1. The term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God. ²It is not the usual meaning of the word; in fact, it is a meaning that must be learned and learned very carefully. ³Like all the other attributes of God’s teachers this one rests ultimately on trust, for without trust no one can be generous in the true sense. ⁴To the world, generosity means “giving away” in the sense of “giving up.” ⁵To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep. ⁶This has been emphasized throughout the text and the workbook, but it is perhaps more alien to the thinking of the world than many other ideas in our curriculum. ⁷Its greater strangeness lies merely in the obviousness of its reversal of the world’s thinking. ⁸In the clearest way possible, and at the simplest of levels, the word means the exact opposite to the teachers of God and to the world.

2. The teacher of God is generous out of Self interest. ²This does not refer, however, to the self of which the world speaks. ³The teacher of God does not want anything he cannot give away, because he realizes it would be valueless to him by definition. ⁴What would he want it for? ⁵He could only lose because of it. ⁶He could not gain. ⁷Therefore he does not seek what only he could keep, because that is a guarantee of loss. ⁸He does not want to suffer. ⁹Why should he ensure himself pain? ¹⁰But he does want to keep for himself all things that are of God, and therefore for His Son. ¹¹These are the things that belong to him. ¹²These he can give away in true generosity, protecting them forever for himself.