Porètes

The Porètes are a heretical sect of Ezra comprised of semi-monastic mystics of both sexes, and all sexualities, created by mystic and composer Adorjan Bognar in In 753 BC, after writing his opera “Twilight of the Gods”, the last part of “The Knife of Ba’al Verzi” tetralogy. Their doctrine is based on the principle that each person’s simple soul is united with Ezra and has no other will than Ezra’s own. This ecstatic union with Ezra, moving in a state of perpetual joy and peace is possible to be experienced in this life and not the next, and must be so. The soul in this state is believed to be above the worldly dialectic of conventional morality and the teachings and control of the Church of Ezra. Porètes argue that the soul in such a sublime state is above the demands of ordinary virtue, not because virtue is not needed, but because, in its state of union with Ezra, virtue becomes automatic. As Ezra can do no evil and cannot sin, the exalted/annihilated soul, in perfect union with her, no longer is capable of sin. The annihilation of the soul, specifically its descent into a state of nothingness and the union with Ezra, is believed to be achieved by various mystical steps. Their base is the Sanctuary of the Mirror of Simple Souls located in the House of Sages in Richemulot.