Institute library
The Order
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 Book of Mormon, The Earliest Text. Edited by Royal Skousen
The Foundational Text of Judaism, The Pentateuch - First 5 Books of the Hebrew Bible
A Philosophical Translation by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall
by 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.