This document discusses the philosophy of the Sith from the Star Wars universe. It summarizes the Sith code, which teaches that peace is a lie and one should gain strength through passion and power through strength to achieve victory. It argues that the dark side provides passion and strength, not evil, and explores other tenants of the Sith like using fear and the rule of one over the rule of two. The document aims to portray the Sith philosophy in a positive light rather than as purely evil.

1. The Truth about the Sith
And the Knowledge of the Dark Side
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2. To:
My mentor and Friend Darth Omega,
my love and apprentice Darth Sinarian
and my first apprentice Darth Antidious.
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3. Table of contents
•Introduction ………………………………………..Page 6
•Chapter 1
The Code and beyond………………………….Page 7
•Chapter 2
Other attachments to the Dark side……..Page 15
•Chapter 3
The Rule of Two/ the Rule of One and the evil in
the Dark Side……………………………………….Page.19
•Final Thoughts……………………………………Page 21
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4. Introduction
What can be told about the dark side?
Many Things, and for that you must have
to understand that this book express no
more than an opinion, a philosophy based
in the Dark Side created by George Lucas
for the wonderful universe of Star Wars.
However the Dark Side has been
portrayed as an evil force, the users as
beasts without sense of honour, having
only few things in mind: war, death,
treason… but what was shown will prove
to be wrong as we take one more step
into the knowledge of the Dark Side and
find more reason and sense than the
“Light Side” ever was able to show. There,
we see the lies that were told, we unveil
the many secrets of the Dark Side, and
while transferring those teachings to our
lives we can make them useful in order to
keep us in the path of success and
freedom, only using our emotions and
will, always focusing into our objectives.
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5. Chapter 1
The Code and beyond
The essence of the Sith is based in a very
specific code; it is from it that all Sith draw
their power and are able to sustain
themselves in the path to strength, power,
victory and freedom.
But for many time the code has fallen, and
while being mislead by people, the Jedi
helped in the process by transforming his
true meaning into sentences of terror and
extremist words; and making people
believe in their lies was what dictated the
fall of this code’s meaning…only to rise
again, full of meaning and truth.
“Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force Shall set me free.”
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6. “Peace is a lie…”
Why should we believe in peace when we
look around and see nothing but war?
Peace is a dream, there is no true peace as
the divergence of opinion confers
opposition between ideas; that opposition
creates conflict and then comes war as
always one tries to implement his ideas
into another’s mind, there must be always
conflict and opposition or people wouldn’t
be unique, different and original.
Peace must be attained only by personal
conquest, the achievement of goals, and
then we shall feel it in ourselves, only for
our own delight, for this false sense of
peace is only in us as the others still
struggle for their conflicts and personal
wars.
After all it is a matter of perception: What
I think to be peace can be war to others
and vice versa.
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7. “…There is only passion”
There are many ways of understanding the
key word of this phrase, “passion” can be
described as:
-Any powerful emotion or feeling, as love
or hate;
-Strong amorous feeling or desire, love;
-A strong or extravagant fondness,
enthusiasm, or desire for anything;
-An outburst of strong emotion or feeling.
Whatever best suits the word, we must
agree that the essence of action and will
comes from passion; it is this “outburst”
that compels us to act, that drives us and
allows us to accomplish or strongest
desires.
Isn’t our passion what allow us to defend
what we believe? Without our passion we
could never impose ourselves, we could
never fight for what is right, we could
never win and be victorious…Passion is the
true desire for something, that makes act
and obtain what we strongly desire.
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8. “Through passion, I gain strength.”
The passion to achieve anything gives us
strength, if we truly desire something
there is nothing that can stop us because
our emotions grant us strength. It is
hidden behind passion as we act, but the
strong feelings allow us to achieve another
level and pass through all obstacles on our
path. This link favors all users of passion,
so we must learn to listen to our basic
desires and use them as we want, always
mediating emotions; and so, controlling
this strength we allow ourselves to reach
the next step: Power.
