VALUE AND TRADE
THE PRINCIPLE OF VALUE AND TRADE
Things that cost nothing are worth nothing.
A healthy body costs time and effort invested in exercise and food preparation. A powerful mind costs the hours invested in reading and studying. Many costs don't require money to pay, but money gives a numerical value to everything on this planet for ease of exchange.
Money is the exchangeable currency of knowledge and effort.
The sole purpose of money is to give a numerical value to knowledge and effort for commercial purposes. A law student exchanges money with a school for the knowledge they need for their career. The knowledge that a lawyer has gained from his or her professors is exchanged for money, which in turn can be exchanged for the knowledge and efforts of other people, even if they do not need the services of a lawyer.
Valuables are never free, because if they were, they would be worthless.
If the Illuminati don't need profit, why not just give unlimited money to everyone who asks for it? Why are the Wills available to order when our organization can afford to provide copies free of charge to every citizen?
A house is more valuable than a handful of sand because of the effort and materials required to build it. Sand requires no knowledge, effort, or materials to build, so it has no value.
There is value in the words of the Testaments, but also value in the trees that have to be cut down for the paper, in the workers who have to create the designs and the layouts and the illustrations, in the ink for printing, in the packages for delivery. Hundreds of human spirits with decades of experience go into every element of the Testament's production – while some spirits simply sit on the sidelines, complaining about the costs of printing, designing, packaging, and delivering to their doorsteps. While the Illuminati don't need profits, we also don't need people who can't see the value of things that aren't free.
Money means nothing to those who print it.
The Illuminati does not accept donations or membership fees of any kind. We do not demand tithes or monetary promises.
