INDEX:

Death
Chaos
Balance
Life
Order
Staffs




Life:
Order is life; chaos is death. This is fact, not belief. Each living creature consists of ordered parts that must function together. [BoO<linked to paragraph in Archives of Recluce>]
One might say that order is like water, that it can change forms, and that is vital to life, and that without it nothing lives [BoO <linked>]
Pure order cannot nourish life, for living requires growth, and the process of growth is the constant struggle to bring order out of chaos. [BoO<linked>]
The function of order is to support that life which can order chaos; and without chaos to be ordered, there can be no purpose to life. [BoO<linked>]
These are so because, for so long as there is life, neither chaos nor order can exist by itself for long without the other.[BoO<linked>]
There have been those who denied the power of one, or of both. All creatures that live are born, and birth is the triumph of life. [BoO<linked>]
 

Staffs:
Order cannot be concentrated in and of itself, not even within the staff of order, and no man can truly master the staff of order until he casts it aside.[BoO<linked>]
For order cannot be divided in two without its power being diminished by four, and if it be divided into four parts, then its power is less by another fourth, so that the total of all portions is but one sixteenth of what it would have been undivided. Likewise, so it is with a staff imbued with order for whoever wields it …[BoO<linked>]
a staff, or any other object, may be infused with order. If the Balance is maintained, concentrating such order must result in a greater amount of chaos somewhere else.[BoO<linked>]