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9. “Through strength, I gain power.”
Power comes from many places, but for
what matter to us, it is the trust placed in
us by those around us. It is the
responsibility to those that recognize our
strength and passion not only to guide
them but to guide their lives as well.
However Strength and power shall always
be linked with the will and passion, or no
emotion will be able to provide us fully-
directed and sustained actions, and loose
ourselves in another path that can lead us
to failure and misery.
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10. “Through power, I gain victory.”
Our passion, strength and power will lead
to victory. Through the smart use of this
linked ideas we shall obtain victory and
success, as we outburst our emotions and
fight for our objectives, we will be
provided with strength, and by using the
will, strength and trust of others we will
be able to forge our way into assured
victory.
However we shall obtain them with
perseverance and always with truthful
thoughts in mind. On the contrary of the
given idea by the movies and the Jedi,
users of the dark side can be trusted and
honourable.
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11. “Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force Shall set me free.”
It is assured that with victory personal
satisfaction is achieved, and this
satisfaction allows us to “break our
chains”. These chains can be imaginary,
but the feeling of freedom is true, and
feeling it accordingly to the objective
achieved shall be rewarding. It is the basic
satisfaction given to the completion of a
raw desire; it is the “freedom” we feel as
we finish an important task.
Now, the second part is more of a
confirmation of the first with a touch of
the star wars symbolism; we shall
understand “force” as “the way of things”,
“the way things happen” and so it shall
represent the inevitable freedom we feel
as we make things happen, the control we
have over things, and so be able to enjoy
our victory over a completed objective;
After all we may not be able to have true
peace but we can be free. 11

12. This Code teaches us what we need to
reach the state of freedom that lies within
us, teaches us the most efficient steps to
reach satisfaction and completion of our
most desired objectives, teaches us how
to use our emotions, to control ourselves
and obtain strength, teaches us as many
things as we unveil from it. Of course all
this is only possible if we have the
courage and bravery to go after what we
want from it.
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13. Chapter 2
Other attachments to the Dark side
It is obvious that the Dark Side is not only
the Sith Code but much more; there are
several other attachments that are
fundamental and that we have to
understand in order to fully instruct
ourselves in the Dark Side.
There are other links to the code that we
will have to get deeper alongside several
attachments with the objective of better
explain their importance and
indispensable meaning.
“We all need to look into the dark side of
our nature - that's where the energy is, the
passion. People are afraid of that because
it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
Sue Grafton
As it is said by Sue Grafton, we all have a
dark side; we all need to look at it, and
understand that it can provide us energy,
the passion that we need to act, the raw
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14. And those are the ones we are afraid to
see and/or remember, people are afraid to
show the true nature, a more aggressive
and animal nature indeed, but that is why
we must control that side and take
advantage of it, always restraining it.
There are several emotions that we can
use to become stronger, using them
accordingly to the situation will prove
useful, for instance, sadness is a weak
emotion, it give us nothing, only make us
weak, but transforming it into anger will,
in certain occasions, prove very useful as
we overcome sadness morphing it into
anger, and when releasing that anger we
will pass through the situation easily, the
key to prevail is to restrain that anger and
not let it control us as we shall be the one
controlling it, using it, for the Sith use the
Dark side as they see fit and as opposite to
the Jedi, the Sith use the force (as ”the
way things happen”) and are not used by
it, the Sith control their fate and destiny.
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15. “Nothing great in the world has ever been
accomplished without passion.”
Hebbel (German Poet and Dramatist,
1813-1863)
Hebbel tell us the great importance of
passion, as we can see the key for great
things is passion, as said before, passion
gives us strength to act, the will to
accomplish objectives and desires
sometimes hidden inside us, we must have
determination to act, and with passion we
shall release our emotions and use them
to finish our task successfully.
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his
vision comes from passion, not position.”
