Sovereign Order of World Guards

By authority of the Satya Dharma and sanction
of Article 28, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Notes about the Sovereign Order of World Guards

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  1. Qualities
  2. Why is the Order sovereign?
  3. What is the World Guard's attitude toward the state?
  4. The necessity of the SOWG
  5. The Qualifications
  6. Their function
  7. A temporary expedient




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1. Qualities

  1. Stability
  2. Intellectual alacrity
  3. Technical proficiency
  4. Empathic sensitivity
  5. Personal habits
    1. Cleanliness
    2. Moderation in tastes
  6. Independent nature


2. Why is the Order sovereign?

The order is sovereign because it owes its existence only to humanity and to itself. Though it can recognize other groups including states and be recognized by them, still it retains its utter independence of purpose and activity.

Its legality is grounded in no state structure but in its inherent relationship to World Government.

Its existence is indicated by the times in which it has been born and lives. Its precedents derive from ancient days when humans, either as individuals or in groups, represented the individual and the general good against the ignorant in power. The SOWG's main aim is educational. Unlike the guru however who teaches the theory of wisdom while living the wise life, the World Guard teaches by example and witness.

She is trained in both basic and applied dialectics, the latter taking the form of geo-dialectics or the science of resolving the opposite counterparts in a given situation in human affairs. Hers/his is the role of the mediator, the witness of absolute Justice, the custodian of fairness. the embodiment of the highest human values, wisdom-in-action, humanity's spokesman, the guardian of human rights.

3. What is the World Guard's attitude toward the state?

The personality of the state must be respected while at the same time prevented from asserting itself on another state or indigenous group. Humans live by myths which take the form of faiths. To deprive a person of one's faith in one's father or mother land would be to undermine one's faith in oneself.

For statespersons however to arrogate to themselves an absolute sovereignty to be exercised in all their dealings with fellow states is to invite the absurdity of two or more absolutes operating in the same given area.

In the context of the entire world community, there is but one sovereignty and that belongs to all humankind which in terms of the princples of unity and universality upon which all faith and myths are built is, for our time, absolute.

Logic compels us to consider ourselves quantatively as but one tiny fragment of the entire sentient universe which in the final sense is absolute in sovereignty. The SOWG seeks to represent this human sovereignty in view of the inability of individual states to give it either effective voice or practical manifestation.

Sufficient global organization exists today to frame the entity called humanity, to reveal its "skeleton" as it were, and technicians abound with amazingly detailed plans for humanity's amelioration in all spheres given the formula for unity lacking in state constitutions.

4. The necessity of the SOWG

This arises because of the change from the present period of clashing, closed values (national, linguistic, religious, philosophical, ideological, etc.) to the open, universal values symbolized by World Government. It is necessary to have a cadre of men and women who will represent World Law.

5. The Qualifications

This must be their total dedication to the welfare of humanity without distinction, humankind as a whole, the whole of the human species, as well as dedication to nature, the living environment in which humanity is placed.

6. Their function

Following on this qualification, they will neutralize conflicts that arise due to all closed and aggresive tendencies in all affairs of society. From pollution of the environment to propaganda of all kinds, and to armed aggression with armaments and all the various kinds of personal greed too well known to need mentioning, in brief, to all tendencies coming from tradition and custom hitherto, which violate the unity and solidarity of life, both human and natural, and by non-violent means to protect the principles of the whole of life, through kindliness, cooperation and trustfulness, which are the bases of world unity.

7. A temporary expedient

Sovereign World Guards will in no circumstance be a permanent feature of human society. Their necessity will be renewed every five years, when they will be cancelled or their functioning revised in the light of experience, depending on the awakening or the cleansing of the human mind from all the errors of separative life, or freed from all non-unitive conditionings, and so open enough and crystallizing in character enough to dispense with them.

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