Gift without payment

Meaning

The Second Response’s brotherhood says that it has imparted this teaching without payment or recompense. The claim concerns the communication just made, not a documented transfer of money, membership dues or an unlimited promise of future support. The sentence is followed by a summons to present themselves again in the order. English “without any payment” captures the immediate economic contrast in Vergeltung, while “imparted” keeps the object as what has been communicated. The gift is thus part of the response’s self-presentation as generous instruction; it does not identify the speakers or establish the terms of a historical organisation.