Seasons, Weeks & Hours of the Gnostic Mythos

INTRO

In the Cosmic drama the peaceful oneness of the Light Land is Qadumia. The war with darkness and the sending of the Primal Man is Tziphra. The swallowing of the fivefold robe and the seeding of the darkness is Tlata. Shitaya is the reordering and recreation by the Living Spirit and Tesha is the setting in motion of the machinery of refinement. Ramsha is the revelation of the image, the spurting forth, and the making of non physical man. Shlama is Adam and Havah entombed and encased in a stinking stump of physical flesh. Sitara is the Awakening of Adam by Hibil-Yeshu. Lilya is the ascension, and Anpia is the return to the Light Land triumphant.

The seven cosmic phases known to Gnostics are:

• Peaceful oneness of the Light Land (Realm of Lalut)
• The war with darkness and the sending of the Primal Man. The swallowing of the fivefold robe and the seeding of the darkness (Realm of Yabarut)
• The reordering and recreation by the Living Spirit thru his Five Sons and the setting in motion of the machinery of refinement.  (Realm of Malakut) The revelation of the image, the spurting forth, and the making of non physical and physical man. Solidification of the material world. 
• Adam and Havah entombed and encased in a stinking stump of physical flesh. Awakening of Adam by Hibil-Yeshu (Realm of Nasut)
• The Call of Life awakens the slumbering Pearls imprisoned in physical form (Realm of Malakut)
• The raising up of the Ziwaneh within and without and transcendence of physical limitation (Realm of Yabarut)
• The shedding of the false skin and the ascension of the Pearl in its paranirvana.  (Realm of Lalut)
• The return to the Light Land triumphant and the unveiling and merger with primordial unity. (Realm of Hahut)

The seven religious ages, or Daria, of import to Nazirutians are:

• The early rise of the Gnosis with Sethil and Norea. Later expressed by the vegetarian Essene phase beginning with Liliukh and culminating in the the ministry of Anhar and Yohanna the Baptist, with its later Kabbalistic offshoots.
• The Hermetic and Egyptian systems and the Ophite, Pythagorean, and Platonic systems.
• The vegetarian orientated Cha'an and Zen forms of northern Buddhism, and Taoism to a certain extent. With all non vegetarian forms and Indian influenced forms being considered corruptions of the original pure ideal.
• The early Himalayan phase now reverberating as the Bon (Bonmo and Bonpo) faith and the Sabian. These are the  early Indo-Aryan religion worshipping Goddesses and Gods and holding sacred mountains like Kailash, Ararat, Hermon and others, as well as sacred lakes and rivers. Also the early Indian phase associated with Jainism, Vajrayana and the Saivite. The more pure form being the vegetarian orientated  Jain faith. The pure form of this phase being the vegetarian orientated Yungdrung Bön  founded by the Persian Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche.
• The Maggusaean, vegetarian Magi, Persian and Zarathustrian systems, the pure forms being those vegetarian sects of Iran that inspired the Indian Khshnoom sect. Also Sufism.
• The vegetarian Nazorean phase centered in the Mt. Carmel Temple and propagated by Yeshu, James, Miryai and Elxai.
• The vegan Manichaean phases inaugurated by Mar Mani with its strong influence on latter Pure land.

The seven seasons of the sacred Year: Sabua – (Syriac) Shawua, Weeks of weeks. Used by the Order of Nazorean Essenes to refer to the entire lunar liturgical year consisting of seven groups of seven weeks, each full of Rahmia devotions. (Compare the Syrian and Nestorian Shawuah word for liturgical year.)

