A Spiritual Declaration of Independence

NOTE: This is adapted from the text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. Much of the words are written here just as they were in the original text. This is just my sense of the freedom and liberty we can all declare for ourselves - every day. 


In HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, July 4, 2012
The unilateral Declaration of the Unified State of Divine Harmony

When in the Course of mankind's events it becomes necessary for a Person to dissolve the metaphysical bands that confine it to a Mortal Mind and to assume among the powers of the Universe, the separate and unequal station to which the Laws of Spiritual Nature and of God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the Person requires that it should declare the causes which impel it to the separation.

I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are eternal Life, absolute Liberty and permanent spiritual Happiness - That to secure these rights, God institutes governance over Man, deriving its just powers from the first chapter of Genesis, from which God created All that was made and has dominion, - That whenever any Belief in an alternate Form of Governance that becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Person to abolish it, and to institute the real Governance, laying its foundation on divine Principle and obeying its powers in such form as perfect obedience shall effect its Safety and Happiness.   Prudence, indeed, will dictate that divine Governance long established should not be changed for any reason; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the mortal, erroneous forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abusive and usurpatative suggestions, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them to absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Governance and to provide new Guards for their future security - Such has been the patient sufferance of Human Consciousness, and such is now the necessity which constrains it to alter its former Governance. The history of the present evil belief, Satan, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over this Consciousness. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

 - He has refused his Assent to Divine Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the good of mankind.

- He has forbidden mankind to uphold Divine Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them, for he knows that doing otherwise would result in his destruction.

- He has refused to recognize Divine Laws for the accommodation of mankind, unless mankind would relinquish its divine right of Representation in the Kingdom of Heaven, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

- He has called together many children of God at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Good Deeds, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures, which include Sinfulness, Diseased Thought, Sickness, Reliance on Hygiene and Material Methods, as well as Death both Physical and Spiritual.

- He has dissolved God-worshipping assemblies repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the divine rights of the people.He thrived in the Presence of one solely, in order to generate Fear and Submission to his Despotism.

- He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Divine Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to mankind at large for their exercise; the State of Human Consciousness remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

- He has endeavoured [sic] to prevent the population of these heavenly States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Entrance to the Kingdom; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands in this Kingdom..

- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing God as the only Judge in Human Consciousness.

- He has made mortals act as Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. And ofttimes, the payment for Good Deeds seems to result in Disease and Erroneous Conditions upon the Human Consciousness under his control, to make guilty those who are created Innocent.

- He has erected a multitude of New False Beliefs, and sent hither swarms of Mortal Beliefs to harass our people and eat out their substance, which is found to be Divine Spirit.

- He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Sentinels, which stand guard in our Consciousness.

- He has affected to render the Militant Mortal Belief independent of and superior to the Divine Power in our Consciousness.

- He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
     For quartering large bodies of Mortal Beliefs among us:
     For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States of Human Consciousness, whether they be Physical, Moral or Spiritual:
     For cutting off our Trade of Divine Ideas with all parts of the world:
     For imposing Tax on our minds without our Consent:
     For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by God:
     For transporting us beyond our Consciousness to be tried for pretended offences:
     For abolishing the free System of Divine Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these States of Consciousness
     For taking away our Charters of eternal Life, abolishing our most valuable Divine Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governance:
     For suspending our own self-govenrment, and declaring Him invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

- He has abdicated Governance here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

- He has plundered our seas of spiritual thought, ravaged our coasts of morality, burnt our towns made of divine Love, and destroyed the lives of our people.

- He is at this time transporting large Armies of False Mortal Beliefs to compleat [sic] the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized consciousness.

- He has constrained our fellow Beings taken Captive on the high Seas of Spirit to bear Arms against their Kingdom, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured [sic] to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Savages of Sin, Sickness and Death whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our mortal brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their mortal authorities to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here in Heaven. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mortality, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the unified State of Divine Harmony, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good and perfect Beings of this Consciousness, solemnly publish and declare, That this unified Consciousness is, and of Right ought to be a Free and Independent State of Divine Harmony, that it is Absolved from all Allegiance to the Crown of Satan, and that all political connection between it and the State of Death, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent State of Divine Harmony, it has full Power to levy War against Satan, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which an Independent State of Divine Harmony may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our eternal Life, our Fortunes of blessings, and our sacred Honor.