Chapter VI (Mausochapeleums) P1
As of the year 2000, 1% of the world’s adults owned 40% of all its assets, and as of 2007 there were over 9.5million millionaires on the planet with the number continuing to increase rapidly. We are already in the midst of the creation of a new class of super wealthy individuals. Each town, each city, each region will have, and is getting its share of these new entrepreneurs, these figures who are looked up to by their surrounding communities as examples to be envied, emulated, and revered. Whilst this committee lauds the achievements of our brethren in the clergy with helping these individuals to partake in Christian Philanthropy for the poor, we would also like to bring about a communion of our edificatory message, with the prestige and glamour which makes contemporary man -in all his mundane normalcy- gaze with such awe at the exuberance of these personalities. We believe that this can be brought about by appealing to the instinct -especially strong in men of power- to leave in perpetuity a concrete legacy. The range of options for the contemporary man of great wealth is relatively limited in comparison to the past. The construction of monumental mausoleums is both condemned by us and frowned upon by society, and so the most common outlet for large commemorative gestures is in the form of gifts to cultural institutions of all colours and hues. In combining their wealth with the furtherment of an institution which supposedly culturally uplifts the community, they gain a permanent legacy which is socially acceptable. We propose to allocate proprietary chapels to significant individuals in order that they may commemorate themselves, contribute to the splendour of the church, and aid in the uplifting of its congregation in a socially exciting and acceptable manner. We shall take back the leading figures of our society in both their lives and their deaths. As well as entomb individuals, each of these chapels must also venerate, and explicitly represent the life and death of a saint, the choice of which must be made in consultation with the church fathers, in order that the chapels of any given church together convey an agreed, instructional theme. A fund must be allocated so that the requisite services may be performed annually at the altar of the chapel.
We propose the instatement of Mausochapeleums
