SECOND COMMANDMENT!


Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain!
It is the Name that awakens and brings into focus the concept in man! Whoever dishonors a name and
dares to debase it thereby debases the concept! Bear this in mind at all times!
This clear Commandment of the Lord, however, is the least observed of all the Ten Commandments,
thus the most transgressed. This non-observance takes a thousand different forms. Even though man
thinks that many of these transgressions are quite harmless, just superficial expressions, nevertheless it
remains a transgression of this explicitly given Commandment! Just these thousand-fold forms of
allegedly just harmless non-observance degrade the Holy Name of God, and with it the concept of God
which is always closely associated with the Name, robbing It of Its Holiness before men, and indeed even
before children, defiling Its sanctity by making It commonplace, by dragging It down into general
phraseology! Men do not shrink from venturing into the ridiculous with this. Not one of the many
expressions will I cite; for the Name is far too high and sublime for that! But anybody need only observe
this for even one day, and he will probably be aghast at the enormous accumulation of transgressions of
the Second Commandment by human beings of both sexes, among old and young, right down to children
who are hardly able to form a proper sentence yet. For the youngsters twitter as they hear the old ones
sing! For this reason, it is often just this debasing of God which is one of the first things that young
people learn through the only apparently so harmless transgressions against God's Laws!
The effect, however, is the worst of all the transgressions! It has spread abroad in an absolutely
devastating way among all mankind, not only with Christians, but also among Muslims, among Jews and
Buddhists; the same can be heard ad nauseam everywhere! What value, then, can the Name “God” still
hold for man! It is debased, is respected not even as much as the smallest coin! Much worse than a worn
out garment. And this man of the earth, otherwise so would-be-clever, regards it as harmless, and sins in
this more than a hundred times a day! Where is there any reflection! Where the least stirring of the
intuitive perception! You, too, have become completely deadened to it, and listen calmly when the most
sacred of all concepts is thus trampled into the dirt of everyday life! But do not be deceived! The debt
ledger in the beyond is therewith mercilessly charged for everyone who has sinned in this respect! And
just this is not so easy to expiate because it is attended by such far reaching ill consequences, which must
avenge themselves unto the third and fourth generation, unless one day there is some person in this chain
of descendants who recognizes this evil practice and calls a halt to it.
Therefore try to combat the harmful habit in the circle of your acquaintances. But above all first sever
your own threads of karma with all the energy you still possess, so that your debt ledger will not become
greater than it already is in this respect. Do not believe that atonement will be easy because hitherto you
intended no evil at all with this! The harm is none the less exactly the same! And the sin against the
Commandment remains absolutely unchanged! You knew the Commandment perfectly well. If you did
not really strive to become clear about its significance, then that is your fault! Nothing can therefore be
written off for you on that account! Listen and act, so that you become capable of redeeming much while
still on earth.
Otherwise the morass which awaits you when you enter the beyond, and which places itself
obstructively in the path of ascent, will be terrifying.
Yet not only the individual human being, but also the authorities have shown their opposition to this
Commandment and also to the Word of God for centuries, in that they forcibly demanded of human
beings the taking of oaths, compelling them to commit the transgression with the threat of severe earthly
punishment if they did not comply with the demand. But the punishment in the beyond is far more severe,
and it falls upon all those who exacted the oath, not upon those who had to take it under pressure. Christ
as well reiterated explicitly when He said: “Let your communication be yea or nay; for whatsoever is
more than these cometh of evil!”
And indeed the authorities had the power to give the decisive weight to the words Yes or No by
punishing a deception before court in the same way as perjury! In this way they were able to raise the
value of the words before court to that level which they needed to pass judgment. It was not necessary to
lead people by force to the transgression of God's Commandment for that reason! Now they shall receive
their sentence in the beyond. More severe, and stricter than they had ever assumed as they mocked reciprocal action. There is no escaping this!
But the churches and their representatives carried it even further; with invocations to God, they
subjected their fellow-men to the most terrible tortures, and finally again with invocations to God they
burned them if they had not already succumbed to their torments beforehand. The Roman Emperor Nero,
well known to all and notorious for his cruelty, was not so bad, not so damnable in his tortures of the
Christians as was the catholic church with its enormous record of sins in regard to the Laws of God! First,
he did not murder and torture nearly so much, and second, not with such sanctimonious invocations to
God which in this manner must be numbered among the greatest blasphemies which it is possible for a
person to perpetrate!
It avails them nothing if these same churches today condemn what in those days had unfortunately
been perpetrated through them for all too long; for they did not voluntarily abandon it!
And even today there is not much difference in the mutual hostility, only in a more restrained, more
modern form! In this, too, only the form has changed in the course of time, not the living core! And this
core alone, which one so likes to conceal, counts before the Judgment of God, never the outward form!
