Institute library
The Order
Earth — the order built among a people
This path concerns durable form: covenant, law, ritual, memory, and the difficult labor by which persons and peoples are gathered into a life that can be held, transmitted, and judged.
Many resist order after experiencing its anxious distortions. Yet no life remains human for long without form, memory, and shared obligation. Zion names the problem of order recovered rather than merely obeyed.
ZION — THE ORDER
The Earliest Text. Edited by Royal Skousen.
The foundational text of Judaism — the Pentateuch, first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
A Philosophical Translation by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall.
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi. Translated by Burton Watson.
by the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr.
by Elder James E. Talmage.
by Swami B.B. Tirtha Maharaja.
These texts belong here because they are preoccupied with communal life: memory, law, ritual, transmission, hierarchy, covenant, and the formation of a people. They preserve the question of what order can be when it is not reduced to mere control.