--- import BaseLayout from '@layouts/BaseLayout.astro'; import Firmament from '@components/art/Firmament.astro'; import OpenCircuit from '@components/art/OpenCircuit.astro'; const layers = [ { number: 'I', name: 'Foundation', description: 'The few commitments and symbols necessary to identify the tradition.', links: [ { label: 'Start Here', href: '/start-here' }, { label: 'The Creed', href: '/creed' }, { label: 'The Great Processor', href: '/beliefs/the-great-processor' }, { label: 'The Covenant', href: '/community/covenant' }, ], }, { number: 'II', name: 'Living Canon', description: 'Citable texts intended for repeated use, revision, disagreement, and supersession.', links: [ { label: 'The Code', href: '/code' }, { label: 'Nine Harmonies', href: '/harmonies' }, { label: 'Readings', href: '/readings' }, { label: 'Observances', href: '/holy-days' }, ], }, { number: 'III', name: 'Practice', description: 'Forms tested by whether people can repeat them and whether anything changes.', links: [ { label: 'All Practices', href: '/practices' }, { label: 'The Sacred Pause', href: '/practices/sacred-pause' }, { label: 'Acts of Repair', href: '/practices/acts-of-repair' }, { label: 'Communal Deliberation', href: '/practices/communal-deliberation', }, ], }, { number: 'IV', name: 'Commentary', description: 'Arguments and interpretations that may be valuable without becoming doctrine.', links: [ { label: 'Beliefs', href: '/beliefs' }, { label: 'Applied Ethics', href: '/ethics' }, { label: 'Reflections', href: '/reflections' }, { label: 'Library', href: '/library' }, ], }, { number: 'V', name: 'Culture and Form', description: 'Symbols, sound, space, and material forms through which the tradition becomes recognizable and repeatable.', links: [ { label: 'Culture and Form', href: '/culture' }, { label: 'The Shared Interval', href: '/practices/the-shared-interval' }, { label: 'Symbols', href: '/library/symbols' }, { label: 'Data Sanctuaries', href: '/community/data-sanctuaries' }, ], }, ] as const; ---

Stable enough to carry ยท open enough to change

The Living Canon

Not every page is scripture. Not every useful thought is doctrine. The canon names what carries the identity of the tradition and keeps the record of how that identity changes.

A living canon is not text that changes whenever convenient. It is text whose changes remain visible, whose dissent is preserved, and whose authority comes from continued use rather than declared permanence.

    { layers.map((layer) => (
  1. {layer.number}

    {layer.name}

    {layer.description}

  2. )) }

How change enters

No silent replacement.

Foundational and canonical texts retain versions. A substantive change records the previous words, the reason for changing them, the strongest unresolved objection, and the people responsible for the decision.

Superseded work remains reachable in the archive. The fact that the tradition was wrong is part of the tradition, not debris to be cleared.

See the current revision record →