Essenes

Since the archaeological discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946, the word "Essene" has made its way around the world--often raising a lot of questions. Many people were astonished to discover that, two thousand years ago, a brotherhood of holy men and women, living together in a community, carried within themselves all of the seeds of Christianity and of future western civilization. This brotherhood--more or less persecuted and ostracized--would bring forth people who would change the face of the world and the course of history. Indeed, almost all of the principal founders of what would later be called Christianity were Essenes--St. Ann, Joseph and Mary, John the Baptist, Jesus, John the Evangelist, etc.

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THE ANGEL OF LOVE

Love is stronger

than the currents of deep waters.

Love is stronger than death.

Beloved, let us love one another:

For love is of the Heavenly Father:

And every one that loveth is born

Of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother,

And knoweth the Angels.

Ye shall love one another,

As the Heavenly Father hath loved you.

For the Heavenly Father is love:

And he that dwelleth in love

Dwelleth in the Heavenly Father,

And the Heavenly Father in him.

Let him that love him be as the sun

When he goeth forth in his might.

Brothers, be ye all of one mind,

Having endless love and compassion one for another.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge

Against the children of thy people,

But thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

If a man say,

I love the Heavenly Father, but hate my brother,

Hi is a liar:

For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,

How can he love the Heavenly Father

Whom he hath not seen?

He who loveth the Heavenly Father

Loveth also his brother.

Love ye also the stranger:

For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

It is said by the people,

Better a dinner of herbs where love is,

Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Loving words are as an honeycomb,

Sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters,

And the wellspring of love as a flowing brook.

What doth the Law require of thee,

But to do justly, and to love mercy,

And to walk humbly with the Angels.

By this do we know that the Angel of Love

Doth dwell in us,

When we love the Heavenly Father,

And keep his law.

O Gracious Love!

O Creator of Love!

Reveal the best words

Through thy divine mind living within us.

Say to the Children of Light

Who till the soil in the Garden of the Brotherhood:

Honor all men,

Love the Brotherhood.

Obey the Law.

ES3-01

Wouldst thou know more, my children?
    How may we speak with our lips
    That which cannot be spoken?

    It is like a pomegranate eaten by a mute:
    How then may he tell of its flavor?

    If we say the Heavenly Father
    Dwelleth within us,
    Then are the heavens ashamed;
    If we say he dwelleth without us,
    It is falsehood.

    The eye which scanneth the far horizon
    And the eye which seeth the hearts of men
    He maketh as one eye.

    He is not manifest,
    He is not hidden.
    He is not revealed,
    Nor is he unrevealed.

    My children, there are no words
    To tell that which he is!
                 ES1-02

  And all were astonished at his wisdom, and asked him:
  "Continue, Master, and teach us all the laws which we
  can receive."

  And Jesus continued: "God commanded your forefathers:
  'Thou shalt not kill.' But their heart was hardened and
  they killed.  Then Moses desired that at least they
  should not kill men, and he suffered them to kill beasts. 
  And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet
  more, and they killed men and beasts likewise."

  "But I say to you: Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet
  the food which goes into your mouth.  For if you eat
  living food, the same will quicken you, but if you kill
  your food, the dead food will kill you also.  For life
  comes only from life, and from death comes always death.
  For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies
  also.  And your bodies become what your foods are, even
  as your spirits, likewise, becomes what your thoughts are."

         ES2-01

   "I have reached the inner vision
    and through Thy spirit in me
    I have heard Thy wondrous secret.

    Through Thy mystic insight
    Thou hast caused a spring of knowledge
    to well up within me,
    a fountain of power,
    pouring forth living waters,
    a flood of love
    and of all-embracing wisdom
    like the splendor of eternal Light."

ES1-01

Blessed is the Child of Light
Who doth seek his Heavenly Father,
For he shall have eternal life.
He that dwelleth in the secret place
Of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow
Of the Almighty.
For he shall give his Angels charge over thee,
To keep thee in thy ways.
Know ye that the lord hath been
Our dwelling place
In all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever he had formed
The earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
Hath there been love
Between the Heavenly Father
And his children.
And how shall this love be severed?
From the beginning
Until the ending of time
Doth the holy flame of love
Encircle the heads
Of the Heavenly Father
And the Children of Light:
How then shall this love be extinguished?
For not as a candle doth it burn,
Nor yet as a fire raging in the forest.
Lo, it burneth with the flame
Of Eternal Light,
And that flame cannot be consumed.

                                            ES1-03

These names were pronounced
Before the Creation of this Heaven,
Before the making of the waters and of the plants,
Before the birth of our holy Father Enoch.

Before the beginning of time,
The Heavenly Father planted the holy Tree of Life,
Which standeth forever in the midst of the Eternal Sea.

High in its branches sings a bird,
And only those who have journeyed there,
And have heard the mysterious song of the bird,
Only those shall see the Heavenly Father.

They shall ask of him his name,
And he shall answer, I am that I am,
Being the same as the Eternal I am.

O thou Heavenly Father!
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens.
When we consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

Yet thou hast made a covenant
With the children of Light,
And they walk with thy holy Angels;
Thou hast crowned them with glory and honor,
Thou madest them to have dominion
Over the works of thy hands,
And gavest unto them
The task of nourishing and protecting
All that lives and grows on thy green earth.

O Heavenly  Father!
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

         ES3-02  

ES1 - The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Two
      Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, trans.
      Academy Books
    - 01 - p. 90

    - 02- p. 83

    - 03 - p. 81

ES2 - The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ
          by the disciple John *
      Edmond Szekely & Purcell Weaver, Trans.
      The C. W. Daniel Company Limited
      1 Church Path, Saffron Walden, Essex,

England
    - 01  p.  48

* From the foreword: "The content of this book is only

a fragment - about an eighth - of the complete

manuscripts which exist in Aramaic in the library of

the Vatican and in Old Slavonic in the Loyal Library

of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian

Government)."

ES3 - The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Three

Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, Trans.

Academy Books

San Diego, California

- 01 p. 49

- 02  p.  69