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There are some minor clarifications to yesterday’s posting.

The first one is in regard to using money to establish the trade value of the free range eggs. How is it that I can say money is a measure of destructiveness, enslavement, and sickness and then use that same money to provide a trade value for the eggs? The answer is simple. At this point, it is the case that money is something everyone understands to one degree or another. Thus, during the transition we use money both ways. On the one hand we recognize it for what it is, and on the other, because we have learned to give it a certain value, we can use it to find a common trade ground until we learn to do it differently.

One need not assign a monetary trade value to the eggs. However, at the beginning it may be easier for some to establish such monetary trade value as a reference guide. This way the owner of the eggs has a clearer idea of what it would take to make an even trade with someone else. At the same time, the person trading for the eggs would know what is expected. Knowing the monetary value that he assigns to what he brings for trade, he then would know what is needed to make an even trade for the amount of eggs he wants.

I speak of even trade, which Father calls Right and Proper Exchange. Right and Proper Exchange or even trade is trading without profiting, for profiting is always done at the expense of those one profits from. Instead, the benefit of the trade is based on what the trade allows each person to receive. The person receiving the free range eggs receives the benefit of being nourished by highly nutritious eggs and thus supporting his Health and well being which facilitates his Spiritual Journey. That is his Divine Increase. The person receiving the goods in exchange receives whatever benefit is received from those goods. That is the Divine Increase. There is a great Peace in knowing one trades evenly with others. This practice supports the Higher Self and prevents people from becoming indebted to each other for receiving more than what is given in exchange. Instead of there being a sense of “being ripped of” or “ripping someone else of” there is a feeling of Joy and satisfaction for having made a good trade.

The second clarification I want to make is regarding the use of money itself. If money is a measure of destructiveness, enslavement, and sickness, does that mean then one should reject being paid in money? The simple answer is no. We are all walking at different stages in our walk toward Freedom. This means, some can only pay in the way of money and many others still need money to pay bills and purchase needed goods from places that do not accept anything but money. Many times, no agreement may be reached in trading goods for goods. In such cases, money would allow each party to make the exchange.

Acceptance of money is then made with the understanding that it is a resource that allows certain things to be accomplished during the transition time.

We progress one step at a time, based on where we are and where those who we exchange with are.