John Maxwell (American Author and
motivational speaker)
This time is John Maxwell that show us
that it is not our position that matter, with
passion we have the strength to
accomplish everything we believe we
can(n’t); our visions, our desires, we have
all needed to accomplish them, and with
strength we can beat everything that
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16. “You gain strength, courage, and
confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
People are afraid of the unknown, of what
is hidden. quot;Sith have no fearquot;(Darth
Tyranus) so it must be none inside them;
as it reveals along the path the best is to
“look it in the face” and take advantage of
it; “Fear is my ally” (Darth Maul) and for
that we must surpass him and use it on
the opposition, even in our enemies,
making them afraid of us is our best
shield, from there we can mold them, and
take them out of our way.
Using fear always was one of the most
important keys used by Sith and so they
developed an important link with fear; It
has great effect when persuading “Light
side users” to join the Dark Side as they
tend to fear their opposite, eventually
falling into the Dark Side by feeling the
superiority and by searching for freedom
as the chains of the “Light Side” are heavy
and restrain emotions.
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17. Chapter 3
The Rule of Two/ the Rule of One and
the evil in the Dark Side
quot;When your power eclipses mine I will
become expendable. This is the Rule of
Two: one Master and one apprentice.
When you are ready to claim the mantle of
Dark Lord as your own, you must do so by
eliminating me.quot;
Darth Bane to Darth Zannah
The rule of Two aims to concentrate the
knowledge and power only in the master
and the apprentice. Thought to be the
true nature of the Sith, that is only one of
the options a Sith can follow. This rule
claims the urge for treason as the
apprentice shall eliminate the master
when feeling ready to succeed and
become a master himself, but there is a
better choice, one that fits better our way
of life and society, The Rule of One.
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18. quot;Instead of two there is now only one—the
Sith Order itself. (…)For what use is power
without one?quot;
Darth Krayt
The Rule of One show us that the Sith are
not necessarily individuals corrupted by
treason and lust for power; this Rule tell
us that there is no need to be two but to
be only “one”, “one” that proves much
more powerful than the “two” master and
apprentice. This “one” is the whole Sith
Order, with all believers under one flag,
the true way to spread the teachings of
the Dark Side.
The Rule of One gives a purpose to the
power that the Dark Side gives us, unlike
the rule of two that believes power to be
its own purpose. United, the Sith can work
as one and the quest for power has a new
objective: the integrity of the order and
the spreading of the teachings. This way
masters could have more than one
apprentice and this one would not have
the need to eliminate his master once
wiser and stronger than him.
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19. The Dark Side and the Sith always were
linked to evil, but this link is fruit of
ignorance and lack of information. The
Dark Side itself is not evil and does not
make the user evil, It is the user's belief in
the Dark Side's corrupting ability and their
own personality and teachings that make
them evil, if well balanced a Sith does not
need to be evil and those who do not
respect this inner balance cannot name
themselves as Sith but as Dark Side users,
they do not respect the teachings of the
Sith and do not follow the code. Those
dark side users can indeed be evil, and
their actions can cause harm.
quot;Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the
weak. The dark side is about survival. It's
about unleashing your inner power. It
glorifies the strength of the individual.quot;
Darth Zannah
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20. Final Thoughts
There is much more that can be told
about the ways of the Sith, there are
many interpretations of the code, there
are several relations that can be made in
the Sith philosophy, but one thing we
must understand: The Sith have been
misunderstood, there is no evil in the
Dark Side, it is a state of mind that
provides us a more frontal and decided
way to act, more passionate! It is another
way to see things, and it is not for that
fact that the Sith cannot live among us,
and be honoured men…The Dark Side is
inside us all, it is the hidden side we all
have, and when well applied it unveils
many great things, just cast your
objective, believe in it, use your strength
with passion and then you shall be
victorious.
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21. For more information contact
Darth_Vilious@hotmail.com.
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