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Sacred scrolls, orally read each day, private meditation and prayer, and periodically performed spiritual rites form the backbone of the Nazorean path to spiritual transformation. The sacred scriptures of the Nazoreans represent the best of the world's great spiritual movements and communicate their essence and the refreshing variety of their unique yet valuable spiritual practices.
There are seven main liturgical seasons outlined within this Path,
each with it’s own unique feel, texts and liturgies. The logic behind
this ancient practice of different seasonal rites and readings lies in
it’s harmony with the flow of the natural seasons, and in the natural
flow of mood and disposition experienced by the full time spiritual
seeker.
This spiritual almanac also gives pattern, variety and meaning to
what may otherwise be a monotonous march and mundane routine. It
provides constant encouragement and inspiration through daily oral
readings, and constant opportunity for deeper communion with Deity
through daily worship and spiritual focus.
The lifestyle outlined in this Nazorean path affords bounteous
opportunity to better serve heavenly parents and each other. This
serving attitude is considered the most important key to
sanctification. This dawn-born lifestyle provides constant opportunities
to stretch, grow, and to remold oneself on an higher more spiritual
level through greater yielding to the transforming power of the Spirit.
It’s very nature lends itself to a ever deeper spiritual commitment and
focus and an ever greater state of ritual purity and holiness. It’s
lifestyle, well lived, forces purification and metamorphosis as it’s
daily rhythms slowly subjugate one's lower ego to one’s higher
spiritual Self.
There are a large number of activities, exercises and ceremonies
outlined within the Path of The O.N.E., too many to accomplish
all at once. There is wisdom in gradual, yet consistent, incorporation
of one principle after another, with a goal of adding one new principle
each month, lest discouragement or subconscious overload force one to
abandon the path altogether. A lifetime of conditioning and imperfect
habits can be transformed only by many years of sincere seeking and
spiritual service. Her collection of spiritual texts and rites is a
tool designed toward this end, meant to be incorporated wisely and
lovingly, and with utmost respect for the individuality and personal
freedom of those who find they have an affinity with it.
Shawui - The Liturgical Calendar
- The Shawui calendar is a lunar based almanac which provides the liturgical pattern and spiritual rhythm of the dawn-born Family. This Shawui Calendar has a twelve-fold feature based on the twelve lunar moonths, a seven fold feature based on seven day lunar weeks, and seven seven-week liturgical seasonal segments called Shawuas.
- There is a Festival every full moon, and four great eight-day festivals celebrated in the spring, summer, fall and winter. New, quarter, and dark moons also have their rites, as does the beginning of each new seven week Shawua period.
- This Shawui Calendar is an Essene “Book Of Days”. Each day of this lunar almanac has a chapter assigned to it from the Sacred Scrolls, and many also have certain ceremonies or spiritual practices assigned to them.
- The sincere use of this spiritual almanac increases spiritual intent, reprograms the subconscious to center more fully on spiritual realities, and provides opportunities for group support, interaction and enshroudment, or "Priesthood" advancement.
Lectio Tradition, Daily Scripture Readings
- The purpose of daily readings in sacred writings is to elevate one's mood, stimulate the thoughts, and educate the mind. They instruct the listeners on the essential points and distilled wisdom of the great religious movements of humankind, including Essene, Pythagorean, Manichaean, Coptic-Gnostic, Tibetan Buddhism, Sufi and Carmelite.
- The Latin word "Lectio" is used by the Benedictine Monasteries to denote an act of meditative reading. This method of spiritual reading is done slowly, prayerfully, and with the intent of letting words or images invoke their own interior response in the reader. In addition to public oral readings, all are encouraged to read privately, in Lectio, from the sacred scrolls and other valuable writings, for a fuller comprehension and realization of the sixty four Firstborn principles.
Ritual Tradition, Nazorean Rites of Sanctification
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The roots of a true spiritual life lie within the symbolic gestures and mystical words of the various rites and rituals, which speak directly to the subconscious mind, focusing it on spiritual priorities and allowing it to unfold into true spiritual potential. The preponderance of these spiritual archetypes in the mind must be constantly fed with mystical image and magical gesture in order to outweigh the onslaught of counterfeit images and advertising which constantly stream in from the material world.
Personal Communion, Private Rites of Sanctification
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Each sincere Nazorean is encouraged to develop their own unique relationship and private methods of prayer. All other first-born practices are based upon the quality of the individual’s personal relationship to deity and to individual spiritual guides. This is an extremly personal process, and it is left up to each individual to establish their own unique method that works for them.
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