Commandments

 

I cannot think of another religion, let alone a world religion, like Judaism, where Yahweh arranged a meeting with the Hebrews: the prophet, priests, and common people (His chosen people) to give a table of moral commandments for them to live by, an ethical code.

 

This theophany occurs as a moral God, a monotheistic deity, Yahweh arranges with Moses, to assemble the people at the base of Mount Sinai, so they can receive a spiritually good and morally good religion, to live by, before they—or their descendants—are allowed to enter the promised land.

 

This remarkable, fantastic encounter seems unique to me, and special, an indication that Yahweh was one of the most spiritually and ethically advanced deities on the stage of the ancient world.

 

These seems to me to highlight two lessons. First, the good person cannot grow spiritually unless her behavior is ethically very developed, loving and just, towards herself, towards others, towards the benevolent deities and toward the world itself.

 

One cannot be spiritually good unless one is morally good, and one cannot be morally good unless one is spiritually good.

 

If we come with the right moral code then, my ethical code of rational egoism, moderated morality, or egoism-altruism, then we should be able to conceive of an incarnation or manifestation of existent benevolent deities that, if that theophany was conducted today, the Father and Mother would come down to earth while the Good Spirits announce their coming regally with a blast of heavenly trumpets. The Divine Couple would share with us a new Ten Commandments to guide us into the future.

 

As the Father and Mother lay upon us that new set of Ten Commandments, this will give us clues as to how we should build new religious orientation to good deities, and these updated faith or faiths would grow out of, while being consistent and coherent with existent world religions, the Old Ten Commandments, and existent, recognized, worshiped deities.

 

The second lesson to learn would be to study and follow the old Ten Commandments to more deeply understand how universal and contextual moral theory is to guide us on how to behave.