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The Future of the Twilight
Club and
The Creation of a Moral Community
The vision of the Twilight Club is eternal, as its message is
immortal. Throughout history, in the West as well as in the East, its ethical
themes appeared countless times, in myriad different manifestations, in
languages and expressions appropriate to the times and the cultures in
which they appeared.
In the Poets’ Code of Ethics, the original founders of the Twilight
Club distinguished a set of codes of ethics, based on the idea which
Alexis Carrel later called the Science of Man, intended to appeal and
apply universally to the whole of humanity. In today’s terminology,
they are:
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1. The principle of human solidarity through the act
of giving instead of taking
2. The principle of human unity through the knowledge of oneness of
all humanity
3. The principle of social harmony through the development of
character and intelligence
4. The principle of human development through the discovery of the
inner Self
5. The principle of thinking instead of remembering and repeating in
education
6. The principle of work for the ennoblement of the human soul
7. The principle of human essence as Mind, not body; as immortal
Spirit, not mortal flesh; and as being good, not being bad
8. The principle of judging moral character based on people’s deeds
toward others, not on their beliefs, doctrines, creeds, or dogmas
9. The principle that the Poets’ Code of Ethics is based upon
universal cosmic law
10.The principle that there can be a synthesis between science and
religion
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