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‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your mind.’

This is the first and greatest commandment. And a second is like it:

‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:34-40

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“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Matthew 5:17

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The ‘Ten Commandments’ explained

Although we refer to the ‘Ten Commandments’, the Old Testament never refers to any such thing.  Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21 have similar lists of instructions, which come from ‘the Lord, your God’.

You shall have no other gods before me

The One True God is Jesus, spelt Yod Hey Vav Hey in the sacred letters, or IHVH.  The bit forgotten by many is ‘before me’.

Although Jesus is supposedly revered by so-called Christians, their churches venerate Mary, spelt Alef Hey Yod Hey or AHIH, the god who gave Moses the Torah or ‘code of laws’, and gave Mohammed the Quoran; the god who incarnated as Constantine, the Roman Emperor who gave us the canonical Bible, and Arkhenaten, the pharoah who tried to introduce monotheism.

In just about every pantheon, there is one god who is revered way above all others.  Although he – inevitably this god is referred to as male – has been known by many names over the millennia, his name is Jesus.

While man has acknowleged that other gods exist and has sought their guidance, the vast majority of societies, religions and nations have recognised the authority of Jesus as the One True God, no matter what they have chosen to call him.

As he is the God of Love – he chooses to love us unconditionally – why would anyone have a problem respecting his authority by doing his will?  Only through love do we find truth.  And only by arriving at the truth do we understand justice.

If you are an atheist, you will need to acknowlege the free will of man and the responsibility any man has for his actions.  You will need to understand that God has never picked up a gun and killed anyone.  Only misguided people have done that.  You are answerable to your conscience and will need to look at where laws have got us.

You will also need to ask yourself what problem you have with the principles of unconditional love and ‘Do as you would be done by’.

You shall not bow down to false idols

The journey to Christ, Messiah or Hero consciousness is one of the heart.  The veneration of physical objects will not take you on that journey.  Under the law of (non-)attachment, any attachment to an object or a man or woman on the soul journey will mean that karma will take it off you to end the attachment.  If perversely, you have an object or a relationship to which you are not attached, the universe will allow you to keep it.

You shall not take the Lord’s name in vain

This is another much misunderstood guideline.  Saying ‘Jesus Christ’, ‘Christ on a bike’, ‘Jesus H Christ’, ‘Oh,God’, ‘God Almighty’, ‘God alive’ etc is not taking the Lord’s name in vain.  You are in fact calling on God’s help which he likes.   ‘God damn’ is all right so long as it is not an imprecation to damn anyone or anything.

‘Taking the Lord’s name in vain’ more properly refers to not observing the oath to God or using God as a justification for anything which God would not approve of, for example waging war in the name of God or carrying out torture in the name of God as  the Spanish Inquisition did on behalf of the Pope.

You shall observe the Sabbath Day

In terms of days of the week, the Sabbath is Saturday, not Sunday.  As the seventh day of the week, it represents the seventh day of creation or the seventh age of the universe, also known as the age of the Messiah or Christ, when God rests after the six ‘days’ of creation.  As the universe is around 16 billion years old, each ‘day’ is around 2.5125 billion earth years.

This guideline is there to remind you that the world is changing (in 2012) and that it is the aim of every soul incarnated here to prepare for that change.

On the level of the week, it means that Saturday is a day of leisure — as opposed to work.  Due to the demands of modern society, either vital work or those who provide the leisure for others – for example, footballers — inevitably needs to be done on a Saturday.  These men and woman can observe the Sabbath on Sunday

You shall honour your father and mother

This refers to the Holy Father and Mother or Jesus and Gaia, not to your blood parents.  Children are the creation of God – why do you think a child is ‘conceived’ rather than ‘made’?  Blood parents are the stewards of the child and should never think that a child belongs to them or seek to make the child in their likeness.  Never forget your first duty is to God, not your wife and children.  You best serve them — and the wider good of man — by observing your duty to God.

By honouring the Holy Father and Mother, you seek to balance the masculine and feminine – neither of which should be confused with the human male and female — within yourself.  In general, this refers to the need to balance the active with the passive and the needs of men and women in society.  Balance of the genders is not generally achieved by having an equal number of men and women doing the same job.

You shall not murder

In some texts, this is translated as ‘You shall not kill’.  Any deliberate or foreseeable killing of another man is unlawful, particularly the death penalty and abortion.  If a man assents to his own death, by for example assisted suicide, it is his right.

Some have taken this commandment to mean that man cannot lawfully take the life of an animal.  However, the Biblical Jesus Christ makes it clear that he eats meat (as did the Buddha and as does the current Dalai Lama) so this commandment does not make the killing of animals unlawful.  Out of respect for God’s creation, any man has a duty to ensure that animals do not suffer unnecessarily so fox hunting with dogs, bear-baiting and cock-fighting among others are unlawful.

You shall not commit adultery

This is perhaps the most misrepresented ‘commandment’ of all time and is often used to justify sanctions or condemnation of those who have sexual relations outside marriage.  If you married in church and took a vow before God, then you violate that vow by having a sexual relationship outside that marriage – including but not limited to cyber sex.  Similarly, if you are not married and have a sexual relationship with a man or woman who has taken a vow before God, you help to violate that solemn binding vow.

As the Christ, I have though declared on behalf of God that under the New Covenant, any man or woman is free of vows made before God to another man or woman.

As long as you live in unconditional love, there is no sex without love so you are entitled to have sexual relations with any consenting, physiologically mature man or woman or with anyone who consents of a similar physiological maturity.

God wants you to have as much giving sexual relations with as many people as is reasonable because having an orgasm is the simplest way of touching God.

Since your first duty is to God, who wants you to be happy by having loving, giving sex then it is inadvisable to enter into an exclusive relationship with another man or woman because the danger is you will put them before God.

You shall not steal

It is unlawful to steal from another man.  This commandment does not refer only to material objects and is subject to the principle of responsible use.  This means that no man shall steal another man’s time or freedom or work and will not be held to account if he takes something vital for his own existence that is not in imminent use or need by another man.

This ‘commandment’ also covers usury as by creating false value through money, which should only be a token to ease exchange of goods, you inevitably eat into the pie of real value, which means that you steal real wealth off those least likely to be able to defend themselves.

As corporations have no souls and have what they have by virtue of a brech of the Law, then no man ever steals off a corporation.  In order to bring down the rule of coporations, it is your duty to take from them without payment.

You shall not bear false witness

This is not quite the same as an imperative to tell the truth.  God accepts that if we told the absolute truth all the time, society would barely function.  Imagine if your girlfriend asked if she looked good in a new frock and you thought she looked like a sack of spuds and had by your duty to God to tell her that.  To bear false witness means to lie for reasons of ego or to wrongly implicate another.  You also bear false witness when you lie by omission, even if every fact you have related is true.  On another level, it means to recognise and support a false Messiah, Christ or ‘witness’, as the role is referred to in the Book of Revelation.

You shall not covet your neighbour’s property

Never be jealous or envious of anyone for any reason.  Be grateful for what you have by the grace of God.