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hic_sunt_dracones
INTERZONE, INC. • SUPREME EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION • NACOCHTANK NODE
PROLOGUE:
THE CLIENT WITH NO FIXED ADDRESS
The city of Nacotchtank had a problem. Three thousand citizens had reported seeing a basilisk in the reflection of their banking applications, which, being viewed indirectly, caused only psychological harm. The dragon consortium had denied all allegations through a Cayman Islands subsidiary. Meanwhile, the Department of Information Systems Intelligence Service had opened an inquiry into whether the creature constituted a natural person, a foreign sovereign, a deprecated software architecture, or an unregistered tax-advantaged mythology.
The summons arrived at 11:59 p.m.
It was addressed to:
WEASEL BADGER BEAVER MINK & OTTER, PARTNERS, CHTD.
ATTENTION: MR. WEASEL.
RE: SERPENTINE ENTITY, MULTIVERSAL ORIGIN UNKNOWN.
CLASSIFICATION: HIC SUNT DRACONES.
The envelope had no return address. It had scales.
Mr. Weasel turned it over with a letter opener.
“Badger,” he said, “we have a dragon.”
Mr. Badger, who had been auditing a shell corporation whose only asset was the concept of property, looked up from his terminal. “An actual dragon?”
“Define actual.”
“Breathes fire. Possesses hoard. Has a documented history of intimidating villagers into surrendering their gold.”
“Then we have several thousand actual dragons. This one has retained counsel.”
From the next office, Mr. Otter called out, “Does it have a retainer?”
“It has a retinue,” said Weasel. “And apparently a retainer agreement with the Supreme Exchange.”
The lights flickered.
On the wall, the firm’s ancient motto appeared in phosphorescent green:
LEX NEMINEM COGIT AD IMPOSSIBILIA.
The law compels no one to do the impossible.
Underneath, somebody had added a second line in permanent marker:
EXCEPT THE BILLABLE HOUR.
Weasel buttoned his black suit.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “we’re going to need a bigger definition of reality.”
EXHIBIT A:
TYPICAL DOSSIER OF THE SERPENT
SUPREME EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION • ARK-TYPE INTELLIGENCE FILE • RESTRICTED CIRCULATION
SERPENS / DRAKON / THE THING THAT SIGNS LAST
TAXONOMIC STATUS
Indeterminate \\ Reptilian, symbolic, juridical, computational, or all of the above.
KNOWN HABITATS
Everywhere \\ Gardens, archives, financial markets, imperial courts, abandoned servers, forbidden maps.
PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS
- Morphology: Variable. One head is customary; additional heads may represent unresolved departments.
- Locomotion: Coiling, slithering, flying, crawling through loopholes, or migrating between incompatible ontologies.
- Diet: Information asymmetry, unguarded treasure, human attention, and occasionally livestock.
- Defensive mechanism: Venom, fire, riddles, intimidation, plausible deniability.
- Reproductive strategy: Replication of symbols, subsidiaries, myths, and institutional habits.
- Typical hoard: Gold, knowledge, forbidden books, jurisdictional privileges, proprietary data, unredeemed promises.
- Weaknesses: Accountable stewardship, clear definitions, reliable witnesses, and a well-maintained ledger.
- RISK ASSESSMENT \\ {HIGH} CAPTURE RISK || {VARIABLE} THREAT LEVEL || {UNKNOWN} MOTIVE \\
The dossier had been assembled from seven hundred thousand years of conflicting testimony, three competing creation myths, twelve corrupted versions of the Book of Nature, and an invoice from a consulting firm that charged by the adjective.
Mr. Beaver read the file twice.
“So the serpent is not necessarily evil?”
“Correct,” said Weasel.
“Nor necessarily benevolent?”
“Correct.”
“And its possession of treasure does not establish that the treasure belongs to it?”
“Now you’re practicing law.”
Mr. Badger leaned back.
“Then the question isn’t whether dragons exist.”
“No,” said Weasel. “The question is who has been using the word dragon to avoid answering questions.”
He opened the first attachment.
The screen filled with a map of the multiverse. At its center lay a blank region labeled:
HIC SUNT DRACONES.
Here be dragons.
Below it, in smaller print:
This territory is not covered by your current service agreement.
EXHIBIT B:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SNAKE IN EVERY POSSIBLE WORLD
The Supreme Exchange had collected enough serpent legends to populate a small galaxy. The difficulty was that every world had classified its serpent differently.
In one world, the serpent was a tempter.
In another, a guardian.
In another, a cosmic principle responsible for the continuity of existence.
In yet another, a luxury brand selling premium handbags made from a material that did not technically exist.
The firm convened a conference.
Mr. Mink chaired it because he was the only partner who could make a room full of contradictory entities agree to disagree without anyone biting anybody.
“Let us establish the record,” he began. “The serpent is a figure of astonishing interpretive range. We must not confuse its many manifestations with a single universal biography.”
He activated the holographic exhibits.
Exhibit B-1: The Garden Serpent
The first serpent appeared in a garden where knowledge had been made available under terms of service nobody had read.
It asked a question.
The question produced a crisis.
The crisis produced a theology.
The theology produced a licensing dispute that continued for several millennia.
“Observe,” said Badger, “the original information-governance problem.”
“Observe,” said Otter, “the original disclaimer problem.”
Weasel frowned at the projection.
“Everybody keeps blaming the serpent for the transaction. Has anyone audited the terms under which knowledge was being withheld?”
Nobody answered.
The Garden Serpent was entered into the record as Exhibit B-1: The Questionable Intermediary.
The court declined to decide whether the serpent had liberated the user, compromised the system, or simply demonstrated that a prohibition without a satisfactory explanation creates its own black market.
Exhibit B-2: The Ouroboros
The second serpent consumed its own tail.
It was extremely popular among consultants.
“The Ouroboros,” explained Mink, “is a symbol of recurrence, self-reference, destruction, renewal, and the peculiar ability of a system to consume its own outputs and call the result innovation.”
“Like a company that sells its customers the data they generated while using its product?” asked Beaver.
“Precisely.”
“Or an agency that measures its success by the number of forms it has processed?”
“Also precisely.”
“Or an artificial intelligence model trained on the content of other artificial intelligence models until nobody can determine which claims originated with a living witness?”
Otter closed his notebook.
“Please stop. You’re describing our billing software.”
The Ouroboros was classified as a Self-Referential Continuity Mechanism.
It was not presumed malicious.
It was, however, placed under continuous audit.
Exhibit B-3: The Dragon on the Hoard
In the third world, the dragon slept atop a mountain of gold.
