Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments, also called the Decalogue (from Greek: δεκα deka "ten" and λoγoς logos "word") are a list of religious and ethical rules that have a fundamentally important meaning in Judaism and Christianity.

„What do these Ten Commandments show us above all things? We will see that they show us everywhere, not only in the first part, but also in the last part, where it is apparently hidden, that through Moses it is spoken to the Jewish people in the sense that that power is now to be with the Jewish people which announced itself to Moses in the burning bush with the words as the designation of his name: "I Am the I Am!" - "Ehyeh asher eyjeh!" It should be noted that the other peoples in the development of our earth have not been able to recognise that "I am", the actual source of the fourth part of the human being, as intensely and clearly as the Jewish people are supposed to recognise it. That God who poured a drop of his being into man, so that the fourth member of the human being became the bearer of this drop, the I-bearer, that God becomes conscious of his people for the first time through Moses.“ (Lit.:GA 107, p. 118)

The Ten Commandments are handed down twice in the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2–17; Deuteronomy 5:6–21) and have there the highest validity and holiness as the only direct writing by the finger of God (Ex 31:18) - the rest of the laws are described as a dictation of God to Moses. They were written by God himself on two stone tablets of the law.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde, GA 107 (1988), ISBN 3-7274-1070-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Erfahrungen des Übersinnlichen. Die drei Wege der Seele zu Christus, GA 143 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-1430-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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