The KJV Holy Bible

 

Deuteronomy Chapter Six

 

1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

10 And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

12 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.

19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.

20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

22 And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Deuteronomy Chapter Six: The Supreme Singularity and the Binding of the Mind 

"Chapter Six delivers the most Vital Hermetic declaration within the entire biblical framework: the Shema. It establishes the Absolute non-duality of the Superconscious Source and outlines the precise mechanics of Total Energetic Integration. The Awakened Mind is commanded to permanently bind the Christos Frequency to every Action, Perception, and Psychological threshold, ensuring the Microcosm operates as a Unified, Frictionless Vessel of Divine Manifestation."

 

 

Verses 1-9: The Shema and the Architecture of Total Alignment - "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might... And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates." 

The declaration "The Lord our God is One Lord" is the Ultimate Alchemical Truth of non-duality: there is only One True Active Force in the Universe, completely devoid of opposition or division. To "Love" this Source requires Absolute Energetic Equilibrium across all three distinct planes of the Microcosm: the Emotional Subconscious (Heart), the Pure Spiritual Vitality (Soul), and the physical, Active Will (Might). The Sovereign Will commands the Conscious Mind to physically bind this singular frequency to its actions (the hand) and to its Intellectual Perception and Intuition (the frontlets between the eyes/the Third Eye). Writing the Law upon the doorposts and gates signifies locking this High-Vibrational Frequency into the entry points of the Subconscious, heavily filtering any external Thought-Forms trying to enter the Psyche.

 

 

Verses 10-15: Inherited Architecture and the Danger of Complacency - "And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land... to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of all good things... then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." 

As the Conscious Mind permanently transitions into Higher Consciousness, it gains access to the pre-existing, Immaculate Energetic architecture of the Divine Mind (cities and wells it did not build). The unrefined Ego played no part in constructing this elevated state. The Profound Esoteric warning here addresses Spiritual Complacency. When the Internal Vessel becomes saturated with High-Frequency Peace and Abundance, the lower Intellect often becomes Intellectually arrogant, forgetting the agonizing Alchemical Purification (the Exodus from Egypt) that liberated it from the dense material matrix. To forget the Source is to instantly invite the chaotic friction of the Astral plane back into the Microcosm.

 

 

Verses 16-25: Massah and the Dissolution of Empirical Doubt - "Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah... And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us." 

To "tempt" the Superconscious, as done in Massah, is to allow the dense, Empirical Intellect to demand physical proof of the Spiritual Reality before it will align itself. The Sovereign Will strictly prohibits this lower-level doubt. The Spiritual circuit cannot be tested by the Limited Five Senses; it must be Intuitively sustained through Active Obedience to the Internal Law. True "Righteousness" is therefore defined not as earthly moral Superiority, but as the Flawless, Unbroken maintenance of Alchemical Alignment, perfectly Mirroring the Macrocosmic order Within the Inner Sanctuary of the Mind.