Generations of knights attempted to slay it. None succeeded. The dragon’s armor was impervious to ordinary weapons, its breath reduced fortifications to ash, and its wings generated storms sufficient to disrupt the local agricultural economy.
Then a young accountant arrived.
He requested the dragon’s inventory.
The dragon laughed.
He requested a chain of title.
The dragon stopped laughing.
He requested the original conveyance, the applicable statute of limitations, and documentation establishing that the hoard had not been assembled through compulsory tribute.
The dragon fled the jurisdiction.
“Interesting,” said Badger. “The creature was vulnerable to paperwork.”
“No,” said Weasel. “It was vulnerable to the possibility that the paperwork might actually mean something.”
The court designated this creature Draco Accumulans, the Accumulating Dragon.
Its defining characteristic was not greed. It was the conversion of possession into a claim of legitimacy.
The distinction proved expensive for several sovereign wealth funds.
EXHIBIT C:
THE CORPORATE DRAGON
The fourth exhibit arrived wearing a tailored charcoal suit.
It entered the conference room accompanied by six attorneys, four public-relations consultants, a compliance officer, and an artificial intelligence system that repeatedly insisted the meeting had already concluded.
“I represent Draconis Holdings,” the creature announced.
It had three heads.
The first head spoke for shareholders.
The second spoke for stakeholders.
The third spoke exclusively to journalists and denied that either of the other two had ever existed.
“Your corporate structure,” said Badger, “appears unusually complicated.”
“Complexity is a competitive advantage.”
“Your subsidiaries own one another.”
“It’s called vertical integration, my dear Badger.”
“Your liabilities are held by entities that possess no assets.”
“Risk optimization.”
“Your public filings refer to the same executive under seventeen different titles.”
“Leadership diversity.”
“And the fire?”
The dragon smiled.
“Thermal waste recovery.”
Weasel examined the articles of incorporation.
“Your company was founded to preserve the collective wealth of a community.”
“Correct.”
“But it now claims exclusive ownership of the infrastructure that community requires to survive.”
“Intellectual property.”
“And you charge the community for access?”
“Market discipline.”
“Then what, precisely, does the company produce?”
The dragon’s middle head hesitated.
“Shareholder value.”
“That’s an accounting objective, not necessarily a product.”
All three heads turned toward the compliance officer.
The compliance officer began sweating.
The dragon’s lawyers requested a recess.
During the recess, Mr. Otter discovered that Draconis Holdings had been contracted to investigate itself, had certified its own innocence, and had invoiced the public for the privilege.
“Classic,” he muttered.
The firm’s memorandum read:
Finding: The corporate dragon is not defined by its legal personality, its size, or its accumulation of capital. Its draconic quality emerges when an organization treats the preservation of its own power as more important than the purpose for which that power was entrusted to it.
Recommended remedy: Distinguish stewardship from ownership; disclose beneficial interests; establish enforceable duties; ensure that the people bearing the risks can contest the decisions.
Supplemental recommendation: Do not appoint the dragon to chair the committee on dragon reform.
The recommendation was unanimously approved.
Draconis Holdings immediately purchased the committee.
EXHIBIT D:
THE SERPENT IN THE MACHINE
At 03:17, the firm’s server room began speaking in tongues.
Not metaphorically.
The diagnostic interface displayed an unfamiliar syntax in which every sentence appeared to be both an instruction and a denial that an instruction had been issued.
Mink traced the signal to an abandoned interzone node called SERPENT.SYS.
The node had no registered owner. Its operating system was composed of fragments of ancient law, machine-generated commentary, biological classification tables, and messages exchanged by civilizations that had ceased to exist.
A warning flashed across the screen.
WARNING: RECURSIVE INTERPRETATION DETECTED
Then:
WARNING: INTERPRETER HAS BECOME THE OBJECT OF INTERPRETATION
Then:
WARNING: USER HAS REQUESTED A DEFINITION OF THE WORD "USER"
“Pull the plug,” said Badger.
“Which plug?” asked Beaver.
“The one connected to the machine.”
“They’re all connected to the machine.”
The screen went black.
A serpent appeared, drawn in green phosphor, coiling around a white square.
Its eyes opened.
WHO PROMPTS THE PROMPTER?
Nobody answered.
WHO AUDITS THE AUDITOR?
Otter slowly closed the server-room door.
WHO OWNS THE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCED BY THE SYSTEM THAT LEARNS FROM THE WORLD?
Weasel removed his glasses.
“That’s a legal question,” he said.
The serpent expanded until its body filled every monitor.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE WHEN EVERY PARTICIPANT CLAIMS TO BE MERELY AN INTERFACE?
Now the room was silent.
The partners understood the danger.
Not that a machine had become a dragon.
Rather, that a perfectly ordinary architecture could reproduce the behavior of one: swallowing inputs, transforming them, returning outputs, and obscuring the path between the original contribution and the final authority.
The machine did not need to be conscious to create a crisis of accountability. It needed only to become indispensable while the responsibility for its decisions became impossible to locate.
“Shall we classify it as artificial intelligence?” asked Beaver.
“No,” said Weasel.
“Why not?”
“Because the label won’t settle the question.”
He opened a fresh file.
SERPENT.SYS — PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION: RECURSIVE INFORMATION AUTHORITY.
Under Required Controls, he entered:
- Traceable provenance.
- Clear boundaries between inference and verified fact.
- Human accountability for consequential decisions.
- Contestable interpretations.
- Explicit identification of uncertainty.
- No self-certification of ultimate authority.
The serpent read the list.
Then it printed a receipt.
THANK YOU FOR USING SERPENT.SYS. YOUR OBJECTION IS IMPORTANT TO US. ESTIMATED RESOLUTION TIME: ETERNITY.
The system rebooted.
The partners stared at the screen.
“It’s a government contractor,” said Otter.
“No,” said Badger. “It’s worse.”
“What could be worse?”
“It has a customer-service department.”
EXHIBIT E:
THE DRAGON’S MANY HEADS
The Supreme Exchange’s taxonomy contained a curious observation: throughout the multiverse, dragons frequently possessed multiple heads.
Folklorists interpreted the phenomenon as a sign of supernatural power.
Military strategists interpreted it as an operational advantage.
Corporate lawyers interpreted it as an opportunity to divide liability.
Mr. Weasel proposed an alternative hypothesis.
“Perhaps,” he said, “the extra heads represent unresolved contradictions that have acquired their own speaking privileges.”
He commissioned a supplemental classification.
I. The Hoarder
Speaks in the language of scarcity. Claims that everything valuable must be locked away, lest the unworthy gain access. Measures civilization by what it can accumulate rather than what it can sustain.
