On The Guidances
Introduction
The Guidances of Sancthụmanism is one of a set of writings dedicated to explaining the moral ethics, principles, and tenets of Sancthụmanism as interpreted by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku. As evidenced in the writings and elsewhere, such teachings include a focus on notions of autonomy, community, dignity, equality, recognition, reciprocity, respect, the substances of rights attendant to acceptance of human being as sacred as-is and thus the equanimity and humane co-existence that result from their attainment and safeguarding. The Guidances ground the aforementioned in inquiry and study, practice and work, reflection and elucidation, epiphany and revelation — to be had from genuine and dutiful engagement in comparative human disciplines, practices, and studies, in particular, comparative ecumenism, religion, spirituality and theology; the arts; the humanities; the human sciences; and theory and the application of knowledge in civics, culture, law, medicine, politics, and technology.
Creation of The Guidances
— The Guidances are a single constituted corpus conceived, drafted, written and published by its sole author, namely, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
Distribution and Publication
— The Founder has agreed to have The Ikoku Philanthropies and The Ikoku Foundations — through their partnership at The Ikoku Center — make accessible and available here below for perusal and study The Guidances of Sancthụmanism as written, published and periodically revised by the Founder. Distribution of The Guidances shall currently be limited to this dedicated space and site, and any further distribution or reproduction of The Guidances (other than noncommercial citation) is strictly prohibited. Since The Guidances’ copyright and any attendant real and intellectual property rights are owned solely by Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, licenses and other permissions are to be granted solely by this Founder by separate and express written instrument signed and sealed.
Etymologies
— The Guidances are also conceptually developed via the transliteration of an alternate Igbo title for the corpus, Ndu Uzo Mmadu (The Guide of the Way of Humanity). In the Igbo language, the words ndu (guide), uzo (way, path, road, door) and mmadu (humanity, human being, human, person, individual) are able to simultaneously signify the singular, countable plural and uncountable plural meanings and permutations of the nouns. Such economy and resonance is repeatedly employed by The Guidances, in both title and text, and asks of the audience a hermeneutics that is both attentive and supple, adept at discerning and retaining connotations of significant range and scope during a listening, reading, or viewing.
— Etymologies provide one means of elucidating what amounts to the praxes of polyvalence, essential to The Guidances’ conception, production, and interpretation. The above requirements for suppleness of interpretation are made across not only English and Igbo etymologies, but also semantic roots connecting to Arabic, French, German, Greek, Latin Portuguese, Spanish and Yoruba languages. For this reason, further etymological detail and information are provided throughout The Ikoku Center’s display of The Guidances for perusal and study.
Form and Structure
— The framing strucuture of The Guidances is a hybrid of the architectural, musical, poetic, philosophical and scholarly text, and so aesthetic, epistemological and hermeneutic principles from these four disciplines govern the conception and creation of The Guidances’ text and corpora. For instance, the Igbo attention to duality or twoness dictates The Guidances’ rigorous and germinating self-constraint to use and multiplication of 11s as well as its serial unfolding via diptychs that are multiply connected. Also of importance are elements of meaning, poetics and structure that derive from and refract insights tightly associated with methodoligical praxis honed in the scholarly domains of the humanities, particularly, history, literature, philosophy and theology.
Its Table of Contents
— The Guidances of Sancthụmanism shall take a particular form and offer to all who would read them 11 sets of propositions, followed by 11 practices and 11 studies, which are as follows:
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Ways of the Text
Introduction
Along with the above key principles, the Policy on Independence and Freedoms requires your adherence to correlative freedoms and liberties delineated below.
Prelude
I — Entrance
Entrance, or uzo mbata (containing The Preamble)
Interlude
II — Main Way
Main Way, isi uzo (containing the Core and Central Guidances)
III — Way Inside
The Way Inside, uzo n’ime, or Deeper Way or Way of Depth or Way of Profoundness (containing the Elaborated Guidances)
IV — Way Below
The Way Below, uzo n’ala, or Way Underneath or Way in the Ground or Way of Libation or Way of Reference (containing the Footnotes of the Guidances)
V — Way Above
The Way Above, uzo n’elu, or Way Up High or Way in the Air or Way of Praise or Way of Direction (containing the Headnotes of the Guidances)
Interlude
VI — Way Forward
The Way Forward, uzo n’ihu, or Way in Front or The Facing Way or Way of Seeing or Way to See, also to be coupled with uzo huru, Way Seen, and uzo anya, Way of Sight, of the Eye, of Love and The Long Way (containing the Connections and Mapping of the Guidances)
Interlude
VII — Way of Hearing
The Way of Hearing, uzo inu, or Way of Listening, also to be coupled with uzo nuru, Way Heard or Way Listend To and uzo nugo, Way Received, close to Understood and uzo nti, Ear Canal (containing the Audition and Reception of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
VIII — Way of Expression
The Way of Expression, uzo okwu, or Way of Speech or Way of the Word, also to be coupled with uzo ekwu, Way Spoken, and uzo ekwo, Way Sung or Way of Singing and uzo igosi, Way to Perform or Way to Show or Way to Demonstrate or Way Shown or Way Indicated (containing the Pronunciations and Recitations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
IX — Way of Writing
The Way of Writing, uzo ederede, or Way of Text, also to be coupled with uzo edere, Way Written or Way North, and uzo igu and uzo agu, Way to Read or Way of Reading (containing the Orthography, Transcriptions, Translations and Transliterations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
X — Way of Mending
The Way of Mending, uzo mezie, or Way of Amending or Mended Way, also to be coupled with uzo mezi, Way Straight and uzo mmezi, Way of Repair or Way of Maintenance (containing the Amending, Care, Maintenance, Repair and Restoration of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Interlude
XI — Way Known
The Way Known, uzo mara, or Way of Knowing or Way to Know, also to be coupled with uzo mmatu, Cognitive Pathways, and uzo mmuta, Way Learned, Way of Learning, Educational Path or Curriculum (containing the Commentaries, Interpretations and Studies of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Coda
Ways of Being
Introduction
Along with the above key principles, the Policy on Independence and Freedoms requires your adherence to correlative freedoms and liberties delineated below.
