Department of Secondary Education
“From Milk to Meat — The Formation of Kingdom Intelligence.”
Overview.
The Department of Secondary Education at Atlas University is not an extension of the public system.
It is a total reinvention of education for the age to come — a living covenantal formation designed to cultivate wisdom, virtue, and dominion in the next generation.
Where modern schooling trains for utility, we train for the love of wisdom.
Where the world system produces compliant citizens, we raise Kingdom builders.
Where humanism teaches self-actualization, we teach self-crucifixion and spiritual resurrection.
This department governs all programs from Grade 7 through Grade 12, culminating in the Covenant Baccalaureate (C.Bac.), the highest standard of secondary formation.
It exists to shepherd students from childhood into spiritual and intellectual adulthood — from milk to meat, from information to revelation, from belief to embodiment.
The Department unites academic brilliance, artistic creativity, and spiritual maturity in one coherent framework.
It is not a school; it is a formation order, shaping the hearts and minds that will govern nations in righteousness.
Mission Statement
To restore education to its true purpose:
The glorification of God through the elevation of the human mind and spirit.
We do not train children to fit into systems, but to create systems.
We do not teach religion as ritual, but faith as law — living, reasoning, and applied.
Our mission is to form Kingdom Intelligence — the mind of Christ expressed through mathematics, language, art, science, and government.
The Department’s work is to awaken the image of God in every learner and to train them in dominion: mastery of thought, word, and creation.
Philosophical Foundation
Modern education begins with man.
Covenant Education begins with Yahweh.
The current global model of schooling was designed to produce industrial workers and obedient consumers. It teaches efficiency without essence, knowledge without morality, and power without love.
Atlas stands in complete defiance of this order.
We reject the model of man as a tool of the state, and replace it with man as temple — a being designed to reflect divine intelligence.
Covenant Education is not “religious schooling.” It is civilizational redesign.
It trains students to think like philosophers, speak like prophets, and build like engineers — all under the authority of the Word.
Every class begins with Scripture. Every subject finds its law in creation. Every teacher is both scholar and priest.
The result is a new kind of graduate:
A young man or woman who does not merely believe in God, but thinks with Him.
Academic Structure
“Formation through order, from foundations to dominion.”
The Department of Secondary Education operates as a six-year covenantal system built around four sequential formations.
Each formation deepens intellect, spiritual maturity, and creative command, guiding students from the grammar of faithto the architecture of wisdom.
Completion of all four confers the Covenant Baccalaureate Diploma, followed by the one-year Covenant Associate (A.Cov.) Capstone, the pre-university rite of mastery.
Formation I — Grammar and Foundations (Years 1–2 / Grades 7–8)
“Learning the language of creation.”
This foundational phase re-teaches the child to see the world through divine order.
Memory, imitation, and rhythm dominate the curriculum.
Students master language, Scripture, mathematics as design, and the physical world as revelation.
Focus Areas
Biblical literacy and Genesis worldview
English grammar, logic, and composition
Latin or Greek introduction
Geometry, arithmetic, and mathematical harmony
Earth science, terrain ecology, and anatomy of the body
Psalms, music, and poetic recitation
Rhetoric through oral reading and dialogue
Objective: Establish linguistic precision, moral discipline, and the habit of daily contemplation.
Formation II — Logic and Inquiry (Years 3–4 / Grades 9–10)
“Testing what is true.”
The mind now moves from memorization to reasoning.
Students learn to examine, connect, and synthesize ideas across all disciplines.
Every class involves dialogue, argument, and written reflection.
Focus Areas
Formal and moral logic; the syllogism as spiritual order
Classical humanities and the Great Books I (Plato through Augustine)
Algebra, physics, and the mathematics of movement
Biology and terrain physiology
Hebrew or Modern Language introduction
History of civilizations under covenant law
Arts, design, and sacred proportion
Key Projects
First formal disputation before peers
Research essay integrating Scripture and science
Creation of a small invention, essay, or artwork reflecting divine principle
Objective: Form rational humility — reason bound by reverence.
Formation III — Rhetoric and Dominion (Years 5–6 / Grades 11–12)
“Speaking wisdom with beauty.”
Students now become articulate thinkers—poets, scientists, and leaders.
Every discipline converges into applied mastery: leadership, authorship, innovation.
Focus Areas
Great Books II (Aquinas through Dostoevsky, Lewis, and modern voices)
Biblical Law, Civics, and Kingdom Governance
Advanced mathematics and natural philosophy
Literature and oratory; dual-language disputation
Advanced laboratory work and terrain experimentation
Fine arts: sculpture, calligraphy, architecture
Service and leadership practicum
Key Projects
Annual public disputation
Community service or teaching practicum
Senior essay draft (5,000–8,000 words)
Publication in The Atlas Youth Canon
Objective: Train intellectual leadership and creative sovereignty.
Formation IV — Covenant Associate Capstone (A.Cov.) (Post-C.Bac. Year)
“To create what has been learned.”
