Of the elements of Country, there are three -
the
Nation, the
Responsible State, and the
Common Market.
(On the Country of the Philippines)
The Nation that we are, my people,
is founded on a Covenantal obligation
between God and the Children of Mankind
which is the Covenant that the LORD made
forever
with all of the Nations of the Children of Mankind
that our God inaugurated
in time
through Noah and his sons.
The
Noahide Covenant
binds our generations to the freedoms
that ensure the preservation of sacred life
- the whole spectrum of it - that upon
"our world"
(as a realm apart from "the world" of the fallen Nations of old),
water shall never again consume the life of the Earth -
but shall through the life of our Nations
be nourished and sustained by it.
For we are through bonds of
water and
blood established.
Sacred Life is our sacred obligation -
and its preservation in ourselves and therefore,
throughout all of lower creation - is -
the fire that animates our spirits.
This "world -
as our world"
that we are each as Nations is commissioned
to build together for all of the Children of Mankind
(as
God's own human peoples - arising from lineages apart -
from the inhuman and irreparably corrupt spiritual lineages
of the fallen Nations of old who sinned with the pride of Satan)
upon the
Unknown Earth - which is likewise -
God's primary command to all the Nations of Mankind
(including those fallen Nations of old
whose life He utterly destroyed during the Great Flood,
whose spiritual lineages the LORD disowned,
and irrevocably unseeded in them)
is what we call the
Inhabited Earth
that
Crystal Blue Sphere that
(it is blue because it is immersed in water)
from the spiritual realm
is a wonder for all
to behold.
This is our Covenant
- t
he Covenant of the Children -
and we are never free to break it.
To preserve the
dignity and
promise of Man - in all our Nations -
is -
to do Justice to the image and likeness of Man - reflected upon the life of the world
and make it,
"our world". Thus, making the Earth to the LORD,
"very good".
Because
to do Justice to the sacred life of this world - from the person of Man
right down to the very least of all of Man's animals and Man's plants
is the fundamental reason we are called to exist as Nations.
The existence of life in our world
- is - the soul that gives our Nation breath,
and the living up to the very wonder of this life,
along with the most profound existential questions
that specifically pertains to the mystery of life
and to the living of this life in this world,
- is - the spirit that is our breathing -
the truths of life's Salvation and its Redemption
is the fire that animates both our water and our blood.
The preservation of
"the all" of sacred life
in this way - is the
mission and the
commission -
entrusted to all National communities of the Earth.
It is our Peace and the Goodwill of our Peace.
For the Universe
is
not created for Man
Man is created for the Universe.
We as
the Children exist
for the labor.
Everything else exists for the glory of God.
- selah -
As a
National community -
we are called of spirit and of blood born.
However, it is from
water that our lineages upon the Earth are established.
For it is from
the formless - that -
the form of our citizenship
constantly renew itself and arise:
Our truest citizenship is in our soul.
And from it proceeds the spiritual truths
where from we derive the first principles
that shape and define our
Social Contract.
This Social Contract establishes - our labors
as truth -
and - our truth upon the Earth - as
a Sovereign Presence
before the LORD
and the Assembly of the Nations before God
both in Eternity -
and also upon the Earth.
This Social Contract is known as
Democracy.
- selah -
We -
as human beings -
do not practice our freedoms in a vacuum.
Freedom is a profoundly spiritual reality in Man.
Where in the life of lower creation, freedom is but
a physical act,
completely reliant upon the nurture of freedoms
ever greater than theirs,
our freedom is beholden to a spiritual dimension - because as human beings,
we implicitly know in our hearts that we must reach out to the only other freedom
reaching out to us,
the freedom of God - in much the same way
that the life of the Earth reaches out to us.
The universe was not created for Man.
Man is created for the universe:
We belong to its labor
(as common laborers upon the Master's field)
and
only to its labor we belong -
particularly as
Nations of the Children.
For example,
a dog whom we love or the plant that we nurture
- in the most immediate and real sense -
belong not to us.
For is it not also true
that it is Providence that speaks for its life?
We belong to it - or more specifically speaking,
to the labor of making it ours again.
And so inasmuch as we quicken our souls
to the work that we owe to the life in ourselves and to the life of all of lower creation -
in God and with each other,
they become ours and they awaken again and learn our voice.
Else, this world - above the din of all other things that seek to confuse us -
will roar in silence deafening: For this world will never speak its secrets to our hearts.
And we will never know of it as our First Parents
did intimately know of it
and so remain - very uncomfortably - strangers to the wonders of our own living Earth,
- trespassers and invaders to the varied realms that lay within our own Human Habitation.
