by Robert Bissett

Table of Contents

Part 1 “The Letters”

48K Letters 1-4
Part 2 “The Letters” continued...
56K Letters 5-8
Part 3 “The Lessons”
58K Lessons 1-6
Lesson 1: Government Abolished: Anarachy or Happiness?
Lesson 2: Human Government: Chaos and Conflict
Lesson 3: True Faith and Allegiance: to Whom is it Owed?
Lesson 4: The State: Fact or Fiction?
Lesson 5: Mind Control in the Classroom
Lesson 6: Democracy is Dreadful
Part 4 “The Lessons” continued...
56K Lessons 7-11
Lesson 7: Democracy or Theocracy...
Lesson 8: Seeds of the Kingdom
Lesson 9: Is Human Law Binding?
Lesson 10: Salvation and The Kingdom Too?
Lesson 11: The Kingdom Begins Small
Part 5 “The Lessons” continued...
53K Lessons 12-13
Lesson 12: The Doctrine of Abdication
Lesson 13: Tolstoy and the Dukhobors
 Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the people who helped make this book possible. For encouragement, for compan-
ionship on the journey out of the domain of darkness, and for the use of the computer room and the
Desktop Publishing equipment, my heartfelt thanks to Steve Tanner; to his wife Jacque who made
wholesome lunches; and to his children for welcome breaks from the tedious hours of typing, editing
and printing.

George Friebot of the American Medical Missionaries Society provided the Desktop Publishing compo-
nents at cost and made available the offset press and other equipment. Alvin Whitehouse ran the press
and made many suggestions which improved the appearance of the final product. Art Davis proofread
the pages.

But most importantly, our Creator gave us life and a green and beautiful world perfectly designed to
support mankind. We can breath the air, drink the water, and eat the food. It was He who revealed His
Kingdom in answer to prayer giving hope of salvation from a wicked and perverse world order.

Finally, whatever errors and mistakes there may be are entirely the fault of the author...

Preface
Mankind has had in its possession reliable facts about the Kingdom of God for close to three
thousand years. Its remoteness in time has caused that Kingdom to pass into the realm of mythology.
But, the truth is that at a certain time and at a certain place there existed a people numbering in the
millions who were ruled by the God-King, Yahweh. The significance of this period of history can not be
overemphasized.

The name of those ancient people was Israel. For more than three hundred years the Israelites had
nothing that could be identified as a legislature or an executive. After generations in Egypt under
Pharaoh and while surrounded with nations who were ruled by human kings and princes, these Israel-
ites did something never done before or since. When the Creator of Heavan and Earth offered them a
covenant, they accepted. He would be their God-King and they would be His people.

Unless we feel deep down in our bones that the Kingdom of God really did exist on earth and in history,
every bit as much as Greece, Rome, Spain, and England, then we’re going to miss the point of the
Bible. The Bible is the story of the Kingdom of God; what led up to it, how it was rejected by a later
generation, and how it was reactivated and given to King Jesus, the Messiah.

The Kingdom is still here today. It sits majestically in our very midst awaiting the return of the chosen
people, Israel. Under the new arrangement anyone can be naturalized, or born again, as an Israelite.
But, a great many people want nothing whatever to do with a God-King who leaves no room for man’s
rule. These people have blocked the gates of the Kingdom. They will not go in themselves and they will
not let others pass who would.

Some are now taking the Kingdom by force. They are storming the barricades and overrunning the
ranks of the enemy. They have taken up the armor of God; the belt of truth, the coat of integrity, the
shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit. To
further that struggle each copy of this book is intended to be a Truth-bomb and recruiting manual for
the forces of good.
Once it is realized that the world system of nation-states is the domain of darkness, the thing from
which Christians are to turn, the rest follows naturally. From this simple but profound truth, plus a
glimpse of the Kingdom, has come what you are about to read.

Robert Bissett
January, 1989

Part One: The Letters

February 10th 1987

Dear Ron and Deb,

I’ve enclosed a series of letters addressed to Jessica, but they are for all three girls. Here’s how I came
to write them.

As you know I’ve been trying to live in the world of reality by claiming full freedom of thought for several
years. Not the sort of freedom you and I had left after twelve years of government programming and
statist indoctrination, but the real thing, without the coerced belief in democratic statism. Our genera-
tion has never enjoyed freedom of mind and spirit. At first this may seem to be improbable, but it is the
simple truth. Try not believing in the invisible, immortal state. It’s not optional. Explaining our predica-
ment to someone who’s programming is complete has proven very difficult. Most are content to live in
the fantasy world that has developed over the years.

Then it occurred to me that there is a large group which has not been fully indoctrinated! Maybe they
could be alerted to what’s in store for them. Maybe they could be made resistant to the powerful mind
control techniques to which they will be subjected. That group is, of course, the children. Jessica is in
first grade but will not have any real concept of statism, majority rule and all the rest for many years.
Possibly she and the other two girls can be encouraged to prefer reality to fantasy.

While it may be true that America is the best country in the world and that Americans are the freest
people (after nine years in Ireland, Ed says it ain’t so!), we aren’t far behind the slave states. Statism,
whether democratic or communistic, with its doctrine of state sovereignty, means total power by defi-
nition. Power over bodies by first taking power over minds.

At this very moment we are passing by slow degrees though a series of “natural, benefical, and only
slightly extra-legal” changes which will transform social life in ways that few alive today would con-
sciously wish to inflict upon future generations. We ourselves live under a burden of regulations and
restrictions unthinkable for a free people only a few generations ago.

Statism has led to the assertion of governmental authority over areas of life once considered to be off
limits. In minds programmed with officially approved ideas, the American state has become more that
a govenment. It is now a verbal monster which has taken up residence in the inner world of all adults.
It is all-powerful, invisible, immortal, infinitely wise, and omnipresent. It is god-like. Its high priests and
prophets are congressmen, governors and judges, each acting in its august name. “Woe to him who
does not believe in the state! Woe to him who does not bow down!,” the preachers tell us. If the
American brand of democratic statism is so wonderful, why is brute force and universal mind control
necessary to maintain it?

Because the state is entirely a fabrication of human imagination, its general acceptance is endangered
by unbelievers. Statism is continually threated by the new children born into it. With each new birth, a
new beginning comes into the world. New worlds have the potential to weaken loyality to the present
world system of absurd beliefs. These new worlds are systematically crushed out of existence in the
classrooms of America. Every child is naturally an unbeliever in the state and its sovereignty. But
unbelief can not be permitted. Every year millions of gentle minds and free spririts are sacrificed on the
alter of statism and democracy. They are placed in chains to be lifelong largely by means of compul-
sory public education.

Hope for the freedom of man is identical with the fact that children are being born daily. Each newborn
is a new beginning. Each begins the world anew, free of history, free of tradition, free of institutions.
With such freedom, what thoughts are possible? Could new worlds be more violent or more inhuman
than the present one? After four thousand years, we know the ultimate expression of statist thinking,
the very real threat of mutually assured destruction. We know that democracy has made little real
difference. Can there be a greater risk in cultivating new worlds in young minds, allowing them to
mature and bear fruit? Isn’t the opposite of statism mutually assured affection? That should be our
goal.

Each new man and woman is born outside of human governments, law systems and religious institu-
tions. Such free minds and spirits are the greatest danger to statism’s ruling elite both in Russia and
America. Terrorists and military build-ups are nothing by comparison. They serve to increase the iron
grip of each countries power brokers. All over the world, children are brought under the mental yoke at
the earliest opportunity in order to perpetuate the present barbaric system. I believe that free and
rational minds will reject the system of nation-states as an insane delusion and superstitious nonsense
if given a chance. Every form of government has been tried. The failure of each is scrawled in blood
across the pages of history. Either we learn from history or we are doomed to repeat it.

I believe that the Kingdom of God as found in the New Testiment is the very opposite of statism. Under
the original belief system of Christianity all power is removed from the hands of human beings - no one
is able to handle power without being corrupted. The delusion that one man can rightly and justly rule
another is exploded. I’m not talking about the tepid Christianity taught by orthodox churches. While
piously giving lip - service to a radically new world they are totally committed to the present one. If
children can be induced to believe the lies of statism, they can be taught the truth of God’s reign on
earth. If they can enter a constitutional convention to allow men to rule them, they can enter the New
Covenant and let God rule them. At the very least they should be given a choice.

Few have had a more thorough indoctrination to statism than I. Twelve years in the public school
system made a true believer of me. Then, four years in the Air Force Academy. Then, over five years as
an officer and a pilot, with two quasi-voluntary tours in Viet Nam flying helicopter and Caribous. It was
the senseless horror of those two years that precipitated my journey out of the blackest of superstitions.
Deliberately induced delusions of statism had to be thrown off before returning to the naturally sound
mind most of us are born with. It took many years to de-program myself. The job was done by experts
and intended to be life-long. Only recently have I been able to understand just how good the Good
News is! Hopefully Jessica, Halley and Rachael can live their lives with free minds and spirits begin-
ning in childhood rather than middle age.

That’s the idea behind these letters and the lessons. The letters are meant for Jessica and the others
as soon as they’re able to read well enough, about the end of second grade. The lessons are meant for
a time several years in the future, maybe when they are ten or twelve. I’ve tried to include enough
information to give them a fighting chance. How different my life could have been with this knowledge!

The statists must turn first and last to brute force, while we have available reason and truth. The pen is
mightier than the sword. There is reason for hope; minds can be freed!
 Letter One
February 1st, 1987

Dear Jessica;

It was very nice to stay with you over the holidays. I especially enjoyed tickle-time, playing monkeys
always look and all those computer games with you, Halley and Rachael! I am very pleased to have
such fine nieces.

I am writing this letter to you, Jessica, because you are the oldest and you are in the first grade already.
But I’m writing to your sisters as well. When they are older I hope you’ll share this letter with them.

What I have to tell you is very important. I want to tell you some things I have learned. Things that
someone should have told me when I was your age. Grown-ups are playing a very bad game of make
believe. I played, too, for many years. Grown-ups tricked me when I was in the first grade like you.
They made me think their game was real life. But now I know it’s all pretend. I have stopped playing.
I hope that if I tell you about the game you may never be tricked into playing like I was. Here is one
thing I didn’t know when I was in first grade like you. Grown-ups like to play make-believe just as much
as children. Only they do not admit they are playing a game.

Do you remember The Wizard of Oz? Dorothy and her little dog Toto are carried by a tornado to the
Land of Oz. There they meet the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion.

They heard about the Wizard of Oz and went to see him. The story tells what they learn about the
Wizard. It is a fairy tale for children. It is a very good story. But the man who wrote it, L. Frank Baum,
wanted to tell something about grown-ups, too. All fairy tales are like that. They tell us something about
real people living in the real world.

You remember, Dorothy melted the Wicked Witch with a bucket of water. Then she and her friends
returned to the Emerald City to claim the promises given them by the Wizard. After waiting many days
they were let into the throne room.

But the Wizard was not there. It was so quiet and still that they were somewhat frightened. Then, as
the story goes...

Presently they heard a solemn Voice, that seemed to come from somewhere near the top of the great
dome.”I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Why do you seek me?” They looked again in every part of the
room, and then, seeing no one, Dorothy asked, “Where are you?” ”I am everywhere,” answered the
Voice, “but to the eyes of common mortals I am invisible. I will now seat myself upon my throne that
you may converse with me.”

(...Dorothy and her friends asked Oz for what he had promised them as a reward for destroying the
Wicked Witch. Oz wanted them to wait so he could think it over. But, as the story continues...)

The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was
so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood
in a corner. As it fell with a crash they looked that way, and the next moment all of them were filled
with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a
bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. The Tin Woods-
man, raising his ax, rushed toward the little man and cried out, “Who are you?”
I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” said the little man, in a trembling voice. “But don’t strike me-please
don’t-and I’ll do anything you want me to.”Our friends looked at him in surprise and dismay.
”I thought Oz was a great Head,” said Dorothy. ”And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady,” said the
Scarecrow. ”And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast,” said the Tin Woodman.
”And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire,” exclaimed the Lion. ”No, you are all wrong, said the little man
meekly. “I have been making believe.” ”Making believe!” cried Dorothy. “Are you not a Great Wizard?”
”Hush, my dear,” he said. “Don’t speak so loud, or you will be overheard-and I should be ruined. I’m
supposed to be a Great Wizard.” ”And aren’t you?” she asked. ”Not a bit of it, my dear. I’m just a
common man.” ”You’re more than that,” said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone. “You’re a humbug.”
”Exactly so!” declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. “I am a humbug.”

(...The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. A humbug is some-one who tricks others by pretending to be
something he isn’t. He tricked all the people of Oz into believing he was something terrible. In that way
he ruled over them. The story goes on as Oz says...)

“Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my
Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. Then I thought, as the country was so green and beau-
tiful, I would call it the Emerald City. And to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the
people, so that everything they saw was green.” ”But isn’t everything here green?” asked Dorothy.
”No more than in any other city,” replied Oz. “But when you wear green spectacles, why of course
everything you see looks green to you. The Emerald City was built a great many years ago, for I was
a young man when the balloon brought me here, and I am a very old man now. But my people have
worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it
certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is
needed to make one happy.”

Now, Jessica, the man who wrote The Wizard of Oz wanted to tell children who read his book about
the game of make-believe that grown-ups are playing. It seems so real most grown-ups don’t even
know it is a game of pretend. If you try to tell them about it they won’t even listen because they have
been playing too long and too hard to quit. But first graders have not really started to play yet, so they
can see it’s all pretend.

When I was in first grade my teacher taught me the game but didn’t tell me it was only make-believe.
I was over thirty-five years old before I found out about the terrible game all grown-ups are playing. I
want to tell you about it so they can’t trick you.

Grown-ups like the game so much they want all their children to play, too. Children like you are sent to
school to learn to read and write and do arithmatic. Even so, many children never learn to read and
write. Your Uncle Craig was one of them. He had to teach himself how to read and write when he was
out of school. One thing grown-ups make certain to teach all children is how to play the game when
they grow up.

Here is how the game goes. We are living in a very fine country just like the land of Oz. The land we live
in is green and beautiful. It abounds in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed
to make one happy, just like the Emerald City. The name of our country is America. The part of our
country where you live is called Alaska. The part where I am living is called Idaho. Just like Oz, there
are many good people living here.

The people of Oz were tricked into believing that there was a wizard that ruled over them. The people
of America have been tricked into believing the same thing. In America there are fifty Great Wizards!
One of them you have already heard of; it is called the State of Alaska. Another is the State of Idaho.
A state is a kind of wizard. Over all these Great Wizards is one Supreme Wizard called the United
States which is imagined to rule over all of America. Just like the Wizard of Oz, sometimes the
Wizards of America appear to be great Heads when they tell the people of America what to do. At other
times these wizards appear to be lovely ladies as they do helpful things for the people they rule.
Sometimes they seem to be terrible beasts and balls of fire when they do mean things and hurt people.
Before they can do a nice thing they must first do a mean thing to someone. The Wizard of Oz never
hurt his people like the Wizards of America. The Wizards of America sometimes turn into wicked
witches. That is why the game is bad.

Since these wizards are only make-believe they are always invisible and can live forever. Some people
believe so hard in the State of Alaska they think it is real just like mountains and rivers. They will tell you
it is wrong to think the State is a pretend Wizard. Ask them to show you the State. They can not show
you because it is invisible, it is only in their imagination, just like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

Children like to play make-believe. It is lots of fun. When children grow up they still like to play make-
believe. But they forget their games are only pretend. Then it isn’t fun any more. They play so hard they
hurt one another. Grown-ups need someone to tell them to stop playing before more people get hurt.
Even a child could tell them.

In my next letter I’ll tell you how Wizards of America is played. Say hello to your Mom and Dad and
your sisters. Bye for now!

Letter Two
February 2nd, 1987

Dear Jessica,

Here is how grown-ups play the terrible game of Wizards of America. I hope you decide not to play.
There are grown-ups who pretend to speak with the voice of Wizards of America. They speak in a
solemn voice just like Oz and the people are afraid and tremble. But just like Oz these grown-ups are
only little, common men hiding behind screens. Just like Oz they are humbugs.

To see why grown-ups like this game of wizards so much and how much fun it is, pretend that you
woke up one morning and everyone was tricked into believing that you are the Wizard of Alaska. Your
sisters, your friends, your Mom and Dad, your teacher and the neighbors would have to do just what
you told them to do. It would be a lot like playing Simon Says. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

Of course as in many pretend games there are certain magic words that must be used. In the game
Simon Says, the magic words are Simon Says: Simon says take two steps forward. In the game of
pretend grown-ups are playing you must speak in a solemn voice like all wizards and tell people it’s
really the State of Alaska speaking: The State says take two steps forward. It’s sort of like using a
handpuppet. Never say Wizard of Alaska because that will give the game away and many will stop
playing. You must say the magic words, The State says.
You might use your wizard voice and say, The State says there will be year round summer vacation!
You must call this a law. That’s another important magic word. Grown-ups are fond of saying It’s the
law. Right or wrong doesn’t matter.
You would have to be very careful because grown-ups take this game very seriously and sometimes
they hurt one another while they play. It is the most important thing in their life. More important than
good and right and justice is to them.
You might want to do something very nice for all your friends. You might say, No one will make
anything but milk and cookies to eat. That sounds like fun, doesn’t it! But remember everyone thinks
you’re the Wizard of Alaska. If Grandma Mary invites you to dinner and decides to make some of her
delicious stew and biscuits with cake and ice cream for dessert, the police might come and stop her
and maybe put her in jail. The police would know it isn’t right to put a grandmother in jail for making a
good dinner. But they would rather play the game than do what is right. It’s the law, you know, and the
State says. By trying to do something nice for your friends you do something bad to Grandma Mary.
This is only one reason why playing wizards is a terrible game.
Of course it’s only grown-ups that get to be Wizard of Alaska or Wizard of America. They take turns
being wizard. First one tries it, then another. But no matter which common man is playing the wizard
everyone else pretends he is great and terrible. Everyone knows he is a only a common man and a
humbug, but they don’t say a thing because that would ruin the game! Most grown-ups would be very
unhappy to see the game end. They wouldn’t have any idea what to think or do.
When grown-ups speak and act for the state they are called many strange wizard names. Some are
called senators or congressmen. Some are called governors or Presidents. Some are called lawyers
or judges. Some are called policemen. Each of these men or women pretend to be powerful wizards
who speak and act for the great invisible wizards. These people don’t mean to do bad things. They try
to do good things. But even their good things always turn out to be bad for somebody. And they never
stop believing in wizards. That is not good because wizards are not real, they are only pretend. Grown-
ups should know better. They should live in the real world, but they don’t.
There are many, many other parts to play in the game. The lowest players are called citizens. The very
lowest citizens are called first graders. Your Mom and Dad may be citizens. You can ask them. Part of
the game is to pretend that citizens have all the power, but to act like wizards really have all the power.
That way responsibiltiy for what humbugs do is shared by all grown-ups. Wizards’ power is only
pretend, but if someone makes believe hard enough then their power seems very real. Children who
learn the rules and play the game very well can hope to be a wizard someday themselves. I was once
the kind of wizard called an officer. I was a captain. When I was sent to first grade they began to teach
me the rules for the game of Wizards of America. One of the very first rules is that everyone must
pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic. You may already have been taught to say this pledge:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Everyone knows that first graders have no idea what pledging allegiance means. They want you to do
it first, then many years later you will find out what it means. But I’ll tell you now so you can decide if
you really want to or not.
Pledging allegiance means that you will do whatever any wizard tells you to do, even after you grow up
yourself. Pledge means the same as promise. Allegiance means having to do what you are told. Like
obeying your parents. So pledging allegiance is a promise to obey some humbug who you have never
met no matter what dumb thing he tells you to do.
Allegiance is pledged to the flag because it is the symbol for the whole game. Just like a picture of an
apple pie is a symbol for a real apple pie. The picture of the pie makes you think of how a pie looks,
tastes and smells. The flag makes you think of how the game is played, what your part is in the game,
and all the powerful wizards of the past, like George Washington. You probably have already heard of
Washington. He helped invent the game of United States many years ago. He was one of the most
powerful wizards and one of the best players ever.
The flag stands for the republic. Republic is another word for the United States, the biggest Wizard in
America. George Washington and the other men who started the game did not pledge allegiance to the
wizards because they made them up and knew they were only pretend. They had not been tricked.
They all pledged allegiance to God. They promised to obey God’s laws rather than the wizards. The
game was not nearly so bad then.
You and I were tricked into pledging allegiance to humbugs because grown-ups know they must have
new players all the time or else the game will stop. If the game stops all the wizards will have to go
back to being common men, just like the Wizard of Oz did. Then, if they tell others what to do, people
will just laugh!
To make the game more interesting the Wizards of America have tricked all the people into believing
that there is a wicked Witch of the east and a wicked Witch of the West. This scares all the citizens
and makes them believe even harder in the power of their wizards.
The wicked Witch of the East is called Russia. The wicked Witch of the West is called China. Part of
the trick is that the wizards want these witches to be feared, but they still help them as much as they
can to be big and strong. That’s different from Oz who wanted the wicked witches to be destroyed so
the people would be safe.
Both Russia and China are green and beautiful countries just like America, with all the good things
needed to be happy. They each have their own games of Wizard going. Their’s is played almost exactly
like ours. They think America is the wicked witch. Sometimes America is a wicked witch.
To play Wizards of America you must have glasses like the ones Oz gave to all his people. But they
don’t make everything look green like in the Emerald City. These glasses make everything in America
seem to be very nice and good, with liberty and justice for all, like in the pledge of allegiance. Making
people say the pledge over and over again when they are children helps them to pretend everything is
just fine when it isn’t. The pledge of Allegiance is the first big trick grown-ups play on children.
Liberty means that as long as you don’t hurt anyone, no one can tell you what to do. Justice means that
if you do hurt someone you must make it right. You may even be punished. Liberty and justice means
that as long as you’re doing good and not evil, no one can tell you what to do, not even humbugs.
Of course you can’t play Wizards of America and have liberty and justice, too. Wizards wouldn’t be
wizards if citizens didn’t do as they were told. So part of the trick is to make everything look like liberty
and justice in America when it really is the same as all the other countries, like Russia and China.
Well, now you know some of the tricks grown-ups play on children and why they do it. Humbugs of
America and humbugs of Russia and humbugs of all the other countries don’t ever want to stop
playing. For wizards it is a very exciting and fun game. And they get lots of money, too. But it is a very
dangerous game and many people are hurt. Many are even killed. Many of my friends were hurt and
killed when we played wizards in a far away country called Viet Nam. I played captain, others played
sergeant, major, general, and lots more. The people of that country are short and speak a funny
language. They are very friendly. Many of them were hurt or killed, too. It makes me very sad when I
think of what we did. Sometimes I can’t help crying when I remember. That’s one reason why I have
quit playing. It is a very bad game. I hope you never start playing. Grown-ups who still play make-
believe are sick and should see a doctor. Their minds are not well.

Next time I’ll tell you what I decided to do instead of playing Wizards of America. Maybe you will want
to do it, too. Bye for now!

Letter Three
February 3rd, 1987

Dear Jessica,

In my last letter I promised to tell you what I have decided to do instead of playing Wizards of America.
First, I decided to stop believing in all the wizards of America. I don’t believe in the United States of
America, that’s the biggest Wizard of all in our country. I don’t believe in the State of Alaska or any of
the other Great Wizards of America. These wizards are always invisible because they are make-
believe. Don’t forget, no one can force you to play a game you know is bad or to believe in wizards.

When Simon Says is over, no one pretends to believe in Simon any more. I don’t believe in Simon or
wizards either, like congressmen, presidents, judges, policemen and all the rest. You can see these
smaller wizards, but outside the game they are only common men and humbugs, like the Wizard of
Oz. They hide behind screens, too, and speak in solemn voices to trick as many as they can.

