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FREE COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS UNIVERSAL / FREIE INTERESSENGEMEINSCHAFT UNIVERSELL
SOCIETY FOR BORDER- AND SPIRITUAL-SCIENCES AND UFOLOGICAL STUDIES / VEREIN FÜR GRENZ- UND GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN UND UFOLOGIESTUDIEN
EARTH (WORLDWIDE); HEADQUARTERS: SWITZERLAND (SSSC)
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1) We are a not-for-profit, tax-paying [Swiss only] society constituted according to Swiss civillaw-book article 60ff. under the name ‘Free Community of Interests for Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies’, with an official, publicised annual financial statement.
2) We believe neither in a god as creator of the universe and all life, nor in messengers of god, angels, saints or other higher Wesen,[7] which determine the fate of human beings and the whole of life as well as the world, nor do we belong to any religious school of thought.
3) We honour only the Creation itself as the highest form of all power, might and existence, which is itself the existence of all universal existence as a universal consciousness, integrated into the all-embracing block of the Absolute Absolutum.
4) We worship neither the Creation nor any other things. Prayers are directed only on an equal level to the spirit and to the Creation, however not in worshipping form. The Creation demands neither worship nor prayer, although prayer can be directed to it if that is wished for by a human being; however such a prayer must never be carried out in worshipping form, because the Creation needs no worship in a religious cultist regard, whereby it is optional to the human being however, to honour the Creation in prayer-related form and pay it deference. If a prayer is carried out, then it occurs not in submissive form, rather in showing honour or in a form which is determining, which is then also the case if a prayer to one’s own spirit is carried out, which really is a part-piece of the Creation. A prayer is never to be carried out in begging or submissive form, rather determining and free from all subservience; in the consciousness of the self determination and self-responsibility of one’s own personality in all concerns of life.
5) We do not claim to be all-knowing and to know the last secrets of the Creation and of life. The total knowledge and the total wisdom reside solely in the Creation, that is to say, in its spirit and its laws and recommendations.
6) We have no masters, godly ones, sublime ones, illuminated ones, gurus or messengers of god etc., who we venerate and worship. We have only a teacher, who teaches us in the concerns of the spirit and the consciousness forms etc., as well as in all things of life and the psyche, the Creation and the Absolute Absolutum and the creational laws and recommendations etc. However this teacher is not and will not be elevated over and above other human beings, because he is no more and no less than every other human being, so he is no doubt duly respected, however not worshipped and therefore also not looked upon as a saint. He is a normal human being and absolutely equal in all things, something to which all other human beings are entitled; no more and no less. Therefore the qualified teacher in the FIGU society is an ordinary member like any other, also, without being given a higher or better position.
7) We have no ‘Chief Apostle’ or some other human being who functions as a representative of a god, a saint or the Creation. Each human being is responsible himself/herself for any and all of his or her doings, concerns and life, without a god, a holiness or the Creation standing above him or her in order to tell him or her what is good or bad, or wrong or right, or negative or positive.
8) We do not practise ‘Holy Sealing Ceremonies’, so we therefore distance ourselves from blessings (‘willed by god’) of religious-cult form.
9) We do not practise baptism (driving out the devil).
10) We celebrate neither religious worshipping services nor any holy communion (which according to Christian religion must be received supposedly only by ‘sealed ones’ i.e. blessed ones).
11) We have no dogmas and doctrines at all, nor do we live according to such.
12) We do not teach salvation of sins, rather we teach that each human being must live in self-determination and self-responsibility and in following the creational-natural laws and recommendations.
13) We disapprove of the religious-cultic false teaching of sin and atonement, because conditional to evolution, it is given that no human being is faultless. Consequently each person must learn in each of his or her lives. But learning means that mistakes are made which are to be recognised and resolved, whereby progress develops. Therefore it is fallacious that if mistakes (‘sins’) are made, these must be paid for again through punishment (atonement), regardless of whether this is in the current or in another life (god’s judgement/karma etc.). (Criminal law violations are not simply mistakes, rather punishable actions according to human legislation.)
14) We are not a cult and not a sect, and we have neither a proselytising consciousness nor do we know a consciousness-based (spiritual) narrow-mindedness in our ranks, nor are we caught up in fanaticism.
15) We tolerate all secular directions of thought or directions of belief, which, however, does not mean that we must conform to them. In the FIGU there is no religious or cultic direction of thinking or direction of beliefs, nor are any cultic-religious rituals carried out.
16) Instead of prayers, meditations are carried out; therefore, consequently, prayers are also directed to one’s own spirit or to the Creation and are nothing other than meditations.
17) We are not against public authorities and the state, and therefore we also do not disapprove of military duty for a defensive army.
18) We are against the fact that individual human beings hold positions (dictator etc.) by means of Gewalt[9] and controlling the populace and can indulge in their greed for might and imperiousness, and hence we are against every form of religious, sectarian as well as fanatical, dictatorial, military, radical leadership of the populace.
19) We disapprove of all extremism of ideological, political or religious form as well as all fundamentalism, terrorism, anarchism, dogmatism, fanaticism and everything similar or directed the same way.
