GOAM stands for the Good of All Men including Oneself. It is easy to become confused about what aspect of GOAm one should pursue. The Goodness in GOAM represents Truth, Wellbeing of People, and the Goodness of People (If they are a “Good Person”).
The first step that needs to happen before pursuing the Good of other people is to pursue the Good of Oneself. Is Oneself in a Good state of being? Are they are good person? Are they a Truthful person? Are they able to accept and follow Truth? These are the important factors.
Although the Antelacht would prefer to say that the first thing is a person must be able to follow and understand Truth, this is not something that is entirely practical. Being an expert on Truth is very difficult especially today where many people have been fed false methods of thinking and propaganda since their childhood and continued well into adulthood. This makes becoming an expert on Truth a very difficult task.
Therefore the thing that must be done is for people to first pledge Allegiance towards Truth so that they will “move towards Truth” over a period of time. And second they must admit and believe in the fundamental elements of truth without being an expert. Reality is important, what is True is important, Truth is important, and knowing the Truth about the world and the Truth about yourself is important. One must be able to have a basic understanding of Truth and such a task could take upwards of 10 to 20 hours for someone who is completely unfamiliar. Then they must review and APPLY Truth principles to their life.
The first Goodness is Truth, and the first action is pledging allegiance to Truth, then pledging Allegiance to GOAM, and then they must “Work Towards GOM” aka “Work Towards the Good of Oneself”. This means they must be Truth, Wellbeing, and Good Person.
Truth allows an individual to work towards being a Good Person and achieve Good Wellbeing. In the next chapter we go over that in detail.