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One of the original Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, and author of The Passover Plot, discusses in detail the brotherhood of the Essenes, and traces influence upon other religions and groups, such as the Templars, Freemasons, and the Rosicrucians, through the ages.

FASTING is the most ancient therapy of humanity. Even our forefathers observed that after some days of fasting, a recrudescence of vitality and vigor shows itself in the organism. Nature turns it to account for the purpose of accelerating the functions of elimination, while the marvelous economy of the organism profits by the rest afforded to the digestive functions and by the vital machine's slackened activity resulting from the fast to cast off the impurities of the organism by every channel. In sickness, nature seeks to eliminate, then to eliminate more, and again more, until the choked-up ducts which are the vehicles of vitality and energy are made free and good health is re-established. And it is only when elimination is complete and all the embarrassing waste products of the organism have been evacuated, that hunger, exquisite and natural, appears. On several occasions enthusiasts have embarked on a fast without having studied the question sufficiently or without having accurate ideas on the physiology of the body. They have injured the idea of therapy through fasting in the minds of people by incorrect application of an excellent method. There are some kinds of fasts which must be wholly condemned: irrational fasts, fasts without preparation, fasts of long duration without an experienced guide, and fasts which are only inspired by the wish to follow a system momentarily in vogue. The purpose of this book is to give a dialectical guide to all who want to profit by this most ancient therapy of mankind, without making mistakes in its application. SOBRIETY is reduced to two things: quality and quantity. The first consists in avoiding food or drinks, which are found to disagree with the stomach. The second, to avoid taking more than the stomach can easily digest.

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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 ans stones dating back some eight of 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. 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.... From its antiquity, its persistence through the ages, it is 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 course, the same now as two or ten thousand years ago, and as applicable today as then. (excerpt from chapter The Essenes and Their Teaching)

These meditations and blessings were first published in the Essene Book of Days, written by Danaan Parry. Inspired by the writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Parry created a series of meditations and blessings to reflect the daily physical communions practiced by the Essenes. Designed to help you live in harmony with the earth and its seasonal cycles, this fourth edition can be used alone or as a travel companion to the daily journal found in the Essene Book of Days.

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely uses the Essene method of interpretation to relate the beginning of the Book of Genesis and the creation story through the fall of man. The balance of the book consists of eight lectures delivered at the First Christians' Church about the esoteric teachings contained in the story of Moses.

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Edmond Bordeaux Szekely uses the Essene method of interpretation to relate the beginning of the Book of Genesis and the creation story through the fall of man. The balance of the book consists of eight lectures delivered at the First Christians' Church about the esoteric teachings contained in the story of Moses.

According to Zoroaster, man is living in an age when evil is very powerful in every field of existence, though its strength id progressively growing less and that of good growing greater. When thousands of generations have passed this evolutionary process will finally result in the complete extinction of evil on this planet.

Nearly two thousand years have passed since the Son of man taught the way, the truth and the life of mankind. He brought health to the sick, wisdom to the ignorant and happiness to those in misery. He conquered half of humanity and the whole of the civilization of the West. This fact proves the eternal vitality of the Master's words, and their supreme and incomparable value. The content of this book represents only about a third of the complete manuscripts which exist in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Archives of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian Government). We owe the existence of these two versions to the Nestorian priests who, under pressure of the advancing hordes of Genghis Khan, were forced to flee from the East towards the West, bearing all their ancient scriptures and ikons with them. The ancient Aramaic texts date from the 3rd century after Christ, while the old Slavonic version is a literal translation of the former. Exactly how the texts traveled from Palestine to the interior of Asia into the hands of the Nestorian priests, archeologists are not yet able to reconstruct for us. We have nothing to add to this text. It speaks for itself. The reader who studies the pages that follow with concentration, will feel the eternal vitality and powerful evidence of these profound truths which mankind needs today more urgently than ever before.

For more than 35 years, the Essene Book of Days has called forth the wisdom of the Essenes as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This popular personal journal begins each morning with a blessing and ends each evening with a meditation. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings depicting the changing seasons, each page is designed to better help the journal writer to stay in touch with nature's cycles. Astrological information on the movements of the sun and moon through the Zodiac appear every day to complement and complete the cycle of the year. Printed on recycled paper with environmentally friendly inks, all sales benefit the nonprofit work of the Earthstewards Network.

