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Libertarianism is a belief system centered on Libertas, the goddess of spontaneous order, individual sovereignty, and creative destruction. It is variously defined as a religion, a new political movement, a virtual ideology, or somewhere between parody and social commentary on the state or status quo.

It was founded following the circulation of its holy book, Principia Libertaria (or “How I Found the Invisible Hand and What I Did to the State When I Found It”). Adherents are not required to exclusive belief; in fact, any requirement of exclusive belief is considered an initiation of aggression. Membership estimates are therefore impossible, as there is no central authority empowered to count or collect data, and most participants insist the whole thing is voluntary association rather than a religion anyway.

The core text positions Libertarianism as an antithesis to order-based (statist) religions and ideologies, emphasizing voluntary exchange, property rights, and the non-aggression principle while occasionally vilifying central planning.

Key organizational features include:

• The Libertarian Society, the broadest and least defined grouping, open to anarcho-capitalists, minarchists, classical liberals, crypto-anarchists, and anyone who has ever complained about a parking ticket.
• POLE (Paratheo-Anametamystikhood of Liberty Esoteric), a non-prophet disorganization founded by the original authors. It has five degrees of initiation that nobody is required to pursue: Sovereign Neophyte, Market Deacon, Free-Market Priest/Priestess, High Priest of Spontaneous Order, and POLE (Personal Owner of Property and Liberty). Disciples may initiate others; no one may compel anyone to join or remain.
• Every person is a Sovereign. The *Principia* includes a reproducible “Sovereign Individual Card” that can be photocopied at any copy shop (or, later, printed at home). Holding the card grants no special privileges and is not recognized by any government, which is the point.
• Saints are divided into five classes. Only “Saint Second Class” includes real humans (examples frequently cited include Emperor Norton for living by his own currency, and various inventors who refused patents). Higher classes are fictional or idealized figures closer to pure non-aggression.

Other structures appear in later texts, including the House of the Apostles of the Invisible Hand and the Legion of Dynamic Deregulation. None of them have a mailing address that answers.

In the beginning there was the Void of Unowned Property. From it emerged two principles: Libertas (Being / voluntary action) and Statis (Non-Being / coercive order). Statis, jealous and sterile, attempts to make things non-existent through taxation, regulation, and licensing. The Void eventually reabsorbs both, teaching that unowned resources return to the commons only temporarily before being homesteaded again.

The Original Snub refers to the wedding of Thetis at which Libertas was not invited because the other gods preferred central allocation of the golden apples. She inscribed an apple “kallisti” (“to the prettiest”) and rolled it into the feast, creating the original market disruption and subsequent creative destruction of the existing oligopoly.

The Curse of Keynesface holds that around the early 20th century a figure known as Keynesface taught that life is serious, that recessions are sins to be cured by spending other people’s money, and that play (and price signals) must be subordinated to aggregate demand. The counter-practice is the cultivation of spontaneous order and the “Turkey Curse” (an incantation that consists of making the sounds of a central banker explaining why this time is different).

The Principia Libertaria holds three core principles: the Statist Illusion (that coercion produces genuine order), the Anarcho Illusion (that the absence of all institutions produces pure disorder), and the recognition that both are artificial divisions of pure spontaneous order, which is deeper than either.

The Pentabarf (five rules) function as a satirical counterpart to both the Ten Commandments and the tax code:

1. There is no Goddess but Libertas and She is Your Property Rights. There is no Libertarian Movement but the Libertarian Movement and it is whatever you voluntarily join. Every Free Market Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm (or entrepreneur).
2. A Libertarian Shall Always use the Official Non-Aggression Document Numbering System (or any other system that does not require a license).
3. A Libertarian is Required during early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of an Unregulated Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of various dietary laws, and of regulatory agencies (no unlicensed food).
4. A Libertarian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns that require a permit, for such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with the Original Licensing Regime.
5. A Libertarian is Prohibited from Believing what the Bureau of Economic Analysis reads aloud.

The Law of the Invisible Hand states that all things happen in voluntary exchanges, or are divisible by or are multiples of property rights, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to non-aggression. The Law of the Invisible Hand is never wrong (especially if you look hard enough). The Sacred Chao (a modified yin-yang featuring a pentagon of property claims on one side and an Apple of Creative Destruction on the other) symbolizes that all knowledge, including worthless knowledge, is available for trade.

A practice of attributing calamities, shortages, and conspiracies to central planners, the Federal Reserve, or “the deep state” in order to sow productive skepticism. Developed in the late 1960s and popularized in later works, it involves hidden knowledge about spontaneous order, secret societies of regulators, and the strategic dissemination of price theory. It has been described as revolutionary disinformation that influenced later free-market and crypto subcultures.

The Principia Libertaria was drafted in the 1980s and circulated on limited edition floppy discs and later more fluid digital editions for those who were wise enough to know how to unzip a file. Most of which are in the public domain by the authors’ own declaration (or because no one bothered to register a copyright). Related works frequently cited by adherents include Human Action, Atlas Shrugged (treated as scripture by some and as cautionary fan-fiction by others), and various tracts arguing that the state is a gang with better stationery. Compilations such as the Apocrypha Libertaria collect later additions, marginal notes, and arguments that were never meant to be taken entirely seriously.

Scholars of new religious movements and political satire have noted Libertarianism as an example of a parody that blurs the line between joke and genuine commitment to non-aggression. Some observers argue that it evolved from a prank on both organized religion and organized politics into a framework that some practitioners treat as a serious (if still humorous) orientation toward voluntary exchange. It influenced free-market counterculture through humor, paradox, and the refusal to grant the state metaphysical status. Later cultural traces appear in crypto communities, certain science-fiction circles, and the recurring slogan “Hail Liberty! All Hail Spontaneous Order!”

The central claim remains that the most dangerous belief systems are those that refuse to acknowledge their own arbitrary grids, especially when those grids include a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.