Order of Nazorean Essenes

Welcome weary traveler exiled in these worlds of darkness. Be of good cheer for the teachings of Lord Mani are again spreading forth on the earth.

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Order of Nazorean Essenes

Cross of Light
Composition & Divisions
Teachings of the Manichaean Orthodox Church

Principle Nine - Insects

One Sensed Non-Mobile	Two Sensed Mobile	Three Sensed Mobile	Four Sensed Mobile	Five Sensed Mobile
Sense of Touch	Sense of Touch Sense of Taste	Sense of Touch Sense of Taste Sense of Smell	Sense of Touch Sense of Taste Sense of Smell Sense of Sight	Sense of Touch Sense of Taste Sense of Smell Sense of Sight Sense of Hearing
Earth-bodied Water-bodied Fire-bodied Air-bodied Plant-bodied	Shells Worms Insects Termites Microbes etc.	Bugs Lice Ants Moths Centipedes etc.	Flies Crickets Spiders Scorpions Beetles etc.	Fish Birds Animals Humans etc.

The Cross of Light should always be respected on all levels of its manifestation, but there are times when the more destructive elements of nature must be restricted. This is in accord with Mani's directive to act like a surgeon to remove the offending part for the benefit of the whole:

"He is like this, a wise doctor who might turn back ... ... his disease. As a wound is in his body, he cuts ...this person who is ill, in his wisdom, .. ... he ... this wound, and he cuts it. After these things ...and he places the soluble drugs upon it, so that they will be able to dissolve. He might incise it with the iron, and he casts it out from him, with the soluble drugs. And the wound is purified from the fever." Kephalia of the Teacher, Teachings of Mani, 85

The Order's position on restricting the more negative influences of the five forms of life are as follows:

One Sense: Containment and control of all natural elements to prevent damage from dust, flood, fire, storm and noxious plants. This includes the ability to weed a garden to further its overall alms producing qualities.
Termites: Irradication from wooden structures of the Order considered permissible.
Lice: Removal and termination from human scalps.
Flies, stinging insects: Shush them from dwellings when possible, termination of them when it is not possible to irradicate them with more gentle measures.
Wild Animals and hostile Humans: The first act should be removal from any area where intervention seems likely. When unforseen, then self defense is permissible.

Unlike Jains, Nazoreans see each manifest life form as but a part of one larger life force - the Living Soul. Individual aspects of the Living Soul should be respected, but one does not kill the Living Soul by destroying its individual manifestations. To harm any aspect of Life should not be done without a very good reason that benefits the overall Living Soul more than the destruction of its individual parts harm it. Except for the occasional termination of noxious insects and rodents when all other methods of irradication of them has failed, there is seldom if ever any need to deliberately harm any higher life form. Diet or clothing is never any excuse to kill animal, fish, reptile or bird. Nor are conscientious Nazoreans allowed to benefit from their demise in anyway whatsoever.