The third  major milestone in the Nazorean Way, beyond Postulant,  is the level of Novice.  On this level the student will receive the mystical meal ritual and a continuing knowledge of the Nazorean Way through the year long Catechism course offered in her School of the Prophets. This will be the last year of formal mandatory study of the Nazorean Way. On this level one is invited to attend the communal meal. Novices continue their trial residency in a Nazorean Community but have free access to most areas as would a full member. Novices still must sleep in a special Novice area until their graduation.

Novices complete their three year trial introduction into the ancient Naziruthian system of Gnosis. They accomplish their final year of formal study in the School of the Prophets, affording them an adequate knowledge for full membership in a spiritual community. By graduation, a Novice has acquired enough data to judge what role or level of participation they desire in the Order. A Nazorean Novice is a true spiritual person who has passed through many tests of faith and has an ability to fast weekly. When they graduate they do so as a full Gnostic, or Mandayya. They have a real relationship with the Great Life and the community gathered in Their Holy Name. This is no small accomplishment and is something beyond the ability of most earthbound individuals. Their practice of weekly and dark moon fasts creates a level of spiritual character unknown to those who have not developed this ability. Their daily prayers have instilled a deep sense of Bhakti yoga devotion in them, and their periodic baptisms and alms offerings purify the defilements of their souls. Even if they choose not to continue onward in the Nazorean deepening degree program, they will still benefit immensely from their acquired spiritual habits and practices. If they remain faithful and true, they will a accumulate vast stores of merit in this life and be all the more prepared to go onward in later life or lives. They are blessed ones deserving  of many profound blessings of the Hidden Living Ones who rule over the Order of Life.

The third Rite of Naziruthian Gnosis of Yesua and Miryai, is the Fasting from the World & Ingathering of the Light Cross.

15. Before Christ came there was no bread in the world as there had been in paradise°, the place where Adam was. There were many plants as nourishment for the animals, but it had no grain as food for humankind. So humans ate like the animals. But Christ came, the perfect° person. He brought forth bread in heaven so that humankind would be nourished with the food of humankind. (Ps 78:25, Jn 6:30-59)

104. This is altogether how it is with the bread and the chalice and with the ointment--there is nonetheless another (sacrament) more exalted than these. (Ph 73)

114. The Saint is entirely holy, including his body. For if he receives the bread he sanctifies it, or the chalice, or anything else he receives he purifies. And how will he not purify the body also? (re 'Gnosticism')

127. The master of an estate acquired everything--whether son or slave or dog or cattle or swine, whether wheat or barley or straw or hay or [bones] or meat [or] acorns. He was wise and knew the food of [each]. Before the sons he indeed set bread and [olive-oil with meat, before] the slaves he set castor-oil with grain, before the cattle he set [barley] with straw and hay, to the dogs he cast bones, yet before [the swine] he threw acorns and crusts of bread. So it is with the Disciple of God--if he is wise he is perceptive about the Discipleship. The bodily forms will not deceive him, but rather he will look to the disposition of the soul of each one in order to speak with him. In the world there are many animals made in human form--these he recognizes. To the swine indeed he will throw acorns, yet to the cattle he will cast barley with straw and hay, to the dogs he will cast bones, to the slaves he will give the elementary, to the Sons he shall present the Perfect. (Ph 79!)
 

25. (Paul° claims that) 'flesh [and blood cannot] inherit the Sovereignty [of God].' (I-Cor 15:50) What is this which shall not inherit? This which is upon us? Yet this is exactly what will inherit--that which belongs to Y'shua with his flesh and blood. Therefore he said: Whoever does not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life within himself. (Jn 6:53) What is his flesh?--it is the Logos. And his blood?--it is the Holy Spirit. Whoever has received these has food and drink and clothing. I disagree with those who say that flesh and blood shall not arise. Then (these) both are wrong: thou say that the flesh shall not arise, but tell me what will arise so that we may honor thee; thou say it is the spirit in the flesh and this light in the flesh, but this also is an incarnate saying. For whatever thou will say, thou do not speak apart from the flesh! It is necessary to arise in this flesh, as everything exists within it. (re 'Gnosticism')
26. In this world they who wear garments (of cloth) are more valuable than the garments. In the Sovereignty of the Heavens the garments (of imagery) are more valuable than those to whom they have been given by means of water and fire, which purify the entire place. (Ps 104:2!)
 

62. The exaltation of mankind is not manifest but rather implicit. Because of this he dominates the animals which are stronger than him--who thus is great both manifestly and implicitly. And this gives to them their survival. Yet when mankind separates from them, they kill each other and gnash each other and devour each other, because they find no food. Yet when mankind cultivated the earth they found food.

36. Yeshúa says: Be not anxious in the morning about the evening nor in the evening about the morning, {neither for your [food] that you shall eat nor for [your garments] that you shall wear. You are much superior to the [windflowers] which neither comb (wool) nor [spin] (thread). Having one garment what do you [lack]? Or who can increase your stature? He himself shall give to you your garment.} (garment = imagery?!: see Th 37, 84, Ph 26, 107, 'Angel and Image' below, as well as the ancient and delightful 'Hymn of the Pearl'; =Mt 6:25)
 

Mary said, "Thus with respect to 'the wickedness of each day,' and 'the laborer is worthy of his food,' and 'the disciple resembles his teacher.'" She uttered this as a woman who had understood completely.

