THE GOLDEN RULE EXPLAINED
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is the Golden Rule. It's antiquity is untraceable. It is intuitive ethics based upon "you."
Who what why wherefore are 'you?'
"Do unto others as you would have them do to you" is embodied in the ancient Egyptian goddess Maat's personification of truth and justice, dating back from at least 2000 BC.
"The Golden Rule" has come down to us in the Christian religion in the verses at Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31. These are derived from the Jewish Torah at Leviticus 19:18 and 19:34.
Every human religious and spiritual tradition has some form of the old golden rule , stated negatively or positively. That is "Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you;" or "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"You" are the axis for the golden rule. It revolves around yourself, meaning your idea of yourself is its compass, circumference, yardstick.
Its opposite is its negation that has come down to us symbolized by the serpent, evil, "isfet," "Apep," Satan Lucifer, the Devil, others. It is right there with good, as Satan was with the sons of God in Job 1:6-7.
Its application is contemporaneous, is interactive; is in the divine law of life, love, truth, justice. Each person walking upon earth is measured, is weighed, scrutinized by the golden divine golden rule's standards. The standards are based in each man from earliest times, mythologized.
The cumulative genetics, wisdom, knowledge, influences, beliefs, of humanity are represented, codified, symbolized, epitomized, recorded, personalized in our good and evil myths. These myths are the basis for all man's mathematics, religion, law , philosophy, natural concepts.
Amen.
