True Wealth

Beloved brothers and sisters…

what lasting benefit is there

in squandering your Vital Life Force

in the vain, vapid pursuit of

the fleeting, ephemeral

distractions and diversions —

the temporal, transient

toys and trinkets —

the money

the land —

the vendibles

the valuables —

which only beguile, bewitch, and bedazzle

the Children of the Living Soil?

Why give your entire life experience

chasing these “treasures” —

only to store them —

hoard them

and lock them up —

for some shrewd, enterprising thief

to come along and steal them?

For indeed, I have looked

into the vagarious heart-mind

of hu-man-kind

and there traced back the roots

of the existential fear

from which arises

the pernicious, insatiable

craving and clinging —

attachment and addiction —

to this world of shifting sand —

this realm of red dust —

and the parasitical forces and influences

which blind and fetter

the Children of the Living Soil —

binding them to the wheel of suffering —

bleeding and leaching them

of their Vital Life Force Energy.

So listen deeply, my friends…

all you who seek

The Way of Nature —

the

Nature

of

the

Way

—

if you do not re-discover

within your self

That

which you seek (to re-member)

neither shall you find it without.

If you do not come to re-alize

the

Great

Treasure

which lies hidden

within the very centre –

the Sacred Space —

of your own Temple of Light

(your own Body-Mind-Spirit Complex) —

how do you presume

to re-cognize —

to re-alize —

that same Great Treasure

innate

within all manifestations of Life?

For indeed within you —

and within

all manifestations of Life —

all the Children of the Living Soil —

all the Children of the Infinite Light —

lies hidden

the

Very

Treasure

of

Treasures.

So I say to you, beloved brothers and sisters…

Know

Thy

Self

and you will know All Things.

For

That

You

Are.

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— a literary adaptation of a wisdom teaching attributed to Ye’su’a an Nasiri Ihidaya (Aramaic for Jesus the Nazarene, One Who Is Awake), as recorded by Yehu’da Ta’oma (Judas Thomas) in ‘The Teachings of The Great Mystery (more commonly known as ‘The Gospel of Thomas’) and the Gospel According to Ma’ta (Matthew)