THE SPIRITUAL TENETS, CREED, AND PRINCIPLES OF NATIONE DIVINAE LIBERTATIS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

 

1) Existence and life are of divine origin and nature and all unalienable rights of man inhere therein and derived therefrom.

 

2) Each man or woman is unique, of unfathomable inner depth and configuration, and the unit of experience and free will with absolute, sovereign right of self-ownership.

 

3) Man’s sovereignty derives from the Supreme Creator God, the Ultimate Sovereign, and inheres in the union  of existence and individual free will.

 

4) Reverence and awe for the Creator as the source of life, worthy of endless praise and worship as expressed  by a life of thanksgiving and gratitude which is our reasonable service toward those also created in His  image and placed in our path of life.

 

5) The Word of the Creator is the supreme truth in the life of man, and without a genuine relationship with  Him, and clear perception of His word, man lives in ignorance and delusion, resulting in confusion,  suffering and eventual destruction as the penalty of sin and error.

 

6) Freedom is an unalienable, God Given Divine Right, and a universal aspect of man’s true nature, essential  for fullness of life in Him. Freedom is the natural environment for God to be glorified through man fully  alive with the liberty to express that fullness.

 

7) No man, woman or institution is the source of creation of life of another or has any a priori claim on said life.  For anyone, operating on his own or through constructed institutions, to presume to have title or right to dominate the life of anyone who does not contract voluntarily, willingly, and knowingly to become a  party or subject to the claim is criminal usurpation of man’s free will which even our Creator does not  exercise.  The convictions, beliefs, lifestyles, creeds, and religious practices are entirely the concern of each man and remain inviolate unless said convictions and practices injure or defraud another against his will.

 

8) In a sound society people live and accumulate wealth and property on the basis of free, open, mutually  voluntary exchanges in which all parties are bettered in the unique terms of each party.  Since the right of  self-ownership is absolute, so is one’s ownership of all property acquired through honorable labor, i.e. “A workman is worthy of his hire.” Wealth acquired in such constructive and honorable ways is allodial and  cannot be justly rendered subject to any external claims.  

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9)   No burden of proof falls on anyone who innocently asserts or seeks to enjoy his life, rights, freedom or  property.  One who attempts to deprive another of life, rights, freedom, or property incurs the obligation of  substantiating the ethical, moral, and lawful basis for any such invasive or aggressive action.

 

10) Members of NATIONE DIVINAE LIBERTATIS are “in the world but not of it” and seek to live by respect, non-harmfulness, unconditional love, scrupulous neutrality, non-contention, nonintervention with beings that one himself did not create and does not own, and non-involvement with affairs which are not the just province and concern of oneself.

 

11) NATIONE DIVINAE LIBERTATIS is established in accordance with timeless and universal  maxims of law which include, but are not limited to:  

• “An act done by me against my will is not my act.” Brac. 101b 

• “No man can serve two masters.” (Matthew 6:24) 

• “The Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King,” (Ps. 33:22) 

• “There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy,” (James 4:12) 

• “Consent makes the law. (A contract is law between the parties agreeing to be bound by it.)” Branch, Princ., 8 Mont.32 

• “One who exercises jurisdiction out of his territory cannot be obeyed with impunity.” 10 Co. 77; Dig.  2.1.20; Story, Confl. Laws 539; Broom, Max. 100,101. 

• “Good faith must be observed.” 1 Metc. Mass. 551; 23 id.;521 

• “And you will know the truth and that very truth will make you free.” (John 8:31-32) 

• “In favor of life, liberty, and innocence, all things are to be presumed.” Lofft. 125.  

• “The contract makes the law.” 22 Wend. 215, 233. 

• “Freedom does not admit of valuation.” Bracton 14. 

• The form of agreement and the convention of the parties overrule the law.” 1 Pick. 491; Broom, Max, 689  et seq/; 2 Co 73; 22 N.Y. 252 

• “To lie is to go against the mind.” 3 Bulstr. 260. 

• “He who stands on his own rights injures no one.” 41 La. Ann. 194; 48 id. 1389. 

•  “No man can forfeit another’s right.” Fleta, 1.1, c.28 11.  

• “Power out to follow, not to precede, justice.” 3 Bulstr. 199. 

•  “Whatever is against the rule of right is wrong.” 3 Bulstr. 313 

•  “What is mine cannot be taken away without my consent.” Jenk. Cent. 251. 

•  “Rights never die.”  

•  “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” (MATTHEW 21:22)  

 

12) The spiritual law of “reaping what you sow” remains in effect. “While the earth remains Seed, Time and  Harvest, Cold and Heat, Winter and Summer, and Day and Night Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22)  Therefore it is the goal of the ministry to sow seeds of life, encouragement, and righteousness, knowing  that by doing so we not only honor God, we also reap those blessings in return.

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13) God’s purpose is that man serves God, and experiences the full glory of God by knowing Him who designed us for His purposes which are higher than self, and therefore experience the fullness of Life we were created for. “I have come that they may have life, and they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) 

 

“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:10-11)

 

“To believe in me, is not to believe in me but in him who sent me; to see me is to see him who sent me….”- Jesus the Christ (John 12:44-45)

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