This chapter shows that while there is no divinity without command, conversely command when heard or uttered appears within a domain of divinity, such that even in an atheistic context appeals to some form of sacredness or ineffability is necessary. Command, however, is rooted in the very instinctual life of the self. This is where the self first hears commands in its own nature. The call to obedience in command is transmuted to the moral domain where the command can contradict the pragmatic interests of the self, even those of the collective self. Indeed, the moral command transcends all physical conditions and constraints, as Kant makes clear. The chapter explores the relation of love and shows within it too the movement beyond the pragmatic and the self-directed. This leads to a discussion of the command to love that takes up the analysis of agape from chapter 5. It is shown how the command to love is not as paradoxical as it seems, but rather expresses the constitutive power of love.