The Bible and Wisdom II

At the time when Moses appeared, the human personality was in the first stage of its development. It broke away in its consciousness from this common consciousness of the generation. The memory that reached back through the generations had already ceased completely. People no longer had the spiritualized instinct to act. Something else had to take its place. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who in his spiritual form gave Moses the law and the commandments because people no longer had the spiritual instinct, had to regulate external order and social coexistence through the commandments, through the law.