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THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE THIRD TERM OF THE TRINITY

This list of the commandments of Naglowska’s new religion was published in La Flèche No. 6, March 15, 1931. A different list was published in The Light of Sex¹approximately a year and a half later. This earlier version has much to recommend it.

The Commandments of the Third Term of the Trinity

1. You will recognize God in yourself and around you and in the whole Universe, for all that is visible and invisible is the result of the Life of God, the only being that can say, “I am.”
       The flesh says, “I was and I will be.” Life says, “I am.”
2. You will recognize yourself as the servant of Life, your God, or of God, your Life, and you will not adore any visible or invisible intermediate force, for whoever adores an intermediate force belongs to that intermediate force and perishes with it when its time has expired.
       Belong to Him who is, and not to him of whom one will say, “he was.”
3. Do not give any name to your God (= Life), because a name is a prison and God has no walls.
       The name begins with the breath, and the breath passes and is repeated in another time, always the same, endlessly different.
   No name is eternal, how can you give one to Him who continues on?
4. You will build a temple to adore your God (= your Life), for your cares are impure, and you need a place to enter into, washed of your cares.