Giving
Giving is the fundamental principle of the fiery divinity of the spirit. The analogy with fire is astounding in all stages of development. From the crudest forms of life up to the highest, giving is manifest. One should not protest if a savage, not cognizant of the value of spiritual gifts, offers his Deity his household treasures. By such devious ways, man attains the highest giving. Beings of lofty degree understand giving as a joyful duty. One should strive towards such degree of fieriness, for then we enter into balance with the Fiery Principle, and giving becomes receiving. Then, already void of selfhood, one’s being accepts the highest gifts. And in such accelerated exchange an inflow of energy takes place. This constant regeneration renews the consciousness and spares one the cutting off of consciousness during the transition into the Subtle World. Thus one can remember the exchange of substances in both the lowest and the highest. The unceasing interchange erases the boundaries between lowest and highest. In other words, it raises the general level. Such work will benefit one’s near ones, because it draws them into the orbit of striving of consciousness. Manifest understanding of the interchange of substances.
(FW I, 626)
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