Did you know that Confucius in the 6th Century B.C. and Hillel (Jewish scholar) in the 1st Century A.D., two of history’s most influential ethical teachers, whose ideas have helped shape the world even until today, taught the “Golden Rule” of human behavior? You may have learned it as a child in Sunday School, as Jesus taught it in Matthew 7:12: “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” Reciprocity has a proven track record as civilization’s best way to guarantee that humans thrive.

Why did these two world influencers arrive at the same moral code independently across time and geography? C.S. Lewis, author of The Abolition of Man (1943), compiled the parallel moral codes of diverse ancient world civilizations listed below and concluded that there is a reasonable, logical, universal, discoverable natural law that is not subjective and changing but objective and unchanging. It is rooted in the foundations of objective reality. Today we might call it common sense, and it works to build.

Lewis called this UNIVERSAL NATURAL LAW of Common Cultural Values “The Tao” (Pronounced Dao):

  • Care of others in general
  • Care of kin and community
  • Duties to parents, elders, ancestors
  • Duties to children and posterity
  • Justice, fairness, honesty, promise keeping
  • Truthfulness, good faith
  • Mercy and compassion
  • Nobility of character which translates moral thoughts to virtuous actions

These values are found in the traditions of world civilizations such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks, Norse, Aboriginals, Sumerians, Zoroastrians, African (Ubuntu), Christians, and many more, but why? They work to preserve human progress.

Lewis also believed that teaching these moral values as optional or merely subject to personal feelings leads to producing offspring who possess intellect and physical appetites unbridled by moral training, unable to discern wise action. He warned that abandoning objective truth hands total power to scientific and political elites—“The Conditioners.”

How prophetic C.S. Lewis was in foreseeing the damage being done today, as Europe burns by the hand of those who are programmed to defy the Tao. If we allow ourselves to be used biologically and psychologically, we are also in danger of succumbing to the raw manipulation of these ruling elites. Our lack of discipline allows them to destroy freedom and humanity itself. As a passionate superfan of the rising generation, I vow to work ardently to warn them of this palpable danger and to help them find their voices to defend and pass down the nobility of character which translates moral thoughts to noble actions—the universal traditional natural law, “the Tao,” whose practice protects us all.