The Spiritual Basis of The Republican Ideology

[Leonardo17]

I am someone who believes in the absolute separation of religious affairs and state affairs. But I am also a true believer in the need for truly spiritual people to start being more political and these are my arguments:
 

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   First there is the famous “Eye of Providence” Which is a symbol that is used by freemasons but has been used by Christianity as well. The meaning is simply “God is watching over us”. He watches over our deeds / He is guiding us.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence
 
   This is not a new symbol. Actually it belongs to the Old kingdom of Egypt (2800 BC - 2200 BC). In that era the pyramids were not simply seen as piles of stone. On top of each pyramid they had a Pyramidion or Pyramid cap stone. A good example is the Pyramidion of Anemmehat II from 1800 BC (Middle Kingdom of Egypt 2050 BC-1650 BC). It was made of better quality limestone and what is says is: “The Pharaoh, who is now among the Gods, is watching over our land” it also contains a Wadjet or “Eye of Horus / Eye of Ra”, which was also a symbol of the all-seeing God that sees our deeds and sees within our hearths and provides guidance and protection.


 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion...nemhat_III
 
In the Old-Kingdom it is possible that these pyramid caps were made of much more precious and shiny materials that reflected sunlight like a lighthouse in the middle of the desert that reminded people of their moral obligations before a higher reality.
 
   So the Eye of providence has to be some sort of “renaissance”. Meaning that the founders of the republican Idea were not all atheists at all. Most of them where freemasons with a “different” perhaps less dogmatic and more spiritual interpretation of religion.
 
   Second; there is the declaration of Independence (1776). In the second paragraph it says:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
 
In a way that is parallel the article 1 of the UN Charter of Human Rights says:
 
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
 
What I am arguing here is that, - Yes, these are ideas that are the direct results of the philosophers of renaissance and enlightenment. But there is also a spiritual element here that nobody can deny:

- All men are created as equals in the eye of God?
- All men are endowed with reason and conscience?
- All men must act in a spirit of brotherhood? As in in “Love thy neighbor?”
 
I think that these are very crucial principles that should not be allowed to be the rhetoric of dogmatic institutions that are always ready to misuse them for their own ego-centered and completely twisted goals or ideologies.
 
So again, I think there is value here. Also, It is not true that republican movements of freedom and equality have always been the work of non-religious / completely rational minded people. Marthin Luther King was a Baptist Minister, The Kennedy’s were Catholic Christians, Gandhi was a Hindu Mahatma (a Yogi), all of the principal personalities of our independence movement were devout Muslims + my favorite Muslim Scholar Y.N. Öztürk is a true supporter of secularism and a fervent opponent to the politicized Wababi / Salafist interpretation of Islam.
 
So while I see great value in more scientific / Rational approaches to life, I am also a little critical of those in this respect:
 
When I say “All men are equals in the Eye of God” a typical capitalist can simply answer me by asking “Yes but why? I just want my new sports car or whatever, I don’t care if (for instance) people are discriminated on the basis of their skin color in some other place, so why do I care?”
 
And true spirituality is an answer to that. In fact last Year Pope Francis did say that the current capitalist economy could not be defined as a system that is “moral” in any way. So pure materialism does not care about polar bears in the North Pole. It only cares about taking ultra-rich people to Antarctica or even to the ISS as long as somebody is able to fill his/her pockets.
 
And that’s why we need the Wadjey or the Eye of Horus to be put back on the top of the Pyramid. Basically it is there as a reminder. It says: “Yes but, I thought you might also want to know that….” Ex: free education for our children, Green transition, Gender equality, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and so forth and so forth.
 
Because the purely materialist ego cannot see value in these things. Ex: “As long as I can sell my oil, who cares about the end of the world?”
 
So maybe That’s what happening in our time, and that’s one of the elements we must remind ourselves.
 

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