By Light of Life Society
Copyleft, 2002
Part 1: Introduction

Blessings to all who read this manuscript, or those to whom this sermon is shared.
Human Beings are unique among all the life on this planet.
We alone among life on Earth have chosen to subject ourselves to fictional laws created not by Nature or God, but by the mind of other men/women. This is significant indeed. It means that we can make the unreal, Real; our mind can imagine very scary things into reality, how many people do you know who are scared by the IRS. Nations, the IRS, and all organizations are fictional, not real, except within our minds, and they are created to serve living people - not enslave them, or seperate by diminishment living peoples Natural Rights that come from the Creator (whatever you may call God/Source/Truth), and are structured into the
Elegant Universe design.
Only living flesh and blood people, by nature of their free will mind and spirit, are Real. We have to keep in mind what is actually real, natural, reliable, and what is a fiction, a re-presentation, an imagined thing; otherwise we will live in confusion of an ever-changing reality.
“The map is not the Territory, the thing named is not the thing”
Nation-states and it’s derivative institutions are only legal people, but they impact us (our Minds) with a very real and binding force that is backed up by guns, seizure of assets, and incarceration of our living bodies. In order to survive and thrive in the world it means humans must master not only natural laws equally with all other beings, but human laws as well.
Natural Law we have no control over, whereas human laws to which we are subjected, we do have a degree of control over. If we wish to master our lives, to be
sovereign in creating our life, then
we must understand the principles of both natural law, and human law. These principles are the rules of the game as it were, you can’t win a game you don’t know the rules of, and Ignorance of laws/rules is no excuse. Because of ignorance, as well as other various factors we will explore, human laws have created a planet where EVERYONE is either a Ruler, a Equal, or they are Ruled.
Ruler’s are people like the Queen of England, or The Pope, they are not “
citizens,” they are sovereigns, answering only to God. The Queen’s subjects, as well as the subjects of the Vatican, or “citizens” of nation-states, are in a separate legal category or capacity than a sovereign. Citizens as subjects are contractually bound to answer to their Ruler, be that Ruler a monarch, pontiff, or a nation-state makes no difference. The bottom line which we must accept, on a legal level anyway, is that we do exist as the “presumptively” Ruled. That is, someone other than ourselves presumes that they have authority over us, legally speaking.
You might find it strange to realize that the game of Ruler & Ruled is a relatively new one to humans, as a unique species we have lived for more than 99% of our existence without formal government, tax collectors, armies, banks, police, or even coin (money.)

It’s only been approx. the last 12,000 years of our evolutionary journey, starting with the transition to an agricultural society, that humankind has been subject to any form of mass governance, before that the only law that held sway was natural law. Social laws also developed in community during the Wilderness age, these were not generally enforced through violent means (organized military and police) such as todays guns.
Through the development of human laws over the last 12000 years, fictional entities (governments, corporations, or citizens,) have achieved the status of a “Person” so that they can interact with us “natural people” in an imaginary world. What a word means in law is whatever the person who wrote the law wants it to mean, the word “Person” in law is defined by the court itself, as:
"Persons also are divided by the law into either natural persons, or artificial persons. Natural persons are such as the God of nature formed us; artificial are such as are created and devised by human laws for the purposes of society and government, which are called corporations or bodies politic.” ~United Statesv.Coumantaros.
Common sense indicates natural people and artificial people are not equal, one is real and the other is a figment of the mind. This is why we need to stay aware of what is real (the Territory) and what is a fiction. Through fiction - buying into it - you can find your real body facing claims, penalties, and worse. To master your life, the Real Living you needs to understand and control, the legal you - not the other way around. That is the point of this sermon, you can't serve two masters, and the choices are Reality (Creation/God) or Fiction (Flags, states, corporations, etc.. we pledge to); to master your life and feel good, serve Reality, choose truth - you have the choice because you are sovereign by nature.
Power, Sovereignty, Truth is in the real – not in the fiction. If your spirit is out of alignment with reality due to a error of the mind, all you need do isrealizethe Truth of the matter to dispel the illusion. This process is called "accepting for value."
Natural persons, as whole beings comprised of spirit, mind, and physical body, are placed into a precarious position when shackled to a artificial
legal person (Strawman); on one hand under natural law we are free sovereign beings, on the other hand we are legal persons considered to be subjects of some legal jurisdiction wherein we give up our sovereignty in exchange for benefits of “citizenship.” In short we are forced to serve two Masters.
