A question which very often arises is whether a man should part with his earthly possessions or disregard
them altogether if he is striving for spiritual gain. It would be foolish to lay down such a principle! When
it is said that a man should not cling to earthly possessions as he strives towards the Kingdom of Heaven,
this does not mean that he should give or throw them away and live in poverty. Man may and should
enjoy with pleasure what God provides for him through His Creation. “Do not cling” to earthly
possessions only means that man should not allow himself to go so far as to make their accumulation the
main purpose of his life on earth, thus “clinging” mainly to this one idea. Such an attitude is naturally
bound to distract him from higher aims, for which he would have no time left. Indeed, with his whole
being he would only cling to this one aim of acquiring earthly possessions. Be it for the sake of the
possessions themselves, or for the sake of the pleasure they afford him, or for whatever other reasons, the
result would always be fundamentally the same. Such a man clings and thereby binds himself to what is
purely material, thus losing the ability to look upwards and ascend.
The erroneous conception that material possessions are incompatible with spiritually striving
upwards is responsible for the absurd view held by the majority of people that any spiritual endeavor must
never have anything in common with earthly possessions if it is to be taken seriously. The harm mankind
have done themselves through this view has strangely enough never occurred to them.
As a result they devalue the spiritual, i.e. the highest gifts that they can receive, and because of this
peculiar attitude all spiritual endeavors in the past had to depend on offerings and charity, just as beggars
did, so the same attitude as was shown towards beggars also crept in, unnoticed, towards spiritual
endeavors. These never could command the respect that, in reality, they are entitled to above all else. For
the same reason these endeavors were always doomed to perish from the very beginning, because they
could never stand firmly on their own feet, but always remained dependent upon the good will of men. In
order to protect and to guard toward humanity that which is the very most sacred thing to him, namely the
spiritual, one who is earnestly striving must not disdain earthly possessions! These must serve him
mainly as a shield in the Gross material world, in order to ward off like with like. It would create an
unhealthy condition if, in the age of materialists, those striving spiritually upwards should disdain the
strongest weapon of their unscrupulous opponents! This would show a recklessness which could avenge
itself grievously.
Therefore, all you true believers do not disdain worldly possessions, which also could only be
produced through the Will of God, Whom you seek to honor! Do not however let the comfort of such
earthly possessions lull you to sleep, but make sound use of them.
The same applies to the special gift of such powers as serve to heal various illnesses, or to similar
beneficial abilities. In a most naive or, better said, most impudent manner people assume that such
abilities should be made available to them free of charge, because they were given as a special gift from
spiritual spheres to be used on earth. This even goes so far as some people expecting to be met with
special expressions of joy when, in their great distress, they “condescend” to avail themselves of such
help. People such as this must be barred from all assistance, even if this were the only way left to help
them!
Those so gifted, however, should first learn to put a greater value on this gift of God themselves, so
that they do not continually cast pearls before swine. To provide true help they need far more physical
and ethereal power, as well as more time, than a lawyer needs for his best pleading, or a doctor for
visiting many patients, or an artist for creating a picture. It would never occur to anybody to expect the
lawyer, the doctor or the artist to do their work for free, although their intellectual ability, as every other
talent, is but “a gift of God,” nothing else. Now, at last, cast off these beggar’s rags and don the garment
that befits you.

at least you make sense well

Redoil:
at least you make sense well

thanks alot my brother