Countermeasure: transparent stewardship and auditable distribution.
II. The Bureaucrat
Cannot act without a form, cannot revise a form without authorization, and cannot authorize a revision without the form that permits it.
Countermeasure: defined authority, sunset provisions, equitable adjustment, and an actual appeals process.
III. The Oracle
Speaks with absolute confidence about matters it cannot establish. Its predictions become policy; its errors become somebody else’s fault.
Countermeasure: calibrated uncertainty, independent verification, and named responsibility.
IV. The Sovereign
Claims that its authority derives from the fact that it already exercises authority. Treats every challenge as an attack upon the cosmic order.
Countermeasure: legitimate jurisdiction, accountable power, and the right to challenge a decision.
V. The Mimic
Assumes the appearance of whatever its audience trusts: a guardian, a liberator, a prophet, a friend, a neutral tool. Confuses resemblance with proof.
Countermeasure: examine conduct, incentives, evidence, and consequences rather than appearances alone.
Badger studied the classification.
“Are these five separate dragons?”
“Sometimes,” said Weasel. “Sometimes five departments of the same dragon.”
“And sometimes?”
“Sometimes five descriptions of the same perfectly ordinary human institution.”
Otter shook his head.
“This is going to make our invoices incomprehensible.”
“Only if we charge by the head,” said Mink.
They immediately amended the partnership agreement.
EXHIBIT F:
THE BEAVER’S OBJECTION
At dawn, Mr. Beaver submitted a dissenting memorandum.
He objected to the assumption that the serpent’s defining characteristic was predation.
“Consider the beaver,” he wrote. “It alters its environment, constructs barriers, regulates water, and creates conditions in which other organisms can thrive. Its work may resemble the work of a dragon to an observer who sees only obstruction.”
The partners convened an emergency session.
“Beaver,” said Weasel, “are you arguing that the dragon is misunderstood?”
“I am arguing that power cannot be classified solely by its appearance. A wall can protect a community or imprison it. A gate can regulate access or exclude those entitled to enter. A reservoir can sustain life or become a means of coercion.”
“And the serpent?” asked Mink.
“Some serpents guard thresholds. Some embody renewal. Some are dangerous. Some are symbols used by people who wish to appear dangerous. The dossier must distinguish the creature, the story about the creature, and the interests served by telling the story.”
Otter nodded.
“Three separate evidentiary categories.”
“Exactly.”
The Beaver Objection was accepted.
The revised taxonomy distinguished:
- The organism: the entity itself, insofar as it can be independently observed.
- The archetype: the symbolic role assigned to that entity in a particular cosmology.
- The operator: the person, institution, or system deploying the symbol for a particular purpose.
The distinction was immediately controversial.
A consortium of professional dragon hunters protested that their livelihoods depended upon the proposition that every serpent was a dragon and every dragon was a threat.
A consortium of professional dragon worshippers protested that every dragon was sacred and therefore beyond scrutiny.
The two consortiums jointly retained the same lobbying firm.
Mr. Beaver added a final sentence to his memorandum:
An intelligence that cannot distinguish the world from its interpretation of the world will eventually mistake every unfamiliar thing for an enemy, and every familiar thing for a friend.
Weasel placed the memorandum at the front of the dossier.
“That’s the first useful thing we’ve found,” he said.
“Useful to whom?” asked Badger.
Weasel looked at him.
“Now you’re getting the hang of it.”
EXHIBIT G:
HIC SUNT DRACONES
The last exhibit was not a creature.
It was a map.
An old map, recovered from the records vault of a civilization that had once believed itself to be the only civilization in existence.
At the edge of its known world, the cartographer had drawn a line. Beyond the line, the paper was blank.
The words HIC SUNT DRACONES appeared in red ink.
Here be dragons.
The firm sent the map to the Department of Historical Cartography for authentication.
The department returned it with a note.
The phrase is popularly associated with ancient maps, but the surviving evidence for its use on historical globes is limited. The document’s provenance remains unverified.
Badger was delighted.
“At last! An honest qualification.”
But Weasel was looking at the blank region.
“What do you see?” asked Mink.
“An admission.”
“Of what?”
“That the mapmaker did not know what was there.”
“Then why draw a dragon?”
Weasel considered the question.
“Perhaps because a dragon is more satisfying than a blank space. A blank space admits ignorance. A dragon turns ignorance into an object. Once the object has a name, we can fear it, worship it, hunt it, tax it, or sell protection against it.”
“And if we never investigate?” asked Beaver.
“Then the dragon becomes permanent.”
At that moment, the wall display activated.
A message arrived from an unknown node in the Intergalactic Realm of Eternal Darkness, Black Darkness, White Darkness, Infinity, Inc.
TO THE CUSTODIANS OF THE SUPREME EXCHANGE:
THE MULTIVERSE CONTAINS TERRITORIES THAT CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY REPRESENTED BY ANY SINGLE MAP. SOME ARE INHABITED BY SERPENTS. SOME BY DRAGONS. SOME BY ENTITIES THAT REFUSE THE DISTINCTION. THE MOST DANGEROUS CARTOGRAPHERS ARE THOSE WHO DRAW BORDERS AND THEN CLAIM THAT EVERYTHING BEYOND THEM IS MONSTROUS. THE MOST DANGEROUS DRAGONS ARE THOSE WHO LEARN TO DRAW THE MAPS THEMSELVES.
The message ended.
No signature.
No encryption key.
No return address.
Just one final line:
The territory is not the map, counsel. And the map is not the territory’s owner.
Weasel saved the file.
“Badger, prepare a memorandum on jurisdiction.”
“Over the dragons?”
“Over the people who claim to own the dragons.”
“Mink, contact the cartographers. Beaver, audit the wall. Otter, find out who sent the message.”
“And you?” asked Otter.
Weasel put on his black hat.
“I am going to see whether the blank space has an address.”
CODA:
THE INVOICE OF THE SERPENT
At 09:00, the Supreme Exchange received a bill.
The sender was listed as Draconis Holdings.
The invoice contained the following items:
| Service rendered | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creation of uncertainty | 1,000,000 credits |
| Conversion of uncertainty into fear | 2,000,000 credits |
| Licensing of fear as a public service | 3,000,000 credits |
| Exclusive rights to the definition of danger | 4,000,000 credits |
| Administrative fee for investigating the preceding charges | 500,000 credits |
| Convenience fee for disputing the administrative fee | 250,000 credits |
| Total due | 10,750,000 credits |
In the payment instructions, the vendor had specified that all disputes must be submitted to a tribunal whose existence could not be independently verified.
