The Ten Lemurian Laws

Introduction

History has shown that self-government affords the best environment for advancement. The greatest civilization, Lemuria, flourished for 52,000 years because an informed citizenry took responsibility for governing themselves through participatory democracy.

The Ten Lemurian Laws were their guidelines for keeping positive karmic balance within the culture. When there was a question as to how to interpret the ten laws, a referendum was prepared and the citizens voted. Individuals thereby achieved a balance of give and take over time as they experienced being sometimes in the minority and sometimes in the majority. Both required maturity, then as now. Lemurians were well-informed people; each citizen being a scientist, moralist and philosopher. Generally, they had the wisdom to govern themselves with ten succinctly written laws as directives because their customs, courtesy and maturity precluded the need for elaborate laws and external authority.

The Ten Lemurian laws are interdependent. Therefore, one often involves the use of another. These laws are based upon the Laws of Nature established by God for the harmonious functioning of everything in the Universe. Natural Laws are self-operative and exacting, applying to all equally and so are absolutely just.

1. No one may profit at the expense of another. To be cosmically sound, both parties to any transaction must profit equally. For one to profit more than the other means that the one so profiting incurs a cosmic debt for which, sooner or later, nature will exact compensation or repayment. No organized society can hope to prosper permanently except as each member thereof prospers, and conversely, no individual member of any organized group or society can hope to prosper permanently except as the group or society as a whole prospers.

2. No one, nor the government, may take anything from a person or another nation by force. To take away by force does not necessarily imply merely the use of physical violence. It can be done by the manipulation of money; by trickery; by taking unfair advantage of the ignorance of another; by the exaction of usury; by taking advantage of another's ill fortune or mistakes; by deliberate deceit.

3. All natural resources shall belong to the commonwealth of all Citizens and shall not be owned by any person or corporation of persons. Since natural resources were created by the Angelic Host for the common good, they belong to all. Therefore, it is manifestly wrong for an individual to seek to own them. Some individual could devise new and better ways and means for the use of one or more natural resources for the common good, thereby becoming justly entitled to a "priority" in their utilization during his lifetime. This the Commonwealth often granted him, but he could not own a natural resource as a personal property.

4. Every Citizen is due equal education and the freedom to choose his vocation, and he has equal rights before the law. Everyone is entitled to equal and proper educational opportunity, thus assuring freedom from ignorance, poverty, oppression, and pain. It was observed in Lemuria that only through proper education is it possible to establish and maintain proper moral conduct and provide equality of opportunity.

5. All promotions shall be based only upon personal merit and proficiency. Otherwise know as merit system. By providing each child with an equal education, and every citizen with equal opportunity for the expression of his ability in any field of his choice, each is given full and equal opportunity to exercise his power of self-determination and self-expression just as long as he does not interfere with the same rights of all other citizens. No man may be deprived of his position so that one less apt or qualified may replace him. Before any may be removed from his merited position, even to be replaced by another better qualified, the one to be displaced must be provided with another position equally as good.

6. Everyone must compensate fully for every personal possession he receives and hopes to retain. Only those things we have earned through services we have rendered to others that we may hope to retain permanently. It is not necessarily a fact that repayment be made directly to the donor, for quite often a like service freely rendered to another without thought of recompense will amply discharge the Cosmic obligation.

7. No person nor the government may operate in the environment of another unless specifically requested to do so by the person. The government, however, may enforce the law in treasonable, criminal, and civil suits. Gossip, unasked-for advice, and physical interference all come under this heading. Let us use discrimination, however, lest we adhere too strictly to the letter of this law and so fail to grow in kindliness and appreciation for kindness extend us.

8. No one may kill or injure another except in the defense of his life or his state. This does not imply the right to so aggravate in any way another that an attack is provoked in order to justify "defense."

9. The sanctity of the home is inviolate. The home of every person shall be immune to search or seizure of its contents, except only by due process of law wherein just cause affecting the welfare of the commonwealth, or the rights of another individual, has been shown beyond all reasonable doubt. No one has the right to enter the home of another except upon invitation from the occupying family or a member thereof, except for the foregoing.

10. If no violation of Natural Law is involved, the majority rule will apply and will be subject to approval of the Brotherhood's Direct Representatives, whose decisions will be final. The determination of the opinion or desires of the majority is to be established through a vote of the citizenry. Neither the Council nor the later government shall have the right to enact and enforce any laws affecting the citizenry as a whole without first submitting them to the citizenry who will be affected by them.

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