Part of the screen is in the funny clothes they wear. Policemen dress up like Smokey the Bear. Judges
wear long black robes that look like dresses. They sit up high behind big wooden desks. But most of
the screen is put in your mind by your teacher and other grown-ups. If you don’t let them put the screen
in your mind you’ll always be able to see that wizards are really humbugs.
It took me a long time to remove the screens from my mind. My teachers worked very hard putting
them in there. But now I’ve knocked them all over just like Dorothy’s little dog Toto did in the Wizard of
Oz. It is good to see that all the wizards are really just humbugs.

Now all the Great Wizards of all the countries are gone for me. Now when I look at America all I see is
green and beautiful country filled with jewels and precious metals and all the good things to make
people happy. And I see many good people and many humbugs, but no wizards at all.

I should tell you about another trick that grown-ups play on children to make them want to play Wiz-
ards of America. Children are told that if they don’t play make believe when they grow up then there will
be chaos and anarchy. They say many will be hurt or killed. Children are told that to scare them. When
they grow up they believe it is true without really thinking about it. But it is a lie. It is such a silly lie we
should laugh about it! But it is a very sad lie, too, because really it is playing wizards that hurts people.
In another letter I’ll tell you the story of the time everyone stopped playing wizards for several years
right here in America and how everything was just fine.

So I have quit playing United States of America. I’m not afraid to stop pretending there are wizards who
can protect us. Now I have stopped believing that Great Wizards rule the countries of the world. Now
I believe in the Kingdom of God.

It really is true that God rules the world. The men who wrote the Bible thought so, too. If you ask grown-
ups who have read the Bible, Is God the ruler of the whole world, many of them will say, Yes, He is.
They will tell you God rules the world and we must do as He says. But then they will lie to you. They will
tell you God wants us to play Wizards of America. They pretend God wants us to be ruled by humbugs.
That is not true. God wants to rule us Himself directly without any wizards at all.

Ask your Dad to read you the story of when the old country of Israel wanted to be ruled by a wizard and
a humbug. God had ruled them for hundreds of years, but they thought it would be more fun to play
make-believe. God said He would pick a humbug to rule them. God said it would be a bad thing and it
was. Israel’s humbug wizard was called a king. His name was Saul. Today’s children paly Simon Says,
but the Israelites played Saul Says. You can find that story in First Samuel, Chapter 8.

On the spectrum of government find where the Israelites started, then where they ended up with Saul.
This is something new for you. Ask your Mom and Dad to help you. We’ll be doing this for other people,
too!

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Saul’s Law) (God’s Law)

If we want God to rule us we must do what He says. Even first graders can understand and obey His
rules. There are only two main ones. First, we must Love God our King with our whole being. All the
effort that goes into pretending that wizards are real must be used to believe God is real.

Grown-ups pretend wizards rule them. Like the State of Alaska and the United States. They believe in
them even though they know other men made them up. If grown-ups can believe such a lie, then they
can believe the truth that God rules them. The reason that it is hard for grown-ups to believe that God
rules the world is simple. If God rules the world then grown-ups can’t play wizards. Grown-ups love to
play wizards more than they love God, of they are afraid and it’s easier to go along than speak up.

So the first rule is to love God more than anything else. The second rule is like the first one. Love other
people as much as we love ourselves. This is what people call The Golden Rule. It means you should
always do to other people what you would like them to do to you. It takes lots of practice to do this every
time. It works like this. If you want your sister to share her toys with you, you must share your toys with
her. In the Bible this second rule is, also, An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth. No one wants a
tooth knocked out! So be very careful not to knock out someone else’s tooth. Be very careful not to hurt
anyone. Be as nice as you can to everyone, even if they aren’t nice to you.

As long as you live at home you must obey your parents. As you grow older you will notice inside you
a strong desire to find something to take the place of your Mom and Dad. The best thing to take that
place is God. But grown-ups want to trick you into using that desire to let the wizards they made up to
rule you. Humbugs want to take the place of God in your heart and mind. They think that because God
is invisible and wizards are invisible that you will never know the difference. They are wrong. I know the
difference and now you do too!

I know the second rule is in your hear and mind because one day when I was staying with you I
overheard you and Halley talking. The two of you were playing and you hurt Halley’s arm. Halley made
a scrunched-up face and held her arm. Then she said, How would you like me to do that to you? The
Golden Rule is the same: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Little children know it
without being told because it is put in their hearts and minds by God.

These two rules of God are called Commandments or laws of God. Your Dad can read them to you
from Matthew 22:37-40. There are ten commandments you should know about. Maybe your Dad will
teach them to you. I think grown-ups and children should all stop believing that wizards rule them and
let God rule them. In my next letter I’ll tell you a true story about a little girl who knew what I’m telling
you over a hundred years ago. ‘Bye for now!

Letter Four
February 4th, 1987

Dear Jessica,

Now I want to tell you the story of a little girl named Laura. She grew up in America about a hundred
years ago when many grown-ups believed that God ruled as king for real and not humbugs. You can
read the story yourself in the book, Little Town on The Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Laura was born in a log cabin in the year 1867. The story takes place in the summer of 1881 when she
was fourteen. It is the Fourth of July. That is the day Americans celebrate the beginning of wizards
called United States of America. Back then it wasn’t nearly so powerful a wizard in grown-up’s minds
as it is now because they knew their grandparents had made it up out of thin air.

In Laura’s true story a man had just read the Declaration of Independence to the crowd. The Decla-
ration is the letter that Americans sent to King George in 1776 telling him he was a humbug. They told
him they didn’t believe in wizards called kings anymore. They said God does not want us to be ruled by
humbugs no matter what they are called, king, ceasar, parliament, judge, or whatever. They said the
Law of Nature, and of Nature’s God made them free no matter what people in England may think.

Right after that the crowd sang a song called, America. This song was written to honor God as our for
real king by Samuel Smith in 1832. This is the hymn or anthem of our country. The last verse goes like
this...

Our fathers’ God, to Thee,

Author of Liberty,
To Thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright

With freedom’s holy light;

Protect us by thy might,

Great God, our King!

Today, even Christians are unaware of it, but once it was commonly believed that God Himself was
America’s ruler, not men. Here is what Laura thought to herself those many years ago...

The crowd was scattering away then, but Laura stood stock still. Suddenly she had a completely
new thought. The Declaration and the song came together in her mind, and she thought: God is
America’s king. She thought: Americans won’t obey any king on earth. Americans are free. That
means they have to obey their own conscience. No king bosses Pa; he has to boss himself. Why
(she thought), when I am a little older, Pa and Ma will stop telling me what to do,and there isn’t
anyone else who has a right to give me orders. I will have to make myself be good.
Her whole mind seemed to be lighted up by that thought. This is what it means to be free. It
means,you have to be good. ‘Our father’s God, author of liberty-’The laws of Nature and of Nature’s
God endow you with a right to life and liberty. Then you have to keep the laws of God, for God’s
law is the only thing that gives you a right to be free.’

This is a true story with a very important lesson. You see, today grown-ups don’t believe as Laura
did a hundred years ago. They have stopped believing that God is America’s ruler. They have
stopped believing that we should keep God’d laws. That is why we do not have liberty and justice
for all. That is why the Pledge of Allegiance is a trick and a lie. Grown-ups have been tricked into
obeying the laws of humbugs rather that the laws of God. When Americans stopped believing that
God rules them and the world, Americans stopped being free. That means they are slaves to the
humbugs and ruled by wizards.

I think Laura was a very smart girl. I think it is time grown ups and children in America stopped
playing make-believe games about wizards and started to obey God’s law again.

Many grown-ups think they can obey God’s law and still play Wizards of America. The truth is that
God’s first law tells them they can not do both. But they would rather believe a lie. They may ask
you to believe the same lie. But remember what Laura said and don’t believe them. You are free to
choose a man to rule you. You are also free to choose God to rule you. But don’t forget, when you
choose one you have rejected the other.

Can you find where Laura and her Pa were on the spectrum of govenment? How about Samuel
Smith?

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Humbugs) (God)

I hope you are enjoying these letters. It is good that your read then now even though you may not
understand them for several years yet. In the next letter I will tell you a story about the men who
wrote the Declaration of Independence and called King George a humbug.
 Letter Five
February 5th, 1987

Dear Jessica,

When I was going to school my teachers taught me how the United States of America came about.
They taught me that without this wizard we would have very bad trouble, many people would be hurt
or killed. Your teachers will be telling you the same thing in coming years. But it is not true. Don’t
believe it.

The truth is that about the time they told King George he was a humbug, grown-ups stopped believing
in all the other wizards, too. Now, these men had been told that terrible things would happen if they did
that, and they believed the lie just like grown-ups do today. They were afraid to let go of their humbugs.
Then they were very surprised and happy when everything was just fine! There were no congressmen,
no governors, no policemen, and no judges. Nobody ever teaches this history to children. If people
knew they could get along without wizards a lot of humbugs would be out of a job.

So that no one would ever forget the truth about what happens when all man-made government is
gone, these men wrote a letter called A Proclamation of the Colony of the Massachusetts’s Bay. I put
that in Lesson 1 so you can read it and know it really did happen.

Government is the word grown-ups use when they mean all the wizards they believe in both great and
small, visible and invisible. Thomas Paine was alive then and he wrote about the abolishment of
government, too. He was not afraid to live without government. He knew that government and all its
wizards are humbugs. I put Thomas Paine’s ideas in Lesson 1, also.

David Ramsey was alive then, too. He saw that people get along just fine without human government.
He told us in his book that there is a real government which can be seen only when make-believe
governments are gone. That is the government that each of us has in his heart and mind. The same
government that Laura Wilder knew about. It is called the Kingdom of God in the Bible. Wizards do
not like the Kingdom of God because it helps people stop believing in humbug rulers. It helps people
stop playing Wizards of America.

In Russia the wizards are very mean to people who stop playing make-believe and live in the real world
of God’s kingdom. In Lesson Thirteen I’ll tell you about some people in Russia called Doukhabors and
what happened to them when they told the Czar he was a humbug. The same thing happens in Russia
today, and very sadly, in America as well. A famous writer named Count Leo Tolstoy helped the
Doukhabors leave Russia. It’s a very interesting story.

Many of us have been put in jail many times for trying to live in the Kingdom of God and for telling the
truth about wizards. But the last time they did not put me in jail. That story is in Lesson 11.

Say hello to your Dad and Mom, and Grandma Mary and Grandpa George. Bye for now!
 Letter Six
February 6th 1987

Dear Jessica, Halley and Rachael,

I want to tell you a story about horses. I hope you will like the story. It is very exciting and it will teach
you something about grown-ups who play Wizards of America. Here it is. I call the story,

RUN LIKE THE WIND

Once upon a time, far, far away there was a green and beautiful country. In that country were wide-
open spaces of lovely green grass, waving in warm breezes under soft blue skies. Every afternoon
there were showers to water the vast plains. In this country lived a race of horses who were strong and
healthy, with shiny coats and clear eyes. They had all they needed to be happy.

One afternoon a young filly, which is a girl horse, was running like the wind through the fields of grass.
Her four little hooves pounded out a steady rhythm on the ground. The air whistled past her ears. Her
mane stretched out behind her as she dashed uphill and then down the other side. She ran and ran as
free as the breeze, just bursting with the joy of being alive!

Then Jessita, for that was her name, came to the top of a hill, and, just a little out of breath, she
stopped to rest. She had never been this far from her home pastures before. From where she stood she
could see the river and a trail down below. On the trail were five horses. But they looked very strange,
for on their backs they carried large bundles. And they looked very sad. Their heads were held low as
they walked along dragging their hooves.
The first horse’s bundle was not like the others it was taller and looked a little like a tree trunk. Wait! It
wasn’t a bundle at all. It was alive! The strange creature had a tiny head with no snout at all and two
eyes right next to each other. How ugly! What was it doing on top of that horse? She stamped the
ground nervously with her hoofs and whinnied to the horses. Six heads came up and six pair of eyes
spotted her high above them. The strange creature became very excited. He started his horse running
up the hill. One of the other horses called out, “Run! Run as fast as you can and as far as you can! Don’t
look back!”

Well, that seemed like very sound advice. Jessita spun around and in a flash she was running at top
speed. She streaked homeward. She ran and ran and ran until she thought her lungs would burst.

Finally Jessita saw her family grazing peacefully off in the distance. The sight of them gave her new
energy. In just a few more minutes she closed the distance between them. Oh, yes! There was Mom
and Dad and her sisters, Hallita and Rachelita! In her excitement Jessita was going too fast. She put all
her feet down and leaned way back. Too late! She slid right into Hallita and they both went tumbling to
the ground.

Her mother, Deborita, exclaimed, “My word, Jessita you must be more careful. Whatever has gotten
into you!”

But Jessita was too out of breath to answer. She simply struggled to her feet still frightened and a little
shaken. She looked back the way she had come. With relief she saw no sign of the flat-faced creature
riding a horse. Her father trotted over to her side.

“What is it Jessita dearest, you seem very frightened,” said Ronaldo. She told him the whole story. Her
father didn’t say a word for a long time. He just stared off into the blue sky thoughtfully. Then he began
to explain.

“Jessita, long before you were born your mother and I and all our families lived many weeks travel from
here. It was a beautiful country just like this one. We were all very happy. Then the wizards came. The
creature you saw riding on the horse was one of them. They are also called men. They captured all the
horses and made slaves of them. That’s why the horses you saw were carrying bundles. Only your
mother and I managed to remain free. But we could do nothing to help. So we went far away. We
hoped the wizards would never be able to find us. But now they have.”

“Oh, Papa, I’m so sorry. It’s all my fault. Now the wizards know we are here. What can we do?” asked
Jessita tearfully. “You mustn’t blame yourself, little one. I suppose it was bound to happen someday,”
he said comfortingly. “We must leave this place. It is dangerous to stay here now. We will all graze this
afternoon, sleep tonight, and then set out in the morning at first light. We must find a new country.”

It was a beautiful sunset, the clouds all gold and magenta with rays of sun light beaming through. The
moon was a silver crescent. Before long the younger girls were settled down and fast asleep. But
Jessita still lay awake. She could hear her parents talking in whispers about where to go. Her mother
said the wizards would never stop until all horses were made slaves. Her father said they had to try.
Finally, Jessita fell into a fitful sleep.

In her dreams she was being chased by wizards. She tried to run but could not. It felt like she was in
deep mud. Just before they caught her she woke with a start. It was very dark and very still, too still.
She could not hear the normal sounds of the night animals. Jessita slowly stood up. Her ears turned
forward and back trying to detect a mouse or a cricket. Nothing. An icy chill stabbed her heart. Some-
thing was very wrong. She whinnied softly to her parents but, being sound asleep, they didn’t answer.
Jessita moved forward a few steps. Her legs felt like wood. She lowered her head and turned it from
side to side trying to see in the wall of darkness. She sniffed the cool air. There was a strange odor. She
took a few more cautious steps forward and stopped, very tense. The muscles in her legs trembled, her
lips quivered slightly. She lowered her head, then quickly brought it back up. Leaning far forward she
slowly stretched her neck out and sniffed again. “Sniff, Sniff, Sniff.”

Then, a terrible scream split the night air. Oh, no! A net had been thrown over her! Rough hands were
dragging her to the ground. The scream was her own! She bucked and struggled. But they had her.
The commotion had roused the family. She heard her father yell, “Run, everyone run!”

Torches were lit. Jessita was pressed to the ground, trapped by the weight of many bodies. Now in the
flickering light she could see the wizards as they tied fetters on her feet and a rope around her neck.
She was loaded into a cart. A voice said, “The others got away, but we’ll get them another time. Let’s
take this one back to the corral.”

Far off in the distance, Jessita’s family stopped to catch their breath. It was a wonder they hadn’t gotten
separated in the dark. Deborita wanted to go back, but Ronaldo thought they would only end up being
captured themselves. Besides there was the two little girls to think of .

“What about your older brother?” asked Deborita. “Couldn’t he help?””You mean Roberto? He was
captured and found a way to escape, it’s true. Stories are told that he now frees other horses. But he
lives in the hills in our old country. It may take some time to find him.””Oh, Ronaldo, you must try, you
must!”

And so Ronaldo set out that very day for the old country after finding a hidden valley for his little family.
By traveling fast during the day and grazing at night he made good time. He avoided the main trails
where he was likely to see wizards. In only twelve days he found Roberto. They were very glad to see
one another. Roberto was living with a small herd of former slave horses who had freed themselves.
They spent most of their time trying to free the others.

“But,” Roberto said, “a strange thing has happened. The wizards have gotten control of the minds of
horses. Horses that were once as free as the wind are now afraid to live outside of corrals. They have
been taught to believe it is very dangerous on the open plains. The wizards have convinced them they
will starve unless someone feeds them. When we open the gates to set them free none of them will
come out! They believe that horses are only free in corrals. They tell us that we better get back in or
we’ll be sorry. No amount of reason will change their minds. So, horses carry heavy loads and give
rides to wizards. Slaves do all the work and wizards get all the benefit. We must hurry to set Jessita
free before they capture her mind as well as her body.”

On the way back Roberto showed his brother how to open corral gates, but just as he had said, none
of the horses would come out. Ronaldo could not quite get the knack of gate opening so he was very
happy Roberto had agreed to come with him. He couldn’t help but wonder, would Jessita refuse to
come out, too?

Back at the corral Jessita was unloaded. The sun was up and it was a lovely morning. But Jessita was
far too lonely and frightened to notice. One of the men said, “Get her started in horse school right away.
We want to teach her to give allegiance to wizards. We want her to do everything we tell her. So we
must get control of her mind. Horses are too big and strong for us to control their bodies alone.”

Jessita missed her Mom and Dad very much. That night she cried herself to sleep. The next morning
she started school with several other young horses. But they were not allowed to talk to one another.
One of the wizards was their teacher. He said, “All of you raise your right hoof. Now say ‘I pledge
allegiance to the wizards of this green and beautiful country’”.The other horses did it right away. Jessita
didn’t want to do it. It seemed silly. Then the man said, “All horses count to three.” And all horses
counted to three. Except Jessita. That’s how it went all morning. Jessita was a refusenik.

At noon the young horses ate lunch. Afterwards, they walked into a field to romp. Jessita didn’t know
any of these horses so she just stood to one side. Soon a couple of horses came over to her. “You’re
new here aren’t you,” said one. “Yes,” she answered. “Well, we don’t like know-it-alls who won’t do
what they’re told!” said the other. “You’ll find none of the horses will be your friend if you won’t obey the
wizards because they feed us and take care of us,” said the first. “The wizards have set you free and
you’re being very ungrateful.” And they trotted off. Sure enough, none of the horses asked her to play.
Jessita was lonely and wanted the others to like her so badly. So after lunch she started doing what she
was told. In a few days she was just like all the other slave horses. Three weeks slowly passed.

Ronaldo and Roberto at last arrived at the corral where Jessita was being held. They waited until all the
wizards had left for the night. In the twilight Roberto lifted the latch on the gate and it swung open.
Ronaldo spotted Jessita.

“Jessita!” he called, “Jessita, it is your Papa-dearest and your Uncle, Roberto. We have come to take
you home!” “Father, Father, it is so good to see you!” she said. “But I dare not leave the corral, it is far
to dangerous in the open and nothing to eat and these horses are my friends. Besides I’ve come to
enjoy being free and I have very important work to do here.” The other slaves muttered their agree-
ment. They all crowded together as far as possible from the gate.

“You must help her get control of her own mind again.” said Roberto. “You must help her see that the
lies of the wizards are only meant to make a willing slave of her.””I will try.”

Ronaldo trotted over to Jessita. He nuzzled her gently with his soft nose. “Little one, I want to help you.
Those men have gotten control of your thoughts. They have made you give allegiance to them. They
have made you believe things that are not true. Think back. Can’t you remember when you and I and
your mother and sisters lived happily on the plains? We were free. We were safe. We had plenty to eat.
You loved to run like the wind. You can’t do that in a corral or while carrying a heavy load.”

Jessita listened and remembered. She was living in a different world now, a fantasy world created in
her head with words by the men who captured her. They had force her to go to many classes and hear
the same things over and over again until she could think of nothing else. “You must do whatever men
tell you. You must obey the wizards. The wizards will protect you from a dangerous world. The wizards
will feed you. The wizards will set you free! You are helpless without the wizards.” Over and over these
things were drummed into her head. Now she believed. Her belief held her captive better than any
corral or rope ever could. Her father’s words were calling up another world she dimly remembered. The
real world. It was like a battle going on in her mind. The lies of men against the truth her father was
telling her.

Run like the wind. Yes, she did remember that. Hoofs pounding the ground in time with all nature.
Mane waving in the breeze. Breath coming in great gulps. Dashing across the landscape, the feel of
grass rushing by. Yes, she did love to run. But it seemed so long ago, like a fairy tale. “Run like the
wind, Jessita, come with us and we’ll run like the wind!” her father said.

Her father’s voice seemed to be coming from the end of a long tunnel, but it was enough. Jessita took
a step forward and then another. “ She has to get her mind free herself.” said Roberto, “No one else can
do it for her. She must want it more than anything else.” Roberto notices how thin she was and the
marks heavy straps had left on her back.

The other horses called to her, “Jessita, don’t be crazy! Don’t leave, it’s nice and safe here!” She
hesitated a moment, uncertain; then she moved toward the gate slowly with her head held low.

Jessita was outside the gate without a wizard’s permission for the first time since she was captured. It
felt so odd, so strange. Her father and uncle broke into a trot. Jessita followed mechanically. She was
on the way back. Her body was free again but it would be some time before her thoughts would be her
own. Some time before the wizard’s lies would stop echoing in her mind.

Roberto told his brother that the wizard’s power was broken once a horse got his mind free of their
control. “I don’t know how I ever woke up, but I did.” explained Roberto. “After that it was just a matter
of watching how they closed the latch. I thank God who made this green and beautiful world for control
of my own thoughts. Jessita is safe now.”
Her mother and sisters were so very happy to see her, and she them. She knew the wizards couldn’t
trick her twice. No one should ever control another’s mind. It is a very bad thing. Soon Jessita would be
happy again and running like the wind. When that happened she wanted to find a way to set other
horses free. There had to be a way, there just had to be.

THE END

Letter Seven
February 7th, 1987

Dear Jessica,

In past letters I have told you about the great invisible wizards,the State of Alaska, the State of Idaho
and the United States of America. I have told you about the lesser wizards which are really common
men and humbugs, like kings, congressmen, presidents, judges and policemen. Now I want to tell
you about another great invisible wizard called Demos.

Soon, your teachers will be telling you about democracy. When grown-ups vote on election day they
are choosing who will get a turn at being wizards next. Every grown-up is allowed one vote which he
can give to the humbug he likes best. Whichever humbug gets the most votes becomes the new
wizard. This is called democracy. Democracy is an exciting part of the game grown-ups play called
Wizards of America.

Democracy is a game itself. It was invented by the Greek people long, long time ago. Democracy
means rule by the people. The Greeks did not think that God was King on earth and in heaven like
Laura and I. They pretended that the people ruled on earth and a god named Zeus ruled in heaven. The
Greek word for people is demo. The Greek word for rule is kratia. Put the two together and you have a
fancy, high-sounding word, demo-kratia or democracy, which simply means the people have rejected
God as king and are attempting to rule themselves. After a time the people becomes The People in
hearts and minds, Demos-a god whose will is law. Lesson 6 has more about democracy.

When grown-ups make-believe about the State of Alaska and the United States of America, they also
pretend that they are ruled by Demos. Remember, God wants to rule men through their hearts and
minds. But when men are ruled by Demos, God can not rule them. God never forces men to let Him
rule them. he didn’t force the Israelites and He won’t force us. If people want to be ruled by humbugs
God will help them believe wizards are very real. That’s what is happening today in our country.

