[1] “I Am the Lord [Law] they God, thou shall not have strange God’s before me.”
“I” (AM) is un-created eternal present-moment consciousness — always was-always will be. “Strange Gods” is living life through either past or future mind-enslaved states. God is Love therefore, “strange Gods” are lower-self mind-sets or belief systems — to include addictions — which anchor the heart in fear, which is to live untruth when our true nature is Truth or Love.
Raised “I” is the means of conscious resurrection into eternal Love, the goal of human life. In other words, divine awareness is our soul’s single yearning of re-uniting with the empowering organizational Intelligence of Nature, of Source — soul’s optimal functioning state. Non-divine life denies soul its Christ-nature expression resulting in activity alien to Truth, to You the eternal I Am.
[2] Do not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain
“Name” — meaning nature of something — at soul level is bliss consciousness, or potential evolution, which, without conscious contact [in our meditation], remains dormant or “vain.” “Name” becomes “vain” when expressed negatively against our soul’s desire for evolution, for such automatically rebounds against the expresser — in other words, self-inflicted suffering. “The Lord” means cosmic law, by which law our lives are governed, which can be used for either good or bad or, “vain”. “Thy God” is our personal connection with Love’s nature, the eternally-existing state yearning for conscious “I am”-knowing and expression.
Lord, Law, God, and Love may be taken to mean the same and termed by whatever titles we wish, BUT, “vain”, or negative law-misuse results in the same suffering reality. Cosmic law works in perfect proportion to one’s subjective conditioning — reflections of our positive or negative heart/mind attitudes. Depending on our conscious intentions or subjective conditioning, the laws of Nature always produce reaction or karmic response — known as “cause and effect” — thus action and reaction are of equal proportion. Meditation is the surest method of gaining soul freedom — gaining spiritual harmony with all the cosmic laws of Nature, thus neutralizing karmic responses.
This answers the age-old question of why God is said to allow so many nasty things happen in the world; rather, it’s violation of cosmic law at personal, national or global level which is causal. Thus, it’s we, individually or collectively, who are responsible for invoking the law of “cause and effect” for good or for bad, in the world.
Our purpose on earth, therefore, is to awaken from such devastating ignorance, thereby come into harmony with “thy Lord/Law” within. Without conscious contact with Bliss or Love, we live “Name… in vain.”
[3] Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day
In its literal format we can see this as attending church one [rest] day per week. But, esoterically, the commandment is proclaiming soul development through Sabbath or raised “I” consciousness thus consciously establishing permanent Christ consciousness.
Biblical Saul had his “flash” conversion-moment on the road to Damascus. But “flash” represents only the dawn of spiritual growth. Keeping “Holy” the Sabbath, therefore, is to live that “flash” experience every moment of every day through a Christ-developing consciousness.
Post “flash”, it takes some hours longer for the “Midday Sun” experience. Through our daily consciousness development work in meditation, such is how we “keep Holy the Sabbath” — soul becoming acclimatized in “Midday Sun” evolution.
At the Last Supper Jesus said: “Do this in memory of me” meaning, practice of meditation or Sabbath nourishment leading to transcendence — “memory of me” is referring to direct experiencing of our own Higher Self nature, “Me”, meaning You.
As soul citizens of the kingdom of heaven, regardless of religion (or none), expressing transformed consciousness is our daily “Holy” duty and not simply ritual reserved for church-going days. In the grand scheme of the Creator, no person, whatever our social status or creed, is exempt from “keeping Holy within” [gaining cosmic consciousness] for the greater service and well-being of humanity.
[4] Honour thy Father and they Mother
Throughout my formative years, I took this Commandment to mean ‘love my biological mother and father.’ But, when esoterically interpreted, the emphasis shifts dramatically. “Mother” represents feminine energy (present within both male and female body), while, “father” represents masculine energy (Yin/Yang, again in both male and female). Both mother/father dynamic are needed simultaneously for creation, for conscious awakening unto Unity or God consciousness.
“Honour thy mother”, therefore, is referring to our own physical body or tabernacle-mechanism, which births “thy father,” — divine awareness — experientially. In other words, through our intention, the “mother/father” dynamic conceives and births the Christ-nature into the human psyche, thus awakening and validating our higher soul aspect, which, in turn, heals separation from God — causal of the human condition (Adam/Eve or “the fall of man”).
The body-tabernacle is the facilitating dynamic, the birthing womb of innate mother/father — the modes operandi to experiential eternity, Heaven, or, [our] Higher Self. “Honouring” transpires with the commencement of crucifying or transmuting the realm of opposites: love/hate, good/bad, like/dislike, and so on) through our selected meditation.
We’re born physically in order to activate the mother/father, Yin/Yang energy, thereby honouring our soul’s encoded duty of re-birthing spiritually (of Spirit), thus fulfilling our purpose on earth: Divine consciousness getting to know itself consciously as, I Am, or, eternal You.
[5] Thou Shall Not Kill
The story of “Cain and Able” fits perfectly here. The ego or lower-self (Cain) kills his brother, higher nature (Abel) “in the field” — in the mind. By lower-self is meant, the non-redeemed or subconscious aspect of deeper mind running on auto negative programming — biblically termed, “Jacob”.
We’re reminded, not to extinguish the seed of Life, love — our indwelling Christ – which is endeavouring to birth and multiply within the soul’s virgin consciousness. “Killing” is when ego is allowed dominate and control every thought and outer activity to the detriment of Spirit nature expression, thereby, unwittingly, is spirit-will handed over unto its captures, negative thought — biblical Roman soldiers.
In life, occasions present when inner guidance is attempting “revelation” through insightful wisdom or, change of heart in a given situation etc. The ego will want to “kill” these soul-sourced prompts, for such represents ego’s demise. Therefore, where ego flourishes, spiritual death is happening — termed the wages of sin.
