Moses and the Golden Calf

When Moses went up to Mount Sinai he fasted for 40 days and nights and he received the 10 Commandments. Forty days is a long time; the people of Israel got anxious and pressured Moses brother, Aaron, to provide him with an idol. They chose a golden calf, an image of fertility in Egypt, which they produced from their jewelry. On the day when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, there was a fest of singing, drinking and (most likely) group sex. Moses was so outraged that he destroyed the stone tablets of the 10 commandments and he had 3000 people executed to pay for these sins. The golden calf he melted in and had the remnants ground to powder; the people of Israel had to drink it, mixed with water.

What an irony! Just as the prophet delivered the 10 Commandments, the people reverted back to the olden practices of idol worship and indulging in Pagan behaviors. While this set-up and Moses gruesome response seem obviously outdated today, the problem statement remains the same. The conflict between what each spiritual aspirant wants to accomplish versus the secret longings of the subconscious and the often openly expressed idol worship. Our golden calf can be everything, the sexual urges, the hunger for status, the cravings for security or material abundance. I hope you agree with me that a society that allows people to express their desires within some moral and legal backstops is a step ahead of the one that stops at 'thou shall not want'. Luckily, we have reached that stage more or less, but what will the next step entail in our conscious evolution?

The simple answer is transcendence. You can have a fulfilled sex life and celebrate true love with it. You can be gainfully employed in a profession that has social status, yet, let it be one that expresses your passion, creativity and care for others. You can have material abundance and discover the joy of freely sharing it with others. You can discover that you are the Daughter of God and understand that everything is already taken care of for you so that your worries become meaningless. In short, you express the longings of the 'I' in perfect harmony with the state of Heaven on earth and find that in this blessed world there is no need for God's Commandments and there is certainly no need for a golden calf.