In antiquity, the guilds of merchants are the movers and shakers of society just next to the town’s council and clergymen. This guild is blessed with just enough intelligence and possessions to muster their position in society’s triangle. The movement of products from the countryside to the town square and eventually to the town’s folk mediated in their hands. The humble beginnings of the middle class came from this pool of people. And the middle class then multiplied into the very bulk of today’s society. So with this simple logic, we can never deny the significant contribution of antiquity’s merchants in building society to its present structure. But behind this glorious façade lies scattered seeds of corruption that grew with the merchant’s greed. With the growing market of the town comes growing temptation to corrupt – the easy way of accumulating personal wealth in the expense of others. Some succumb to this seductive enterprise and soon, the town was engulfed into an air of despair, distrust and anger.
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Needless to say, the men of who brought goods to the people became the very enemy of the folk. Certain ideologies may call the people to-arms and revolt. They say revolution is the only way to fix society’s disproportioned triangle.
The air maybe ripe for a revolution, the stage maybe set for “glorious” leaders to rise from the abused bottom ready to fight the unjust with swords and guns but in the mind of the magna anima, the great soul – the only option and most effective is to combat this injustice without bloodshed through people who have the sharpened weapons to do it. Weapons not of steel or iron but weapons of the spirit. These are the weapons of love, hope, and faith animated by a blessed few. These men who understood it and relentlessly spreading it are the merchants of Magis. A revolutionary whose heart is engulfed with the flame of passion for excellence and compassion for others, a precious spirit of the guild gained only with the coinage of sacrifice, the relentless pursuit for the best, the willingness of lifelong growth, and the motivation to use those developed capabilities for others.
The merchants of magis are staging their own revolution in every corner where injustice lurks and it is through this “magis” that the seeds of love, hope and faith becomes real in the world.
Magis ka na ba?!
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