Possible Clues:

• Core principles ... and when parsed differently, what you'll find across all of the answers to the starred clues
• Creeds
• ET x X, perhaps, one believes
• Dogmata
• Credos
• 'Beliefs, dogmas (6)'
• What a creed is composed of
• They're believed to be pitched around the East
• They're believed to get sent twisted at last
• Core convictions