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Preface

God gave the Ten Commandments to mankind through His servant, Moses. The people of Israel was chosen to bring salvation to mankind by an exemplary life, in which the law of God is lived. Since the Israelites became entangled more and more in their causes despite the help and guidance of the commandments, the Son of God incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth. In Him, the Father came closer to us again, the God of love, kindness, forgiveness and grace, because He showed the way that leads back to the eternal home through self-recognition and clearing up one’s sins, by way of the actualization and fulfilment of the laws of God. Jesus of Nazareth lived and taught this path. It is summarized in the Sermon on the Mount, which contains instructions for its concrete actualization in everyday life. This offer was and is meant for all people who want to live in a Christian way

Christ now speaks to us again, through the prophetic word. He deepened and deepens the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount in countless revelations and through the activities of His teaching prophetess and spiritual messenger. And so, the Spirit of God helps us in the application of His teachings; He shows us the causes and spiritual correlations and leads us to answers, to ways and solutions in the most varying situations of life. The Spirit of God thus brings His eternal laws into our everyday life, so that we may gain experience on how we can live and think “in a lawful way”, that is, in the Spirit of God.

And this depends on the fact that we put into practice in our life what we recognize. If we do what Jesus taught – and Jesus spoke of doing! – then we will create a mighty potential of positive, that is, divine, energy and also gain the ability to feel and understand our fellow man and, not lastly, the tolerance to leave our neighbour his free will.

This small book, which is based on the texts of three radio programmes of “The Small Roundtable in Universal Life”, contains some important explanations on the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are excerpts from the absolute, the perfect, law of God. This law of God is,  the  life . This life, God, is everything in all things, the infinite diversity and fullness of the Being. In every principle of the law and in every commandment, it is the life, which opens up to us men through actualization and fulfilment, through our living and doing. May the one who can grasp it, grasp it. May the one who wants to leave it, leave it. The one who wants to grasp it can see every commandment as a doorway to the fullness of life – the life in God, in the Spirit of God.

When we immerse into the depths of life through our way of thinking and acting, we discover that ultimately every commandment is contained in the other commandments. This small booklet cannot convey the experience that everything is contained in all things, but it gives impulses, indications and examples for those who truly want to live a Christian life, that is, who want to follow the Christ of God in our time.

Just as He did 2000 years ago, Christ makes us aware of the highest commandment today, too: “Love God, your eternal Father, above all, and your neighbour as yourself!” All the commandments of God are contained in this divine law of Inner Life.

What is essential in this is that the commandments – like all divine truths – are not just written on paper, but are lived; only then can we grasp the word of God in its depth, His instructions of life for us men, His commandments. And so, Jesus, the Christ, said to us: “The one who hears these words of Mine   and  does  them  is like a wise man ...” He is not speaking any differently today.

No one of us Original Christians is already a perfect “doer of the word”, but we do our best each day to follow Christ. We do this by recognizing ourselves during the day, by clearing up our sins, no longer committing them and in their place fulfilling the spiritual principles of God, which are in harmony with the highest commandment of selfless love, with the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. Until people fulfil the law of God completely – that is, until they do the will of God in all things, so that His Spirit can work through them without pause – the daily struggle will go on. And so, it can happen that we still “fall down” in our thoughts, words and deeds, that is, we make mistakes and wrong decisions. When this happens, the point is not to just stay lying there, but to get up with the help and strength of Christ and align ourselves again with God and His commandments. This is how we continue to strive for the fulfilment of the law and thus enter into our spiritual heritage more and more, since this is the meaning and purpose of our life on earth. For us, this is what it means to follow Christ and to live in the Spirit of God.

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