exactly what those ideas are—and how they affect
our behavior. The present article will focus primarily upon large cosmological questions that bear
tremendous significance on our current worldwide
societal predicament.
SOVEREIGNTY REVISITED
If we are to navigate the perilous world we find
ourselves living in today, then we cannot afford to
indulge in ambiguous thinking—we must be crystal
clear about the meaning of the words we use, such
as “sovereign” and “Divine” and other important
terms. Looking at the word “sovereign” itself, it derives from the Latin words savor, meaning “savior”,
and regno, meaning “reign, king, ruler, etc.” Thus,
a true Sovereign can, in some sense, be defined as
“one who rules by virtue of performing the role of a
savior.”
Easily the most famous “savior” in history was
Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, we do not have sufficient space here to go over the vast number of
interpretations of whom he may or may not have
been (or whether he did or didn’t exist) within the
scope of this article; nonetheless, we accept the
rather ubiquitous notion that he was a man who led
an exemplary life and “preached the word, revelation, and laws of God and Heaven to mankind.”
Furthermore, we acknowledge that it is generally
accepted that the “word of God” preached by Jesus
was to love your neighbor as yourself, to always
live in such a way where your word is your bond,
and to treat others the way you would like to be
treated. Therefore, if we model our definition of
“savior” after Jesus’s famous example, then we can
say that a “savior” is “one entrusted by the Divine
to exemplify and teach the Golden Rule of Law to
mankind for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”
From a pragmatic perspective, it almost goes
without saying that no system of law can indefinitely sustain if not fundamentally based upon the
Golden Rule. Put another way: if the Law does not
serve All, then it is merely a system of arbitrary
rules enforced by bald-faced tyrants. If there is to
be peace on Earth, then all fo rms of “law” must
be brought into harmony with the Golden Rule…
and it just so happens to be the case that those who
regularly go out of their way to observe and obey
the Golden Rule—even in the face of a society
seemingly hell-bent (pun intended) on celebrating
material acquisition and other shallow “values”—
represent the true keepers of our collective future.
(This doesn’t make such people “superior” to
others; what it does mean, however, is that such
people self-evidently possess greater competence in
the law than those who routinely take the Golden
Rule for granted.)
So, we can say that a Sovereign is “one who is
prepared to competently uphold the Golden Rule.”
In this sense, a Sovereign is a very specific—not to
mention superlatively powerful—type of Magician
(see part 1 of the present series). If it is true that the
Will of the Divine is ultimately for peace to reign
on Earth, then there could be no more powerful a
Magician than the Sovereign. If the Divine is real,
and if it can speak to men and women through
vision and intuition, then wouldn’t it logically follow that those men and women who demonstrate
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