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22 UNIVERSAL STATUTES
of the
UNIVERSAL GREAT BROTHERHOOD
Foundation Dr. Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière
and its vehicle THE MISSION OF THE AQUARIAN ORDER
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Statutes legally registered in each country
where a branch of the Institution exists.
ARTICLE 1.
THE UNIVERSAL GREAT BROTHERHOOD (U.G.B.), Dr. Serge Raynaud de la
Ferrière´s Foundation, and its vehicle the MISSION of the AQUARIAN
ORDER, is a civil and cultural organization that has the objective of
uniting Science, Art and Religion for an intellectual improvement and
a spiritual reeducation, by means of the coalition of all the sects,
associations, humanitarian, philosophical, scientific, artistic,
occult, religious and initiatic societies.
ARTICLE 2.
The goals of this Institution can be summarized as: to unite in a
whole people of whatever belief, nationality, sex and condition they
may be, who fight for the supremacy of the Spirit and who agree to
establish Peace in the heart of all the men in order to carry out a
Universal Fraternity in the world, represented at the present moment
by more than one hundred and fifty different movements, amalgamated
under the name of UNIVERSAL GREAT BROTHERHOOD.
ARTICLE 3.
The address of the Universal Great Brotherhood and its missional
vehicle, the Aquarian Order, is located in each country where it is
represented; the World headquarters is in Venezuela at: Calle Nueva
Agua Salud (from Guamito to Minerva) # 5, Caracas, VENEZUELA.
ARTICLE 4.
The Universal Great Brotherhood as a civil grouping, doesn't specify
a duration limit for its existence, since it will persist throughout
time until carrying out its goals.
ARTICLE 5.
The Universal Great Brotherhood and its vehicle the Mission of the
Aquarian Order is absolutely APOLITICAL and it doesn't belong in
particular to any secret sect or religion, neither is it a religion
nor a sect, but simply a Faculty of Synthetic Teaching, a Movement of
Reeducation, a Spiritual Order of Universal type.
ARTICLE 6.
With the purpose of fully carrying out the objectives and goals
pursued by the Foundation and in conformity with the articles 1 and 2
of the present statutes, the Universal Great Brotherhood intends to:
a) Found Schools of Wisdom and Schools of Initiation.
b) Establish Spiritual Colonies (Ashrams), Institutes of Improvement,
Retirements for Idealists and Sanctuaries for those disciples who are
preparing themselves to instruct the Humanity of the New Aquarian
Age.
c) Divide its teachings into two sections: an EXOTERIC one, relative
to the administration, organization and general board of the
Institution, and an ESOTERIC (occult) one, based on a documentation
of natural, philosophical and religious sciences that may prepare its
members for the initiatic studies.
d) The Schools, as well as the Colleges and the Colonies, will have
an internal regulation according to their activities, but subjected
to the spirit and the rules that the present statutes impose.
e) The Institution will maintain material and spiritual relationships
with all the associations of the same character that exist in the
world, but in no case will it be able to adhere to political
movements.
ARTICLE 7.
The Universal Great Brotherhood will be directed by its centre in
each country, by a Committee (called Study Center) whose Executive
Council will be composed of at least: a President, a Vice-president,
three Secretaries, a Treasurer and two Officials of Honor who will be
also the substitutes during the absence of latter. The three
secretaries and the Treasurer will exercise their functions during
one year, but they will be able to be reelected. Also, a Legal
Council will have voice and vote equally as well as an active
participation in all the deliberations of the Executive Council.
ARTICLE 8.
The Universal Great Brotherhood and its vehicle the Mission of the
Aquarian Order recognizes as its Spiritual Director and Lifelong
President the Very Venerable Master Doctor Serge Raynaud de la
Ferrière, Supreme Regent of the Institution who being its FIRST
AUTHORITY is responsible for the supreme surveillance of everything
in the Movement and each one of its activities in any place of the
world.
ARTICLE 9.
To fill in the posts of the Executive Council, the moral value, the
spiritual development and the cultural merit of the candidate will be
taken into account, without considering the person´s sex, race,
nationality, or belief.
