Teachings of an ancient sage

[Farruca]

Teachings of an Ancient Sage

These books have been around for centuries upon centuries, and the originals have never been found. The actual writer unknown, but the books are always written as if the writer was speaking to himself or with an apprentice present. Revered and celebrated among some, proclaimed completely mad or at the very least severely delusional by others.

The possibility exists that they were never intended to be found, solely meant as a diary, and an apprentice published them on his own accord.
Nonetheless, many have taken these lessons to heart and the undeniable fact that the books are still around, combined with every so many decades a new one being found, had rumors arising that either the knowledge is being expanded and passed on from apprentice to apprentice, or the writer still walks among us...

[Farruca]

The studies of the Art

I have heard of, and spoken with those that draw upon the Weave by means of scrolls, rods, wands, gestures and words, a different approach. They are not wrong in what they perceive. All these actions are a simple means of trying to understand through order and logic, to see the how and why. That is natural for humanoids, and I’ll not blame them for such. I do however, disapprove should one perceive such as the true, pure Weave, as it is not.

While it may seem shorter, easier, they are in fact taking a longer route than necessary. A routine that will grant oneself a sure route to success, a trick, a shortcut in connection with the Weave that may seem shorter, but is in the end always the longer route to truly be engulfed within the essence of the Weave. It is to read a book through the pale reflection in the mirror, to listen to a minstrel’s song from behind a wall, to look at one’s shadow rather than one’s actual form. To drink through a straw, taste with one another’s tongue, to read what another has heard rather than hearing it one’s self. Impure, and untrue to what is the Weave. It is true that the effort required is much larger, and the control over the Weave to take longer a time. But the understanding the apprentice is awarded with is far greater than otherwise.

This is the reason they refer to their Art by means of spells, to name and to bring order to it. The routine must not be flawed lest the spell will fail, not a word or a gesture may be different or the results may be disastrous. I won’t indulge in this myself and I’ll not have any ask such of me. I will not taint the very core of our Art, the Weave, by dividing it in pieces, to make difference where there is none.

Should one be here to seek such is to ask the apprentice to teach, and the master to take his lessons to heart, he will not. Should one be here to understand, however, and wish to open not just one’s eyes and ears, but one’s  very being, to the one greatest of the core matters of our existence and our Art, the Weave. One would do best to heed these words and abide by them.

~ V ~

[Farruca]

On the Weave - Pt. I

In my time I have seen many things, however, and one would take good care as to remember this, they are not and will never be the same as what another would perceive. Seeing is the wrong word, it is to use the wrong sense, as is to listen, feel, taste and smell. And one should be cautious as to not use such words lightly, because these words, they can cloud one’s mind as they have done to so many before us. Including my own at a time, I must admit. Myself, I often tend to refer to it as what one sees, as that is often the easiest way for an apprentice to gain a greater understanding of the Weave. Even though he does not actually use any of his known senses to gain awareness of his connection with the Weave, it is easiest to describe that we have no words worthy for.

However, as much as the Weave and our interpretation of it may be different, the core, and more often than not the end result as well, are but one and the same. And that, is all that matters. It shows us that while our route may not be the same, and our approach can be vastly different, our true self is the same. We all may tap into the river that is the Weave and we may all, granted that we know how to do such, revel in its essence.

How one perceives it is insignificant.

~ V ~

[Farruca]

On the Weave - Pt. II

The Weave can be seen as many things, often referred to as strings attached to our mistress, it’s maintainer, Mystra. The true self of the Weave, is best sought not too far from the name we’ve given it. For what we see, or rather experience, is what I often describe as what the word itself describes. Threads all and everywhere, as a clothier would weave in his dresses, cloaks and robes. To look at the Weave is to see it’s threads, all separate, yet all as a whole.

To experience such is to understand, to understand is to control, and to control is to bask in its presence. It is an indescribable feeling one can only understand through experience. What one must be cautious of at all times, is to focus oneself on both one’s purpose, as well as one’s own self. Rather than lose one’s self in the Weave, lest one would never return to one’s mortal coil as one was.

To experience the Weave has been described in many ways, but for the sake of convenience we will keep to our current line of thought. To create an image of the Weave as a carpet, spread out as far as one’s eye can see as it touches all. To see it’s threads, and to be able to create patterns one’s own in it. Naturally, there is more to it. The Weave is the one and only exact in our Art, it is ever changing yet always the same. The Art is to understand the patterns one sees, yet at the same time understand that there is no real pattern, but one solid carpet. The Weave is but one, not many, yet it is all at the same time.

To be able to influence  one’s self, one’s surroundings, and the very all that is through the Weave, is to understand both this, and to learn how to create patterns one’s own in the Weave. It is to draw upon the threads one requires for one’s pattern, or rather, one’s purpose.

~ V ~

[Farruca]

On the Weave - Pt. III

To see the Weave in it’s pure, true form. One must relinquish one’s every earthly idea concerning all that may influence our mortal coil. They do not apply to the Weave, and are insignificant to our Art. One can recognize the threads of the Weave, but one must also understand that these threads are not simply the threads as a carpet one would stand on.

Rather than orderly arranged in rows and columns, the Weave is made up from threads that are all connected to every other thread in the all that is the Weave. There is in all the Weave not a single thread singled out, and all that is why all the Weave is but one and the same. It is both many threads creating the Weave, and yet at the same time they are but one.

This is where one would do best to relinquish the patterns one would see in a carpet, as while we still have the threads of the Weave, the two-dimensional carpet does not do it justice and will serve for nothing but confusion. The threads can be spoken of as reaching in every direction, but in essence they are not simply threads from one location reaching to another. They are not spanning over a length, but what one knows as place and time is in fact nonexistent to the Weave. All that one knows of as place and time is insignificant to the Weave, and insignificant to one’s own self should one come to understand the Weave fully.

What one ends up with is not the patterns in a carpet, nor the threads from location to location. Rather, we see the carpet not as a multitude of patterns, but as a contrast in the one colored all. It is where those not connected to the Weave would see nothing but a void, gray nothingness. This is where those that revel in its essence see all that is the Weave, they see a contrast in one single thing. As that is the Weave, it seems many but is but one in an amount of ways, or rather contrasts, uncountable and unending.

~ V ~

[Farruca]

On Spell schools

To many the key towards a greater understanding of the Weave is to understand it’s subtle differences within, in what way one spell is different from another and how to incorporate such knowledge in one’s Art. One must take great care however, as to not be lost in such ideas. So often one looks at a tree and names it an Oak, Pine, or an Ash. This too is where the problem occurs, the words and names cloud the mind in that they derail one from the ever existing that the Weave is but one. And that while one spell school may vastly differ in effect from another, they are in essence but one and the same.
 
To specialize in a certain spell school is to purposely cripple one’s self towards the Weave, and to never gain a true understanding as one simply chooses not to listen, to what is in essence a part of oneself as oneself is a part of the Weave, as if a child. For it is as if one such may never see through one’s both eyes, he chooses to live his life a man blinded on one eye. To be able only to see color, shape, but never perspective. To never gain an understanding of the depth in the all that is the Weave.

~V~

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