Responsibility and Authority
from Special Session
Martin Cecil August 18, 1978
You know from your own experience that if there is a refusal to accept responsibility you lose your authority. When you accept the responsibility, even though you may feel inadequate in the situation, the authority is still there. The authority goes with the responsibility—reject the responsibility, you reject the authority; accept the responsibility and move in it, and you have the authority. Not because you thought you had it before, perhaps; you may have thought you lacked it because of the sense of inadequacy—but accept the responsibility and you have the authority.
You may handle it, consequently, on the basis of the Tone which you have come to know. You really know what that is, so don’t dither around—sound it! Don’t say to yourself, “Well I am not just sure how the Tone should sound in this situation.” That is rejecting the responsibility, so you don’t have the authority or the experience of the Tone. Accept the responsibility and the Tone sounds, and you know the authority.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