We chose of our own free will to serve a legal Master by “pledging” ourselves to some form of “Ruling” system by means of an
“oath”. A government obtains
jurisdiction over someone by virtue of the oaths the person swears. Contract makes the law. The documents one signs, and oaths one swears, create the contracts of bondage/allegiance that authorize the government to enforce its laws, statutes, taxes, public policy, and sanctions, i.e., the nexus of jurisdiction and enforcement. No government has any jurisdiction over anyone absent oaths establishing the bondage and allegiance being enforced. If one swears no oath of allegiance/bondage to the government, the government is without jurisdiction.
An oath is defined in law as follows:
An affirmation of truth of a statement, which renders one willfully asserting untrue statements punishable for perjury. An outward pledge by the person taking it that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of responsibility to God. A solemn appeal to the Supreme Being in attestation of the truth of some statement. Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, page 966.
OATH. A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully required to tell the truth, takes God to witness that what he says is true. It is a religious act by which the party invokes God not only to witness the truth and sincerity of his promise, but also to avenge his imposture or violated faith, or in other words to punish his perjury if he shall be guilty of it.
l0 Toull. n. 343 a 348; Puff. book, 4, c. 2, s. 4; Grot. book 2, c. 13, s. 1; Ruth Inst. book 1, ch. 14, s. 1; 1 Stark. Ev. 80; Merl. Repert. Convention; Dalloz, Dict. Serment: Dur. n. 592, 593; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3180. Poth. on Oblig. P. 4, c. 3, s. 4. 2. It is proper to distinguish two things in oaths;
1. The invocation by which the God of truth, who knows all things, is taken to witness.
2. The imprecation by which he is asked as a just and all-powerful being, to punish perjury.
Decisory oath in the civil law is understood an oath which one of the parties defers or refers back to the other, for the decision of the cause. It may be deferred in any kind of civil contest whatever, in questions of possession or of claim; in personal actions and in real. The plaintiff may defer the oath to the defendant, whenever he conceives he has not sufficient proof of the fact which is the foundation of his claim; and in like manner, the defendant may defer it to the plaintiff when he has not sufficient proof of his defense. The person to whom the oath is deferred, ought either to take it or refer it back, and if he will not do either, the cause should be decided against him.
A purgatory oath is one by which one destroys the presumptions which were against him, for he is then said to purge himself, when he removes the suspicions which were against him; as, when a man is in contempt for not attending court as a witness, he may purge himself of the contempt, by swearing to a fact which is an ample excuse. See Purgation. Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856.
Based on the above-quoted definitions, an “oath,” may be deemed a swearing, i.e., a cursing and binding of oneself. To curse and bind oneself is clearly the opposite of blessing and liberating oneself. It produces a condition of slavery and bondage rather than freedom and happiness. So swearing an oath is consigning oneself into obligation to the jurisdiction to which one swears the oath, such as to a government.
The IRS 1040 form serves as an example of a modern-day “Oath” to the government. The signature section of a 1040 bears the following text:
“Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, they are true, correct, and complete.”
The phrase “true, correct, and complete” is the commercial equivalent of the judicial oath for testifying on the witness stand: “I swear that the testimony…is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.” Once you sign a form with such a binding oath, the government takes you at your word that you have contracted to be bound to all of the terms and conditions of your oath, which in the case of a 1040 includes your claim to be a holder of public office in the private, bankrupt corporation, US Inc., and function in all matters thereafter as surety for the asset—the all-caps name—pledged to secure the bankruptcy, we’ll explain the “bankruptcy, all-caps name, and US Inc.” at the appropriate time. In any case, having signed such a form, if you thereafter cease signing those forms while continuing to receive income, you are charged with "willful failure to file," a crime of doing nothing when commanded to do something under the terms and conditions of the contract/nexus formed through your oath/bond.
We have placed ourselves as people, out of ignorance, into this precarious position by the oaths we’ve signed, but we can get out of it if we combine knowledge with action. First we need knowledge, specifically the type which will allow us to fully understand how they system itself was created, how it works currently, and where the exit is should you wish to become self-responsible.
To become Sovereign, self-responsible, is first and foremost a mental process of becoming conscious and then applying it to the various dimensional levels in which we live. The legal dimension is perhaps the most confusing and elusive, it has a long and complex history which must be charted, we must see where the "Authority" in the world has capacity to make a claim on our life under God, our bodies.
In order to understand the complexity of the current day situation we’ll begin with a journey through history. Once we truly comprehend what happened, is happening - then we can try to change our relationship to it should we wish to do so.
* Note: To overcome human law and be a free sovereign, we’ll need to invoke natural law as well as assert ourselves in the form of legal contracts, hence we’ll need to understand and master both mans law and natural laws so we may live in balance and hrmony between them, and with them. We’ll start with endeavoring to understand man’s law, beginning with it’s history and then examining it’s principles; once completed we can explore the subtle world of natural law (read the "Bodies" pages) and how to use it in conjunction with human law to free ourselves.
Read on.....