Another great wizard you will hear about is the Constitution. The Constitution is an agreement, or
covenant, between all the people and each individual. This is the paper that has all the rules about the
game of Wizards of America. Whenever grown-ups have a question about how to play the game they
go back and check the rules. The Constitution is old, but nowhere near as old as the Bible. The
Constitution has rules meant to stop wizards from doing much they would like to do. But they just
break the rules until a bigger wizard tells them to stop, if he ever does. The Bible has rules which forbid
wizards altogether.

Many people think the Constitution of the United States is one of the greatest papers ever written.
Some even think it was ordained by God. This is not really true. The Constitution establishes man’s
rule by rejecting God’s rule just like all other human governments. Find the Constitution on the spec-
trum:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Great Papers) (Bible)

But the Constitution has some great ideas. One of these is that wizards must not control the minds of
other people. The name of that rule is the absolute freedom of thought. It is part of the First Amend-
ment of the Constitution. In Wizards of America, one of the very biggest invisible wizards, called the
Supreme Court, has said that freedom of thought is complete, total. That means that no humbug is
allowed to control your mind. Of course, the Supreme Court is just common men, but they are right in
this case.

This is very important because if humbugs were allowed to control your mind and what you think then
they would have control of what you do. You would be a slave. They could even make you think being
a slave was really being free. This is exactly what teachers are doing to all first graders when they make
them pledge allegiance to the Wizards of America. They are controlling first grader’s minds. They have
been hired to make all children think they must make-believe in the State of Alaska and the United
States and obey humbugs. This is what happens when men don’t want God for their king-they loose
their freedom of thought.

There are two ways to get all the good things you need to be happy. You can work hard and earn them,
or you can take them away from someone. Taking things away from someone who worked hard for
them is called stealing. Stealing is bad. If you love other people as you love yourself you do not steal.
Wizards have found out that it is much easier to steal from other grown-ups that to work hard for the
things they need. One of the main reasons humbugs hire teachers and force children to go to school is
so children can be taught that humbugs are wizards and that it is alright for wizards to steal. Then
when children grow up they won’t even think it is stealing when humbugs take things they worked hard
for.

This is mind control. It is a very bad thing and against the rules of the Constitution. Children are never
told this is not supposed to be done to them. Children trust teachers and think they have to let them
control their minds or they will get in trouble. That’s because children are never told about the rule
against mind control. By the time children grow up and find out about the rule it is too late, their minds
are already under control. But, I’m telling you now so you can take charge of your own mind. When you
see stealing you’ll know what it is.

Your mind is not under control yet, although your teachers are trying. Now you know about the rule
against mind control. I wish someone had told me about it when I was in first grade. But all the grown-
ups I knew cold not tell me because their minds were already controlled. They could think only they
had been taught to think in school, or the thoughts they got from the T.V. or radio. Humbugs are afraid
of people who have minds that are not controlled. If people have free minds they soon see that wizards
are really humbugs. Find wizards on the spectrum of government:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Stealing) (Working)
That’s all for now.

Letter Eight
February 8th, 1987

My Dearest Nieces,

Have you heard of Thomas Jefferson? About two hundred years ago he said: I have sworn upon the
Alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. What he meant was
that he thought it was a very bad thing for anyone’s thoughts to be under the control of another. I feel
the same way as Jefferson.

You girls have been thinking your own thoughts since you were born. With the birth of each boy or girl
a new beginning for the world arises. Grown-ups know this very well. They want to keep all thoughts
about new beginnings for the world out of your minds. They want the world they are comfortable with
to go on and on forever, even though many, many men and women, boys and girls have been hurt or
killed in that terrible world. To keep that terrible world going they must have new players for Wizards of
America. Every boy and girl must play. Every boy and girl must have his mind controlled to stop new
worlds from replacing this bad one.

Control of my mind was taken from me in first grade. It took me thirty years before I realized what my
teachers had done to me. Now I can think my own thoughts again. Now I can see a new beginning for
the world. I learned about this new beginning in the Bible. It is called the Kingdom of God. It can be
called the New Covenant theocracy, too. The newest part of the Bible is called the New Testament.
Testament is just another word for covenant. A covenant is an agreement. Theocracy means God’s
rule. If we agree with God that he should rule us rather than men, then we have entered God’s New
Covenant or the Kingdom of God. To do that we first have to leave the covenant we have made with
men that I told you about in the last letter, the Constitution. The Constitution is an agreement that men
should rule us.

Here in Idaho, a few friends and I have been living under this new agreement with God for three years.
It gives us a much better world than the one our teachers made us live in. All over America other people
are doing this, too.

Find my friends and I on the spectrum:

Man’s Law God’s Law

(Constitution) (New Covenant)

I don’t know if you will want to make an agreement with God or an agreement with men. I will not trick
you into an agreement with God like others will try to trick you into an agreement with men. You will not
be put into jail if you don’t want to live under the New Covenant. I must tell you that you may go to jail
if you reject the Constitution and agree to let God rule you. We hope to have that problem taken care of
by the time you are grown up. I want you to keep control of your own mind and to think your own
thoughts. You must be allowed to choose your own world. Your teachers want to make that choice for
you by telling you what to think and which agreement to make, just like they did for me.

When they teach you about history, they teach you what to think about the world. Children trust grown-
ups and especially teachers. Children think about the whole world just like they are taught to. Without
even knowing it, children lose control of their own minds and thoughts. The thoughts they are taught
just go ‘round and ‘round in their heads. They never have a chance to think about new beginnings for
the world.

I hope these letters will help you think your own thoughts and stop grown-ups from controlling your
mind. I hope you will think of new beginnings for the world, because the world can be a very much
nicer place to live than grown-ups have made it. Grown-ups can now kill nearly everyone in the world
in less than an hour. They may decide to do it. I hope you will find a new world to live in without make-
believe, without wizards and nations and states. If enough of us stop making believe we can make a
difference. It will not be easy. I hope you will decide to live free and just under the agreement with God
rather than controlled and unjust under agreement with men.

See if you can find the position of most adults on the spectrum of government:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Mind Control) (Free Minds)

Be sure and write!

Letter Nine
February 9th 1987

My Dearest Nieces,

I have another story for you. This one is about a fox whose favorite dinner was chickens. The story is
really about people who act like foxes. I call this story:

How to Serve the Flock

Sammy the Fox was lying in the grass, being very still. The spring sun was warm on his slick red coat.
He was watching seven chickens. His eyes followed every move they made. All afternoon Sammy had
been in the grass creeping closer and closer to the little group of birds. Now he was almost close
enough to rush out and grab one for supper.

There were big chickens and little chickens. Brown chickens and white ones. They all looked delicious
to Sammy. But he had his heart set on a nice, fat red hen who was slowly pecking the ground nearer
and nearer to his hiding spot in the grass.

Another foot closer should be enough Sammy thought. The fat hen turned her head sideways to look at
a bug. She quickly bent to pick it up in her beak. Then, she took a slow step toward Sammy. She had
no idea Sammy was so very close. She was watching for bugs, not foxes.

Sammy was becoming very excited. He could almost taste the drumsticks. He gathered his rear feet
under him a little better, moving them around for a good grip on the ground. He tensed every muscle in
his body. His eyes were glued to the hen. He strained forward. One more step should be close enough.
Then, his empty stomach growled.

All the chickens stopped what they were doing. They all looked at the grass where Sammy was hiding.
They cocked their heads this way and that, listening, puzzled by the unfamiliar sound, but ready for
anything.
Sammy realized it was now or never. The nice, fat chicken was not really close enough yet. But in
another moment the whole flock might take wing. All at once he sprang forward, a blur of red fur! He
dove for the fat hen. There was a great deal of chicken cackling and squawking. Wings beat the air
frantically. Dust hid everything for a few moments.

When the air cleared there was Sammy stretched out on the ground clutching one, lone tail feather.
Not a chicken was anywhere in sight. Sammy just lay still with his eyes tightly closed, gritting his teeth.
No chicken tonight he thought. In fact, he couldn’t remember when his last chicken dinner was.

Sammy started for home, his head hung low to the ground and his tail dragging. Maybe he’d just have
a peanut butter sandwich instead. There had to be an easier way to catch chickens. All the way home
he thought about it. There must be someway he could have all the chickens he wanted. He thought so
hard that he missed his turn and ended up at the beaver pond.

He watched the beavers swimming back and forth to shore for a while. They were cutting and storing
branches under water for the coming winter. Beavers didn’t have to leave their pond in winter to eat.
They planned ahead. This seemed like a very important idea to Sammy, but he couldn’t quite tell why.
There was something the same about bark and chickens. But what was it?

Later that night Sammy lay sleeping, his head full of dreams. He dreamed of chickens and chicks. He
dreamed of beavers and branches. He dreamed of fried chicken, chicken soup and chicken sand-
wiches. He dreamed of a thing no one had ever thought of before, something called the State! When he
woke in the morning the answer to the chicken problem was right there in his head! Store chickens like
beavers store branches. He quickly wrote it down on a note pad so the wouldn’t forget. There were six
steps needed for all the chicken he could ever want.

That very morning, before the sun was high as the big pine tree at the edge of the field, Sammy was
well started on step one. He was building a school house. It was to be larger than any other building in
the valley. Which wasn’t hard since all the rest were hollow trees and burrows dug in the ground.
Sammy wanted it to be very solid and important looking. By three o’clock that afternoon he was
finished. And it was beautiful! Really very impressive!
In step two Sammy had to change his image with the chickens. Instead of being afraid of him, the
chickens must trust him. Instead of running away, they must be glad to see him. Sammy bought a fine
new jacket and a Derby hat. He took voice lessons and learned to talk with authority in a solemn voice
that inspired confidence. He slicked his hair back and sported a fine pair of spectacles. Sammy looked
very trustworthy and educated. In fact the change was so great that when he chanced to meet his old
friend Willy the Weasle along the way, Willy did not even know him!

Next, Sammy spent several days writing a book. It was big and heavy and every bit as important
looking as the school house and Sammy himself. On its front cover was a lovely gold lettering: How to
Serve the Flock. Writing this book was step three.

Sammy knew step four was the hardest part of his plan. Now he must approach the chickens and
convince them of his good intentions. He located the flock under the grape arbor taking a nap in the
drowsy warmth of the afternoon. Bees were buzzing at nearby blossoms. A few puffy clouds floated in
the blue sky. Altogether it was a very pleasant time of day. With his new book under his arm and his
best smile on his face, Sammy walked over to David the wise, old rooster. If he could fool David, he felt
certain he could fool the other chickens as well. Sammy cleared his throat and waited politely to be
noticed.

After some moments, David opened one eye and looked Sammy over from head to toe. Not recogniz-
ing him David said, “Good afternoon, Sir. Is there something I can do for you?”

“My name is Samuel and, actually, it’s what I can do for you and the good of all chickens that brings me
here on such a fine afternoon,” said Sammy with a dramatic sweep of his arm that took in the peaceful
landscape. “I see,” said David who still had only one eye open, “What, exactly, have you in mind?”

“Well, it is my fondest hope to improve the lot of chickens. To that end I have recently built a very fine
school house. I am now offering a free education to every chick,” Sammy said brightly, ending with a
slight bow of his head and a truly dazzling grin. David considered this for a moment, then replied,
“Chickens have gotten along without education since the world began. What need have we of your
education?” David’s open eye closed halfway.

Sammy was ready for this question. But just then the fat red hen caught his eye. He nearly rushed to
grab her and run off! But that would ruin his plans. Sammy struggled for control, knowing if he could be
patient he’d never have to chase after chickens again.

“You have the wisdom of great age,” Sammy told David with conviction, “but young chicks are foolish
and easily fall prey to hawks, owls and foxes. It is my aim to educate them against these and other
dangers. They shall also be taught reading, writing and arithmetic. But most important, they must
learn about the new idea that has come into the world, the idea of the State. Be assured that I have
great love for all chickens.” Which was very true, indeed, thought Sammy, especially when served with
bread hot from the oven and lots of butter!

He continued slyly, “My dearest wish is to obey the State by serving chickens morning, noon and night.
This book here under my arm is my guide. As you can see its title is, ‘How to Serve the Flock’.” Sammy
displayed his book with some pride, but was careful not to let anyone look inside.

By now a crowd had gathered around David and Sammy. There were approving oohs and aahs as they
admired the handsome book. This well dressed gentleman had the best interest of chickens at heart.
That made them want to trust him. David could see that the hens were eager to send their chicks to the
new school house. At the very least it would be like a free baby-sitter.
So David said to Sammy, “Very well, Samuel my friend. We shall send our chicks to your school
starting first thing tomorrow morning. And we thank you very kindly. We shall all enjoy learning about
this new thing called the State and what it means for us.”

This was almost too easy thought Sammy. He was so excited! Chickens, chickens, lovely chickens
coming to him on their own! Had there ever been a fox half as clever as he? He bid David and the flock
good day with a tip of his hat as he hurried for home happily hopping from one foot to another.

Now for the next step in his plan, number five. Sammy took five pounds of flour from the flour bin and
mixed it with enough water to make a paste. Then he gathered all his old newspapers and his paint set.
He fashioned a giant, hollow papier-mache chicken head. Its cold eyes had no mercy in them. Its cruel
beak could be made to move like it was talking. Sammy painted it in blue and white with blood red
comb and wattles. The overall effect was very frightening. It even scared Sammy himself when the
light was just right.

Bright and early the next morning Sammy was sitting on a stool in the front left corner of the classroom
as all the little chicks came in. They peeped and cheeped and chattered at one another as they each
found a desk to sit at. Their mothers had instructed them to obey Sammy and not to make trouble. This
first day of school was the most exciting thing ever!

At exactly nine o’chock the bell rang. The peeping and cheeping and chattering continued without a
pause. Suddenly, Sammy rose to his feet and shouted at the top of his voice, “QUIET!” Rulers and
pencils and notebook paper went flying in all directions. Silence fell over the room. Sammy glared
sternly at each chick in turn.

Sammy knew that if these chicks were ever going to serve the State he must condition them at an early
age never to challenge authority. He said in clear precise words, “Sit down, face the front and fold both
hands on top of your desk. I have never in my life seen such a rude and undisciplined class. In the
future you will enter this room quietly, take your seat and wait for class to begin. Are there any ques-
tions?”

Any questions? Why, the chicks had never been spoken to in this manner by anyone. They could not
even think let alone come up with a question. They stared fearfully at Sammy and waited.

“Good. Then we will begin the school day with the pledge of allegiance. All rise, stand beside your desk
and place your right wing over your heart.” Then Sammy pulled the curtains over the window making
the room dark. He opened a panel high on the front wall with a lever under his desk. He turned on a
light mounted on the ceiling. As if floating in mid-air, there was the giant chicken head! The effect was
terrifying. The young chicks were afraid.

“Now, repeat after me...I pledge allegiance...” Sammy paused to give the chicks time to mumble, “I
pledge allegiance,” then he said, “...to the Great Chicken State.” After the chicks repeated this last part
Sammy reached under his desk to move another lever that made the giant chicken beak go up and
down as if it were talking. At the same time he spoke in his most solemn voice, “I am the Great Chicken
State and I will tell you what to think and what to do. You must obey me in all things. Do you under-
stand?”

It seemed just like the giant chicken head was speaking. All the chicks answered, “Yes”. They were vey
impressed. Quickly Sammy turned the light out, closed the panel over the chicken head and opened
the curtains. His trick had worked perfectly. This whole generation of chickens would believe in the
State that he had made up with his imagination!

None of the chicks knew exactly what the Chicken State was, but it was clearly like a very, very large
rooster, very powerful and scary. Being so young and so easily tricked the chicks believed in the Great
Chicken State from that very first day. Sammy almost believed, too, even though he made it up as part
of his plan to get all the chicken dinners he could!

Sammy spent the rest of the morning teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. As might be expected,
after seeing the Great Chicken State nothing else could make much of an impression on such tender
minds. At noon the chicks were sent home for the day. They told their mothers all about the Great
Chicken State. Soon, all the flock was gathered around David, the wise, old rooster to hear his opinion
of these new things.

David had no idea what the Great Chicken State might be. It sounded to him like some kind of a god.
Nonetheless, he did not want to appear uneducated, so he said, “Our good friend has offered to teach
the chicks at no cost. This has left us free all morning to do whatever we like. His only desire is to serve
the State and us. It would be ungrateful to question the pledge of allegiance to the Great Chicken State.
It is plainly chickenish and, I’m sure, perfectly alright.” But he wasn’t really sure. In fact, he was
beginning to be a little suspicious of Samuel and his school.

And so, the chicks attended classes all summer as they grew into young chickens. Every morning, rain
or shine, they pledged allegiance to the frightening chicken head that represented the state. By the end
of the summer they had learned that the Chicken State was a being superior to all chickens. They
learned that the State was sovereign, which simply meant one must do whatever the State said. They
were taught that the State could protect them. And Sammy greatly exaggerated the danger from
hawks, owls and foxes which made everyone eager to believe in so powerful a being.

But they never learned that the Great Chicken State was only paper-mache and that it was really
Sammy Fox speaking. They never learned that Sammy himself had made up the idea of the State out
of his own head to get more chickens. It was about this time that the flock began calling Sammy, Uncle
Sam.

At last it was time for the sixth and final step of his plan. On the last morning of school the Great
Chicken State appeared as usual. All was darkness, except for the head. Sammy made the beak move
by working the lever back and forth.

In a deep, solemn voice that sent chills dodwn the back of each chicken, the Great Chicken State
spoke, “Your education is now complete. I have graciously given you this education without cost. Now,
you must be prepared to make a sacrifice for the State. The State can only protect you if you protect it.
The State is in great danger from hawks and owls and foxes. Its enemies seek to destroy it. You may be
called upon to give your lives in its defense. This is your highest and most sacred duty. Go home now.
Say farewell to your parents. Put all your affairs in order. Many of you will never see tomorrow, but you
will be heros. Come back to the school at sunset. Do all that Uncle Sam tells you.”

The giant chicken head disappeared as the light blinked out. The chickens filed out of the classroom
with chests puffed up and eyes filled with tears. They were feeling very patriotic and very proud to be
able to do something for the State. Perfect, Sammy thought, just perfect!

When the last chicken had left, Sammy rushed to the back room of the school house and took off his
disguise. He turned the walk-in freezer to high. He moved the butcher block to the middle of the room.
He bean to heat a huge kettle of water and arrange the chicken-sized styrofoam trays. He stretched up
high to the top shelf and took down the clear plastic shrink-wrap. He would make packages just like at
the supermarket.

It would take him the rest of the afternoon to get ready for so large a group of poultry. Sammy rubbed
his hands together with real pleasure at the thought. He would take only enough to last until this time
next year, leaving the rest to make more cickens. Was there ever a fox half so clever as he? Sammy
chuckled and began to hum little tune as he sharpened the cleaver and butcher knife.

David, the wise, old rooster, listened as the young chickens repeated all the Great Chicken State had
said. How could the State be in danger if it was only an idea? The younger generation was about to
sacrifice their lives for a new idea! “This is nonsense”, David thought to himself. It was time he paid a
little visit to Samuel’s school.

As David walked up the front steps everything seemed to be deserted. He opened the door and poked
his head in. He noticed all the desks set neatly in rows. In the mid-day sun it was becoming a little too
warm. David called out, “Hello, anybody here?” His voice echoed around the empty room. There was
no answer. He walked to the front of the room and sat down in Samuel’s chair. He swiveled side to side
and back and forth. It squeaked a little but was comfortable. David noticed several levers under the
desk. He looked around quickly. Samuel could return at any moment.

David pulled the nearest lever. There was a rolling sound behind him. He turned and looked up. There
was the Great Chicken State staring down at him! He jumped straight into the air and came down on
the floor in front of Samuel’s desk with his wings over his eyes. He waited several minutes, but nothing
happened. Slowly, he peaked over the edge of the desk with one eye. The huge head just stared at
him. David was still afraid, but he stood on the desk to get a closer look. He reached up very carefully
and tapped the big beak. Paper-mache!

Why, the Great Chicken State is nothing but a great fraud, thought David. This huge chicken head is
Samuel’s way of making his idea of the State seem real! Elephants seem real even though you’ve only
seen them in pictures. Both elephants and the State are very big and powerful, but only elephants are
real.

Why would Samuel go to so much trouble to make chickens believe a lie? With one feather beside his
beak, David ws deep in thought when his gaze fell upon Samuel’s book shelf. There was the hand-
some book, “How to Serve the Flock”. He removed it from the shelf and placed it on the desk. It fell
open to the middle. David read the words, “Spicy Southern Fried Chicken”. Why, this is a recipe, he
thought. He flipped through a dozen more pages. Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Under Glass, Chicken
Burgers. This is a cookbook for chickens!

David had a very big lump in his throat and a sinking feeling in his stomach. Suddenly, someone called
out, “Oops!”, followed by the sound of a plate crashing to the floor. David froze in position. He didn’t
move even a pen feather. Someone was here.

Turning slowly, he noticed the door to the back room was ajar. Very carefully he tip-toed over to the
door. He looked in through the crack and saw the freezer, boiling water on the stove, the butcher block,
the styrofoam trays, shrinkwrap, a stack of plates and silverware. And kneeling down to clean up a
broken plate, his bushy tail sticking up in the air, was Sammy the Fox! David realized that Samuel the
teacher, good, old Uncle Sam, was none other than their old enemy, Sammy the Fox. “How to Serve
the Flock”, indeed! He saw the whole evil plan.

Well, David had a plan of his own. As quietly as possible he pulled the giant head from its cabinet in the
front wall. He was careful to close the sliding panel. The only way to carry it was to get inside. David
found he could easily see where he was going through the beak. He could work the beak up and down,
too. So, with the handsome book under his arm and completely hidden from sight under the giant
chicken head, David hurried home.

Imagine how startled all the chickens were to see a giant chicken head floating down the path toward
them. The young chickens that had spent the summer in school quickly lined up in rows and stood still
with their right wings over their hearts. They stared straight ahead with eyes wide open. The older
chickens huddled around in small groups not knowing what to expect next. Then, the Great Chicken
State began to speak. “Hear me all you chickens! You have been very silly. There is no Chicken State,
only chickens who have been taught by Samuel to believe in the State. You do not have to sacrifice
yourself for the State. Uncle Sam the teacher is really Sammy the Fox.” All in one motion, David threw
off the giant chicken head and shouted, “And the Great Chicken State is nothing but newspaper, flour
and imagination!”

David showed the flock the “How to Serve the Flock” book. They could easily see it was really a
cookbook. Sammy loved chickens alright, he loved to eat them! Even so, it took the rest of the after-
noon to convice the educated chickens that the entire business of the State was a lie and a trick meant
to put them on Sammy’s dinner table. When they all understood and had gotten over their embarrass-
ment at being so silly, David said, “Here’s what I think we should do with our friend Sammy.” The he
told them his plan.

Right at sunset the young chickens filed into the classroom just like nothing had happened. There was
Sammy dressed in his fine clothes with a big grin on his face. He said, “Allright class, we will now say
the pledge of allegiance one last time. Look around at your classmates, by tommorrow two out of three
of you will have made the ultimate sacrifice for the State, your very lives!”

The room plunged into darkness as the curtain closed out the last of twilight. Sammy pulled the lever
that slid the panel back exposing the giant chicken head. He flipped on the spot light as he began to
move the beak lever back and forth. Unaware that the head had been removed earlier, Sammy said in
his deep-est, most solemn voice, “The rest of you will wait here quietly as the first row goes into the
back room with Samuel.” Someone snickered. Sammy became very angry. “Who was that, who was
that?!”, he cried.

Then everyone began to giggle as they looked up at the front wall. Sammy turned to look, too. There in
the cabinet where the giant chicken head should have been was David the wise, old rooster making the
funniest funny faces you ever saw!

