any other entity, personality
or form.
As
the first Principle is the call to receive the Reality of the One, in which the
soul finds liberation from bondage, the second Principle says: cling to the
Reality of the One only, and keep yourself free.
This
implies the rejection of all gross and subtle idols of materialism and egotism.
No practice or appreciation of
mundane art.
No indulgence in substances or
devices that enslave or tune to a
false reality: intoxicants, including tobacco, coffee, alcohol, opiates;
vain television, movies...
No futile games (worship of one’s
skill…) or gambling (which is a form of surrender to the god of “chance,
fortune”).
Not posing fragmentary ideas as absolute. Not concocting theological systems (posing as absolute fragmentary ideas about the Divine, worshiping them, being enslaved by them…).
3: You shall not invoke the Name of YHWH your God in vain.
Not uttering the Divine Name in a profane way. Not pretending to have
revelations, or affirming theological
systems. Not perverting the Way, doing something wrong in the Name of the
Supreme.
There is an interpretation according to which this Word would mean: not uttering the Holy Name. But what it truly says is “…not in vain”. So we can actually understand that what the Commandment ultimately implies is to invoke the Divine Name with the deepest respect and Love.
4: Remember the Shabat
[(“Sabbath”)] day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do
all your work. But the seventh day is Shabat to YHWH your God; in it you shall
not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your
maidservant, nor your cattle, not your stranger that is within your gates; for
in six Days YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and
rested on the seventh Day: therefore YHWH blessed the Shabat day, and hallowed
it.
(In
Deuteronomy 5, 12-15, appears another reason for the Shabat:
Keep the Shabat day to sanctify it, as YHWH your God commanded you. (…) And
remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH your God
brought you out from there with a mighty Hand and a stretched out Arm: therefore
YHWH commanded you to keep the Shabat day.)
Setting aside the seventh day of the week (from Friday evening to Saturday
night) as a special day of focus on spiritual consciousness, aiming at
restoring the original cosmic Harmony.
The two different reasons given for it reveal two dimensions of Shabat.
One is related to the Original Rest and Harmony in the Seventh Step of the Eternal Book. Hence, with the observance of the Shabat, we attune our time to the Time of the Supreme Person.
The second dimension is related to the exodus from Egypt, which, on the inner level, means the liberation from our fallen condition. From that perspective, keeping Shabat is an expression of our freedom in the Divine Reality.
From this Commandment also derives the general principle of setting aside particular times and moments for spiritual activities (both within the year, different Celebrations; and within the day).
5: Honor your father and your mother
The first level of manifestation of this Commandment is literal: father and mother on Earth have to be honored, as representatives, for their children, of the Heavenly Father and Mother.
This Commandment also implies to honor all representatives, in various degrees, of the Father and Mother, and particularly the Anointed One and the Assembly.
Ultimately and essentially, this Principle means: honoring, glorifying, our Heavenly Father and Mother. As the first Word means: centering our consciousness on Them, this one means: translating it on all the levels.
Which is expressed by meditating on Their Eternal Book, chanting Their Holy Name, bowing down to Them, sanctifying our food, serving Them, being obedient to Them...
6: You shall not murder.
The literal meaning of this Commandment is: not murdering other human beings,
who are made in the Image of the Father and Mother. By extension, it means: no
unnecessary taking of any life, whether human, animal, vegetal or even mineral,
as all proceed from the Father and Mother, the Life of all. This implies being
strictly vegetarian. Refraining from violence and from projecting hatred, which
is a subtle form of killing. Not destroying the Earth through pollution.
7:
You shall not commit adultery.
This Commandment, besides its literal meaning, means the regulation of
intimacy, which must take place only within the sanctified frame of marriage,
between man and woman, and globally calls for modest behavior, dress, etc…
8: You shall not steal.
Respecting the property of others, and ultimately detaching ourselves from
all sense of having, acknowledging that everything, including ourselves, belongs
to the Supreme Person. Engaging our resources in the Service of the Father and
Mother, including that of Their children, Their parts and parcels, in a
brotherly attitude of sharing.
9: You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
Not indulging in slander or lying. On the essential level: every thought,
word and action must be in concordance with the Truth; bearing witness to the
Truth, thus helping others be situated in the Truth.
10: You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
One step beyond the literal meaning: accepting what has been allotted
to us. Not projecting ourselves into self-centered prospects of personal
acquiring or becoming, on any level.
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