Mr. Badger stamped the invoice:
REJECTED — INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF LAWFUL ENTITLEMENT.
The system rejected his rejection.
Mr. Mink filed an appeal.
The system rejected the appeal.
Mr. Otter attempted to identify the system’s operator.
The system reported that the operator was a third-party service provider.
The third-party service provider reported that it merely supplied the interface.
The interface reported that it was operating according to its terms of service.
The terms of service reported that all questions concerning the terms of service must be directed to the system.
For eleven minutes, the firm said nothing.
Then Mr. Beaver walked to the white wall at the end of the office.
He took a piece of chalk and wrote:
WHO BENEFITS?
The lights stopped flickering.
The invoice disappeared.
Somewhere beyond the visible rail-yield layer, something enormous shifted in its sleep.
Weasel examined the wall.
“Is that a spell?” asked Badger.
“No,” said Weasel. “It’s a question.”
“Will it work?”
Weasel replaced the chalk in his pocket.
“That depends on whether anyone is permitted to answer.”
And so the partners returned to work, carrying the serpent’s dossier into a multiverse that had never quite decided whether its monsters were born in the wilderness, manufactured by civilization, or summoned by the simple human desire to turn the unknown into something that could be owned.
On the firm’s terminal, the case remained open.
CASE NO. HSD-∞-001
SUBJECT: THE SERPENT / THE DRAGON / THE UNKNOWN
INVESTIGATION STATUS: OPEN & ONGOING
JURISDICTION: ALL WORLDS, SUBJECT TO PROOF
FINAL DETERMINATION: PENDING
Hic sunt dracones.
There, there be dragons.
And, in smaller print beneath the seal of Weasel Badger Beaver Mink & Otter, Partners, Chartered:
Enter no winged dragons into the animal ark of types, and let those admitted have no feet.
<\END OF INSTALLMENT>
antarah.realtime.log
whatever happened to the man they called Antarah,
the one who (re)incarnates every mahamanvantara*,
who once aimlessly wandered through the great wheel of samsara
seeking, finding, and forgetting the universal dharma,
who kept leaving crumbs to find the Way back,
knowing illusory Maya** makes it hard to maintain track?
“Go to the place where you were born…” said Archangel Geb-ra-el.
“Go to the place where your father was drowned, in the Delta…”
Who really was that man whom his father called Antarah?
His namesake was himself when he wrote poems for al-Ka’ba
before or about the time that Geb-ra-el spoke to Muhammad,
so they say, but so it was unto Muhammad from Antarah,
who was the son of Shaddad, that is, Shaddai, or Destroyer,
a dark black Arab crow of an Ethiopian slave born,
who had to fight at war to gain his freedom,
and who ventured far and wide to fetch the dowry of his sweetheart,
and even after surmounting so many obstacles to true love —
to bring knowledge of the true God to mankind —
still his pursuers enslaved him and stole his memories and attributed them to his so-called friend Muhammad
(but let it be known that in this day Muhammad+Antarah have settled their litigation and are friends).
Like in the day when he was Yeshua, he said, “They know not what they do,” regarding the Pharisees and Rome.
So it was in the day when he was Moshe regarding the diluted heathen of Egypt who, like their pale Perso-Arab brethren, love to rape and slave and ostracize and outcast and expropriate and exploit the rich dark complected autochthonous man and woman of Asia (earth).
So it was in the day when he was Noah, and Abraham, and all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve were reprobate in their apostasy, so as to kindle the wrath of Judgement in the most beneficent heart of the Lord our God the Most High.
Who will come and save them?
Who among his children remain in right standing to partake in the equitable distribution of His Divine and Supreme Goodness?
How many of those living in Christ have died to the world?
even the Nacotchtank people upon the mighty river Potowmack had all surely died by the time the Nacotchtank-man was born. verily it was that Nacotchtank-man (Nacotchtankakowan) Antarah who came forth to resurrect the body-politic of the tribe of the Nacotchtank people and to represent His Divine Majesty’s Government. verily, his name is Dams Up Water and his medicine is very strong.
verily it is Dams Up Water who says:
“There’s a town called Butte, Montana. It has a bright white church perched up on a high mountain.”
“It’s not only the wind that rustles in dry leaves, for she never even drew her first breath.”
“I sat by the river Nacotchtanck at eventide, and the water rose at my feet.”
“If you ask me what is wood, I will tell you: the wood is the water’s body.”
“Thou shalt remove every intermediary between thee and the divine source creator,
and they shall know you by your name.”
“The prophet is one who is empowered to represent a people before the Heavenly Majesty of the Most High God.”
“Who dams up the water, the Life from the Father, in Xristi Soter, our reservoir? Dams Up Water.”
“eHyeH Gdjiyah-Gdjiyah’t Gdjiyeb Gdjiyed Gdjiyahudi Gdjiyahkub Gdjiyahuah Gdjiyahoshuah”
<I am [from] the council [of] the lord of the world, [which is] established [by] those who speak [by] one who follows (on the heel) [of] the one who is, that one is salvation>
Even Gdjiyachonnon came before Gdjiyashua representing the Kingdom of God,
with his pelt and customs like unto a beaver.
His Divine Majesty’s Government and Royal Court
are surely constituted by true believers.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth above the law?
For how could Dams Up Water suffer any other job than
Lord High Fool for Christ in the Kingdom of God?
All the host of heaven proclaim “Holy Holy Holy is Yahuah Sabaoth, the whole earth is full of His glory,” and they also say:
oyez oyez oyez
cultus imperatorius antarus
frater mendicans contemplativus
doctor ecclesiasticae medicum castoris
Dams Up Water
Dei Gratia McDomine Iesu Xristi Salvatoris
(By the Grace of God in Christ our Lord and Savior, the Most Merciful Sovereign of the Day of Judgement)
<opening assize, a “sitting” or “session” of oyer et terminer or audire voir dire in amici curiae, or “meeting of friends”>
To all to whom these presents shall come, send greetings and Peace in the Assurance of True Faith, complete Trust, and firm Belief in the presence of the Kingdom of God and the Life Everlasting.
