Cymboyton

• Cymboyton

134:3.4On sev­eral oc­ca­sions Je­sus par­tic­i­pated in these dis­cus­sions, and be­fore he left Ur­mia, Cym­boy­ton ar­ranged with Je­sus to so­journ with them for two weeks on his re­turn trip and give twenty-four lec­tures on “The Broth­er­hood of Men,” and to con­duct twelve evening ses­sions of ques­tions, dis­cus­sions, and de­bates on his lec­tures in par­tic­u­lar and on the broth­er­hood of men in gen­eral.

134:4.10The Ur­mia re­li­gion­ists lived to­gether in com­par­a­tive peace and tran­quil­lity be­cause they had fully sur­ren­dered all their no­tions of re­li­gious sov­er­eignty. Spir­i­tu­ally, they all be­lieved in a sov­er­eign God; so­cially, full and un­chal­lenge­able au­thor­ity rested in their pre­sid­ing head—Cym­boy­ton. They well knew what would hap­pen to any teacher who as­sumed to lord it over his fel­low teach­ers. There can be no last­ing re­li­gious peace on Uran­tia un­til all re­li­gious groups freely sur­ren­der all their no­tions of di­vine fa­vor, cho­sen peo­ple, and re­li­gious sov­er­eignty. Only when God the Fa­ther be­comes su­preme will men be­come re­li­gious broth­ers and live to­gether in re­li­gious peace on earth.

134:3.3The lec­tures and dis­cus­sions in this school of re­li­gion be­gan at ten o’clock ev­ery morn­ing in the week. The af­ter­noon ses­sions started at three o’clock, and the evening de­bates opened at eight o’clock. Cym­boy­ton or one of his three sons al­ways pre­sided at these ses­sions of teach­ing, dis­cus­sion, and de­bate. The founder of this unique school of re­li­gions lived and died with­out ever re­veal­ing his per­sonal re­li­gious be­liefs.

134:6.14Af­ter the death of Cym­boy­ton, his sons en­coun­tered great dif­fi­cul­ties in main­tain­ing a peace­ful fac­ulty. The reper­cus­sions of Je­sus’ teach­ings would have been much greater if the later Chris­tian teach­ers who joined the Ur­mia fac­ulty had ex­hib­ited more wis­dom and ex­er­cised more tol­er­ance.

134:3.2This tem­ple of re­li­gion had been built by a wealthy mer­chant cit­i­zen of Ur­mia and his three sons. This man was Cym­boy­ton, and he num­bered among his an­ces­tors many di­verse peo­ples.