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Chapter Ten

The Essenes
Edmond Szekely was the first author in modern times to write about the Essenes. In his book From Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls, we learn that;
From the remote ages of antiquity a remarkable teaching has existed which is universal in its application and ageless in its wisdom. Fragments of it are found in Sumerian hieroglyphs and on tiles and stones dating back some eight or ten thousand years. Some of the symbols, such as for the sun, moon, air, water and other natural forces, are from an even earlier age preceding the cataclysm that ended the Pleistocene period. How many thousands of years previous to that the teaching existed is unknown. ... The Essene traditions represent a synthesis of the great contributions to humanity of the different cultures of antiquity. They represent for us a path leading away from the one sided utilitarian technology of contemporary civilization, a valid and practical teaching utilizing all the sources of energy, harmony and knowledge everywhere surrounding us.

To study and practice this teaching is to reawaken within the heart of every man an intuitive knowledge that can solve his individual problems and the problems of the world. Traces of the teaching have appeared in almost every country and religion. Its fundamental principles were taught in ancient Persia, Egypt, India, Tibet, China, Palestine, Greece and many other countries. But it has been transmitted in its most pure form by the Essenes, that mysterious brotherhood which lived during the last two or three centuries B.C. and the first century of the Christian era at the Dead Sea in Palestine and at Lake Mareotis in Egypt. In Palestine and Syria the members of the brotherhood were known as Essenes and in Egypt as Therapeutae, or healers.

Mr. Szekely goes on to say that the teaching appeared in the Zend Avesta of Zoroaster who translated it into a way of life that was followed for thousands of years. He wrote that the teachings contained the fundamental concepts of Brahmanism, the Vedas and the Upanishads, and that the Yoga systems of India sprang from the same source. He claims that the teachings of Buddha gave forth essentially the same basic ideas, and his Bodhi tree is correlated with the Essene Tree of Life. Other sects who followed the teachings, according to Szekely, were the Pythagoreans and Stoics in ancient Greece, the Phoenicians, and the Alexandrian School of Philosophy in Egypt. He explains that the teaching contributed greatly to many branches of Western culture; citing Freemasonry, Gnosticism, the Kabala and Christianity. According to him; “Jesus interpreted it in its most sublime and beautiful form in the seven Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount.”
Szekely wrote that the Essenes added what the ancient writers called Angelology to the teachings. The Essenes angels were the forces of the universe. They recognized these to be of two kinds, good and evil, who were eternally opposed to each other. The Essenes knew that to the degree a person was able to utilize these forces they would move forward in their individual evolution in body and spirit. Unlike the other Mystery sects world-wide, the Essenes recognized only the positive and constructive forces of the universe. They believed that it was humankind’s role in the universe to strengthen the good, positive forces so that the evil, negative ones would be overcome and disappear from the Earth.
The Essenes communed with our Heavenly Mother’s angels during the day and with our Heavenly Father’s angels during the evenings. They believed that the Communions originated with Enoch and were again brought forth by Moses to Esrael, the Elect of the people, on the two stone tablets he first brought down from Mt. Sinai. Moses hoped to give the teachings to all the Israelites, but when he came down from the mountain and saw them worshipping the golden calf, he broke the two tablets and later came down with the Ten Commandments for the majority of Israel. But from that time, the people who were the precursors to the Essenes, who Szekely calls Esrael, held their angelic communions on a daily basis.
According to Szekely, the Communions have three immediate objectives. The first is to make man conscious of the activities of the different forces and forms of energy which surround him and perpetually flow toward him from nature and the cosmos. The second is to make him aware of the organs and centers within his being which can receive these currents of energy. The third was to establish a connection between the organs and centers and their corresponding forces “so as to absorb, control and utilize each current.” The earthly forces were meditated upon during the day and a heavenly force every evening. Those organs and centers referred to are the chakras, our spiritual power centers.
From Essene.com we learn that there were two branches of Essenes in Palestine - the Ossaeans and the Nazorean. The southern Ossaeans were known as the B'nai-Zadok or Children of Zadok, and the northern Nazorean were known as the B'nai-Amen, or Children of God. The northern group consisted of families, and is where Jesus and his family lived, on and around Mount Carmel. The Qumran or Dead Sea B’Nai Zadok were a male-only group. The Essenes also had a temple in the Essene quarters of Jerusalem. The Essenes were vegetarians and abhorred animal sacrifice and would have nothing to do with the main temple in Jerusalem, the home of their enemies the false high priests. These two Essene groups possessed different scriptures and had slightly divergent beliefs, something important to know when reading the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was in the B’nai-Amen sect of the Nazoreans that Jesus was born into, as Matthew 2:23 reads; “He shall be called a Nazorean.” This group brought forth the Chosen Ones. The Nazarenes were a sub-group of the Essenes who were under stricter vows of purity and conduct. The ancient philosopher Pythagoras studied in the B’nai-Amen temple. The prophet Elijah lived and taught on Mount Carmel.

The Essenes lived near lakes and rivers, away from cities and towns. They had a communal lifestyle and contributed all their goods and income to the community fund. They were expert farmers and supplied all their own needs. They had no servants and condemned slavery. There were no rich or poor in their communities, both conditions were considered by them as deviations of the Law of God. They were considered among the best educated people of their day. They studied astronomy, medicine, prophecy, and the ancient scriptures.