ARTICLE 10.
The meetings of the Executive Council will take place every time the
interests of the Institution require it, and this will be considered
legally constituted with the attendance of a THIRD part of its
members plus ONE.
ARTICLE 11.
The superior decisions concerning matters and activities of the
Institution, will be taken by a Superior Council constituted legally
by the Executive Council with the presence of the Legal Consultant
(lawyer, notary) and the approval of the Committee of Honor
(constituted at least by THREE responsible members of honor).
This Superior Council (a kind of Tribunal of Honor) cannot
enact, unless in cases of urgency and in the impossibility of
consulting:
1. Either Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Supreme Master of the
Universal Great Brotherhood.
2. Or Its Manager who acts in his place and home.
3. Or the Administrative Centre [*]. In case of not being able
to contact these Centers of legal decisions, the Superior Council of
the Jurisdiction of a country, will make the best dicisions,
according to the common sense of the Committee.
ARTICLE 12.
The administrative meetings will be summoned in advance. These
meetings will be presided over by the President and, in his absence,
by the Vice-president. In each of these meetings, a record with the
indication of the names of the assisting members, the treated matter,
the deliberations and the decisions will be noted down. The records
will be signed by the assistants. Concerning the educational
meetings, public lectures, chats to groups, or messages given by an
Inspector-instructor, the records are optional; if a report is
issued, it will contain the treated matter, a summary of the lesson
for a catalog-index, a minute that points out the number of
listeners, and it will carry General Secretary's signature for the
files of the Section and the epistolary relationships with the other
sectors or branches of the Institution in different countries.
ARTICLE 13.
The President's duties (or Vice-president´s) are:
a) To preside over the meetings of administrative character as
well as the spiritual ones. To open the meeting.
b) To sign the correspondence presented by the secretaries:
c) To watch over the good march of the Sector and to make the
laws and the statutes of the Institution be respected.
d) To either maintain narrow contacts with the Venerable Great
Master or, in case this isn´t possible, with his representative, or
in his absence, with the Administrative Centre (Administrative
General Directory), for all the information that is demanded. To
receive and to transmit to the members, the orders of the Supreme
Regent, or to acknowledge receipt of the instructions that come from
the Hierarchy and, in the inverse sense, to take the suggestions of
the Jurisdiction and the behavior of the pupils to the Source.
e) To represent legally or extra-legally, with the performance
of a third of the Executive Council; or delegate his representation
to another person, every time the case requires it.
f) To control, administer and watch over the funds.
ARTICLE 14.
The secretary of records will be in charge of all the internal
matters of the Institution´s branch to which he or she is closely
linked. Editorship of warnings, publications and convocations; book
keeping with the inscription of the members, the records´
minutes.
ARTICLE 15.
The Treasurer will be responsible for the reception of the funds
pointed out in the article 20 of these statutes, they will integrate
the cashbook of the organization; he will also maintain updated
accounts and will provide the corresponding statements, every time
this be required of him. It is also the Treasurer who is generally in
charge of actively collecting financial means for the Institution (a
percentage of benefits from the organization of parties, artistic and
social meetings, etc.)
ARTICLE 16.
The Legal Council has the duty of informing to the Executive Council
on the juridical matters, as well as of representing it in all the
legal matters, and in those matters designated by the President. The
Juridical Council can be composed of several people (notaries,
lawyers), but it should be represented at least by a lawyer of the
Institution who will be inscribed in the School of Lawyers of the
city in which the Executive Council of the Jurisdiction or the Branch
of the Universal Great Brotherhood has its headquarters.
ARTICLE 17.
All the posts of the Universal Great Brotherhood are honorary and
exempt of any type of remuneration.
ARTICLE 18.
People who attend the public meetings, chats, conferences, or general
courses, are not considered as members, but only as candidates who
will be able to become Members, after a complete knowledge of the
Institution´s objectives. So, these people, generally call each other
as (but without obligation) "brothers" or "sisters", using this
expression in the spiritual
sense.
