----- Original Message -----
From: Alicia Yount
To: carrier@nmcnews.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: I want to learn more

Dear Rev. Nazirmoreh K. B. Kedem:
I am taking a New American Religion's course at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield Missouri and we are obligated to do a large in-depth report about a new religion or group that we have found. I ran into your group at the Hollister Grape and Fall Festival and was very interested in learning more about your Monastic community. I have done some research on your group through the website and was wondering if you wouldn't mind to answer some questions. If you do not wish to communicate with me, I would appreciate you letting me know, I completely understand and do not wish to offend you or your community in any way. The following are a few things I am interested in finding out about your religion:

1. How long have you been involved with this particular group?
I've been involved with this particular group and soul matrix and all existence since beginningless time.

2. What type of religion do you most closely associate your group with? For example, Hindu, Buddhism, etc.
From the sight of the Divine Creative Essence of all Existence and those that know - All are One. Different levels. Different degrees of awareness. Different experiential needs - however, All are One. All are directed to the Union of the One. Many paths, One goal; Many names, One Divine Creator - Creative Essence of All that is, was and ever shall be.

3. Why have you chosen to be a part of this group? For I have been chosen.

How large is your local chapter? All existence is without number. We are beyond the limitation of that which would be understood or considered as local.
4. Why did you all move from New Orleans? To return to the truly Monastic way of life - as lived previously - before the journey to New Orleans, the service in New Orleans.

How did your group get started in 1988?
The community, the life was started eons before the year of 1988... since beginningless time. We are on an infinite journey. The date you referred to is the date the Veil of Truth Omniversity opened in New Orleans - THAT was in NEW ORLEANS.

5. What is the "Veil of Truth" and how is that related to the "Purple Veil?"
The "Veil of Truth" is the garment of Truth, the living of truth as is the Cloak of Wisdom - the living of Truth, Light, and Love, Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding - to the best of our ability to do so, during this involutionary, cyclic, experiential journey for the service of, the expression of, the projection of the consciousness expansion and further spiritual development of all existence. Physical, mental, spiritual well-being of all beings. Peace, Love, Love, Love - May Peace Prevail on Earth - we pray. The "Purple Veil" is One in the effort, the assistance, the means to accomplishing.

6. Give me a few examples of practices or rituals that you follow on a daily basis. (For example: meditation, chanting, etc.)
Meditation/ Prayer 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Live the life - we will know the love. As below - so above. You get what you are, you get what you pay for. What you are is the plane of consciousness you are traveling on, your degree of awareness. You get according to your experiential need, that which you need to learn and know, to become a better and more loving being during your walk on this earth. The pay is the effort you put into utilizing, applying the information that you have received through experience, through living, through the bitter - the sweet, the wisdom - the woe, the love, the joy, the happiness - - - we learn and we grow.

7. Were you a member of a previous group before starting this group, if so, why did you leave?
As stated before - All are One. There is no coming or going. There is just living and knowing and growing through that knowing. Life experience.

8. Did you start this group? If not, who did and why.
This group was started and created as was I and all existence by the Divine Creative Essence of All Existence, of all being; for a purpose, for a reason. Live life. Consciousness expansion, further spiritual development, Union with the Essence, the Love. As above, so below.

9. What oppositions have you faced from others who disapprove of your religious choices?
I have had no problems with disapprovals. I have had experiences with those not knowing. However, this is no opposition - this is just unknowing.

10. What do you feel you have gained through this faith?
Through this life I have proceeded forward in my journey toward the union, with the support of the collective effort of those that know.

11. What do you wish the general public knew about your group?
I have no wishes in that area. We live the life and serve those that have the ears to hear, the eyes to see.

12. Where do you think your group is currently headed? What do you see as the most exciting activities or developments within it?
We live the life to know the love. We've just planted some beautiful potatoes & garlic to over-winter and are looking forward to a beautiful harvest come summer! (along with the spring planted garden)

13. Do you worship or follow a certain God or Deity?
The Divine Creative Essence of All Existence - of all that is, that was, that ever shall be. All is One.

14. What are the most significant ways in which your religion differs from traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs?
In no way in the knowing. The Truth, the Light, the Love - as above.

Peace be with you our Sister and All,
Thank you very much for your questions. Perhaps the answers will be of some value to you. 
       
In Truth, In Light, In Love
Reverend Nazirmoreh K. B. Kedem
Nahziryah Monastic Community
The Nazir Order of the Purple Veil
Yours in that Truth, in that Light, in that Love