I'm currently re-reading the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane.
Now i know a lot of you here are highly religious, some to the point you won't even read anything having to do with "magic" but i want all you, specifically, to read this.
The Young wizards series of books are about Nita and Kit, two teenagers who become wizards. In this series, however, the term "wizards" is not used in the traditional sense. Wizards are beings given the ability to manipulate the universe's energy, by the Powers that Be. Without giving a long complex explanation, The Powers that Be are the gods. There is a Power superior to all the others, known as the One. All the others are the "minor deities", which, in any form of Christianity, would be called the archangels.
The Powers come from a universe known as Timeheart, which is for lack of a mortal word for it, is heaven. Though never fully explained (of course), the powers created spacetime outside of timeheart, and made life. They CAUSED the big bang, and shaped it into the universe, and created life.
Now what makes this series so incredibly different? Think, do the gods have to abide by the laws of the physical universe? of course not. they created life everywhere, in the "billion homeworlds", simultaneously. Earth was of the first run of creation in this universe, but yes, they did try again, many times, populating this universe, and all the others.
Then one of the powers, feeling he had to add something, created death, entropy. The power, called throughout the series "the Lone One" was expelled from timeheart, and the other powers tried to reverse the damage caused, but to no avail. The only place entropy was now created was timeheart, and the Powers that Be decided to make it so that every soul that died because of the lone one's "gift", for that was how he put it, would come to timeheart, and live forever there.
Wizards are beings that have been gifted by the Powers with the ability to manipulate the Physical universe so that they may work to slow entropy.
The series focuses on Nita and Kit, two teen who discovered wizardry, and... well our friend wikipedia can tell the rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Wizards
The oath all wizards take:
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In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so -- till Universe's end.
I am currently re-reading book 5,
The Wizard's Dilemma.
In this book, Nita's mom gets cancer, and she goes through everything seemingly possible to save her.
this series is a wonderful read, and if anything is more religious than almost any other fantasy book.
go pick up the first one from the library. i guarantee you'll be hooked.
