Authority

 A scribe once spoke up about his master. He said to the people, 'a man is not the authority he wields, a man is the hand which wields it. Authority is therefore greater than the man, and should be considered as such.'

When a man describes his authority as a part of his character, he becomes disillusioned, believing it is he who is the authority. This is what happened to Satan, and is the same issue within the conscience of mankind. Without selfless abandonment of ego, pride becomes a measure of what occurs under that misinterpreted authority. The authority is in essence impaired, and what can be done is a fraction of what should occur.

There are men who have acted righteously by the authority they wield. This is a pattern of goodness in the world which works to serve the best interest of the living. And in every case of this, there is a cost and gain. But no matter what the cost is, if the authority has been laid out selflessly, the gain is what honors goodness, and therefore, honors the purpose God has set out.

Now, when you enable or empower an ego, you are condemning it to belief in its own value. The ego takes empowerment as an indication of progress, and stabilizes itself within that empowered state. But in God, it is nothing to give an ego what brings it enabling. The ego is seen as the undoing of the individual, and the course of action the ego takes is itself self condemnation.

In God, we are expected to look beyond what empowers or enables us, and put Him first. If we put him first, we find insight. This insight grants us the understanding that we are not central to authority, but are to be servants of it, as a condition of selfless service. So then, authority again becomes something to be thankful for, and something to do right by as a way to glorify it as of God.

For mankind, every civilization has turned to dust because of this. Authority becomes personal, and the living embody their ego, and destroy themselves because of this. The perfect generation is not one that has full authority, but honors the authority they have as a gift from God, a gift which gives them the opportunity to selflessly abide by. The last gift from God was the Truth, and that authority is served selflessly, and spiritually, without doubt.

Blessings