The KJV Holy Bible

 

Deuteronomy Chapter Seventeen

 

1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14 When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Deuteronomy Chapter Seventeen: The Incorruptible Altar and the Architecture of the Internal King 

"Chapter Seventeen outlines the Supreme Laws of Internal Governance and Energetic Purity. The Sovereign Will establishes an infallible Psychological court to resolve complex Alchemical disputes and provides the strict Hermetic blueprint for Crowning a Centralized Ruling Faculty, ensuring the Higher Mind never regresses into a chaotic reliance on base astral forces."

 

 

Verses 1-7: The Blemished Offering and the Eradication of the Crystallized Ego - "Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish... If there be found among you... man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness... and hath gone and served other gods... thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman... and shalt stone them with stones, till they die." 

The Awakened Mind is strictly Forbidden from offering "blemished" Energy to the Superconscious. To surrender a flawed, half-hearted, or mechanically routine Psychological impulse is an insult to the Christos Frequency. Furthermore, if any Internal Faculty secretly reverts to crystallizing Divine Energy into static astral forms (Worshipping the Sun, Moon, or Host of Heaven), it must be Ruthlessly Eradicated. The Hermetic requirement of "Two or Three Witnesses" represents the Law of Internal Confirmation: a rogue Thought-Form is only dissolved when the Unified Intellect, Emotion, and Intuition Collectively Recognize its toxic frequency, ensuring no vital aspect of the Psyche is mistakenly destroyed in a moment of panic.

 

 

Verses 8-13: The Supreme Internal Court and the Surrender of the Orthodox Intellect - "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment... then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge... And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest... even that man shall die..." 

As the Microcosm expands, complex Psychological frictions arise that foundational boundaries cannot easily resolve. The Sovereign Will mandates an Ascension to the Highest, centralized state of Spiritual Intuition (the Levitical priesthood). When the Orthodox Intellect faces an insurmountable paradox, it must completely surrender its dense earthly logic to this elevated Alchemical court. To act "presumptuously" and reject the verdict of the Higher Mind is an Act of Supreme Internal Rebellion. This arrogant Intellectual Faculty must be permanently dissolved to preserve Energetic Equilibrium and instill a Holy Reverence across the rest of the Psychic Architecture.

 

 

Verses 14-20: The Internal King and the Prohibition of Astral Regression - "When thou art come unto the land... and shalt say, I will set a king over me... he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt... Neither shall he multiply wives to himself... And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book..." 

The Conscious Mind eventually requires a Centralized Organizing Principle (a King) to govern the stabilized vessel. However, this ruling faculty must not rely on brute, unrefined earthly power (multiplying horses) or revert to the mechanical, dense logic of the material matrix (returning to Egypt). It is Strictly Forbidden from Scattering its Focus through excessive, fragmented Emotional Attachments (multiplying wives) or hoarding crystallized material Energy (Silver and Gold). To maintain Perfect Alignment, the ruling Will must Actively Transcribe the Divine Law directly into its own operational code, keeping the Alchemical blueprint Continuously Active and Ensuring its localized Power is Never Artificially Elevated Above the Unified Harmony of its Internal Brethren.