ARTICLE 19.
All member of the Mission of the Order of the Aquarius will receive a
means of identification, in order to be recognized as such, and due
to this fact they will be willing to recognize and to follow the
statutes and the following rules:
a) To extend the ideal of this Foundation and the objectives
pursued by the Universal Great Brotherhood by all possible
means.
b) To work firmly for the progress and the extension of the
Institution forming new members, and exposing the ideas of the
Initiatic Tradition and the Principles of a Universal Moral,
applicable to the Aquarian New Age.
c) To collaborate with good will and enthusiasm for the
realization of all the duties and works given to him or her.
d) To admit the Universal Fraternity and the Hierarchy of the
Teachers and, consequently, a spiritual and temporal board
represented by the Dignitaries of the Institution.
e) To attend the different meetings and, mainly, to the study
centers, in order to obtain the necessary knowledge for an initiatic
preparation.
f) To participate insofar as possible in the meditation groups
and in the disciplines required to progress toward the Path of the
Wisdom, or at least, to offer a daily prayer for the Peace of the
World, at the hours indicated by the geographical coordinates of
Venezuela (starting at 7 o'clock a.m. of Caracas, in the Spiritual
Headquarters of the Order).
ARTICLE 20.
The spiritual, cultural and scientific character of the Universal
Great Brotherhood and of the Mission of the Aquarian Order admits
only the following reception of funds, in order to satisfy the
expenses of the Institution:
a) Voluntary and generous donations from its members.
b) Other incomes that could take place, according to the
activities of the Institution, that were already partly mentioned in
the article 15 of the present
statutes.
ARTICLE 21.
Everything that has not been foreseen by the present Statutes, will
be solved by decision of the Executive Council of the Institution,
but only with the authorization of the Venerable Master of the
Universal Great Brotherhood, the Superior of the Mission of the
Aquarian Order, Dr. Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (President of the
International Federation of Scientific Societies) who is the only
Authority who may issue changes.
ARTICLE 22.
And last of the statutes. In case of the temporary or permanent
absence of the Great Maestre Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Supreme
Regent of the Institution, Subdirector Alfonso Gil Colmenares will
act as General Director of the U.G.B. and, he will assume the quality
of " Manager ", the total authority to represent the Venerable Great
Master and he will be invested by that fact, to enable the orders to
be executed immediately. Likewise, in case of the temporary or
permanent absence of the lifelong President´s Manager and General
Director, in the future the Great Master's representation will be
assumed successively by Mr. Juan VÃctor MejÃas and David Ferriz
O.
[*] EXPLANATION: The Supreme Council, accepting the written
dispositions of the Founder of the UNIVERSAL GREAT BROTHERHOOD (Dr.
S. R. de la Ferrière´s Foundation), has included in the Constituent
Records of the Institution the following points:
1º. The creation of the Administrative General Directory as is
presented in the Founder´s Letter Nº 42, which is mentioned but not
described in the Article 11, Item 3.
2º. The highest board of the Institution is the Supreme Council,
therefore the responsibilities pointed out in the Article 21, are
assumed by that Collegiate Board, which assumes the responsibility of
guiding the Movement after the retirement of the founder's last
manager. This decision is based on numerous orders that the Founder
left in His Letters among which we can read:
"The U.G.B. is directed by a SUPREME COUNCIL; that is to say, a
SUPERIOR ASSEMBLY, or a Collegiate Board; these twelve people are the
Head of the Movement, the Headquarters of the Institution, the Chief
of the Institution, the Central Power of the Order. His Letters I,
Tome III, p. 250.
"However, in case the General President-director of the " U.G.B " is
not able, for some reason, to assume his functions, there is a "
Manager " to assume the title of " Subdirector ", but it is natural
that if the MAESTRE R. de la Ferrière disappears, there is no
necessity of having a " Manager " and the Supreme Council remains as
the only Authority." His Letters, I Tome III, p. 251.
At the present time the maximum board and head of the Institution is
the Supreme Council with World Headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela.
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