• QYAMTA: 15th day Aries Moon to 8th day Gemini Moon.  Qiamta – raising, resurrection, prayer of consecration, covenant.  An upright standing stone in Syriac such as a column, milemarker, statue, etc. Raising (Qyamta) the first yearly 7 week season in early spring which celebrates the soul resurrection of Yeshu. Begins with the new liturgical year on the full moon of the first Aries lunar month and lasts for seven weeks. Its first week overlaps with the end of the previous season and celebrates the Paranirvana of Yeshu. 
• SULOQO: 8th day Gemini Moon to 1st day Leo Moon. Sulaqa – raising up, resurrection, lifting up. Ascension (Suloqo) 7 week season in late spring having some relationship to the Apostles season of Syrian Christianity and Pentecost of Catholicism. Beginning the first quarter moon of the third(Gemini) lunar  month and lasting for seven lunar weeks (not counting dark moon periods). 
• NUSARDIL/QAITA: 1st day Leo Moon to 22 day Virgo moon. 
• SLEEWA: 22 day Virgo moon to 15th day Scorpio moon. Zaliba – cross. Cross (Sleewa) 7 week season in early fall beginning the third quarter moon of the sixth(Virgo) lunar  month and lasting for seven lunar weeks (not counting dark moon periods). 
• SOUBRA: 15th day Scorpio Moon  to 8th day Capricorn Moon. Subra – hope, faith, belief. The quality of faith in the Living Ones. Annunciation (Soubra) 7 week season in late fall, early winter beginning the full moon of the eighth(Scorpio) lunar  month and lasting for seven lunar weeks (not counting dark moon periods). 
• YALDA: 8th day Capricorn Moon  to 1st day Pisces Moon. Ialda – boy, child. Birth (Yalda) 7 week season in winter celebrating the Birth of Yeshu. Begins the first quarter moon of the tenth(Capricorn) lunar  month and lasting for seven lunar weeks (not counting dark moon periods). 
• SAUMA: 1st day Pisces Moon to 22nd day Aries moon. (overlapping Qyamta Season by eight days) Zauma –fast, fasting. Fast (Sauma) 7 week fasting season at the end of winter related to the Christian Lent and the Islamic Ramadan. A time for personal austerities. Begins the new moon of the twelfth (Pisces) lunar month and lasts for seven weeks, the last of which overlaps the first week of the first season. 
• Hasho Week 15th to 22nd day Aries moon. 

The seven weeks  of the sacred seasons: Sabi – seventh part, one week of the seven week seasonal series. Spiritual exercise are done in blocks of seven weeks each, with each week being assigned its particular practice.  Sabu – Shawu, plural form of the female word for week. Specifically refers to the 49 day seven week seasons of the lunar Nazorean Calendar which both end and begin on a fiftieth Jubilee day. The practice of seven week seasons is well documented among ancient Essenes and Therapuetae, as well as in Nestorian and Syriac Christianity which calls them Shawui. A precious gift of the Living Ones wherein man is given a pattern which will enable them to more perfectly center their daily life in the light of truth, walking in harmony with the heavens & earth around him. This sacred Siddur, when properly followed, can restructure the psyche of man & prepare them to receive more pure influxes from the heavenly realms. Lunar in nature in the lower Enshroudings.  The seven week meditation cycle is based upon the 49 day dark retreat cycles outlines in the Chag Tri Dzogchen manual put together in the 13th century by by Dru Gyalwa.

The seven days of the sacred week: Saba – seven. The lunar week. The basic liturgical cycle of seven days, each with a characteristic Rahmia devotion and posture. Shaba is the female form of the Aramaic term for seven, referring to cycles of time on the lunar calendar, especially the basic sevenfold lunar week beginning on new and quarter moons. (Different than the fixed week which is Subaita.) 