If we love anything in lower creation - in the Truth,
they - like the Truth - become our possession
forever.
This is a freedom no animal or plant possess.
And it is never practiced like animals and plants practice their freedom.
It is never practiced in a vacuum.
And so
from Covenant proceeds Social Contract
and for us, my brothers and sisters of the Promise,
this is simply all about -
Life and Liberty -
and so specifically - we are - as a Nation among Nations -
a participatory, constitutional Democracy;
a people brave, and free, and fair.
- selah -
Why participatory?
Stronger freedoms require Liberty that we may exercise rights that exist to make our personal freedoms strong and also guarantee those same rights commonly preserved for other citizens not unlike ourselves.
Weak freedoms fall prey to any number of dangers and calamities, and the labor that we must fulfill is not easy.
If we do not hold on to our Nationhood, or worse -
if we do not know how - it becomes impossible for any of us to build up the Earth.
Everything that in exile time progresses in Time without the Truth shall appear as an unremitting retreat into a devouring darkness - as the world gets darker and darker - meaninglessness becomes bitterness, bitterness turns into despair of self, despair of self becomes despair of others not unlike the self, and so - as the years become empty of their substance - Country will seem as nothing else but a madness that devours, and what once was in our common humanity precious as our hopes for all sacred life become abased into a sheer tyranny of beliefs founded in falsities and illusions.
The gravity of these things we must fight against -
it is not our way of return: Ours is an Ascent in Time and unto the Truth.
We were never free to not fly upon Eagle Wings. For the LORD God saith that saying of the Nations, not of individuals. So when you shall sing to thy soul the popular song,
"On Eagle Wings", make an effort to see that song as dedicated to Nations entire and not merely to individuals.
Our Nation, my beloved people, is one of those Nations. In this Nationhood, we are impelled to participate.
We are therefore, we must.
But we can not build the right world with the wrong values.
- selah -
Why constitutional?
The Nations of the Children of Mankind is one great Peerage before the LORD.
And indeed, we are each - as human individuals, a peer to one another - through our personal and individual distinctions,
equally -
a keeper and a friend to our common humanity.
We all have - and have
forever possessed -
a basic, human citizenship.
Our communities too,
are such as we - a Peerage of the Nations, for unequal each Nation may be in spiritual maturity and material strength, but as a Plenary Global Community - being as one Family of Nations - we are
each enabled to equally overcome that we may
together prevail against this world, and make of the Earth,
our home away from Home.
For we are all here for a reason exclusive only to the fulfillment of
a dream of happiness, and it is not even our dream,
it is God's dream for us, and it is
wonderful beyond wonderful indeed!
The authority to govern our peers whether from within the Nation or from among the Nations themselves is not a human authority,
but a Divine authority.
And this authority is vested in a
Responsible State and the structure of this State, as it applies to our Nation, is established in
our prevailing Constitution - this binds us - in spirit - to a particular undertaking of Country that is
in form -
a Republic - and which therefore
possess in itself -
a very specific spirit.
We move like a Republic moves.
However, it is our personal freedoms that determine its Ascent - into its ages in Time - from
emerging, developing, developed, and mature - and our Right of Ascent is likewise determined by the
rightness of these freedoms.
Each Nation only has one Right of Ascent, each Country only has one freedom or Way of Ascent - all else falls into the gravity of the unveiling of the darkness of the desolation - and
Democracy as a whole - is the Social Contract we specifically have -
with each other, that we owe -
for each other, and that our generations owe -
to each other - that we will secure for ourselves and our Posterity
this Republic, and
it's Liberty.
It imposes a Burden
(which we shall also expound upon very soon),
because our freedoms are neither cheap -
nor are they ever free.
- selah (pause and think) -
Now we come to review the
Engine of our Economic Progression.
For to liberate our souls to pursue those spiritual freedoms that is our happiness,
we must first liberate our minds and our bodies from the physicality that in material weakness
mires us individually and prevents our communities from securing for themselves within the Nation,
our Republic Vision (as it arises from the Maturity of our Love and Remembrances together).
This engine is human enterprise
Capitalism,
and it establishes upon our Common Market within the Nation,
a
Free Enterprise Market structure.
It is the Engine naturally compatible with our Democracy and its sheltering Republic,
driving its Progress forward, against the flow of exile time, that we may secure - at the helm -
for all our generations to the last, through
an Economy of matter and grace,
the wealth of our Nation - which is wealth already established in us
being in everything already dedicated as our possession forever.
The full breadth of the Vision of human enterprise Capitalism is to perfect the drive of human enterprise and liberate Man from the poverty and the humiliation of the human condition.