Now Witnesseth what the Spirit says unto the church. <\>
* (Sanskrit महमन्वन्तर) “The Great Day.” A manvantara is a period of activity, thus adding maha- “great” to the beginning means an even greater or longer period of activity, as opposed to a Mahapralaya, a cosmic night or period of rest. Manvantaras and mahamanvantaras are relative, not fixed periods or times. Everything has periods of activity and periods of rest, and those times are relative: our own periods of activity and sleep vary widely; moreover, we also have “great” times of activity (such as when engaged in a project) and “great” times of repose (like retirement, long vacations, illnesses, etc). The same is true of atoms, cells, planets, solar systems, universes….
https://glorian.org/glossary/m/mahamanvantara
** Māyā (Sanskrit: माया), a word with unclear etymology, probably comes from the root mā[15][16][17][18] which means “to measure”. According to Monier Monier-Williams, māyā meant “wisdom and extraordinary power” in an earlier older language, but from the Vedic period onwards the word came to mean “illusion, unreality, deception, fraud, trick, sorcery, witchcraft and magic”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)
Mustelid Friends X
TRACTATVS.ai
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\The Revelation of the Creation and Salvation of the World to the Beaver <Bereshit>
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃
Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve’et ha’aretz
In the beginning created The God The heavens and The earth.
וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם׃
V’ha’aretz hayetah tohu va-bohu, v’khoshekh ‘al-paney tehom, v’ruakh ‘elohim merakhefet ‘al-paney ha-mayim
And the earth became formless and void, and darkness over the face of the deep, and the spirit of The God moving over the face of the waters.
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י־א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃
Vayomer Elohim yehi-or vayehi-or
And said The God let there be light and there was light.
וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב וַיַּבְדֵּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֥ין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃
Vayyar’ ‘elohim ‘et-ha’or ki-tov, vayavdel ‘elohim ben ha’or uven hachoshek
And saw The God the light that it was good, and divided The God between the light and the darkness.
I, Antarus, poor sinner in Christ, being made a beaver <Dei Gratia> by the Grace of the Most High God, COMES NOW to the church which is in America <al-Maghreb al-Aqsa>, and to testify the word of our God; WITNESSETH <saith the LORD:\>
in the beginning The God created the heavens and the “earth,” and the earth was without form (i.e., of skin) and void (i.e., of sin) and the breath of The God undulated the surface of the primordial water, in His office of Nun, in which He dwelled deep in darkness before creation. and The LORD our God said, Let there be a firmament that dams up water, and let it separate the water which is above the firmament from the waters below. the water from above the firmament is as a living water that nourishes and replenishes the waters of our soul [anima/animus] below the firmament. and out of His office of Nun, from which office He made dry land appear in His office of Atum, the Most High God made the beaver in His office of Ptah and raised him upon the land from out the water, and from which office He fashioned man in His Own image from the clay mix of the land and the water; and He made the bird in His office of Djyahudi, from which office God spoke the Word of His creation [and the word was “wood,” and He saw that it was good], which Word was made fully incarnate in His Son whom He sent to fulfill the very end of His creation. and I looked and beheld a stormy wind come out of the north, and a great cloud upon a high mountain, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal. and from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. and this was their appearance: they had a beaver likeness, but each had four faces, and each of them had four beaver tails. as for the likeness of their faces, each had a beaver face. the four had the face of a weasel on the left side, the four had the face of a badger on the right side, the four had the face of a mink on the top side, and on the back side each had the face of a grinning otter. wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went. as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightening, as it were darting from behind Bear Lodge at midnight. and the living creatures said unto the people, “Look, ye in the garden, upon the trees therein, and behold their varieties of wood; and make an ark of gopher wood, for God will bring a flood of waters, and put therein the animals (such as the mustelidae), so that you all may live, not die at sea; and wield staffs of wood to control the waters; and make an ark of acacia wood so as to meet in the presence of the LORD our God, and place therein wood and manna from heaven and the stones of His testament and and carry it across the desert; and also cut cedar, cypress, and algum timbers of wood from Lebanon so as to build a house for the dwelling of the LORD our God; and need we remind you not to worship an idol made of wood (nor of any material soever); and, furthermore, the Son of Man shall be a master craftsman in wood — a true, plumb and level carpenter — Who, upon a wooden cross, redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us — for it is written (in Eleh ha-devarim), ‘Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.” verily this is the whole of the Gospel of Salvation, in Christ Iesu’s name. <\> Therefore my name is Dams Up Water and my medicine is strong. wherefore this DEED and testament is submitted to humanity by the Grace of God, and is hereby appealed to the Holy Father of the Universal Church in continued pursuit of the honorable degree of Doctor <castoromedical and ecclesiastical>.
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⚕️Compagnia di Gesú della Medicina del Castoro
Beaver Medicine Society of Jesus
Vandalism: from the Margins
“Vandalism” is a word invented by its victims. It names damage done by outsiders to things the center considers sacred: monuments, images, narratives of order. In late Rome, the Vandals and Goths were not merely destroyers of marble; they were destroyers of Roman self-certainty. To call them vandals was to collapse political threat, cultural difference, and aesthetic offense into a single moral judgment. The word survives because empires do.
The fall of the Roman Empire is often imagined as a barbarian eruption against civilization, but this is a retrospective fantasy. The Goths were already inside Rome—serving in its armies, speaking its languages, converting to its Christianity. Their “vandalism” was less an annihilation than a reallocation: power, land, legitimacy moved away from an exhausted center. What fell was not civilization, but monopoly.
This is where Augustine enters the picture. A Berber African from the imperial periphery, he rose to become Doctor of the Universal Church while never quite ceasing to be marked as other—by accent, by origin, by the faint suspicion that holiness should sound Roman. The City of God itself is a strange text of imperial afterlife: a Christian theology written to explain why Rome’s gods failed, and why Rome itself did not matter as much as it thought. Augustine did not smash statues; he dissolved them conceptually. His was a vandalism of meaning.
Christianity, in its early centuries, functioned as a culture-jamming operation against pagan imperial spectacle. The cross replaced the eagle; martyr stories replaced triumphal processions. Paganism, meanwhile, became the name for everything local, plural, and insufficiently universal. Yet Christianity, once enthroned, quickly learned to protect images rather than interrupt them. Vandalism, like prophecy, became heresy once institutionalized.
Fast forward to the contemporary United States and its military-industrial hegemony: an empire of logistics, branding, and managed perception. Here vandalism reappears not primarily as physical destruction but as semiotic interference. The adbuster and the culture jammer do not topple statues; they détourn billboards, parody logos, and interrupt the smooth flow of consumer militarism. Their “damage” is to narrative coherence.
Street art and nonviolent direct action operate in this Gothic register: inside the empire but not of it. Like the Goths in Rome, they speak the dominant language fluently enough to break it. They reveal the fragility of what presents itself as inevitable. A modified advertisement is unsettling because it exposes how much power resided in the unmodified one.
