We are also related to mankind in the form of an elder sibling to a younger. It is true that mankind is often frustrating to us. His mindless destruction, selfishness and selfcenterness as well as his obvious envy and resentment toward us, often requires a great deal of effort on our part to be as tolerant as we believe ours'elves to be. We are sorrowful that this is the case but it is something we each need to work out and so while mankind is often scornful of the elfin, we do our best to benefit him.

Ours, however, is not an idle nor careless giving but a directed nurturing of those values most needed by those who receive and given to those most receptive and able to utilize what we offer. In the case of these elfin, we nurture all; but in particular those elves who are ready to learn the deeper secrets of the mysteries of giving. The spirit directs us to those who will most benefit by our assistance and we yield to these indications of fate. "It is better to give than receive", is an ancient elven saying and yet we understand that everything we give eventually always returns multifold. We are connected to the all of life and there is nothing that happens that does not affect us and thus there is nothing in existence that we cannot effect and shape with our own beneficent magic. By giving we unite our individual souls with the Great Spirit and thus become more Divine. For to give is to create and creation is the province of Divinity.