Willem IV- The power of nationhood, as a concept and in practice, isn’t what you probably think it is (political and/or racial), but it can give large bodies of people spread over vast spaces incredible influence and mutual assurance of safety without top-down down systems of control. Basically, if you understand nationhood as something spiritual that becomes sociocultural and socioeconomic and then civic, in a purely voluntary sense, you have a powerful vehicle for increasing your level of freedom and preventing yourself from being easily controlled or influenced.
This comes from the third of the 17 Protocols of Upadaria and is a dramatic, peaceful, alternative to a top-down approach and to systems and structures that are a slave to politics or polluted by racialism/racism. Through understanding nationhood as something that has a voluntarily shared spiritual basis, we can develop a sort of “organic cohesiveness” that is quite effective against more authoritarian and top-down systems of control.
The Spiritual Nation
WE ARE A SPIRITUAL NATION OF PEOPLE WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD
God ordains the nations and calls them into being. His Word establishes the boundaries of their habitation and time of their existence. We believe God has called and ordained us to be Peers of a new spiritual nation, defined by spiritual sovereignty, whose God is the Lord.
– The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Three
For many, if we speak of a nation or a nation of people, like a nationality, the two predominant things they think of in their mind’s eye are things like a political state and citizenship or a race or bloodline ancestry. Nations can be and sometimes are based on these things or a combination of these these things, but they aren’t these things in their core essence or, we propose, in God’s eyes.
Even when a nation is associated mostly or exclusively with a single political state or a race/blood ancestry, that is not the essence of a healthy nation. Put a different way, unless a nation is at its core made up of a spiritual commonality among its participants, it is not healthy and will tend to threaten as opposed to enhance freedom.
By nation we cannot mean the land or structures like a political state. Conflating a nation with these things is like conflating a family with the house they live in. Nations exists within these things and some organizations or institutions affiliated with a nation may exert control over these structures, but these things aren’t the nation.
Nations, from our best understanding of the Biblical and historical record, can best be desribed as a distributed body of people and their families who have a shared spiritual foundation and follow the same basic way of life. Nations are ordained by God, He sets the boundaries of their existence in time and of their habitation SO THAT people might find God if they seek Him. The only way for people to freely seek God is for freedom itself to reign. Therefore we say that nations are meta-scale freedom-building agencies and vehicles of power for free people, in their ideal.
A body of ideas based on shared beliefs, values, and convictions and the body of people, along with their freewill participatory associations who embrace and utilize those ideas, make up the core substance of a nation. This is true whether such associations include political states or not and, for most all the nearly 10,000 national people groups in existence, there is no political state.
Nationhood, when we see it as something spiritual you adopt through freewill participation alone, is a way to connect deeply to others without having to compromise your individual spiritual sovereignty. It is another form of inner freedom, starting with the universal nationhood of all Believers within the Kingdom, and which is expressed in a diverse manner throughout multiple unique manifestations of nationhood, which it has always been God’s intention to create.
The Tower of Babel story illustrates a deep and sublime truth that diversity expressions of nationhood, even if all are founded on Kingdom essentials, have always been God’s intention. Moreover, Revelation describes a new heavens and a new earth that includ diverse nations of people. So then nationhood, when we see it correctly, is an at-scale agency of God’s provision of freedom and is prescribed by God, in a diversity expression, for the whole of human civilization.
The diversity of nationhood we in particular proclaim is a new spiritual nation called “Upadaria”, which is the same name of the new civilization, a civilization founded on four core ideals of good governance and of freedom for all. So then this “Upadaria” is predicated on Kingdom essentials and the core ideals of a new civilization of Believers that we believe will emerge all over the world among any nations of people.
Through this at-scale familial free association of people, who adopt a shared identity and organic cohesiveness based on ideals and neither race nor politics, people can experience a form of inner freedom that begins to reach out and into and transfigure their own lives and relationships.
We proclaim that we who embrace Yeshua as King and our own unique principles and etc all founded on Kingdom essentials and the core ideals of a freedom civilization are all Peers of a spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord. As such, we know and have faith that God’s will surround us with a sacred spiritual boundary, pomerium as we call it, which will keep us safe from harm.
Nationhood as a concept isn’t limited to Upadarians, people who are called into our diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood in Christ. Any body of people, which could be a few persons who become a group and a whole tribe, can use this concept as the basis of their freewill participation.
For Upadarians, who are first and foremost “Yeshuans”, that is, Believers, Christians, who follow Yeshua and identify with Him, our shared spiritual nationhood unites us under Christ alone but moves us in unique ways that go beyond Kingdom essentials and that are not required of all Christians. We are united with the whole Body of Christ because our diversity expression of nationhood is firmly rooted in the Universal Kingdom Nationhood we share with all Believers.
Our particular concept of nationhood, which anyone anywhere can voluntarily adopt by learning and embracing the 17 Protocols, begins with and seeks to equip its peers to experience spiritual sovereignty as individuals. Spiritual sovereignty means we are created in the image of God and endowed with such rights as life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness, freedom of expression and association, mutual and individual self-reliance and self-preservation, and respect for our rights, for human dignity, and for human flourishing.
We take this as a priori fact, we don’t debate it and we aren’t open to any compromise of our reasonable boundaries of individual and shared spiritual sovereignty, both as individual persons and as a spiritual nation as a body of people whose God is the Lord. While we work in peace and we may submit to unjust laws and policies to keep the peace or just because we have no earthly choice, we believe God will deliver us and make us free.
The mere act of identifying with such a form of spiritual nationhood means you unlock the blessings and provisions reserved for God-fearing nations of people, even if the entire surrounding society is running away from God! We will, within the other Protocols, offer comcrete methods and techniques for building freedom, and anyone can use these ideas. We also believe that when a whole distributed body of people share the same national identity, and when that national identity is founded on the person and works of Jesus Christ, according to Kingdom essentials and the vision of new freedom civilization, that God will let loose supernatural provisions, favor, and protection not manifested through any other Divinely ordained agency.
Through the adoption of a form of spiritual nationhood we can build our own inner freedom and, together in freewill participatory association, we can build out freedom in our lives, relationships, families, and communities on a unilateral basis and for the Glory of God.
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