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*'''''[[Spiritual Gifts]]'''''

*'''''[[Spiritual Gifts]]'''''

==Further reading==

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* Marcel Mauss and W.D. Halls, Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, W. W. Norton, 2000, trade paperback, ISBN 0-393-32043-X

The [[universal]] [[economy]] is based on intake and output; throughout the [[eternal]] [[career]] you will never encounter monotony of inaction or stagnation of [[personality]]. [[Progress]] is made possible by [[inherent]] [[motion]], advancement [[grows]] out of the [[divine]] [[capacity]] for [[action]], and [[achievement]] is the child of [[imaginative]] [[adventure]]. But [[inherent]] in this [[capacity]] for achievement is the [[responsibility]] of [[ethics]], the [[necessity]] for recognizing that the world and the [[universe]] are filled with a multitude of [[differing]] [[types]] of [[beings]]. All of this [[magnificent]] [[creation]], including yourself, was not made just for you. This is not an [[Ego|egocentric]] [[universe]]. [[The Gods]] have [[decreed]], "It is more blessed to give than to receive,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Daniel#Chapter_5] and said your [[Master Son]], "He who would be greatest among you let him be server of all."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_20]

* Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, 1983 (ISBN 0-394-71519-5), especially part I, "A Theory of Gifts", part of which was originally published as "The Gift Must Always Move" in Co-Evolution Quarterly No. 35, Fall 1982.

* Jean-Luc Marion translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, "Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Giveness", Stanford University Press, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8047-3410-0.

[[Category: General Reference]]

[[Category: General Reference]]