• Habshabba (Shamesh) = 1st day of the lunar week, sacred and most holy day of the lunar week. Feast day and a no work day. Habsaba – first day festival of the week, the quarter moon on the lunar calendar. Habshabba, the Day of the Sun, and his bride Kana d Zidqa (the holy feast food offerings) are oft spoken as one. They are heavenly Helpers of earthly Nazoreans during their ascent upward. Habshabba is said to deliver souls out of purgatory on his special day. Uthra over the first day of the lunar week. He presides over all the prison guards. (Sunday of the fixed week would more properly be called “HabSubaita – the festival of the fixed week. The term Habshaba was confused with this in later Mandaean break off groups once they lost the keys to their calendar.) “"Work does she on Sabbath, on Habshabba she keeps her hands still. Miryai has cast aside straightway the Law (Mosaic) that the Seven have laid upon us. " (Miryai chapters, Secret Teachings) Qumta – stature, body, form, person. To stand in prayerful respect and adoration. The prayer position on the first day of the week. 
• Trin (Sin) = 2nd day of the week
• Thlatha  (Nirgah) = 3rd day of the week
• Arba (Nbu) = 4th day of the week
• Hamsha  (Bel) = 5th day of the week. Yum Hibil Ziua – day of Hibil Ziwa, the fifth in the week. A day of special services within Nazoreanism. The fifth day of the lunar week. 
• Rahatia (Libat) = 6th day of the week
• Shafta  (Kiwan) = 7th day of the lunar week, a fast day, sabbath day, not a non work day. Kansia – sweeping and cleansing. Tasks of the seventh day of the liturgical week. 

The seven devotional hours of the sacred day:

• Dawntide Qadumia is Silence the Mother, our Barbelo of the trigram of the moon. 
• Sunrise Tziphra is Mind, our Mana, of the trigram of wood. 
• Midmorning Tlata is Truth, our Kushta, the trigram of earth. 
• Midday Shitaya is Logos, or Malala, the trigram of sun. 
• Midafternoon Tesha is Life, our Hayatta, the trigram of thunder. 
• Sundown Ramsha is Man, our Anush, the trigram of Lake. 
• Dusk Shlama is Church, our Kana, trigram of the mountain. 

Dihba – feast. There are seven main feasts in the Nazorean year, one every seven weeks.  Mazbuta – Gnostic baptism in running water. Called Maswetta when also used to refer to anointing with misa and pihta eating. Performed every 7 weeks at the Jubilee festival. 

• Dehba Rba = Noruz ('New Year's Day') Hibil (Yeshu) dies.
• Dehwa Hnina = Maidyozarem ('mid-spring' feast) Hibil returns to the worlds of Light, celebrated on the 50th day after his death. The Ascention also known as Pentecost.
• Dehwa Daimana = Maidyoshahem ('mid-summer' feast). This feast celebrates the baptism of Adam. (Mandaeans say a person baptized in a new rasta acquires merit for sixty baptism)
• Panja = Paitishahem (feast of 'bringing in the harvest'). Rites for the dead. Before its end is the consecration of the Manda.
• Fel = Ayathrem ('bringing home the herds'). Blessing of Trees. Dihba Pil– feast. Festival of Phel. Blessing of Trees. One of the seven Jubilee feasts of the year. Compare the Hebrew "Birkat Ha-Ilan, the blessing of the tree. 
• Yalda dYeshu = Maidyarem ('mid-year'/winter feast) Birth of Yeshu.
• Ashuriah = Hamaspathmaidyem (feast of 'All Souls') Ashuriah, which commemorates the Death of Mani. Bima – Seat, throne. The Bema festival of the Manichaeans in the spring. “In the Manichaean cultus the bema is a platform with five steps on which is placed an effigy of Mani, and to which his followers paid their homage. ”

• Qadumia is the Rushama washing ceremony, the morning baptism of water of the ancient Essenes, followed by sacred song. 
• Tziphra is zazen meditation followed by nasra study. 
• Tlata is hatha and kundalini yoga, followed by nourishing the garden. 
• Shitaya is kinhin walking meditation, followed by stewardship labors or rest during the longest days of summer. 
• Tesha is tai-chi, followed by cleaning, weeding, and stewardship tasks. 
• Ramsha is chanting, followed by dance. 
• Shlama is Dzogchen meditation followed by prayer or bed.