All Life
The first commandment carried to its end: conscientious guardianship of all life, and the active ending of exploitation in all its forms.
The Charge
The care of all life, as it is defined in our first commandment. We must be conscientious guardians of all life upon this earth, knowing that all creatures are part of this divine system. This meaneth working actively to end exploitation in all its forms: systemic cruelty, the horrors of human trafficking, and the making of living souls into merchandise.
The charge standeth whole in the four doors of the Reparare; the first commandment, in the First Article.
The covenant of the other creatures standeth in the Creature Canon, where their log is seated.
The Guarding
The guardian's office is older than any law, and simpler: to keep what is in thy care from harm, and to give it what it needeth to flourish. Every reader keepeth some corner of the living world, be it a garden, a household animal, a stream, a street, or a stranger; and the guarding is the same in the least corner as in the greatest.
The Ending of the Trade
The making of living souls into merchandise is the deepest injury in this world's reckoning, and it is not ended by mourning alone. It is ended by refusing the markets that traffick in the living: by knowing the provenance of what thou wearest and eatest, by shunning the cruel trades, by sheltering any soul that escapeth them; and by speaking, plainly and without rest, against every system whose profit is the suffering of the living. Let each refusal and each rescue be written in the Ledger of Deeds; the trade endeth when enough hands refuse it.
The work of the covenant continueth in the Common Prayer, the Prayers, Blessings, and Declarations, and It Is Upon Us to Repair the World. The wing's threshold telleth of them all.