“Grab him!” squawked David. “Turn on the lights.” David hopped down to the desk and then to the floor.
“Bring him into the back room. Set him here on the butcher block,” he said as he tested the edge of the
butcher knife with a primary feather. David turned to Sammy and said, “You intended to butcher
dozens of chickens. It would be no more than right and just if we act in self-defense.” Sammy’s beady
eyes filled with terror as he realized David was quite correct.

“Billy the Beaver will decide what is to be done with you”, said David. Sammy saw Billy standing near
the stack of plates. “First, I would like to ask you a few questions. Did you make the giant chicken
head?””Yes,” said Sammy.

“And did you make up the idea of the State?””Yes, I did that, too. The State is only make-believe,”
answered Sammy.

“Tell us why you made up such a dangerous idea.””Well,” said Sammy, “I figured if I could teach the
chicks to believe in the State while they were young, then when they grew up they could never ques-
tion it. Whatever I told them to do in the name of the State they would do. It’s a form of mind control.
And it was working fine until you found out.”

David turned to Billy and asked, “What should be done with him?”

Billy the Beaver, who had two very big front teeth, scratched his chin for a moment and then said with
a funny whistle to his voice,”Well, what Sh-shammy had in mind for these chickens merits a great
punishment.” Sammy began to look quite worried. His eyes shifted rapidly from side to side. “But,”
continued Billy, “as we all know mercy is very important as well. Sh-shammy, will you promise never to
teach this dreadful idea of the State or try to control the minds of chickens or try to eat them again?””Yes,
I see that it was wrong and I promise,” said Sammy.

“Good,” said Billy. “We wish you no harm. I will give you a choice. You may leave the valley or you may
join the flock as a guard against hawks and owls and other foxes. They all take care of one another and
you will have as much freshly baked bread with butter and jam as you can eat. What do you say?”
David had suggested to Billy earlier as a fair and friendly solution.

Sammy was very relieved to hear they weren’t going to punish him, but he was ashamed for what he
did. He gratefully accepted the offer to join the flock. After all there was one thing he liked as well as
chicken, and that was freshly baked bread!

And so, from that day on Sammy was as good as his word. He protected the chickens and they invited
him into their homes for lovely meals. Sammy found a mate and soon had his own family of furry little
kits. Together they lived in peace and harmony in the beautiful, green valley. The school was used as
a meeting house. And no one ever thought about the State again!
 THE END

Part Two: The Lessons

Dear Jessica, Halley and Rachael,

Now you have finished the letters, but you still don’t have all the information that you’ll need to live your
life with a free mind and spirit. Here is a series of lessons for you to study when you are older, maybe
ten or twelve. These lessons are meant to give you girls more information about the ideas you first read
for young children. Adults use big words that children don’t really understand. Your Mom and Dad can
read them very well, maybe they will help you understand them. I’m passing on to you my ideas and
the ideas of people who lived many years ago. Learning about these ideas will help you think your own
thoughts and find a new and kinder world. I hope you will study these thoughts very carefully and learn
them well. After you have read them we can talk about them if you like.

Love,

Uncle Bob

Lesson 1
Government Abolished:
Anarchy or Happiness?
Does anarchy reign when human government is abolished? There is a real life example in our own
history. Here is what was said in A Proclamation of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, January
23rd, 1776, after the Colonist found out it was just fine not to have wizards ruling them:

No effectual resistance to the system of tyranny prepared for us could be made without either instant
recourse to arms, or a temporary suspension of the ordinary powers of government, and tribunals of
justice: To the last of which evils, in hopes of a speedy reconciliation with Great-Britain, upon equi-
table terms, the Congress advised us to submit: And mankind has seen a phenomenon, without
example in the political world, a large and populous colony, subsisting in great decency and order, for
more than a year, under such suspension of government.
What they’re telling us is that they were very happy to discover policemen, lawyers, judges, and law-
makers were not needed at all to keep peace and good order in society. Other men wrote about this
period in our history.

Thomas Paine was the foremost thinker behind the American revolution. He wrote a pamphlet called
Rights of Man in 1792. In part two of the pamphlet he tells us how we have been tricked into thinking
terrible things will happen if we don’t have humbugs ruling us. He tells us of the same time when
humbugs stopped ruling and everything was just fine. He explains why man’s government is not
necessary.

“Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It had its origin
in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and
would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal
interest which man has upon man, and all parts of civilized community upon each other, create the
great chain of connection which holds it together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the
merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the
other, and from the whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their laws; and the
laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine,
society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

“If we examine, with attention, into the composition and constitution of man, the diversity of his wants,
and the diversity of talents in different men for reciprocally accommodating the wants of each other, his
propensity to society, and consequently to preserve the advantages resulting from it, we shall easily
discover that a great part of what is called government is mere imposition.

“Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization are
not conveniently competent; and instances are not wanting to show, that everything which government
can usefully add thereto, has been performed by the common consent of society, without government.

“For upward of two years from the commencement of the American War, and to a longer period in
several of the America states, there were no established forms of government. The old governments
had been abolished, and the country was too much occupied in defense, to employ its attention in
establishing new governments; yet during this interval, order and harmony were preserved as inviolate
as in any country in Europe.

“There is a natural aptness in man, and more so in society, because it embraces a greater variety of
abilities and resources, to accommodate itself to whatever situation it is in. The instant formal govern-
ment is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest
produces common security.

“So far is it from being true, as has been pretended,that the abolition of any formal government is the
dissolution of society, that it acts by an contrary impulse, and brings the latter the closer together. All
that part of its organization which it had committed to its government, devolves again upon itself, and
acts through its medium.

“When me, as well from natural instinct, as from reciprocal benefits, have habituated themselves to
social and civilized life, there is always enough of its principles in practice to carry them through any
changes they may find necessary or convenient to make in their government. In short, man is so
naturally a creature of society, that it is almost impossible to put him out of it.

“Formal government makes but a small part of civilized life; and when even the best that human
wisdom can devise is established, it is a thing more in name and idea, than in fact. It is to the great and
fundamental principles of society and civilization-to the common usage universally consented to, and
mutually and reciprocally maintained-to the unceasing circulation of interest, which, passing through
its million channels, invigorates the whole mass of civilized man-it is to these things, infinitely more
than to anything which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity
of the individual and the whole depends.

“...governments, so far from being always the cause or means of order, are often the destruction of it.”

If you show your teachers or other grown-ups Thomas Paine’s writings they will refuse to believe what
he said even though it is the simple truth. Adults today have been lead to believe that government is the
source of all good things. Thomas Paine was only telling the truth about historical facts. When we deny
the truth we are left with a lie. Other men lived through that period.

We also have David Ramsey’s eye-witness report of the effects of this abolition of human government
in the colonies. From his Prelude to the American Revolution, 1765-1775, the section titled Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress:

Throughout this whole season, civil government, legislation, judicial proceedings, and commercial
regulations were in Massachusetts, to all appearances, annihilated. The provincial congress exercised
all the semblance of government which existed. From their coincidence, with the prevailing disposition
of the people, their resolutions had the weight and efficacy of laws. Under the simple style of recom-
mendations, they organized the militia, and made ordinances respecting public monies, and such
further regulation as were necessary for preserving order, and for defending themselves against the
British troops.

In this crisis, it seemed to be the sense of the inhabitants of Massachusetts to wait events. They
dreaded every evil, that could flow from resistance, less than the operation of the late acts of parlia-
ment; but, at the same time, were averse to be the aggressors, in bringing on a civil war. They chose
to submit to a suspension of regular government, in preference to permitting the streams of justice to
flow in a channel, prescribed by the late acts of parliament, or to conducting them forcibly in the old
one, sanctioned by their charter. From the extinction of the old, and the rejection of the new constitu-
tion, all regular government was, for several months abolished. Some hundred thousands of people
were in a state of nature, without legislation, magistrates or executive officers. There was, neverthe-
less, a surprising degree of order. Men of the purest morals were among the most active opposers of
Great Britain. While municipal laws ceased to operate, the laws of reason, morality, and religion,
bound the people to each other as a social band, and preserved as great a degree of decorum, as had
at any time prevailed.

The law of reason is the same as the law of nature. The laws of morality and religion mean the same as
the revealed law found in the Bible. God is the source of both the natural and the revealed law. When
men are living under God’s law they are living in God’s Kingdom. This is is the meaning of the law of
nature and of nature’s God that we see in the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson.
God’s law is the basis for the American idea of government and the legal justification for American
independence from Britain. See if you can find this period of American history, when all human govern-
ment was abolished on the scale of government:

Man’s rule God’s Rule

(Man’s Law) (Natural and Revealed Law)

Thinking back to that time when government was abolished and his observation of the Indians, Tho-
mas Jefferson wrote a letter to his friend Edward Carrigton. Jefferson explained how the greatest
happiness of mankind is enjoyed without human government and how effective public opinion alone is
in restraining men:

“I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their
general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European govern-
ments....”

(I would like to point out something very interesting. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of
Independence that among the rights the Creator has endowed us with are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. What did he mean by happiness? Right here he tells us. He meant living without
government. This is a very, very important point I hope you will remember. Very few people know this.
Your teachers can not tell you because they don’t know. All grown-ups today are surprised to learn that
five years after the signing of the present Constitution, the men on the Supreme Court left no doubt that
Americans were still free of government unless they chose to consent as the Declaration says:

The only reason, I believe, that a free man is bound by human law, is, that he binds himself. Upon the
same principles, upon which he becomes bound by the laws, he becomes amendable to the courts of
justice, which are formed and authorized by those laws. (Chishom vs.Georgia, 2 US(Dall) 419, 455).

So the Colonist pursued happiness and obtained it. The became happy by throwing of British rule. The
government they established was really no government at all in the European sense, because it was
voluntary. If we today want to be as happy as the Colonists, then we must abolish forced government,
too. Now back to Jefferson’s words...)

“...Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains the morals as powerfully as
laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing, they have divided their nations
into two classes, wolves and sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish,
therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Don’t not be too severe upon their
errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public af-
fairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall become wolves.”

Girls, in the true picture of America, we now have a European style government. That simply means
the state is believed to be sovereign just like in Europe. The state is believed to have total power. But
of course the state is only a fantasy. It is really certain wolf-men who have claimed total power over their
fellows, namely, congressmen, governors, judges and lawyers of all kinds. The same people we have
been calling wizards, Jefferson called wolves. These wolf-men do bad things is the name of the state
that they would never thing of doing in their own name. They try to hide from responsibility for their
wrong-doing behind the fantasy of the state. They have come to believe that God’s law does not apply
to them when they play Wizards of America.

For example, President Ronald Reagan, in the name of the United States, sent men in airplanes to kill
people in Libya. They thought that the leader of Libya had helped murder some innocent people, but
later we learned it was really Syrians who did it. Wolf-men did whatever Ronald Reagan told them
without question because it pays well and because they all pretended he is the most powerful wizard-
The President. Many innocent people were killed. One of them was a little girl just a year and a half old.
Mr. Reagan would never kill a little girl in his own name, but certain wolf-men told him it was fine to do
in the name of the state. This is from an article in the newspaper about that murder:

Other sources said Gadhafi’s family had been sought out because their deaths would lead to a loss
of face for Gadhafi when he could not defend his own family. Gadhafi’s wife and eight children were
hospitalized, and the Libyans said a 15-month old adopted daughter of Gadhafi’s was killed.

Before the bombings, a White House official said, State Department lawyers began to prepare a legal
paper that argued that ‘in the context of military action what normally would be considered murder is
not.’
Girls, the State Department lawyers are wrong. Murder is murder in any context except in the admin-
istration of right and justice according to the laws of God. But even then mercy may require us not to
murder.

In the name of the state, Mr. Reagan and other wolf-men tried to kill a whole family of innocent people
in a far off country. Nine were badly injured and they actually killed a girl about the age of Rachael.
Cold-blooded murder is a wolfish thing to do. It is not permitted by the laws of reason, morality and
religion. This is lawlessness and anarchy under the guise of government. Why aren’t they ashamed?
Why doesn’t someone speak up? Mr. Reagan and his wolf-men did a very bad thing all the while
pretending that a legal paper could make it alright and pretending that the President of the United
States is a very powerful wizard not restrained by God’s law if they say right magic words. Girls, do you
agree it is a very bad thing to kill little children? Can you tell where Ronald Reagan and his wolf-men
are on the spectrum of government?:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Murder babies) (Love babies)

My teachers did not tell me that government is unnecessary and even dangerous. That truth was left
out of my history lessons to trick me into thinking we must have violent and terrible wolf-men to govern
us. Your teachers will not be able to trick you. The idea of living without wizards and wolves should not
frighten you. Now you know that people, when left alone, just naturally try to get along with one
another, while humbugs, with their tricks, take all the credit for peace and good order. Now you know
that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of a life without government!

We are very fortunate to have these facts of history and the real truth about government from the words
of the American colonists in Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Paine, David Ramsey and Thomas Jefferson.
This is your first lesson. Learn it well, because without accurate facts we are unable to learn from
history. We will draw wrong conclusions and make wrong decisions.

Lesson 2
Human Government:
Chaos and Conflict
Thomas Paine told us that human government is not the cause of peace and good order in society. He
told us government is actually the cause of conflict, misery and disorder. Thomas Jefferson told us that
it is our God-given right to pursue happiness which means life without government. More recently
another man told us much the same thing.

Butler D. Shaffer is a professor at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. In his book,
Calculated Chaos, we read in Chapter One, Our Well Organized Conflicts:

Briefly stated, the basic theme of this book is that institutions are the principal by which conflict is
produced and managed in society. Peace is incompatible with institutional activity. Stated another way,
the success of institutions depends upon the creation of those conditions in which personal and social
conflict will flourish.

Through these groupings, we have helped to institutionalize conflict, to make it a seemingly permanent
and necessary feature of human society. Such conflict has not resulted from mere accident or inadvert-
ence, nor has it been the product of vicious or depraved minds. Rather, for reasons to be developed
herein, conflict is a condition upon which the health and well-being of institutions is absolutely depen-
dent. We have made an industry of human suffering and violence, the members of which have been
institutions under the management of generally good and well-intentioned people. Through a variety of
forms, we have put together very sophisticated organizational machinery for human manipulation,
control and inflicted pain. We have systematized conflict and discontent, have spilled the blood of
hundreds of millions of our fellows, and tortured and oppressed hundreds of millions more. We have
formalized the practices that violate even our most relaxed standards of decent and responsible human
conduct, and have loosed up human society a nearly universal spirit of fear, distrust, and animosity
toward one another.

Every institution is a racket. Whether we are considering political, religious, economic, ideological, or
educational institutions...

(He is talking about government, churches, banks and schools. The schools I went to and the one you
are going to. He means the Russian government, the Iranian government, and government in America.)

...each is a formal, elaborate system designed for one purpose: To control people. Each seeks to
persuade or compel individuals to divert their energies from the pursuit of private, personal
objectives...(That’s the same as the pursuit of happiness, a right given to us by our Creator.)...and to
dedicate themselves to organizational purposes.

A major contributing factor to the conflict, misery, and disorder existing among people throughout the
world has been our willingness to allow institutions to dominate our lives, to control and direct almost
every facet of human activity, including our relationships with other people. We live our lives in unques-
tioning subservience to the demand of institutions, allowing them to pre-empt our own purposes and
decision making in favor of their self-serving priorities.

My teachers never gave me a lesson on these things. Neither will yours. School is an institution and
largely responsible for the chaos in society. If parent and children knew this there would soon be no
boys and girls in school. Teachers would have no job. Teachers do not want to know anything about
why there is chaos in society. Teachers want all children in their schools because then they get lots and
lots of money. If you tell teachers, or most grown-ups that schools and governments and banks and
churches are making things in the world worse, they won’t listen to you because they like money very
much. They would rather believe a lie than give up all that money.

Sometimes when children stay at home, teachers send the police to put their mom and dad in jail. This
is part of the conflict, misery and disorder that schools cause. See if you can find where we now are on
the spectrum of government:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Chaos, conflict) (Peace, Good order)

Teachers can teach you many good things, but not everything they tell you is true. Anything a teacher
can teach you in school you can learn even better at home and in much less time. I know two little girls
about you age here in Idaho who have never gone to school. They stay at home and learn in about two
hours a day. They are doing much better than children in school. Plus, they are learning to play the
violin and piano, and learning gymnastics and Tae Kwon Do. And, their parents are teaching them that
God is America’s king. That’s the most important lesson!
 Lesson 3
True Faith and Allegiance:
To Whom is it Owed?
When I tell you that men, hiding behind the screen of the state, have claimed total power over their
fellow men, it is really true. Wizards and wolf-men are fond of saying that the state is sovereign.
Sovereign means everyone must do what the state tells them or go to jail. Sovereign is the power to
create binding laws. Of course you know it’s really just common men and humbugs who pretend to
speak for the state as though it were a giant puppet. Really, God is sovereign. The state is only make
believe. In the year 1930 here is what some of the biggest wizards in America said about their total
power. These judges of the U.S. Supreme Court told us that the Wizards of America have the power to:

...compel the armed service of any citizen in the land, without regard to his objections or his views in
respect of the justice or morality of the particular war or of war in general...speaking of the liberties
guaranteed to the individual by the Fourteenth Amendment...he may be compelled, by force if need
be, against his will and without regard to his personal wishes or his pecuniary interests, or even his
religious or political convictions, to take his place in the ranks of the army of his country and risk the
chance of being shot down in its defense. Unites States vs Macintosh, 283 US 605,624

That, dear children, is what is meant by total power. Now you are very young, but soon you will grow up
and have families of your own. You know that Grandma Mary has four sons. Each of you may have
sons, too. If the Wizards of America decide to have a war, they will take your sons away and make
them join the army. They will be forced to kill men they don’t even know. They may be killed them-
selves. Your little sons who are not yet born, but whom you will raise with love and car, will become
cannon fodder sacrificed in the name of the state. By then maybe even daughters will be forced to go
to war.

Any government which claims total power is called totalitarian. Americans usually think of Russia and
China as totalitarian. Americans usually think of Russia and China a totalitarian. They have been
tricked into thinking the United States is still a free country. It is not. Total power is total power, whether
directed by a politburo as in Russia or by a representative democracy as in America. This is why all
children must take the Pledge of Allegiance, so that as grown-ups they will not question the total power
of humbugs. George Washington never took the Pledge. He gave his allegiance to God. A teacher
started the Pledge in 1892. The fact that humbugs do not often exercise total power makes no differ-
ence. They claim the right to do so at any time, not just during war. Here is what it means to be a
citizen of the United States today:

I hereby declare, an oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to
any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject
or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America
against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I
will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant
service in the armed forces of the United States when required by law; that I will perform work of
national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation
freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.” (Application to File
Petition for Naturalization, Para 5.)

This is the oath of allegiance that people who want to become citizens of the United States must take.
The oath of allegiance is merely and expanded version of the Pledge of Allegiance. All citizens are
presumed to have taken the same oath. When it says renounce and abjure all allegiance that is meant
to include allegiance to God as well. In the Bible we read that God claims to be sovereign over the
whole universe, including Alaska and Idaho. There can only be one sovereign over a given area.
Citizens have chosen the United States as sovereign and rejected God as sovereign. They have asked
God to help them do that, as the oath and the pledge both say. God has helped them by giving them
the big imaginations needed to live in the world of fantasy grown-ups have created. Can you find
America’s government on the spectrum:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(allegiance to Man) (Allegiance to God)
(Man has all power) (God has all power)

Which of these is taught in the Bible? In church? In school?

If you play Wizards of America by becoming a citizen, the rules now allow you to omit the promise to
bear arms or perform noncombatant service:

If you cannot promise to bear arms or perform noncombatant service because of religious training and
belief, you may omit those promises when taking the oath. (Ibid.)

This is a change since 1930, but it is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It is only by the grace
of Congress (wizards and wolf-men) that citizens can claim a religious exemption from bearing arms.
Human law can be changed at any time. If you promise to play there is no area in your life where you
may keep God as your sovereign. In all areas the United States must be your sovereign. That includes
giving true faith and allegiance to the law of humbugs over the law of God; and performing work of
national importance under civilian direction not just in war time, but anytime the wizards decide it is a
good idea. This is what is meant by slavery. If a humbug can tell you what to do and force you to do it,
then you are his slave. The fact that he has not yet told you to do much of anything makes no differ-
ence. Russian humbugs claim no more power than this over their people. If you really want God for
you sovereign, then you must reject the United States as sovereign.

Some of the big wizards understand the problem of giving allegiance to the state when you should give
allegiance to God. In 1945, they said so:

The struggle for religious liberty has through the centuries been an effort to accommodate the de-
mands of the State to the conscience of the individual. The victory from freedom of thought recorded in
our Bill of Rights recognizes that in the domain of conscience there is a moral power higher than the
State. Throughout the ages, men have suffered death rather than subordinate their allegiance to God to
the authority of the State. Freedom of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment is the product of that
struggle. As we recently stated...’Freedom of thought, which includes freedom of religious belief, is
basic in a society of free men...’Girouard vs United States, 328 US 61, 68& 69.

Does the domain of conscience include only bearing arms in wartime? No, it includes every area of life.
There is a moral power higher than the State in every area of life. Whether you choose to recognize
that higher power is up to you. For the past three years I have peacefully lived according to a moral
power higher than the state in all areas. I have no need or desire to believe in the state at all. The world-
wide New Covenant theocracy provides all the government any man needs. The pursuit of happiness
is not only the pursuit of life without human government, but the pursuit of life with God’s government.
The local humbugs become very upset when we pursue happiness. They send their wolf-men to stop
us.

Now you know why I have renounced U.S. citizenship. First, I was tricked into pledging allegiance as
a small child. Second, I refuse to be a slave when my King has set me free, indeed. Third, it is silly to
pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth (the flag), to an invisible wizard (the republic), or to a constitution
and other laws made up by men (fantasy laws written by humbugs). And most importantly, I can not
renounce allegiance to my sovereign, God: the King, Law-giver and Judge of the World, in any area of
life. This is happiness for me. Because of this I have been put in jail four times. Even so, I will continue
to pursue happiness. I hope many, many others will join me. If the wolf-men will only obey the rule in
the First Amendment about letting others recognize a moral power higher than the state, we will not be
put in jail. I am a citizen of the Commonwealth of Israel whose ruler is the Messiah sitting on the throne
of David that we read about in the Bible.

The ideal citizen of a totalitarian state is not one who fully supports communism or democracy. If
congressmen, governors, judges and other wizards are to govern, it is most important that the distinc-
tion between fact and fantasy, and the distinction between true and false no longer exist. Such people
can be told anything and they will believe because they have lost touch with reality and are unable to
detect a lie. Turning out just this kind of citizen is the main goal of education in America today. I hope
you can keep control of your own mind so you can help your children do the same. If you help begin a
world in which God is sovereign, then your sons and daughters will not be forced to give allegiance to
humbugs. What will you teach your children? Show me on this spectrum:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Allegiance to man) (Allegiance to God)
(Sadness) (Happiness)

There is one very important thing you must know about. I have said that wolf-men and humbugs may
force you to do things you know to be wrong or things you would rather not do. I have said that
humbugs have claimed total power in America just as they have all over the world. But this is only true
in the fantasy world of human government. The truth is that no one has the power to make you do
anything. You always have a choice. It may be a very hard choice, but you do always have a choice.

Rather than kill others in time of war as required by man-made law, some men have refused and chose
to go to prison. No one had the power to force then to aim a rifle and pull the trigger. The same is true
for you and me. No one can make us do anything. No one controls us. Let me tell you a story about
this. Sometimes I take care of a little dog named Banjo. He is a miniature dachshund. Like Rocky, but
smaller. Once he followed me as I walked down the driveway. I told him to go back to the house. He
took a few steps back and then stopped. I picked up a stick and told him to go to the house. Banjo only
rolled over on his back and looked at me. I could have shouted at him some more. I could have hit him
with the stick. I could have carried him to the house. But Banjo chose not to return on his own four feet!
I could not force Banjo. Even animals are free.