“Killing” is also with regards to others’ indwelling Christ seed and their awakening creative process, which we should not “kill” through condemnation.
[6] Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery
Biblical adultery is referring to: cheating on God. It is when we’re consciously partaking in non soul-serving mind-sets which deny Christ within.
Exposure of virgin consciousness to soul-destroying conditioning represents “adultery” — meaning, “adulterous” against our own soul or, higher self nature.
Our true nature is bliss-consciousness. In this regard, heart fulfilment through a non-purified spiritual system is biblically deemed adulterous or prostitution. In other words, impregnation of virgin consciousness for lower self-gratification is defilement of our inner Christ, or, cheating on God.
As brides in Christ, both male and female, natural fulfilment is designed to be through the natural contentment of bliss. When bliss is realized “within consciousness” then God-Nature becomes our un-denying fulfilment. In this context, lower-self adulterous substitution does not arise.
[7] Thou Shall Not Steal
In reality, common sense informs that we don’t require a Commandment to tell us it is wrong to steal.
Therefore, it is deemed “stealing”, biblically, to knowingly experience a nature which does not belong to the nature of our own indwelling Christ. “Stealing” is experiencing through lower-ego for sense gratification only — to include power and greed. The ego always manipulates to obtain, by non-spiritual means, that which is not our soul’s true nature. We’re deemed “stealing” when contentment is filtered through animalistic nature, or non-developed consciousness — where “the illusion” of the phenomenal world deepens, rather than growth of our soul’s love potential. “Stealing” is when partaking of life’s bounties through a non-spiritual mind, senses, and nervous system, biblically termed [a]”tax collector”.
[8] Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbour
The first point to remember here is, “neighbour” in this context, and in the next two commandments, are not referring to our next-door neighbour or, societal people in general, rather, to our subconscious or subjective mind. There are two dynamical aspects of the full mind: conscious and subconscious. “Neighbour”, here, is referring to the subconscious aspect which hears our every prayer, wish and mental intention.
The subconscious “hears” through emotions and feelings — this is its communicative medium.
“Bearing false witness” is to pray, wish or intend negatively through anger or fear-laden thoughts. If these emotive qualities are charged negatively, then the subconscious accepts these as our prayer-wish and supplies abundance of anger and fear, the emotion in which such was “sent”. The repercussions of which, is suffering. “Bear false witness” is to consciously misuse divinely designed inner mechanisms to Christ-consciousness, for egoism proliferation.
To eliminate suffering potential through misuse of Commandment law, harmonization of left/right brain, or integration of higher and lower-self — to include the five senses of perception — is necessary. The imperative is not to bear falsely — via the non purified five senses — unto the subjective mind, for, such is “bearing” negatively unto the Creative faculty or, the Christ within. As the five senses are duty-bound (either heightened or asleep) to serve the mind creatively and, the heart lovingly, they will serve to either imprison through addiction, suffering, or, vibrate experiential bliss through heightened spiritual awareness.
Therefore, the Lord says: “love thy neighbour (lower-self) as thy (higher) self” Luke 10:29. Thus, when praying, our intentions are made known through love, thereby healing the duality which exists within each human from birth, symbolized by the Cross.
[9] Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Wife
Of all the Commandments, this surly is one of the most misunderstood. Biblical “wife” is not representative of a marriage partner as we know the term. “Wife” symbolizes a mind-set, a belief system or non soul-serving dynamic. Because of generational mis-praying, we have each inherited false indoctrinations, non soul-serving mind-sets or addictive thought patterns. Here, “thy neighbour” represents the malfunctioning aspects of the subjective mind which over-sees “neighbour’s wife” or mind-sets. As these are non soul-serving, the commandment is reminding that such programming must become integrated, thereby, cease automatically “coveting” lower life.
With lower-self rooted in spiritual ignorance, we can see “neighbour’s wife” as potential for suffering. Here, we’re reminded to awaken unto purification of the contaminated five senses, thereby, is our life-expression, divinely.
Each faculty of our spiritual nature needs to be functioning in harmony with the laws of nature, otherwise that soul is prone to taking on a “wife” — a mind-set, not a person — a belief system with potential for emotional, physical and mental disharmony.
If the intellect is stalled in left brain only, then we’re most likely coveting through egoism — fostering negativity, thy neighbour’s “wife” — rather than through left/right brain coherence.
When bliss is established in consciousness, our spiritual mechanisms become divinely attuned; no longer are we coveting through ignorance.
[10] Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Goods
Once understood that “neighbour” is an inner subjective/mental dynamic then “neighbour’s goods” is here referring to material manifestation through the non life-serving CONTENTS of the subconscious mind.
The Commandment is reminding of not desiring a life-standard sourced through conditioned, dehumanizing sub-conscious content, the unredeemed aspect of soul; not to misuse the eternal “laws of nature” through a mind state not compatible with our soul’s desire for spiritual evolution.
With ignorance-conditioning being another form of biblical “stoning”, we’re to avoid inflicting wrong spiritual values onto our soul.
“Coveting ” is when we’re consciously out of direct influence of higher-self — when our lives automatically function out of generational conditioning and its after-effect: suppressed emotions through inner conflict, which, together, form sub-conscious content.
Sub-consciousness ensures soul-slavery in lower-self experiencing, such as, destructive, anger-laden thoughts, chronic stress, compulsive worry, ground-less fear and market-place stimulation for life-contentment.
“Before this day is out [period of meditation] You [higher self] will be with Me [as Christ] in Paradise” [bliss consciousness]: Luke 23:43 — lower ego mind-sets transmuting into higher Me, the Christ within, thereby OUR Fulfilling of the Ten Commandments through the single act of meditation.