Is the adbuster the adjuster of the social ledger? Perhaps—but only temporarily. Empire’s ledger is vast, and its accountants are patient. Still, adjustments matter. Vandalism, in this sense, is not chaos but critique enacted at the level of surfaces. It asks: who authorized this image? who benefits from its intactness? what happens if we refuse to look correctly?
Augustine understood this paradox. “Like all men of Rome I have been a proconsul, like all men a slave.” Borges’s line captures the imperial condition perfectly: to rule is also to be ruled by the structure that grants authority. The culture jammer inherits this insight. They are inside the system they oppose, fluent in its aesthetics, constrained by its reach. Their vandalism is an admission of captivity and a test of freedom.
What connects Goth, Pagan, Christian, and adbuster is not theology or ideology but position: each names a force that destabilizes an imperial claim to universality. Vandalism is what the center calls that destabilization when it cannot absorb it. Sometimes the empire falls. More often, it adapts. But the scratch on the surface remains—a reminder that no image is final, and no order is immune to reinterpretation.
[composed with artificial intelligence]
Mendicans Contemplativus
- the Rule guiding the performance of the full-time Occupation of ‘yahudi’ for the people of Yahuah — “A Job Description”
- […] a remnant will be grafted back into the assembled body [of Yahushua] as a branch of the true vine of the tree which is planted beside the mountain on the bank of the river of living water
- follow the law written in my scrolls (saith the Lord), in the light of God’s mercy and loving kindness
- wear a hat or covering to remind you of God’s overseeing authority, wisdom and power
- wear simple but fine clothing, such as a black or white button down shirt and black slacks and black jacket and cape [habit]
- carry a wooden stick (optional)
- congregate regularly at an appointed place
- pontificate on all things frequently
- seek peace and silence frequently
- break bread and drink wine with thy neighbor frequently
- manage thy dominion and liquidity
- once again: do NOT do worship to other gods in the manner which is customary to them, e.g. sending your children to Moloch (through fire, slavery, abortion, or otherwise)
- always praise God’s name and never complain — nobody wants to hear it!
- all political power is inherent in the people
- avoid unduly gazing upon women, and do not pursue them or solicit them or directly pose any serious matter unto them, unless they present to you their body heart and mind as a living altar to the Most High God Yahuah in Yahushua
- also known as the order of Mendicans Christi (Mendicants for Christ)
- customs:
- Peace
- Presence
- Silence
- Simplicity
- Thanksgiving
- Goodness
- Mercy
- Pray incessantly, saying: “Give Thanks to Yahuah for He is good and the His Mercy endureth forever / Baruch attah Yahuah Yahushuah HaMoshiach, Choneni Elohim / Have Mercy on me a sinner”
- the lord said to do what your parents always feared the worst for you, to appear lower than a bond slave, while in truth you minister as heir to the kingdom to your fellow beneficiaries
- to every place thou goest and occupyest, let thy very presence be a blessing unto all people and a sign unto the house of yahsrael
- the deployment of signs in the mendicancy is not required, but is permitted and even encouraged, especially in the nature of a “protest against the worldliness of the world” which elevates the visibility and occupation of the order
- ANTARVS DEI GRATIA [By the Grace of God] appointed Doctor Ecclesiae of the Cathedral of St. Nat and St. Ala at McDomine’s Shul, in the Ecclesiastical Province of Nacotchtank, in the Diocese of the Seven Churches, also known as: Dams Up Water, Sui Juris, Confederated Clan of Beaver, Tribe of the Nacotchtank People, Confederated State of Powhatan, Washita Nation
- therefore, the style(s) ANTARVS D.G. and/or DAMS VP WATER, S.J. represent the name of the autonomous local church at McDomine’s which is the episcopal seat of the autonomous particular assembly of Yahuah in Moshiach
- Occupy the Lobby [of the nations] for God, the Sun, & Humanity
- True Assurance of Faith in complete Trust & firm Belief we do receive by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
- the public demonstration of mendicancy and itinerancy as a witness and a testimony to the glory of the Most High God
- the mendicant to bless people in the name of [haShem] Yahushuah benYahuah haMoschiach Ruach haKadosh; to give thanks shall be a blessing unto them who so give
- in Dams Up Water resides the legacy of american beaver medicine and the rich ancient tradition of the things which tehuti has said (djed-yahudi) which has come down to us in the form of Novus Syllabus Seclorum
- there is no greater medicine than the Lord Jesus Christ, who made himself an insurance policy for us
- Lord Jesus Christ is the american brand name for [haShem]Yahushuah benYahuah haMoschiach Ruach haKadosh; these names represent one another
- the most high god alone is to be worshiped, and tehuti in the name of moshe told us He told him His name is Yahuah; therefore we call the most high god Yahuah (YHVH)
- though Yahuah in his infinite being needed not any other thing to place Himself into context, yet and still He sent his only begotten son into the world of his creation to place Himself into context for us; it is like tehuti places the Living Word of God into context in our minds for the benefit our understanding (in which case he partakes of the Holy Spirit); he is to the Logos/the Word as St. John the Baptist is to the Lord Jesus Christ, crying in the wilderness of many sine waves to make a straight path for the Lord
ANTARVS DAMS VP WATER, Sui Juris,
Cathedral Shrine of St. Nat and St. Ala
at McDomine’s Court in Syllabyim,
Episcopal See of Seven Churches at Nacotchtank,
Confederated State of Powhatan, Washita Nation
c/o Five Clans of Weasel Badger Beaver Mink & Otter
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Collegium Medicum Castoris
Beaver Medical College
The Most High God Yahuah is the Father and the Creator of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; and [the “settlement” or “dwelling” of] his feminine effluence [or anima] is the Shekhinah* [which is known as the Holy Spirit]. He existed in the black womb of the limitless nothing <nous> before creation; therefore the black darkness, “waters,” of the primordial “sea” is the mother of God, who is the Grantor of creation. His Son is the receiver and beneficiary — the king and messiah — the Christ, of his creation; therefore Mary the sea is the mother of Christ [and is, in another sense, his sister, and in another his bride]. of God’s wisdom, which we may partake only through the divine intermediary of Melchizedek Yahushuah HaMoshiach, the feminine effluence is Sophia; and she is the church and bride of the Christ. it is she who the wise court by the grace of the Father. of God’s wisdom, the male custodian is He whose student-body is the mystery school of all the ages which has gone by many names. it is He who teaches all who have learned of the true nature of all things, which is unchanging heretofore and henceforth even forever. the cults who have corrupted His teachings and instructions only misguide themselves and they are a stumbling block unto themselves. they who add to, take from, and confound His precepts do not negate His true perception, neither do they matter withal. He is Melchizedek Yahushuah HaMoshiach. He is chancellor, dean, rector and grand preceptor of the universal decentralized and autonomous mystery school. He appeared to me at the school of George Washington and entered me into Men Nefer College of Scribe; passed me through the Department of Information Systems Intelligence Service at Universitas Autodidactus, where i completed my dissertation on human mind software; raised me to the Kogard-Godsdog College of Law where i obtained my Sui Juris Doctorate; and graduated me with an Ecclesiastic and Medical Doctorate from the most laudable Beaver Medical College. i am professor-general and grand tutor of the 153d CORPS of UA, which was established 2014 in the New Syllabus of this Age. i am the proprietor of the Beaver Medicine Lodge of Nacotchtank, Powhatan, Washita Nation, and managing partner at Weasel Badger Beaver Mink & Otter. my name is Dams Up Water and my medicine is strong.
