Downloads

Hub for taking the Harmonist corpus with you — every format, no gate, no signup. How the work is held: Transmission. See also: The Sovereign Substrate, The Sovereign Stack, Where Lodestone Runs, The Living Book, The Living Papers, The Living Podcast.

Every article on this site is freely readable on the web, freely downloadable in multiple formats, freely mirrorable to any substrate the practitioner chooses to mirror it to. The doctrine articulated at The Sovereign Substrate is operational here: knowledge is structurally non-rivalrous, applying the property-and-rent regime to it is a category error, and the Harmonist civilization treats the corpus as commons that the practitioner takes by right rather than receives by permission. This page is the operational expression of that doctrine — the canonical surface where the practitioner can take what they need.

Per-Article Downloads

Every article carries a download row near its top. Three file formats sit at the article’s own URL with an extension appended — no separate downloads directory, no index to consult. A reader or an agent holding an article’s address already knows where its markdown lives:

Raw markdown. /{article-path}.md — the source markdown, frontmatter intact and wikilinks preserved verbatim. For practitioners who want to feed an article into their own knowledge-management system (Obsidian, Logseq, etc.), translate it, run it through their own AI, or transform it in any other way. The wikilinks are kept rather than resolved because they carry the corpus graph: [[Dharma]] re-imported into a vault becomes a live edge again. The corpus is text; the text is the practitioner’s.

Standalone HTML. /{article-path}.html — a self-contained file with inline CSS. One file, readable offline on any device, with no external dependencies, no telemetry, no tracking, no future link-rot. Nothing is fetched at render time — not fonts, not images, not stylesheets. Wikilinks here are resolved to absolute URLs, since this format is read on devices with no vault behind them.

EPUB. /{article-path}.epub — the standard e-reader format. Works on Kindle, Kobo, Boox, Apple Books, Calibre, and every other reader that supports the open EPUB standard. The practitioner who reads long-form on dedicated hardware should use this format.

Copy. Beside the three download buttons sits a Copy button, which places the article’s own source markdown on the clipboard behind a four-line provenance header carrying the source URL and a link to the Glossary of Terms. It exists for the reader who wants to paste an article into an AI, a notebook, or a document rather than manage a file. What it copies is the markdown, not a scrape of the rendered page — headings, emphasis, and structure survive the paste.

No instruction block is prepended to the copied text. A preamble telling a model how to read Harmonism primes the model rather than informing it; the glossary link is passive, followable, and available to any reader — human or machine — who wants the terminology on its own terms.

PDF. The article header carries a Save as PDF button that opens the browser’s print dialog against the site’s print stylesheet. There is no pre-rendered .pdf file per article, and no plan for one: the print dialog already produces a correctly typeset PDF for every article in every language at zero build cost, whereas rendering ~2,900 article-language pairs through headless Chrome buys the same document at the price of an hours-long build step. Book-scale and Atlas-scale PDFs are a different matter and do ship as files — see below.

Audio. Where the text-to-speech pipeline has rendered an article, the player in the article header carries a download link to /audio/{slug}.mp3 (/audio/{lang}/{slug}.mp3 for translations). Audio is the one format that does not follow the article-path convention — the slug is a flat per-language identifier rather than the article’s path, so the link is worth taking from the player rather than constructing. Coverage is a curated set growing toward the full canon. The audio is single-voice TTS rather than studio recording; the production register is narrated canon rather than radio drama.

All of the above is Layer 1 — open substrate, no gate, no account. Payment, where there is any, funds rivalrous services, never formats of the knowledge.

The Sovereignty Bundle

The single zip download containing the entire publishable corpus plus five files for running your own Lodestone: a README, an instructions file for Claude, a user-preferences template, the building-your-own-companion guide, and LODESTONE.md, which a general assistant reads to answer as Lodestone (Lodestone § Through an Assistant You Already Pay For).

Download: harmonism.io/sovereignty-bundle.zip

The bundle is regenerated on every site build and reflects the current state of the corpus at the moment of generation. The version is encoded in the zip’s modification date. Practitioners who want to stay current can re-download periodically; the Lodestone desktop app fetches a newer corpus only when the practitioner asks for one, and otherwise answers from the copy it has indefinitely.

What’s inside:

  • The complete publishable corpus, about 390 articles in English (translations into nine languages join the bundle as they are made)
  • The doctrinal backbone document used by production Lodestone — byte-identical to the file in production, pulled fresh on every build, not a paraphrase
  • The Living Book volumes as EPUB
  • The Living Atlas as Markdown and EPUB
  • The five files for running your own companion

The bundle is the practitioner’s own. Mirror it, share it, host it under your own colours. The corpus survives by being copied; every mirror is an additional point of resilience against any single hosting failure.

Lodestone

Lodestone comes through three doors. Lodestone in the browser installs nothing: it opens at harmonism.io, keeps the corpus and the practitioner’s memory in the browser, and thinks on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash through a free harmonism.io account or an OpenRouter key of the practitioner’s own. Lodestone for your computer, a folder opened with a double-click, serves the same app from the machine itself and thinks with a model of its own on a computer of 16 GB or more.

Lodestone Desktop, for Mac, Windows and Linux, carries the whole English library and the doctrinal backbone the hosted companion runs. It thinks on the same two routes, or downloads an open-weight model sized to the machine’s memory and then answers with no connection at all. Phones on the same Wi-Fi can use that model, and a Telegram bot of the practitioner’s own carries it further while the computer is awake.

