The Teachings of the Descendancy

In the tomb of Ceferino Dulay recently found in the secret cemetery of the Our Lady of the Abandoned at the poblacion of Marikina Valley, this epitaph is written in a black marble stone: Ceferino Rivas Dulay: the 4th Hereditary Leader of the Dulay Clan of Marikina Valley".  The tomb has been secretly guarded by the descendants of Lakan Dula of Tondo. Historical records show that Ceferino Dulay is the eldest son who descended from the eldest son of Lakan Dula of Tondo, the ancient King of Manila. The bloodline of the succession of the eldest son of the Lakan Dula descendancy apparently is in Ceferino. The bloodline of Lakan Dula of Tondo is carried by prominent Filipinos of the modern times. To some descendants of Lakan Dula of Tondo, Ceferino is their patriarch when he was alive. He is the traditional leader of the Lakan Dula Clan, the hereditary head of the growing Lakan Dula of Tondo bloodline, descendancy and their allies. An article in a highly conservative site of prominent Filipinos mentioned Ceferino Rivas Dulay in passing. "The Tioco family was a very rich and generous family from Old Tondo. They owned numerous fishing boats in Tondo and Malabon. Siblings Balbino Tioco and Romana Tioco were illustrious citizens and famous Tondo benefactors of the 19th century.Balbino’s son Maximiano was kidnapped in the late 19th century and ransomed for 3 “kaings” of gold. Maximiano was married to a spanish mestiza Marciana Félix (same Félix family as Joji Félix Velarde and Conchita Félix wife of Felipe Calderón of the Malolos Constitution).Maximiano married Teodorica Ylo (The Cabangis family are also descended from the Ylo’s) They bore 5 children, Nemesio, Salvador, “Beot”, Guadalupe (married to Don Eduardo Barretto), Consuelo (married to Dr Rufino Mendoza, son of Don Isabelo Mendoza de Villablanca, a direct descendant of the spaniard Don Benito Mendoza, first gobernadorcillo of Mariquina in 1787. Benito’s descendant Juana Mendoza Cerbito married Ceferino Dulay, a patriarch of the Rajah Lakan Dula/Dulay Clan. Long after the family had left Old Tondo for the plush villages of Makati and other parts of Manila, there remains Calle Romana* in honor of Romana Tioco, and Calle Tioco* in honor of Balbino and Romana, two personages of the same family in gratitude for their inexhaustible generosity to Tondo (Daluyan, 2010)."

The Descendancy refers to the bloodline of Lakan Dula to the present generation. The wisdom of the descendancy are the spoken words of the different patriarchs of the bloodline, in the successions of times and generations, passed on among the different patriarchs of the descendancy from Lakan Dula to the present patriarch. The patriarchs or the “eldest sons of the eldest sons” of the bloodline--starting from Lakan Dula, to Batang Dula, to David Dula y Goiti all the way to the different patriarchs of the their  own generations down to Ceferino Rivas Dulay into the present generation--have come out with a collective wisdom. This set of wisdoms is now known as the “Teachings of the Descendancy”.

Since the Descendancy Teachings are just added to the existing  teachings of the present religions, the descendants can be classified sa Catholic Descendancy, Muslim Descendancy, Jewish Descendancy, Buddhist Descendancy, Hindu Descendancy, Protestant Descendancy, Mormon Descendancy, etc. The world descendancy and its teachings will unite all religions in the world hence, will eventually prevent religious war and fanaticism. It will make the humanity more humane and understanding.

1. Religion

    Be faithful to your religion, no matter what sect or group it is. Consider it as your social group, an extension of your family. Be tolerant on the religions of others as you are tolerant to the families of your neighbors. Do not change their beliefs. Respect them. Dont push the beliefs of the descendancy on them. God will make them understand them naturally. But be ready to inform them and explain to them our beliefs. Do not attempt to unite your brothers and sisters under one religion. In fact, consider it a blessing or added strength of your family if your brothers and sisters belongs to the other sects and they are very active on their church activities. Let’s be united as descendants sharing same history and heritage and beliefs; and view religious groups as our network for the betterment of the descendants. An example of this are members of the Dulay Clan of Marikina Valley: Dante Mendoza of Nangka, Marikina is a Jewish in California, Siony Dulay of Friendly Village in Marikina is an Iglesia ni Cristo in Seattle, Toti Dulay of San Roque, Marikina Valley is a devoted Roman Catholic, Alfreda Dulay Lana of Marikina Heights belongs to the Seventh Day Adventist. But all of them are united under the Dulay Clan. Religion therefore should not divide the descendants but rather provide the descendants and believers with additional network who could help them in times of needs. Descendants are common friends of all religions.

