beliefs and practices

development

This document will track the development of the beliefs and practices of a local gathering of seekers. The seekers web site development began in April of 2002 and Quest, Beliefs and Practices were published to the "public" side of the seekers site sometime in the summer of 2002 after July 8th.

These documents are under development and the following section makes the developing edits of the documents reviewable by all seeker council members.
Quest Beliefs Practices

Quest (We, the seekers)
web edition #1
summer, 2002
(made read only on 16Nov02)

 Beliefs - "We are Mosaics"
web edition #1
summer, 2002
(made read only on 16Nov02)

Practices - "We have found and we practice..."
web edition #1
summer, 2002
(made read only on 16Nov02)

"Quest" numbered edit copy,
accessible to council only		 "Beliefs" numbered edit copy,
accessible to council only		 "Practices" numbered edit copy,
accessible to council only
The following section tracks the development of the documents from their first draft. Note that the title changes, but it is still the same developing document and the revision number tracks the sequence. Note also that some revisions only show a slight change from the previous revision, but all are included in the interest of full disclosure (and because disk space is cheap).
Version and notes re this revision date completed
"We are Mosaics" - inspired by discussions with a group of seekers holding Sunday evening meetings at the Ram in the Thicket, Milford, New-Hampshire. This document resulted from a seeking for guidelines on how to live, since it was felt that in the explosion of liberalism, some structure had been lost and new guidance was needed.
Note: the Epiru symbol at the top of the page is a heiroglyph symbol for the Hebrews, who are "out of the house of bondage." [credit to Dr. Andrew Tempelman for this iconography]
 hand-written notation: 7/29/1999
"We are Mosaics, Rev. 2"
belief 15 added, "...that if we fail...", other minor changes
 footer notation: August 11, 1999
"We are Mosaics, Rev. 3"
no discernible change from Rev. 2
 footer notation: August 16, 1999
"We are XXX, Rev. 4"
began questioning use of "Mosaics", since it risks identifying our seeker gathering as a sect of Judaism
 footer notation: December 15, 1999
"We are Mosaics, Rev. 5"
got over the use of "Mosaics", added preamble
 footer notation: February 21, 2001
"We are Mosaics, Rev. 6"
changed word processor program, no edits
 computer file notation: December 16, 2001
"The Quest, Rev. 7"
new prelude added, the Quest
 computer file notation: December 19, 2001
computer file notation: December 21, 2001
"Quest, Belief and Practices, Rev. 9"
added additional practices categories without elaboration, other minor wording changes
 computer file notation: December 24, 2001
"Quest, Belief and Practices, Rev. 10"
numerous general revisions and new writing
 computer file notation: January 3, 2002
computer file notation: January 10, 2002
computer file notation: January 11, 2002
computer file notation: January 26, 2002
"Quest, Belief and Practices, Rev. 14"
general revs, added belief re God
 computer file notation: January 26, 2002
"Quest, Belief and Practices, Rev. 15"
mark-ups and comments after review with prospective councilor
 computer file notation: July 8, 2002
After revision 15, this document was re-edited and up-loaded to the web with 3 different pages for Quest, Beliefs and Practices. These documents became the Web Edition No. 1 referred to above. Edits continued on these pages until they were locked on 16 November 2002.

 

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