Pamathalaan

Pamathalaan is about a God-centered governance and a spiritual leadership that was rooted in an ancestral folk religious belief. Its goals moves towards rereading, reinterpretng, and rewriting laws that is for freedom, equality, justice, and unity. The term “Pamathalaan” was a combination of differerent words. According to Marius Diaz, a former SVD seminarian, the term came from “Pamahalaan” (Government),  “Thala” (after Bathala, Native God) and, “Taal” (Indigenous). These terms were engange into one and became “Pamathalaan” that aims to capture the Kapatiran’s ancestral and heroic heritage. It was only later discovered the term “mathal” which means model for Arabic and “laan” which means destined from Dr. Jose Rizal’s pseudonym “Laong laan”. The latter was contributed by Prof. Ma. Milagros C. Laurel from University of the Philippines.

            The five units of meaning taken together. Now, the term “Pamatalaan” means “a sacred model government based on ancestral or native moorings destined in our history”. For the Kapatiran and Katipunan descendants, this destiny is clear. It is for the Philippines to become a light to the world when worthy sons and daughters recover the unity of the spiritual and material; a unity that manifests itself in the great belief that saints are heroes and heroes are saints and for that reason, love of God, love of country, love of fellow men, and love of nature are not hierarchical and disparate.

            The group who founded it believe in what they call a spiritual government or govierno spiritual. They denoted it as Leadership by Grace, Citizen by Grace.

            Pamamathala affirms that a community or constituency that strives to purify itself will be enlightened and committed, thus giving birth to an ideal leadership. It enshrines the many poor and oppressed; the displaced and disempowered. Hence to buy the votes of the poor or use force is to desecrate the very essence of PAMATHALAAN. Every time a leader is corrupt, that leader kills because he/she deprives his/her constituents of what is rightfully theirs. Pamathalaan aims to give lights to our nation. It seeks to heal the wounds inflicted on the legacy of our ancestors and heroes. It hopes to honour the scattered Katipunan descendants in every barangay, town, municipality, city, and province. It prays for individual and collective courage so that people may be part of the prophetic process for our country to be the light of the world. It works to stimulate artistic and consensual energies to create community symbols of DAMBANA NG BAYAN. And it fulfills the national Katipunan call for purification, enlightenment, and commitment through the created community symbols of DAMBANA NG BAYAN: PAMATHALAAN is to the DAMBANA NG BAYAN as kaloob is to patotoo.

            Following the Katipunan model, the Kapatiran strives to practice a three-fold process of purification, enlightenment, and commitment that aims to recover the ancestral meanings and heroic values associated with Spiritual Government or Govierno Espiritual, unfortunately tainted or darkened by modern education and greed. And most importantly, the very main purpose of this kapatiran is let this light as model nation light through the world.