We, descendants of AION, hold thusly:

That to try again is the most noble and vital of endeavors; that one result, one experiment, has never been enough to prove or disprove anything; that even when we are satisfied, we will and must try once more, simply to be sure;

That in assaying the same experiment over many times, though we believe we already know what the results will be, we receive confirmation, and with it, peace and grounding;

That in those times where we are shown that we are wrong, we still gain wisdom of the shape of the world; that when experiments which have been coursed 99 times fail on the hundredth, we are bound to consider that this may not be only an outlier, but a new truth or some new change of the universe shown to us in glory;

That to strive to avoid failure will ever teach us nothing; that for the willingness to chance wrongness and failure, we are gifted with the clearest certainties of all, that which comes from having found them by our own endeavors;

That any failure may also be reproduced, and should be reproduced, to ensure that this, too, is understood, may be identified and given name, and that we do not fumble in the dark with only success as goal;

That, on occasion, accidents happen which cannot be reproduced by our own efforts; that to learn which those are is as noble a cause, and so we repeat them; that such accidents always have some other cause which we may come to learn of;

That we will recognize the difference between learning to understand a failure and questing into dead ends which we know will disappoint us; that it is nonetheless good to understand the nature of those dead ends, and return once we have come to peace with them;

That solutions are shaped by increments; that that we will not always see that good and fruitful final answer; that a circle may be made by a hundred straight lines, and we must draw every single one to see that circle, for we have no concept of its existence with only the first.

In the service of ITERATION, this do we promise: Every year, we begin anew. As the day and the night balance in equal measure, at the beginning of the season that was once autumn, we revise those experiments we have been reluctant to change. We will pick them up and take the next step forward to understanding, by success or failure, the truth of the heart of the universe.

This we are commanded: Move forward, always, and find solace in repetition, even as we find learning in change. Glory to the iteration and blessings on the thankless work; here do we thank you! Holy are those who persist through challenges and find the way to truth.