The new ethos of the new culture is the conscious, rational, apprehension of ourselves, as human beings dependent upon and evolved from Nature, who possess the ability to evolve further if we uphold and follow those attributes, those qualities, which make us human and which express our connection to Nature and the cosmos beyond.
 

This apprehension is the result of thousands of years of conscious evolution - the culmination of the insight, the knowledge, achieved by all the previous cultures and civilizations which have existed on this planet. It is the essence of all the great, numinous, literature, all the great, numinous, music, all the great numinous, Art, all the great, numinous, philosophy, all the great, numinous, religion, that has been produced, that has evolved, in the past five thousand years.

The new culture would seek to build upon these foundations - to go beyond them in a natural way, and so enable us, as human beings, to develope ourselves. [ See, for example, and in respect to Art,  A New and Numinous Art .]
 

Honour, Reason, the Pursuit of Knowledge, reverence for Nature, and Duty to the Community, express the essence of this new ethos, which is a new Way of Living: a new religious attitude.
 
 

The Folk Religion

The fundamental tenets, or principles, of this way of life are:

1) That there exists a supra-human Being - called the Cosmic Being - and that this Cosmic Being creates, or can create, Order from Chaos. Order is the very life of this Being. Order itself is a new, a better, more evolved, or more excellent, arrangement of things.
 

2) That organic life itself is an expression, or manifestation, of the Order which this Cosmic Being creates, and is thus an expression of the life, the spirit, of this Being.
 

3) That change is a natural part of the evolution of Order from Chaos and that this, for organic life, involves the organic process of birth-life-death-renewal.
 

4) That death is not the final end of life, but the beginning of further change, a renewal of the cosmic order itself.
 

5) That what we call Nature is the Cosmic Being - the Order created by this Being - made manifest on this planet we call Earth. The creative force, or energy, which is present in Nature, and which produces, and causes changes in, living things - including ourselves - is this Cosmic Being, living and evolving, that is, creating more Order.
 

6) That we, as individuals, are this Cosmic Being - the very cosmos itself - made manifest. We sentient (that is, conscious and aware) beings are the striving of the Cosmic Being for more cosmic Order.
 

7) That our evolution, as human beings, is an increase in the cosmic Order and expresses the purpose, the life, or the will of the Cosmic Being. Thus the striving, or struggle, for order (or excellence) - for evolution toward higher forms - here on this planet, is how the Cosmic Being works on this planet of ours, and is thus natural and necessary, for without it, there would be no order and no evolution toward higher forms.
 

8) That the Cosmic Being exists, or functions, in us through honour (or fairness), through curiosity (or reason) and through striving (or the triumph of individual will).

Thus, an honourable individual is someone who is doing the will, or accomplishing the work, of this divine Cosmic Being.
 

9) That culture and excellence of individual character express the will of this divine Being - of this Being working through Nature to bring about more Order, more diversity and more difference through evolution.

Thus, culture is one way in which this Cosmic Being is manifest to us, as human beings on this planet of ours. Culture thus expresses the essence of our humanity - of what makes us human. To preserve, and to further evolve, each culture - and to seek to allow these cultures to change - is to act in accord with the will, the purpose, of the divine creator, while to undermine or seek to destroy culture and cultural difference and diversity, is to act against the will of the divine creator. Each unique culture can and should evolve, according to its own unique nature: each unique culture should have the freedom to develop of itself.
 

10) That the human race has been given a special mission by the Cosmic Being who has endowed this species, through Nature and through evolution, with a character which is representative of the divine Being itself.

This character is expressed in our honour, curiosity and striving, and is made manifest by the civilization which humans create when they live according to their divine nature.

The unique and special Destiny of the human species is to bring the divine light of diverse civilizations into the world, and to spread this light - the honour and the reason of civilization - out into the cosmos itself by venturing forth to explore and colonize the star-systems of the cosmos.