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||On Buying & Selling|

And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling."|

And he answered and said:|

To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.|

It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.|

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.|

When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices,|

Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.|

And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.|

To such men you should say,|

"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;|

For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."|

And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, buy of their gifts also.|

For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.|

And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.|

For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.| ||

||The Prophet |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher)

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