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MR. AUTHENTIC PART THREE

SUBSTANCE TRUMPS STYLE EVERY TIME! 

AUTHORITY

• “invention, advice, opinion, influence, command,”
• from auctor “master, leader, author”
• Meaning “power to enforce obedience” is from late 14c.; meaning “people in authority” is from 1610s. Authorities “those in charge, those with police powers” is recorded from mid-19c.

AUTHOR

• from Old French auctor, acteor “author, originator, creator, instigator
• from Latin auctorem (nominative auctor) “enlarger, founder, master, leader,” literally “one who causes to grow,”
• agent noun from auctus, past participle of augere “to increase” (see augment)

Author, auctor, auctus, augere is about augmentation as a creator, generator and originator of something. Something is “grown” into manifested reality where it was not before, instigated by the author who founded it. From the seed in consciousness to the manifested growth in reality that they created.

AUTHENTIC 

• from Greek authentikos “original, genuine, principal,”
• from authentes “one acting on one’s own authority,”
• from autos “self” (see auto-) + hentes “doer, being,” from PIE *sene- “to accomplish, achieve.”