Vol. 52 No. 12 - Beloved Fortuna - June 15, 2009
THE RADIANT WORD
Excerpt from a Dictation by Beloved Mother Mary
Given April 20, 1972
Freedom from the love of money, which is the root of all evil, will free men from those attachments which have created such a quantity of discord and darkness in the world. Furthermore, it will bring to everyone who is able to free himself from this love, from this attachment, from this grossness, the refining and ennoblement of their spirit. The reason it is so wrong for humanity to become attached to the love of money is that the quality of possessiveness of things deprives humanity of the promise of the Christ, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”1 Indeed it is God’s good pleasure to give to mankind all dominion, all power and all glory once he has demonstrated his willingness to use these gifts as a wise steward of the grace of God.
In gazing at the record of mankind’s doings through the ages, ever and anon the love of money has shown its ugly head as the serpentine force which creates in the labyrinth of human life those tortuous movements which enslave mankind the world around. Thus the love of money prevents mankind from entering into the kingdom simply because the very things that God would so gladly give to all are denied to the many because this or that one desires to keep, to retain, to hold in esteem the things of the world above the things of the kingdom of God....
Men must love God above all things. For in loving God first, they will come to love all things, all men, all the adornments of nature and the graces of life, both seen and unseen, as the manifestation of God; and they will be free of the desire to covet.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
This dictation is published in the 1972 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 15, no. 34.
1. Luke 12:32.
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