Omnia Sub Sole

All under the sun

A cloister of study and research devoted to geodesy and to the observation of the sky at its successive layers of altitude, of the Sun and of the Moon, and to the measurement of time; to cosmogony and natural theology; and to the models of human society.

A philanthropic non-profit foundation in the course of incorporation. Cartagena de Indias, Republic of Colombia.

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Summary

Nature

A philanthropic non-profit foundation, in the course of incorporation, domiciled in Cartagena de Indias.

Object

To erect a cloister of brick and stone, furnished with a library, an archive and a museum, for the study of the shape of the Earth, of the sky, of the Sun, of the Moon and of the measurement of time, of the origin of the world and of the foundations of a dignified common life.

Seat

At present, an office in Bocagrande, by prior appointment. At a later stage, a property of its own twenty minutes from Cartagena de Indias, where the cloister will be erected.

Call for founders

Ten persons who sign a letter of commitment for the incorporation of the Foundation. Participation is subject to no payment and confers no ownership: whoever concurs, founds.

Preamble

We, who concur in the incorporation of the Omnia Sub Sole Foundation,

Considering that war, famine, insecurity and intolerance continue to determine the existence of millions of human beings, and that no generation has to date succeeded in overcoming them;

Considering that the world our children are to inherit is decided by the works of the present, and that it cannot continue to be built upon force, greed and forgetfulness;

Recognising that the human being is capable of the best and of the worst, and that the institutions that surround him determine in large measure which of those two capacities prevails;

Convinced that to know the place we inhabit, the origin of all that exists and the causes of our ills constitutes the first step, and the most arduous, towards a dignified common life;

Persuaded that the pursuit of truth, even where only a part of it is attained, constitutes a duty of every human being and of every generation, and determined that every step, however modest, shall count and be recorded;

Resolved to erect a solid work, of brick and stone, of archive and of study, that shall outlive those who found it and serve those who succeed them;

Do hereby establish this Foundation as a cloister of study and research in the service of humanity, without owners, without an imposed creed and without party allegiance, and call upon all who share this purpose to join it with their time, their knowledge or their means.

Purpose and permanence

The institutions that endure are not born of a subscription or of a campaign. They are born of a small number of persons who, in uncertain times, resolve to erect something destined to outlive them. Thus were built the libraries, the observatories and the cloisters that still stand today: with stone and brick, with patience and with a few names entered in the founding deed.

Omnia Sub Sole offers neither financial return nor ownership. It offers permanence and purpose: a solid building of brick and stone conceived to endure for centuries, an archive that safeguards the work of the members of the cloister, and an entity without owners, whose assets may be neither alienated nor divided. Whoever concurs at this stage acquires nothing: they found an institution, and bequeath to their own a place made to endure.

Premises of its own

A permanent seat for a labour at present dispersed: a library, an archive and study rooms with a fixed address.

Entry in the deed

The first signatories are recorded as founding members in the deed of incorporation, a public and permanent document.

Building, not running costs

Contributions are applied to foundations, walls and vaults. Every section built is recorded with the name of whoever made it possible.

Publication and preservation

Studies are published under their author’s name, submitted to internal review and kept in the Foundation’s archive.

A voice in governance

One member of the cloister, one vote, irrespective of the sum contributed. Decision-making power cannot be purchased.

Use of the premises

Access to the library, to the working days and to the field programmes. At a later stage, residence for those who have completed a year of collaboration.

Express exclusions

  • No financial return and no share in the assets of the entity.
  • No title to the property, the building or the archive.
  • No place of residence in exchange for money.
  • No right of veto over what is studied or published.
  • Outside the Republic of Colombia, contributions confer no entitlement to tax relief.

The Foundation has not been incorporated and receives no financial contributions. Those who wish to concur may register and, should they see fit, sign a letter of commitment, without any payment.

Nature and aims

Omnia Sub Sole is a non-profit foundation in the course of incorporation. Its object is to erect and maintain, in the environs of Cartagena de Indias, a cloister of study and research, furnished with an archive and a library and conceived to endure.

Its name, ‘all under the sun’, expresses the scope of its work: nothing that exists lies outside its field of study. Its motto, Individui pro veritate, expresses its method: free individuals in the service of truth.

The Foundation has no owners. Whatever it receives or builds — the property, the building and the archive — shall form part of the assets of the entity, which may not be distributed among individuals. In the event of dissolution, the assets shall be transferred to another non-profit entity of like purposes.

Lines of research

The work of the cloister follows a deliberate order: first, the place we inhabit; secondly, its origin; and, upon that basis, the manner in which human beings live together, with the declared purpose that the next generation should receive a better world than the one received.

Geodesy and observation of the sky

A critical review of the prevailing model of the shape and dimensions of the Earth and of the measurements on which it rests. The Foundation proceeds from one principle: no model is to be accepted without independent verification; and it considers that the prevailing model presents discrepancies with direct observation that merit rigorous and independent examination. The study draws upon historical cartography, ancient sources, observation of the sky at its successive layers of altitude, of the Sun, of the Moon and of the weather, and field measurement; it comprises the measurement of time and the calendars derived from those cycles; and it likewise considers the models that contemporary science does not accept. Findings are published with their data and their sources, whatever their conclusion.