Prelude
I — Allopoesis
Entrance, or uzo mbata (containing The Preamble)
Interlude
II — Cognopoesis
Main Way, isi uzo (containing the Core and Central Guidances)
III — Homeo/HeteroPoesis
The Way Inside, uzo n’ime, or Deeper Way or Way of Depth or Way of Profoundness (containing the Elaborated Guidances)
IV — Dignipoesis
The Way Below, uzo n’ala, or Way Underneath or Way in the Ground or Way of Libation or Way of Reference (containing the Footnotes of the Guidances)
V — Autopoesis
The Way Above, uzo n’elu, or Way Up High or Way in the Air or Way of Praise or Way of Direction (containing the Headnotes of the Guidances)
Interlude
VI — Equipoesis
The Way Forward, uzo n’ihu, or Way in Front or The Facing Way or Way of Seeing or Way to See, also to be coupled with uzo huru, Way Seen, and uzo anya, Way of Sight, of the Eye, of Love and The Long Way (containing the Connections and Mapping of the Guidances)
Interlude
VII — Gnopoesis
The Way of Hearing, uzo inu, or Way of Listening, also to be coupled with uzo nuru, Way Heard or Way Listend To and uzo nugo, Way Received, close to Understood and uzo nti, Ear Canal (containing the Audition and Reception of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
VIII — Liberapoesis
The Way of Expression, uzo okwu, or Way of Speech or Way of the Word, also to be coupled with uzo ekwu, Way Spoken, and uzo ekwo, Way Sung or Way of Singing and uzo igosi, Way to Perform or Way to Show or Way to Demonstrate or Way Shown or Way Indicated (containing the Pronunciations and Recitations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
IX — Civi/Co/Polipoesis
The Way of Writing, uzo ederede, or Way of Text, also to be coupled with uzo edere, Way Written or Way North, and uzo igu and uzo agu, Way to Read or Way of Reading (containing the Orthography, Transcriptions, Translations and Transliterations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
X — Recognopoesis
The Way of Mending, uzo mezie, or Way of Amending or Mended Way, also to be coupled with uzo mezi, Way Straight and uzo mmezi, Way of Repair or Way of Maintenance (containing the Amending, Care, Maintenance, Repair and Restoration of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Interlude
XI — Sanctopoesis
The Way Known, uzo mara, or Way of Knowing or Way to Know, also to be coupled with uzo mmatu, Cognitive Pathways, and uzo mmuta, Way Learned, Way of Learning, Educational Path or Curriculum (containing the Commentaries, Interpretations and Studies of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Coda
Ways of Relating
Introduction
Along with the above key principles, the Policy on Independence and Freedoms requires your adherence to correlative freedoms and liberties delineated below.
Prelude
I — Apprehension
Entrance, or uzo mbata (containing The Preamble)
Interlude
II — Metapoesis
Main Way, isi uzo (containing the Core and Central Guidances)
III — Physiopoesis
The Way Inside, uzo n’ime, or Deeper Way or Way of Depth or Way of Profoundness (containing the Elaborated Guidances)
IV — Emopoesis
The Way Below, uzo n’ala, or Way Underneath or Way in the Ground or Way of Libation or Way of Reference (containing the Footnotes of the Guidances)
V — Memopoesis
The Way Above, uzo n’elu, or Way Up High or Way in the Air or Way of Praise or Way of Direction (containing the Headnotes of the Guidances)
Interlude
VI — Ideopoesis and Semopoesis
The Way Forward, uzo n’ihu, or Way in Front or The Facing Way or Way of Seeing or Way to See, also to be coupled with uzo huru, Way Seen, and uzo anya, Way of Sight, of the Eye, of Love and The Long Way (containing the Connections and Mapping of the Guidances)
Interlude
VII — Ratiopoesis
The Way of Hearing, uzo inu, or Way of Listening, also to be coupled with uzo nuru, Way Heard or Way Listend To and uzo nugo, Way Received, close to Understood and uzo nti, Ear Canal (containing the Audition and Reception of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
VIII — Visiopoesis
The Way of Expression, uzo okwu, or Way of Speech or Way of the Word, also to be coupled with uzo ekwu, Way Spoken, and uzo ekwo, Way Sung or Way of Singing and uzo igosi, Way to Perform or Way to Show or Way to Demonstrate or Way Shown or Way Indicated (containing the Pronunciations and Recitations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
IX — Volopoesis
The Way of Writing, uzo ederede, or Way of Text, also to be coupled with uzo edere, Way Written or Way North, and uzo igu and uzo agu, Way to Read or Way of Reading (containing the Orthography, Transcriptions, Translations and Transliterations of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
X — Ethopoesis
The Way of Mending, uzo mezie, or Way of Amending or Mended Way, also to be coupled with uzo mezi, Way Straight and uzo mmezi, Way of Repair or Way of Maintenance (containing the Amending, Care, Maintenance, Repair and Restoration of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Interlude
XI — Comprehension
The Way Known, uzo mara, or Way of Knowing or Way to Know, also to be coupled with uzo mmatu, Cognitive Pathways, and uzo mmuta, Way Learned, Way of Learning, Educational Path or Curriculum (containing the Commentaries, Interpretations and Studies of the Guidances, by way of engagement in The Disciplines)
Coda
Regarding Poesis
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