THE OATH – FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BE SOVEREIGN (“Commandments” for those who would

THE OATH – FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BE SOVEREIGN

(“Commandments” for those who would obey.)

“Christendom without Christianity.”

1) Extend familial love to brothers in arms, first above all.

2) Extend kinship love to the polity

3) Extirpate hatred from the human heart.

4) Show tolerance of honest error, intolerance of all else; and respect for those who earn it, and disrespect for those who don’t. Kneel to none.

5) Speak the truth without exception.

6) Master an art, a science, a craft, and a trade.

7) Bear and raise children to be warriors, husbands and fathers of your grand children, and teachers, wives, and mothers of your grandchildren.

8) Preserve, Maintain and Beautify the commons

9) Safeguard the young, weak, and elderly.

10) Take nothing not paid for, seek nothing not earned.

11) Place no burden of notice, attention or impediment upon others.

12) Perform and enforce restitution for all wrongs.

13) Punish or kill the criminal, wicked, and lazy.

14) Defeat and exterminate all enemies completely

15) Leave life having transcended yourself, your line, your polity, man, and this land, closer to omniscience, omnipotence, sovereignty, and beauty.

—“This is all via-positiva and would lend itself as an outline for a set of hero tales. Each tale explores the limits operations and consequences of the spectrum each line item above refers. Teach it to kids (duty) so they can emulate it as adolescents (virtue) and demonstrate it as adults (utility).”—Bill Joslin