I think that the borist church tries very hard to have believers among the four castes of malkionism.
Thus they can obey to the laws of Malkion.
The problem is the persecution they endured. The church does have the four castes but not together at the same location.
For exemple, a borist village in the countryside has two castes, wyzard and farmer. The local lord and his knights believe in another heresy. The borist noble is of the lord caste. His chaplain is of the wyzard caste, but his knights and peasants are from another creed.
Now, if the borist heresy comes from the old hrestoli heresy (old seshnelan chivalry), they must have soldiers and knights.
The knights belong to the order (I don't remember its name), and there are so many mercenary companies in Ralios that some borist soldiers are a possibility.
Even in Borin, the church does not have the four caste together despite all its efforts.
Now about the relation with illumination. They consider illuminant as chaotics (so says Sandy), but to detect them they had to study illumination. And they fell into the trap, some of them became illuminated. Was it before or after the persecutions, no one will ever know. But after they were persecuted, they could no more organize chaos hunts openly. But they had to destroy chaos. One of the wyzards may have thought to use the chaos vent as a legal target (in the past, they had both thing to do, hunt chaos and destroy the results of sin). And the church gained its reputation of herding chaos creatures.
Well that's my opinion.
Jean
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #366
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