So looking at those last examples of Jesus, it's even better to invest money in usury than not to at all. Many of Jesus'parables make mention of a boss or master. We might as well consider this to be the supersoul or Hindu Atma resident in every soul and representing God's oversoul or supreme coconsciousness.
So when money is invested even just in usury, if not in actual investment or business, it's better for God something is happening and not static and most importantly God (or the servant master is reckoned with).
In the reference to the rope passing through the eye of a needle, Jesus was talking to fishermen in a fishing community and their wives/families and these people were always busy fixing their fishing nets with some kind of string. Despite not having an industrial revolution, they did have needles.
Going off the details in Spencer Lewis' mystical life of Jesus, the folks would want a strong rope to fix their nets. So Jesus is likening a strong rope to a rich man. And entry to the kingdom of heaven to the eye of a needle. This looks interesting to me, when you consider heaven is built on usefulness and providing and receiving uses for and from others. If you think about good and evil, however it manifests, it seems the good things are useful and the bad things are not only not useful but deleterious.
Nets to catch fish are useful. Fish are useful. We might think of fish in the abstract as facts, so catching many fish could refer to apprehending many facts. For example recently on this blog I mentioned that the United states military, God bless their cotton picking little hearts, pumped Fallujah so full of uranium depleted bullets that they left it with fourteen times the amount of radioactive poisoning than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. This is a fact. So we might represent it as a fish (fact). Not many facts nor many fishies. Just one solitary fact. Like a lone fish.
So continuing, rope is good, it is strong. A rich man is like rope, good and strong. Can rope be used as twine to effect slender repairs on a net? Maybe not. Before the industrial revolution, God knows what they used for string, camel hair, who knows? There was no plastic or factory made materials. Just cotton, camel hair, hair in general, fur. Cat gut maybe, you name it. The fishermen wanted something slender but strong. That was the problem, getting bigger meant losing suppleness and pliability. Thinking about the metaphors, you have to wonder about a net. It forms a cohesive whole and is only as strong as its weakest link, it will lose fish where it breaks. You can imagine this was where the gentiles fished in Galilee and how the sophisticated Jews of the big townships must have looked down on the gentiles as uncouth. But imagining the function of a net, and considering the metaphor of fish as facts, whether you subscribe to it or not.
A net might be compared to a school or investigative body or even a judicial body, investigating facts. A break in the net could represent a failure within the school. We saw this with Judas I suppose. And Jesus and Judas certainly had their differences about money, most notably with the foot massage expensive perfume episode.
Anyway it makes me wonder. It's kind of like that Led Zeppelin song, in the sense that it makes me wonder....
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I mean I understand flexibility as represented by a thin chord vs a strong, thick rope. When I was on my 20s I was always poor and never tried to even get rich, to the point of laziness... But always having under like $5000 at all times, I was really free to move around, China, America, France, wherever. I mean really I only stopped coz the net of my mind was broken and couldn't hold facts I suppose, otherwise I'd just keep going travelling everywhere. Very easy to travel when you're young and poor. You're never worried about maintaining your wealth or property or getting more. Very flexible.
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