They rose before dawn to greet the sun. To them, the sun was a symbol of God. They meditated on the crescent moon which represented peace within. They believed that the stars and planets were ensouled, that the Milky Way is the seeding ground for souls. They meditated on superior feeling, understanding that every thought and emotion feeds into the World Soul and affects all creation. They understood that there was still a connection to be found between humans and all else, and were vegetarians for that reason. Edmond Szekely wrote that the purpose of the Communions was to teach the importance of union with the eternal and boundless cosmic ocean of all the superior radiations from all the planets, to make one receptive to these powers, so that one could attain cosmic consciousness. No doubt many of you think that this last statement is absurd. It is important that you understand it, because without understanding it, you will never be enlightened. To grow in God Consciousness means to be ever more cognizant of being connected to God and all God’s Creation. You literally have to become one with the ALL. The planets and stars are living beings. When you attain God consciousness, you are able to telepathically communicate with everything, as everything is living and ensouled - even rocks! The Essenes knew that they, and we, have to create the conditions that allow us to advance in God Consciousness.

The Essenes were highly regarded by their neighbors because of their righteousness and healing skills. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, Philo the Alexandrian philosopher, Josephus the Jewish historian, Solanius and others spoke of the Essenes as a “race by themselves, more remarkable than any other in the world.” “The oldest of the initiates, receiving their teaching from Central Asia.” “Teaching perpetuated through an immense space of ages.” “Constant and unalterable holiness.” Szekely remarks that because of its antiquity and persistence through the ages, it was evident the teaching could not have been the concept of any individual or any people, but, “is the interpretation, by a succession of great teachers, of the Law of the Universe, the basic Law, eternal and unchanging as the stars in their courses, the same now as two or ten thousand years ago, and as applicable today as then. ...the teaching explains the law, shows how man’s deviations from it are the cause of all his troubles, and gives the method by which he can find his way out of his dilemma.” From Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls p 14

When Jesus talked about the Law of God, it was this universal law he was referring to. Jesus knew that the only way the world would be changed would be through humankind’s knowledge of, and obedience to, these natural laws of God. One example is from the book of Genesis in the Bible, where it says that God gave plants and seeds to humans for food. This, to Jesus and the Essenes, was one of the laws of God. Jeshua says it’s because we break that law by eating meat that we bring on diseases within our bodies. The Essenes were scrupulous followers of the Law. However, they claimed that Moses law in the Old Testament had been corrupted. This corrupted law is the same one in the Bible’s Old Testament today, written by the Deuteronomists. The Essenes claimed that the Law they practiced was the law pre-written in the inner being of man. One author likened it to a person’s sense of right and wrong. This law was the Law of Love and the unity of all life in the One-Family of the All-Parent.
The Essenes religion was the mystical teaching of the Kaballah. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes refer to themselves as Judah, which is appropriate, because they, and we, are the Jews.
In The Mysteries of the Bridechamber p 286 the author writes that in the Kabbalah, the seven archangels who inhabit the planets are together known as Exousia. The sun is the head of the Exousia and considered the home of the Heavenly Messiah. The Essenes, who were incarnated angels and knew it, designated their hierarchy with the names of the archangels. Therefore, the highest in the hierarchy was called the Michael, regardless of their birth name. The second position was the Gabriel, then Sariel.
Mark Pinkham, author of World Gnosis p 280 wrote that the esoteric scholar Manley Palmer Hall maintained that the Essene Kabbalistic tradition was, “First taught by God to a school of His angels, and then the angel Raziel was dispatched from heaven to instruct Adam in the mysteries of the Kabbala.” Mark explains that the Angel Raziel’s name denotes “Keeper of Secrets” and “Angel of Mysteries”. Raziel was an aspect of the Divine Mind known in the Kabbala as St. Michael. Mark says that Michael’s heavenly and earthly manifestations are manifold. Included in those manifestations are Metatron, which is the angelic name for the prophet Enoch. Michael was also the ‘Outer Yahweh’ as well as the supreme monarch of the universe, King Melchizedek. What I believe the Outer Yahweh designation refers to, is that Michael was Yahweh manifest in a lower realm, an emanation of Yahweh, one who is beneath Sophia’s veil. It was Michael who would later give Moses a fresh dispensation of the Kabbalistic mysteries on the summit of Mt. Sinai. Since Michael or Melchizedek is a manifestation of Yahweh, this does not contradict the Bible which says Yahweh led Israel out of Egypt and through the desert and gave Moses fresh teachings on Mount Sinai.

According to the website Essene.org;

Several hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the Essene Teacher of Righteousness had a vision. An angel told him that a great Avatar, the Mashiakh (Christ Messiah) would come to Earth through the Essenes. But for this to occur, according to the angel, the Essenes must follow certain disciplines in order to create a physical body capable of withstanding the powerful vibrations of the Christ Spirit, as well as a group energy powerful enough to open an ‘energy vortex” or ‘doorway’ into this space-time dimension through which the Christ would enter. The prescribed disciplines were called the ‘Essene Halakoth’.

The Essenes prepared for almost three hundred years to become pure enough to be the vehicles these higher spirits could incarnate into. I know that vibrations and group energy and doorways into space-time may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable terms to some of you. The search I have been on for the last six years has definitely brought me out of the box I was in, as far as my thinking goes, although I have always prided myself on being open-minded and eager to learn new things. At the beginning of my search, it was clear to me that my long-held beliefs were being challenged big time. I made the commitment to put all my beliefs and prejudices on the altar before God. I have given up things, but received even more. I have physically felt the Holy Spirit power flow into the top of my head. I have felt that power radiate out from me to another person. I have had a few brief experiences of what fifth dimensional consciousness will be like on the New Earth. I have had many occasions when Jeshua himself has let me know that he is watching over me. I meditate. I listen to Tom Kenyon’s sound meditations because I know that light, sound, and vibrations are some of the basic building blocks of our creation and have the power to heal.