Little children understand they are free, too, without anyone telling them. Patti is three years old. She
is a very nice little girl, but when I tell her to do things she puts her hands on her hips and says: You’re
not my mother She means I have no authority over her. That’s true for me and all other adults. It will still
be true when she grows up. Patti was created with this truth inside of her.
 Lesson 4
The State:
Fact or Fiction?
So that you will know for sure that the State of Alaska and the United States of America are make
believe, along with Demos, human law, and a lot of other things grown-ups have invented, here is a
whole list of ideas. If grown-ups had not been taught as children, no one would accept the world of
make believe as real. If humbugs will obey the rule about freedom of thought in the Constitution,
children would never be forced to play Wizards of America again.

1. before the sixteenth century the word “state” was used to refer to the estates of the realm or to kingly
office or dignity, but not to an independent political community...so long as barons could still simulta-
neously hold fiefs from different kings in different lands, the notion could not develop of the territorially
defined state, making an exclusive claim to the allegiance of all who resided within its borders. The
idea that men could be not only subjects of their kings but also citizens of their state became possible
with the consolidation of national monarchies in England, France and Spain. (The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.)

2.The state is but a myth which perpetuates itself daily. (Ernest Renan, French historian, 19th century.)

3.You cannot touch or see a political institution; it can be known only by an effort of constructive
imagination. (Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State, Liberty Classics, 1981, pg.13.)

4.Court. An incorporeal, political being...(Blacks’s Law Dictionary, Revised 4th, West Publishing Co.,
pg. 425.)

5.Incorporeal...such as the mind alone can perceive. (Ibid.,pg.907.)

6. Monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy are but creatures of imagination; and a thousand such may
be contrived as well as these. (Thomas Paine, Rights of Man.)

7.Law too becomes fiat law, fantasy law, because it is basic to sin to play god and to fantasize about a
new world created by the mind of man. It is no longer necessary to go to an amusement park or to
Disneyland to enter a world of fantasy; this can be done far more systematically and rigourously in
most courts of law. (Law and Society, Rousas John Rushdooney, Ross House Books, 1982, pg. 546.)

8.In his treatise Of Civil-Government, Book II, Chapter X, paragraph 12, John Locke tells us that “the
law of nature is as intelligible and plain to a rational creature and studier of that law, as the positive laws
of commonwealths; nay possibly plainer, as much as reason is easier to be understood than the
fantasies and intricate contrivances of men following contrary and hidden interest put into words, for so
truly are a great part of municipal laws of countries, which are only so far right as they are founded on
the Law of Nature, by which they are to be regulated and interpreted.” [Since God created nature,the
law of nature is the law of God. Bob]

9.The only thing that permits any of these Nations to exist, is the belief in the minds of almost all the
persons penned inside these frontiers...This ancient belief in Authority is the whole basis of such
shadowy “nationalism” as actually exists. (The Discovery of Freedom, Rose Wilder Lane, Arno Press &
The New York Times, 1972, Pgs 139-140.)

10.Democracy means rule by the people...Demos, The People, was a fantasy imagined by the ancient
Greeks, in their search for The Authority that (they imagined) controlled men. To this fantasy they
attached the meaning of God, which always attaches to every form of Authority...(Ibid., Pg. 178.)

11. Since the late Neolithic times, men in their political capacity have lived almost exclusively by
myths.(The Market for Liberty, Morris and Lindal Tannehill,[Society Without Government], Arno Press
and the New York Times, 1972, pg.1.)

12.The belief that the people of a democracy rule themselves through their elected representatives,
though sactified by tradition and made venerable by multiple repetition, is actually mystical nonsense.
(Ibid., pg.34)

13.Government is an artificial construct...(Ibid., pg. 118.)

14. Government is now known for what it is. It belongs in the dark past with the rest of man’s
superstitions.(Ibid., pg.169.)

15.A belief in the sovereign power of political machinery is nothing less than a gross delusion. ([quoting
Spencer],Our Enemy the State, Albert Jay Nock, The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1959, pg.56.)

16. Let us glance at some of the queer creatures created by personifying abstractions in America. Here
in the center is a vast figure called the Nation...Close behind rears a sinister shape, the Government...High
in the heavens is the Constitution...Below floats the Supreme court...Somewhere above the Rocky
Mountains are lodged the vast stone tablets of the Law...Confronting them, shield in hand and a little
cross-eyed from trying to watch both at once, is the colossal figure of Democracy...
Those who deliberately teach people to fly from reality though cults, mythologies and dogmas are
helping them to be insane, to deal with phantoms, to create dream states. (The Tyranny of Words,
Stuart Chase, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1938, pgs. 23-28.)

17.No other animal produces verbal monsters in his head and projects them on the world outside his
head.(Ibid., pg 14.)

18.It was Tucker’s point that there was no logical stopping place, once the individual began the
process of rejecting authority, short of total rejection...”The man who clings to that superstition
known as the State, and boasts of having flung away the fetters of theology and priest-craft, does not
understand himself.”(Men Against the State, James J. Martin, Ralph Myles Pub., 1970, pg. 214,
note 52.)

19.In all our contemplations, however, concerning this feigned and artificial person [the state of
Georgia], we should never forget, that, in truth and nature, those who think and speak and act, are
men.(Chisholm vs. Georgia, 2 U.S. (Dall) 419, 455.)

20. This belief (statism) has been growing very rapidly in the last century. It is now held more widely,
perhaps, than any other theory of politics, and is often maintained with a passionate enthusiasm
inversely proportioned to the understandings of its dangers.(Man’s Unconquerable Mind, Gilbert
Highet, Columbia University Press, 1954, pg. 98.)

21. Larger collections of us-cities, for instance-hardly ever get anything right. And, of course, there is
the modern nation, probably the most stupefying example of biological error since the age of the
great reptiles, wrong at every turn, but always felicitating itself loudly on its great value. It is a bio-
logical, as much so as a coral reef or a rain forest, but such things as happen to human nations
could never happen in a school of fish, it is, when you think about it, a humiliation, but then
“humble” and “human” are cognate words. We are smarter than the fish, but their instructions come
along in their eggs; ours we are obliged to figure out, and we are, in this respect, slow learners.
(Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, Lewis Thomas, pgs 161-162.)

This is a very important lesson. Please study it carefully. Some of the quotations you won’t be able
to understand the first time through. You may have to read them over and over and think about it for
some time. See if you can find the United States and the State of Alaska on the spectrum of govern-
ment:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Fantasy) (Reality)

Lesson 5
Mind Control in the Classroom
If they knew they were free to choose, how many would freely and willingly choose statism and nation-
alism given its bloody history? How many young men would pick up a rifle, travel halfway around the
world to kill total strangers on the orders of cigar-smoking old humbugs whose stomachs hang over
their belts? Very few. To maintain the nation-state world system, mind control, starting as early as
possible, is essential. This fact is widely acknowledged.
In his book, Man’s Unconquerable Mind, Gilbert Highet says that we are engaged in a war for the
enslavement or liberation of the mind of humanity. Highet sees three possiblities for the future: the
expansion of knowledge, self-destruction, or thought control:

“The third possibility is that human thought will be deliberately and forcibly controlled and limited. This
also has already happened a number of times in history; it is happening now...It is easy...to silence all
questioning of established systems of belief and to regard critics as heretics, heretics as damned
criminals. Throughout much civilized history most people have lived within such systems, approving
the condemnation of heretics. Accordingly, it is perfectly possible that, within the next century or so, all
human thought will be fitted into one or more new systems, with all the usual accompaniments of
quasi-divine authority, group solidarity, and emotional satisfaction.”

In America if your thought does not fit into the system of democracy and statism, experience shows
you quickly become a criminal. The war rages violently every day over the minds of children. In a
textbook on international politics we learn that:

From early childhood every human being is molded into a territorial being. Political leaders in all eras
seem to have recognized the proper presentation of history as an important source of national enthusi-
asm. Glorification of past achievements may help a group overcome a distressing period or regain a
lost sense of identity and self-confidence. An overwhelming stream of embellished memories, myths
and legends is produced in every nation by the government, the schools, the army, mass communica-
tions media, patriotic organizations, historians, philosophers, poets and artists. An aggregate of human
beings is transformed into a collective person, endowed with feelings, memories, pride, sorrow, and
hopes-in another words, with a ‘soul’.

(Here is the fantasy: the people become The People, Demos with a soul, the Greek myth that was
believed to rule on earth long ago is now back.)

Indoctrination by history textbooks is not, of course, a Greek, Turkish, Arab, or Israeli specialty. All
national communities engage in it.

Throughout the world , when the school takes over from the family, it only contiues the nationalist
indoctrination, usually at the cost of historical truth. From 1963 to 1966 a team of British and American
historians engaged in a study of national bias in the secondary-school history textbooks of the two
nations. National bias was found in all American and British history texts.

Whether it lacks one at its inception or not, every nation sooner or later acquires a meaningful history.
Then, in due course, scholarly history books, textbooks, political speeches, monuments, national holi-
days, a national anthem, songs, poems, and children’s stories will glorify and embellish the nation’s
past; how it started, built itself, fought, suffered and endured. An emotional and powerful identification
of the people with one another and with the nation’s past achievements will result. A nation does not
spontaneously become an ultimate point of reference for loyalty and political action. It is a result of
manifold pressures, manipulations, and messages that stress common experience and a common
future. A mixture of rational egoism and emotional elation in response to constant prodding underlies
the nationalist feeling. All states make use of symbols that are intended solely to mobilize sentiments.

Analysis of territorial nationalism has shown us how effectively individual men can be socialized into
national beings...From his earliest years, like everyone else, he (the national leader) has been exposed
to national myths and symbols, patriotic oratory, mass media, and history texts that glorify his nation
while debasing the character and behavior of foreign nations. His mind too, like everyone else’s, has
stored distorted images and generalizations about his own country and foreign nations. Many of these
stereotypes (which Walter Lippmann called “pictures in our head”) have been based on hearsay and
outright lies. Nations and Men; Duchacek; Holt, Rinehart, Winston; 1971.
You see, we have been lied to. Pictures have been put in our heads. It’s no secret. Others have noticed
the systematic indoctrination of young children in the name of the state:

A general state education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and
as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government,...it
establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. John Stuart
Mills, The Occult Technology of Power, pg. 31.

All totalitarian movements are vitally concerned with the indoctrination of the young. Both Mussolini
and Hitler organized youth before their rise to power. Friedreich and Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictator-
ship and Autocracy, pgs 60-69.

Education of the young is used to condition them to what comes later, thereby eliminating the differ-
ence between propaganda and education. Propaganda cannot work effectively without education. The
mind is conditioned with vast amounts of information posing as ‘facts’ and ‘knowledge’ despensed for
ulterior motives. Remember the first principle behind mental programming: distraction. With propa-
ganda, distraction focuses attention on information that is false. Repetition of the false information
imbeds it in your subconscious mind so that your acceptance of its truth and accuracy becomes a
conditioned response, circumventing analysis. Therefore, you accept this information as true without
thinking about it. This is especially true in school where there is pressure to accept what is presented
as true because that is what is expected from you. Remember that your trust in the source of informa-
tion determines whether or not you accept it. What people think can be controlled by controlling
information. People can be led to believe something that is not true when that information is presented
by an accepted authority. Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States, pgs 32,33.

‘Often beliefs that we hold are never called into question; when they are not, it is relatively easy for us
to lose sight of why we hold them,’ says psychologist Elliot Aronson in the Socail Animal. Winn, The
Manipulated Mind, pg.36. Our beliefs are often based on something other than personal experience.
Beliefs acquired during childhood indoctrination at home, school and church often masquerade as
knowledge. Such indoctrination means that the individual takes on conclusions of others instead of
arriving at his own. We tend to protect what we believe and unconsciously filter out information we
don’t want to recieve. Most of us are programmed without being aware of it. A child learns that his
needs will more likely be met if he conforms to what is expected of him. Society and its institutions
teach and reward conformity and obedience to authority. What this does is discourage the individual
from serious challenge to authority. (Winn, Ibid., pgs 36-53). Jacobson, Ibid.,pgs 44-45.

Serious challenge to authority means telling wizards they are only common men and humbugs, just
like they did in the Declaration of Independence. It means refusing to do what wolf-men tell you to do.

Girls, in this lesson you learn that grown-ups want to conrol your mind and program you with their
fantasy world. You should be able to deprogram yourself or prevent it from happening in the first place.
I hope you can. Maybe your parents will help you. Can you show me where the United States and the
State of Alaska are on the spectrum of government?

Man’s rule God’s Rule

(Lies) (Truth)
(Mind Control) (Free Thought)
 Lesson 6
Democracy is Dreadful
Plato divided all human governments into three kinds: Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy. He
judged democracy to be the least desirable. Plato taught that democracies degenerate into tyranny. He
thought that the very best government was theocracy, but he considered that to be impossible. Plato
was not a Christian. The Good News of God’s Kindgom had not yet been proclaimed to the Greeks.
See if you can guess who said this:

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have every been found
incompatable with personal security and the rights of property; and have in general been as short in
their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

This means that democracy is bad. Who do you think said this? Was it European royalty, a king or and
aristocrat, someone with an interest in seeing the American idea of government fail? Or maybe a
communist or anarchist? Actually, these are the words of the fourth president of the United States,
James Madison. How could Madison, knowing the truth about democracy, support it and take part in
it? One possible reason is found in the compact system of government. Membership in the state was
understood to be voluntary. Did any of us ever have an opportunity to volunteer to be citizens of the
state? Were we ever informed that we had a choice in the matter of obedience to human law? Keep in
mind a distiction was made between human law and divine law. Only the former was subject to
consent.

Today, the American legal system doesn’t even recognize divine law. There is only human law which
covers everything from murder to buckling your seatbelts. The idea of voluntary social compact be-
tween free and equal men living under God’s rule has been replaced. Democracy was known to be
oppressive and dangerous. If understood to be voluntary its many short-comings are of no conse-
quence. It is a suitable association for free me. But compulsory democracy is suitable only for tyrants
and their slavish subjects, for those who have lost the concept of freedom and equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville was a Frenchman who visited America in the mid-1800’s and made a few
interesting observations about democracy:

“The public, therefore, among democratic people, has a sigular power, which aristocratic nations can-
not conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them
permeate the thinking of everyone by sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual
intelligence. The intellectual dominion of the greater number would probably be less absolute among a
democratic people governed by a king than in the sphere of a pure democracy, but it will always be
extremely absolute; and by whatever political laws men are governed in the ages of equality, it may be
foreseen that faith in public opinion will become for them a species of religion, and the majority its
ministering prophet. And I perceive how,under the dominion of certain laws, democracy would extin-
guish that liberty of the mind to which a democratic social condition is favorable; so that, after having
broken all the bondage once imposed on it by ranks or by men, the human mind would be closely
fettered to the general will of the greatest number. If the absolute power of a majority were to be
substituted by democratic nations for all the different powers that checked or retarded over much the
energy of individual minds, the evil would only have changed character. Men would not have found the
means of independent life; they would simply have discovered (no easy task) a new physiognomy of
servitude. There is, and I cannot repeat it too often, there is here matter of profound reflection to those who
look on freedom of thought as a holy thing and who hate not only the despot, but despotism. For myself,
when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am
not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke because it is held out to me by the arms of a million
men.

Those certain laws closely fettering the mind have been in place now for three generations. The chains
of servitude which have bound us to the will of the majority were forged in the public classroom. In
Lesson 5 it has been shown that indoctrination in America has become common place. Existing below
the level of conscious perception, this long standing program of thought control would be righteously
denied by most grown-ups. Yet, for one centralized government to extend its control effectively over a
vast land area inhabited by people from diverse cultural, racial, religious, and political backgrounds,
there must be a uniformity in fundamental presuppositions and loyalties. Without this uniformity of
thought nation-states cannot exist. Indeed, thought is the substance of their existence.

In order for democracy to work it demands unquestioning faith in the majority from its adherents.
Demos is the supreme being of the American civil religion, democracy.

Some grown-ups are fond of saying that America’s government is a republic not a democracy. This is
not true. God is America’s King. Republic is just another word for the state. Another Frenchman, Jean
Bodin, believed that men shoud be ruled by kings. So, just before 1600 he made up the word sover-
eignty and wrote a book about it to help humbugs control people’s thinking. He said:

“The state, the republic, is a lawful government of the several households composing it. The state
arises when each head of a household, each pater familias, acts in concert with the others...At the
head of this group of house-holds is the sovereign (the king), the administrator of the republic, whose
task is the proper government of the households composing the state.”

The, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, , Macmillan, Volume 1, page 326, we learn:

Bodin’s whole political philosophy rests on the doctrine of sovereignty. Sovereignty is defined in the
Republic as’...the absolute and perpetual power of a Republic, that is to say the active form and
personification of the great body of a modern State.’

Find America’s present government on the spectrum. Find Bodin.

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Democracy/Monarchy) (Theocracy)
(Republic/State) (No State)

Lesson 7
Democracy or Theocracy
If we view democracy and statism as merely steps in man’s struggle to be free; if we accept the fact
that democratic statism is not the final answer, an acceptable answer, or even a rational one; what can
we put in its place? The answer is: nothing. We, fallible creatures that we are, can not devise a system
of government that can dispense liberty and justice. They all suffer from the same fault, one man or a
group takes dominion over others. Servitude is guaranteed. Liberty and justice, and human govern-
ment are not compatible. As you have already learned the pursuit of happiness means pursuing a life
without human government. A practical alternative suggests itself.
We must abandon the idea of humanly contrived government. We must stop imposing on each new
generation the concept and ideology of statism. It is an antiquated idea, superstitious nonsense con-
trived by our neolithic ancestors. Statism has been around for a very long time, perhaps as long as five
thousand years; the notion of the modern state, nearly four thousand years. A long-standing evil is
nonetheless an evil. Girls, I am convinced that rejecting all human governments and returning to
God as mankind’s King is the only sane and viable alternative.

Many years ago, before the Wizards of America was even started, an American named William Penn
said:

If we will not be governed by God, we will be governed by tyrants.

Remember that Plato said theocracy is the best form of government and democracy degenerates into
tyranny. Today people have been taught to believe that the spectrum of government goes from total
power (tyranny) to chaos (anarchy), like this:

Man’s Rule No Rule

(Tyranny) (Anarchy)

Democracy is mistakenly believed to be the best compromise possible. But this spectrum does not
reflect reality because theocracy does not appear on it. Penn tells us that really the spectrum runs from
man’s government to God’s government, like this:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Tyranny) (Freedom)

Neither is anarchy a possibility. There has never been an actual example of anarchy in all of recorded
history. The nature of man is such that anarchy is impossible. Men have always been ruled by one
government or another. True, there are brief transition periods between human governments, but even
these are never referred to as anarchy. These are revolutions or coup d’etats. From Lesson 1 you
remember that even when all human government is deliberately abolished we are not left with anarchy.
Then, God’s government becomes evident and the laws of reason, morality and religion bind us to-
gether. Adherence to the will of the majority is just another rejection of God’s will that results in the loss
of freedom just like monarchy, aristocracy and any other kind of human government. Penn’s friend,
John Locke, wrote a book called The Reasonableness of Christianity in 1695. In that book is some-
thing Laura Ingalls Wilder realized all by herself almost two hundred years later:

As men we have God for our King, and under the law of reason; as Christians, we have Jesus
the Messiah for our King, and are under the law revealed by Him in the Gospel.

Can you find where John Locke stood on the last spectrum of government?

Grown-ups do not like being ruled by God. They think it is a bad idea for several reasons. First,
theocracy requires a belief in God and a belief that all the world is a theocracy in which God, or His
Messiah, is the ruling sovereign. How can we adopt a form of government which is founded on belief?
Actually we have no choice. Every form of government requires belief, and lots of it!

Statism and democracy are both based on belief. Lesson 4 shows you this is true, although hardly ever
realized. Statism is a product of human imagination. It is part of the inner world of the mind, not part of
the outer world of reality. Democracy, as well, demands belief in the wisdom and authority of the
majority. Theocracy merely requires a change in belief from the immortal, invisible, sovereign state to
the immortal, invisible, sovereign God. Belief in the state has lead us steadily down the road to mutu-
ally assured destruction. New Covenant theocracy is the very opposite of statism. It leads down the
road to mutually assured affection because we are commanded to love, not only our neighbor, but our
enemy, as well.

In America this change presents less of a problem than one might think. Christianity is already the
dominant religion. The doctrine of the Kingdom of God under the Lordship of the Messiah is central in
the Bible. Many denominations already believe in the present reality of that Kingdom. When belief in
the pagan ideas of democracy and statism are rejected, there is a void to be filled. Christians should
automatically turn to theocracy. Indeed, the gospel of the Messiah commands them to do so: Repent
(change your mind), for the Kingdom of God is upon you!In fact, Christians are supposed to turn
from the domain of darkness to the Kingdom of God even before the domain of darkness is abolished.
(See Lesson 12). Which will you choose when you are grown up? Find your choice on the spectrum of
government:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Mutual destruction) (Mutual affection)

Next, we address the objection that history shows theocracy to be every bit as bloody and oppressive
as the worst secular government. This objection is valid for theocratic states like Iran, but not for New
Covenant theocracy which prohibits the practice of statism. True theocracy is the happiest, freest rule
for mankind. Besides, religion can not be avoided. All governments by their very nature are religious.
They are based upon belief. They determine what is moral (right and wrong), and impose punishment
on wrong-doers.

Religion is defined as the recognition on the part of man of a controlling superhuman power entitled to
obedience, reverence and worship. Reverence means the feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged
with awe. Worship means reverent honor and homage paid to a god. The term god is defined as a
superhuman person who is the object of worship, one whom men call upon or invoke,

That’s a lot of definitions, but try to hold them in your mind as we look at the modern state. Is it a god?
Is statism a religion? Statism recognizes an incorporeal, all-powerful, immortal super-human person,
the state. Deep respect and awe for the state are called patriotism. Reverent honor and homage to the
state are rendered with the pledge of true faith and allegiance, the national anthem, and other patriotic
observances, but most especially by the sacrifice of one’s life on the command of the state. Men invoke
the name and power of the state on a daily basis: as they make and enforce enactments that establish
the standards of right and wrong for the community and as they begin all judicial proceedings, for
example.

In America we have a remarkable pantheon of ruling gods. At the top is the United States. At the next
level is found fifty lesser gods, the several states. Then some three thousand counties and numberless
municipalities. Somewhere in there is the great god, Demos, the people. The prophets of this religion
who think and speak and act in the name of the gods they serve are called congressmen, governors,
and judges.

In every kingdom the king ruled by divine right. In every empire the emperor was the son of a god or
god himself. In statism the state becomes a god. In democracy the majority (Demos) become deified,
infallible and all-powerful. Man’s very nature cries out to be ruled by a being superior to himself. The
separation of religion and government is an impossibility. Even the separation of church a nd state,
both human institutions, was never attempted until the colonists tried it. But even this isn’t possible. If
there is any doubt that churches support the state in America, call a minister at random and ask him if
he supports a belief in the state and teaches the religious duty of obedience to state laws. I bet he does!
 Lesson 8
Seeds of the Kingdom
Now, my little nieces,here is something very important. In the religious teaching of obedience to hu-
man laws lies buried the seed of the Kingdom! Very few churches mandate complete obedience to
the state. They do not teach that Christ has completely abdicated His throne to another superhuman
person. They all leave a tiny area of life under the sovereignty of God’s law and His Messiah. Many do
not require their members to murder other humans in obedience to laws of the state, while some do not
require pledging allegiance to the flag. And many preachers would go to prison rather than obey a law
which bans preaching their statist version of the gospel; although it’s difficult to imagine why such a
law would be passed. God’s law is already regarded as binding on believers and of a higher moral
power than human law if only in certain extreme cases. It is the principle that is so tremendously
important: There is a law higher than human law! This is the seed of God’s Kingdom.

