THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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THE  TEN COMMANDMENTS  

by Robert Graves (The White Goddess)

Robert Graves elaborates very well about the ten commandments (p.470-472): 

"The Ten Commandments, which are among the latest additions to the Pentateuch, are designed as glosses on the same mystery. The oddness of their choice seems to have struck Jesus when he quoted the 'Love thy God' and 'Love thy neighbour' commandments, from elsewhere in the Pentateuch, as transcending them in spiritual value. But it is a more carefully considered choice than appears at first sight. 

The Commandments, which are really eight, not ten, to match the numbers of letters in the Name, fall into two groups:  one of three "Thou shalts' concerned with the True Creation, and the other of five 'Thou shalt nots' concerned with the False Creation: each group is prefaced by a warning. The order is purposely 'pied', as one would expect.  

The first group corresponds with the letters of the Tetragrammaton, and the warning preface is therefore III: 'Thou shalt not take God's name in vain.' 

V: 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'  i.e. J H: Life and the Brightness. 

IV: 'Observe the Sabbath Day.  i.e. W: Peace.  

I: 'Thou shalt worship me alone.'  i.e. H: Light. 

The second group corresponds with the powers of the five planets excluded from the Name and the warning preface is therefore II: 'Thou shalt not make nor adore the simulacrum of any star, creature, or marine monster.'  

X: 'Thou shalt not bewitch.'  (The Moon, as the Goddess of Enchantment) 

VI:'Thou shalt not kill.'  (Mars as the God of War.) 

VIII: 'Thou shalt not steal.'  (Mercury, as the God of Thieves, who had  stolen man from God.) 

IX: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.'  (Juppiter as the false god before whom oaths  were sworn.) 

VII: 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.'  (Venus as the Goddess of profane love.) 

The eight Commandments are enlarged to a decalogue apparently because the series which it superseded, and which is to be found in Exodus, XXXIV, 14-26, was a decalogue too.  In Talmudic tradition this new Decalogue was carved on two tables of sappur (lapis lazuli); and in Isaiah, LIV, 12, the gates of the ideal Jerusalem were of 'fire-stones' (pyropes or fire-garnets). 

So the poetic formula is:  Light was my first day of Creation,  Peace after labour is my seventh day,  Life and the Glory are my day of days.  I carved my Law on tables of sapphirus, Jerusalem shines with my pyrope gates,  Four Cherubs fetch me amber from the north.  Acacia yields her timber for my ark,  Pomegranate sanctifies my priestly hem,  My hyssop sprinkles blood at every door.  Holy, Holy, Holy is my name.  

This mystical god differed not only from the Babylonian Bel or Marduk but from Ormazd, the Supreme God of the Persian Zoroastrians, with whom some Jewish syncretists identified him, in having separated himself from the erroneous material universe to live securely cloistered in his abstract city of light.  

Ormazd was a sort of three-bodied Geryon, the usual Aryan male trinity that first married the Triple Goddess, then dispossessed her and went about clothed in her three colours—white, red and dark blue, like the heifer calf in Suidas's riddle, performing her ancient functions. Thus Ormazd appeared in priestly white to create (or recreate) the world; in warrior red to combat evil; in husband man's dark blue to 'bring forth fecundity'."* 

* Robert Graves "The White Goddess"

Note: Also those are the colours of Egypt: White corresponds to North America, and the White Nile of Upper Egypt where the desert and Nubian gold is, Red is Central America and the Red Nile of Lower Egypt with its rich red soil from the delta, and Blue is South America and the Blue Nile as well as War Crown of Egypt. 

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The Native American Ten Commandments 

1. Treat the earth an all that dwell theron with respect 

2. Remain close to the Great Spirit  

3. Show great respect for your fellow beings 

4. Work together for the benefit of all humankind 

5. Give assistance and kindness wherever needed 

6. Do what you know to be right 

7. Look after the well-being of mind and body 

8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good 

9. Be truthful and honest at all times 

10. Take full responsibility for your actions.

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS & VIRTUES (CATHOLIC)

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# sin ------- name ------- virtue 

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1. Pride - Lucifer - Humility 

2. Avarice - Mammon - Sufficiency 

3. Lust - Asmodeus - Chastity 

4. Envy - Leviathan - Charity 

5. Gluttony -- Beelzebub -- Sobriety 

6. Anger - Satan - Patience 

7. Sloth - Belphegor - Diligence

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SUPPLEMENTARY

WAS AKHENATEN FIRST MONOTHEIST?

Not really. He was the first to consolidate the Supreme divine power as the embodiment of it on earth in the king. Absolute rule. Kings before had claim of divine appointment and origins however the connection to the divinity was not exclusive to the rest of the people. All ancient traditions had one Creator concept, they weren't that stupid, natives of Americas have Great Spirit, Mesopotamians and Canaanites had their first Mother and Father, Anu and Ki, El and Asherah, etc., the Egyptians had their Supreme diety Amun (hidden 'truth') of Thebes who was merged with Ra (mind, sun, revealed 'truth') of On / Heliopolis as AmunRa and Djehuti lunar diety of wisdom, writing, and magic of Hermopolis (Khmunu). Amun seen as the original Source of being and Consciousness itself an aspect of primordial eternal Hemnyw (Ogdoad) from where the Pezjet (Ennead) of the physical realm have emerged. So the idea of one God is as old as the world itself. All cultures had it in one form or another. Granted some have preferred henotheistic pantheism vs others preferred animism or monotheistic pantheism or panenthenism altogether. 

Akhenaten has forced his idea of God as only coming through the king on everyone however that revolution has failed and he had to flee. That's henotheistic monotheism as dictatorship. Not true monotheism which the cult of Aten was trying to replace. Hence why the laws of Ma'at (truth) were recited as negative confessions from the first person; "I did not kill, I did not steal" etc. because people had their personal connection to the divine, whereas Akhenaten wanted to be that connection for the people whose laws were commanded unto people as an external to them authority, that's the laws of so called Moses, mose means 'born of', "Thy shalt not kill, Thy shalt not steal" etc. So that was departure from true spirituality of true monotheism into heresy the result of which we see today with so called Abrahamic religions. 

Therefore, Akhenaten's reforms were in fact imperial monotheism focused on absolute power of the king and his courts not actual monotheism in true spiritual sense of it.

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