Early in my search, when I was despairing that I would ever sort this story out, I asked the Holy Spirit for a sign that she was with me, while I was in my car driving to go shopping. When finished with my shopping and walking to my car, a woman came up to me and said she was sitting in her car when the Holy Spirit told her to come pray with me. She related an experience she and her husband had when Jesus appeared to them in a vision and a beautiful scent, which they believed to be frankincense or myrrh, filled the room they were in. Honestly, I can’t imagine a more sublime experience.
I have mentioned that we are the Elect. The following gives more insight into that facet of our story. Hugh Schonfeld, the author of The Essene Odyssey p 147 compared the “phraseology, terminology, concepts and ideas of the Qumran (Dead Sea) community with the early Nazorean-Christian community and the communities founded by Paul as evidenced in the New Testament.” He found the following correlations; The Essenes of Qumran called themselves “the Elect” or “the Elect of God.” He compares this with Titus 1:1 “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's Elect” or I Peter 1.1: “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the Elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion.”

Schonfeld says that when one studies the legacy of the Essenes; “We are able to appreciate what they were seeking to transmit. It was for the high purpose of redeeming the Elect and finally the Earth itself, and incorporating the faithful in the Messianic personality, that the Heavenly Man in whose image man had been created had incarnated in the True Teacher in the End Time.” Schonfeld says that Jesus was the manifestation of the True Teacher of the Last or End Times.

We are the Elect, the ones who are being redeemed. Why do we need to be redeemed? Because we are collectively the prodigal son. We are the race that went astray! Right now we need to be saved ourselves before we can save others. What this writer means by the statement; “incorporating the faithful in the Messianic personality,” is that the idea is to have as many people modeling the behavior of Jesus on the Earth at this time to help in the ascension of Earth’s humanity. It means that we ourselves have to become the Christ’s of this era. That’s what Jeshua tells us. And as has been referred to many times in this book, it is something we have to do ourselves. When he refers to being amalgamated into Christ, I believe this refers to the spiritual wedding between Jesus and the Elect, which will take place in the Seventh Heaven.

Schonfeld wrote that where Paul differed from the Judeo Christians and Essenes was in rejecting that the ultimate purpose of God for mankind was the restoration of the Earthly Paradise. Schonfeld believed that Paul expected the Second Advent to be the means of delivering the saints from the bondage of flesh, and winding up world history. He believed Jesus would return to Earth with the angels, but only temporarily, to complete the Messianic purpose.

In the Similitudes of Enoch, an Essene text, it reads; “And the Lord of Spirits will abide with them (the Elect) and with that Son of Man will they eat and lie down and rise up for ever and ever. And the righteous and Elect will have risen from the Earth (by resurrection), and have ceased to be of downcast countenance, and will have been clothed with robes of glory. And these shall be your garments, garments of life before the Lord of Spirits; and your garments shall not grow old and your glory shall not pass away before the Lord of Spirits.”

P 150 Schonfeld says that in these verses, the Saints, though redeemed and made immortal remain distinct from the Heavenly Man, (Adamas) “while for Paul they, like Jesus are amalgamated with him.” He says that this is the mystery of the Head and Body. Listen up because this will be happening to us soon; “By a spiritual process completed by their own resurrection, the Elect are to grow up until the Body, which is the Community of the Elect, affects a junction with the Head. Jesus and the Elect thereafter will personify the eternal Christ.”

Schonfeld wrote that the spiritual gifts bestowed by the ascension of Jesus were for the development of the Messianic Body (Body of Christ), “Until we all reach unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, the Perfect Man the measure of the stature of the full-grown Christ.” He tells us that the unification of Heaven and Earth is attained through the Messianic Head coming down and the messianic Body which rises up. As it is expressed in the Essenite Odes of Solomon, “The Head went down to the Feet.” “In the Odes, the Saint becomes wholly identified with the Heavenly Messiah.”

Schonfeld makes a very important point; when the last enemy, Death, has been destroyed; “There will be no more need for distinctions, since all things above and below will have been brought into harmony with God and everything alien or hostile eradicated. At that time the Messianic purpose will be finished, the Grand Design for which Creation in the Universe was initiated will be complete.” I, for one, anxiously await that day.

One of the subjects I have continually run into is the argument that Jesus was naturally born of Mary and Joseph. We do have to admit that the virgin birth is an archetype of the Mystery religions. Even authors with ‘royal’ connections say that Jesus family said he wasn’t conceived through virgin birth. According to Jeshua himself in the Jeshua channelings, his was a virgin birth and there was an importance to that. He will explain that to us in the last chapter. Meanwhile, miraculous, supernatural and/or virgin births have been attributed to the following people: Gautama the Buddha - Sri Krishna - Horus – Osiris - Mithras - Zoroaster - Attis - Orpheus – Adonis – Dionysus –Yu - Hercules - Asklepios – Pythagoras–Plato - Alexander the Great.
Laurence Gardner makes a good argument that the Davidic dynasts were under strict rules regarding procreation. They could only have intercourse during certain periods. They also had long periods of abstinence between children. He says that the term espoused signified a marriage, but one that is not completely sanctified. He says there was a period after a dynastic marriage wherein if the woman did not become pregnant, the man could end the marriage, as the marriage would not produce the required heir of the Davidic dynasty. Gardner says that this is the period that is referred to in the Bible as espousal. Another argument, which is perfectly logical to me, says that Mary was a virgin and in her first intercourse conceived.

