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Why Philadelphia? By Richard Kieninger The island in the Pacific
Ocean which is to be developed into a city named Philadelphia has several
important purposes so far as the Brotherhoods are concerned. The main purpose
is to act as a repository of culture and technology which are to be spread to
all the human survivors of the world by the inhabitants of Philadelphia about
a century after Armageddon and the cataclysmic reapportionment of continents
at the turn of the century. The last world-wide slide of the earth’s crust
was about 7,500 years ago, and it has taken until this century for
civilization to regain its former level of culture. Unfortunately, the human
species has managed to regain only a modicum of its former technology via
incentives inherent in its search for ever-superior weaponry. Philadelphians
are to wait a hundred years while the rest of the world reduces itself to a
stone-age existence, then they are to reach out to teach and succor the rest
of mankind. The reason for waiting is to allow Philadelphia to recover, grow,
and build effective technologies and economic strength while the rest of the
world has a chance to be purified (over about four generations) from the
power-hungry ways of today’s patriarchal viewpoint and to become more
matriarchal. Then their desire for medical knowledge, better agriculture, a
higher standard of living, and a workable philosophy of life will be the
incentive to learn a universal language and more readily accept the teachings
of the Brotherhoods. Philadelphia’s role will be like a worldwide peace
corps, teaching better ways and demonstrating by its evident example of
civilization the advantages of what it has to offer. Its task is to bring
about a high culture and technology without the incentives of war. The aim is
to show the ways of cooperation and universal prosperity without imposing a
single, world-wide government upon all the inhabitants of the globe. It is
important that there be different ways of autonomously organizing the social
interactions among peoples in disparate climates. The world needs many
diverse milieus by which Egos can balance themselves incarnation to
incarnation. The challenge of
Philadelphia and the Brotherhoods is to bring about Christ’s vision of people
everywhere living in peace with one another and with all the other peoples of
other lands. This is possible in the long run only through justice and fair
economic dealings with everyone. The Brotherhoods’ philosophy does not allow
the imposition of political or economic power over another nor does it
countenance the arrogant concepts of racial superiority. Egos everywhere have
the same potentials regardless of the race into which they incarnate. By the
knowledge and practice of universal principles, the drive for conflict and
war simply need not develop. A truism of the Brotherhoods is that no one can
truly prosper except that all prosper. Greed and the desire for power and
superiority are sick, and there is no love in them. Personal freedom and noninterference
by governments are basic keys to Egoic growth. Another purpose for
Philadelphia is to provide in the near future a place of refuge for men and
women of goodwill where they can put their energies toward positive creation
of an educational community while learning to put into practice the ideals of
the Brotherhoods. The construction and operation of a truly international
university where all peoples can share and learn the best agricultural
techniques learned by man in the least expensive way is a worthwhile
endeavor. A full-blown city will be required to support and service the
university, thereby affording a place for just about every trade, skill and
art there is. Constructing such a place will require that it have a complete
cross-section of people and technologies. Being essentially a peaceful
academic community, it will not be concerned with military matters. One can
build his own home and be encouraged to establish his own business if he
feels like it. There will be a minimum of laws and no local income tax. It is
also important to recognize that there are pioneering types of people who
benefit psychologically by having a challenging frontier to make into a
better place. Making a garden out of a desert and developing economic and
technological excellence is very satisfying to those who need to be at the
cutting edge of the means to better themselves and their environment. Such
people are builders at heart, and they are crucial to the success of the
coming Nation of God. With an unfettered profit motive to encourage them,
they should be willing to invest in businesses and the manufacture of goods
for world trade. It should be understood
that the island of Philadelphia is not to be a colony of U.S. citizens but
rather a place where people of many different nationalities will come
together. Each prospective resident will be screened for having psychological
and emotional health. Many employees of building contractor from around the
world will be on the island during construction but they will have no vote in
governance of the community. That will be reserved to property owners and
full-time residents. It will not be required for anyone there to be a member
