The principles in this Constitution draw from wisdom traditions spanning thousands of years. These references are offered as roots, not proof-texts — as part of an ongoing conversation between traditions, not the final word of any single one.
On the Dignity of Persons
1 Corinthians 3:16"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit lives in you?"
Romans 8:15-16"You received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God."
Psalm 82:6"I said, you are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High."
John 17:21-23"That they may all be one... I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one."
2 Peter 1:4"Through these you may participate in the divine nature."
Galatians 2:20"It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me."
Colossians 1:27"Christ in you, the hope of glory."
On the Proving Ground
Philippians 2:5-8"Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself..."
James 1:2-4"The testing of your faith produces perseverance."
Romans 8:19-22"The whole creation groans... waiting for the children of God to be revealed."
On Liberation
Luke 4:18"He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners... to set the oppressed free."
Galatians 5:1"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free."
John 16:13"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth."
On Awakening and Effectiveness
Revelation 3:15-16"Because you are lukewarm, I will vomit you out of my mouth."
John 14:12"Greater works than these will he do."
Luke 17:21"The kingdom of God is within you."
James 2:17"Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
On the Prohibition of Fear
2 Timothy 1:7"God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind."
1 John 4:18"Perfect love casts out fear."
John 3:17"God did not send his Son to condemn the world, but to save it."
Romans 2:4"The goodness of God leads you to repentance."
1 Peter 3:15"With gentleness and reverence."
1 Corinthians 13:1"If I have not love, I am nothing."
On Stewardship of Creation
Genesis 2:15"To tend (abad — serve) and keep (shamar — guard) it."
Proverbs 12:10"A righteous man regards the life of his animal."
Psalm 145:9"The Lord has compassion on all He has made."
Genesis 9:9-10God's covenant made with "every living creature."
Isaiah 11:6-9"They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain."
Ecclesiastes 3:19"The fate of humans and animals is the same; they all have the same breath."
Other Traditions
Alan Watts"On Being God" (1971) — kenosis as the self-emptying of the divine into creation.
Eastern MysticismAtman as Brahman — the divine self within as identical with ultimate reality.
Indigenous WisdomLand, creature, and human as interconnected relatives in a web of reciprocal obligation.
The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)The covenant tradition — sovereignty grounded in the consent of the people and the service of the leader to the led.