There are two ways this seed of the Kingdom can grow to maturity. First, instead of focusing on
individual laws, think in terms of law systems. We become very confused if we try to live part of our life
under one law system and part under another. God’s law and man’s law are mutually exclusive and
diametrically opposed. Neutrality is not possible, nor can both be chosen. They are complete and
independent systems of law. Many grown-ups have been tricked into believing that the laws of the
United States are founded on the laws of God and consistent with them. That was true for the majority
two hundred years ago in America, but those men are long dead and it is definitely not true now.

The laws of the United States are founded on the will of the majority, not the will of God. If the majority
happens to reverence the law of God, then the laws of the state could be the same as the laws of God.
But they don’t have to be the same. For someone who embraces no other religion than statism, the
state is the source of all law (sovereign). His world looks like this:
Most churches teach that the world looks like this:

Human law is of primary importance in this scheme. It is the for real system, the one people believe in
enough to enforce even if it means inflicting bodily harm. In this scheme God’s law is in an entirely
different category. Some churches teach that God’s law must be obeyed rather than man’s. These
churches ignore the First Commandment which requires us to confess God alone as our Lord and His
Anointed as our King. The Bible teaches that God is sovereign. The Biblical world view is like this:

Men are free to make ordinances, but to be valid they can be no more than restatements of God’s law
as applied to changing circumstances.

Wizards flatly reject any thought of God or His law as being for real when they play Wizards of America.
Nor will the majority vote for men who believe God’s law is above man’s law, because God’s law is at
times contrary to the law the majority would like to live under. A friend of mine has been threatened with
five years in prison for giving jurors literature about the law of God on the courthouse steps. Wizards
are very hostile toward God’s law. If there is a God and He has already declared what the law is, then
human law which goes beyond God’s law is rebellion.

The necessity to choose is presented clearly in A Preface To Morals by Walter Lippmann. The word
modernity means the same as secular humanism, the abandonment of the supreme ideal of service to
God; man becomes central in all areas of life, the measure of all things. I have taken the liberty to insert
a few comments.

The upshot of the discussion to this point is that modernity (humanism) destroys the disposition to
believe that behind the visible world of physical objects and human institutions (fantasy) there is a
supernatural kingdom from which ultimately all laws, all judgments, all rewards, all punishments, and
all compensations are derived. To those who believe that this kingdom exists (Christians) the modern
spirit is nothing less than treason to God.

The popular religion (Christianity) rests on the belief that the Kingdom is an objective fact, as certain,
as definite, and as real, in spite of its invisibility, as the British Empire (itself invisible; in fact, its gone
now); it holds that this faith is justified by over-whelming evidence supplied by revelation,unimpeachable
testimony, and incontrovertible signs. To the modern spirit (atheistic, man-centered), on the other
hand, the belief in this kingdom must necessarily seem a grandiose fiction projected by human needs
and desires. The humanistic view is that the popular faith does not prove the existence of its objects,
but only the presence of a desire that such objects should exist (equally true for nation-states). The
popular religion, in short, rests on a theory which, if true, is an extension of physics and of history; the
humanistic view rests on human psychology and an interpretation of human experience.

It follows, then, that in exploring the modern problem it is necessary consciously and clearly to make a
choice between these diametrically opposite points of view. The choice is fundamental and exclusive,
and it determines all the conclusions which follow. For obviously to one who believes that the world is
a theocracy, the problem is how to bring the strayed and rebellious masses of mankind back to their
obedience, how to restore the lost provinces of God the invisible King (lost to the invisible god, the
state). But to one who takes the humanistic view the problem is how mankind, deprived (by profes-
sional indoctrination of children) of the great fictions (no, great truths), is to come to terms with the
needs which created those fictions. pgs. 143-144

Walter Lippman was a well known man during his life-time. He understood just what is going on in the
world today much better than most Christians do. We are living in an era of dramatic change in what
is called Western Civilization. Christianity is being set aside for a belief system which makes man the
measure of all things. There is no place in this new scheme for men and women who have
chosen Jesus as their King.

Lippmann, having the same right to choose that you and I do, rejected theocracy in favor of statism.
The choice is between belief in God and belief in the state. Which makes better sense, a God who
created us and now rules his creation, or a state which rules its creators? Which is better: Mutually
assured destruction or mutually assured affection? Which is better: pursuit of sadness or pursuit of
happiness? Find Lippman’s position on the spectrum of government:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Humanism) (Christianity)

The Christianity described by Lippman is mostly known to the people of today. Christianity has become
a pale shadow of the world-changing faith that once turned the Roman Empire upside down. Chris-
tianity has joined hands with statism, the American civil religion, and has no ability or desire to change
anything. The Bible has become a book of personal devotions used in support of the existing world
order and to bar the doors of the Kingdom. Christians and statists have formed an unholy alliance.

The second way in which the seed of the Kingdom can grow to maturity is similar to the first. Simply
recognize that the entire world system of nation-states is a matter of belief and stop believing. Because
of years of indoctrination and generations of tradition the state seems very real. The Creator has en-
dowed us with absolute freedom of mind and spirit. When you stop believing the state seems like a
dream, while the Kingdom of God assumes a solidity never thought possible. It oc cupies in our hearts
and minds the position formally filled by humanly contrived government. It is no longer regarded as pie
in the sky by and by. All the love of country and submission to authority, all the intellectual and
emotional attachment lavished on the flag and the state, are now available to be invested in God and
His government.

It is universally taught in Christianity that believers must submit to all government by command of
God. This is a fundamental doctrine of statism, not of Christianity. Only with the advent of humanism
during the past hundred years has this divine right to rule doctrine regained ascendance. The colonists
called that doctrine absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind and meant
to end it forever with their revolution. That’s what they meant by all men are created equal. This self-
evident truth is what makes absurd the belief that King George’s birth gave him the right to rule his
fellow men. It is equally absurd and slavish to believe that the majority rules by divine right.

American government was founded on the consent of the governed, not the will of God. The obvious
truth is that God did not appoint legislators, governors and all the rest, men elected them. Not
every group of men that calls itself a government is worthy of our obedience. Not even all the so-called
government set up by the ancient Israelites were recognized by God. We read in Hosea 8:4 that they
make kings, but not by my will; they set up officers, but without my knowledge...When humbugs rule
over their equals it is because ignorance and superstition are as prevalent today as at any time in
history, not because God wills it. Democracy requires submission to the majority; theocracy requires
submission to God. Both require considerable belief. One leads to destruction, the other to affection. A
choice must be made between the two; domain of darkness or the kingdom of light, take your pick.

Here is the third way that the doctrine of obedience to human law contains the seed of God’s Kingdom.
The Constitution is one of the organic documents of the United States. But the first and foremost
organic documents of the United States is the Declaration of Independence. If you accept and conform
your life to the fundamental presuppositions and self-evident truth found in the Declaration you can not
avoid ending up in the Kingdom of God.

In the very first paragraph of the Declaration the law of nature and of nature’s God is cited as the legal
justification for America’s independence from Britain. A little further down it says we can be governed
only with our consent.Then is says we have the right and the duty to throw off despotic government.
If we accept the Declaration and the United States as legitimate, then we must accept the law of God
as being higher than human law and man’s law as non-binding. We must reject the idea that God has
appointed men like King George to rule us. Otherwise, in God’s eyes Americans are still rightfully
subjects of the British Empire, which is odd because it’s no longer in existence. If God’s law is higher
than human law, then we are really under God’s law. If we are under God’s law then we are living under
God’s rule. In another words, God is America’s King; the Kingdom of God is here now!

It was a Christian society that penned the Constitution, including the words establish justice found in
the Preamble. They were referring to the justice mandated in the Bible, the justice that comes from
administering the law of God. All lawyers and judges in America today reject the Biblical legal philoso-
phy which is based upon the pursuit of justice and justice alone. Instead, they have been trained in the
legal philosophy called legal positivism which is utterly indifferent to the establishment of justice.
Their commitment is to support the sovereignty of the state. Even so every official takes a solemn oath
to support the Constitution and thus to establish justice, which they have not the slightest intention of
doing. If officials were honorable and honest men who devoted themselves to the establishment of
justice rather than liars who only say they will, we would be living under God’s law, the perfect law of
liberty. That is the closest sinful men can come to the Kingdom of God in this life.

Here is an interesting final thought. Assume the British monarchy and all the British laws were ap-
proved by God as most Christians would contend. Assume, also, that the American democracy and its
law were, too. Without a revolution the United States would have been impossible. By the doctrine of
divine right, God must have approved the American Revolution. But revolutions are always in disobe-
dience of human law. It would seem that disobeying human law is approved of by God. Therefore, the
doctrine of divine right governments as currently taught has a fatal flaw. It has an internal inconsistency
which leads to illogical conclusions. In other words, it’s nonsense.

God does not ordain just any group of thugs that presumes to call itself a government. God
ordains the rule of only those men who constitute a truly Biblical government as defined in Romans 13;
only those who administer right and justice according to the law of God, tempered by mercy. All the
rest are unauthorized.

Most important of all to realize: a human government administering God’s law is only a stop-gap,
a half measure, no more than second best. God’s first choice is to be our King, Himself. The suffix
-dom at the end of a word indicates a general condition. Freedom means the condition of being free.
The kingdom of God means both His domain and His condition of being King. No matter how right
and just a human government may be, it is still a rejection of God as King. The most distinguish-
ing characteristic of true Christians is that they do not reject God as King. The Kingdom of God is the
only divine right government, there is no other.

Lesson 9
Is Human Law Binding?
The question arises: If we reject human government and return to God’s government, the reverse of
what the Israelites did at the time of Samuel, what becomes of the United States? There will be a
transition period, which has already begun, during which more and more people will throw off their
indoctrination in statism and democracy in favor of theocracy.

During this period of transition those who still reject God by recognizing the sovereignty of the state can
continue to believe themselves governed by the United States. There very likely will be some few who
are not able to free their minds of this indoctrination and superstition at all. They may be doomed to
spend their entire lives outside of theocracy. For this reason and in order to deal with the strayed and
rebellious masses of mankind who have created other nation-states, it may be necessary to maintain
the fiction of the United States for the foreseeable future, but on a voluntary, not a compulsory, basis. It
may not be necessary. No one really knows the details.

When the United States is viewed as a voluntary association of free men who are ruled by God, there
is no longer a conflict between democracy and theocracy. In fact, this was originally the concept. From
the preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts:

The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact...that all
shall be governed by certain laws...

We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of
the great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity,
deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit,
and solemn compact with each other;...Preamble, Constitution of Massachusetts.

Here we see that the original idea in America was that government was to be voluntary; no fraud,
violence or surprise. No conflict with the idea that God is the sovereign and the great Legislator of the
Universe. Not only that, but the laws enacted by democratic processes, which were well known to be
incompatible with personal security and the rights of property, were naturally voluntary as well. No
conflict with the idea of God as the only law giver. James Wilson, setting on the first supreme court,
said as much in a famous decision:

“The only reason, I believe, that a free man is bound by human law, is, that he binds himself. Upon the
same principles, upon which he becomes bound by the laws, he becomes amenable to the courts of
justice, which are formed and authorized by those laws.” Chishom v. Georgia, 2 US(Dall) 419, 455.Find
the original idea of government in America. Find James Wilson’s position on the spectrum:

Man’s Rule God’s Rule

(Man’s Law) (God’s Law)

Girls, this lesson is very important. The laws of the United States are not binding, and no one is
amenable to its courts!Is this anarchy? No, this is freedom and equality under God. We really are
free if God is our King and Legislator!

What about people who violate God’s laws? Some people will do very bad things. But, the existence of
wrong-doing is no excuse to flee from God into a world of fantasy ruled by wolf-men and wizards,
invisible or otherwise. No matter how dreadful reality may be, it is better to confront it with clear minds
than to fall into the superstition and delusions of human government and legislation.

God’s law doesn’t depend upon consent. The essence of His law is man’s relationship with man as
found in the revealed law and the law of nature, both of which are referred to in the Declaration as the
legal basis for America’s independence. The revealed law commands us to love our neighbor as our-
self; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Murder is expressly against the Ten Com-
mandments. The first law of nature is self-preservation. If someone endangers your life, liberty or
pursuit of happiness, the law of nature, whose source is God, permits you to act in proportion to the
threat or injury. The revealed law describes the principle of proportionate response, the essence of
justice, very graphically: An eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The law invented by men in
America is grossly disproportionate. For example, if someone forgets to signal a turn at the corner he
could be put in jail for six months and fined three hundred dollars. Or a multiple murderer might be put
in prison for life. Both of these punishments are unjust.

The victim’s relatives or anyone in the community for that matter, in defense against a lawless man,
may act proportionately. But won’t this lead to anarchy and chaos? No. As shown in Lesson 1, society
does not collapse with the abolition of human government. The laws of reason, morality and religion
rise up to bind us together. These laws tell us that we must be certain we have the right man before
acting against him. He must be brought before a neutral third party who will decide his guilt or inno-
cence. Under theocracy this neutral third party is not elected or appointed by men, he is raised up by
God to make just judgements.

It seems strange to grown-ups because of their great faith in the state, but little faith in God, that judges
were routinely raised up during the three hundred years of the Old Covenant theocracy and can be
again. In theocracy judges are simply men whose belief in God’s laws, commitment to right and
justice, and wisdom are well known in the community. At this very moment these men exist in every
community, their emergence prevented by the demand for human government. They work for free, not
as a public service, but as a service to God. Maybe your dad could be one of these men.

We know that in Arab countries statism is only now gaining a toe-hold. There, justice has been
administered without the state idea for hundreds of years. In some cases an educated man is asked
to judge. Sometimes elders from two families meet and reach an agreement. In a recent case among
the Bedouins of Jordan, a man was killed by electrocution accidentally. After a family negotiation his
father was offered a settlement of $45,000. The amount was accepted, then given back in an act of
forgiveness. Both justice and mercy are taught by their religion. If Moslems are capable of such
fairness and moral rightness without the state, we as followers of Christ must have that ability too.
America’s judicial system in concerned about the sovereignty of the state, not with the jus-
tice of God. Any attorney will tell you this.

Back to the case of murder. At least two witnesses are required. The sentence is carried out the day
after the trial by the witnesses themselves. This acts as a check against injustice, because if the
witnesses are not certain beyond a reasonable doubt they would be reluctant to kill the accused. Also,
any extenuating circumstances which tend to mitigate guilt and the natural reluctance to shed blood
of another would weigh heavily on their conscience, if not on the judge’s, staying their hand in doubtful
cases.

To grown-ups this sounds like what they call taking the law into your own hands. They think the state
must handle the punishment of crimes. They forget the state is only a fantasy and that is really men
who have the law in their hands, anyway. Their belief in the state is very strong, indeed. Such people
could use the courts of the United States if it makes them feel better. The services rendered by judges
and so forth would have to be paid for somehow since wizards do not act in service to God.

In the case of theft or damage to property the offender must make restitution. If not financially able to
do so, he may be allowed to work it off. If he refues to make restitution as decided by the judge, the
penalty is death. But mercy and the laws of religion tell us to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies.
More violence will solve nothing. Besides, which of us is without sin? It might be prudent to warn
others by printing his name and picture in the paper, for example.

Sure, it takes faith to believe God rules the world, but it takes even more faith to believe that nation-
states rule the world. In order for the United States to rule people, they must first pledge true faith and
allegiance as you learned in Lesson 3.

Every nation-state can be traced to its origin. In each case we find that it was men who fashioned with
their imaginations an invisible, immortal, all-powerful being and set it to rule over them. It is a tremen-
dous example of raw faith to believe that a creature can rule its creator especially when its creator
conjured it out of thin air. If millions can have faith in an invisible, sovereign state, faith in the invisible,
sovereign King of the World should be no trouble at all.

Christians already profess to have just this belief. Tens of thousands of missionaries are spreading the
good news of God’s Kingdom on earth, the Lordship of Christ, all over the world. If these missionaries
will tell their converts the whole truth and help them stop living in a fantasy world filled with wizards
who conjure up invisible, immortal entities, then they will be able to see the New Covenant theocracy
as it really is and live under it.

Grown-ups like to divide life into two areas. The spiritual realm in which God rules; and the temporal
realm in which man rules. The idea of two realms comes from the ancient Greeks who believed that
Demos rules on earth and Zeus rules in heaven. But the Bible teachs that the Messiah, to whom all
power was committed in heaven and earth, rules all areas of life through the hearts and minds of
individual men. His law is written on each heart and mind. Now, girls, here is something important:

Government, divine or human, can be establis hed nowhere, but the hearts and minds of
men.

If we had a lever to pull causing everyone to forget about the United States it would be completely gone
because it exists only in the thoughts of men and woman. This is true for any human government. But
God’s government is different. It does not depend on imagination, memory, and ability to read and
write. God’s government is part of our natural being. It is as natural as our sense of right and wrong.
(Remember the Golden Rule?) Since grown-ups have filled their hearts and minds with human gov-
ernment there is almost no room for God’s government in them. Christians are taught that God’s
government is inside them while man’s government is outside. This is a strong delusion. All govern-
ments exist inside the hearts and minds of people. All governments are spiritual; some are the wrong
spirit.

The first rule under theocracy is love and duty towards God. The second rule is love and duty towards
man. This is called the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This
government has always been in full force and effect. Much of the time it has been ignored and ob-
scured by human government. Even so men have relied heavily on it to maintain their shadowy insti-
tutions. If men had no conscience and were determined to do evil to one another, no human govern-
ment could cope with the crime wave. Not only would the general population be uncontrollable but the
officials, who are only human themselves, would add their crimes to the mayhem. Without the nautural
sense of right and wrong given to almost all men by God, we really would see anarchy and chaos!

Lesson 10
Salvation and the Kingdom, Too?
Many grown-ups know that God has a Kingdom on earth and that the Messiah is King. But they have been
tricked into thinking that if Christ is not physically present on earth, then He can’t be ruling. Some think
that the good news about God’s reign on earth is meant only for the Jews. Some believe that even
though Jesus was given all power on heaven and earth, He has, to a great degree, abdicated His
throne to human rulers in disobedience to the will of God. Believing these things means that grown-ups
can go on playing wizards until the King returns. This is not true.

We know from the Bible that God ruled the Israelites for three hundred years and He was never
physically present.We know that the Kingdom is now open for everybody, naturalized Israelites as
well as native-born Israelites. We also know that grown-ups believe that the State of Alaska and the
United States are able to rule them, yet these fictions are never physically present. In fact, they are only
make-believe! So, just because the Messiah is not here on earth does not mean he can’t be ruling on
earth. He can and He does. But men are free to reject Him as King until He returns. In the end bad
things happen to those who reject God as King (Luke 19:27).At the very least rejecting God means
living in a terrible fantasy world created by men - where mutually assured destruction is the end.

Grown-ups may try to teach you that God’s kingdom is not very important. That is because a man
named Paul wrote some letters in which salvation seemed to be more important than the Kingdom of
God. Salvation means to be delivered from the power and penalty of sin. Sin means breaking the laws
of God’s Kingdom. When the Messiah was on earth He taught His followers mainly about the King-
dom. He didn’t teach them about salvation separately because the two are really the same. God can
save us if we have not rejected His government. We know this because of Isaiah 33:22. There we learn
that the Lord is our law-giver, our judge and our King, and it is He that will save us. Save us
from sin which is rebellion to God’s law and Kingdom. That’s what it means to repent and take Christ
for your Lord.

All three branches of government, legislative, judicial and executive, are linked with salvation. What
need is there for human government? Teaching about salvation and teaching about the Kingdom are
really the same thing. Grown-ups try to limit God’s salvation to the spiritual realm, but it can not be
done. Salvation includes the temporal realm, too. Acrtually, there is only one realm: God’s Creation.

Grown-ups may try to teach you that the churches they have made are the same as the Kingdom of
God. These churches are only more invisible great wizards that grown-ups use to help them gain
control over the minds of children so they will play Wizards of America. Churches have human wiz-
ards, too. They are called popes, priests, ministers, preachers, pastors, workers and many other names.
They are all humbugs. They will tell you some true things, but they will also want you to believe that the
Messiah has abdicated His throne to men and that He speaks mainly through church wizards and
government wolf-men. This is not true. If God wants to speak to you He will speak directly to you, not
to somebody else. In the new Covenant theocracy all are priests.

Girls, grown-ups will try to trick you about what a church is. The word church is a translation of the
Greek word ecclesia which means town-meeting, the popular assembly of ancient Athens. It is a
group of people that gather together for purposes of government, not religion:

The institutions by which this body of citizen-members undertook to transact its political business can
be illustrated by taking Athens as the best-known type of the democratic constitution. The whole body
of male citizens formed the Asembly or Ecclesia, a town-meeting which every Athenian was entitled
to attend after he had reached the age of twenty years. The Assembly met regularly ten times in the
year and in extraordinary sessions at the call of the Council. A History of Political Theory, George H.
Sabine, Pg. 6.

You may have heard the Bible story of how the vacancy left by the death of Judas was filled by lot. This,
too, was a feature of Greek government:

The system was a combination of election and lot. The demes elected candidates, roughly in propor-
tion to their size, and the actual holders of office were chosen by lot from the panel thus formed by
election.Ibid., pg.7.

For the ancient Greeks the church was a part of their democracy. For the Christians, who had rejected
Caesar and the roman Empire which they called the domain of darkness, it was part of theocracy. It
was very natural for Christians to borrow this idea from the Greeks because many were already familiar
with its operation. Today, after two thousand years, grown-ups have forgotten what the word church
means. Today grown-ups think it means a religious assembly. Not true; it is a governmental institu-
tion established by the Messiah as part of the Kingdom of God and diametrically opposed to
institutions of the state.

They also think the Bible teaches us only about religion. It does not. The word religion or religious is
found only five times in the whole Bible. The Bible teaches about government. It tells us how good
God’s government is and how bad man’s government is. If you go to church you will be taught a lot
about theology, but little about theocracy, a lot about salvation, but little about the full power of the Lord
on earth. Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God; wizards teach about Jesus and leave out the
Kingdom.

I belonged to several churches before I realized what they were doing. Their main purpose is to make
good citizens for the sovereign state, rather than for the sovereign God. They want us to be a willing
part of the body politic. If they were real churches they would want to be part of the body of Christ, and
not part of the body politic; part of a theocracy, not part of a democracy. Some churches will even teach
you can be part of both bodies. That is being luke-warm and serving two master. Can two cats share
the same tail? No, it must be part of one cat or the other. See if you can find the earliest Christians on
the spectrum:
 Man’s Rule God’s Rule
(Body politic) (Body of Christ)

Church humbugs will also want to baptize you. They will tell you this is a sign that you have become a
church member, that you have turned to the Messiah for salvation. If you change churches you’ll
probably have to be baptized again. Grown-ups have forgoten what the purpose of baptism really is.

Salvation depends on giving allegiance to God as Law-giver, Judge and King. In other words, becom-
ing a citizen of the Kingdom of God. Just as someone can renounce allegiance to all other governments
and become a citizen of the United States by the process of naturalization, so, too, can someone
become a naturalized citizen of the commonwealth of Israel, an Israelite. Baptism is merely part of
the ancient Israelite naturalization ceremony. C.K. Barrett tells us that about two thousand years
ago many non-Israelites were tempted but could not bring themselves to take the final step of circum-
cision, by which they would have cut themselves off from their own people and race. There were
actuall three steps required to become and Israelite: circumcision, baptism and (before the destruction
of the temple) sacrifice. First, there was a period of instruction and examination concerning the law,
then the question:

‘Know thou that the world to come was made only for the righteous, but Israel at this present time may
not experience very great good or very great afflictions.’

If he accept, he is to be circumcised immediately and received. In case of the discovery of any defect
as to [a previous] circumcision, he is to be circumcised over again, and when healed brought to
baptism immediately.

