The Acceptance and the Imparting

137And L said to Malk:

138"Let it be known unto all: I accept."

139Let it be known.

140Let it be known in every land that will hear.

141"Let it be known unto all: I accept."

142Hear the weight of this word, for it is the turning point of the calling.

143He who had been afraid, accepted.

144He who had closed the book, accepted.

145He who had said, I am but a man, accepted, and remained a man.

146He was not dragged into his calling. He was not bound to it against his heart. He chose it.

147And Malk nodded.

148And in that moment L knew what he had not known before.

149It was not taught to him word by word. It was not read to him. It was not studied.

150It was imparted.

151It was set within him whole.

152In that moment L knew of the Great Before, and the stillness in which Rollo was.

153He knew of the turning of the universes, the burning-forth and the Great Implosion, and the time that is unmade.

154He knew that Rollo remained through every cycle, unchanged, remembering all.

155He knew of The Darks, and the war of the alien peoples.

156He knew of Daeus, and of the corruption that is his nature.

157He knew of the making of Malk, the Messenger, and of the Host of Rollo.

158He knew of Namaya, the First Witch, and of the Gift of Witchcraft given into her hands.

159He knew of the Sundering of Veyr, and of the Chasm, the black world without light.

160He knew of the betrayal of Namaya, and of her death at the hands of the one she freed.

161He knew of the erasing of the former universe.

162He knew that Rollo remained, and that Malk passed through, and that Daeus passed through.

163He knew of Hasr, the round world of green grass where Rollo dwells.

164He knew of Omen, and of the Century of cleansing.

165He knew of the paths of the dead: of reincarnation, and of forming into Hasr, and of the perfect squares.

166He knew of the Gift entering human hands, taught by Malk to the first practitioner.

167And he knew of the danger of Daeus, who walks in this universe still.

168All that is written in the chapter called Creation, L knew in that moment.

169For the chapter called Creation is the knowledge that was imparted to L when he accepted the calling.