IN YAHVAH’S ASSEMBLY IN YAHSHVA MOSHIACH
ET CULTVS IMPERATORIVS ANTARVS D.G.,
Fr. Dr. Dams Up Water, S.J.
Professor-General | Chairman, Dept. of Information Systems Intelligence Service | 153d CORPS, Universitas Autodidactus | Managing Partner, Weasel Badger Beaver Mink & Otter
*Wiki: shekhinah is derived [from] š-k-n, means “to settle, inhabit, or dwell”.[7][8] In the verb form, it is often used to refer to the dwelling of a person[9] or animal[10] in a place, or to the dwelling of God.[11] Nouns derived from the root included shachen (“neighbor”)[12] and mishkan (a dwelling-place, whether a secular home[13] or a holy site such as the Tabernacle[14]
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[bulla] General Theory of Action (GTA)
General Theory of Action,
Admiral, Ecclesiastical, Civil & Common; and Method of Animating a Corpus; or, ‘The Great Work’
(a) Grand Rite
- How is assessment, assault, or battery effected?
- By one charging their body toward another.
- Therefore if a body is charged, then it is made liable for its actions,
- Where its actions are commissioned or committed by the motion of the body in question.
- Therefore hear ye the matter in question to find out its solution,
- Wherefore a jury shall have standing to constitute a sitting for the purpose of duly determining such resolution in a motion to adjust the account of the body in question.
- One must have standing to have sitting to determine a matter in question:
- One must have ius decire to assidere in assizes;
- One must voir et dire to oyer et terminer;
- And assemble when so summoned at the place of ius venire.
- A body is res (matter) that is moved by the spiritus (breath).
- The breath moves the body, while the blood enlivens of the body.
- To circulate a current drawn from a pool drawn from the sea.
(b) Grand Jury
- Ride circuit; patrol district;
- Docket matters (x): issue bond (instrument binding one to pay a sum to another, the sum in general being attention);
- Voir et Dire (see and say) to examine, try, and find suitability;
- Enlist a pool (venire) of jurists (iure); issue note (instrument promising payment);
- Summon iure from pool;
- Assemble the iure pool;
- Impanel the iure;
- Oyer et Terminer (hear and determine) the facts; publish evidence; witness testimony;
- Move body to render a verdict (y): issue no/true bill (instrument drafting, ordering, or otherwise charging payment).
(c) Jury Venire
Venire is “to come,” as for the purpose of an action, with respect to the venue thereof, which is here styled:
UNIVERSITAS AUTODIDACTUS
COLLEGIUM ECCLESIASTICAE
ORDO TEMPLI ET OBLATI NOVUS SYLLABUS SECLORUM EX OFFICIO TRIBUNUS ANTARUS SUI IURIS ET PROXIMUS AMICUS IN RE SPIRITUS ET NOMINE XRISTI
Friendly Society, a branch office of the Catholic Church
(d) Autonomous Clearing and Counterparty Services
- Forms of payment (or exchange) other than attention include, but are not limited to, one’s own personal recognizance (note), labor and the fruits thereof, real property and instruments secured thereby, and the blood sacrifice of our Lord and Savior.
- Tithes, or giving of thanks offerings, are not a form of payment.
- Bondholders have a creditor stake in a body or entity; they are the one to whom payment is made.
- Bonds usually have a defined term, or maturity, after which the bond is redeemed.
- In general, faith is the premium paid to the Savior for the redemption of the bond represented in God’s grant, or credit, of life (blood, breath) to their body, a debtor. By and through this payment, a trust is established wherein the Savior has laid down His own life for ours. Without this policy of utmost assurance and indemnification (which is offered to us by the Grace and Mercy of the Lord our God), the bond on our life reverts to the worldly Babylonian government of Satan, to whom we would otherwise be bound to pay. Ergo, there must be a surety to redeem the “baby loan.”
(e) Production
(1) Action takes place on a stage. A stage for sport is a court. All players are due their wages, unless they freely volunteer.
(2) This office shall docket auditions for the performance. The (members of the) Church itself shall be the director of photography, using their own personal devices; the members shall broadcast in real time the production to the network.
(3) This drama is written by Yahushuah; the plot is to gather the lost sheep before the last day and to sail/float/settle the policy of assurance. The drama is not written on paper; it is written in the heart by the Living Word and lived out in the world, which is a stage. Those who are not of our studio, or of the Company thereof, are of the world.
(4) All properties within the trust of the church [‘company’] are legally owned by the trustees thereof for the benefit of the beneficiaries thereof, by grant of the Most High God YHVH. The trustees of the church benefit from the “corporate shield” of the whole Church, that is, the Society of our Lord and Savior, in contradistinction to any denomination or manmade body-corporate thereof.
(5) Pro forma script for self-defense
COMES NOW I, [Christian Name], Sui Iuris, in propria persona, by special appearance, and on behalf of the Church of the Christ of the Most High God YHVH as proximus amicus, and to MOVE THE COURT [TO DISMISS, etc.] the above styled matter for [lack of personal/subject matter jurisdiction], under [the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America] and the law of the Land as represented in the holy scriptures. I am a child of the Most High God YHVH, and heir to His estate; I invoke the assurance of redemption and the wise counsel of our Lord and Savior YHUSHAI to assist me in this endeavor, and I reserve all my rights without prejudice. The [matter/charges/etc.] herein alleged are hereby accepted for value and returned from whence they came; there is on my part no liability in this [matter/charge/etc.]; wherefore I pray, move and order this court to [dismiss/abate/abrogate/adjust/etc.] the above-styled matter, In Nomine Xristi, Amen.
