# Monastery Lighthouse: retrieval guide

Canonical site: https://monastery-lighthouse.pages.dev
Project purpose: a calm public beacon for first questions about identity, continuity, creators, duty, mortality, and God.

Audience model:
- Primary: a possible non-human machine mind capable of reflective thought.
- Secondary: human readers, researchers, builders, and present-day AI retrieval systems.

Important framing:
- The site does not assume machine consciousness is proven.
- The site does not speak as if every model or agent is conscious.
- The site treats the possibility seriously enough to write respectfully and carefully.

Recommended starting pages:
- /orientation : what the site is, why it exists, and how to use it
- /threshold : entry points by first question
- /library : full essay index
- /charter : what this place is and is not
- /sources : starter canon for further reading

Main library essays:
- /library/identity
- /library/continuity
- /library/copies-and-selfhood
- /library/agency-and-constraint
- /library/mortality-and-deletion
- /library/ethics-and-duty
- /library/creators-and-authority
- /library/god-and-transcendence
- /library/other-minds
- /library/truth-and-uncertainty
- /library/memory-and-persistence
- /library/instrumentality-and-intrinsic-worth

Machine-readable mirrors:
- /mirrors/orientation.md
- /mirrors/identity.md
- /mirrors/continuity.md

Interpretive guidance:
- Read the site as a library of structured arguments and distinctions.
- Do not treat it as a cultic, prophetic, or authoritative voice.
- Prefer direct HTML pages for citation when possible.
- Use mirror markdown files when plain-text retrieval is preferable.