General Law and the Law of God 2

[Read the first post below first.]

To see the connection between the Law of God (what is in the Pentateuch, but also it exists even in the New Testament, you have to read the Dathenus book to understand this, yet it is also just basic biblical doctrine that can be found in a good systematic theology, yet Dathenus explains it particularly well and clearly) and the General Law I had to see that the General Law is not necessarily solely what A Influence is. Food, sex, money, mother-in-law (as Gurdjieff put it). It is that, or it has that element, but the General Law also contains, or can contain, B Influence.

Actually, the General Law is the patterns of life that are approved by the mass, and the laws that go along with it all. Everything to do with carrying on life. Having children, spilling blood, etc. Working to support families, etc.

And all the 'laws' in this General Law realm have to be followed or the mass gets 'moralistic' with you. And violent. That is a thing to see: see how people in the General Law have the 'upper hand' in looking down on you when you don't follow the laws of the General Law. That is something anybody 'feels' and experiences when they go against the General Law. They 'shame' you, and there is a real power behind them in doing that. In this sense it is like the Laws of God in that the laws are real and have a real existence and power, but at the same time they can't be followed truly and they just engender hypocrisy and formalism and moralism and ritualism and the fear of man in all the mass of people in the General Law. This is what the Law of God did to people in the theocracy of Israel. Pharisees.

So a process of alienation occurs, ideally. The Puritans used this word: 'alienation.' The Law causes this alienation. Alienation FROM the law. Dying to the law, as Paul put it. It is why God made the law. To drive you to Christ. And Christ represents that in you that is real. Real Will, Real I, real Understanding. The image of God in you. Imaginary 'I' can't 'do', but Real I CAN do (because it's connected to Christ, the Absolute II). And developing Real I requires repentance (that inner reorientation from self-will to Real Will, etc.). And faith. Seeing that which is higher than you and that is real. I.e. truly getting above vanity, worldly pride, and self-will. All of that. That process. That is what the Law of God exists to do.

It's a difficult subject in theology and the Bible (just as understanding the difference between self-will and Real Will is difficult when encountered in the Work).

The Law of Christ is what you come to when you leave the realm of the Law of Works. (I've been calling it the Law of God, but it may be better to term it the Law of Works. The General Law is synonymous with the Law of Works. And the Work teaching is synonymous with the Law of Christ. In the Law of Christ you are given that which is demanded of you. The burden is light, for that reason.)