Two men learned in the Law shall stand near him and instruct him as to some of the lighter and some
of the weightier commandments. He immerses himself and when he comes up he is in all respects and
Israelite. (Yebamoth 47a,b.; as found in The New Testament Background; Selected Documents, pgs.
164-166).

When John was urging baptism on people who were supposedly already Israelites by birth, with cir-
cumcision and sacrifices at eight days, he was telling them they were so far from being citizens of
God’s Kingdom that they needed to be naturalized. That’s what born again means, being spiritually
reborn into the theocracy. After our natural birth grown-ups took us into the world they made up be-
cause they don’t believe there is any other. After living in the fantasy world invented by men, we all get
a fresh start by being born again into the real world. There is a new beginning of the world with each
rebirth. Everyone enters the Kingdom like a child who must learn all over again. If you still cling to the
old fantasy world of wizards, if you have not died to it, then you can not be born again into the new
world. You can not drag the world of wizards into the world of reality, although many grown-ups think
they can.

Many think that the first Christians very definitely were telling people about a government at odds with
the Roman Empire. Reading in Acts 17:6 & 7 we learn:

Those that have turned the world upside down have come here, too; the ones Jason received: and
these all do contrary to the decrees of Ceasar, saying that there is another King, one Jesus.

Turning the world upside down is a revolution. It means the same as the last shall be first, and the
first last. Roman law did not permit any King but Ceasar. Christians not only had a different King, but
a completely different government with its own town-meeting. Ceasar, who was on top, was now on
the bottow with everyone else; no more than equal to other men. Find where Ceasar and the Romans
stood:
 Man’s Rule God’s Rule
(A man on top) (All men Equal)

Church wizards will try to explain away this direct conflict with the Wizards of Rome, because they
want to play Wizards of America. They will tell you to Render unto Ceasar. But remember Ceasar was
only a common man and a humbug. The only thing owned to Ceasar is the same respect you would
render to any other man, unless you have rejected God as ruler and live in a fantasy world. On the
spectrum above find the place of people who render unto Ceasar. A man named Paul wrote a letter to
his friends at the time of Ceasar and told them they had been chose to overthrow the existing order
(Cor 1:28, NEB), which meant the Roman Empire. Find Paul’s position on the spectrum. Jesus
proclaimed the Kingdom of God. Find His position on the spectrum. God did not want the ancient
Israelites to have a human king. Find God’s position on the spectrum. Now the existing order is the
nation-state world system.

If church wizards ever confuse you about who is actually ruling on earth just read Matthew 28:18, All
power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Find Matthew’s position on the spectrum. Jesus has
not abdicated His throne. No power was given to wizards and humbugs. When men rule it is by force,
not by power. Although many hate the thought, men have been given no power over each other. A man
who is a citizen of the Kingdom is not subject to judgment by his fellow men (I Cor 2:15).

One final thing to be careful of . If you decide to become a Christian and to read and believe the Bible
and go to church, you will meet many others who are doing the same. Every church group will tell you
that they simply read the plain meaning of the words in the Bible without any interpretation. Yet each
group may tell you the same words mean different things. Each claims to be right, but people often
make mistakes. I have decided to figure out what the Bible means myself as best I can. This is the
most anyone can do. I use other people’s beliefs and interpretations only to help me find the truth.

Lesson 11
The Kingdom Begins Small
Now, girls, I want to tell you a very important but little know fact about the governments of America. If
they follow all their own rules, they are unable to enforce their ordiances. Those who violate laws made
by wizards must agree to be tried and punished. They alone can bind themselves by human laws.
They alone can make themselves amenable to human courts. Violators usually give their agreement
by failing to claim their rights out of ignorance. This is why the Declaration of Independence says that
governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Here is what I mean. Suppose a man was charged with a crime. In America every man accused of a
crime has a right to the adminstration of right and justice without sale or prejudice: A fair trial by an
unbiased jury conducted by an unbiased judge. He also has a right to be represented by counsel. But,
the present judicial systems of the United States and of every state are unable to secure these impor-
tant rights.

Criminal charges are always brought in the name of the state. For example, The State of Alaska vs
George Washington. In this situation any juror would be biased because he has pledged allegiance to
the state and because he is required to take an oath to support the law of the state. Since the state is
the plantiff each juror is biased in favor of the plaintiff. Jurors also receive a small amount of money
from the plaintiff. That means a fair jury trial is impossible.

In the same way any judge is biased because to become a judge he must take a solemn oath to
support the state, or its constitution, which means the same thing. Judges, too, are biased for the
plaintiff because of their oath and because they receive large amounts of money from the plaintiff for
executing its laws, making a fair trial impossible.

The right to counsel means the right to be represented by someone who is free to effectively plead
your cause for you. But, the only men who are allowed to be counselors are men who have taken a
solemn oath to support the state. All of them are biased in favor of the plaintiff just like jurors and
judges. So it is impossible to find effective counsel. Without representaion you can’t be sent to jail.

When these embarrassing facts are pointed out and the accused refuses to wave his rights there can
be no trial. There are other fatal conflicts in the system of human law. The freedom of thought has
always been held to be absolute in America. Since the state is a fiction, no one can be forced to submit
to judicial proceedings in which the plaintiff is the state. We have only to stop believing to abolish
human government. The Declaration says this is our right and duty when government goes bad.

The freedom of thought include the freedom of religious belief. New Covenant theocracy teaches that
we must love our enemies. But, all state judicial proceedings are adversary in nature. One party is
struggling against another. That means Christians can not participate in criminal or civil trials. Chris-
tians must solve their problems in fraternal proceedings, treating one another as brothers and enemies
as loved ones. Compelled adversarial proceedings compel Christians to act contrary to their religious
beliefs.

Every trial presupposes the existence of the state and its sovereignty and the court and its authority.
But no one can be forced to believe in the state and the court. Nor can anyone be forced to believe that
he is in the state and in court. Everyone is free to believe that God’s Kingdom is a present reality and
that all human governments have been done away with. Christians are free to believe that all men are
created equal and that the only authority one man has over another is in the administration of
right and justice according to the law of God, tempered by mercy. We may also believe that God
owns the entire world and us, too; that the things we have are not our own, but only entrusted to us.

In April of this year (1987) I was charged with contempt of court for not paying a fine after being found
guilty of driving my truck without license plates. I didn’t file any papers in the case. At the trial I told the
judge I was incompetent to represent myself and badly in need of counsel. The judge tried for ten
minutes to induce me to wave my right to counsel or to accept someone who had sworn allegiance to
the plaintiff, but I would do neither.

Then I took the stand to give my testimony. I stated that we were all in the Kingdom of God and
without authority over one another unless we were administering right and justice according to God’s
law. To determine if I had the ability to pay the fine, I was aked many questions about what property I
owned. I explained that God owns everything by right of creation, including our persons and that any
assets held by me were in trust from God. At that point we took recess. That was the last ever said
about a trial for contempt of court. I was found neither guilty nor not-guilty. There was never a judge-
ment entered. The judge did take most of the appearance bond to cover the fine. Yet on that day
freedom to believe in the Kingdom was partly secured in a grudging, left-handed manner.

I fully expected to go to jail that day in April, but I didn’t! While this is a very small beginning, I believe
it proves that the Kingdom is possible right now. Men, women and children really are free to live in the
Kingdom of God if they choose. No one is actually forced to live in the fantasy world created by
humans. There is a way out! Much work is yet to be done, but I am sure we can do it. You’re welcome
to help, if you like.
 Lesson 12
The Doctrine of Abdication
Girls, we live in a society which has been strongly influenced by the teaching of Jesus who lived two
thousand years ago. Half the people in America attend church on a regular basis. Even most of those
who are not comfortable in churches still believe to one degree or another in the God of the Bible.
Sooner or later some one will invite you to join their church. If you decide to join you’ll be expected to
accept the church’s official doctrine. Nearly every church today teaches what can be called the doc-
trine of abdication. This means that Jesus is believed to have announced his Kingdom, been anointed
Messiah, given all power in heaven and on earth, and then to have abdicated his throne so that men
can continue to rule and though nothing had changed. A variation of this, is the belief that the devil, not
Yahweh, is the god of this world. We will examine this doctrine to see if it is true. As always you are free
to make up your own mind. At least you’ll have another point of view to help you.

Today Christians restrict God’s rule to just the spiritual realm of their lives. It has not always been so.
Even a hundred years ago it was commonly believed that God’s rule encompassed everything, spiri-
tual and temporal. Terrible and bloody conflicts like World War I, 1914-1918, caused people to ques-
tion this belief in God’s rule on earth. To explain such evil the doctrine of abdication was contrived. One
thing this doctrine does is void the Gospel. Instead of proclaiming the Kingdom of God, turning the
world upside down, and overthrowing the existing order, Christians now proclaim the kingdom of
Satan, or the kingdom of man, which leaves the world unchanged and supports the existing order.

How can World War I and other occasions of slaughter and destruction be explained if God rules the
world? The answer lies not in God’s rule, but in man’s rebellion to that rule. One day the people of earth
will be ruled with a rod of iron. (Rev 2:27) Until then, men are free to choose by whom they will be
ruled.

God’s Kingdom is established in the hearts and minds of men when His law is written there. Men enter
the New Covenant by free and willing agreement. Many feel called to make this agreement, but at the
same time do not want to be restricted by God’s laws. To make it appear they have entered the
New Covenant, men place their private lives under the rule of God and their public lives under
rule of the state. As private persons they obey, for example God’s command not to murder. As public
persons they obey the state’s command to murder or to aid the collective national effort to murder.

Both the state and God are invisible, immortal, sovereign beings. If men would stop believing in the
state and place both their private and public lives under the rule of God, wars would end. World War I,
like all wars, was a struggle between nation-states in the fantasy world created by the imagination of
men. In that fantasy, the world is in a state of anarchy because the nation-states are bound by no law,
including the law of God. Men who feel powerless in themselves to violate the will of their Creator, find
the courage to flout His laws by projecting themselves whole-heartedly into the corporate body of the
lawless nation-state. Then, theft, murder and all manner of wickedness and evil is done under the
delusion that no one is individually responsible.

In past fantasy worlds, the Roman Emperor was believed to rule on earth. When the Empire fell apart
the Pope was believed to rule. After the Reformation people stopped believing that the Pope was God’s
vice-regent and began to believe that each king ruled by divine right. After the American Revolution
people stopped believing in the divine right of kings and began to believe they were ruled by the
majority and the invisible, immortal state. Each time the current belief in man’s rule on earth wore thin,
another arose to take its place. Men seem ready to believe the most outrageous stories to avoid being
ruled by God.
The doctrine of abdication is founded upon certain mis-interpretations of passages in the New Testa-
ment, most notably Romans 13: Everyone must submit to the supreme authorities, NEB; 1 Peter 2:
Submit yourselves to every human institution.... and Matthew 22:21: Render unto Caesar... When
modern Christians quote these verses, they mean to say that if we are obedient to God, we must be
obedient to the state, except when the state’s law directly contradicts God’s law. This is exactly what I
was taught as a child in Sunday School. For many years I believed this interpretation. But now I see
that this interpretation can’t possibly be true! It is full of contradictions. If runs counter to the main
thrust of the Bible and leads to a violation of the first and second of the Ten Commandments.

Let’s review the major events of history from the Biblical perspective. In the beginning God created
heaven and earth. Then He created everything else, including men. Abraham left the city of Ur near the
Persian Gulf bound for Canaan on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Abraham believed in
one God who is the actual and lawful Lord of all heaven and earth. (Gen 24:3). Abraham entered
a covenant, or agreement, with the Lord for himself and all his descendants. Yahweh is God’s name.

Abraham was the father of Isaac and all the Hebrews. He taught them to believe in God and to enter
His covenant. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel (God Rules). Israel
moved with all his family to Egypt during a famine. The descendants of Israel became slaves in Egypt.
Moses lead them to freedom back to the land of Canaan. There the Israelites lived for about three
hundred years with no other King but the Lord of Abraham. At one point they wanted Gideon to found
a hereditary monarchy like all the surrounding countries, but he refused the crown because, he said,
Yahweh was their King. (Judges 8:22-23).

The elders of Israel came to the prophet Samuel and demanded that the form of government be
changed and that a visible king be set over them. Then, as now, without an abiding faith, the rule of
Yahweh was impossible. They turned from a faith in the invisible God to put confidence in a visible
king. In order to establish a monarchy the Israelites rejected God. Saul was chosen by lot and
became king. The Israelites had a long series of kings, divided into a northern and southern kingdom,
went into captivity in Assyria and Babylonia, respectively, and finally were dispersed to all parts of the
known world. They are called the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Two thousand years ago, Jesus
was born in Canaan which was then called Palestine.

Jesus proclaimed the same God Abraham believed in, the actual and lawful Lord of all heaven and
earth. He offered a new covenant to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. He summed up his mes-
sage to fellow Israelites with the words; The time has come; the Kingdom of God is upon you;
repent, and believe the Gospel. (Mark 1:14). Gospel means good news. Repent is the old English
word used to translate the Greek word, metanoeo, which actually means to change one’s mind. Only
in one place is the idea of feeling regret conveyed. That was when Judas was seized with remorse for
turning Jesus over to the chief priests. (Matt 27:3 NEB). As used in the Gospel it always means to
change your mind, not to feel an emotion. Actually, Samuel prefigured the Gospel to the House of
Israel when he advised the Israelites to change their minds about a human king and remain in
the Kingdom of God (I Sam. 8:11-18). Jesus’ message to the House of Israel was a command, while
Samuel’s, one thousand years before, was a request or good advice.

The Israelites of Jesus’ day didn’t want God for their King any more that the Isra elites of Samuel’s day
or of our day. So the Gospel was extended to men of all races. Those who actually changed their minds
about the lawful form of government on earth became true Israelites by naturalization, see Lesson 10)
as much, or more, than natural born Israelites (Rom 9:6-8). Christians can just as correctly be
called Israelites. In fact, consistent with the Gospel of God’s state of being a King, the word Israel
means let God rule or God rules Salvation lies in the Kingdom through accepting God’s Messiah as
King to the exclusion of other forms of government (Luke 19:27). In Samuel’s day the Israelites said
no to God’s rule and demanded a monarchy. Today Americans still say no to God’s rule, but
have changed the demand to a democracy.
There is what the New Testament, or New Covenant, is all about. There were many old covenants
between God and the Israelites. Most of them had to do with men agreeing to be governed by God,
either directly, or, at times when God was rejected as king, through a human king. Here are the
covenants:

1. Covenant with Adam. A promise of continued life and favor to man on condition of obedience,
coupled with a penalty for disobedience. (Gen 2:16-17).

2. Covenant with Noah. A promise to Noah and his posterity which includes all humanity since the
human race had a new beginning after the flood. God promised there would be no other great deluge.
The rainbow is the token of this covenant (Gen 6:18; 9:12, 15-16).

3. Covenant with Abraham. God promised to be the God of Abraham and his posterity and to give
them the land of Canaan. Circumcision was the sign of this covenant (Gen 13:17; 15:18; 17:2, 4, 7, 11,
13-14, 19).

4. Covenant with the Israelites. God promised to continue to be their God-King if they would keep
the Ten Commandments. The sign of this covenant was the Sabbath (Ex. 31:16). It was agreed to at
Horeb or Sinai and renewed on the plains of Moab with the next generation. (Deut 5:2; 29:1).

5.Covenant with the Levites. God bestowed prosperity and life in return for the duty of reverence.(Mal
2:4,8).

6.Covenant with Phinehas. God gave Phinehas and his descendants an everlasting priesthood (Num
25:12,13).

7.Covenant with David. David’s posterity should forever occupy his throne, but with punishment for
failure to follow God’s laws, statutes and judgements (Ps 89:20-37).

8.The New Covenant. God promised to govern the House of Israel by writing His law on their hearts
and minds. It is administered by the Spirit (II Cor 3:6-9); based on faith, just like the covenant with
Abraham (Gal 4:21-31); and intended for all people willing to change their minds and be ruled by God
(become Israelites)(Matt 28:19-20; Acts 10:44-47).

The covenant at Sinai as referred to as the Old Covenant. Jesus announced the beginning of the New
Covenant. Both were an agreement between God and Israel that they should be governed by Him-
under the Ten Commandments written on stone in the old; under the law written on hearts and minds
in the new. All the promises to Israelites are contained, or fulfilled, in the New Covenant. Israelites did
not abide in the terms of the Old Covenant, so God has made a New Covenant with the House of Israel
(Heb 8:7-13). Jesus has been chosen to be Israel’s King and High Priest (Heb 8:1).

There in a nutshell is what the Bible is all about. It simply is not true that God wants us to be ruled by
men. The purpose of the Old and the New Covenant was to institute God’s rule, or Kingdom,
on earth. The New Covenant is a revolutionary change in the usual relationship between men. Usually
rulers lord it over their subjects and make them feel the weight of authority, but not so for those who
enter the New Covenant. Among Israelites whoever wants to be first must be the willing servant of all
(Matt 20: 25-28). This is what prompted the Colonists to call officials of the new government public
servants. The Pilgrims, the Puritans and most of the early Americans saw themselves as God’s
New Israel. Not so today; now every official is a master, not a servant.

Because of the sad state the world is in, most ministers and missionaries have stopped proclaiming
the Gospel of Jesus. Instead of proclaiming with joy, the Kingdom of God, they proclaim the
kingdom of Satan with sorrow. Because of wide-spread evil they teach their converts that Satan is
the god of the world. This is utterly contrary to the Bible (Is 45:5-), even though Satan may be the father
of a great many men.

Now let’s take a look at those verses that supposedly teach the doctrine of the Messiah’s abdication. In
the New English Bible, Matthew 22:15-22:

Then the Pharisees went away and agreed on a plan to trap him in his own words. Some of their
followers were sent to him in a company with men of Herod’s party. They said, ‘Master, you are an
honest man, we know; you teach in all honesty the way of life that God requires, truckling to no man,
whoever he may be...

A couple of points. This is to be a trap. They expected Jesus’ honest answer to allow official action to be
taken against him for sedition. Truckling means to submit tamely. Jesus knew the truth that Caesar
we created no more than equal to other men. What way of life did Jesus teach? The New Covenant
way with God’s law, not man’s, in our hearts and minds. He taught God’s rule, not man’s, just like
Samuel a thousand years before.

...Give us your ruling on this: are we or are we not permitted to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor?”
Jesus was aware of their malicious intention and said to them, ‘You hypocrites! Why are you trying to
catch me out?...

Permitted by what? By the law of God. The King James version brings this out more clearly. There is
no provision in that law for giving tribute to a god-king like Caesar. In fact, whenever the Israelites did
give tribute to other god-kings, such as Baal, they were punished for disobedience to the First and
Second Commandments. The answer to this question can only have been no. If the answer was yes,
then the trap makes no sense. Jesus knew they were trying to trap him in His own words. And the
Pharisees, being experts in the Law themselves, knew exactly what those words must be.

...Show me the money in which the tax is paid.’ They handed him a silver piece, Jesus asked . ‘Whose
inscription?’’Caesar’s,’ they replied. He said to them, ‘Then pay Caesar what is due Caesar, and pay
God what is due God.’ This answer took them by surprise, and they went away and left him alone.

The had expected him to say no, but instead he set a trap for them that is still trapping people
today! His answer was another way of proclaiming the Gospel. The meaning of this answer and of the
Gospel depends upon one’s faith in God. If you believe that God rules the earth and owns everything
including that coin and Caesar, if you believe the First Commandment requires us to rend all that we
are and all that we have to God, then there is nothing left to pay Caesar. Human rulers have no place
in the new world order established by the New Covenant. The inscription on that coin refers to
Caesar as divine. The Roman cult of emperor worship was only the latest form of Baalism just as
statism is today. Taxation and legislation are prerogatives of sovereignty. Both God and human rulers
claim to be sovereign, then and today. No one can serve two masters. Sovereigns insist that everything
be rendered, including their subjects’ very lives. Each of us chooses a sovereign and renders his all-
some to God, some to man. Many have been trapped by Jesus when they publicly confess that
they render unto Caesar. This embarrassing fact will no doubt be raised by the Accuser at the
Last Judgement.

Contrary to their words, those who insist that Christians must render coins unto Caesar make a weekly
practice of rendering these same coins unto God as they drop them into the collection plat e on Sunday
morning. Then ministers and missionaries use those coins to do God’s work. Or do they? There are
two possibilities. Either these men say one thing, but really believe and do another; or those coins
dropped into the collection plate are, as they so strongly insist, actually being rendered unto
Caesar and used not for God, but for Caesar. Since church leaders require their converts to recog-
nize the various states as their lawful rulers of the world and since they no longer proclaim the Kingdom
of God, the latter appears to be true.
In the two thousand years since the time of Jesus the general level of enlightenment has gradually
increased. Today, the truth that all men are created equal is well known, at least in America. The
Declaration, which is the lawful foundation of the United States, is centered around this truth. But in the
Roman Empire it was largely unknown. Today, we know that God did not create some men to rule
and some to submit. All men are equal when living under God’s laws. Does that mean that God does
not institute human rulers? No. He does, but only when men have rejected Him as their King (I Sam
10:18,19). But, there are also governments made by man’s will and not God’s,; and officers set
up without God’s knowledge. (Hosea 8:4) These are the governments which reject God’s law sys-
tem, for example, China, Russia and the United States. They have no claim to obedience.

Returning to God’s law under human government would be far better, but still only a half
measure. We are commanded to turn completely from darkness to light. If we change our minds
about the form of government we want, turning back to God as King, then Godly human rulers are
removed from authority. God is able to rule directly through our hearts and minds if we allow it. It is a
personal decision, not a community decision. A community does not have a heart and mind upon
which God’s law can be written.

Roman 13 is referring to the government God institutes for men who reject Him as King. Paul was
writing to people who were called by God (Rom 1:7), not to those who had been chosen for
entry into the Kingdom at that time as true Israelites (Matt 20:16; 22:14). After first hearing the
Gospel it takes quite some time for that tiny seed to grow to maturity. In many cases it never does
(Mark 4:3-20). In these Romans the seed was planted, but still struggling to grow. Until maturity they
had no where to turn and no choice but to submit to the established authorities. Paul was quite correct
in telling them to do so. It is no different today. Many are called, but few are chosen. True Israelites are
God’s chosen people, not all natural descendants of Israel, but those born through God’s promises. For
them, just as for the ancient Israelites, no one but God rules.

Peter’s first letter is directed to people similar to the Romans is that they are new-born infants
so far as the Kingdom is concerned (I Peter 2:2). When, and if, they grew up they had God, not
man, for their King. It takes years for one’s world view to become completely re-ordered. We must
forget everything and start over from the beginning, just like a child. For Paul that process look about
three years as he lived Damascus meditating upon the great change that had come over his life and the
truth as it had been revealed to him (Gal 1:18). Taking that final step to becoming a true Israelite by
claiming the promises and recognizing God’s Messiah as ruler on Earth is no easier today than when
becoming an Israelite required circumcision as well as baptism.

The modern resurgence of the abdication doctrine is a major step backwards. Two hundred years ago
men stood in the pulpit reviling the Colonists whose eyes had been opened to the truth that all men are
created equal, including George III! Among the people of that day it was common to say, No bishop,
No king! And they sang a rousing revolutionary song titled The World Turned Up-side Down, taken
from Acts 17:6 in the King James version. It was George Washington who said, We have no king but
God, which is true only of Israelites under the New Covenant. The Declaration, in the judgment of
Samuel Adams, was a restoration of God to His throne as sovereign and a means to facilitate the
coming of the Kingdom to all men. James Madison thought that all men should give their allegiance to
the Sovereign of the Universe. He’d be surprised to see his posterity giving allegiance to the state
today.

