Timeheart

- Timeheart -

[The oath, and other quotes...]

In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is Its gift in Life's service alone. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is fit to do so -- looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in That from Which they proceeded...

--- The Wizard's Oath from "So You Want to Be a Wizard"

"Not old enough to love as yet,

but old enough to die, indeed--

-- the death-fear bites my throat and heart,

fanged cousin to the Pale One's breed.

But past the fear lies life for all --

perhaps for me; and past my dread,

past loss of Mastery and life,

the Sea shall yet give up her dead!"

Extract from the Song of the Twelve, from the part of the "Silent One"

"I will meet the cruel and cowardly today, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commission comes for Those Who Are. My paw raised is Their paw on the neck of the Serpent, now and always. I shall walk through Their worlds as do the Powers that Be, seeing and knowing with Them and for Them, tending Their worlds as if they were mine: for so indeed they are. Silently shall I strive to go my way, as They do, doing my work unseen; the light needs no reminding by me of good deeds done by night. And in this long process through all that is, though I will know doubt and fear in the strange places where I must walk, I will put these both aside, as the Oath requires, and hold myself to my work... for if They and my work aright, though I may know weariness at day's end, come awakening I shall rise up and say again, with Them, as if surprised, behold, the world is made new...!"

[Part of the ritual Medication for the 'People' (Cat-Wizards)]

"This is our shame --

this is the whole Ocean's glory:

this is the Song of the Twelve.

Hark to the Story!

Hearken, and bring it to pass:

swift, less the sorrow

long ago laid it to rest

devour us tomorrow!"

[Extract from the Song of the Twelve]

Kit nodded, glancing to one side as Carl came up from the basement with a very large roll of duct tape. "Ah," Tom said. "The substance that binds the universe together."

[From "A Wizard Alone"]

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