There is a text called The Gospel of the Holy Twelve which was translated from Aramaic fragments discovered in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet by the Edenite Society. It was first published in 1881 by an Englishman, Reverend G.J. Ouseley. Critics believe it was a text devised by him from the original gospels, and that aspects of it reflect Ouseley’s beliefs not the beliefs of Jesus. The text shows a side of Jesus that I know to be absolutely true, that is, he is firmly against the eating of meat. Everything I have learned in these last seven years convinces me that this is what he believed and taught. The truth is that when Constantine made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, the reforms they made at that time removed this part of Jesus teaching, as Constantine himself didn’t want to follow it. Jesus also gives a lot of advice on homeopathic medical treatments in the book. The very word ‘Essene’ means ‘healer’. The Essenes and their descendants were known for their homeopathic and miraculous cures. I believe The Gospel of the Holy Twelve is the original text compiled by the twelve apostles after the death of Jesus. One finds the familiar Bible stories in it, but they are much more developed and give the impression of being first-hand accounts. Fragments of the old gospel have come to light to support this text. They are called the Logins or Agraphia’s. Many parts of them match word for word. The text is readily available, and I encourage everyone to read it. Pray for discernment and then just let your heart tell you if it’s true or not. You will find that there are many more words of Jesus there than in the current Canon. This is the story of the conception and birth of Jesus from that text;

And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David and the virgin’s name was Mary. Now Joseph was a just and rational mind and he was skilled in all manner of work in wood and in stone. And Mary was a tender and discerning soul and she wrought veils for the temple. And they were both pure before God, and of them both was Iesu-Maria⁴² who is called the Christ. And the angel came in unto her and said, ‘Hail, Mary, thou that art highly favored, for the Mother of God is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed be the fruit of thy womb.’

And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, ‘Fear not Mary, for thou hast found favor with God and behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a child and he shall be great and shalt be called a son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Then said Mary unto the angel, ‘How shall this be seeing I know not a man?’ And the angel answered and said unto her ‘The Holy Spirit shall come upon Joseph thy spouse, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Christ, the child of God and his name on Earth shalt be called Iesu-Maria for he shall save the people from their sins, whosoever shall repent and obey his Law. Therefore ye shall eat no flesh nor drink strong drink, for the child shall be consecrated unto God from its mother’s womb and neither flesh nor strong drink shall he take nor shall razor touch his head. And behold thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing shall be impossible. And Mary said, ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.’ And the angel departed from her.

And in the same day the angel Gabriel appeared unto Joseph in a dream and said unto him, ‘Hail Joseph, thou that art highly favored for the fatherhood of God is with thee. Blessed art thou among men and blessed be the fruit of thy loins.’ And as Joseph thought upon these words, he was troubled and the angel of the Lord said unto him, ‘Fear not Joseph thou son of David, for thou hast found favor with God, and behold thou shalt beget a child and thou shalt call his name Iesu-Maria for he shall save his people from their sins.’ Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was written in the prophets saying, ‘Behold a maiden shall conceive and be with child and shall bring forth a son and shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is God within us.’ Then Joseph, being raised from sleep did as the angel had bidden him and went in unto Mary his espoused bride and she conceived in her womb the Holy One.      

When Edgar Cayce was asked to describe the selection and training of the young girls who were set aside to be the channels who the Messiah might be born through, he stated;
When there were the activities in which there were to be the cleansings through which bodies were to become channels for the new race, or the new preparation, these then, were restricted, of course, as to certain associations, developments in associations, activities and the like. We are speaking here of the twelve women you see - and all the women from the very beginning who were dedicated as channels for the new race. Hence the group we refer to here as the Essenes which was the outgrowth of the periods of preparations from the teachings of Melchizedek, as propagated by Elijah and Elisha and Samuel. These were set aside for preserving themselves in direct line or choice for the offering of themselves as channels through which there might come the new or divine origin, see? Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus p 81

Cayce said that their time was spent giving alms, doing good deeds and missionary activities. Do you find Mr. Cayce’s statement regarding the “channels for the new race,” and “channels through which there might come the new or divine origin” as intriguing as I do? Later in the book, I will discuss my belief that I am a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and the dna evidence I have to go with that. I believe the descendants of Jesus or of the wider Desposyni group were meant to be the channels for the new race. I believe there are millions of descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene at this time in history and multi-millions of Desposyni. I believe that it is from among these descendants that the remnant will come who will be the successors to Homo Sapien’s, our current humanity.

The authors of Custodians of Truth p 238 wrote that Mary was sent to the Temple school at the age of seven and consecrated to God as a possible channel for the Christ to be born through. The authors believe that the priests make the chosen girl pregnant in order to guarantee that the child would be from the priestly line. I would just like to say that if this is true, I believe they likely did it by ‘artificial’ insemination rather than a sex act. The authors say that according to Freemasonic belief, Mary rejected the first man chosen to be her husband, but accepted a young man of Davidic descent, Joseph of Tyre whose ancestor was Hiram of Tyre. Hiram of Tyre is the main character in Freemasonic myth and in their lore is called Hiram Abif. The name Hiram in Hebrew means ‘high-born’. He was the Phoenician king mentioned in 2 Samuel 5:11 and 1 Kings 5:1-10 for having sent building materials and men for the construction of Solomon’s Temple.
I’m including the following because if any of you research the dynastic lineage from Jesus and Mary Magdalene or even regarding Jesus birth, you may run into the false accusation that Jesus was born through an illicit affair Mary had with a Roman soldier with the last name Panther or Pantera. Even a well-known American professor and author of Biblical history seems to believe the story. From Alice Linsley we learn;
These are the very roles that characterize the Horite ruler-priests whose patrilineal lines inter-married, bringing us to the Joachim, Mary's father, a descendant of David's prophet Nathan.⁴³ The Virgin Mary was Miriam, daughter of Joachim, son of Pntjr (Panther) Priests of Nathan of Beth Lehem. From the earliest pre-dynastic times in Egypt, ntjr designated the king among the Kushites. The name Panther or p-ntjr meant "God is King." 

