Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 150

How Can One Be a Great Merchant Without a Passion for Money?

It might be that in our times, those who engage with financial matters must completely invest themselves into it. But it is possible. The difficulty of coping with spirituality versus corporeality exists until the barrier. Until the barrier, we are split. We can be either here or there, but not in both at once. We cannot connect the two.

When we cross the barrier, we view spirituality and corporeality not as opposites, but as one dressing upon the other. We see spirituality through the corporeal world, and then all corporeal actions assume a spiritual character and there is no contradiction between them. Corporeality no longer disturbs spirituality at all. On the contrary, the more we become involved in worldly matters, the more we see our own spiritual actions through them.

It might appear as if we are doing something materialistic and beastly from the outside, because the intention determines what was done, and intention is invisible. Therefore, this is called “the wisdom of the hidden.” Through the clothing of one within the other, we can make great corrections, and indeed, there is no contradiction between corporeality and spirituality.

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