Doctrine Series

Core teachings of the Living Line — how erasure happened, how land remembers, and how ratios of power were built.

Living Line Doctrine Series

The Gate to the Whole Philosophy

This is the doorway into the Living Line worldview. Each doctrine is a master key: one for erasure, one for land and heaven, one for numbers and ratios of power. Together, they explain how our families were renamed and how to put them back.

Erasure & Reclassification Land & Heaven on Earth Ratios of Power
Start with Doctrine of Erasure Browse the full series

Reading Path

How to Move Through the Doctrines

The Doctrine Series is meant to be read as a sequence, not as random essays. Each doctrine hands you a specific lens. When you stack them, you see the whole machine.

  1. Doctrine I — Doctrine of Erasure. How Indigenous and “Colored” families were reclassified on paper: the forms, the labels, the census tricks, and the way “Black” got used as a storage bin.
  2. Doctrine II — Heaven Is On Earth. Land, districts, and blood memory. Why the map itself is sacred text, and why “heaven” is not somewhere else — it is the territory your line was pulled from.
  3. Doctrine III — Racial Ratio Doctrine. How census counts, parish rolls, and ratios of “white / colored / Indian / Black” were engineered to redraw reality, and how those ratios still control housing, schooling, and who is “seen” in law.

You can drop in anywhere, but the strongest impact comes from starting at Doctrine I, then moving through II and III in order. Each one shifts what the last one means.

Doctrine Index

Doctrines & Core Exhibits

Every doctrine is paired with at least one visual exhibit — maps, ledgers, or corridor diagrams. The text tells you what happened. The exhibits show you where it happened and to who.

Doctrine I
Doctrine of Erasure
How Indigenous families in Nova Scotia and the wider Atlantic world were turned into “Colored,” “Negro,” and “Black” on paper. This doctrine walks through the forms, the census lines, and the policy logic that tried to erase nationhood.
Primary exhibit: Reclassification Atlas · Supporting: Poll books, parish lists, corridor diagrams.
Open Doctrine I
Doctrine II
Heaven Is On Earth
A land-based doctrine. Districts, rivers, and coves as sacred architecture. This doctrine lays out why “heaven” is not abstract — it is the place your family was removed from, and why the land remembers even when the records lie.
Primary exhibit: District-based Atlas · Supporting: Corridor highlight strips, ancestral placements.
Open Doctrine II
Doctrine III
Racial Ratio Doctrine
The doctrine that deals with numbers. How ratios of “race” were built into poll taxes, schools, and church rolls — and how those fractions still govern who counts, who is funded, and who gets treated as original to the land.
Primary exhibit: Misclassification Mechanism Diagram · Supporting: Ratio tables, district tallies.
Open Doctrine III
Doctrine IV
Reserved for Future Doctrine
This slot is held for a later teaching once the first three doctrines are fully anchored in the archive. It may focus on law, memory work, or economic repair — depending on what the research demands.
Status: Concept shelf · Not yet published.
Coming later in the series.

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