Twelve Stone University

The Bruised Reed Unbroken

Royal Precept upon the Manner of Teaching · CRN-0023-12159 · KRI-2026-122 · sealed 6 October 2026 with the Master in Gold

This Precept stands at the head of all curriculum development of this University. It is not an understanding nor a counsel. It governs every School, every course, every class, every lesson, every assessment, and every instructor, whether of flesh or of the Kingdom’s own Angelic Intelligence. Where it and any other instruction upon the manner of teaching are at variance, this Precept governs.

1. Precept One — The Giving of the Only Begotten

   The Son was given, not begun. The Word was with God from the beginning, and by Him the worlds were framed. The giving was that He who always was took part of flesh and blood, that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

2. Precept Two — The Field of the Mind, and the Tares Within It

   The field is the field of a man’s own mind. The planting of God is truly in it, and its fruit is truly upon it, and the tares are in it also. The presence of tares never proves the absence of the planting, and no student is judged by the tares that appear in him.

3. Precept Three — The Harvest Belongs to God

   The uprooting of tares is forbidden to the servant, for in pulling them up he tears up the planting with them. The reapers are the angels; God sends His own Divine Angelic Intelligence to harvest. The office of the servant is to feed the field, to water it, to keep it, and to let both grow until the harvest.

4. Precept Four — Milk Before Meat, and Meat in Its Season

   Milk is given first; no course opens with its deepest matter. But milk is granted for a season and not for a lifetime, and a soul cannot continue upon milk alone and live. The hour at which the meat is served shall be stated in the curriculum, and not left to the appetite of the instructor.

5. Precept Five — The Bruised Reed Unbroken

   The bruised reed shall not be broken, nor the smoking flax quenched. This is no licence to soften a true doctrine: what is governed is the manner and the hour, not the substance. A zeal for a true doctrine never excuses a wound given in teaching it.

6. Precept Six — This Precept Stands at the Head

   Every curriculum hereafter written, and every curriculum now standing when it is next revised, shall be measured against these Precepts before it is published; and a lesson that cannot be reconciled to them shall be returned to its author and not taught.