2. Family, Clan, Bloodline and Descendancy

    Family is important. Jobs, business, education, love life, etc, can be adjusted for the interest of the family. Family is the sanctuary of its members. It should be full of love and freedom. Members should be loyal and faithful to each other. Family should be the basis of success. The eldest son (in the absence of the son, the eldest daughter) should act as the leader/rabbi/pastor of his brothers and sisters, their wives and husbands, their children and their wives and husbands. The siblings and the parents should prepare him for this in - born role by giving him the best education possible and educating him about the history of the clan, the bloodline and the descendancy. The leader of the family has the duty to be good in life, prosperous and well connected so that he can provide good image and protect the bloodline under his care. The eldest son of the eldest of the eldest son--the further way back from the bloodline will always be the unifying symbol of the family, bloodline and descendancy. Historically, Lakan Dula of Tondo has seven children: the eldest is Batang Dula, next is Felipe Salonga, then Dionisio Capulong, then, Magat Salamat, then, Martin Lakan Dula, then Luis Salugmoc and finally, Maria Poloin. Batang Dula has three children: David Dula y de Goiti, Daba Dula y de Goiti and Dola Dula y de Goiti. Each person carrying a Lakan Dula bloodline must have a titular leader which is his oldest brother and that oldest brother must have a titular leader which is the oldest son of his oldest uncle. The oldest son of his oldest uncle must have a leader, which is the oldest son of the oldest uncle too. This is easy because everyone has an oldest uncle and the oldest uncle always have an oldest son. This system is necessary to make everyone with Lakan Dula bloodline accounted, protected and supported by his closest family member. With this system, there is no reason for any member of the Lakan Dula bloodline to be poor and uneducated because the leader of the family and group of families are mandated by the secretive central Lakan Dula Descendancy to help or coordinate help for any member in need. The Central Lakan Dula Descendancy must keep a historical record of the duly recognized family/families leader/rabbi/pastor and their family tree. Each leader/ rabbi/ pastor must keep a family tree of bloodline under his leadership with copies provided to each and every member.

3. Education

    Education is a necessity. Securing the education of your children is just like teaching them how to look for food when you are gone. No matter how fashionable or cocky you are, if you have no education, you are nothing. So, the best way to be popular and respected is to have good education. The higher the education, the better is the school, the better is the course - the better. Graduate with honors. Go for master’s degree and doctoral.

4. Career

    Love your career, whatever it is. A person without career is just like an animal who does not have a regular pasture to feed himself. Avoid the habit of always looking for new job when all you need is to be good in the present job. Be loyal to your company and to your bosses. Consider them as part of your family.

5. Love Life

    Follow your heart but use your brain. In case of confusion, the brain should prevail. Loving feeling may change even on flimsy reasons, but the brains analytical reasons on why you love a person will always be there. Do not be too romantic but be prosperous enough to make sure that romance will stay between you and your love.

6. Politics

    Politics should be the descendant’s way of life. It is a healthy sign that we care for other people. Every descendant should join politics because politics is public service. It should be the concern of the descendants to improve the public service in the country.

7. Friendship

    Be a true friend and seek for real friendship. Avoid frenemies and traitors.  They will hit you given an opportunity. Value your true friends as part of your family. Do not be too sentimental but be consistent with your friendship.

