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The book “The Ten Commandments of God and The Our Father - explained to mankind by
Abd-ru-shin” was published for the first time in autumn 1929. With his explanations
based on the knowledge about the workings of the laws of creation – such as mediated by
him in the Grail Message – Abd-ru-shin opens for humanity of the present time a new
access to the understanding of these ancient writings, which in religious thought even
today are still bestowed a deep significance. The attentive reader will recognise the
concrete and immeasurable help these texts hold for him, provided that he makes the
effort to recognise the intention for which they were given to mankind. Abd-ru-shin writes with regard to the “Ten Commandments”: “Who makes the effort of trying to comprehend a commandment thoroughly. When one sees how thoughtlessly children and adults habitually treat the commandments of their God, every serious-minded person could and should be horrified. The commandments are learned and superficially discussed at school. Man is happy when he has absorbed the wording within, and can to some extent provide information concerning them, for as long as there is any danger of his being questioned about them. When he leaves school to enter economic life then these words too are soon forgotten, and therewith also the meaning. The best proof of the fact that he was not really interested at all in what his Lord and God demands of him. But he does not even demand anything therewith, but gives in love to all men what they urgently need! From the Light it was indeed perceived how far human beings were going astray. Thus, like a teacher, God faithfully showed them the path that leads them to eternal existence in the luminous realm of the spirit, hence to their happiness; whereas disobedience must lead to unhappiness and ruin for the human beings! Just for that reason it is actually not correct when one speaks of commandments. Rather they are very well-meant pieces of advice, the pointing out of the right path through matter, with which the human spirits themselves wished to become acquainted.” (from the chapter “The Third Commandment”) “You see that all the commandments are but the best friends for men, in order to protect them faithfully from evil and from suffering! Therefore, love them and respect them as a treasure, the guarding of which brings you joy alone!” (from the chapter “The Fifth Commandment”) |
I AM THE LORD THY GOD!THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODSBESIDE ME!He who is able to read these words aright will probably already see in them the verdict for many who do not observe this most noble of all the commandments.“Thou shalt have no other gods!” Many a man imagines far too little in respect of 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 thinks also of devil-worshippers and others similarly gone astray, at best thinking of them pityingly, but here he does not think of himself. Just take a look at yourselves for once, and examine yourselves as to whether perchance you belong to them after all! One has a child who actually means more to him than anything, for whom he is prepared to make any sacrifice, for whose sake he forgets 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 which affords him a voluntary decision. A third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly distinction, and they all again in all these things love only … themselves! That is idolatry in the truest sense. This is what the first commandment warns against, forbids! And woe to him who does not obey it to the letter! This infringement avenges itself immediately in that such a person must always remain earthbound when he passes over into the fine-material realm. In reality however, only he himself has bound himself to the earth through the propensity for something that exists on earth! He is thus held back from further ascent, loses the time given to him for it, and runs the risk of not being able to leave the fine-material realm in time in a resurrection therefrom to the luminous realm of the free spirits. He will then be swept along into the inevitable disintegration of all the material, which serves for purification for its resurrection and its new formation. This however, is for the human soul spiritual death of all that has become personal consciousness and therewith also the destruction of his form as well as his name for eternity! Compliance with the commandment is meant to give protection from this terrible consequence! It is the most noble commandment, because, along with other things, it remains most necessary to man! For unfortunately, he is all too apt to yield to some propensity which finally enslaves him! But whatever he allows to become a propensity he therewith makes into a golden calf, which he sets in the highest place, and thereby also as idol or false deity beside his God, very often even above him! Unfortunately there are simply too many “propensities” which man has created for himself, and which with the utmost thoughtlessness he readily adopts! A propensity is the predilection for something earthly, as I have already pointed out. There are naturally still many more of them. But he who acquires a propensity gets “caught”, as the (German) word correctly indicates. As a result, he is caught in the coarse-material when he enters the beyond for his further development, and cannot easily detach himself again from it; he is thus hampered, held back! One can indeed also call this a curse that remains weighing upon 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 imagination or merely in words, but in his sensings, thus truly and genuinely, in reverential love that binds him as if to a propensity, then through the binding he will at once strive further upwards through the same effect when he enters the beyond; for he takes with him the reverence and the love for God, it supports him and finally carries him into paradise, 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 observance of this commandment. You will be protected thereby from many threads of fate of an unfavourable nature. (from the chapter “The Fifth Commandment”) |
I am the Lord, thy God!
Thou shalt have no other gods beside Me!
Thou shalt not misuse the name
of the Lord, thy God!
Thou shalt sanctify the Sabbath Day!
The Fourth Commandment:Thou shalt honour father and mother!
The Fifth Commandment:Thou shalt not kill!
The Sixth Commandment:Thou shalt not commit adultery!
The Seventh Commandment:Thou shalt not steal!
The Eighth Commandment:Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour!
Do not let thyself lust after
thy neighbour's wife!
Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour’s house, nor his farm, nor his cattle, nor anything that is his!