of The Adelphi Organization. A future metaphysical organization formed under
the laws of the host nation will offer membership to the residents. The Brotherhoods are strong
on the value of children being reared in a sound family environment, and the
economy of the island will be devised so as to promote ideal home conditions
for the education and development of children. There will be safeguards
against anyone endangering the ecology of the island through individual or
industrial pollution. Creating jobs for others is a worthy activity, but
exploitation of workers will not be acceptable. We expect to be able to
develop a cultural attitude that down-plays materialism in favor of more
loving human interactions. The drive for acquisitiveness of riches and power
is often a substitute for lack of love in one’s life. There will be no banks
in Philadelphia. The central treasury will hold personal, corporate and state
cash and provide checking services and international trade accounts. There
will be no lending at interest and no fractional reserves permitted. The cost
of housing will be about one-fifth as much as in the U.S.A. today, but
because there will be no lending on mortgages, that means that each immigrant
will have to bring cash sufficient to build a home without indebtedness and
have no outstanding debts in any country. The needs of the commonwealth will
be bought by paying cash into the economy rather than borrowing cash into the
economy from a lender at interest. This is very practical and reflects the
sounder systems of a century ago before central banks became a widespread
practice in the nations of the world. Personal savings will be
encouraged because no state can expand economically without a large
accumulation of money being available for private commercial and industrial
expansion. Although no interest will be paid on bank savings accounts, an
investment agency for arranging purchase of mutual stocks in worthwhile
enterprises will provide both diversified ownership and dividend income for
those who wish to invest their surplus savings. All profit-making companies
must contribute a commerce tithe of their net income toward expansion and
maintenance of transportation facilities for distribution and the retail mart
system. One of our main features
will be freedom from drugs in the culture. It should be evident that anyone
who uses drugs or abuses alcohol will not be accepted to live on the island.
It is a place for spiritual and ethical uplift, and that requires a healthy
brain and clear mind. People who allow themselves to become chemically
dependent essentially have no future prospects. To use drugs is unpatriotic
in the extreme and pours money out of the national economy into the hands of
one’s opponents. As a matter of policy toward China in the mid 1800’s,
England set up an elaborate opium distribution system that ensnared millions
of Chinese citizens into addiction. This engendered a wealthy and corrupting
criminal underground that effectively undermined the government, and gave the
English astounding wealth to finance their takeover of the Chinese nation
during the Opium Wars. The Japanese pursued a similar policy toward China to
weaken the populace in the decade before their invasion of China prior to
World War II. There is ample evidence that foreign powers are presently
flooding the United States with drugs to make it easy to corrupt and weaken
the populace and withdraw hundreds of billions of dollars annually from our
economy, which would otherwise go to improve and upkeep our cities and
decrease unemployment. The people of Philadelphia will discourage foreign drug
dealers simply by not buying. Pushers giving drugs to our youngsters in order
to hook them will not be profitable for them because our internal economic
system will not provide ready cash for youngsters to spend. Philadelphia will provide a
place where health care and medical alternatives that truly work can be
obtained by its citizens and visitors. Health professionals who can build
clinics and health spas will be encouraged to do so. We envision providing
education to all inhabitants and foreign students in matters of proper
nutrition and the organic production of food. It has been proven that crops
can be profitably grown without the use of chemical poisons and herbicides.
We will encourage hydroponic farms and individual vegetable gardens. Public health
and public sanitation will also be emphasized. The island is surrounded by a
rich source of edible marine life, and we will do everything possible to be
sure that this marvelous resource is not overrun or diminished by human
activities that might foul our own nest. In short, the island is for
practical idealists who treasure the principles envisioned by the founders of
the U.S.A. (but which have been
undermined over the years by power seekers and economic manipulators). Love,
beauty, creativity, truth, justice and freedom are what we all seek, and we
can start clean again even though it is on a comparatively small scale. Each
person of sound mind recognizes that he must grant these precious gifts to
everyone else if he is to have them for himself. Only by practicing these
principles will all have prosperity, contentment and personal growth. |
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