The
necessity of formal
identification.
You
are right Pacific, it is frightening and
it does seem to be in in conflict with the
basic interest of The order with the
unique of the individual. This dress
belongs to the political aspect. Count it
as a necessary evil. I will tell you why
it is necessary. Consider the troubles of
mankind: it is always the uniform opposing
the civilian that is the great falldown of
mankind. Armies wage war against
rebellious and terrorist civilian
revolutionaries who don't accept the
oppression of the system. The complete of
the military policestate is recognized as
the formalist falldown of societal order,
making us desperate about the prospects of
any reasonable worldorder. Will we ever
succeed in escaping from international
military opposition and national civil
wars of police against hooligans and other
civil uproar and disobedience?
What
The Order proposes is a compromise:
instead of more and more police in the
street and more and more energy, money and
goodwill lost in the military/political
powergame and its opposition, The Order
proposes a formal order based on a
spiritual discipline of socializing at the
one hand and keeping distance at the other
(by means of alternative time-schedules).
Formality is an agreement of appearance
and liberation is an agreement of service
and respect for the individual nature. The
necktie never knows how to agree about
appearance and is thus not liberated and
the military never know whom or what God
they are serving (war, why?) and are thus
not liberated in loosing the respect for
the individual that would be bad and
egoistic. The purpose is to replace the
police by means of a thorough and reliable
concept of matured social control in all
respect with the freedom of the
individual. The purpose is to associate
and labor for an international concept of
service and discipline that would be
strong enough to give the military the
confidence to put on another dress of
world order than the always opposing
depersonalizing uniform of the
military.
The
dress of the order is an intermediate.
First of all: it is not a uniform. In fact
it is a method of identification. The
individual choice of lifestyle is
respected with it: the vocation , the
civil status and the level of commitment
(48 categories counting the colors of
gold, silver and bronze as the third
division of commitment, see commitment
under guide). It is just a colorcode in
fact and each can have his own design of
clothing just like with neckties and
suits. It requires no membership nor does
it imply any obligation; any fool may try
to dress up with it. Still it is a
proposition of order: it expresses the
spirit, mentality, unity and values of The
Order. And these are not from the ego as
you fear but from a thorough scientific,
religious and political knowledge of what
the scriptures say, what men believe in
and what people actually practice. It goes
to the very soul of our human history in
expressing old ideals of world unity and
freedom from exactly the falsehood of the
ego that you mention.
Of
course it is no cowardice to admit
yourself to a color of life and face the
devil of formalism with its own trickery.
One has to dare to take a stand and make
an image. Not from ego-desire, but from
the necessity of opposing that very
formalism of the military and police by
replacing it, and making it obsolete. (the
purpose of the dress is to put it out).
There is an absolute necessity of progress
in formal identification: it must become
less impersonal, less violent and more of
free choice and civil freedom. Of course
this alternative should not be compulsory
or repressive: one may identify this way,
but one cannot be obliged do so by e.g. a
government that wants to link it to a type
of service and control. Remember that
anything organized for The Order is not
The Order itself. The Order itself is NO
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION at all, but set up as
pure filognosy: pure love for the
knowledge of the soul and its outer
cultures and nothing else, groupwise
respected or not.
There
is much more to be said about this, but I
hope this will suffice for the time
being.
Yours,
T.H.E. Servant