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.