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Rules of Speech -- Manu

Sep 21, 1997 02:35 PM
by Dallas TenBroeck


Recent exchanges concerning the "Rules of Speech" are all read
with great interst.

They are the Rules of Speech given by the ancient lawmaker of
India Manu. ( The Original MAN - MANAVA; mind-MANAS or MANU )
They will be found in the Max Muller "Sacred Books of the East"
translation of "Manusmriti" p. 150, Verse 136.

In another place Robert Crosbie, who quoted those Rules, wrote
his correspondent:

> Whenever personal friction comes up...do you stick to principles;
> enunciate them, illustrate them, but keep away from direct
> reference to any trouble. So each is left to understand and
> apply as seems best to him. Unity, study, work are the trinity
> that will keep all together and yet leave play for individual
> idiosyncracies along harmless lines, while subduing them.
>
> -- FRIENDLY PHILOSOPHER, p. 191

HPB in an article "To the Readers of Lucifer" [ Lucifer, January
1888] wrote:

> Sincerity is true wisdom, it appears, only to the mind of the
> moral philosopher. It is rudeness and insult to him who regards
> dissimulation and deceit as culture and politeness...Saint
> Augustine recommends that "no man should prefer custom before
> reason and truth,"...somewhere Sir Thomas Browne [remarked] that
> not every man is a proper champion for the truth...one of the
> Masters of Wisdom in some fragments of advice remarks:
>
> > While enforcing upon such public characters in our ranks as
> > editors, and lecturers, etc., the duty of telling fearlessly "the
> > Truth to the face of LIE," he yet condemns the habit of private
> > judgment and criticism in every individual...

HPB Articles, Vol. I, p. 279-80 ]

I thought these might prove interesting to us to consider.

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