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Beauty and Goodness, as we witness them on earth, are symbols of the divine. The failure to recognize this is responsible for much misery and suffering. The commandment "Thou shalt have no other God before me" meant that the highest of all desires should not be sought among earthly things. It did not mean especially the physical gold, bronze, or other metal images that the unfaithful worshipped--these were only symbolic of those earthly things.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 2 : Organization, Content of Religion > # 41