Another variant of that designation that I have seen is Neter or Neteru. Alice says there is no doubt that Mary was of the ruler-priest class because; “Even those who hated her admit this.” She writes; “Sanhedrin 106a says; “She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters.” Also, regarding Joseph, there is argument about whether or not he was a carpenter. In The Magdalene Legacy p 58 the author writes; “The term that was translated into English as ‘carpenter’ was the ancient Greek ‘ho tekton’, a rendition of the Semitic word ‘nagger’. As pointed out by the Semitic scholar and Scrolls translator Dr. Geza Vermes, this descriptive word could perhaps be applied to a trade craftsman, but would more likely define a notable scholar or teacher it certainly did not identify Joseph as a woodworker. More precisely it defined him as a man with skills - a learned man and a master of his occupation. A better translation of ‘ho tekton’ would be ‘master of the craft’.” In Masonic lore, Hiram Abif is a master workman in all the arts - stone, wood and metalworking. That these skills would be passed down to his descendants is certainly plausible.

We also have a limited view of John the Baptist from the Bible. The author of The Mysteries of the Bridechamber p 188 describes John as; “a man of urban erudition and international acclaim who had a number of arcane schools of his own established in Alexandria, Asia Minor, and Palestine. The headquarters of this network appears to have been based in Alexandria, with another of his schools or churches in Ephesus in Asia Minor and others along the river Jordan. John evidently grew up in the same Nazorean milieu as Jesus and was therefore of the Gnostic Hasid school like Jesus.” p 194 She goes on to say that it was John who revived the Merkavah sciences, another name for our ancestor’s mystical practices. John’s importance is that he was the one to provide a pool of esoteric knowledge from the past, and revived the practice by teaching new initiates. Jesus had been a student of John, which is why he was baptized by John. The author states that John was the father of the movement dedicated to the rescue and elevation of the Feminine Principle, i.e. the Goddess. I must say that it is very sad that the Baptists have lost this core belief of the originators of their faith.
In the book The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom, the author interviews a Mandean woman living in California. The Mandeans were forced to flee their homes in lower Iraq after the Americans removed Saddam Hussein from power. Under his rule, there was religious tolerance. Afterwards, the Christians and Mandeans were the first to be persecuted by their neighbors. The Mandeans were the Marsh Arabs mentioned in an earlier chapter. This woman said that before they were in Palestine, the Mandean people were in Egypt, but had originally come from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is said to have been the highest point in Lemuria and has remained above water. So this agrees with the historians Josephus and Philo quoted previously, who said that the Essenes came from Asia. The lines between Lemuria and Atlantis get a little blurred because when Lemuria sank first, the Lemurians traveled in all directions including Atlantis, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Helena Blavatsky made mention of “Lantans of Sri Lanka” which may signify that some of the Atlantean’s migrated to Sri Lanka too. They also migrated from Africa to India and as far east as China and Tibet.
This Mandean woman said that before Sri Lanka, the Mandeans came from another planet called Alma Benhura, the world of goodness! In her words; “The original Mandai came and married women of Earth and taught mankind.” She said too, that the Mandeans were part of the Jews until Moses died and were remains of Sumerians from India and Sri Lanka. The Aramaic people migrated to Iraq and mixed with the Sumerians to form the Mandai. This would explain the Aramaic language Jesus and his family spoke. The words Nasurai and Mandai both mean ‘knowledge’ or more likely, ‘Gnosis’.
Lady Ethel Stefana Drower was an author and cultural anthropologist who was an expert on the people of the Middle East. She was considered the primary specialist on the Mandeans and the chief collector of Mandean manuscripts. Mrs. Drower didn’t do research from her home in England, she lived with the Mandeans for an extended period. She wrote that the most enlightened of the Mandeans were the Nasurai or Nazoreans. She said the name Nasurai was related to the word ‘Naas’ and the Hebrew ‘Nahash’, both of which mean ‘serpent’. In the Nazorean Wisdom teachings, their Serpent on the Tree was called Jnana Pandita, which is a name that came with the Mandeans from Sri Lanka. Jnana later morphed into John. Mrs. Drower wrote that the Mandean Essenes had the power to heal, walk through fire and raise the dead. One of the Mandeans titles or appellations was Snia d dnia d Ardban, which means “skilled in religious matters and white magic.”
The author of World Gnosis p 101 tells a story titled Qiqel and the Death of Yahya the Nasurai. In it, is told the story of Nasurai (Nazoreans) who are remembered as having miraculously survived an invasion by a neighboring tribe “and its blood thirsty chieftain.” The invaders were trying to get the Nasurai to tell the secrets of their “renowned wisdom and power” to the coveting chieftain. When the Nasurai wouldn’t divulge their secrets, a huge fire was built and the Nasurai were thrown upon it. Neither the chief nor his men could believe what happened next; “When the Nasurai were pushed into the fire, they didn’t burn; instead, they walked on top of the fire. A white light descended from the sky and enclosed each Nasurai in an envelope of divine, protective radiance.” When the frustrated chief loudly lamented; “Can you not prevail against them?” One Nasurai answered; “Never, for we do not use magic but knowledge. Our power, it is of God.”
Lady Drower talked about their spiritual practices which were alchemical in nature. This is a subject I don’t have much understanding of, but I believe it’s all related to the inner technologies we humans have that were designed to facilitate consciousness with our higher, i.e. angelic selves. If I am not mistaken, these glands function through hormones. If I understand correctly, physiological actions can trigger what we call spiritual reactions.
The Mandean Nazarenes bathed multiple times a day. They believed that the etheric Water of Life, another name for the Primal Serpent, a.k.a Twin Son Serpentine power of the Holy Spirit, flowed through water. By this, I think it’s pretty clear that the concept of baptism might have suffered a little over time. And make no mistake about it, this baptismal rite came to the Nazoreans through Enki or Ea. Enki is the original Son of Man coming out of the water. He was said to have come out of what is now the Persian Gulf. In fact, he was said to spend his days on land and his nights in the water. Something important to keep in mind is that to our ancestors, water was a symbol of Spirit. While we are on the subject of Enki, let’s take a moment to discuss the serpent symbolism again.
In an online article titled The Serpent and Its Transformative Power by Rabbi Michael Ezra, the Rabbi calls the serpent one of the least understood of biblical symbols. He says that by taking a deeper look at the Kabbalistic teachings behind the story of the Garden of Eden we can discover insights about the serpent and its transformative power in spiritual development. He writes that in the Chassidic (Hasidic) tradition one of the essential principles in gaining a deeper understanding of what Christians call the Old Testament is to use it as a manual to understand the inner psychology of the soul. According to him, every person, place or event in the Old Testament represents an instinctual human drive or complex. Though this seems improbable, knowing as I do, that the main problem with this creation seems to be that humans are angels unaware, who literally can’t escape this world, and a large part of that problem seems to be psychological, I can see why the mystical side of the Old Testament would explore that. The Rabbi states that the serpent symbolically represents our primal drive for ultimate fulfillment. He writes; “In fact, our sages say that the snake was originally intended to be the great servant of man.”