Cosmogony and natural theology

The study of the origin of the world and of its Creator through the creation accounts of the various cultures, ancient texts and philosophy. It constitutes a line of research, not a confession of faith: the Foundation is not a church and requires adherence to no creed.

Civilisation and society

An analysis of the human condition and of the causes of the great ills of history — war, famine, insecurity, racism and intolerance — together with the comparative study of the models of social organisation. The aim is not confined to diagnosis: it comprises the improvement of the present model and the proposal of a more just and more lasting model of common life, directed at the betterment of the human being and of the world that generations to come are to receive.

Programmes in civilisation and society

The third line of research is pursued through four programmes, ordered from the structural to the human. Each programme examines documented facts, publishes its findings in study papers and refrains from asserting whatever cannot be attested. The Foundation undertakes them with one conviction: the state of the world demands more than diagnoses; it demands solid foundations upon which to build.

I. World order and institutions

An examination of the structures that have governed the world since 1945: the United Nations system and its agencies; the economic institutions — the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Bank for International Settlements and the central banks; alliances and blocs; and non-state power. In respect of each institution five questions are answered, always in the same order: who created it and to what end, who decides within it, who funds it, what it has achieved and where it has failed, and what reforms have been proposed.

Modules: an atlas of the institutions of the world; a register of public functions exercised by private bodies; the banking system and the creation of money; corruption documented through judgments and audit reports.

II. War, peace and borders

A study of the causes of war and of the conditions that have sustained periods of peace, through the comparative examination of conflicts and of the treaties that brought them to an end. It comprises the contemporary regime of passports and visas, generalised after the First World War, and the arguments, on either side, concerning the freedom of movement of persons.

Modules: causes of war; conditions of peace; borders, passports and visas; migration and its documented effects.

III. Inequality and distribution

An examination of inequality among persons and among continents: debt, the trade in raw materials, famine and access to water. The programme studies which forms of redistribution and of aid have verifiably improved the lives of the poorest, which have failed, and for what reasons.

Modules: redistribution and aid; balance among continents; sovereign debt; famine, water and food security.

IV. Human nature and society

A study of the conditions that incline the human being towards cruelty and greed or towards generosity and mutual aid, in the light of history, of the available evidence and of the moral traditions. It comprises racism and intolerance, with Cartagena de Indias and San Basilio de Palenque as cases of study; the communities that have endured for centuries and the rules that sustained them; and the ethics of wealth in the various traditions.

Modules: conditions of cruelty and of kindness; racism and intolerance; enduring communities; the ethics of wealth and of the duty to give.

Rules of the programmes

  • Documented facts. Only what is attested by founding charters, budgets, minutes, judgments and audit reports is asserted. On undocumented intentions, the cloister makes no pronouncement.
  • Legal precision. Under investigation, charged and convicted are not equivalent terms. No name is published without prior legal review.
  • Description before proposal. Each programme first publishes what occurred and its causes; proposals are formulated thereafter and expressly distinguished from the facts.
  • Non-partisan character. The cloister studies models and publishes evidence; it promotes no political programme.

Standards of research

The Foundation understands research as a rigorous, unhurried and documented labour, subject to the following standards:

  • Primary sources. Study proceeds from historical maps, ancient texts and original documents or faithful copies thereof, and from direct observation and measurement.
  • Citation of sources. Every study records its sources and its data, so that any reader may verify them.
  • Internal review. Prior to publication, each study is reviewed by other members of the cloister.
  • Preservation. A copy of every published study is deposited in the Foundation’s archive.
  • Dissemination. Findings are made known through study papers, working days and lectures.

Field programmes

The lines of research are supported by four field programmes, conducted with the Foundation’s own means.

High-altitude aerial exploration

Balloons of the Foundation’s own design, built to ascend through the successive layers of the atmosphere and to remain aloft, fitted with meteorological instruments — temperature, pressure, humidity and wind at each layer of altitude — measuring systems, high-definition video and real-time transmission, with the recording of unidentified aerial phenomena.

Long-distance observation and measurement

Long-distance photography and laser measurement over land and over large bodies of water.

Sun, Moon and the measurement of time

A systematic record of the position of the Sun and of the Moon, of shadows, phases and eclipses, taken with the Foundation’s own instruments, together with the study of the calendars and of the measurement of time derived from those cycles.

Cartography

Charts drawn from aerial observation, field measurement and historical cartography.

Forms of participation

Collaboration is subject to no fee. Membership of the cloister, which confers the right to speak and to vote, entails an annual fee set by the Council. In no case does the sum contributed confer a greater share in decisions.

Study

Research in primary sources, translation and the drafting of studies.

Construction

Stonemasonry, bricklaying, carpentry and the other building trades.

