More on the Greatest Commandment

In the History of Egypt, Manetho wrote, “Moses, a son of the tribe of Levi, educated in Egypt and initiated at Heliopolis, became a High Priest of the Brotherhood... He was elected by the Hebrews as their chief and he adapted to the ideas of his people the science and philosophy which he had obtained in the Egyptian mysteries…when he established a branch of the Egyptian Brotherhood in his country, from which descended the Essenes. The dogma of an ‘only God,’ which he taught, was the Egyptian Brotherhood interpretation and teaching of the Pharaoh who established the first monotheistic religion known to man. [Akhenaton]. The traditions he established in this manner were known completely to only a few of them, and were preserved in the mysteries of the secret societies, the Therapeutea of Egypt, and the Essenes.”

Most people know the Ten Commandments, but not many know that Moses was an initiate of the Egyptian mystery school at On (Heliopolis) and took the Ten Commandments from the 42 Laws of Ma’at that were taught by Akhenaton. The Ten Commandments were a simplification of the Laws of Ma’at and the many laws that were proscribed in Leviticus. But in the New Testament, they were simplified even more into one great commandment. Some books of the New Testament record them as two. But Luke, a Gentile physician and Therapeut, correctly put them together into one.

In Luke 10:25-28, he wrote, “And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

This can be simplified even more to “Love God and your neighbor as yourself.” When further asked, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus gave the parable of the Good Samaritan. To the Jews at the time, Samaritans were despicable Israelites because their beliefs differed from the orthodox Jews and they intermarried with Assyrians. They were called dogs and half-breeds. Thus, for Jews to love Samaritans as themselves, they had to do a lot of rewiring and have a profound understanding of the third pillar of The Way taught at awarenessnow.com and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEddc-IJl6113tM7hVg0_Q.

The third pillar says that you are The One ineffable pure Being Consciousness that pervades the material and spiritual universes. You are one with every thing and every one in creation. There is no “me” that is separate from “them” and God. We are all one in God. Thus, to love yourself is to love God and your neighbor. Other people appear separate in their bodies, opinions, beliefs, actions, etc., but that’s all an illusion. Just as in sleeping dreams in which the various dream characters represent aspects of ourselves, in the waking dreams of our lives, family, friends, coworkers, enemies, etc. represent different aspects of ourselves that populate our hero’s journey. In our highest essence, we are the pure white light that creates the dream by projecting images onto the screen of life. That essence is what we love in ourselves and others. If we can truly see this when our enemies are attacking us and still love them, then we are living the greatest commandment, and, as Luke wrote, will “inherit eternal life,” for we will no longer be tied to the impermanent illusion.