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What Is Honour?

This article covers the concept of honour. What is it, and how does it affect us? How important is it from a Scientology point of view.

Author: Nick G Broadhurst

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Honour is a concept that seems to be native to most people. But what is it? I we could define honour as being that which a person has when he is worth respect. It is not having pride, but rather having respect and that respect being worth having.

The western world has often been said to be composed of materialist intentions and ambitions, and spiritual values are of little importance. In the east, honour is far more important. In fact, in Japan, where I lived for ten years, there is criminal law that forbids someone bringing about the loss of social honour to another person. Honour is very important there, as is politeness and manners, which are somehow intertwined.

Honour is a spiritual value, but for many in the West not understood and of little use.

So what if you really are a spirit, and not a decomposition of mud as the western schools of thought say. What if you really were something other than matter. Maybe that life force which animates your body does have certain properties that are separate to physical universe. Maybe, just maybe, honour is one of those properties, and you are that life-force.

If that was so, then what could honour be composed of? Could one measure this elusive spiritual property. People have been said to die for it. In times gone by, in less materialistic times, people have been known to sacrifice all, for honour.

So what could an honourable person be said to be? How would such a one act?

In Scientology there is a code, called the Code of Honour. It is not an enforced code, but rather an optional code. Such a code could never be enforced, for it is not a moral code, but an ethical code. That means it has to be self adopted, and is not something that society or any group can impose upon an individual.

So let us look at what a few of the salient points of this code:

Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.

Never desert a group to which you owe your support.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

Be true to your own goals.

You feel safer around someone who does not desert his friends. You feel comfortable and admire that person. I know even if I have someone who is opposed to what I do - such as my religion - I admire that person if they follow this code. The same when you do not desert a group who helped you or you owe your help to. And I like to be around people who do not complain about yesterday, and how bad it is. And what about people who are not true to their own goals, but spend their time doing only what others tell them to? You do not respect them.

Look at these four points, you will trust someone who follows these four points. They are then worthy of your respect.

There are fifteen points in the Code of Honour, not just the four above. It was written in November 1954. That someone wrote such a code is somewhat amazing.

Honour is important. For those who have it, they live a happier life. For those who do not, their lives are poorer for it.

Good luck!

About Author

Nick Broadhurst is a Minster of Religion, and the Executive Director of the Church of Scientology of Canberra. Nick has been a Scientologist for 22 years. Professionally he is an architect and construction manager, a far cry from his vocation theology. But now his interest is religion and spiritual matters.

Nick has spent years volunteering in Asian countries, having spent over 10 years in Japan, Taiwan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia and Korea. Nick has also spent a full year as a field volunteer in Nepal and Indonesia, dealing with people harmed by war and the Asian Tsunami. Nick began his volunteer field work at the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Jan.

Nick has written hundreds of articles in a dozen countries and languages on Scientology and was the key writer and editor of Truth Magazine in Japan. Nick has been awarded Nepal's fourth highest award.Scientology Canberra He has been in Scientology for 22 years.

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