My study of the Wilkinson/Story separation, to date, is edifying. Just to know there was a time right at the very beginning (relatively speaking) wherein, those who gathered together in the Light (Quakers) experienced disagreement over whether  directly inspired Presence was sufficient in itself to rule over the individuals among gathering or whether a centralized outward system of rules and governing bodies was legitimate and needful to supplement direct experience itself and help guide the gathering, is a powerful testimony to the struggle of human consciousness to hold to and press for outward form to address the perceived failings of many in the gathering.

It was not that there was disagreement over the rule of inspired Light. There was disagreement over whether the rule of the Light should be supplemented by centralized outward forms and institutions. The majority of those gathered in the Light found it needful to setup outward forms to rule over the gathering. Quaker tradition was established.

It is good there were those at the time who spoke out for the primitive experience itself over the establishment and rule of centralized outward forms and institutions. I am grateful there are those today, equally anchored in and informed by inspired Light itself and hold to no outwardly expired form, tradition, or institution. 

Yesterday I spent the day in the mountains along the Elk River, here in Oregon, studying a particular habitat of the Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria affinis). And, the whole day, I was so thankful for the ever increasing power of inward Presence in all my daily activities so that the Light itself ever anchors my consciousness and I am no longer informed by adherence to a particular outward form and practice but that the inspired or intuited presence of Christ itself is my essential Form and Principle.