drama

• originated in acting for spirit guidance

92:3.6Re­li­gion has hand­i­capped so­cial de­vel­op­ment in many ways, but with­out re­li­gion there would have been no en­dur­ing moral­ity nor ethics, no worth-while civ­i­liza­tion. Re­li­gion en­moth­ered much non­re­li­gious cul­ture: Sculp­ture orig­i­nated in idol mak­ing, ar­chi­tec­ture in tem­ple build­ing, po­etry in in­can­ta­tions, mu­sic in wor­ship chants, drama in the act­ing for spirit guid­ance, and danc­ing in the sea­sonal wor­ship fes­ti­vals.

• Jesus never premeditated anything dramatic

138:6.5Je­sus had a per­fect grasp of the sit­u­a­tion; he pos­sessed un­lim­ited power, which might have been uti­lized in the fur­ther­ance of his mis­sion, but he was wholly con­tent with means and per­son­al­i­ties which most peo­ple would have re­garded as in­ad­e­quate and would have looked upon as in­signif­i­cant. He was en­gaged in a mis­sion of enor­mous dra­matic pos­si­bil­i­ties, but he in­sisted on go­ing about his Fa­ther’s busi­ness in the most quiet and un­dra­matic man­ner; he stu­diously avoided all dis­play of power. And he now planned to work qui­etly, at least for sev­eral months, with his twelve apos­tles around about the Sea of Gal­i­lee.

• Jesus never premeditated anything dramatic

172:3.11When he had fin­ished speak­ing, they be­gan the de­scent of Oli­vet and pres­ently were joined by the mul­ti­tude of vis­i­tors who had come from Je­ru­sa­lem wav­ing palm branches, shout­ing hosan­nas, and oth­er­wise ex­press­ing glee­ful­ness and good fel­low­ship. The Mas­ter had not planned that these crowds should come out from Je­ru­sa­lem to meet them; that was the work of oth­ers. He never pre­med­i­tated any­thing which was dra­matic.