Regarding some who held this opinion, a religious historian says: “The belief that matter was evil... and that men’s soul must be freed from entanglement with matter, induced a severe asceticism forbidding the eating of meat, sexual intercourse and so on, which could be followed only by the elite ‘ perfect ones ’ or perfecti who underwent special initiation. ”
इसमें मांस खाने, लैंगिक सहवास इत्यादि की मनाही थी, जिसका पालन केवल कुलीन ‘ परिपूर्ण जन ’ यानी परफॆक्टी कर सकते, जो विशेष दीक्षा प्राप्त करते हैं । ”