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

Abstract

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 cultural
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 foundation!
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 government
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 safeguard
the original UGB and R. de la Ferrière’s thought, Ferriz left in Exodus the deformed UGB and
created a new one.