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The king's legacy: 'He brought those who looked up to the heights and those who turned towards the light of day and instructed them to take on the work of the Perpetuators, to spin the wheel onwards from pole to pole through all quarters of life.'
A perpetuator contemplates: 'We keep the wheel turning, and perpetuate traditions, knowledge, memories and the very myths of creation. We may teach, entertain, recite, worship, or enact that which has value, but we are not the originators of this knowledge. We help to maintain the old but we welcome the new. We are skilled in interpretation and communication, for one generation understands in a different way from another. Yet we must never exchange eternal truths for current novelty.'
Perpetuators must know and respect the source of their work, understand how to reformulate it, and be ready to renew it when it begins to weaken. Perpetuators know that perpetuation is not mechanical repetition, which starts the process of stagnation and thus decline.
Perpetuators through the ages include:
Perpetuators is one of the twelve orders. In the octahedron, its neighbours are:
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