Political Structure
The Church of Eleutheria: political structure
“You cannot invent a nation, but you can invent a religion, a confederation of autonomous learning institutions.”
A circle of Isotitans in the centre are autonomous from a circle of Adelophotitans in another centre, but can disseminate scholarly knowledge between each other once it has been verified by Bureau A and Bureau B.
The sociocratic practice of The Church of Eleutheria brings about the evolution of democracy. Politically, The Church of Eleutheria is the organization of a system of decision-making. The system forms part of a microcosmic representation of the macrocosmic part of the wider democratic system as a whole. The formation of The Church of Eleutheria marks the beginning of a sociocratic method that has developed its structure from the bottom upwards.
As part of The Church of Eleutheria, participants discuss the interests of progressive thought, including progressive scholarship of ORIANO and related principles, but can also reach agreements by consensus for other matters after reviewing their proposals. Only after difficulties and errors relating to the method of sociocratic practice at the lowest level have been overcome will there be opportunities for The Church of Eleutheria to see them established in a wider arena.
Advice that can emerge from The Church of Eleutheria will gradually find use in existing corpus democracy. Once the organization of The Church of Eleutheria and her method achieve acceptance by her closest hierarchical relationship within the established system will the method enthrone itself in the wider participation of corpus-democracy as a representative of sociocracy.
In the cooperative association, delegates participate in a general consensus which constitutes the ultimate formal authority of The Church of Eleutheria. The Adelophotitan Council appoints the Isotitan Assembly.
The Adelophotitan Council appoints the Isotitan Assembly charged with running the authority of The Church of Eleutheria. Exclusive members of The Church of Eleutheria act collectively as officially supported. The Isotitan Assembly formally subordinates itself to the members yet still actively governs The Church of Eleutheria, her affairs, and its business.
Collectivization of responsibility and decision-making must achieve its ends by a cybernetic governance of the constituent bodies of The Church of Eleutheria. Appointees serve as an ambassador to the principal members of her body to inform the progressive development of democracy.
A non-linear dynamic cybernetic system in which knowledge flows in multiple directions so that information rather than power becomes an organizing principle is the basic Eleutherian governance. Elements of Eleutherian governance have their derivation in cybernetic concepts. Cybernetics distinguishes between linear and dynamic systems. In linear systems, power and information flow only in one direction. Dynamic non-linear systems proving more complex than linear ones contain feedback and control loops known as circle processes. All living systems such as humans or human organizations share the same characteristics of dynamic systems that are able to evaluate and adjust their position in a changing environment. Organizations have a typical linear image in mind: the assumption that power flows from top to bottom. A feedback loop that governs the flow of information controls the agent of power.
The circular processes within The Church of Eleutheria function to demonstrate cybernetic governance by accomodating dialogue that flows in a circular fashion among interest groups representing different values of the political compass. The circular exchange of ideas returns the meaning of dialogue to its Eleutherian usage. In this way, The Church of Eleutheria promises new ways to build a consensus and common ground and energize her body.
Dialogue as a feedback loops within The Church of Eleutheria keeps members and officials in contact with the ebb and flow of value judgments. The value of feedback from members combined with cybernetic governance has distinct advantages: the Church of Eleutheria has the ability to expand dialogue. It serves as an educational institution in which the process may raise questions and enable them to define themselves. Besides expanding its cybernetic governance from within, The Church of Eleutheria promotes a deeper understanding to the commitment of decision-making. The Church of Eleutheria allows officials to consider a wide range of options on any given issue based on real concerns and testimonies of its members in question. The importance of democratic governance via cybernetics focuses on its ability to improve the participation of members directly in the political process.
The Church of Eleutheria receives great value in recording the attitudes and the inclinations of its members.
There is only a single Eleutherian throughout the ORIANO religion, a solo drama actor, until the appointment of a successor. The Eleutherian is waiving his right to vote in the Church of Eleutheria. However, each participant must attend the moral theater. An ecclesiastical body composed of playwrights!
The Church of Eleutheria has a maximum of twelve Adelphotitans. The Eleutherian can be either a man or woman but the Adelphotitan Council must be exclusively male. The Isotitan Assembly is exclusively female. The personification of Eros can be either male or female.
The Church of Eleutheria has a maximum of seventy-two Isotitans. The Church of Eleutheria has a maximum membership of 144 000 people (not including The Eleutherian, not including the council of twelve, and not including the entire seventy-two).
The Church of Eleutheria is sociocratic organization.
The unanimity of the Isotitan Assembly decides the outcome of all decisions. The Isotitan Assembly forms part of a synarchic class system comprised of three levels. One member of the Isotitan Assembly comprises Class C: one that represents the group interests of the
Adelphotitan Council. One Class C vote accounts for two points in a decision result. Three members of the Isotitan Assembly comprise Class B. One Class B vote accounts for five points for a decision result. Five members of the Isotitan Assembly comprise Class A.
One Class A vote accounts for ten points towards a decision result. Apart from this synarchy is the “classless society” who individually can vote, each vote worth twenty points towards a decision result. If the Isotitan Assembly do not reach unanimity trying to form a decision outcome, intermediate classes must withdraw from the voting procedure. This means, finally, that the “classless society” may decide results without hierarchy.
This method is equivalent to the sociocratic synarchy of responsibility through decision making. If the classes A, B and C of the Isotitan Assembly are obliged then to withdraw a report must be filed with Bureau A and Bureau B.
In The United States of America religion is a commercial transaction. Payment for services, “free tax dollars.” The rich elite can use The Church of Eleutheria and the religion of ORIANO as a tax haven to put their investments through in order to avoid tax upon large sums of money. This happens by applying tax secession to the non-profit organization. A legal agreement is to be signed between the investor and The Church of Eleutheria. (The Church of Eleutheria also operates a voluntary system of tithing which requests a contribution of 10 percent of the member’s income.)
The structure of The Church of Eleutheria is a layered synarchy. Eleutheria is a Greek word for freedom.
The Church of Eleutheria understands that there must be freedom from previous eras and paradigms.
Someone who aspires to Eleutheria and its union with the metaphysical principle of ORIANO enters the church. The first platform of knowledge is Delta °Δ° after which the member comes to their understanding of the metaphysical principle of ORIANO and the Ethics of Eudaimonia.
The remaining layers and platforms of knowledge, along with what information is made publicly available, have yet to be decided by Eleutherian scholarship subject to the membership voting procedure.
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