This central point, through which there is, for the human being, communication with the higher or "celestial" states, is also the "narrow gate" of the Gospel   symbolism and from what has gone before it will be easily understood who are the "rich" who cannot pass beyond it; they are the beings who are attached to multiplicity, and who are therefore incapable of rising from distinctive knowledge; to unified knowledge. This attachment, in fact, is the exact opposite of the detachment mentioned above, just as wealth is the opposite of poverty, and it involves the being in the indefinite series of the cycles of manifestation. Studies in Comparative Religion Winter Issue (1973) AL-FAQR (’SPIRITUAL POVERTY’)