The rules are the product
Everything on this site follows five public rules. They constrain what we can publish — which is exactly the point.
¶ 1 · Every claim carries a page number
A statement about a tradition appears here only if it resolves to a registered source and page, visible in the margin. Modern copyrighted works are cited by description only — no passage is reproduced. Public-domain works may be quoted sparingly with attribution.
¶ 2 · Silence is recorded, never filled
Every concordance cell carries one of three states, and the distinction is never blurred:
| State | Meaning | Marking |
|---|---|---|
| Attested | The registered corpus records it | Cited in the margin |
| Searched — silent | We looked; the corpus says nothing | A gap block naming the acquisition that would close it |
| Not yet scanned | Intake has not reached this cell | Marked pending — not presented as a finding |
Proximity is not attestation: a healing text is never shelved under provision, however close the themes. See the Coptic cell for this rule in practice.
¶ 3 · Description, never instruction
This archive records what historical sources say. It does not instruct the reader, produce personalised items, or claim any physical, material, or supernatural effect. Where a source makes such a claim, we record it as the source's claim, explicitly attributed. This boundary is editorial, legal, and ethical at once — and it is not negotiable.
¶ 4 · Traditions are read on their own terms
Each tradition is described from its own registered record, in its own vocabulary, without ranking. The concordance grid places records side by side; it does not merge them into an invented "universal" system.
¶ 5 · AI-assisted, human-verified
Drafts are produced with the assistance of a language model working over the registered corpus. Nothing is published without human verification of every citation against the source. The model is constrained to the registered passages; where they are silent, it is required to say so — and those statements of silence are themselves checked. Pages state their review date; the editor of record is named on every page.
¶ Corrections
Errors are corrected on the page, with the change noted and the review date updated. Substantive corrections are also listed in the monthly letter. To report an error, write to corrections@ritualconcordance.org with the page address and the source you believe contradicts it. A claim that survives challenge is stronger for it.
¶ What we will never publish
Personalised ritual items or texts for named individuals. Instructions presented for use. Promises of outcome — health, wealth, love, or otherwise. Reconstructed "completions" of gaps in the record. Verbatim passages from copyrighted works. This list is a floor, not a ceiling.