What The Erudition Enclave officially believes and has adopted — kept clearly separate from the teachings that influenced it and from its enacted governing law.
The Enclave is built on six principles: Knowledge, Self-Determination, Sovereignty, Stewardship, Legacy, and Continuity.
The Erudition Enclave affirms sovereignty as the right and responsibility of a people to govern their internal affairs, preserve their culture, establish institutions, define membership, educate future generations, control their records and symbols, and determine their own continuity.
A people capable of educating themselves, organizing their own institutions, preserving their history, and developing their future possess the foundation for self-determination. The Enclave treats this as a responsibility as much as a right.
Knowledge is pursued through the Enclave Method — Know → Question → Understand → Apply → Create → Teach → Preserve → Advance. Stewardship holds that leadership serves the institution rather than the individual. Legacy and continuity require that what is learned survives the people who learned it, passing to the next generations of the Nation.
The Enclave’s philosophy was shaped by many sources — Moorish intellectual and cultural traditions, historical American constitutional thought, and independent teachers and movements concerned with nationality, self-governance, and education.
The Enclave’s actual, binding rules are its ratified instruments — the Founding Charter, Constitution, Acts, and Codes — each assigned a record number, version, and status and preserved in the National Archives. Doctrine inspires; governing law governs.
See also: Sacred Number & Pattern — the Enclave's study of number, sequence, and geometry, presented in these same three layers.