Let it not be thought that we mean to infer that God is partial to poverty,
and that the rich man will be excluded from the attainment of the kingdom,
merely because of his riches; but if riches be any man's aim, then
assuredly he cannot "serve two masters" and it will not be possible for him
to become illumined while in pursuit of worldly goods.
Jesus said:
"It is easier for a camel to go through the needle's eye, than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
It is now thoroughly established that the "Needle's Eye" was the name given
to a certain narrow and difficult pass through which camels bearing heavy
burdens, could not find room to pass, and Jesus sought to convey to his
hearers the truth that persons bearing in their mental desires the load
of many possessions, would hardly find room for the one supreme desire
which would bring them into the kingdom (the possession of cosmic
consciousness).
But the most significant of the utterances of the illumined Nazarene is the
one in which he said:
"Except ye become as little children, ye can in no wise enter the kingdom
of heaven.
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