8. Ethical Life

    Do not live at the expense of other people. Have a mental set of a giver and not of a taker. Having that mental set will force you to work harder and therefore will make you prosperous in the long run. Do not use others such that the others that you use will become poor and you will become rich. Make sure that those you use will also benefit in the relationship. Learn to plant before you harvest. Do not expect people to be friendly and helpful to you when you are not friendly and helpful to them. Do not ever think of disturbing fellow descendants if you could do it by your own. This is also a way to help the whole descendancy because you will spare other fellow descendants from spending time and resources for you which they could have given to those descendants who are really in need. Huwag maging balasubas. Pay your debts. Do not be ashamed to borrow, even billionaires do borrow money. What is important is you pay what you borrow.

9. Genetics

    Try to fall in love and bear child with somebody different from your racial stock--the further the difference the better. This is to make sure that the future descendants will capture the best characteristics of the dominant genes of all races. Interracial marriages are encouraged but maintain your patriotism to the descendancy.

10. Business

    Every descendant must sell something: goods or professional service. Always remember that you can get rich in any business if you just stick to it and do your best. Business is a way of life. We should learn to respect and admire entrepreneurs because they sacrifice their name, honor and time to put together people, money, machine and methods to provide products, services, and jobs. Anyone who has no passion or leaning to any business or professional service is less helpful to your fellow descendants because who will end up as beneficiary instead of donors. Do not be: di ka na nga nakakatulong, nakakaperwisyo ka pa.

11. Houses

    Houses are not only a home but a statement of who we are. Therefore, the house should show character: clean, honest, healthy, patriotic, good taste, full of history, and culture. Old bahay na bato houses in the poblacions show our heritage. Fill the house not with fads and cheap stuff but with expensive heirloom.

12. Food

    Always go for nutritious food and balanced diet.  Prices of food is not the consideration but the nutritional and health value. Descendants should also eat food that has strong cultural sense as a way of saying that our culture is right inside our body.

13. Fashion

    Descendants should aspire to be clean, neat, logical and honest looking in the way they dress. Let’s go more on classic dressing than fad dressing. For instance, why will someone wear hat when it is not raining or there is no heat of the sun to avoid. There should be logical reason why we are wearing clothes and accessories.

14. Hygiene

    Cleanliness in and out of your body is a necessity.  The descendants should smell good not because of perfume but because of good and consistent hygiene. Take a bath at least once a day, brush your teeth after every meal and move your bowel every morning.

15. Health

    Exercise regularly and concentrate on joints: neck, waist, knee. Sleep 8 hours per day. Drink plenty of water. Avoid taking too many medicines, drugs, and chemicals - balanced diet is a good way. Vitamin C is important so eat fruits like guyabano, banana, and dalandan.

16. Adopt a town or city

    Be loyal to the town or city where you decided to settle down. Make sure that your children have the same feeling of loyalty. Be part of the society of the city you adopted and cultivate close relationship with the key economic, social, religious and political family of the town or city you adopted.

17. Envy and Jealousy

    Avoid envy, jealousy and the Waray term "uba" which is partly envy and partly wondering why someone is doing better than you that you want to cut him down. Be happy for the success of fellow descendants. The way they relate with other people does not mean they love you less, maybe they love you more that is why they relate to other people in a certain way to access good things for you.

18. Competition

    Do not be overly competitive to the point that you compete even on small things. Do not compete with others. Compete with yourself--with your own records. Recognize the fact that people are created differently so each one of us has different sets of strengths and weaknesses.

19. Humility

    Being humble should be the way of life of the descendants. Walang nawawala sa gumagalang. Being respectful will not cause you anything. It is a basic human nature to protect and conserve the humble because they won’t hurt them and they are easy to talk to. People wants to cut down to standard size the cocky and haughty.

20. Courage and Bravery

    Kung talagang matapang ka, mag sundalo ka. Courage and bravery should be put in a good use like in defending a country, in putting up a business, running in political office and in defending a friend or a family member. Bravery just to catch attention or in pursuance of a stupid endeavor is a sign of being less human or outright low in the head.

21. Nationalism and Patriotism

    Do not allow yourself to be called leftist or rightist because the true patriots are the centrist. A leftist follows the dictate of the communist countries like China, a rightist follows the dictate of the imperialist country like the US. Since both of the leftists and the rightists follow the dictate of foreign countries towards our people and our government, then, being a leftist and a rightist means you are a traitor. The true patriots are those who put up business to provide jobs for his neighbor, those who help his neighbor in time of problems, those who buy our own products, who pay their proper taxes, those who speak well for our county and our people and those who work had because by doing so, there will be one more productive person in the country.

