63 MATERIAL DIMENSION AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSION
The horizontal dimension is material and the vertical dimension is spiritual, this means that one thing may be important in one dimension but not in the other. In the material dimension, power is determined by the amount of material things one has, but in the spiritual dimension, what matters are the moral qualities or the level of spiritual evolution. Ancient kings tried to be buried with their material possessions because they naively believed that they could bring material things to the spirit world. With this behavior they showed a complete ignorance of the spiritual world, but also a complete meanness, because they did not want to recognize that matter is not spirituality. They did not understand that they are two completely different dimensions and in some ways opposite. For this reason, we should not judge people by their appearances or the salary they earn, because they may have many material goods, but at the same time they have few spiritual goods. What is the use of being rich in material goods if later one is unhappy, this is important, because it is the amount of spiritual goods that determines the ability to be happy and not the amount of material goods, and there are many who are rich in money yet they are unhappy for letting evil build up in their hearts. They do not understand that evil is like a scab that covers the soul and prevents feelings of happiness from reaching it, therefore, we must avoid that the desire to obtain material goods is done at the cost of giving up dignity and common sense.
There are also those who are poor in material resources and at the same time have many spiritual assets, because in reality everyone can become poor considering that we live in a world that lacks a lot to be sufficiently supportive. No one can assure you that you cannot fall into material poverty due to an accidental or unforeseen situation. Then there are those who are poor in material resources and also poor in spiritual resources, because the fact of being poor does not mean that that is why they have dignity. In reality, poverty does not guarantee dignity and there are many poor people who have reached this situation because of being carried away by vices and not because of the rich. In the same way, the fact of being rich does not imply that it is so on the spiritual plane, therefore, there are many rich people who have many material resources, but, nevertheless, they are unhappy for being poor in the spiritual dimension. They do not understand that spiritual wealth is necessary as an indispensable condition to be happy with material wealth, because spiritual wealth is what teaches us to appreciate what we have. To acquire spiritual wealth, it is necessary to consider justice and dignity as the axis of our moral conduct.
We must try to promote both material wealth and spiritual wealth, but rejecting any form of waste or damage to the environment, because it is better to have less energy if that serves to avoid destroying nature. It is good that there is technological progress, but society must limit this growth to its ability to respect the environment, therefore, those who try to favor nuclear energy by saying that it respects the environment are despicable, because is it that they are blind and not Have you seen what happened in Chernobyl or Fukushima? They say. That cannot happen in my country! But they don't realize that this is how hypocrites or bribers speak and not judicious people. Proponents of nuclear power try to focus attention on climate change but, at the same time, try to hide the terrible damage caused by radioactive leaks.
We must also encourage all citizens to share the wealth that each country produces and to be perfectly integrated into society. But the solution to achieve this is not the distribution of economic subsidies, because that only serves to create a legion of lazy and fraudsters to the state. The right thing to do is, on the one hand, to favor vocational training to help those companies that do not find all the employees they need, and on the other, that the state undertakes to offer a job to all the unemployed in order to permanently banish the poverty of society. To achieve this, you do not need money but will, because if we take into account the wealth that many countries have, it is clear that these types of policies are perfectly applicable.