Spiritual Commandments Or Spiritual Guidelines?

Spiritual Commandments Or Spiritual Guidelines?
By Richard Blackstone

Once you start waking up to your true authentic self you begin
to change the concepts that have held you in a bondage of fear.
As you awaken to the light of true consciousness, the fears that
have enslaved you in your past don't look so fearsome in the
light of awareness.

We see things for what they are and we observe whether they
serve us or not, given our definition of who we are and who we
determine ourselves to be. So when we take on the paradigm that
we are one with God and start to challenge the institutions that
have held us in fear for so long, we begin to examine the core
concepts of all three major institutions and take a closer look
at God's commandments.

When we immerse ourselves in the concepts of unity and love we
take on the knowledge that God is the source of all that is, and
we are created in the image and likeness of God. So we are made
of the same stuff as God and have the same talents and
abilities. At the core of God is love, and at our core is love.

Our purpose, as spirit children, is to experience in the
relative physical world all that God knows conceptually in the
absolute world. Because God's true essence is love, then the
belief system that God goes by is a love-based belief system.
This is what God is. In order to experience God's belief system,
we are allowed to know what God's belief system is not. In fact
we must know and experience what God's belief system is not in
order for us to know experientially exactly what it is.

God sent his belief system to us not only in the core being
that we are, but also in a physical form so that man would have
a tangible thing to know of that represents God's value system.

We have come to describe this physical representation of these
values as “The Ten Commandments.” We have based our core
institutions of religion, education and government on them in
order to control us under threat of condemnation to hell if we
don't follow them.

When we see how all these institutions have followed the values
prescribed by these commandments we see the hypocrisy that we
have allowed ourselves to live under because of our fears. We
see how each of these institutions has lied, cheated and stolen
under the sanctimonious guise of doing it for our benefit in
order for us to get into heaven. The unholiest of unholies is
how each of these institutions has lead us to kill our fellow
human beings and say that it was justified in accordance with
God's laws and commandments.

The only God they could be talking about is the God of
separation and fear, who holds himself out to be a monarch and
who is separate from us and separate from the universe he
created. Only the God of fear would be separate from the very
commandments he sent to us and told us not to violate under
threat of condemnation to hell.

The God of Love and unity has a value system that he instilled
in us and that has been revealed to us in physical form. But
this God would not command us to never violate these values
because this God wants us to experience what we are not in order
to know what we are. How could we possibly do that if, in so
doing, we violate a commandment that she told us not to violate?

The God of Love would not do that. The God of Love would not
command us to do anything because the whole premise of our
“being” is to create the experiences on earth that we choose
using our free will, without restrictions or limitations. The
God of Love does not interfere (enter-fear) with our choices. We
make the choices. To interfere with our choices would negate the
whole premise of God's purpose and violate the process of life.

So, yes, we are privy to God's values, both within our very
souls and also within the concept of The Ten Commandments. But
instead of using these as God's commandments, we should use them
under the concept of God's guidelines. For God, in the form of
the soul, is here to guide us in this earthly journey but she is
not here to command us to do one thing or another. We are at
free choice to be and do one thing or another.

We are at free choice to call this value system “commandments”
or “guidelines.” Man, not God, is the one who has told us for
2,000 years that these are commandments, through man's written
and spoken words. But what man says or writes doesn't make it
so. Remember, everything is temporal and temporary. Everything
is a matter of perspective. The only constant in the universe is
change.

About the Author: Richard Blackstone is an award winning author
and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey
into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3
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