Exodus 20:5 · World English Bible
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
The jealous God is the one indwelling Law of the higher self, which will not share the throne of consciousness with idols made of appetite and outward form. To bow to graven images is to fix devotion on the lifeless things of the senses.
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The jealous God is the one indwelling Law of the higher self, which will not share the throne of consciousness with idols made of appetite and outward form. To bow to graven images is to fix devotion on the lifeless things of the senses.
Iniquity visited to the third and fourth generation names how a wrong turning of the mind breeds consequences down through the layers of thought and body it sets in motion. A single misdirection of consciousness carries through everything it produces.
Graven images: the lifeless idols of sense and appetite a person carves and then serves in place of the inner Source
Esoteric lens
What pattern have you inherited that stops with you if you decide it does?
An action sets a current moving that keeps producing effects long past the moment it was taken. One wrong turn of the mind seeds everything downstream of it.
Too much color blinds the eye, too much sound deafens the ear, too much flavor dulls the mouth. The sage keeps to the center rather than serving the senses.
He warned that giving your allegiance to things you cannot control hands your peace to objects. The idol is anything lifeless you have agreed to obey.
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