#36 Ye cannot both serve God and Mammon
[Pryr-1.2-36] Thus when our Lord says, unless a Man forsake all that he has he cannot be my Disciple ;(Mark x:21) the Reason is plain, and the Necessity absolute. It is because all that the natural Man has is the Possession of his own Self-love, and therefore this Possession has to be absolutely forsaken, and done away with. For all that man has, has to be put into other Hands, or the natural Man cannot be changed into a Disciple of Christ. This is because Self-love is an earthly, sensual, and devilish thing. It must have all its accessories taken away from it; because just feeding it a bit will give it energy, and then the natural Man will find that his heavenly yearnings are for naught and he is back to where he was: nowhere with nothing left, to lay down at the Feet of Jesus, and then all Earthly Things become common, and Self-love loses its love of its former Possessions. For then as a Disciple of Christ, though having nothing, because the natural M...