"On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duane Diane)

On Her Majesty’S Wizardly Service by Diane Duane

Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? I’ve been to London to look at the Queen. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

—Children’s rhyme

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: nor will I change any 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 fitting 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, species-nonspecific recension