Ordination differs fundamentally between the two branches and the difference reveals what each thinks a cleric is. Zhengyi ordination confers a lu, a register: a document naming the spirit generals and officials the priest is henceforth entitled to summon and command, together with robes, a ritual name, a rank and often a seal. Without the register a priest's memorials have no standing — the model is a commission in a bureaucracy, and higher ranks command more officials. Quanzhen ordination, by contrast, confers precepts, transmitted over a lengthy ordination assembly historically lasting up to a hundred days, in three ascending grades; the model is monastic vow-taking, and what is conferred is discipline rather than authority over spirits. Since 1949 in mainland China both have run through the state-supervised Chinese Taoist Association, which issues certification; in Taiwan the Celestial Master's office has been the traditional source of Zhengyi registers, which is one reason the succession dispute matters practically and not only symbolically.