99. This world devours corpses--everything which is eaten in it thereby dies. The truthful consumes the living--therefore no one nourished in [the living shall] die. Y'shua came forth from that place and he brought nourishment from there. And to those whom he wished he gave life so that they would not perish. (Jn 6:53, Th 11, 60, Ph 15)

100. God [planted] a garden-paradise. Mankind lives in the garden, but [...] their hearts [...] are not in God. [...] This garden [is the place] where it will be said: My Son, [eat] this or do not eat that according to thy desire. In this place I shall consume all things, for the tree of knowledge is there. It slew Adam, yet the place of the tree of knowledge gave life to mankind. The Torah° is the tree. It has the capability to bestow the knowledge of good and evil. It neither stopped him from evil nor preserved him in the good, but rather it presupposed death for those who ingested it. For death originated in his saying: Eat this but do not eat that. (Th 113, Gen 2:16-17)

6. His Disciples ask him,* they say to him: How do thou want us to fast, and how shall we pray? And how shall we give alms, and what diet shall we maintain? || Yeshúa says: Do not lie, and do not practice what you hate--for everythingº is revealed before the face of the sky. For there is nothing concealed that shall not be manifest, and there is nothing covered that shall remain without being exposed. (*asyndeton, or omission of conjunctions, characterizing Semitic languages but not Greek or Coptic--thus signaling an underlying Semitic source-text)
7. Yeshúa says: Blestº be the lion which the human eats--and the lion shall become human. And accursed be the human which the lion eats--and the [human] shall become [lion].

14. Yeshúa says to them: If you fast, you shall beget transgression for yourselves. And if you pray, you shall be condemned. And if you give alms, you shall cause evil to your spirits. And when you go into any land to travel in the regions, if they receive you then eat what they set before you and heal the sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you--but rather what comes out of your mouth, that is what will defile you. (Isa 58:6-9, Mk 7:14-23!, Mt 6:6! + Jn 18:1!, =Lk 10:8-9, Th 6, 95, 104, Ph 74)

27. (Yeshúa says:) Unless you fast from the system, you shall not find the Sovereignty {of God}. Unless you keep the (entire) week as Sabbathº, you shall not behold the Father. (Mk 1:13, Jn 5:19!; see Paterson Brown, 'The Sabbath and the Week in Thomas 27', Novum Testamentum 1992)
28. Yeshúa says: I stood in the midst of the world, and incarnateº I appeared to them.* I found them all drunk, I found none among them athirst. And my soul was grieved for the sons of men, for they are blind in their hearts and do not see that empty they have come into the world and that empty they are destined to come forth again from the world. (Ecc 6:15) However, now they are drunk--when they have shaken off their wine, then shall they rethinkº. (*re 'Gnosticism'º, Jn 1:14; this appears to be a post-resurrection saying)

104. They say [to him:] Come, let us pray today and let us fast. || Yeshúa says: Which then is the transgression that I have committed, or in what have I been vanquished? But when the Bridegroom comes forth from the Bridal-Chamber, then let them fast and let them pray. (Mk 2:19-20, Th 14)

30. He says today in the Eucharist°: Oh thou who have mated° the Perfect Light with the Holy Spirit, mate also our angels with our imagery!

"O disciples, make your stomach hungry*
in order that your hearts see your Lord. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)"
"O disciples, make your life hungry*
and uncover your bodies (except the privates)
in order that your heart may see your Lord."
*The meaning of these two prophetic sayings is that one should fast and be satisfied with the clothes one has and not follow the fashion of the day.
"It was reported that Jesus, peace be upon him,
remained for sixty days speaking to Allah without eating.
Then he thought about bread
so he stopped speaking
and bread was placed before is hand
whereupon he cried because
he had lost the pleasure of his conversation.
Then he found the shadow of an aged man above him
so Jesus said to him:
'May Allah bless you O Wali of Allah,
pray to Allah, the Highest, for me.
I was in a condition when bread entered my thoughts
and the condition disappeared.'
The aged man supplicated saying:
'O Allah, if You know that bread came to my thought
since I knew You, do not forgive me,
I used to eat whatever came with neither idea nor thought.’“ (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)
"Jesus would spend forty days without food. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)"
"O children of Israel,
drink pure water,
eat wild beans,
and the barley bread,
but be warned about wheat bread
because you cannot establish its thanking. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)"
 

"O disciples, make your stomach hungry
in order that your hearts see your Lord. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)"

"My bread is hunger,
my banner fear,
my clothes are wool,
and my prayer in winter is at sun rise,
and my lamp is the moon.
My ride is my legs,
my food and fruit whatever the earth produces.
I spend the night and have nothing,
I awake in the morning and have nothing,
and there is no one upon earth more richer than I. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)

"When any of you fasts,
let him oil his head and dress his hair
and mascara his eyes*. (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)
*To hide the signs of hunger

"Allah, the Highest, revealed to Jesus in the original* Scriptures:
Say to the Israelites:
'Whosoever fasts for My Pleasure
I will make his body sound
and his reward great.'"  (Ghazali Sayings Of Jesus)