Material benefit of the activity .... right to use it ....

B.D. No. 1879 April 7th 1941

What contributes to the increase of matter need not be directed against divine will as long as love for one's neighbour is the driving force behind earthly activity. Man should fulfil his earthly task and this will also bring him material advantage. This is not against divine will. The only thing that matters is how he now utilizes the earthly good he has gained. If he only has his own physical well-being in mind, then he will enjoy the possession for his own sake and jeopardize his soul. However, if he uses it to alleviate the need of his neighbour or uses his possessions to provide physical or spiritual help where it is needed, God Himself will bless and increase his possessions, for this is in accordance with His will. A person can gain an incredible advantage for his soul if he is always restlessly active with a view to the soul's higher development. His earthly activity is then at the same time redeeming, for it is carried out with the right realization. It no longer supports the evil power in the beyond, but its effect is weakened by redeeming matter and again enabling a new moulding for the spiritual in it, but at the same time the now won possession is used in such a way that it again remedies earthly misery. The success of earthly activity must always favour a work of love, then it is God-willed and the activity will be blessed. But anyone who is only intent on making his earthly life bearable, who works restlessly for the sake of earthly advantages, who only loves his own ego and this love is the driving force for earthly activity, who constantly increases his possessions for his own pleasure, simultaneously increases the power of evil, for he does not release the immature spiritual substance from its form but prolongs its bound state and hands himself over to those forces which influence him unfavourably by seeking to increase the inclination for what the human being has long since overcome .... Then man rejoices in his possessions and contributes neither to his own redemption nor to the redemption of the bound spiritual substance, but binds himself and the spiritual substance in matter anew through his desire for earthly good ....

Amen