And this present, only apparently harmless form was born out of the same unspeakable spiritual
arrogance of the representatives of all the churches, as hitherto. And where this damnable arrogance is not
present, there is to be found an empty conceit based on the earthly power of the churches. Often enough
these vices result in the most unseemly hostilities, interwoven in addition with earthly calculations
towards extending influence, if not even towards a yearning for great political importance.
And all this with the Name of “God” on their lips, so that I want to call out again as did the Son of
God: “By your deeds you have marked my Father's houses as dens of murderers, by considering them to
be in your honor! You call yourselves servants of God's Word, but you have become servants of your
own arrogance!”
Every Catholic thinks himself far better before God than a Protestant, without there being any cause
for it, but every Protestant thinks himself more enlightened, more advanced, and thus nearer to his God
than the Catholic! And these are all those who claim to be followers of Christ, to form themselves
according to His Word.
Both parties are fools, who rely on something that does not count in the least before the Will of God!
Just all these sin far more against the Second Commandment of God than adherents of other religions; for
they abuse the Name of God not only with words but through the deed, with their whole manner of living,
even in their so-called worship service. To every thinking and closely observing person they give only a
horrible example of meaningless forms and empty thought. Just in the boundless conceit of wishing to
make themselves and those around them believe that they already possess a place in Heaven ahead of
those of other faiths, they desecrate the concept of God most deeply! It is not the outward form of church
rites, baptism and so much else that matters! The inner man alone has to stand before the Judgment!
Remember this, you haughty ones, to whom it has already been announced that on the Day of Judgment,
puffed-up, they will proudly set forth with banners and gorgeous raiment to receive their reward joyously.
Yet they will never reach the Realm of the Spirit at the foot of God's Throne, because they will receive
the reward they deserve before they get there. An icy blast will sweep them away like worthless chaff; for
they lack pure humility within themselves, and true love for their neighbor!
By their nature they are the worst abusers of the Name of “God”, the most flagrant transgressors of
the Second Commandment!
They all served Lucifer, not God! And thus they scorn all the Commandments of God! From the first
to the last! But mainly the Second, the transgression of which in this manner represents the blackest
defilement of the concept of God in the Name!
Beware of continuing to pass over this Commandment lightly! From now on, watch yourselves and
your surroundings keenly! Reflect that if you faithfully keep nine of the Commandments and disregard
one of them, you will still be lost in the end! When a Commandment is given by God, that is already
proof that it must not be taken lightly, that it is absolutely imperative that it be fulfilled! Otherwise it
would never have been given to you.
Do not dare to pray if you are unable to vibrate with your whole soul in the words, and beware lest
you reveal yourselves as thoughtless prattlers before your God; for thereby you would be guilty before Him of misuse of the Name of God. Before you ask Him for something, consider carefully whether it is
needed urgently! Do not become entangled in formal prayers to be rattled off at certain times, as has
become the bad habit in all religious practices. This is not only misuse of God's Name but blasphemy! In
joy or need, an ardent intuitive perceiving without words remains far more valuable than a thousand
spoken prayers, even if this intuitive perceiving lasts only a fraction of a second. For such intuitive
perceiving is then always genuine, and not hypocritical! And therefore it is never a misuse of the concept
of God either. It is a sacred moment when the human spirit wishes to cast itself in supplication or
gratitude before the Steps of God's Throne! This must never become habitual chatter! Not by the servants
of a church either!
That man who is capable of using the Name of God on every possible and impossible occasion in
daily life has never had the faintest idea of the concept of God! He is an animal, not a human being! For
as a human spirit he must possess the ability to perceive inwardly a divining of God, even though it be but
once in his earth-life! But this once alone would suffice to deprive him of any desire to transgress the
Second Commandment thoughtlessly! He will then eternally bear within himself the need to utter the
Name “God” only on his knees and in the highest purity of his whole inner being!
Whoever does not have this is far removed from even being worthy of God's Word, much less of
entering God's Kingdom! Of enjoying His blissful proximity! For this reason it is also forbidden to make
a picture of God the Father according to man's concepts! Every attempt at this is bound to lead to nothing
but a pitiful belittling, since neither the human spirit nor the human hand is enabled to see even the most
minute part of the reality in visions, and to retain it in the earthly way in a picture! The greatest work of
art in this matter could signify only deep degradation. A Single Eye, in Its unutterable radiance, suggests
everything. – Thus exalted is the Greatness, inconceivable to you, which you embrace in the Word “God”
and which with careless audacity you often dare to use as the most ordinary of empty and thoughtless
expressions! You will have to render account of this conduct of yours!

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