It creates material wealth as a means to secure and obtain - in the Nation - for each and every individual, the freedom to individually pursue a happiness that is fully and completely human - so each Man may know to be free - to learn to be happy, even in this world - securing and obtaining for himself or herself true riches -
from perishable means to imperishable ends.
The full breadth of this Vision
does not create more poverty. It makes the poor wealthy and the wealthy truly wealthy and
leads all and
involves all in the
Real Economy of the Nation.
Furthermore, Capitalism is - a National proposition - and therefore, may not exist to serve only the interests of a few citizens, particularly in a Democracy. Else it should falter and fail -
to the everlasting regret of all.
Also, as it serves a primordial need in Man's own being - to be truly free and truly happy, Capitalism - as an Engine of Economic Progress - must naturally possess
a spiritual dimension. It's promise of happiness never was a material dream,
for its dream of happiness is an invincible one.
People drown in riches because their souls can not be filled by gold alone.
Greed has no part nor place in a free enterprise Market.
And as ours is such a one - our free Market structure must naturally react to expel greediness -
as tares are beaten from the wheat.
Indeed, it must be intrinsic to our Economic structures and strictures that inordinate wants and the many lusts that support them are not only counterproductive but also counter-intuitive to our National Economy and run counter t
o our economic good as citizens -
being usually not only corrupted but criminal.
Truly, truly, virtue is currency.
Greed in our Economy is like having termites in the wood of our tree.
All of that which places the value of Man's things
over the things of Man
give nor possess no value and only exists to take from Country; it shortens the length of our days (making it appear to our hearts we're getting nowhere fast), is useless to the fostering of our sovereign freedoms, and is quite destructive to the labor of securing the National wealth.
We can be as rich as we want to be in our Economy, provided it does not make any of us filthy -
but only truly happy.
In fact, in the most ideal sense - everyone should own capital, multiply it, and have a successful business so that we should all be billionaires,
rich with good things besides, and wealthy at the same time.
A Capitalist does not value imprudence in the use of material resources and
despises greed because greed is reckless. Greed is narrow and selfish and suffocates both human creativity and personal initiative. It is the saw that ultimately saws off the branch it is sitting on - calamitous to the Market it preys upon.
Capitalism values not how much money is in the bank but on how much capital enterprise is in the works, it values chutzpah, and rewards honest, dedicated and inspired work, no matter how small it may be, seeking to succeed not on how well and how bravely one runs from business -
but on how well and how bravely a business is run.
The capital in capitalization, and the exclusive proprietary rights of those who own the means of work is only the result and not the source of the capital in capitalism. It is a myth that Capitalism is prejudicial to workers' rights; a legend propagated by the greediness of a few.
The
human capital is crucial to the success of Capitalism, so that it's betterment - both in the labor force and in the management corps that serve each proprietary trust - in business and other market venture entities - that comprise our Free Market is vital to the success of our Economy.
But the
value of the human element may only be as valuable as we recognize it.
Fairness is what makes our Markets free. Therefore, a degraded economic identity in our citizenry will -
and shall - imperil our Market Freedoms. When honesty in the small seem to count for nothing when the truth is that honesty can never be measured by any material dimension.
Honesty is honesty in all persons.
And this in turn shall slow or even stop the many human gears that drive forward the popular engine of our Economic Progress. It will produce disparities in the way we view wealth and poverty, polarize it into an unnatural state of division - so that
wealth and poverty are no longer connected - in both our minds and our hearts.
(That wealth and poverty as they exist - exists not harmoniously but are inimical to each other - like hydrogen refusing to bind with oxygen to make water.)
Indeed, there is now in our Nation, and perhaps also in other Nations not unlike ours,
that selfsame unfamiliarity; a sense of unbalanced imbalances that seems so unnatural to the Economic evolution of any free, fair, and brave enterprising people - and one that prevents each our Country from taking wing, leaving us all earth-bound - below the clouds, under the darkness, out of sight of the stars and the skies.
This is not a deficiency in our people's virtue and good. There is so much bravery in a
magbabalut or a fish ball vendor, or an honest taxi driver or airport porter - or any enterprising Pinoy who invests in the smallest of seeds -
his or her citizenry - to dream of a better life - in this Nation -
it is this spark that we should be looking for...
(The author also has a specific proposal to make common for all Filipinos - the practical means to enter into our National Economy and strengthen our City's common ability to build up the National wealth which shall also be posted in this blog at a later time.)
For it is this spark that we may use it to jump start our Engine back to life - it is found in the here, there, and everywhere, just raring to go - in each of us, because all of this is - in the heart of the Filipino - and - in the soul of our Nation.
And Now is our Time.
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