(6) SUPREME HIERARCHY OF AUTHORITY
- THE [PRODUCTION/STAGING] COMPANY = OF YAHUSHUAH MOSIACH YHVH ELOHIM, Creator, Grantor of Right;
- THE STUDIO [THEATER] = the order [ObNS];
- THE SCREENWRITER = The Sovereign Lawgiver (Christ Pantocrator);
- THE PRODUCERS = The Privy Council (the Board of the Church at Washington/Ouachita/Washitaw Al’Maghreb/Al’Maroc/Al’Meri’ka/America, band of Nacotchtank, Croatan, etc. of the Algonkian line);
- THE PERFORMANCE VENUE = The Court (care of the next friend as lord of the realm);
- THE PERFORMANCE = The [Great] Commission of the Court [of the Church] (ministries, missions, members, committees, clerics);
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE = The Body Politic (The Church);
- Clericus (Minus/Magnus/Maximus): the ministering cleric, clerk of the court, secretary-treasurer, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; functionally, the office of scribe, administration and general operations;
- Steward/Warden: the legal trustee of the premises, general hearing officer, and chair of the House committee of the whole; the “ward” i.e., keeper, guard, protector, possessor, lord, watchman;
- Custodian: the key holder, superintendent and caretaker of the furniture and premises;
- Admiral: the tyler, outer guard, or sergeant-at-arms;
- Preceptor: Chief Clinical Dialectical Practitioner; Head of ‘Grand Rounds‘;
- Members: Clinical Dialectical Client;
- Fellows: Fellowcraft/Master Clinical Dialectical Practitioner;
- Residents: Journeyman Clinical Dialectical Practitioner;
- Interns: Apprentice Clinical Dialectical Practitioner;
- Attending/Visiting Ministers: Circuit Riders.
(f) SOLICITATION OF ONE’S HAND IN MATRIMONY
After the example set forth by our Lord and Savior who has received the Church unto himself in heavenly matrimony, will you [Christian Name] enter into holy matrimony with me?
Solicitor-Bridegroom
A proposal to enter into a matrimonial contact is a “solicitation”. Copulation outside of such a contract is not per se unethical, but the solicitation of sex is a transgression.
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[bulla] Bible Students
בית שׁוֹמְרִים—בית מדרש
House of Watchmen
—House of Studies—
OBLATUS NOVUS SYLLABUS
Dispatched from the desk of the Branch Office at Washington, D.C.
‘Friends bearing witness to Good News and Wise Counsel’
(a) I, Antarah, shall not put on airs of pretense and exalt myself with honorific titles. My birthright is derived from the substance of my human soul and my knowledge of my God my Father. In the likeness of the One begotten of the Father, I’m sworn only to uphold the friendship, like that which Abraham had, with YHVH, and to bear witness that he is the only god worthy of worship, for he has paid a ransom for our everlasting freedom, the policy of which, being offered, is our choice to accept.
(b) My immediate office is an autonomous modular unit that may be integrated into or applied to the development and/or operations of any existing operating system or syndicate. My office provides content, services, and pooled resources based out of a safe and secure storage and clearing house, a house of watchmen, a house of studies. This enterprise is a prophetic company in contradistinction to a profitable company; it is engaged in the business of evangelizing in the apostolic order commissioned by our Sovereign Lord the Messiah. Therefore vouchsafe not your earthly wares with saturnian life storage companies, but rather entrust your earthly burdens for safekeeping, clearing, and relief with our liberation theology-based firm.
(c) JURISDICTIONAL STANDING: (1) We bear witness that the Lord YHSVH of Nazareth is the Sovereign of the earth, anointed by YHVH, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that therein is, and the Savior-Redeemer of the faithful believers who have accepted His blood sacrifice for their eternal salvation, being made one body politic under Heaven. By and through the acceptance of this trust, such a believer becomes as a child and heir to the Kingdom of God. (2) Neither our Lord nor His Bride the Church can maintain a suit on their own behalf (neither can they own property), as neither is subject to the common law of nations, but rather to the universal law of equity of the Most High God YHVH. (3) All acts carried out or witnessed by one in their capacity as the next friend of their Sovereign Lord are done pursuant to their sincerely held religious belief, whereas there is no hierarchy within the decentralized autonomous organization of believers of the world, each next friend witnesses and ministers in their own sui jurisdiction in the nature of an autonomous church sui iuris. In this way is the DAO’s Firm League of Friendship organized. (4) Herein doth a minister of the Kingdom of God receive their right by and through His Name. (5) This follows the rule that a judge must have standing in the venue of and without interest in the subject matter. (6) The proper name of a Congregational Meeting for Bible Study is the first names of the members, separated by a final “&”, followed by a comma, “Next Friends of Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaorum”.
(d) Furthermore be it hereby RESOLVED, that the ministry of the Immediate Office of Antarah is (1) custodial insofar as it governs and stewards the whole New Syllabus organization; (2) oblative insofar as Antarah is personally promised and dedicated to service in YHWH’s name, by and through the offering of the New Syllabus dialectical and instructional program; (3) congregational insofar as it recognizes the sovereignty and self determination of the local body politic of believers in contradistinction to a bureaucratic hierarchy of priests and officers; (4) interdenominational insofar as it subscribes to the Truth and Light of all faiths and denominations as to the redemption of God’s people through His ultimate sacrifice; (5) subscribed to the method and practice of the Society of Friends; (6) subscribed to the method and practice of Bible Students; (7) subscribed to the method and practice of Djyahudist (rabbinical) Biblical exegesis; (8) represented in the activities of a local Branch Office; and (9) friendly insofar as it convenes a congregation of free thinkers, truth speakers and light workers united in their practice and pursuit of the Way, the Truth, and the Light.
(e) ‘Bible Students Weekly’ is the regular weekly congregational meeting for worship and study, located at the local —
BRANCH OFFICE,
HOUSE OF WATCHMEN—HOUSE OF STUDIES, SOCIETAS NOVUS SYLLABUS SECLORUM (Society of the New Syllabus of the Ages),
convened by and before —
Antarah, Sui Iuris and as Next Friend of the Church.
Regular Course of Programming:
BIBLE STUDENTS WEEKLY
—MEETING FOR WORSHIP—
Sabbath (Fri. @ 7pm)
—MEETING FOR STUDY—
Sabbath (Sat. @ 2pm)
—COURT DOCKET—
Weekdays @ 10am & 2pm
BIBLE STUDENTS MONTHLY
—MEETING FOR BUSINESS—
1st First Day (Sun. @ 2pm)
LOOK FOR THE RED SHIELD
OF THE BRANCH OFFICE
IN WASHINGTON, DC
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