The
purpose of a Holy Order, such as the Order of Nazorean Essenes, is to awaken
and accentuate the hidden Nishimta spirit latent
within each Nazorean. Simultaneously a Holy Order is designed to discipline
and de-emphasize the lower Nephesh spirit within humankind.
The unstated, and sometimes unrecognized, purpose
of an Unholy Order is to indulge the instincts and lower desires of the
Nephesh spirit and to give only lip service and token respect to the higher
Nishimta spirit. Often, but not always, Unholy Orders are breakoffs of
truer Holy Orders. They come into beings as dissatisfied members of Holy
Orders find the system too constraining for their lower Nephesh natures.
The disciplines, moral values, and ethical laws feel too constrictive to
them and they often blame the rules or leadership of the Holy Order for
being too strict or too controlling. What they really seek is an organized
outlet for their Nephesh desires and the True Order fails to fulfill this
desire since its avowed purpose is to curtail this lower Nephesh and serve
as an outlet for the higher Nishimta spirit.
Nephesh needs must be met, but in a Holy Order
they are met within the confines of a carefully regulated system of morals
and ethics and dietary laws. In the monastic Rule of
St Benedict many of the earlier monastic traditions of the ancient
Nazoreans are echoed. In this Rule Benedict writes of four kind of "so
called" monks. Of the third and fourth kind he says:
But
a third and most vile class of monks is that of Sarabaites, who have been
tried by no rule under the hand of a master, as gold is tried in the fire;
but, soft as lead, and still keeping faith with the world by their works,
they are known to belie God by their tonsure. Living in two's and three's,
or even singly, without a shepherd, enclosed, not in the Lord's sheepfold,
but in their own, the gratification of their desires is law unto them;
because what they choose to do they call holy, but what they dislike they
hold to be unlawful. But the fourth class of monks is that called Landlopers,
who keep going their whole life long from one province to another, staying
three or four days at a time in different cells as guests. Always roving
and never settled, they indulge their passions and the cravings of their
appetite, and are in every way worse than the Sarabaites. It is better
to pass all these over in silence than to speak of their most wretched
life. - Rule of Benedict, Chapter 1
These Sarabaites
and Landlopers are the type of individuals who gravitate to an Unholy Order
which exists as an organized outlet for the indulgence of their desires.
Most Sarabaites and Landlopers enjoy many of the concepts and teachings
espoused by a true Holy Order, and if they were once part of one, their
speech is often ridden with its concepts and verbology. This can be very
confusing to an investigator of their Unholy Order, for it may appear that
they espouse many noble doctrines and ideals. To truly judge the veracity
of an Order, one must pierce through the veils of terminology and professed
tenets and discern its true intent. One must ascertain, through probing
inquiry, whether the Order exists for the sake of the higher Nishimta or
the lower Nephesh spirit.
Many outward
disciplines of both Holy and Unholy Orders may be similar, especially if
one has broken off from the other, so it is important to go beyond outward
practices to inward essence.
Every earthbound
individual must eat and sleep, and must socialize and reproduce to be completely
healthy in both body and mind. The Nazorean Way recognizes these needs
and regulates them within the confines of morals, ethics, and Order disciplines.
Weekly and monthly fasts are enjoined on its members to regulate the eating
impulse and to control gluttony, and an all plant diet is mandated. Vigils
exist to temper the indulgence of sleep. The ego is controlled through
conformity to group policies. Sexuality is also regulated through periodic
periods of self imposed celibacy, such as Lentide and weekly sabbath days
of abstinence. Strong emphasis on responsibility and love in the sexual
act is always existent in a true Holy Order since the consequences of this
act affect the general individual and group future of all - hence the Holy
Order of Nazorean Essenes' emphasis on sexuality only within the confines
of marriage and preferably only after the age of 20.
A true Holy
Order will encourage altered states of consciousness obtained through prayer,
meditation and other tried and true mystical, yoga, and Cabalistic practices.
Unholy Orders may give lip service to such practices, and may even practice
some or all of these, but they generally tend to promote supposed shortcut
methods to higher states of consciousness. Among these may include promotion
of mind altering drugs and other such indulgences. Although it cannot be
denied that drugs often wake a person up to altered states of mind, it
can also be argued that they represent a false and illusionary state of
spirituality devoid of any real meaning and authenticity. Continual use
or promotion of mind altering drugs is a sign of an Unholy Order. If such
substances have any virtue at all, such virtues certainly cease, or quickly
turn into vices, after the third experimentation with them.
Alcohol
is often used by both Holy as well as Unholy Orders. Carefully consecrated
wine is used sacramentally in a Holy Order to help thin the veils between
heaven and earth. Alcohol used in an Unholy Order usually serves the purpose
of lowering inhibitions as a prelude to unholy sexual activity. A true
Holy Order shuns such use. In the Oracles scroll it mentions that:
By wine man fell, and by wine will man be redeemed. This alludes to the
two diverse uses of the power of wine to thin veils. Holy Orders use it
to thin the veils between heaven and earth, and Unholy Orders use it to
thin the veils between the Nephesh natures of earthbound souls as an emotional
escape or prelude to loose sexual activity and intimacy that will not last.
The Holy
Order of Nazorean Essenes would like to warn the world to be careful of
Unholy Orders and individuals who promote a self indulgence philosophy
beneath the thin veneer of spirituality. We would also warn the world about
those angry individuals who would attempt to paint a Holy Order, like the
Order of O:N:E:, as an Unholy Order by misconstruing or falsely attributing
to Her teachings of indulgence and self-interest. We would also warn
against Fundamental Fanatics who would condemn a true Order because of
its use of Occult arts and other unconventional or non mainstream practices.
Both Unholy self-indulgent Orders, and true Holy Orders, often use many
of the same practices and teachings.The difference lies in whether the
lower self is inflamed, or disciplined beneath the watchful overshadowing
of the higher Nishimta Self. The final key is whether or not association
with an Order makes a person a better and more spiritual person, whether
such association deepens character, develops virtue, and creates an all
around more wise and loving person. By the fruits ye shall know them. Peace
to all . . .
"To you my chosen I say, to you my
believer I explain:
Fast the great fast, not the fast from food
and drink in the world.
Fast with your eyes from winking and gawking
and do nothing evil.
Fast with your ears from listening at doors
which are not your own.
Fast with your mouth from sacrilegious lies
and love not falsehoods and gossip.
Fast with your heart from bad intentions,
and hate, jealousy and breach it not with your hearts.
One who tends toward jealousy is not called
a perfect one.
Fast with your hands from the act of murder
and commit no theft.
Fast with your body from the wives that are
not your own.
Fast from kneeling to adore Satan and kneel
not before deceitful icons.
Fast with your feet from cunning paths toward
things that are not yours.
Fast this great fast and break it not until
you depart from the body."
- from the Ginza, Scroll 1, translated by
Yesai Nasrai
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