Yapa

Book 5 – The First Law

1	This be the First Law of Honor:
2	Honor be respect for the rule of law;
3	Honor be respect for Yapa;
4	Honor be respect for all Forms of Spirit;
5	Honor be the honesty of voice, promise and action;
6	Honor be the adherence and performance of previous promise;
7	Honor be the commitment to health of body and mind;
8	Honor be the courage to defend family and community;
9	Honor be the wisdom to defend the law.
10	The words of an honorable man is his bond.
11	A man or woman of honor comes to a place of law,
12	Without an interest or benefit in the outcome of a judgment;
13	Without ill intent or prejudice to the one being accused.
14	A man who seeks to judge another with unclean hands,
15	Possesses no authority or honor to speak for law.
16	A man who seeks to judge another with prejudice and ill intent,
17	Injures the law and his own spirit.
18	A man who seeks to use the law to his advantage,
19	With unclean hands, ill intent or prejudice,
20	Is the worst of all transgressors against Law.
21	Without honor, there be no justice.
22	Any law that is against such truth cannot be law.