He explains that the serpent had legs before it was cursed. To the Kabbalist’s, this means that the primal drive within each of us initially had the ability to move and climb upward in order to reach its ultimate fulfillment, which the author calls the “sacred Divine realm within man,” the pinnacle of consciousness where spiritual bliss became possible. When the serpent was cursed by God to lie on its belly and eat of the dust of the earth, the primal drive within us changed drastically and was confined to lower forms of passion.

Rabbi Ezra goes on to write that the mystical tradition explains that by removing the serpent’s legs and forcing it to slither on the ground, our primal drive was confined to the earthly or physical realm. “As a result of the serpent's curse, the primal energy that once impelled us to attain our spiritual potential was now in a natural state of confinement in the lowest energy vortex of the body associated with sexuality, physical passion and lust.” He says that consequently, the serpent has been condemned as evil, and passion has been shunned in Western spiritual circles. He says that the Torah gives powerful insights as to how valuable our primal energy can be when it is re-elevated and channeled in the right direction. He gives as an example the incident in the Bible when Moses encounters God at the burning bush and is commanded to drop his staff to the ground and then raise it upwards. He says this is symbolic of the tikkum, or repair that is needed for true spiritual evolution. He explains that in its fallen state, the staff was a serpent that evoked fear in Moses, but in its raised state, it became a staff of God through which Moses later worked miracles. He says that this Old Testament story is meant to teach us that when our primal urges remain repressed at ground level we are out of control, but when the same primal energy is raised and transformed, God works miracles through us. He says that by channeling our passions toward the spiritual, we can transform a potentially destructive drive into one of our most holy and sacred.
He goes on to say that in Chassidic philosophy, the yetzer harah, or “man’s evil inclination,” is perceived as nothing more than repressed energy that can be transformed when expressed spiritually. He says that the Baal Shem Tov explained that the two Hebrew letters raish and ayin, which spell rah or evil, can be reversed to spell the Hebrew word err, which means awakened. The Kabbalists explain that when two Hebrew words have the same numerical value they are of the same essence on a more subtle and hidden level. He is referring to one of the hidden codes in the Bible. Each letter is given a numerical value that is supposed to contain hidden meanings in the words that are formed. Rabbi Ezra states that perhaps this is why the Hebrew words Mashiakh (Messiah) and nahash (serpent) have the same numerical value of 358. While on the surface they seem to represent the two diametrically opposed forces of good and evil, they are related in their essence. From this, we can understand the reason for my saying that our ancestors seemed to believe that Satan was just a lower version of the Logos.
According to Kabbalistic tradition; “When the Messianic era arrives, our primal drive for lust and physical gratification will be ‘removed’ and everything will be transformed to complete good.” Rabbi Ezra explains that; “Figuratively, this means that our passions will be elevated, the serpent will no longer be coiled and confined, and the primal drive within us will return to its original state of seeking ultimate fulfillment in a life of Divine living.”
He closes by saying; “As for today, the message is clear. Life is a celebration to be lived, and when we deny our own natural instincts, we deny the very human glory within us; we deny life itself. If we allow our passions and desires to increase in spiritual and creative expression, we can truly blossom. Those of us who allow our primal energy to emerge will enter the doorway to the divine, travel the road back to the Garden and experience the return to the Temple of God.”

The last sentence is a succinct description of enlightenment. This example brings to the forefront the fact that Christians are using an Old and New Testament that was written in code and allegory of which they do not have the key. Part of that code is called the Pesher code which uses numbers. In the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Nag Hammadi texts, Jesus says; “I have come to cast fire upon the world and see, I am tending it until it blazes.” He also says in the Jeshua channelings that his coming two thousand years ago was an effort to try to bring light into the world because the world was in such a sorry state. Souls from the Light realm determined that an effort was needed to re-direct humanity at that time, and Jeshua volunteered to undertake the role.

