Introduction:

 Archetypes are realities that are found throughout existence as being the same. They are not things which only apply to situations or things that an individual has sympathy with. One such archetype is that everything exists already in the world of spirit. What we see as the material world are manifestations of spirit.

Between these two realities we have a third one and this is that the human being has been tasked with mediating the transformation of the material through the power that exists in the spirit.

This view is archetypal.

Let us, as human beings, take a look at how this works in daily life on earth.

 The ‘idea’ Football exists. It has a constitution and rules that form the idea into the detail on earth. The written rules that follow the idea move from conscious soul to conscious soul once they are taken in from the written rules. This is the mediation process. This is how it comes about that football is played in the same way around the world. This example is drawing our attention to the power of rules and how they move from the inner conceived rule to the practice in the outer world.

The spiritual science at work here is also at work in any other constitutions or set of rules. One can see this in National Constitutions. The archetypes contained within the constitutions lead to what the country becomes through its people. We must be attentive to this reality in our efforts to formulate a Living Constitution for anything.

Secondly, as people recognising archetypes as pre-existent, we need to understand the archetype behind how to bring spiritual realities down to earth. We should build this into the way we go about it conceiving the constitution. (In football circles they are not aware of the spiritual science behind their existence.) For us there exists a spiritual world and a physical world. In the individual the soul mediates between the two during earthly life. Humanity, as a whole however, mediates between the two on a macro level. Football is an idea that has been mediated to appear on earth through many people around the globe. A Living Constitution would however allow more to come to earth as it would draw people into its powerful working of spirit where they would also themselves become. Individual becoming would feed initiative becoming too.

Thirdly, if we hold the archetype above before us inwardly, we work with spiritual science, not individuals, for the initiative. We become a community around spiritual science rather than one around social relationships. It is the latter that leads to involution/contortions.

Fourthly, we can today bring all the above into harmonious existence between heaven and earth because we can be conscious of the process.

What the future should reveal if we get a Living Constitution right:

In 100 years from now when none of us are around any longer one would want to see the outcomes of a Living Constitution. They might look like this:

1.  The earthly structure would be in place and managed. It would be, in form and function, serving the idea which is reaching out to us from the spirit. It might have such a physical existence in more places around the world that are offshoots of the centre. 

2. The intention of mediating this form on earth and the idea in the spirit into a relationship would have placed many members in a much better position in their own development because of their own unbiased inner activity of practicing Monism in looking at the idea and then the physical and then back again from a servanthood perspective. Moreso, the individual social conduct that is demanded inwardly when one serves archetypes, will enable the clear revealing of the initial idea of itself and it will link better to the earthly form and function. All three elements will develop and evolve because they all need each other as anything threefold does. Threefolding requires three distinct elements that stay independent but in service of a higher purpose. 

3. The above two points give us a glimpse into what the initiative itself will look like and a feeling of the empowered people involved in it. 

4. The greater societal order will receive from this a sweeter and purer aroma that would be carried into societal life through personal clarity of spiritual science because the individuals are being inwardly oriented to the archetypes and voluntarily serving these. This inner pain and suffering will yield inner capacity to serve higher ideals.

Some more detailed examples could be: 

• Economy would be working intensely with the Liberty sphere because they would have discovered that all its problems are created and solved only by the inner nature of human beings. Waste, abuse of nature and people, will have been shown a very clear, viable and moral direction that people will be looking to. Good, but struggling organisations of today will be flourishing because they will get to the above sooner out of freedom rather than necessity.
• Liberty organisations will have seen that their function is not to enjoy and criticise but to support with competence from spiritual scientific and maybe religious infusion with this.
• Votes would be taken more seriously by individuals of the time. They would be focussed on demanding that Government provide the infrastructure and law but as determined by everyone and only in order to facilitate their wishes, not to tell them what their initiatives should be. 

5. Many more people on earth will be developing in ordinary life because there will be more insight generally into the fact that daily life is just what we need to challenge ourselves to our own inner growth. The correctness of spiritual science as a science will facilitate this much more generally because people will get to see the archetypes behind the human being through simple application of truths in small, logical progressions. This notion itself will awaken the soul to its own true being.

How we go about mediating this future:

We have to be able to see the end goal described above, from above. We must all have perspective so that we are able to serve it and not be in it. The initiative that we place before us must be served. Initiatives have earthly possessions also. They have members and have the current aroma of all this. We now need to align ourselves to archetypes and serve them. In so doing, we become, individually and as a force for Humankind.

Any serving of an archetype in complete selflessness is socially hygienic. The moment we allow ourselves, because it is me, to deviate from the archetype, we are acting a-socially. A-social conduct will not be welcome going forward because it will not get us the future that we envisage. Competent and social people will be at the core of our being.

Reports and reflections on the wellbeing of the initiative will direct their attention to the three activities and their interrelationship in relation to the serving notion of its original intention.

Suggested next steps:

When writing anything into a draft constitution, one should recognise the concepts raised above. 

• This means that it must see the spiritual, the earthly and the mediation role of the human being.
• It must take account of the need for competent people and that this must be defined and made practical.
• It must recognise the active participation of the members in the mediation between spirit and earthly.
• It is the role of the elected people to facilitate this not to do it all themselves and so exclude the input and role of those it is there to serve.
• It is also the role of the elected people to set and hold to constitutional archetypes where this becomes necessary.

 In closing, when wishing to ‘incarnate’ anything new, the big picture as well as the core elements of the whole, need to be independently dealt with from the same principles.