Can spiritual strength bring prosperity?
The assumption that prosperity can or will help one on one’s Higher Path is erroneous by all Spiritually Guided references. Jesus spoke of the person who had material benefit as finding it almost impossible to become spiritually oriented. Physical wealth always has the tendency to dull the compassion, empathy, awareness, and reverence which one has. Perhaps the error here is in what one defines as one’s Higher Path. For the New Age and secular followers, one’s Higher Path is physical contentment with an expectation of peace, wealth, laziness, lack of need or of frustration. This is perhaps an Ego fantasy and a SuperEgo expectation of a materialistic society since few other societies beyond the industrialized ones express this. The New Age and secular idealists would like to believe that well-intentioned rich people would improve the world in a compassionate way, such is a historical myth. This has so seldom occurred that most of human misery has resulted not from the efforts of poor pe
