When the above-mentioned real member of the upper class is not always recognised as such in our day, it is due to the prevailing erroneous belief that makes gold the measurement of value, and that generally labels a person as a "member of the upper class" if his stock of gold or his bank account is big enough. From a cosmic point of view, wealth can consist only of mental faculties. And the being is "rich" only in the particular field or realm of manifestation where these faculties can be unfolded. Where it still has only imperfect faculties, it is still "poor".