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What Is the Best Use of Inherited Money? Question: THE
ULTIMATE FRONTIER states that when an individual receives an inheritance or
gift of money, it is not rightfully his because he has not earned it. What
should one do with such money? Answer: An
inheritance may come to an individual because he has gained excess karmic
credits through good works in past lifetimes and he receives the money
through a natural balancing of his karmic account. Money may come to an
individual simply because he was named in someone’s will without his ever
having done anything to earn it. In this case, just holding the money in his
possession does not cause the heir any karmic imbalance; but if the money is
spent for his own purposes, he may incur karmic indebtedness. When an
individual inherits a large sum of money and uses it only for philanthropic
work he becomes a channel through which flows the means to carry on God’s
work. If he spends none of the money except to continue charitable service,
no karmic debt accrues to him.
(06-1971) Does the Inheritance System Affect and Individual’s
Growth? Question: What
effect do you think our present inheritance system has on economic growth and
individual Egoic advancement? Answer: The
inheritance system may not have much to do with Egoic growth directly, except
that an heir may be too easy on himself and tend to backslide if he receives
too much too easily too soon; however, economic growth can be affected by
karmic imbalance. The Brotherhoods have found that the system
wherein every young man and woman begins a career equal to every other is
best in the long run. In Lemuria, all the people cooperatively owned all the
property, hut it could be rented by those who wished to use it to make a
living. Huge manufacturing concerns were in existence at that time, but no
one individual could be pointed to as owning them. All the people who worked
in a company shared in its profits. If a man accumulated several millions of
dollars in a lifetime, the only person he could pass the money on to was his
wife; and after the death of both husband and wife, the money reverted back
to the commonwealth. Thus, the problem of family dynasties competing with the
existing government for control never arose. The system worked very well, and
we hope to use it for the next seven thousand years. (06-1971) |
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