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Record W4410382582 · doi:10.47054/rdc256683s

SERGE RAYNAUD DE LA FERRIÈRE’S DOCTRINE READJUSTMENT: THE UGB AND THEOCRACY

2025· article· en· W4410382582 on OpenAlexaff
Rita Santillán

Bibliographic record

VenueReligious dialogue and cooperation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEuropean Political History Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTheocracyDoctrinePhilosophyPolitical scienceTheologyIslam

Abstract

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Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (1916-1962) left his native France to the Americas.He knew the predominance of America for the New Age of Aquarius that was about to begin. In 1948 he founded the Great Universal Brotherhood (UGB) in Caracas, Venezuela, a worldwide and cultur-al institution to re-educate humanity.After traveling the five continents, he returned to Europe in 1953.Right after he re-established communication with his disciples in America, he noted that his work and literature was being deformed. He even said that he couldn’t recognize his own founda-tion! Consequently, he began readjusting his work and wrote most part of his extensive literature. In this period, Ferriz, his fourth and last emblematic disciple appeared.He translated under his supervision some of his most important texts, and among other tasks he asked him to write his books’prologue, exegesis and be his Literature’s Coordinator.In the context of the New Age, R. de la Ferrière discusses theocracy and mentioned some precursor signs for its advent.These are briefly discussed in this essay.They were misinterpreted by his other emblematic disciples – contrary to his idea of a government of wise people. They believed in absolute authority and autocratic govern-ment that in various instances they applied it in the UGB. Ferriz asserts that this was probably the seed that caused their failure to follow R. de la Ferrière’s Readjustment and created an ideological and doctrinaire difference between their beliefs and R. de la Ferrière’s thought. In 1990, to safe-guard the original UGB and R. de la Ferrière’s thought, Ferriz left in Exodus the deformed UGB and created a new one.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.012
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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