Claim. Attending God is governed by codified laws; obedience is not optional, because Heaven stands as the absolute subject and any drift from order breaks the give-and-take that sustains the bond.
Elaboration. SMM states the rule plainly: “There are laws in attending God. It displeases God when these laws are broken” (2.2. Breaking heavenly laws displeases God, 17-287, 1967.2.15). Knowing the law is insufficient — “It is not enough to know Heaven’s ways, but you must live Heaven’s ways” (ibid, 1-337, 1956.12.30). The structural reason is given in give-and-take-action terms: “in the relationship between the subject and object partners, God must stand in the position of the absolute subject. The person who ignores that subject cannot become His object partner” (ibid, 58-310, 1972.6.25). Complaint, breaking order, and self-centered drift therefore violate the law not by accident but by inverting the partnership structure that constitutes the bond. Attendance ethics flow from this: every codified rule (timing, posture, greeting) is an instance of preserving the asymmetry that allows the relationship to exist at all.