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Issik was a peaceful man, who preached poverty and humility. He carried a jug that was empty, as a symbol of his commitment to destitution. | Issik was a peaceful man, who preached poverty and humility. He carried a jug that was empty, as a symbol of his commitment to destitution. | ||
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In later days, a priest of Issek acquired a Northerner Warrior as a follower.... | In later days, a priest of Issek acquired a Northerner Warrior as a follower.... | ||
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| + | ==Rites and Rituals== | ||
| + | The adherents of Saint Issik invariably take vows of poverty, devoting themselves to lowliness and subjection. As such, they have no material possessions of their own, and forsake all ties of land and lord. For this reason, they are outcasts. | ||
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| + | Moreover, each morning, the adherents of Saint Issik roll themselves four times in the dust, to symbolize the four quarters of the body in mortification, as when Issek was stretched on the rack by his four limbs. | ||
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| + | ==Notable Scripture== | ||
| + | "A man may feast in peace, or fight in conflict, and be an animal for it: yet a man alone may refuse his drink, and still be jovial; a man alone may fight without conflict. For in this we find the Sleeping Father: that even our wildness is an ordered thing. We who are aware of the Sleeping Father ourselves meditate on his rest, and in so doing forget all things of the world, and, in that forgetfulness, become like to the Father himself." (Meditations on the Jug, Med. 4, Reply to Obj. 3) | ||
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| + | "If a man looks into an empty jug, does not the jug peer also into an empty soul? Or has a man some fullness, even when the jug is empty? It is only when the jug is empty we should know it; only the sober man shall perceive intoxication." (Meditations on the Jug, Med.17, Resp.) | ||
Revision as of 05:26, 5 October 2010
Life
Issik was a peaceful man, who preached poverty and humility. He carried a jug that was empty, as a symbol of his commitment to destitution.
To test him, he was put to the rack, and tortured for many days, before he died.
In later days, a priest of Issek acquired a Northerner Warrior as a follower....
Rites and Rituals
The adherents of Saint Issik invariably take vows of poverty, devoting themselves to lowliness and subjection. As such, they have no material possessions of their own, and forsake all ties of land and lord. For this reason, they are outcasts.
Moreover, each morning, the adherents of Saint Issik roll themselves four times in the dust, to symbolize the four quarters of the body in mortification, as when Issek was stretched on the rack by his four limbs.
Notable Scripture
"A man may feast in peace, or fight in conflict, and be an animal for it: yet a man alone may refuse his drink, and still be jovial; a man alone may fight without conflict. For in this we find the Sleeping Father: that even our wildness is an ordered thing. We who are aware of the Sleeping Father ourselves meditate on his rest, and in so doing forget all things of the world, and, in that forgetfulness, become like to the Father himself." (Meditations on the Jug, Med. 4, Reply to Obj. 3)
"If a man looks into an empty jug, does not the jug peer also into an empty soul? Or has a man some fullness, even when the jug is empty? It is only when the jug is empty we should know it; only the sober man shall perceive intoxication." (Meditations on the Jug, Med.17, Resp.)
