89:3.2 Just about the time [[barbarian]] man was recovering from the wasteful [[practice]] of burning and burying [[property]] with the [[dead]], just as the [[economic]] [[structure]] of the races was beginning to take shape, this new [[religious]] [[doctrine]] of [[renunciation]] appeared, and tens of thousands of earnest [[souls]] began to court [[poverty]]. [[Property]] was regarded as a [[spiritual]] [[handicap]]. These notions of the [[spiritual]] [dangers] of [[material]] possession were widespreadly entertained in the times of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo] and [[Paul]], and they have markedly [[influenced]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_philosophy European philosophy] ever since. | 89:3.2 Just about the time [[barbarian]] man was recovering from the wasteful [[practice]] of burning and burying [[property]] with the [[dead]], just as the [[economic]] [[structure]] of the races was beginning to take shape, this new [[religious]] [[doctrine]] of [[renunciation]] appeared, and tens of thousands of earnest [[souls]] began to court [[poverty]]. [[Property]] was regarded as a [[spiritual]] [[handicap]]. These notions of the [[spiritual]] [dangers] of [[material]] possession were widespreadly entertained in the times of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo] and [[Paul]], and they have markedly [[influenced]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_philosophy European philosophy] ever since. |