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Social Doctrine

Theocratic Authoritarianism

Theocracy is the natural state of society, as only belief in divinity provides a basis for normatively inviolable, transcendentally grounded dignity of nature’s constructs and creatures. Theocratic authoritarianism is the intelligent mind directing the political body. …

Hierarchy

  1. As aforesaid, extending the logic of natural law philosophy yields the admission of the dignity (belovedness by divinity) of not just persons and animals but of common goods and natural constructs, such as the following: 
    • Natural Constructs: race, religion, family 
    • Common Goods: Air, Water, Soil, Ecology, Food Quality, Peacefulness of Environment (Calm, Safety, and Silence)
    • Human Society: social cohesion and custom, law, order, hierarchical antecedents upon which we are contingent such as racial integrity, hierarchy among men, castes, and hierarchy of fundamentals (religion and family over all)
  2. Hierarchical goods upon which we are dependent bear a dignity by their divine ordainment, and their security is of the greatest priority, as they secure our own good–our own existence. For example, we cannot exhort each other to the good of athleticism if there is not even food to be had because one’s country is collapsing or the soil is not yielding harvest; ecological health would come before personal gain, or basic survival would come before self-improvement or enhancement of life. 

Traditionalism

  1. As said in the rules: Treasure tradition, and ground yourself in it. 
  2. This is the natural, correct way of things, to learn and work from established knowledge. 
  3. Tradition is what has been done, said, and thought best throughout a culture’s history. It should be treasured, preserved, and built upon, not discarded by rootless, deceived, foolish progressivism. …

Local and self-sufficient oikonomia

  1. As said in the rules: Follow the economic way of oikonomia, the economic organization being toward the well-being of the community, not chrematistics, or mere profit-seeking.
  2. The natural situs of culture is in the locale, in the polis, the fellowship. The focus of the Temple is to protect, develop, and elevate the locale, as we observe the law of the subtle sovereignty of the universe, affording to people the maximum degree of freedom that they are capable of assuming under nature’s design and within the parameters of benevolent authoritarian hierarchy. Thus, we take a broadly localist approach to economics and politics, guiding the world with our doctrines while not interfering with their business and interests.
  3. As a theocratic organization, we must separate from secular states and maintain our own sovereignty. … Our economic goal is toward self-sufficiency, not self-isolation; our economy will expand to external economic entities, but it will be positioned so as to operate independently should the need arise, and its independence will be maximized in order to ensure our prosperity and independence from economic manipulation.

Non-discrimination and Racial Sovereignty

  1. As an organization, we do not discriminate membership on a racial or sexual basis. We also do not discriminate against groups desiring to remain exclusive of other races in observation of natural law, hierarchical goods, and religious reasons. We do not force integration or segregation upon any group.
  2. The various races will be included in Chapters of their own kind, and Chapters will exist for mixed-race individuals in order to accommodate them in the Temple and in the theocratic order to come. While fellowships will tend toward racial homogeneity as racial integrity is strongly encouraged, this is not strictly required, and fellowships should accommodate amenable minorities who do not have a racial community of their own to go to. All people will have a place in the world to come.
  3. Advocates of forced integration–dissenters of racial sovereignty–may not be a part of the Temple; their lot shall be cast with the chaotic, liberal political order that is self-destructing. Their ignorance and belligerence is not welcome in the Temple, where adherence to doctrines, deference towards Temple authority, and profound and polite consideration is required.
  4. As stated in the rules: In a word, the Temple is race-positive: All races and natural religions are welcome in the Temple, and their cooperation is exhorted. By truly having goodwill for the races, desiring their greatest freedom and good, and regarding their dignity as constructs of nature, their preservation and biological and spiritual integrity is defended by the Temple.

Righteous Force: Peaceful Anti-Pacifism

Ultimately, we extend goodwill towards all and advocate for true peace and order, but this necessitates that we oppose those who would oppose this, by force if necessary. Thus, we are benevolent and peace-loving but militaristic and vigilant, not pacifists. This doctrine of the non-contradiction of opposites is further championed by Heraclitus. As I, Elder Peteseph, have said, “Just as silence must be secured among fools by speaking to hush, so must calm and happiness be secured by wrath, peace by violence, order by warfare and strife, loved ones by hating others.”

Sexual Morality

As it is said in the rules: “Marriage is the union of yin and yang and is therefore between one natural-born man and one natural-born woman,” and “Observe sexual morality: Only procreative and unitive sex within marriage is permitted. Homosexual acts, contraception, casual sex, sex outside of marriage, and masturbation are violations of the natural law, seeking to use other people for one’s own pleasure instead of regarding the greater good for them, or not using the sexual organ according to its natural function. These may also not be officially sanctioned as a social policy, because doing so fundamentally erodes the moral fabric of society by endorsing the violation of natural law. We recognize the difficulty in cultivating sexual virtue, and we stress that it is not a damning sin to commit sexual transgression, but it is a shortcoming and fall from spiritual grace that merits prayers of purification. Spiritual perfection requires purity; it is not easy, and it is a lifelong process to cultivate and sustain.”

Judgement of Character

As per the rules: “Judge between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and bad,” “Practice no harmful charity but preach responsibility and true service to others,” “Extend no mercy to the guilty,” and “Do not participate in or associate with degeneracy or moral relativism.”

