Principles of the Irminenschaft

​What IS a "principle" and why are they important to Irminen? According to the Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language a principle is a fundamental truth, law, doctrine, or motivating force upon which others are based. Principles are  overwhelming obvious ideas that are often accepted as a matter of faith. A  principle is also considered an essential element or constituent of a process.  Thus, principles of a process are key characteristics that separate the process  from other approaches.



Evolution: Always in motion, a process of development

Ancestry: One's family history cannot be over-emphasized

Preservation: To keep alive, maintain, set apart

Rita: Patterns, cycles, rhythm of cosmic & primordial law

Dynamism: Great energy, force, vigor or power

Furtherance: Promotion, advancement, pressing forward

Virtue: Moral excellence, admirable quality, uprightness
 
Carroll E.H. Reimer 

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