47. The Ten Commandments

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his maidservants, and so on, through which he finds his advancement, that is, (through which) his I can develop itself further. (Ex 20, 2-17; Deut 5,6-21) How the impulse of Jahve best enters into man is expressed in the Torah. These commandments are still effective today because they speak to the innermost being of man, to his ego, which still needs these commandments even when it has risen so high that, in a higher sense, it no longer needs them. Then the ego does of its own accord what the commandments prescribe.

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