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(Phil. 1:27–2:4; Luke 6, 17–23) The Lord blesses the poor, the hungry, the crying, the reviled, under the condition that all this is for the sake of the Son of Man; It means that life is blessed, surrounded by all kinds of needs and deprivations. Joy, contentment, honor, according to this word, do not represent good; Yes it is. But while a person rests in them, he is not aware of it. Only when he frees himself from their charm does he see that they are not representatives of the good, but only its ghosts. The soul cannot do without consolations, but they are not in the sensual; cannot do without treasures, but they are not in gold and silver, not in luxurious houses and clothes, not in this external fullness; cannot do without honor, but it does not lie in the servile bows of people. There are other joys, other contentment, other honor - spiritual, akin to the soul. Whoever finds them will not want external ones; but not only will he not want to, but will despise and hate them because they block the spiritual, do not allow them to be seen, keep the soul in darkness, intoxication, in ghosts. That is why such people wholeheartedly prefer poverty, sorrow and obscurity, feeling good among them, as if in some safe fence from the charm of the charms of the world. What about those to whom all this comes naturally? To be in relation to all this, according to the word of the Holy Apostle, as having nothing. You might be interested in: