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Rainbow Robe
The Gnostic Nazorean Position On
The Resurrected Bodily Form
Nazirutha
postulates a divine birth in a Light World for each legitimate Nazorean.
This heavenly birth entailed a three fold soul/spirit housed in a fivefold
spiritual body/form. The physical body we were born into in heaven consisted
of the 5 light elements of that heavenly world. These 5 elements are fire,
water, light, air and ether. When we fell from those perfect worlds (or
if one prefers: "volunteered to descend into this darkened universe for
experience"), our threefold soul fragmented into three diverse souls -
Napsha, Ruha and Nishimta; and our bodily light form fragmented into five
separate aggregates - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. This joint fragmentation
of the souls and forms of the various beings of light, including Yeshu
and Miryai the Primal Pair, is known collectively as the Light
Cross or Living Soul.
The still radiant particles of our heavenly
forms are dispersed throughout the universe and can be recollected through
gathering in of the vegan produce of this earth which contains traces of
these particles, and the still evolving portions of the fragmented souls
of light can also be gathered in through the mystical mysteries of the
Nazorean Order which includes rites of unification and restoration. All
rites and practices of the Nazorean Essene Order are designed to assist
in this regathering process of scattered souls and light particles, and
of their remerger into one another.
In higher Nazirutha our three Napsha, Ruha
and Nishimta souls are remerged, and the original particles of the Earth,
Water, Fire, Air and Ether elements of Light are rewoven into a light robe.
This is the original "wedding garment" mentioned in the New Testament and
the Rainbow Body of Dzogchen Buddhism. The Nazorean
system of 5 Chakras echoes this spiritual
history within our Subtle Body.
In Buddhism there are three distinctive aspects
to a Buddha, referred to as the three kayas (the three bodies) of
the Buddha. They are the Dharmakaya, the Sambogakaya and the Nirmanakaya.
These have a certain relationship to similar teachings of the Gnostic Nazoreans.
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In Dharmakaya, Buddhists identify the Buddha as
the full realization of uncontrived primordial wisdom.
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ln the Sambogakaya, Buddhists identify him as
a pure body of bliss, free from all sufferings and all attachments. This
is the glorified body of Buddha, Mani, Yeshu, Miryai or any fully advanced
Uthra. This is related to the Rainbow Robe which Abathur clothes the Nazorean
initiate at the Gates of Light. Sambhogakaya is the natural radiance of
wisdom that shines with five-coloured light.
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And in the Nirmanakaya, the Buddha appears in
a communicative form, whereby, we, as yet unenlightened, may better relate
to him, tangibly. This is the body in which the Messengers of light incarnate
in the flesh. It is temporary and is not eternal like the two higher bodies.
Mani called it a phantom since he considered all matter as illusionary.
This gave rise to the false accusation that Manichaeans did not believe
in the physical incarnation of Jesus.
In esoteric Sufi doctrine,
derived from the Nazorean Mandaeans, the substance of the Rainbow body
is said to be composed of the elements of Hurqalya, of Mishunia Kushta
in modern Mandaean doctrine, and of the five light elements in ancient
Manichaean texts. The doctrine of the Living Soul and its fragmentation
is tied up in the Manichaean doctrine of the Light Cross.
The Platonic School
also spoke of these things. In the writings of Philoponus of Alexandria
it is written:
"There is, moreover,
beyond this [spiritual body] another kind of body, that is forever attached
to [the soul], of a celestial nature, and for this reason everlasting,
which they call radiant (augoeides) or star-like. (astroeides)." |