I.
Of the Record
No member shall fabricate, distort, or knowingly omit truth from the Archive. The record stands above convenience.[1] To falsify is to forfeit one's standing.
· The Charter ·
By what we are bound
The conduct expected of every member of the Assembly, from Pledge to Chief Librarian.
The Charter is read once at admission and held to thereafter. It is not a code of punishment but a code of trust. To pass through these doors is to take its words upon yourself.
II.
Of Discourse
Disagreement is welcome; contempt is not. All voices are heard before a verdict is taken. A member shall criticise an idea without diminishing the one who held it.
III.
Of Instruction
Knowledge is held in trust, not in private. What you have learned, you are obligated to teach when asked. To hoard understanding is to misuse the standing the Assembly has granted you.
IV.
Of the Pledge
Newcomers are owed mentorship, not impatience. Every member of the Assembly was once a Pledge. Treat them as you would have wished to be treated, and the Order is preserved.
V.
Of Conduct
All standards of The Jedi Order apply within the Assembly. Harassment, prejudice, and conduct unbecoming a Jedi are not tolerated under any rank or pretext.[2]
VI.
Of Privacy
A member's confidence is not for the marketplace. What is shared in good faith between keepers stays between keepers, save where the safety of another is at stake.
VII.
Of the Hierarchy
Rank in the Assembly is earned, not granted. Authority over others is a duty held in service of the Order, never a privilege held over them.[3]
VIII.
Of the Trial
Where a member is called to account, the matter shall be heard openly by High Command. Decisions shall be recorded; reasoning shall be given. The Charter applies upward as well as downward.
IX.
Of Departure
Any member may leave the Assembly with grace. Those who go are owed the Order's thanks for what they preserved. The doors close behind them; they do not close against them.[4]
· Footnotes ·
[1]
In the early years it was held that "convenience" included the discomfort of the keeper recording the truth. The phrase was made stricter at the request of the Tutors, who observed that an unflinching record was the best gift the Order could leave its successors. ↩ return
[2]
The phrase "under any rank or pretext" was added in the second revision. It is the only article whose original drafter is on record as having insisted upon a single word, "any" · without which the article was, in their view, an invitation to exception. ↩ return
[3]
"Authority is a duty held in service of the Order" is read aloud at every promotion to High Command, and again at every removal from it. The reading goes both ways for a reason. ↩ return
[4]
It is sometimes asked whether a departed keeper may return. The Charter does not address this, by deliberate omission. The matter is left to the discretion of the standing Chief Librarian, who is reminded that the doors do not close against them. ↩ return
By patience, by record, by light.
· Sealed under the hand of the Chief Librarian ·