Sith 101

Begin with the philosophy. The Sith Code is the core of Sith philosophy. Read it from the different points of view of the Sith Lords (past and present) and start there.

The majority of humankind has a flawed internal energy system. They are miserable, dishonest, and trapped in lives they’ve created.

Draconis once said a Sith does not have to worry about who they spend time with because a Sith’s energy contaminates the energy of others—i.e., we create so much internal energy that we overflow.

We produce this power through the cultivation of passion, turned into strength.

III

Passion is energy. You know that feeling when you’re all fired up and feel like you can do anything? Like you’re completely invincible? Imagine you could feel that way 80% of the time instead of the usual 10-20%. I have to say 80% because much of the Sith Path is unpleasant and hard work. It means making tough decisions that most people never have to make. And a lot of people are crushed trying to take even those first steps.

How do you turn passion into strength? Tell me your passions, those things you love to do more than anything else. Those things you’d move mountains for. There’s your strength—your passion inspires you so much that you’ll find a way, whatever that way is. So that mountain needs moving? Okay, then move the mountain. And in moving the mountain, you will learn that you are powerful. And in learning that, you will find your freedom.

By making passion your first focus, you begin to live a life that revolves around it. This, which is most important to you, becomes the reason you wake up every day, the reason you do everything you do. You begin to live a passionate, energized life because everything you do matters. Everything you do takes you towards your goals. And sure, you stumble, and the downside of a passionate life is that you feel the pain harder than most.

You have to ask yourself—Is the passion still more important than my emotional safety? And if you say yes, and you pick yourself up and keep going, you become a little stronger. That is how you become stronger than everything that’s trying to keep you down. That is how strength develops. That is how you become an energetic, passionate person. That’s how you rise above and become powerful.

And one day, all those things that tried to drag you down are absent. In the Sith, we refer to that as breaking our chains. We are left free to fly as the free, spiritual beings we were born to be.

Some chains are tough to break. For example, if you love someone who hurts you. Just being around them stops you from achieving your full potential. And then you have to decide which is more important.

Those questions are capable of crushing men. Whether you choose to let go and be free or stay chained—there is no easy decision to be made.

Sith are called evil and ruthless because the most powerful of them can make those decisions. But they have to live with them, too.

That kind of weight can make a person cold. The passion must stay the focus, to keep the spirit a warm, burning flame and not a cold, destructive one.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do—determined to save the only life you could save.