Moses' anger, which drove him to break the tablets on which the first Ten Commandments were written, betrays the disappointment he experienced on seeing that the mass of his people were incapable of beginning the work of 'debestialization'. The latter was the preliminary but necessary condition for the esoteric evolution of the chosen people according to the timetable established by God. His anger was in fact due to the realization that he had overestimated the moral stature of his people, and that they were not going to stand up to this test. After this failure, they no longer formed a single unit, and their common psyche was divided into two unequal parts. A minority were capable of following the prescriptions of the First Decalogue, but the majority were obedient to the purely ritual Second. Boris Mouravieff Gnosis T.III