Obedience

Without obedience freedom is of no use, for the wisest of freedoms is to choose our form of obedience to the Universal Law, represented by our Instructor or Master, that of inserting ourselves into the Harmony that generates the Just, the Good and the Beautiful.

— Bastion No. 140-3: Freedom and Obedience. Jorge Ángel Livraga

We point out that the subjects dealt with, or rather, to be dealt with, should not become mere theoretical speculations, but should be embodied in deeds guided by a dynamic of initiative born of the will and obedience to the oath you pronounced when accepting your Axes.

This is all I can tell you in this first installment.

In the Name of God, our Lord. AVE!

— Command No. 0: Introduction. Jorge Ángel Livraga

Yes, Command and Power come from "above" and not from the acceptance of subordinates. A National Command is authorized by the Maximum Command and from Him comes Power, and from His Soul Wisdom.

Forgetting this is very dangerous; indeed, the most dangerous thing that can happen to an MN. For if he yields to the thrust of his subordinates to the detriment of his orders and his own Discipular Destiny, he breaks the Pyramidal-Living relationship with the Sources.

Let us make one thing very clear: HE WHO WANTS TO COMMAND MUST PREVIOUSLY OBEY, HE WHO WANTS TO TEACH MUST LEARN, AND HE WHO WANTS TO BE FOLLOWED MUST FOLLOW… THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

— Command No. 24: Disciple-Master, Subordinate-Command Relationship. Jorge Ángel Livraga

I want to be your Master and, organizationally, a Philosophical Dictator... Why do you push me toward tyrannical methods that are against the nature of our Ideal?

— Command No. 53: On the implementation of the Decrees. Jorge Ángel Livraga

We do not obey just any person or anything; we obey the Laws of the Universe. (...) The Master is, in this case, the reminder of the Law, but in a simpler way, of the laws that are within our discipular reach.

— Command No. 310: The keys to action. Jorge Ángel Livraga

Indeed, if the one who knows what must be done commands, and those who do not know obey, we all gain in speed and in effectiveness. (...)

No system of character control, rhetoric, dialectic, deepening into the psychology of the masses and analysis of motivations will have positive results on the student as long as we have not put him in conditions to see, to listen, to feel. (...) The Enemy is the Personality of the student.

Thus, the Enemy is made of inert rock, of flowering and thorny bushes, and of caves and fissures from which beasts and insects emerge here and there. All this mass will violently oppose the release of its prisoner and instinctively will see in the Leader and in the Acropolitan Professor an enemy who wants to steal his prey.

One must never dialogue with the burlesque genius; one must open the way no matter how, but using intelligent means to prevent a clumsy enthusiasm from destroying both the prison and the Prisoner.

— Leadership Manual (1976). Jorge Ángel Livraga