In Exodus, Chapter 33, Yahweh refuses the direct request of Moses to see God's face directly, because to view God's face directly without years of preparation and acquired holiness would result in the viewer being frightened to death.
God is truth, and we need gradual, steady introduction to the truth and new ideas. That is one of the message of moderation. That slow but incremental access to truth, even seeking and seeing God's face, would allow the viewer to see God as De is, without harmful overreaction and death following.
The rash, sudden introduction is cruel and painful, more than most viewers could handle, and live, let alone still love, create and be upbeat and holy.
Moses understood or at least accepted Yahweh's refusal to introduce Moses to God too directly, too fast, and the indirect viewing of Yahweh's beauty was quite sufficient and all that Moses could handle.
As we individuate, we become more clear-sighted and illusion-free, thus more able to encounter directly the visages of the Good Spirits and the Mother and the Father. Such gradual exposure to their presence is humane and nonthreatening to weak, lie-infested, corrupt humans.
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