Archive and library

The cataloguing and preservation of maps, books and documents.

Administration

Accounting, administrative procedures and regulatory compliance.

Patronage

Financial contributions, once the Foundation has been incorporated.

Documentation

The photographic and audiovisual record of the project.

Engineering and electronics

The design of balloons, measuring systems and data transmission.

Cartography

Surveying, aerial photography and the drawing of charts.

Means of support

The Foundation is incorporated with a minimum of ten signatories, who are entered as founding members in the deed. The group of founders closes upon the execution of the deed; participation, by contrast, remains permanently open, and the cloister is sustained by new admissions and by sources of income conceived to endure as long as the building.

New members of the cloister

Admission remains open and consists of an application, a period of collaboration and the approval of the Council. Members sustain the entity through an annual fee.

Donors

Occasional or periodic contributions from those who are not members. A certificate is issued for every contribution.

Named work

Each phase yields elements that may bear, by way of symbolic recognition, the name of whoever funds them: an ashlar, a window or a room.

Study papers

Subscription to the publications of the cloister, the most modest source and the most stable.

Museum and guided visits

The entity’s own income from the opening of the premises, distinct from members’ fees and from donations.

Bequests

The Foundation accepts bequests, applied in their entirety to the building and to its preservation.

Permanence reserve

A fixed proportion of every unrestricted contribution is set aside in a reserve that is not applied to current expenditure. That reserve funds the preservation of the building and of the archive in the years in which no construction or campaign is in progress.

Financial contributions shall be received only once the Foundation has been incorporated and a bank account opened in its name.

State of the incorporation

  • The plot. The contribution of the El Rancho I plot is pledged for the moment of incorporation.
  • Founders. The entity shall be incorporated once at least ten persons have signed the letter of commitment. Those who appear at the execution of the deed, up to a maximum of twenty, shall have the status of founders.
  • After the deed. Founder status closes upon the execution of the deed. The admission of members of the cloister and the receipt of donations and collaborations of every kind remain open without limit.
  • Founders committed. One of ten.

Current conditions

  • The premises offer no accommodation. The residence shall be opened at a later stage, with seven rooms and a maximum of fourteen persons, children included; whoever has completed a year of collaboration and provides for their own upkeep may be admitted as a resident.
  • No financial contributions are received until the Foundation has been incorporated and holds a bank account of its own.
  • The Foundation shall be incorporated once at least ten persons have signed a letter of commitment. Ten is the minimum required for its incorporation, not a limit upon the number of participants.
  • Contributions are not refundable. They form part of the assets of the Foundation.

Timetable

  1. Presentation of the project and opening of the registration period. September 2026.
  2. Monthly meetings in Cartagena de Indias. From October 2026. They include visits to the property.
  3. Signing of letters of commitment. A minimum of ten persons. First half of 2027.
  4. Incorporation of the Foundation. Execution of the deed, entry in the register of non-profit entities, allocation of the tax identification number (NIT) and opening of the bank account. 2027.
  5. Commencement of the first phase of construction. Once the entity has been incorporated and the property donated.

Application for registration

Those who wish to concur in the project may complete the following form. Every application is examined individually, and registered applicants are convened to the monthly meetings.

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Clarifications

  • Non-denominational and non-partisan character. Cosmogony and natural theology constitute a line of study. The Foundation requires adherence to no creed and takes no part in party politics.
  • Ownership. The property, the building and the archive shall become the property of the Foundation, and its assets may not be distributed among individuals.
  • Fees. Collaboration is subject to no payment; only membership of the cloister entails an annual fee. All other contributions are voluntary and shall be received exclusively in the Foundation’s account, once incorporated.
  • Number of founders. Ten is the minimum required for the incorporation of the entity. The admission of new members and the receipt of donations remain open.
  • Residence. Resident status shall be opened at a later stage, subject to a year of collaboration, a period of probation, an approved plan of work and provision for one’s own upkeep. Seven rooms: one family unit per room and a maximum of fourteen persons, including the residents’ children, who may reside with them. The room is attached to the admitted resident; children, upon coming of age, shall apply for their own through the ordinary channel.
  • Personal data. Personal data are processed solely for the purpose of coordinating participation, in accordance with Colombian Law 1581 of 2012.
  • Location of the property. El Rancho I, a country estate in Santa Rosa de Lima, some twenty minutes from Cartagena de Indias. The lot number is disclosed to registered applicants.

Contact and visits

Visits are received by prior appointment only, which may be requested by WhatsApp or by email.

  1. Submit the application for registration on this page.
  2. Attend a monthly meeting, in person or remotely, with a visit to the property.
  3. Sign, should you see fit, a letter of commitment, without any payment.

Torre Empresarial Prodegi, 18th floor

Bocagrande, Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia

WhatsApp +34 621 024 973 contacto@omniasubsole.org omniasubsole.org

Fundación Omnia Sub Sole (in the course of incorporation)
All under the sun
Cartagena de Indias, Republic of Colombia

Individui pro veritate

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