privacy

18:1.4I can re­veal very lit­tle about the work of these high per­son­al­i­ties on the seven sa­cred worlds of the Fa­ther, for they are truly the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy. There are no ar­bi­trary se­crets as­so­ci­ated with the ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, or the In­fi­nite Spirit. The De­i­ties are an open book to all who at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion, but all the Se­crets of Su­prem­acy can never be fully at­tained. Al­ways will we be un­able fully to pen­e­trate the realms con­tain­ing the per­son­al­ity se­crets of De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with the sev­en­fold group­ing of cre­ated be­ings.

18:1.5Since the work of these su­preme di­rec­tors has to do with the in­ti­mate and per­sonal con­tact of the De­i­ties with these seven ba­sic group­ings of uni­verse be­ings when domi­ciled on these seven spe­cial worlds or while func­tion­ing through­out the grand uni­verse, it is fit­ting that these very per­sonal re­la­tions and ex­traor­di­nary con­tacts should be held sa­credly se­cret. The Par­a­dise Cre­ators re­spect the pri­vacy and sanc­tity of per­son­al­ity even in their lowly crea­tures. And this is true both of in­di­vid­u­als and of the var­i­ous sep­a­rate or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties.

18:1.6To be­ings of even high uni­verse at­tain­ment these se­cret worlds ever re­main a test of loy­alty. It is given us fully and per­son­ally to know the eter­nal Gods, freely to know their char­ac­ters of di­vin­ity and per­fec­tion, but it is not granted us fully to pen­e­trate all of the per­sonal re­la­tions of the Par­a­dise Rulers with all of their crea­ture be­ings.

70:10.4In the ear­li­est prim­i­tive so­ci­ety pub­lic opin­ion op­er­ated di­rectly; of­fi­cers of law were not needed. There was no pri­vacy in prim­i­tive life. A man’s neigh­bors were re­spon­si­ble for his con­duct; there­fore their right to pry into his per­sonal af­fairs. So­ci­ety was reg­u­lated on the the­ory that the group mem­ber­ship should have an in­ter­est in, and some de­gree of con­trol over, the be­hav­ior of each in­di­vid­ual.