A Revelation for the Holistic Wealth Planner
“Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Adversary prowls like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” — 1 Peter 5:8 (Aramaic paraphrase)
In the Aramaic world from which this scripture emerged, satānā did not simply mean “devil.” It meant adversary — the one who resists, distorts, or divides. Every Holistic Wealth Planner faces this adversary twice: once outside, in the world of structures and systems, and once within, in the hidden chambers of the soul.
To awaken and serve with integrity, we must learn to recognise both.
🔹 The Outer Adversary: The Structurally Untrustworthy System
The outer adversary is not a person, but a pattern of inversion. It is any system that claims to serve humanity while quietly feeding upon it.
In the modern world, this takes the form of structurally untrustworthy systems — financial, political, religious, and corporate architectures that appear legitimate, yet subtly extract value from the very people they were meant to empower.
- Financial institutions promise safety while monetising dependency.
- Regulatory frameworks perform oversight as theatre, shielding privilege.
- Corporations speak of sustainability while externalising harm.
- Media and advertising sell identity to the highest bidder.
This is the roaring lion Peter warned of — seductive, loud, and ever-hungry for unconscious compliance.
It thrives on our distraction.
For the Holistic Wealth Planner, this outer adversary is encountered every time a client’s dreams are reduced to products, or when “financial advice” becomes a veil for intermediation. To work outside the regulatory perimeter is not rebellion — it is restoration. It is a conscious act of reclaiming trust and sovereignty from structures that have lost both.
🔹 The Inner Adversary: The Fear of Crossing the Veil
Yet the outer adversary could not exist without the inner one. The true satānā dwells within the psyche — in the fear of crossing the veil.
In ancient mysticism, this veil was known as Paroketh, the boundary between the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown. Beyond it lies the Abyss, the great silence where form dissolves into essence. To cross it is to surrender the ego’s illusion of control and to encounter truth unfiltered.
This inner adversary whispers:
“Stay safe. Stay small. Do not go beyond what you know.”
It is the voice that tells the adviser not to question the system that pays them, or the individual not to confront the beliefs that bind them. It fears annihilation — yet beyond that fear lies freedom.
To cross the Abyss is to move from career to calling, from compliance to conscience, from possession to purpose.
🔹 The Work of the Holistic Wealth Planner
Our task as Holistic Wealth Planners is to face both adversaries at once — outer and inner — with calm awareness.
The outer work is structural: building transparent, decentralised systems that restore trust.
The inner work is spiritual: transcending fear, ego, and attachment to false identity.
The GAME Plan teaches this union.
| Phase | Outer Alignment | Inner Awakening |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | Reclaim intention from institutional agendas. | Remember your divine purpose. |
| Actions | Act with awareness, not reaction. | Observe your own impulses. |
| Means | Design structures that empower, not extract. | Cultivate discernment over desire. |
| Execution | Manifest integrity in every deed. | Embody stillness in motion. |
Through this cycle, we do not fight the adversary — we transform it. Awareness dissolves deception.
🔹 The Real Battle
The real battle is not between good and evil, but between consciousness and unconsciousness.
The adversary — whether systemic or psychological — feeds only on what is asleep.
When we awaken, when we act in coherence, when we align our means with truth rather than fear, the adversary starves.
Its roar fades into silence.
This is the path of the Holistic Wealth Planner — the modern mystic who walks both worlds, bridging finance and spirit, economy and ecology, matter and meaning.
To plan wealth holistically is to heal the split between the outer economy and the inner life, to restore trust in the system by first restoring trust in the self.
🔹 The Straight Path of Wisdom
The Aramaic proverb reminds us:
“Weigh well the path of your journey, make your way whole, and turn neither right nor left, that your foot may stay free from harm.” — Proverbs 4:26–27 (Peshitta)
For the Holistic Wealth Planner, this is more than advice — it is initiation. Each decision must be weighed, each action made whole, and each step kept true to the straight path of conscience. The world’s outer adversary will always roar; the inner one will always whisper fear. Yet the wise planner walks between them — eyes open, heart steady, and spirit awake — creating systems, livelihoods, and legacies that neither exploit nor divide.
This is the straight way of wisdom, where wealth and virtue become one, and every step is taken in truth.
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