The KJV Holy Bible

 

Deuteronomy Chapter Ten

 

1 At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

8 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.

11 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Deuteronomy Chapter Ten: The Second Transmission and the Severing of the Rigid Heart 

"Chapter Ten maps the successful restoration of the shattered Energetic circuit following the crisis of the Golden Calf. The Sovereign Will acts to structurally secure the new transmission of Divine Law, embedding it deep within the prepared Psychic Vessel. Furthermore, this chapter outlines the Supreme Alchemical requirement for continued Spiritual Evolution: the total, deliberate removal of all stubborn Emotional armor."

 

 

Verses 1-5: The Second Blueprint and the Organic Ark - "At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first... And I made an ark of shittim wood... and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me." 

The first transmission of the Divine Law was violently shattered because the unrefined lower Mind was fundamentally incapable of receiving the Pure, raw Frequency of the Superconscious. For the second transmission, the Sovereign Will (Moses) is commanded to Actively carve the stone and construct a wooden Ark. Esoterically, the Ark represents the Purified, organic Human Vessel—the carefully prepared Subconscious architecture. The High-Vibrational blueprint of the Logos must be safely housed within this grounded Internal structure; otherwise, the raw intensity of the Light would once again annihilate the Psychological framework.

 

 

Verses 6-9: The Separation of Levi and the Unbound Conduit - "At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord... Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him." 

The tribe of Levi represents the Highest, Most Refined Spiritual Faculties within the Microcosm. To maintain Energetic Equilibrium, the Sovereign Will completely severs these specific faculties from the dense, material concerns of the lower Ego. They receive no "earthly inheritance" because they must not become entangled in base Psychological friction. Their sole Alchemical function is to carry the Internal Architecture (the Ark), stand directly before the Superconscious, and act as a Pure, Continuous Conduit for the Christos Frequency to flow into the rest of the Mind.

 

 

Verses 10-15: The Resumed Circuit and the Supreme Demand - "And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul..." 

With the Internal architecture secured and the Energetic mediator established, the Great Work resumes. The Universal Source clarifies that it does not demand arbitrary, chaotic sacrifices, but a State of Total, Unified Resonance. To serve with "All Thy Heart and with All Thy Soul" is the Ultimate Hermetic command to Harmonize the Emotional Center (the Subconscious) and the Vital Spiritual Essence (the Superconscious) into a Single, Unbroken Current of Active Manifestation.

 

 

Verses 16-22: The Severing of the Ego and the Law of Integration - "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked... He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment." 

This is the most critical Alchemical operation of the chapter. The "foreskin of the Heart" symbolizes the thick, callous layer of unrefined Ego and trauma that suffocates the Emotional Center. The Mind is ordered to violently slice away this protective armor and completely abandon its "stiffnecked," rigid reliance on Orthodox Intellect. Furthermore, the command to protect the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow represents the Vital Psychological work of Internal Integration. The Awakened Mind must Actively Seek out its own isolated, neglected, and fragmented Thought-Forms, pulling them into the Unified Light of the Christos Frequency to make the Microcosm Completely Whole.