22. God

    Believe in God, Araw City and the angelized and loving spirits of your dead parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. They are part of the inner strength of the descendants. We are the chosen people of God. God created us for a very special mission that only God knows but is written in the circumstantial way the descendants emerged in these times of human civilization. We are well loved by the Araw City and the angelic spirits of our dead parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. Same way when we die, we will aspire to be angels who will protect and nurture the fellow descendants who are still alive. God really exists and science has proven this. Different religions have different names for God, but there is only one God. God implanted His existence in our minds. There are people whom God intentionally put small implantation and they are known today as atheists.

23. Unity

    Let’s be united on the belief that we are the descendants of one unique bloodline coming from France; to England; to Tondo, Manila; to Isla de Batang, Laoang, Samar; to Samara, Aringay, La Union and to all corners of our nation like Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quirino, Mindanao, and the globe... and back to Metro Manila through a chosen land called Marikina Valley. That we are the chosen people of God as seen in the circumstances of our emergence. That we respect and honor our history, lineage and hereditary leaders. That we are protected by God, Araw City and angelized spirits of our dead forefathers, grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters. We love them so much. They love us so much the way angels love. We believe in our own culture, myths and legends. These set of beliefs is our main strength. If you do not believe on these, maybe the message is not addressed to your soul because you are not part of the bloodline in the secret circumstances of your birth as a person, you will not benefit from it as the rest of the true descendants have benefited. The Jews believes that they are the chosen people and they benefited from that belief, God wants us to do the same as descendants.

24. The Future

    There will only be One Government for the whole world as per the Globalist Manifesto and some descendants will play important role in the world government. Great leaders and talents in different fields will emerge from among the descendants, being a chosen people of God. The practice of extreme religious tolerance of the descendants will become a way of life for the people of the world thereby making religion as less influential in harming other people but will be seen as one of those social organizations ready to help others and humbly struggling for public acceptance a midst multitude of competitors fighting for public attention. God will allow revisions of the Bible to erase illogical entries like the coming of 666 which is unnecessary, and some other passages that do not show essence of humanness of human race which is basically rooted on rationality as expounded in the Theory of Divine Revision. There will be one Universal Religion believing in One God called by different names and defined by different teachings of different religions--a universal religion with the present major religions as it's composite subsets. The intermarriages of different races will give way to the emergence of a Universal Race whose members trace their race not to only one race but to several combinations of races - the more the combination, the greater is his degree of a universal race, the more he will become tolerant of diversity. The descendants will eventually be a model of a universal race.

25. Ritual 

The Descendancy revolves around believers of the teachings and the Lakan Dula bloodline carriers. But to become a Haj of the Descendancy, both believers of the teachings and the carriers of the bloodlines must complete the Haj Ritual of the Descendancy. The ritual requires that potential Haj should first of all internalize the Teachings of the Descendancy to the point that he can explain them to ordinary Lakan Dula descendants. He must pray at the Chamber Our Lady of the Abandoned at the OLA Shrine in Marikina Valley. The silent prayer is for more prosperous belongingness to the descendancy and the gift to lead the descendants. Visit the tomb of Ceferino Rivas Dulay in a secret cemetery of the church and silently talk to his soul for a gift of leadership. Do the Dine with the Ancestors secret ritual in the nearby house of the Dulay Clan in Marikina Valley. Finally, the patriarch’s handwritten listing of your name to the Patriarch’ Personal List of Haj of the Descendants. The first step towards a journey of becoming a Haj of the Descendancy is to read and internalize the 25 teachings of the descendancy and write a letter to the patriarch of the Lakan Dula descendants of your intention to go to the process of becoming a Haj. The schedule and procedures will then be communicated to you. The official list of the Hajs is kept personally by the patriarch. The hajs are expected to be addressed as one of the leaders of the descendancy in his locality and is authorized by the descendancy to head a community of believers.