12 And when men make a God of stone or wood or clay they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.
13 So God in mercy said, You shall not carve out images of wood, or clay, or stone.
14 Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.
15 The God is Spirit, and in spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.
16 But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.
17 The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.
18 In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accursed.
19 If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live to speak it once again.
20 But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with Holy Breath.
21 But they who speak the substitute in idle way are guilty in the sight of God, who said,