20) We are against all religious, military and political insurrections and also disapprove of any form of aggressive actions.
21) We are against revolutions and wars of any kind, if it does not concern purely defensive forms for progress and peace.
22) We are against any biological and chemical warfare and contamination as well as against atomic bomb tests, the use of atomic bombs (even commercial) and against all atomic energy (nuclear power plants, as soon as these can be avoided, which currently is unfortunately still not the case due to the need of energy through the frantically quick growing of humanity and in the absence of better energy generation possibilities).
23) We are against and crusade against all further cultivating of overpopulation.
24) We are against and crusade against all torture and against all capital punishment.
25) We are against and crusade against xenophobia and racial hate.
26) We are against and crusade against all discrimination of women and defilement of women.
27) We are against and crusade against any child mistreatment and against all child abuse.
28) We are against and crusade against any cruelty to animals and any keeping of animals in residential premises.
29) We are against and crusade against any destruction of nature and unnecessary and naturedamaging deforestation as well as against all polluting of water and ruining of water.
30) We disapprove of human trafficking, all slavery, enslavement and other subjugation and crusade against it.
31) We disapprove of all exercising of might over others, because each human being has his or her innate right to freedom, which must not be curtailed. We also disapprove of the principle of might through money as also the principle of might through religion as well as the principle of might through politics and might through the military.
32) We are against any illogical Gewalt;[11] therefore we are also against any Gewalt in the name of a god, saint, a sect, a regime of other forces or of a religion.
33) We are against the blessing and sanctifying of weapons, war and revolutions as well as against all aggressive or lethal actions in the name of religions, sects, godheads, saints or those who lust for might etc.
34) We are in favour of absolute inner and outer freedom of human beings, which must not be curtailed or suppressed in any manner and also not through state regulations and laws and also not through schools, institutions, religions, sects and special groups of every kind as well as not through military or any kind of secular ruler.
35) We know and are of the conviction that, in the entire universe, not only the Earth alone was seeded and provided with life, rather that also upon other worlds and worlds foreign to the Earth and the solar system, human beings and other life exist.
36) We are not willing to proselytise in any form for the things represented by the FIGU, rather we represent our teaching, view and way of thinking to human beings who come to us of their own accord and ask questions.
37) We are strictly against all abuse of drugs, medications and alcohol.
38) Our principle is not ‘live and let live’, rather ‘live and help live’.
39) We are not politically active in any form within the scope of the FIGU.
40) We are against all religious or secular, fanatical and human-controlling sectarianism of every kind, as well as against psyche-destroying, physical body-destroying and human-destroying sectarianism of every kind.
41) Our teaching and way of thinking is aligned with reincarnation/rebirth, particularly in the sense of evolution through the material life up to becoming pure spirit and some day becoming one with the Creation itself.
42) We strive for knowledge, love, harmony, wisdom and evolution, however not for might, gold and riches.
43) We render psychological counselling and, in the scope of the ‘active alliance’ [Swiss only], also help with provisions to needy persons according to our possibilities. (‘Active alliance’-donations are spent completely for the purpose of helping as well as for postal charges and packaging, consequently no operating expenses or labour and administration costs are drawn off. All related tasks in the entire FIGU-sphere are rendered free of charge by all members.)
44) The entire estate of the FIGU society (goods, property, finances) is general property and community property of all members. Therefore they do not belong to individuals.
45) We are in favour of all progress in all fields and in all sciences, so long as it is guaranteed in ethical and positive evolutive form.
46) All activities of the FIGU are paid for by voluntary donations in the form of monthly and yearly contributions determined by the members themselves and voluntary solidarity contributions of persons internal and external to FIGU.
47) The FIGU society publishes extensive written material in-house with the self-publishing and self-distributing company (Aquarian Age-Publishing [Swiss only]) as well as with other publishers.
48) We live according to the conviction that only a balanced diet (vegetables, fruits, berries, grain, meat and other animal products etc.) guarantees a healthy way of life and development (relating to the body, psyche and consciousness).
49) Each FIGU member becomes involved in the FIGU society in absolutely voluntary form, in recognition of the creational-natural laws and recommendations as well as in the recognition and bearing of the self-responsibility and the fulfilling of duty for his/her own well-being and progress and for the whole of humanity and all life.
50) We represent the view that the human being is given life in order to evolutively live it completely in the scope of self-responsibility and all other human duties, whereby no right to escaping exists, neither through a rejection of responsibilities nor by murder or suicide or simply by refusing to fulfill the duties of life.
Sources
* FLAU; FIGU in a Nutshell: https://au.figu.org/content/FIGU%20in%20a%20Nutshell.pdf
* FIGU Shop; FIGU in a Nutshell: https://shop.figu.org/schriften/flugbl%C3%A4tter/figu-in-a-nutshell?language=en
* 1997 authorised translation; FIGU in a Nutshell: https://billymeier.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/figu-in-a-nutshell_sec.pdf
* Previously hosted version (See history tab at top of page); FIGU in a Nutshell: http://us.figu.org/portal/AboutFIGU/FIGUinaNutshell/tabid/65/Default.aspx