When the Rabbi makes the statement; “when the Messianic era arrives,” he is making a statement that comes to the crux of the argument between Christians and Jews regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah. It could be that the role of Messiah that Jeshua undertook was meant to be imparted in two visitations, as Jesus did say that he had just “lit a fire” in his incarnation as Jesus. The very words ‘Second Coming’ imply a relationship with the ‘First Coming’. Perhaps we have been too judgmental about our Jewish brother’s and sister’s beliefs. Perhaps both sides need to know that Jesus’ Messiahship is a two-part process.
When the Rabbi says; “our primal drive for lust and physical gratification will be removed and everything will be transformed to complete good” he is describing what will happen when all of humankind is enlightened. First the Children of Light will be enlightened. Afterwards will come a planet-wide enlightenment after the Judgments have come, sorting those who will evolve and those who will be destroyed. Many believe that when Yahweh/Logos comes again, it will be in His/Her manifestation as Sophia. Until humankind can accept the female Messiah, it will not happen. Jeshua says that eons from now the entire universe will undergo enlightenment.
To the Mandeans, Jesus was a traitor who gave their secrets to outsiders. They said he didn’t baptize the Mandai but baptized others. They said he wanted to make the Mandai religion easier and made changes to it. Jesus ate with non-Mandai and ate without washing his hands. He also did not forbid some food that the Mandeans were forbidden to eat. The Mandai said Jesus created a new religion. All of this is absolutely true. Just about everyone wanted Jesus dead because he made changes to their religion or were horrified that he wanted to bring their secret traditions to the masses. Jesus made the statement that the priests held the keys to the Kingdom and they did not enter nor would they let others enter. Jesus died because he wanted everyone to be able to understand the truth about this world and have the chance to fulfill their greatest potential, which is constant consciousness with God. With Jesus ‘Way’ a person can avoid endless incarnations. He brought a new method called the Gnosis of the Heart. All traditional yogic methods started with the lowest chakra and worked their way up. The problem with those methods was that no one could get past the three lower chakras that have to do with sexuality and basic survival. Jesus method started with the heart or hrit chakra. It used the power of love to open that chakra.

I have on occasion purchased from yard sales or swap meets religious art that pertain to my research. Most of the time I had no idea they would mean anything to my research, but would come to find out later that they did. One of these is a picture that is probably from the 1930’s, judging by the frame it is in. In it, Jesus is standing and holding one hand in what I can only describe as a Freemasons hand sign. His other hand is pointing to his chest where there is a red ‘valentine’ heart. Keep in mind that in the 1930’s there were very few people outside the Far East who were talking about the heart chakra. In the picture, Jesus gaze is piercing. He is telling me that his ‘Way’ is through the heart, and that awakening the heart chakra is the Way to do it. I have used this picture on the front cover of this book. In the book World Gnosis, Mark Pinkham writes; “Charity naturally opens the heart, the seat of gnosis, and leads to unconditional love for all life.” He also wrote; “Teach children they are incarnations of the Infinite Spirit - not sinners, and that to know thy self as I am unlimited, I am Spirit, is the true goal of life.” I couldn’t agree with him more.

