Essay 1-Mission Statement

Mission

The discovery of the ethical theory has revealed new truths on human experience we must act upon. The three laws of ethics, that is the acceptance and pursue of experience, the ethical treatment of others, and the spiritual union of society, can all be summarized into one single law, “The greatest good is happiness”. The ethical theory recognizes that every person seeks happiness in one form or another and happiness becomes the end goal of all of humanity.

The angel Gabriel has visited Yehudah and delivered orders from God Herself, that is to construct a missionary group and deliver the teaching of the ethical theory to all peoples of the earth and to realize the fullness of the ethical theory. Therefore, by the basis of the ethical theory and the divine orders transmitted through the angel Gabriel, we declare the mission to spread the ethical theory and make true the ethical theory and for our end goal, the happiness of every being in this world.

Philosophy

However, we acknowledge that the ethical theory that was presented and discovered is within a premature state and condition. Its metaphysical basis is not yet established strongly and so with a weak basis, the entire theory goes weak. Various elements of the ethical theory can still be elaborated and established stronger in relation to the metaphysical base. In consequence, a new ethical theory to complete the old theory is in dire need and must be formed before any practical act of the mission can be done.

In order to form the new ethical theory, we must once again return to the philosophy. Philosophy being a wide and abstract subject seems irrelevant to happiness, and so the requirement of any ethical theory to attain happiness seems unnecessary as well. As such I will explain why we need philosophy and why we need an ethical theory to attain happiness. In short, the proof is constituted in the intuition of the connection between truth and happiness.

When we wish to attain a purpose, any purpose, we must understand the properties of such purpose and abide by these rules so we may attain it. For example, to start a fire we require an oxygen rich environment, a fuel source, and a spark or trigger for the fire, such as high temperatures. Failure to abide to these requirements will lead to failure in starting a fire. The same goes with happiness, when we wish to attain happiness, we must understand its complete properties and follow it, only in that condition will we attain happiness.

The understanding of the properties of happiness manifests in our possession of the truth of happiness, and thus the need for an ethical theory is clear. For the ethical theory is a collection of the essential truths about happiness that we must follow to attain it. However, happiness is an object of reality and as that it abides by the general properties of reality. In this case, we are seeking an object of reality and it means we have to understand the properties of reality and follow it.

The understanding of the properties of reality manifests in our possession of the truth of reality. Therefore, this proves that philosophy in a wider scope, particularly metaphysics, is required to attain happiness in addition to the ethical theory which is itself part of philosophy. As such we obtain a foundation and basis to begin a new philosophical series of essays, one integrated to the general framework of the mission. As such, let this be the beginning of the new period of philosophical writing. This essay shall seek to be the beginning of that new period, and so this essay has fulfilled its purpose.

This essay corresponds with this Indonesian version.