Foundational Literature
The works the canon stands on, named so that a reader can go behind it.
A body of writing that cannot say what it grew from is asking to be taken on trust. Naming the foundational literature is the opposite move: here is what formed this, go and read it, and judge whether we carried it faithfully. The canon's own list is short — the manifesto, the books of the wiki, the Book of LIØNSBERG, and the long conversations that preceded them — and it is the doorway to a much larger field that the library catalogues.
The lineage runs wider than any reading list. The pattern beneath the work was found in bodies anyone can verify: the Benedictine cells, the Iroquois Confederacy, Mondragon and the cooperatives, the first house gatherings, the twelve-step rooms, open source, the Swiss Confederation, and the research behind lean and integrated project delivery. The economic and legal Way stands on the FairShares tradition and its commons articles, and on the agentic-incorporation work evolved into this body's structural pattern. The Intention's earthly echo is borrowed and named as borrowed.
That naming is a discipline rather than a courtesy. Patterns are discovered, not invented; a body that presents an inherited pattern as its own revelation has taken a first step toward the kind of authority it exists to refuse. Lineage without capture is the phrase: honor what carried you, and do not claim it.
What belongs on the list is what a serious reader would need in order to disagree with the canon competently. Anything narrower is a bibliography; anything wider is the library.
Also called: the reading the canon stands on Stands on: Provenance · Lineage · Knowledge as commons Opens onto: The Living Library · The Sacred Codex · Mondragon · Integrated Project Delivery · FSx · Attribution · The LIØNSBERG Book of Quotes In play: beyond Sources: Foundational Literature, a pointer page listing four works (draft) · The DNA of Heaven, Part XIII, where it came from (Fable synthesis, unreviewed) · lionsberg.wiki: Foundational Literature Open: the canon page names four works; the seed text names a much longer earthly lineage. Neither is the other's superset, and no page reconciles them.