Obligagion of a member of a warrior caste

Let us step away from magical practices for a moment and look at ordinary human life, at the reality that surrounds us. A person grows up, goes to kindergarten, attends school, and accepts all of it as perfectly normal: everyone lives this way, so I live this way as well. Until a certain point in life, they rarely stop to think about their parents, who may have to work three jobs just to support the family. Nor do they think about the teachers who invest their time and effort in their education, or the doctors who care for them when they are ill. For a long time, all of this is simply perceived as the natural order of life.

The moment a person realizes that this is indeed a system, another question naturally arises: What obligations do I have toward this system? Yet such questions usually do not appear until the system itself says, “It is time to repay what you have received.” And repayment can take many forms.

How to repay debts?

For example, you begin paying taxes or fulfill military service. At that point, the question often arises: Why should I? Many people become accustomed to thinking that when someone steals, they are not really stealing — they are merely compensating themselves for losses inflicted by the state. This is the reasoning of a laborer, and such reasoning is permissible for them because very little depends on their personal actions.

A warrior’s mindset

A warrior, however, would never allow themselves to think this way. A warrior always remembers that if they have received something today, sooner or later they will inevitably have to repay it. If not to the state, then to their parents. If not to their parents, then to their own children, into whom they now invest because, once upon a time, others invested in them.

People have children and send them to school with complete confidence that this is the proper thing to do. Then, one year, something extraordinary happens: the computers are there, but the schools are closed, and parents suddenly find themselves facing an entirely new question. A laborer will say, “When will all of this finally end?” Cursing the state. A merchant will think, “Do I have enough money to hire private tutors for my child?”

Responsibility of a warrior towards his children

A warrior asks a very different question: “If I have brought into this world a separate human being, and I bear responsibility for them, then I must now honestly determine what I myself can teach them. What can I give my child besides sending them off to school and forgetting about them for six hours, fully convinced that they will be taught everything they need — but not what the educational system considers necessary? I can teach my child only what I know myself. And if there is something I do not know, then it is my responsibility to find a way to learn it.”

Why are runes a tool of the warrior caste?

Now ask yourself a question, and answer it honestly, without hesitation. How many people have ever asked themselves this question and answered it in this way? A warrior who truly takes responsibility for their own life will never use the runic channel carelessly, just as they would never act irresponsibly in any area of life. This is precisely why we say that people should come to the runes only after reaching the warrior caste.

A warrior accepts responsibility for all his actions, words and decisions to enter the path of magic

Such an approach is appropriate because the responsibility is immense: responsibility before the world, before one’s children, for every word that has been spoken, and for every decision that has been made. A warrior accepts responsibility for all of it. When such a person enters the path of magic with this deeply cultivated inner principle of right relationship with the world, they naturally extend that same principle to their interaction with magical forces. Magical forces readily enter such a consciousness because it possesses the qualities they recognize as proper. At least, this holds true for the forces of the Northern Pantheon.

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