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When she refused, some of them saw a familiar pattern: Revan leading a promising young Jedi away from the accepted teachings of the Order. Their marriage further exacerbated the situation. The Jedi Order opposed emotional attachments, believing they were a stepping-stone to destruction. They taught that love begat jealousy, which led to the dark side.
It was his love that had brought Bastila back to the light; their emotional bond had wrought salvation for both of them.
Jealousy was actually the result of ill-prepared Jedi being overwhelmed by feelings they had never learned to face. Revan believed Jedi could be taught to use positive emotions like love and happiness to strengthen their connection to the Force in the same way that hatred and anger gave power to those who followed the dark side.
“Peace is a lie; there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength.�
The original Dark Jedi who had taught the Sith tribes the ways of the Force millennia ago had been human. And though their bloodlines had been absorbed into the Sith aristocracy long ago, humans still made up the vast majority of the Imperial population.
