History: The Prophet: On Buying and Selling

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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|The Prophet)) |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher) ((The Prophet: The Coming of the Ship)) |.i nu selklama le bloti ((The Prophet: On Love)) |lo ka prami ((The Prophet: On Marriage)) |lo nu speni ((The Prophet: On Children)) |lo panzi ((The Prophet: On Giving)) |lo nu dunda ((The Prophet: On Eating and Drinking)) |lo nu citka je pinxe ((The Prophet: On Work)) |lo zu'o gunka ((The Prophet: On Joy and Sorrow)) |lo li'i gleki je badri ((The Prophet: On Houses)) |lo zdani ((The Prophet: On Clothes)) |lo taxfu ((The Prophet: On Buying and Selling)) |lo nu tevecnu je vecnu ((The Prophet: On Crime and Punishment)) |lo zekri .e lo nu sfasa ((The Prophet: On Laws)) |lo flalu ((The Prophet: On Freedom)) |lo za'i zifre ((The Prophet: On Reason and Passion)) | lo nu krinu pensi .e lo se cinmo ((The Prophet: On Pain)) | lo nu dunku ((The Prophet: On Self-Knowledge)) | lo nu sevzi djuno ((The Prophet: On Teaching)) | lo nu ctuca ((The Prophet: On Friendship)) | lo nu pendo ((The Prophet: On Talking)) | lo nu tavla ((The Prophet: On Time)) | lo temci ((The Prophet: On Good and Evil)) | lo ka vrude .e lo ka pacna ((The Prophet: On Prayer)) | lo nu jdaselsku ((The Prophet: On Pleasure)) | lo za'i pluka ((The Prophet: On Beauty)) | lo ka melbi ((The Prophet: On Religion)) | lo lijde ((The Prophet: On Death)) | lo nu morsi ((The Prophet: The Farewell)) | le nu cusku zo co'o||