The final rule cannot directly be quoted, but using the Terry Goodkinds knowledge that it is indirectly stated you can interprete it. Rachel tells Violet, "No Violet, I want to live, you came here to hate." This is the key that crosses the sword of truth with the secret to a war wizards power. That you embrace life and do what you do for love, not hate. Richard uses this rule when he dispassionately orders Jagangs death and Zedd confirms he did it correctly, "Strength without hate." In Confessor, Richard goes through great struggle to obtain a book left for him by Baraccus, a great wizard from the past. Richard believes this book entitled Secrets to a War Wizard's Power will be a means for him to finally understand how to use his gift and therefore in essence be the solution to major problems. Once he obtains the book however, its pages are blank and his grandfather Zedd informs him that Baraccus left it blank to illustrate the meaning of the rule unwritten.
As far as the knowledge within the book was concerned, there was 'nothing in it', much like Secrets to a War Wizard's Power. The Sword of Truth, representative of its namesake, was key to life. The secret to Richard's power is that he seeks the truth. In seeking truth he turns a blind eye to corrupt ideas and embraces that which is the essence of life itself. The Sisters of the Dark assumed the truth to be what they had always been told by others and never thought to verify it themselves. The price they paid for such an oversight was their lives. Moreover, the sisters would never have been able to access the power of life even with the sword because they were acting through hate. Richard, on the other hand, intended to use the power to help those he cared about and thus had the ability to harness the power of life. "those who have come here to hate should leave now, for in their hatred they only betray themselves" - translated from The Book of Life.
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There are countless examples of nearly everyone doing this in the books, Jagang and the brotherhood finding humanity to be flawed and ergo beyond salvation, Jensen going after 'Lord Rahl', those from Naked Empire unwilling to acknowledge evil, the sisters, especially the ones who thought they could embrace a perversion of life as a connection to Richard, the false seekers too. This is especially telling, Because the sword of truth came with a warning about unintended results from false perceptions, killing an ally or failing against a foe. All of these false seekers had the unbalanced magic rebound into themselves. Samuel, who killed the previous seeker and continually used the sword for selfish means, is the example in extreme. Someone who acted utterly without regard to balance "mine, gimme!"
The Dreyfus Affair in its political implications could survive because two of its elements grew in importance during the twentieth century. The first is hatred of the Jews; the second, suspicion of the republic itself, of Parliament, and the state machine. The larger section of the public could still go on thinking the latter, rightly or wrongly, under the influence of the Jews and the power of the banks. Down to our times the term Anti-Dreyfusard can still serve as a recognized name for all that is antirepublican, antidemocratic, and antisemitic. A few years ago it still comprised everything, from the monarchism of the Action Française to the National Bolshevism of Doriot and the social Fascism of Déat. It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the contrary, the plain, if paradoxical, truth is that their influence was never so slight as at the moment when the collapse actually took place. What made France fall was the fact that she had no more true Dreyfusards, no one who believed that democracy and freedom, equality and justice could any longer be defended or realized under the republic.[190] At long last the republic fell like overripe fruit into the lap of that old Anti-Dreyfusard clique[191] which had always formed the kernel of her army, and this at a time when she had few enemies but almost no friends. How little the Pétain clique was a product of German Fascism was shown clearly by its slavish adherence to the old formulas of forty years before.
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter theexpression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect thatdemocracy is 'just the same as' or 'just as bad as' totalitarianismnever take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down tosaying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England suchconcepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believedin. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions.The belief in them influences conduct, national life is differentbecause of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are therubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still inthe scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyonda certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is anall but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered inthe interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change hasoccurred in the public mind, it cannot become completelycorrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men withrevolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votesmiscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is apowerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarletrobe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will everteach what century he is living in, but who will at any rateinterpret the law according to the books and will in nocircumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures ofEngland. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality andillusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtlenetwork of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in itsfamiliar shape.
As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings ofopinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned onand off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis.In the intelligentsia I should say they result rather from moneyand mere physical safety. At a given moment they may be 'pro-war'or 'anti-war', but in either case they have no realistic picture ofwar in their minds. When they enthused over the Spanish war theyknew, of course, that people were being killed and that to bekilled is unpleasant, but they did feel that for a soldier in theSpanish Republican army the experience of war was somehow notdegrading. Somehow the latrines stank less, discipline was lessirksome. You have only to glance at the New Statesman to seethat they believed that; exactly similar blah is being writtenabout the Red Army at this moment. We have become too civilized tograsp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive youoften have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. Waris evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the swordperish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish bysmelly diseases. The fact that such a platitude is worth writingdown shows what the years of rentier capitalism have done tous.
Quimby's reign ended when he was killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment to test the truth of the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword". In his memory, it was amended to read: "The pen is mightier than the sword only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp".
Following their encounter with Opress, Skywalker and Kenobi were called away from a blockade at Herdessa to meet with Yularen. The admiral informed them that Mekedrix had gone missing. In addition, an execution squad known as the Death Wind had been striking at Republic and Separatist targets. The group's namesake, the Death Wind Corridor also passed by Mekedrix's home planet of Roon, creating a possible link. Yularen went on to say that the Death Wind may have taken up a covert position on Ando. As such, Skywalker and Kenobi were to locate the Death Wind and kill Mekedrix if he was involved with them. Skywalker initially refused, believing that killing a potential ally would make the Jedi like the Separatists. Kenobi assured Skywalker that they would attempt to find a peaceful solution before they departed for Ando. After arriving on the planet and pushing through the local swamplands, the Jedi came upon empty sets of clone armor being used as effigies. Upon reaching the terminus of a river, they discovered an outpost built from the ruins of a Sith temple. They were then met by the Death Wind, who allowed the Jedi to see their leader in exchange for their lightsabers. Entering the outpost, Skywalker and Kenobi came upon Mekedrix, seated on a throne and wielding a sword. Mekedrix claimed he had saved his victims by showing them the truth; that the purpose of existence was to kill and die. When Mekedrix revealed that his sword was made from the bones of a clone trooper, Kenobi asked him what the clone's name was. Kenobi went on to claim that life gave the galaxy meaning and that death had no use for a sunrise, a name, a home or a friend. Mekedrix then lunged at Kenobi, but Skywalker retrieved his lightsaber and stabbed Mekedrix through the chest. Skywalker expressed regret over killing him, but Mekedrix assured that this was the quickest way back to the sunrise before he passed away.[129] 2ff7e9595c
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