Why we exist
To understand existence, restore what has been diminished, and create what has yet to become.
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01What was, what is, what can become02Two interconnected responsibilities03The long viewWhat was, what is, what can become
We inherit memory, culture, knowledge and institutions from generations before us. The present demands discernment about what to preserve, what to repair and what to release. The future asks what can responsibly be brought into existence.
Two interconnected responsibilities
Restoration is the work of healing, renewal and transformation. Creation is the work of discovery, imagination and emergence. Neither belongs to one profession, spiritual tradition or generation.
- To cultivate the capacity for honest inquiry
- To honour dignity and freedom of conscience
- To support restoration without idealising every past condition
- To encourage creation while examining its consequences
The long view
The measure of our work is not only what it achieves for us. It is also the conditions that future people will inherit because of it.
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We receive. We examine. We restore. We create. We transmit.PRIESTHOOD NATION · FOUNDATIONAL THOUGHT