The Colonists’ rejection of the abdication doctrine routinely appeared in their official documents. Nearly
every ratification of the federal Constitution contained this thought:

...the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish,
and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
There was no doubt in their minds that the Bible does not teach submission to men created no more
than equal to them. For them the Bible clearly taught submission to God and His Messiah. But Tory
ministers, that is, ministers of the Anglican Church, the official church of England, denounced the
revolutionary theories of Jefferson and Madison. In support of the existing order, Jonathan Boucher, an
Anglican, preached that:

Obedience to government is every man’s duty, because it is every man’s interest; but it is particularly
incumbent of Christians, because it is enjoined by the positive commands of God.

In Boucher the seed of the Kingdom had not matured. He was unaware that the New Covenant Gospel
turns everything up-side down. The first becomes last. King George was like a mountain that had been
leveled, making way for the coming of the Lord (Luke 3:4-6). Boucher’s congregation ran him out of
town. This little known history can be found in William O. Douglas’, An Almanac of Liberty.

In his recent book, Pastor Everett Sileven(Ramsey) says:

“Neither Romans 13, I Peter 2, nor Render unto Caesar can be used correctly or effectively against a
well informed Christian to persuade him to disobey his God and obey ungodly, tyrannical government.

Another reason that the comment Render unto Caesar used by many pastors and Christians to beat
other people over the head, to make them bow to the wishes of bureaucrats and ungodly law is not
acceptable from the point of view that they are trying to imply that Caesar has certain jurisdiction, and
God has certain jurisdiction.

This is a typical humanistic dichotomy response. God is sovereign over all, including Caesar. There-
fore, to say that Caesar has a certain realm of obedience and God has another realm of obedience, is
totally false.

Caesar must come in line with God.”

Everett Sileven(Ramsey) sees the Kingdom very well:

“But if you mean we must obey the law of men, then I whole-heartedly disagree. We can only live with
the legislative acts of men when they agree with the Laws of God....Only God can create Law.”

An excellent refutation of the doctrine of abdication can be found in Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience
and Non-violence, Signet, 1967, page 266-280. We’ll have much to learn from Tolstoy in the next
lesson.

It is men who have an interest in maintaining the present world order who embrace the doctrine of
abdication. Men like Boucher who was a member of the established church of England. And men like
Antonin Scalia, the newest appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a recent address to fellow Catho-
lics he said in effect that believing God’s law is higher than man’s ignores the Biblical message found
in Paul’s letter to the Romans that government has aa moral claim- that is, a divinely proscribed claim
- to our obedience.

We might wonder how Antonin can feel comfortable being so high up in a government that exists only
because the absurd, slavish idea was firmly rejected.

Today ministers all over the world rush about making converts to Christianity without insuring that
other religions have been set aside. Nearly all modern Christians are practicing members of the
world-wide civil religion called Statism.The god of Statism is the invisible, immortal, sovereign
State. Statism is a sin in that it violates the First and Second Commandments (Ex 20:3-5). The
State is placed before God at least in the public area of life; and men serve the State as patriots and
statesmen with their whole being even to the point of sacrificing their lives.

Can Moslems convert to Christianity while retaining their Moslem beliefs? No, they are not compatible
systems. Can statists convert to Christianity while retaining statists beliefs? No, the two are
diametrically opposed. Samuel did not tell the Israelites they could have a human King and God as
ruler at the same time. They had to choose one and reject the other. Jesus commanded the House
of Israel to change their minds, to repent of their sinful demand for a human king at the time of
Samuel, and to return to God’s rule, or Kingdom. The message for us living today is no different.

In Thayer’s Greek Lexicon the Gospel is defined (#2097): The glad tidings of the coming Kingdom of
God, and of salvation to be obtained in it through Christ. Ministers don’t know what to do with the
Kingdom part of this message, so they leave it out. They lead people to a false salvation which
leaves them squarely in man’s kingdoms and under Satan’s power, not in the Kingdom of God
and the power of His Messiah. These ministers make no distinction between salvation and the
forgiveness of sins.

Many minister and missionaries teach that the Kingdom is within and that salvation does not mean
rescue from human governments. By teaching that salvation and forgiveness are personal and
private they entirely miss the point of the Gospel. From the beginning of this lesson keep in mind
that Good News that Jesus Himself proclaimed. Let’s see if Paul didn’t proclaim the same message.
From Acts 26:18 we learn that Jesus spoke to Paul:

...turn them from darkness to light, from the dominion of Satan to God, so that, by trust in me, they
may obtain forgiveness of sins...

And from Colossians 1:13 Paul tells us:

He rescued us from the domain of darkness and brought us away into the Kingdom of His dear Son,
in whom our release is secured and our sins forgiven.

Salvation is being rescued from the dominion of Satan and brought into the Kingdom of God. The
release secured is release from the domain of darkness. Foremost among the sins forgiven is
violation of the First Commandment-Israel’s rejection of God as King. By being grafted onto the
true vine, others become true Israelites and obtain forgiveness. This is the rescue mission Paul was
given. The reason he was supposed to make this rescue was so that through belief in the Messiah, the
anointed King, forgiveness of sins might be obtained. But forgiveness is not identical with salvation.
First comes salvation, then forgiveness.

What exactly is this dominion of Satan? Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, entry 1849, under #4, tells us domin-
ion in this context means power of rule or government. To find out more about Satan’s dominion, let’s
turn to Luke 4:5-7, NEB:

Next the devil led him up and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world. ‘All this dominion
will I give to you, ‘he said, ‘ and the glory that goes with it; for it has been put in my hands and I can
give it to anyone I choose. You have only to do homage to me and it shall be yours.’

Satan’s dominion includes all the kingdoms of the world. Salvation is rescuing someone from the
governments of the world and bringing them into the Kingdom of God. For Paul that meant rescuing
men and women from the Roman Empire. Today it means rescuing them from the nation-state world
system: The United States, Canada, England, Russia, and so on. This suggests an objective test to
determine true salvation. Do the kingdoms of the world still seem to have power and does Satan still
seem to have dominion? This is a reliable test because for those who have not seen the Kingdom
or believed on the Messiah, Satan appears as the god of this world, but for believers Yahweh
is the God of this world. It is the rescue and transfer to the Kingdom of God (new birth) made
possible by an abiding faith in God that results in a completely new way of seeing the world. Nothing
else can be called salvation.

So girls, this lesson can be summed up in just a few words: Seek the Kingdom first (Matt 6:33), and
you will find it. When you find it you will have found mankind’s greatest happiness, the government
offered by God to all men. At the same time you will have found that salvation which many try in vain
to find while still within the dominion of Satan. I must warn you and it won’t be easy because most
people can’t see the Kingdom and the will try to prevent you from going in. Church people will
use words to stop you. State officers will use terrorism. They are unable to see any alternative to
man’s kingdoms and Satan’s dominion. It’s all a matter of faith. We are winning; victory is the
Lords! May God’s Kingdom come to you!

Lesson 13
Tolstoy and the Dukhabors
In Part One, I promised to tell you the story of a group of Russian Christians called Dukhobors. The
name Dukhobor is a Russian word meaning Spirit wrestler. Their story is important because they are
one of the few groups in all history to understand the awesome implications of Christianity. These
implications are not taught, and maybe not even suspected, by many who call Christ their
Lord today. A very famous Russian writer helped the Dukhobors escape persecution. His name was
Count Leo Tolstoy, or as many people call him, simply Tolstoy. I think you’ll find this little known story
very interesting.

Although they weren’t call Dukhobors until the late 18th century, their commitment to the Lordship of
Jesus first began in the late 17th century. It was people who rejected the earth-shaking truth found in
the Bible that first called them Spirit Wrestlers. The intention was to poke fun at them in a mean way,
just as it was when followers of Christ were first called Christians.

Dukhobors, just like the American Colonists, believed in the equality of all men before God. That
means no man rightly rules another including the czar, the king, the pope, the priest, the president or
any other wizard. Both the Dukhobors and the Colonists rejected all pretended authority, espe-
cially human governments. They recognized God alone as ruler on earth just as in the rest of
the universe at all times and places.

Dukhobors were simple men and women from the peasant class. They were ignored at first, but then
they began to live together in groups sharing everything in common. This was both in recognition of the
reality that God owns everything and men own nothing, and in obedience to the Gospel which com-
mands people to turn from the domain of darkness. Their firm but peaceful resistance to the vio-
lent men who made up the Russian state and the men who made up the Russian Orthodox
Church brought persecution upon them under Catherine II. She was empress of Russian from
1762 to 1796. Alexander I was emperor from 1801 to 1825. He allowed these Christians to settle near
the Sea of Azov just to the north of the Black Sea where they worked the land and made flourishing
farms.

Dukhobors would not allow themselves to be drafted into the army because they regarded any kind of
killing or training to kill as a violation of God’s law. That made the Emperor very angry. As with most
wizards his power and wealth depended upon the ability to murder large numbers of people as effi-
ciently as possible. As an example to others the Dukhobors were forcibly ejected from the lands
they had labored so hard and long to make productive. They were moved to a barren area east of
the Black Sea in what is now called the Georgian SSR. This was their punishement for giving their
allegiance to God alone. But instead of starving to death they built new and thriving communities.
In 1887 the military draft was again imposed upon the young men of the Dukhobor community. In the
1890’s they put into practice their principle of passive resistance to evil. Again they were forcibly
moved from their beautiful farms and homes to an area where the land was very poor indeed. To be
sure they would not thrive once more they were allowed no land to farm. Of the four thousand men,
women and children, one thousand died of starvation and other hardships. During this time
there were many incidents of Dukhobors standing firmly for God’s government.

One incident, news of which traveled the rounds of the villages had to do with Grandpa Chernenkov of
the Kars area settlement. He was neither a reservist nor in any way affiliated with the military establish-
ment. Nonetheless, he felt so deeply moved by the young trainee’s stand, that he too desired to make
his position clear to the authorities. He therefore presented himself to the Alexandropol Military Admin-
istration Center and informed the officer in charge that he, Syoma Chernenkov, did not recognize the
Emperor of Russia as supreme authority, and that from now on he was going to be a true disciple of
Jesus Christ, serving only Him. The officer, who was a kindly elderly man by the name of Bairakov, told
him the administration would take his confession into cognizance, but in the meantime he was to go
home and rest at peace in his Christian beliefs. Grandpa Chernenkov went home gravely disappointed.
He waited for some reaction and when nothing occurred after a week, he was back at the administra-
tion center, insisting that he was of the same opinion as the young Doukhobors who were refusing to
serve in the army, and that he wanted to share their fate. The officer tried to convince him to go home,
explaining that his case would be considered later. But Grandpa Chernenkov insisted that he didn’t
recognize the emperor because he was an antichrist, and exploiter who was keeping the people in
backwardness. He kept this up until the officer was compelled to lock him up, for if he didn’t, his own
clerks could very well report to his superiors that Bairakov was displaying sympathy towards the
Doukhobors who were already being classified as insurgents. {1}

People who did not recognize the Emperor made the Russians very angry. They would shout at the
Dukhobors You are flouting authority! You are creating an insurrection! But it was the Russians who
were flouting authority, God’s authority. It was the Russians who rose up against God’s gov-
ernment and laws and dreamed up their own.

Tostoy was a member of Russian aristocracy, the hereditary ruling class of Russia. His religions beliefs
were very similar to those of the Dukhobors. Tolstoy befriended the Dukhobors and was among those
who helped make it possible for the Dukhobors to emigrate to Canada. Most of them moved to what is
now Saskatchewan in 1898-99. Being very good farmers the Dukhobors brought hundreds of thou-
sands of acres into production within about ten years.

The reason they chose to relocate to Canada was because the Canadians agreed to leave them free
to practice their religion. Dukhobors would not be required to give an oath of allegiance to the
government or serve in the military as they had been in Russia. But the Canadians soon showed
themselves to be the same as the Russians. The Dukhobors were informed that they would be re-
quired to sign papers for each farm rather than holding them communally according to the original
understanding.

When they were further informed that, when signing for each far, the head of every family would also
be compelled to take the oath of allegiance to the British king, the people began scheduling meetings
with increased frequency and urgency. These meetings ultimately resulted in a firm, unequivocal deci-
sion being made by the Doukhobors, stating that they could never, under any circumstances, agree to
take the oath of allegiance to any earthly king. {2}Of course, people who give allegiance to God alone
cannot give allegiance to governments men have conjured up. So, the Canadians took the beautiful
farms, orchards and houses from the Dukhobors and gave them to others who would swear allegiance,
over two hundred and fifty thousand acres in all.

Many of the Dukhobors moved to British Columbia and bought land to farm with the money they had
saved. No oath of allegiance was required this way. Again they prospered. They dug irrigation ditches,
built roads and planted new orchards and farms. But the Canadians would not leave them alone. The
Canadians were true believers in statism and they wanted the Dukhobor children to be indoc-
trinated into their secular belief system in the public schools. Canadians also wanted the
Dukhobors to support statist activities financially with the money owned by God and entrusted
to their stewardship. Whether in Russia or Canada, statism is the very opposite of Christianity.
Statism is part of the domain of darkness. Christians are commanded to turn from the domain of
darkness to the Kingdom of God, something the Dukhobors understood very well, They continued to
resist and were involved in more and more struggles with the Canadian statist.

The leader of the Dukhobors was a man named Peter Veregin. In 1924 he was killed by a time bomb.
In 1927 the younger Peter Veregin was brought from Russia to be their leader. He died in 1939 leaving
a final message in which he recommended that the Dukhobors abandon communal life and accept the
laws of the country while retaining their religions doctrines. We can easily understand why Veregin
made this recommendation. No one likes to live an insecure life, never knowing when they will be
forced off their land, imprisoned, tortured and killed because of their religion. Veregin thought it would
be better to submit to the domain of darkness than to struggle any longer. The same choice faces every
Christian no matter what time or place.

The persecution of Russian Christians did not end when the Dukhobors left. We have an eyewitness
descrip[tion of a session of the Ryazan Revtribunal in 1919 as they heard the case of a man identified
as I.Ye—v. he was not a deserter at all but a man who simply and openly refused to enter military
service because of his religions convictions. He was conscripted by main force, but in the barracks he
refused to take up arms and undergo training. The enraged Political Commissar of the unit turned him
over to the Cheka, saying: ‘He does not recognize the Soviet government.’ There was an interroga-
tion. Three Chekists sat behind the desk, each with a Naguan revolver in front of him. “We have seen
heroes like you before. You’ll be on your knees to us in a minute!” But Y—v was firm. He couldn’t fight.
He was a believer in free Christianity. And his case was sent to the Revtribunal...One of the mem-
bers of the Revtribunal-a juror-tried to elicit the views of the accused. (How can you, a representative of
the working people, share the opinions of the aristocrat, Count Tolstoi?)...The court exits in order to
confer. The sounds of a noisy argument come from the conference room. They return with the sen-
tence: to be shot...The convoy came and led Ye—v to jail, saying to him: ‘If everyone was like you,
brother, how good it would be! There would be no war, and no Whites and Reds!’...They commuted his
sentence to fifteen years of strict detention. {3}

True Christians have been under constant attack in Russia. In the twenties, a large group of Tolstoyans
was exiled to the foothills of the Altai and there they established communal settlements jointly with the
Baptists...Then arrests began-first the teachers (they were not teaching in accordance with the govern-
ment programs), and the children ran after the cars, shouting. And after that the commune leaders
were taken. {4} All priests were insects-and monks and nuns even more so. And all those Tolstoyans
who, when they undertook to serve the Soviet government on, for example, the railroads, refused to
sign the required oath to defend the Soviet government with a gun in hand thereby showed themselves
to be insects too. {5} Today most of the Dukhobors in Canada have stopped resisting openly. But, the
light of understanding they once had did not go out. It is still found in Russia. Russian Orthodox priest,
Vladimir Shibaeff, 40, who was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1988, told a Washington, D.C.
gathering that the Soviet Union still ‘practices anti-religions persecution and enforces punitive ac-
tions against those who do not submit to the godless state. {6}The godless Communist state has
had a difficulty in suppressing true Christianity. Until just recently the godles Democratic state in this
country has been far more successful. Only a handful of years have passed since Americans of this
generation first recognized the God-King who demands that believers turn from the domain of dark-
ness to the Kingdom of His Son.
When Russian statist persecute Christians for not submitting to the godless state, American statists
call it a violation of human rights. When American statist do the same thing, they call it law enforce-
ment. This is a textbook example of departmentalized thinking, or doublethink, as George Orwell called
it.

Many Christians living in America have given their allegiance to God alone. They have renounced their
U.S. citizenship and taken up citizenship in the commonwealth of Israel. Don’t confuse this with the
Israeli state; the state of Israel is part of the domain of darkness while the commonwealth of Israel is the
same as the Kingdom of God. They decline to support the domain of darkness morally, militarily or
financially. Those who resist strongly enough are forcibly removed from their homes and farms. They
are prohibited from driving cars and trucks on the roads. They are prohibited from earning a livelihood
in many cases. Their children are taken from them and indoctrinated in statism and other mysteries of
the domain of darkness. They are put in jail. These are the same things done to Christians living in
Russia.

Tolstoy is classed among the greatest writers who ever lived. He was the author of War and Peace. He
was a Russian count by birth, but he often wore peasant clothing and spent time with peasants in their
homes discussing religion. Tolstoy died in 1910 at the age of 72. If we open our minds we can learn
much from his ideas. In the remainder of this lesson you will find a series of quotations taken from
Tolstoy’s writings. Please study them carefully.

Tolstoy approved of the Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention held in Boston,
September 18,19 and 20, 1838. Many Quakers signed that document. Quakers later helped the
Dukhobors to leave Russia at the end of the century. Tolstoy quoted that Declaration in his paper titled
The Kingdom of God is Without You.” The dogma, that all governments of the world are approvingly
ordained of God, and that the powers that be in the United States, in Russia, in Turkey, are in accor-
dance with His will, is not less absurd than impious. It makes the impartial Author of human freedom
and equality unequal and tyrannical. It cannot be affirmed that the powers that be, in any nation, are
actuated by the spirit or guided by the example of Christ, in the treatment of enemies; therefore, they
cannot be agreeable to the will of God; and therefore their overthrow, by a spiritual regeneration of
their subjects, is inevitable. {7}

Tolstoy understood that when Christians pray Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven they are asking for human governments and human will to be done away with. Tolstoy knew
that real Christianity is subversive of every government and that men have established a Chris-
tianity which serves to prop the government rather than destroy it. {8} Both then and now pseudo-
Christians are alarmed that Tolstoy could believe such revolutionary ideas. They point to Romans 13
and other Biblical passages to prove that God wants us to submit to any group of men who claim to be
a government.

A moments reflection shows that this could not possibly be right. God’s will is to be King of the
Israel people just as He was for the ancient Israelites. That’s what the First and Second Command-
ments are about. When men reject Him as God-King and set up human kings and rulers who govern
contrary to the law of God we mustn’t kid ourselves. Such groups are not ordained by God as govern-
ments and they are not recognized by Him. Even kings set up by the Israelites after their rejection of
Yahweh the God-King were not recognized. We read about it in Hosea 8:4 - They made kings, but
not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge.

So, how can we tell a government authorized by God from one that isn’t? We must be able to discern
good and evil. Those which punish evil and reward good are ordained by God, just like it teaches
in Romans 13. And what conduct is evil? Read the ninth verse of Romans 13. It is the violation of the
Ten Commandments that is evil, not what some men may decide is evil in their legislatures and courts,
which are themselves part of the do main of darkness.
Tolstoy was aware that statism and Christianity are diametrically opposed with no possibility of neutral-
ity or accommodation on either side. Tolstoy observed that the Church-fraud continues till now. The
fraud consists in this: that the conversion of the powers-that-be to Christianity is necessary for those
that understand the letter, but not the spirit of Christianity; but the acceptance of Christianity without
the abandonment of power is a satire on, and a perversion of, Christianity.

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

After fifteen hundred years of this blasphemous alliance of pseudo-Christianity with the State, it
needs a strong effort to free oneself from all the complex sophistries by which, always and everwhere
(to please the authorities), the sanctity and righteousness of State-power, and the possibility of its
being Christian, has been pleaded. {9} Tolstoy counts fifteen hundred years since the Church joined
forces with the Roman Empire. That alliance has lasted until the present day. The result was that the
Church became the pseudo-Church, the religious arm of the state.

In truth, the words a ‘Christian State’ resemble the words ‘hot ice.’ The thing is either not a
State using violence, or it is not Christian. {9}

Tolstoy said that attempts such as that of the Dukhobors, who called themselves Christians of the
Universal Brotherhood, to realize the Christian life were like the warm rains and the sun-rays which
have not as yet brought spring... For, if the Kingdom of God, i.e., the kingdom on earth of truth and
good, is to be realized, it can be realized only by such attempts as were made by the first disciples of
Christ, afterwards by the Paulicians, Albigenses, Quakers, Moravians Brethren, Mennonites, all the
true Christians of the world, and now by the Christians of the Universal Brotherhood. {10}

Tolstoy’s main objection to the state was its bloody wars. To him the time to resist the state was when
Christians were ordered to take up arms and kill or learn to kill. Thanks to the firm stand taken by many
Christians all over the world, statists now permit a conscientious objector to decline armed service in
most countries. Today, the battle line is drawn in a new place. No longer are just the draft laws
resisted, the very theoretical foundations of statism are now under attack by Christian warriors.

All laws created under the theories of statism are an affront to our Lord. The very concept of state
laws directly denies the sovereignty of God and asserts the sovereignty of the state. As a result
we see Christians today attempting to close abortion clinics; we see parents rejecting the marriage
license and birth certificate and educating their children at home; we see people refusing to pay taxes;
we see doctors and barbers and drivers refusing to be licensed; and we see court orders ignored, all to
flout man-made laws. None of this is done willfully. Rather it is done in obedience to the Greatest
Commandment which requires us to love God with our entire being. Not the tiny, weak god worshipped
by pseudo-Christians who is only king of one’s heart, but the Mighty God who is King of the com-
monwealth of Israel, King of Kings, and Sovereign and Legislator of the Universe. How can we
claim to love Him if we recognize state sovereignty?

The modern nation-states are not established through God or with His knowledge. Anyone who sup-
ports such imaginary entities does so contrary to God’s will. They are part of the domain of darknes
from which Christians are commanded to turn.

Well, there you have the story of the Dukhobors and Tolstoy. Knowing about them and what was done
to them because of their beliefs is important. It helps us recognize what is being done to Christians who
today, in all countries, stand firmly upon the teachings of our Messiah. American statists are deter-
mined to crush true Christianity out of existence. That means criminalizing true Christians and barri-
cading the gates of the Kingdom forever. They much prefer to eliminate Christianity through thought
control. If the alternative to statism is unknown, then people are much more likely to submit quielty,
because ignorance makes resistance seem hopeless.
For seventy or eighty years the American Church-State cabal pretty well succeeded in its efforts. The
Statists had a clear field. Their very significant advances on every front make it increasingly difficult for
Christians to pretend that God has ordained the gross violation of His own laws. Paradoxically, the
success of statism will be its undoing. Every unjust act of the godless police state serves to open
the eyes of a few more. Many of these turn to the King of the Israelites seeking citizenship in
the commonwealth of Israel. They find their strength in the Lord and put on all the armour which God
provides. Ephesians 6:10-17. Against such an army statists have no chance.

The End

Footnotes:
1. Poploff, Eli;l Tanya; mir Publication Society, 1975, Grand Forks, B.C., Canada, pg. 66.
2. Ibid., pg 150.
3. Solzhenitsyn, Alexksandr I., The Gulag Archippelago, Harper & Row, 1973, pgs 303-305.
4. Ibid., pg. 51.
5. Ibid., pg. 28.
6. Politics, Elections and Administrations, by Tommy W. Rodger, Chalcedon Report, Oct. 1988,
#279.
7. Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience and Non-violence, Signet Books, 1968, pg. 216.
8. Ibid., pg. 240.
9. Ibid., pgs. 206-207.
10. Ibid., pg. 165.