Yapa

Book 5 – The First Law

1	This be the First Law of Action:
2	Action be intention in motion.
3	Different intentions can cause similar actions;
4	Similar intentions can cause different actions;
5	Yet right intention causes right action.
6	Do not curse others, nor issue spells.
7	Do not speak ill of the name of others,
8	If good cannot be spoken, be silent.
9	Do not speak falsities or gossip,
10	As it spreads illness of mind,
11	And sickness of spirit.
12	Kill only those animals needed for food;
13	Never kill a pregnant animal,
14	As you will have famine in the future.
15	Do not kill and eat other people,
16	This is taboo and against your own spirit.
17	If you are forced to kill other people,
18	Let it be to defend your life,
19	To defend your family,
20	To defend the honor of law.
21	A man or woman of honor does not need to be killed.
22	He will kill himself if the punishment be death.
23	Every action according to law is sacred action.
24	A man or woman cannot be judged on action alone;
25	Only when his intentions are clear.
26	If he be a man of honor, his actions will reveal truth.
27	If he not be a man of honor,
28	The law and place of law will reveal the truth for him.