PLANETARY GOVERNMENT Part 1 ~THE URMIA CONFERENCES~

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL AMONG ITS INHABITANTS.

Political Sovereignty.

Wars on earth will never end so long as nations cling to illusory notions of unlimited national sovereignty.

There are only two levels of relative sovereignty in an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of all mankind.

Between the level of the individual human being and the level of total mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only if they enhance the welfare and progress of the individual and of mankind as a whole-man and mankind.

Religious teachers should ever remember that the spiritual sovereignty of the Creator is above all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties.

Someday will civil rulers learn that it is the Most Highs who rule in the kingdoms of men.

The reign of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the exclusive benefit of a specially favored group of mortals.

There is no such thing as a "chosen people.

The reign of the Most Highs, the supercontrollers of political evolution, is a regime formed for the purpose of promoting the maximum good, for the maximum number of human beings, and for a time of the maximum length.

Sovereignty is power, and it grows by organization.

Such growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to embrace larger and larger segments of all mankind.

But this very growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intermediate stage between the initial and natural organization of political power-the family-and the final resultant of political growth-the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

Beginning with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves through organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which, for various reasons, coalesce into tribal units - the superconsanguineous political groupings.

Thence, through trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes unify into nations, and nations sometimes coalesce into an empire.

As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars diminish.

That is, minor wars between smaller nations decrease, while the potential for larger wars increases as the nations exercising sovereignty become more and more extensive.

Finally, when the whole world has been explored and occupied, when countries are few, strong and powerful, when these large and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch each other at the frontiers, when only oceans separate them, the stage will have been set for great wars, world conflicts.

So-called sovereign nations cannot touch each other without generating conflicts and provoking wars.

The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty, from the nuclear family to mankind en bloc, lies in the inertia-resistance seen on all intermediate levels.

Families sometimes defy their clan, while clans and tribes were often subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state.

Each new and progressive evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) hampered and hindered by the "scaffolding stages" of previous evolutions in political organization.

And this happens because human loyalty, once in motion, is difficult to change.

The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe, hinders the evolution of the supertribe - the territorial state.

And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, greatly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.

Political sovereignty is created by the surrender of self-determination, first of the individual within the nuclear family, and then of the family and clan within the tribe and larger groupings.

This progressive transfer of self-determination from smaller to ever larger political organizations has followed its course practically without interruption in the East since the establishment of the Ming and Mughal dynasties.

In the West it continued for more than a thousand years until the end of the World War, at which time an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by restoring the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.

Earth will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully yield their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of man - the government of mankind.

Internationalism - the leagues of nations - cannot secure permanent peace to mankind.

World confederations of nations may effectively prevent minor wars, and may acceptably control smaller nations, but they cannot prevent world wars, nor can they control the three, four or five most powerful governments.

In the presence of actual conflict, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war.

It is impossible to prevent nations from going to war as long as they are infected with the deceptive virus of national sovereignty.

Internationalism is a step in the right direction.

An international police force may prevent many minor wars, but it will have no effect in preventing the major wars, the conflicts between the great military governments of the earth.

As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) diminishes, both the possibility and the necessity for the government of mankind increases.

When there are only a few truly sovereign (great) powers, they will either have to engage in a death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy or, by voluntarily surrendering certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they will create the essential nucleus of the supernational power which will usher in the true sovereignty of all mankind.

There will be no peace on earth until all so-called sovereign nations surrender the power to declare war into the hands of a government representative of all mankind.

Political sovereignty is innate in the peoples of the world.

When all the peoples of earth create a world government, they will have the right and the power to make that government SOVEREIGN; and when that representative or democratic world power controls the land, air, and naval forces of the world, peace on earth and good will among men may prevail, but not until then.

We may use an important illustration from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: The forty-eight states of the American federal union have long lived in peace.

There are no longer any wars among them.

They have surrendered their sovereignty to a federal government and, through arbitration in the event of war, have abandoned all illusory claims to self-determination.

Although the individual states regulate their internal affairs, they do not deal with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce.

Nor do the individual states deal with matters of citizenship.

The forty-eight states suffer the scourges of war only when the sovereignty of the federal government is endangered.

These forty-eight states, by abandoning the double sophistry of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquility.

Thus will the nations of earth begin to enjoy peace when they freely relinquish their sovereignty to a world government-the sovereignty of the brotherhood of man.

In this world state the smaller nations will be as powerful as the larger ones, just as the little state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the U.S. Congress, just as the state of New York with its large population, or the state of Texas with its large territory.

The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was instituted by men for men.

The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American federal union was created by the first thirteen states for their own benefit, and for the benefit of men.

Likewise will the nations ever create the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind, for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men.

Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and conceived for the benefit of men.

The evolution of political sovereignty cannot but end in the appearance of the sovereign government of all men.

All other sovereignties are of relative value, of intermediate significance, and of subordinate character.

With scientific progress, wars will become more and more devastating until they become practically racial suicide.

How many world wars will have to be fought, how many leagues of nations will have to fail, before man will be willing to establish the government of mankind, and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace, and to reap the fruits of the tranquility of good will among themselves - world good will?