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25. "But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not shine before the people with your fasting but before your own spirit, which is hidden.
26. "You fast for the sake of your health and for the expansion of your consciousness, spirit and your knowledge.
27. "Neither should you amass great treasures on Earth, where moths and rust consume them and thieves break in and steal them.
28. "But collect treasures in the spirit and in consciousness, where neither moths nor rust consumes them and where thieves neither break in nor steal.
29. "For where your treasure is, there your heart is also; and the true treasure is wisdom and knowledge.
30. "The eye is the light of your body.
31. "When your eye is clear, your entire body will be a light.
32. "But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark.
33. "If now the light within you is dark, how great then will be the darkness?
34. "No one can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will adhere to the one and despise the other.
35. "You cannot serve your spirit and mammon.
36. "Therefore, I say to you, concern yourself about the knowledge of your spirit, and besides that with what you will eat and drink, and be concerned about your body and how you will clothe it.
37. "For are not the spirit, life and body more important than all the treasures of the world?
38. "The human spirit, which is thirsting for truth and knowledge, is incapable of preserving its earthly life without the body, because both body and spirit together are one.