Lodestone Mobile is the app for Android, or the browser door added to an iPhone’s Home Screen. It keeps the corpus for reading offline and thinks on the account, on an OpenRouter key, or on Lodestone Desktop over the home Wi-Fi. No phone runs a model itself: the models small enough to fit answer badly enough to misrepresent the system they speak for.

Wherever Lodestone thinks on a machine the practitioner does not own, someone reads each message in order to answer it and promises not to keep it. A conversation is private only when the model runs on the practitioner’s own computer (Where Lodestone Runs).

The Living Series

Beyond per-article downloads and the full Sovereignty Bundle, the corpus is also organised into curated reading and listening surfaces — each its own hub.

The Living Atlas is the corpus at essence-scale — every published article compressed to a single paragraph, gathered into one document ordered by the architecture of the system, each essence linking to its full articulation. Readable online at /the-living-atlas/read/, downloadable as PDF, HTML, EPUB, and Markdown — the markdown edition doubles as the canonical single-document representation of the whole system for any reader, human or machine.

The Living Book is the book series — eight volumes currently published across 182 chapters (Philosophical Foundations, The Diagnosis, The Invisible Architecture, The Convergence, The Architecture, The Horizon, The Civilizations, and the Wheel volume), within the fifteen-volume Library of Harmonia architecture; the remaining slots are the per-pillar Way volumes plus Frontiers. Each volume is curated for a specific reader and audience. Every volume ships as an in-browser reader and as four downloads — EPUB, PDF, Markdown, and standalone HTML.

The Living Papers is the academic-paper-register subset of the corpus — eight papers as of mid-2026 articulating Harmonism in the form the scholarly community recognises. Living documents that mature continuously along their own classification axes; snapshots are frozen and dated when submitted for external publication.

The Living Podcast is the narrated-canon audio feed — canonical articles rendered as MP3 by the TTS pipeline and organised as podcast episodes. The TTS layer is producing audio now and per-article MP3s are downloadable today; the feed itself is Phase B — RSS live, browsable archive, distribution to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube Music — and has not launched. The hub carries current status.

The Living Video is the architectural commitment to TTS-audio-plus-visual-overlay video derivatives of canonical articles — no talking head, no founder face. The build opened in October 2026, with Harmonism — A First Encounter as the first series; no video is published yet.

The Living System is the entry-level orientation that aggregates the cross-format reading paths — what to read, in what order, in what form, for which audience.

Translations

The corpus is published in English, the canonical source, at the root paths. Translations into nine languages, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Russian, are planned and will be published as they are made. Each language will have its own directory mirroring the English structure, /{lang}/{article-path}, and its per-article downloads will follow the same convention: /{lang}/{article-path}.md, .html, .epub. English stays canonical, and a translation is read against it.

Mirror, Host, Re-Publish

The corpus carries no licence, and that is the position rather than an omission. Transmission is the canonical statement: Harmonia makes no proprietary claim and invokes no institutional remedy — no copyright enforcement, no trademark enforcement, no patent claim, no recourse to courts whose authority the doctrine itself diagnoses as severed from Logos. Copy, mirror, translate, teach, quote, integrate, adapt, build upon. Attribution is appreciated where the coherence of transmission depends on it and not required where the substance has been integrated into your own seeing; the discipline is editorial, not legal. A licence would be the wrong instrument here — every licence, including the permissive ones, enforces its terms through the copyright regime, and the doctrinal commitment articulated at The Sovereign Substrate is a refusal of that regime rather than a favourable settlement within it. Read Transmission for the full articulation.

The architecturally durable mirror path is content-addressed storage. Pinning the Sovereignty Bundle on IPFS, hosting it on a sovereign server, distributing it via BitTorrent — each is a node in the distributed survival of the corpus. The architecture matters as much as any single domain or hosting arrangement; the corpus persists as long as the network of mirrors persists, regardless of what happens to any single point.

For practitioners running their own infrastructure: clone the corpus into a vault you control, configure your own Lodestone against it with the building-your-own-companion guide, and the doctrine lives on your substrate independent of Harmonia’s continued operation. This is not a fallback; it is the asymptotic architecture.

Sacred Commerce

The downloads are free. The making is not.

The corpus is sustained by ongoing work — writing, editing, translation, infrastructure maintenance, the operational substrate that keeps the website running and the bundle current. The Harmonist economic form is Sacred Commerce: the work circulates as a commons, and the making is sustained by streams that need no enclosure. Some things are sold because each costs something every time it is given, and gifts arrive directly through sovereign monetary substrate, with no intermediary taking a margin.

Practitioners who want to contribute can do so through any of the following channels:

  • Bitcoin, on-chain or over Lightning
  • Monero, for a gift that stays private
  • Decred, the third money Harmonia endorses
  • USDC, accepted for those who already hold it

The addresses are on Contribute. A gift buys nothing: no feature, no place in a queue, no name on a list. Retreats, individual guidance, workshops and printed books, which cost something each time they are given, are offered on their own terms when they take place.

Closing

The corpus is the practitioner’s own. Take what you need. Read it on the device of your choice in the format of your choice on the schedule of your choice. Mirror it where you want; share it with whoever you want; teach from it; translate it; integrate it into your own knowledge architecture. The doctrine articulated across this work is yours to take up by the same mechanism the doctrine articulates: substrate sovereignty extends to the corpus that names it.

The work is given. The taking is the practice.

See also: Transmission, The Sovereign Substrate, The Sovereign Stack, Where Lodestone Runs, The Living Book, The Living Papers, The Living Podcast, The Living Video, The Living System, Cypherpunks and Harmonism.