authority

• Divine Counselor speaks with unchallengeable

1:7.9[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor, a mem­ber of a group of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties as­signed by the An­cients of Days on Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse, to super­vise those por­tions of this forth­com­ing rev­e­la­tion which have to do with af­fairs be­yond the bor­ders of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. I am com­mis­sioned to spon­sor those pa­pers por­tray­ing the na­ture and at­tri­butes of God be­cause I rep­re­sent the high­est source of in­for­ma­tion avail­able for such a pur­pose on any in­hab­ited world. I have served as a Di­vine Coun­selor in all seven of the super­uni­verses and have long resided at the Par­a­dise cen­ter of all things. Many times have I en­joyed the su­preme plea­sure of a so­journ in the im­me­di­ate per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I por­tray the re­al­ity and truth of the Fa­ther’s na­ture and at­tri­butes with un­chal­lenge­able au­thor­ity; I know whereof I speak.]

• Divine Counselor speaks with unchallengeable

6:8.8The Eter­nal Son is a grand and glo­ri­ous per­son­al­ity. Al­though it is be­yond the pow­ers of the mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind to grasp the ac­tu­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity of such an in­fi­nite be­ing, doubt not, he is a per­son. I know whereof I speak. Times al­most with­out num­ber I have stood in the di­vine pres­ence of this Eter­nal Son and then jour­neyed forth in the uni­verse to ex­e­cute his gra­cious bid­ding.

• no division of a. in universe

32:4.3As re­gards the poli­cies, con­duct, and ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther acts in the per­son of his Cre­ator Son. In the in­ter­re­la­tion­ships of the Sons of God, in the group as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, or in the re­la­tion­ship be­tween any other crea­tures, such as hu­man be­ings—as con­cerns such as­so­ci­a­tions the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never in­ter­venes. The law of the Cre­ator Son, the rule of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and the Plan­e­tary Princes—the or­dained poli­cies and pro­ce­dures for that uni­verse—al­ways pre­vail. There is no di­vi­sion of au­thor­ity; never is there a cross work­ing of di­vine power and pur­pose. The De­i­ties are in per­fect and eter­nal una­nim­ity.

• Caligastia restless under

66:8.1In look­ing back over the long ca­reer of Cali­gas­tia, we find only one out­stand­ing fea­ture of his con­duct that might have chal­lenged at­ten­tion; he was ul­train­di­vid­u­al­is­tic. He was in­clined to take sides with al­most ev­ery party of protest, and he was usu­ally sym­pa­thetic with those who gave mild ex­pres­sion to im­plied crit­i­cism. We de­tect the early ap­pear­ance of this ten­dency to be rest­less un­der au­thor­ity, to mildly re­sent all forms of super­vi­sion. While slightly re­sent­ful of se­nior coun­sel and some­what restive un­der su­pe­rior au­thor­ity, nonethe­less, when­ever a test had come, he had al­ways proved loyal to the uni­verse rulers and obe­di­ent to the man­dates of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his shame­ful be­trayal of Uran­tia.

• Jesus taught with absolute

100:7.5Je­sus’ orig­i­nal­ity was un­sti­fled. He was not bound by tra­di­tion or hand­i­capped by en­slave­ment to nar­row con­ven­tion­al­ity. He spoke with un­doubted con­fi­dence and taught with ab­so­lute au­thor­ity. But his su­perb orig­i­nal­ity did not cause him to over­look the gems of truth in the teach­ings of his pre­de­ces­sors and con­tem­po­raries. And the most orig­i­nal of his teach­ings was the em­pha­sis of love and mercy in the place of fear and sac­ri­fice.

• watchword of all Jewry

173:2.3It was al­to­gether proper that the tem­ple rulers and the of­fi­cers of the Jew­ish San­hedrin should ask this ques­tion of any­one who pre­sumed to teach and per­form in the ex­traor­di­nary man­ner which had been char­ac­ter­is­tic of Je­sus, es­pe­cially as con­cerned his re­cent con­duct in clear­ing the tem­ple of all com­merce. These traders and money-chang­ers all op­er­ated by di­rect li­cense from the high­est rulers, and a per­cent­age of their gains was sup­posed to go di­rectly into the tem­ple trea­sury. Do not for­get that au­thor­ity was the watch­word of all Jewry. The proph­ets were al­ways stir­ring up trou­ble be­cause they so boldly pre­sumed to teach with­out au­thor­ity, with­out hav­ing been duly in­structed in the rab­binic academies and sub­se­quently reg­u­larly or­dained by the San­hedrin. Lack of this au­thor­ity in pre­ten­tious pub­lic teach­ing was looked upon as in­di­cat­ing ei­ther ig­no­rant pre­sump­tion or open re­bel­lion. At this time only the San­hedrin could or­dain an el­der or teacher, and such a cer­e­mony had to take place in the pres­ence of at least three per­sons who had pre­vi­ously been so or­dained. Such an or­di­na­tion con­ferred the ti­tle of “rabbi” upon the teacher and also qual­i­fied him to act as a judge, “bind­ing and loos­ing such mat­ters as might be brought to him for ad­ju­di­ca­tion.”