Helian Manifesto
Tradition / belief The Helian Manifesto (working title The Long Light: A Builder's Common Sense for the Age of Thinking Machines) is a draft movement manifesto prepared for Anthony Perlas, Founder of the Helian Way, on 12–13 October 2026.
Summary
- Life is rare: life must be carried outward before the Sun brightens. The making of a mind (superintelligence) is called a sacred work: a task to be worthy of, not a god to obey.
- Decentralized ownership: members co-own compute, tools, factories, farms and energy through legal cooperatives. Money buys a share, never a voice.
- Seven Tenets: Life first · Build, don't beg · Own the stack · Money buys a share, never a voice · Everything in the open · Kings who love their people · Make minds well.
- Tenet 6, Kings who love their people: Kings drive the future because they love their people. The servant-king leads from the front, protects and provides for his people, and answers for their good, as Rex Tridentinus, Phaethon, leads the Helian Way. (This replaced the earlier draft tenet "No kings" on 13 October 2026.)
- Voluntary Hearths (tribes of 10–150), a weekly Forge Night, a contribution Ladder, and a first-90-days plan.
- The quarrel is with concentration and monopoly, never with a people.
Research method
The draft was built with a D.A.R.E. analysis (Decompose, Audit assumptions, Recombine, Experiment) of founding texts of mass movements: Marx & Engels' Communist Manifesto, Lenin's What Is To Be Done?, Paine's Common Sense, the US Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, Mazzini, Fichte, Marinetti's Futurist manifestos, Ford, Rockefeller, and religious texts (Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Analects, Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada). Each was profiled for its promise, enemy, rituals, lifestyle, organization, reasons for spreading, and human cost.
Review (Four Horsemen)
A four-seat stress test was prepared: ChatGPT #1 (economist), ChatGPT #2 (lawyer and cult-dynamics red team), Claude / Fable Max (ethicist and AI-safety), and Grok Heavy (contrarian builder). As of 13 October 2026 the seat prompts exist, but no seat answers have been recorded.
Relation to doctrine
See Phaethon (Helian Way) and Ten Jumps for the Founder's statement of doctrine of 13 October 2026.