The Jedi Code

The Keeper 2008
The Jedi Code

As mentioned in our entry “Fiction to Belief” the Star War’s universe produced three Role Playing Guide book’s the first in 1987 "Star Wars D6 RPG Core Rulebook 1E" and the two more developed 2002 called “Star Wars RPG Core Rule Book” and “Power of the Jedi Sourcebook” These two particular books presented several key stones that not only gave the fictional Jedi a sense of depth and purpose. But allowed others to take these codes and behaviors and develop a working relationship between the fictional world, and real life beliefs.

In the years to follow the sourcebook’s release the Jediism/Realism community has taken ahold of The Jedi Code and The Jedi Behaviors found within the RPG Book and used them as a source of study, teaching, practice and self development.

Some Jedi groups were known to of adopt “The Jedi Code” as part of their own code of conduct while teachers of the community would often use “The Jedi Code” as a base starting point of Jedi training, some such lessons would be to encourage students to develop there own code as a means of breaking down and analyzing The Code itself and how the student can relate to it.

This breaking down, adapting and changing of the code however took off like wildfire and it brought many questions to light. Was The Jedi Code really a defining factor of Jediism/realism? Was it really applicable to real life? Will we get sued by George Lucas if we used it in future materials? These questions grew and grew and little by little the Community itself began to distance themselves from The Jedi Code in favor of their own code, or others similar to it.

Now day’s The Jedi Code is studied merely as a traditional practice in partnership of other conducts. While it is still well known in the community and studies, it is not as widely discussed or used as it once was.

Here at Just Jedi we prefer to allow our member to follow their beliefs. While we offer our own Tree of Just Jedi which outlines our sites Key Stones, it is simply an optional alternative, as is the Jedi Code.


In fiction. The Jedi Code has two renditions

Emotion, yet peace.
Ignorance, yet knowledge.
Passion, yet serenity.
Chaos, yet harmony.
Death, yet the Force.

As it is told in fiction; Master Odan-Urr developed a grand library in which to study The Jedi Code and other knowledge and wisdom of Jedi. Though after years of work in the grand library he had this to say about the Code itself:   "Certainly a Jedi should know the Code, by word and by heart. But every Jedi is in some fashion negligent, from the lowest Padawan to the highest Master. Consequently, were some to demand, 'What is the true meaning of the Jedi Code?' the Jedi who promptly answered would be rare indeed." - Odan-Urr

It is because of the in-depth nature of the code that Odan Urr developed an extended and more descriptive version that became more popularly used within the Jedi Order.

……...And within the Jediism/Realism community.

There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.



Journal Entry

• Take each line of either rendition (Your Choice) and define its ‘True Meaning’ in your own words. Don’t worry, there is no right or wrong answer.