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The second major milestone in the Nazorean
Way, beyond Probationer, is the level of Postulant.
On this level the student will receive the mystical anointing ritual and
acquire a continuing knowledge of the Nazorean Way through the year long
Catechism course offered in her School of the Prophets. By this level one
will have committed to the Path of Transformation and is invited to attend
the communal prayer services. Postulants are allowed to continue their
trial residency in a Nazorean Community but still remain in certain restricted
areas.
Postulants are required to become serious about
their relationship with Divine Beings. They must engage in 12 prayer prostrations
during four different times each day. This "ngondro" practice begins
to purify the tainted soul and reign in the wild ego. A serious commitment
to spiritual practice emerges on this level.
SECOND MILESTONE of NAZIRUTHA
Worship, Study & Prayer – Relationship
with higher forces. [Misha-Sethil]
The second Naziruthian Rite of Yesua and Miryai’s
Gnosis is the Chrism (misha). It concerns itself with the continued accumulation
and consolidation of the five pure elements which are alchemically extracted
from nature via sacramental rituals. In this second of the five foundational
Degrees of Nazirutha the tangible substance of oil is used as a outer vehicle
for the five inner elements, especially that of Wind.
(Ether, Wind, Light, Water and Fire.)
the four primary elements of ancient physics:
earth, water, air, and fire (recast in modern formulation as the four basic
states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma).
The truth does not come unto the system naked,
but rather it comes in symbols with imagery. The world will not receive
it in any other fashion. There is a rebirth° (or upbirth) together
with a reborn (or upborn) imagery. It is truly appropriate to be reborn
(or upborn) thru the imagery. (Jn 3) What is the resurrection with its
imagery?--it is appropriate to arise thru the imagery. The Bridal-Chamber
with its imagery?--it is appropriate to come into the truth. This is the
restoration°. It is appropriate to be begotten not only of the words
'the Father with the Son with the Holy Spirit', but also to be begotten
of them themselves. Whoever is not begotten of them will have the name
also taken from him. (Ph 63) Yet one receives them in the Chrism which
comes in the power of the cross, which the Apostles call: the right with
the left. For this-one is no longer a Christic but rather a Christ. (Gospel
of Philip 72)
The Lord [did] everything sacramentally: Baptism
and Chrism and Eucharist and Atonement and [Holy] Bridal-Chamber. He said:
I have come [to make the outer] as the inner and the [above as the below].
(Th 22*) The other place [is represented] here in symbols. (Gospel of Philip
73-74)
Sacrament (64): see Mystery; Ph 73 gives a
hierarchical list of five Sacraments: Baptism (personal moral cleansing
vis-à-vis the Torah), Chrism (the Messianic Discipleship), Eucharist
(the communal meal, commemorating Y'shua's sacrifice), Atonement (suffering
for the salvation of others), and Holy Bridal-Chamber (uniting of the Disciples,
to celebrate their eternal birth thru the fusion of the Father with the
Spirit).
A birthed baby must breathe. This breathing
stage of the reborn Naziruthian initiate is associated with the second
anointing degree. In the second Degree the world view, day to day
consciousness and general flow of conversation and speech is kept high
in Nazorean encampments through the focus on breath, prayer and prostrations.
These keep the community's eye focused on heavenly realities.
The first duty of the Listener which he does
is Fasting, Prayer and Almsgiving. (Kephalia 192: 29 31) Now this is the
Prayer, that he must pray toward the Sun and Moon, the great Luminaries
(Kephalia 192:33 193:1). The times of Prayer are followed by him; he keeps
them, he comes daily to the Prayer, hourly and daily, all the hours of
Prayer will be kept, with his fasts and his alms which he gives on all
the days of the year (Kephalia 233:12 16).
“The Chrism is lord over Baptism. For from
the Chrism (Misha/Oil) we are called Christics (Mishiha/Messiahs), and
not because of the Baptism. And he is called the Christ (Mishiaa) because
of the Chrism. For the Father anointed the Son, yet the Son anointed the
Apostles, yet the Apostles anointed us. He who is anointed has everything--he
has the resurrection, the light, the cross, the Holy Spirit. The Father
bestowed this upon him in the Bridal-Chamber, and he received.” (Gospel
of Philip 101)
There is liquid in water, there is fire in
Chrism. (Gospel of Philip 28)
The soul (ruha) and the spirit (nishimta) of
the Son of the Bridal-Chamber come forth [in] water and fire with light.
The fire is the Chrism, the light is the fire. I do not mean this fire
that has no form, but rather the other--whose form is white and which is
made of beautiful light and which bestows splendor. (Gospel of Philip 71)
No one will be able to see himself either in
water or in a mirror without light. Nor again will thou be able to see
thyself in the light without water or a mirror. Therefore it is appropriate
to baptize in both--in the light and the water. Yet the light is the Chrism.
(Gospel of Philip 81)
(Odes of St. Solomon 13:1--'Behold! The Lord
is our mirror; open your eyes and see them in him.')
Philip the Apostle says: Joseph the Craftsman
planted a garden because he needed wood for his craft. He made the cross
from the trees that he planted, and his posterity hung on that which he
had planted. His posterity is Y'shua, yet the plant is the cross. But the
tree of life is in the center of paradise, the olive tree from which the
Chrism comes thru him who is the resurrection. (Gospel of Philip 98)
Spiritual love is wine and fragrance. All those
who are anointed with it enjoy it. As long as the anointed remain, those
also enjoy it who stand beside them. But if they who are anointed with
the Chrism withdraw and depart, those who are not anointed but only stand
alongside will still remain in their own miasma. The Samaritan gave nothing
to the wounded man except wine and ointment--and it healed the wounds,
for 'love covers a multitude of transgressions.' (Gospel
of Philip 118)
As long as evil indeed is covert it is potent,
not yet truly purged from the midst of the seed of the Sacred Spirit. They
are enslaved by the oppression. Yet when the Perfect Light is revealed,
then it will pour forth upon everyone and all those within it shall receive
the Chrism. Then the slaves shall be freed [and] the captives atoned. (Gospel
of Philip 141)
If the pearl is cast down into the mire it
is not despised, nor if it is anointed with balsam oil is it more valued.
But rather it has its great worth to its owner at all times. So it is with
the Sons of God--whatever happens to them, they still have the great value
to their Father. (Gospel of Philip 52)
55. Both vessels of glass and vessels of pottery
come to be thru fire. But if glass vessels break they are remade, for they
come to be by means of breath (spirit). Yet if pottery vessels break they
are destroyed, for they come to be without breath. (ceramics can only be
remade before firing: Jer 18:4-10, 19:11)
42. Those who are lost are also begotten by
the Holy Spirit, and they go astray thru her. Thus by the one breath°,
the fire both blazes and is extinguished.
Whenever that breathes the winter comes, but
when the Holy Spirit breathes the summer comes. (Mk 10:38-39) 115
80. Thru the Holy Spirit we are indeed born,
yet we are reborn (or upborn) thru the Christ. In both we are anointed
thru the Spirit--and having been begotten, we are mated. (Gen 2:7, Jn 3:7)
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