Claim. Knowledge, money, and power — the three goods that organize earthly life — have no purchase in the spirit world; only love-centered influence functions there.
Elaboration. SMM strips out the earthly economy: “Knowledge, money, and power are but some of the values people pursue during their physical life. Can professors boast of their knowledge forever?… It lasts only a lifetime. Your knowledge is with you only during your life and the same for your money and power. Thus, do not boast of your knowledge, money or power. God regards them as valueless. They are all valueless in the spirit world” (3.6. How to use knowledge and power in the spirit world, 203-291, 1990.6.27). The exchange currency is love alone: “What is needed there is love-centered harmonizing power, love-centered influential power. Therefore, people lacking that love-centered influential power are intrinsically unable to harmonize with the original world which moves by the influence of love. If they should arrive there, they are repelled and end up in hell” (ibid, 205-128, 1990.7.29). The earthly competence-stack does not transfer.