This is a caution against the “sanctimonious” attitude and pose assumed by certain “good” people of the churches, who would make a display of their adherence to and observance of forms.  Jesus, as a true mystic, detested all religious posing and neglected no opportunities to condemn the same.

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through and steal:  for where thy treasure is there will thy heart be also.  The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness!  No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one and despise the other.  Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.  Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?  Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them.  Are not ye of much more value than they?  And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?  And why are ye anxious concerning raiment?  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  But if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, ye of little faith?  Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat?  Or what shall we drink?  Or wherewithal shall we be clothed?  For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first then his kingdom, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.  Be not therefore anxious for the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious for itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matt. 6:19-34.)

This is the most remarkable passage in the New Testament.  It is the most remarkable saying of Jesus of Nazareth.  In it is condensed the whole of the occult teachings regarding the Conduct of Life.  It condenses, in a few lines the entire doctrine of Karma Yoga—­that branch of the Yogi Philosophy.  It forms a veritable epitome of that which has been styled “The New Thought” as taught and expounded by its various cults and schools.  There is no need of one reading and studying the various Metaphysical “Sciences” which have sprung into such favor of late years, if one will but read, ponder, study and practice the