The rational faculty of discrimination is natural and a gift from the gods. It should be used to discover truth, pursue goodness, and celebrate beauty. The judgment of character is necessary to understand who should be associated with and who should not. This is necessary for order, social rectitude, and for the security of one’s life and well-being.

Propriety and Etiquette

Proper behavior, or etiquette and courtesy, and self-presentation exist to maintain the common good of peace and the desire to participate in society. Unpleasant interactions and impropriety in society upset people and make them not want to participate in society, damaging the culture and society and making people indifferent to the suffering of others and the failures of society, bringing society to the point of dissolution. 

As far as attire goes, as it was said in the rules: “Bedeck yourself and adorn your surroundings in a way that honors the Gods, celebrates tradition, and edifies the spirit to virtue, purity, and greatness.” You should dress well and be clean and proper in your self-presentation. Fashion should embrace folk and religious tradition and reject modernity, liberalism, and mass consumerism. T-shirts, ball caps, and clothes with logos should be rejected in favor of quality traditional attire. Ideally, one should try to don the colors of the season or the god of the religious festival. … 

Furthermore, we should be proper in our speech, precise in our words. For, the precision of our expression reflects the precision of our thoughts, the degree to which we conform to truth and thereby goodness. One’s character and society is made right and excellent by precise, effective speech and proper grammar. Slang, vulgarity, and impressionistic language are to be shunned, as well as sloppy, ego-assuaging sentimentalism.

True Freedom and Formal Equality, Natural Rights, and the Range of Rights by Hierarchy

Modernity’s ideas of freedom and equality are among its greatest misunderstandings. The true nature of freedom is not in doing as one may please but in doing what is good, observing that which defends and protects life. As the Greeks said, “Without law, there is no freedom.” Freedom is the capacity to assume responsibility, and we have rights, because we have duties. (In truth, there is no difference between natural law and natural rights.) Those who lack the capacity to assume responsibility for something do not have the freedom to act in that area, and examples of restrictions on freedom would include those for children, imbeciles, the insane, the demented, and drug addicts. Authority belongs to those who have understanding and capability to secure the good course of action, to exercise their freedom correctly, to conform to the law of divine love. Those who lack understanding and capability simply are not afforded the same authority, powers, rights, or freedoms as those who do. Thus, a natural hierarchy exists within society, and society only stably exists by observing what is good (just natural law, true freedom), extending goodwill towards all, heeding proper authorities, and paying reverence to divinity within and transcendent of being.

Democracy and liberalism are inimical to true freedom, as they reject authority and divine law by pure hubris and folly. One must conform to nature; it is folly to try to make nature conform to oneself.

Truly, people do not have the freedom to do as they would please, because even this would be a freedom to something; there is no ultimate freedom from things. This is the error of negative liberty. Furthermore, negative liberty would make one a slave to delusion, passions, attachments.

The only equality that exists is formal equality of human dignity. All people are owed goodwill on this basis, bearing in mind that what is good is what is conducive to life as it exists within the integral, interdependent universe: What is good for someone is not simply what would bring them immediate material benefit or what they would enjoy but is rather what would bring them lasting well-being, enlightenment, and true freedom. This involves some compulsion, tough love, and administration of justice.

Genomical Integrity and the Divine Immune System

The Temple defends the sufficiency of the human genome and immune system given to us and overseen by the Gods. Any gene-altering mechanisms are rejected by the Temple, which seeks to safeguard, order, and enlighten humanity. While m-RNA injections are completely condemned by the Temple, traditional vaccination is not prohibited but is nonetheless discouraged as the immune system is sufficient and superior to crude vaccinations.

Anti-Abrahamism, Anti-Counter-Religion

The Temple’s mission to eradicate the Abrahamic faiths is of paramount importance. They constitute a grave error and inversion of natural reason through their “revealed” dogma and exclusivist claims to salvation and legitimacy. From this egoistic delusion has been born the disruption of the natural order and peace among nations; it has sown the seeds of genocide, division, hositility, theft, deceit, disorder, delusion, folly, and all the great evils of the world. Not only do we work toward the end of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, and other Abrahmic faiths, we also denounce any revealed religion as a fatal error. We insist that religion must be natural and unrevealed. We teach natural doctrine, not revealed dogma. There is no secret dogma that will save you or give you preordinance over others: There is only virtue and the eternal Divine Good wherein you already exist.

Re-orientation: Breaking through Conditioning

Study, serious contemplation and reflection on Temple doctrines, discussion, observation, and communal life are required to reach an understanding and appreciation of our doctrines and to break through one’s conditioning. 

Westerners, by and large, have been conditioned to value freedom of choice (liberalism), political representation (democratic-republicanism), separation between church and state (secularism), racial and sexual inclusion (Marxism and feminism), and charitability and non-judgment of others (Christian focuses). Our doctrines, which mark a radical departure from these prescribed worldviews (in favor of the timeless natural tradition), may arouse hesitation, caution, or a feeling of misgiving within one’s mind. This is due to the deeply ingrained nature of the worldviews prescribed by one’s conditioning: Alternatives cannot be conceived of, especially those which one has been told are undesirable (for spurious reasons). The fact is that our doctrines stand to reason, are the natural condition of human life, have been demonstrated to be most effective by being shared by the most longstanding civilizations throughout history, and uniquely provide real solutions to the chaos, corruption, injustice, confusion, deterioration, and destruction we see in the current age. Time, by history, has vindicated our doctrines, and time will vindicate us yet again.