According to the website Essene.net, the ancient text The Pistis Sophia is a priest and priestess text that explains the inner-workings of the Nazorean Way. It was written in the Aramaic language that Jesus and his family spoke. Some scholars attribute the text to Valentinus, a Gnostic Christian, but I believe the Nazoreans were the source of the text. Because it’s a training tool for priests and priestesses, there is much in it that an uninitiated person wouldn’t understand. One can find glossaries of gnostic terms online that are essential to have when going through these ancient texts, which can easily be found online.
That website also says that Yeshuas’ (Jesus’) main work in the material universe is to reveal the Mysteries so that humankind might be saved. Lest Christians be up in arms about that statement, please keep in mind that baptism is a part of those Mysteries as is Communion or Lord’s Supper, Confirmation and other rites, and Christianity is the ultimate Mystery religion. We learn from this website too that even a righteous person cannot ascend up and out of the darkened universe without the seal and stamp of these empowerments upon them. I believe they are referring to the five Gnostic rites one of which is the Spiritual Wedding or Hieros Gamos. The site’s author says that these rites were preserved at Mount Ararat and the surrounding country of the Ararad or Armenia. He says this is the ancestral home of the Sethites, the ‘White Adam’.
The sites author writes; “We may deduce that Yeshu taught that the origin of the stream of Gnosis and its rites of redemption was with the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Caucasus Mountains.” I will insert here though, my belief that it started much earlier, as related in this book. The author calls the Proto-Indo-Europeans a pre-historic people of the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age. He writes; “The sleeping Gnostic prophet Cayce spoke of the birth near Mount Ararat, around 12000 BC, of a new branch of humanity which he calls ‘the white race’ and of a ‘white Adam’.” This author believes the Flood to have been the submersion of the north-eastern part of the Black Sea around 5600 BC, “which descended down in gnostic oral legend as the story of Nu (Noah) and the flood.”
The author goes on to say; “The peoples descended from this original genetic family inherited a certain degree of gnosis from their forbearers. Over time this evolved into various distinct branches of Gnosis. Some of the more note worthy being the Gnostic branches of Palestine, the Zurvanite branch of Persia, and the Bonpo Buddhist branch of Central Asia.” He goes on to say that by Miryai’s (Mary Magdalene’s) time the three branches were merging so that the Gnosticism of Miryai’s era “was a mixture of the indigenous Gnosis of Syria mingled with the Magi teachings of the Zurvan-Zarathustrians and the Dzogchen teachings of the Himalayas.” He goes on to say that the Syrian Gnosticism of Miryai’s homeland “spread eastward and revitalized Central Asian Buddhism.” He says that the Order Miryai belonged to, the Bnei-Aumen (B’nai-Amen) Order - was called the Kingdom of Heaven in New Testament writings. He describes that order as “The advanced level of the Nazorean Covenant which brought forth the ‘Chosen Ones’ through special pure and undefiled marriages, and is that advanced level of truth which Yeshu and Miryai have again sought to restore to the Earth as a means of bringing in advanced spiritual souls, incarnate angels and apostles, who can again bring peace and purity to the domain of the Earthly Mother.” He is speaking about us!
The author of The Messianic Legacy p 104 proclaims the sad truth about our ancestors, the Essenes. That is, they were the practitioners of the Jewish Old Religion and were the originators of Christianity. In a very short time though, the truths of both religions was lost and the people who tried to perpetuate them were shunted aside or hunted and exterminated. Jesus foresaw this happening. He said that in the end the truth will win out. I believe that day of truth is upon us. It’s the truth that I pray for constantly, and that I hope to bring to you in this book.
Christians will be familiar with this verse found in Mark 3:21 that refers to Jesus; “When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, he is out of his mind.” I believe Jesus family said that because he didn’t follow the Essene religion as it came down to him. The point has been made too, that Jesus didn’t pick his disciples from among the Essenes, which is for the most part true, but two of his disciples had been John the Baptist’s disciples and came to Jesus when John died. Also Jesus brothers were his disciples and Essenes as well. The Essenes were extremely strict in their practices. They were supposed to be a people free from the law, but their manner of living showed a self-imposed life under the law. No doubt Jesus found many of their purity rituals to be meaningless.
For whatever reasons, he undoubtedly ruffled Essene feathers. Jesus came to reveal a higher truth than the one taught by the Essenes. He wanted to bring a less strict and ascetic religion because he knew that the practices of the Essenes made the majority of people unwilling to consider them. Jesus wanted to bring about a new world religion. How much simpler of a theology can a religion get than love God and your neighbor as yourself? Do unto others as you would have them do to you! Edgar Cayce said that the ascetic path is not the way. He said to use a positive path identifying with the Spirit. The author of The Hidden Wisdom - Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition p 275 writes on this same subject. He cites the “libertarian thrust” of Jesus’ New Covenant as having been the basis for the tension that existed within Jesus’ family. The same tension mentioned in John 2:1-4 and Matthew 12:46-50. He says that it is significant that after Jesus death the new dynastic “Church of the Circumcision” in Jerusalem, led by Jesus’ family members, “was largely to abandon the more radical features of the New Covenant, returning to the traditional social and cultural mores of the past.” He makes the comment that; “given the subversive nature of his social agenda,” it was not surprising that Jesus was “executed as an occult teacher from Egypt.”
The author cites the threat to all power structures found in the social agenda of Jesus’ as the reason the Romans laid waste the Alexandrian Jewish Christian community in 115-117 C.E. The author writes; “Nonetheless, in the repudiation of an old order of things, in rejecting social structures and norms central to the pagan culture of the day but now outworn or malign, the early Christian movement would find a powerful formula for world success. ...the embryo (of Egyptian Christianity) would lie underground and survive for centuries in the hidden occult schools of Christianized Europe, germinate in the Italian Renaissance and the French Revolution, grow mightily in the struggles of the Industrial Age, and come into its own in Freemasonry and the birth of American democracy, flowering finally in a trend toward global democratization.”
P 278 The author believes that Jesus’ mission was aimed at more than the restoration of the Judaic Mysteries to the Jerusalem temple. He says that the wider aim was to bring them into the public domain, “to ‘rend the veil’ of the Holy of Holies and to bring spiritual knowledge into the world at large, to offer a new path of initiation that would be open to all.” He says that the key to Jesus’ teachings was his new Way of the Spiritual Heart, “an initiation that was to be potentially available to every man and woman who aspired to it.”

I will close this chapter with a few good quotes;

The cross on Golgotha is the Mystery cult of antiquity epitomized in an historical fact - Rudolf Steiner.

The great peace of the Essenes teaches man how to go back, how to take the final step that unites him with the cosmic ocean of superior radiations of the whole universe and reach complete union with the Heavenly Father, the totality of all Law, the One Law. This was the ultimate aim of all Essenes and governed their every thought, feeling and action. It is the final aim which all mankind will one day achieve. – Edmund Szekely

Christ then, is, primarily, not a person, but a process, a doctrine, a system of life and thought, by the observance of which man becomes purified from matter, and transmuted into Spirit. And he is a Christ who, in virtue of his observance of this process to its utmost extent while yet in the body, constitutes a full manifestation of the qualities of Spirit. Thus manifested, he is said to “destroy the works of the devil,” for he destroys that which gives pre-eminence to matter, and so re-establishes the kingdom of Spirit, that is, of God. - Anna Bonus Kingsford

We have to allow now what was previously so clearly evident to no more than a relatively few scholars, that the Messianic concepts to which Jesus and others of his time were responsive were far from being confined to biblical sources. They were being shaped by writings and teachings emanating largely from the Essenes, and widely regarded as inspired. Until it became possible in recent times to be fully aware of this, and to have access to much of the literature, the true story of Christian beginnings could not be ascertained. Our perspectives were incorrect and almost inevitable so were our conclusions. The circumstances have not yet been apprehended by the vast majority of Christians. – Hugh Schonfeld - The Essene Odyssey

Someone very insightful posted this on Wikipedia the online encyclopedia;
Jesus was sent as the Son of the true God, not of one of the lesser gods. His mission was to show humanity that God resides in every human being, and that salvation lies in connecting with this God within. Through embracing the internal God, human beings can return to the imperishable realm.

Truer words have never been spoken.