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    The Hermetic Oath outlines the code that members of the Order of Hermes swear to uphold. It includes swearing loyalty to the Order, not harming or interfering with other members, respecting tribunal decisions, not endangering or interfering with mundanes, not dealing with devils or interfering with faeries, not scrying on other members, training apprentices who also swear to the code, and requesting to be slain if the oath is broken. There is a slight difference in the wording for members of House Bonisagus versus other Houses.

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    The Hermetic Oath outlines the code that members of the Order of Hermes swear to uphold. It includes swearing loyalty to the Order, not harming or interfering with other members, respecting tribunal decisions, not endangering or interfering with mundanes, not dealing with devils or interfering with faeries, not scrying on other members, training apprentices who also swear to the code, and requesting to be slain if the oath is broken. There is a slight difference in the wording for members of House Bonisagus versus other Houses.

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    The Hermetic Oath outlines the code that members of the Order of Hermes swear to uphold. It includes swearing loyalty to the Order, not harming or interfering with other members, respecting tribunal decisions, not endangering or interfering with mundanes, not dealing with devils or interfering with faeries, not scrying on other members, training apprentices who also swear to the code, and requesting to be slain if the oath is broken. There is a slight difference in the wording for members of House Bonisagus versus other Houses.

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    The Hermetic Oath outlines the code that members of the Order of Hermes swear to uphold. It includes swearing loyalty to the Order, not harming or interfering with other members, respecting tribunal decisions, not endangering or interfering with mundanes, not dealing with devils or interfering with faeries, not scrying on other members, training apprentices who also swear to the code, and requesting to be slain if the oath is broken. There is a slight difference in the wording for members of House Bonisagus versus other Houses.

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    The Hermetic Oath

    The Code of Hermes, first sworn by Bonisagus, can be found below. Since he was the first to swear it,
    his name is recorded whenever it is written down. There is a slight difference between the Code that
    members of House Bonisagus swear and the Code that members of other Houses swear. The
    difference is marked.

    “I, Bonisagus, hereby swear my everlasting loyalty to the Order of Hermes and its members.

    “I will not deprive nor attempt to deprive any member of the Order of his magical power. I will not
    slay nor attempt to slay any member of the Order, except in justly executed and formally declared
    Wizards’ War. I hereby understand that Wizards’ War is an open conflict between two magi who may
    slay each other without breaking this oath, and that should I be slain in a Wizards’ War, no retribution
    shall fall on he who slays me.

    “I will abide by the decisions made by fair vote at Tribunal. I will have one vote at Tribunal, and I will
    use it prudently. I will respect as equal the votes of all others at Tribunal.

    “I will not endanger the Order through my actions. Nor will I interfere with the affairs of mundanes
    and thereby bring ruin on my sodales. I will not deal with devils, lest I imperil my soul and the souls
    of my sodales as well. I will not molest the faeries, lest their vengeance catch my sodales also.

    “I will not use magic to scry upon members of the Order of Hermes, nor shall I use it to peer into their
    affairs.

    “I will train apprentices who will swear to this Code, and should any of them turn against the Order
    and my sodales, I shall be the first to strike them down and bring them to justice. No apprentice of
    mine shall be called a magus until he first swears to uphold this Code.*

    “I request that should I break this oath, I be cast out of the Order. If I am cast out of the Order, I ask
    my sodales to find me and slay me, that my life not continue in degradation and infamy.

    “The enemies of the Order are my enemies. The friends of the Order are my friends. The allies of the
    Order are my allies. Let us work together as one and grow hale and strong.

    “This oath I hereby swear on the third day of Pisces, in the nine hundred and fiftieth year of Aries.
    Woe to they who try to tempt me to break this oath, and woe to me if I succumb to the temptation.”

    * At this point, followers of Bonisagus recite: “I shall further the knowledge of the Order and share
    with its members all that I find in my search for wisdom and power.” Others recite: “I concede to
    Bonisagus the right to take my apprentice if he should find my apprentice valuable to him in his
    studies.” The Peripheral Code extends Bonisagus’s right to claim apprentices to followers of
    Bonisagus.

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