The Covenant Associate Capstone year functions as the bridge between secondary and university life—a pre-collegiate Associate in Covenant Studies (A.Cov.) that transitions from mastery of knowledge to creation of wisdom.
Students specialize in one domain—Science, Theology, Arts, or Leadership—and produce a work that merges scholarship and tangible creation.
Capstone Requirements
Covenant Thesis: 10,000–12,000 words integrating theology, art, or science
Practical Creation: a business, product, invention, publication, or ministry prototype
Public Defense: 45-minute oral disputation before faculty panel
Publication: acceptance into The Atlas Canon of Youth Research
Language Mastery: fluency certification in two languages
Objective: Transform learning into civilization — thought that becomes tangible.
Core Disciplines
Terrain Biology & Microzymian Medicine
The science of life from within—Béchamp’s microzymas, pleomorphism, and divine cellular order.
Molecular Nutrition & Metabolic Resurrection
Fats, bile, ketones, enzymes, and the regenerative flow of metabolic obedience.
Fasting Physiology & Cellular Sanctification
The biology of purification: autophagy, bile cycling, mitochondrial resurrection.
Parasitology & Mycotoxicology
The true meaning of infestation—parasitic rebellion as moral and biological disorder.
Resurrection Neurobiology
Brain terrain renewal through fasting, fat metabolism, trauma resolution, and divine thought patterns.
Resurrection Neurobiology
Brain terrain renewal through fasting, fat metabolism, trauma resolution, and divine thought patterns.
Regenerative Anatomy & Physiology
The human temple as a living circuit of light, salt, oil, and water.
Clinical Fasting Systems and Detoxification
From dry fasting to bile flushing, systematic protocols for regeneration.
Terrain Pathology & Disease Reversal
Diagnosis redefined as terrain misalignment; treatment as repentance through biological restoration.
Faculty and Research
“Instructors are not employees—they are elders of the intellect.”
Faculty within the Department of Secondary Education are hand-selected from classical, theological, and scientific disciplines.
Each instructor undergoes training in the Imago Dei Pedagogy, a formation model that unites intellectual authority with spiritual mentorship.
They are equal parts scholar, craftsman, and shepherd—responsible not merely for transmitting knowledge but for cultivating virtue and mastery in the soul of the learner.
Faculty Structure
Master Tutors – oversee discipline integration across language, science, and theology.
House Elders – govern the moral and spiritual life of student houses.
Artisans in Residence – artists, scientists, and inventors who teach creation as worship.
Visiting Fellows – global experts in law, terrain medicine, and agrarian regeneration, invited for seasonal intensives.
Research Focus
The department maintains three internal research institutes under Atlas University’s charter:
The Institute for Covenant Pedagogy — studies the neuroscience and theology of learning; publishes Journal of Biblical Education and Mind Formation.
The Terrain Science & Youth Research Lab — conducts student-led biological, agricultural, and ecological experiments.
The House of Arts & Sacred Architecture — explores the intersection of visual design, mathematics, and worship.
All research is guided by the governing principle:
Knowledge without covenant produces Babel; knowledge in covenant builds Zion.
Students are not passive observers—they are contributors.
Each year, high-level research from senior students is published in The Atlas Canon.
The Canon.
“A living record of revelation through intellect.”
The Atlas Canon is the permanent intellectual archive of Atlas University—a collection of written works, experiments, artistic creations, and discoveries produced by students and faculty.
It is not symbolic; it is a literal canon of modern Christian civilization—a written library documenting the renewal of human knowledge under divine order.
Within the Department of Secondary Education, the Atlas Youth Canon serves as both record and rite.
To graduate, each student must contribute to the Canon through publication, demonstrating mastery in truth, beauty, and creation.
Canon Divisions:
Book I: Foundations — Scripture commentary, theology, and law.
Book II: Science & Terrain — laboratory research, biological study, ecological innovation.
Book III: Arts & Aesthetics — sculpture, design, music, and architecture.
Book IV: Governance & Economics — essays on justice, leadership, and reform.
Book V: Humanity & Covenant Psychology — explorations of the human soul, identity, and moral philosophy.
Canon entries are reviewed annually by the Council of Masters, archived at Atlas University Press, and distributed through Klesia Publications.
Exceptional contributions are awarded the Seal of the Lion—a mark of enduring brilliance.
Participation in the Canon is both a duty and an honor.
To write into the Canon is to step into history—to leave not opinion, but revelation.
Graduation Outcomes
Graduates of the Department of Secondary Education will:
Be fluent in two languages and literate in Scripture and the Great Books.
Possess demonstrable skill in logic, science, and the arts.
Have published original research or creative work.
Be physically disciplined, spiritually mature, and intellectually courageous.
Be prepared for direct entry into The Bachelors program or leadership in ministry, entrepreneurship, or research.
They are not products of a curriculum—they are prototypes of a new civilization.