There is No Unity

The Sith will never be identified as a whole, under one united front. There are individuals, and some of them communicate with one another through the internet, phone conversations, even gatherings, but there are no singular, all-encompassing orders. Neither unity nor communion correlate to the individualistic nature of our ways. Emma Syncler said it well in stating that our only unity is through diversity. In any group, even the one that currently houses this lecture, the final say on who is Sith, on what it means to be one… falls to the individual. Even at the best of them I would only dare to call the collective just that… a collection of individuals who, by their own will, expose their feelings and thoughts to other Sith practitioners.

So let me tell you what I call Sith…

A being that guides the transformation of his mind, body, and spirit. Through implementation of his will the path is forged, not followed. This requires mindfulness, based on the foundation of a quintessential awareness. Awareness of Passion! Awareness of its manifestations (emotion) and the objects it reaches for (the things you live for, the things you’re addicted to, the things you couldn’t live without), as well as of the thing itself (the drive to grow, to expand). Awareness of these things allow for pursuit of them. Through those pursuits… the individual grows stronger. And the importance of strength, shouldn’t be overlooked. Without it and the power it brings, no living creature could survive. By extension nothing could thrive without it. No man could bring his dreams to fruition.

Imagine yourself as a world. First… you have to learn the terrain. Then grow beyond it, destroy it. And then begins the task of putting it all back together. ‘Did I get it right the first time?’ ‘Did I get it right last time?’ ‘What about all the other times throughout my life in which I continually destroy and create?’ ‘Will I ever get it right in this lifetime?’ Will there ever be a time to rest? The answer to all of these questions is No. But again and again we get better at it, closer to understanding what we want it to become, closer to making it what has been envisioned. In other words, we adapt more and more to the darkness, the unknown, the uncertainty that we elect to immerse ourselves within, and reach closer and closer to a state that might be called a kind of “at-one-ment” with darkness and discovery.

(A Sith Aphorism) Any order that fails to recognize the mercenary nature of our path does so at its own risk.