For the first time the complete 4 books of the Essene Gospel of Peace are available in one volume. The Essene Gospel of Peace, The Unknown Book of the Essenes, Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood & The Teachings of the Elect.The Essene Gospel of Peace were found in the Vatican Library and translated by Edmond Bordeaux SzekelyEdmond Bordeaux Szekely,grandson of Alexandre Szekely,eminent poet and Unitarian Bishop of Cluj,is a descendant of Csoma de Koros, Transylvanian traveler and philologist who,over 150 years ago, compiled the first grammar of the Tibetan language,the first English-Tibetan dictionary,and wrote his unsurpassed work, Asiatic Researches.He was also Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society in India. Dr.Bordeaux earned his Ph. D. degree from the University of Paris,and other degrees from the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig.He also held professorships of Philosophy and Experimental Psychology at  the University of Cluj. A well-known philologist in Sanscrit,Aramaic,Greek and Latin,Dr. Bordeaux spoke ten modern languages.In 1928,he founded the International Biogenic Society with  Nobel Prize-winning author,Romain Rolland.His most important translations,in addition to selected texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essene Gospel of Peace over a million copies in 26 languages are selected texts from the Zend Avesta and from pre­ Columbian codices of ancient Mexico.His last works on the Essene Way of Biogenic Living have attracted worldwide interest.He is the author of more than 80 books published in many countries on philosophy and ancient cultures.

In the Game of Asha, with its drama of light and darkness, the interplay of forces of light and darkness, the interplay of forces of good and evil, we experience the power of the Avestic tradition. In the Essene Tree of Life, with the branches of man reaching toward the Heavenly Father, and the roots of man sunk deep into the Earthly Mother, the symbolism of the Biblical Patriarchs is revealed. Both the Game of Asha and the Essene Tree of Life are reflections of the same truth: in his quest for perfection, man is always guided by the visible forces of nature, and invisible forces of the cosmos.

For the first time the complete 4 books of the Essene Gospel of Peace are available in one volume. The Essene Gospel of Peace, The Unknown Book of the Essenes, Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood & The Teachings of the Elect.The Essene Gospel of Peace were found in the Vatican Library and translated by Edmond Bordeaux SzekelyEdmond Bordeaux Szekely,grandson of Alexandre Szekely,eminent poet and Unitarian Bishop of Cluj,is a descendant of Csoma de Koros, Transylvanian traveler and philologist who,over 150 years ago, compiled the first grammar of the Tibetan language,the first English-Tibetan dictionary,and wrote his unsurpassed work, Asiatic Researches.He was also Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society in India. Dr.Bordeaux earned his Ph. D. degree from the University of Paris,and other degrees from the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig.He also held professorships of Philosophy and Experimental Psychology at  the University of Cluj. A well-known philologist in Sanscrit,Aramaic,Greek and Latin,Dr. Bordeaux spoke ten modern languages.In 1928,he founded the International Biogenic Society with  Nobel Prize-winning author,Romain Rolland.His most important translations,in addition to selected texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essene Gospel of Peace over a million copies in 26 languages are selected texts from the Zend Avesta and from pre­ Columbian codices of ancient Mexico.His last works on the Essene Way of Biogenic Living have attracted worldwide interest.He is the author of more than 80 books published in many countries on philosophy and ancient cultures.

Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, will come as a surprise to those readers who are aware of Dr. Szekely's death in 1979. If I were also a philologist, or scholar, or archeologist, I might be able to provide some explanation. But I am only his faithful famulus amanuensis, and the instructions he left me were clear and explicit: "Two years after my death, you shall publish Book Four of The Essene Gospel of Peace." That was all, and I am now carrying out that wish. This book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, represents yet another fragment of the complete manuscript which exists in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Library of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian government). As to the reason for the delay in its publication, I can only surmise that Dr. Szekely wanted the vivid reality of these ageless truths to stand alone, obscured even by the presence of the translator. He did say in his Preface to the first London edition of Book One in 1937 that " we have issued this part before the rest because it is the part of which suffering humanity has most need today." Perhaps, in the same way, the troubled world of forty-four years later needs this fourth volume of The Essene Gospel of Peace. --- excerpt from book's Preface by Norma Nilsson Bordeaux

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a "sect" configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an Essene library was hidden ahead of the Roman advance in 68 CE, when Qumran was partly destroyed. With much doubt now expressed about aspects of this view, The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea systematically reviews the surviving historical sources, and supports an understanding of the Essenes as an influential legal society, at the centre of Judaean religious life, held in much esteem by many and protected by the Herodian dynasty, thus appearing as "Herodians" in the Gospels. Opposed to the Hasmoneans, the Essenes combined sophisticated legal expertise and autonomy with an austere regimen of practical work, including a specialisation in medicine and pharmacology. Their presence along the north-western Dead Sea is strongly indicated by two independent sources, Dio Chrysostom and Pliny the Elder, and coheres with the archaeology. The Dead Sea Scrolls represent not an isolated library, quickly hidden, but burials of manuscripts from numerous Essene collections, placed in jars in caves for long-term preservation. The historical context of the Dead Sea area itself, and its extraordinary natural resources, as well as the archaeology of Qumran, confirm the Essenes' patronage by Herod, and indicate that they harnessed the medicinal material the Dead Sea zone provides to this day.

Every investigation into the causes of the phenomena both of mind and matter was strictly forbidden, because the study of logic and metaphysics was regarded as injurious to devotional life. -from The Essenes The Essenes introduces us to the Judaic sect that contributed greatly to the spread of early Christianity. Drawing upon the Midrashim and the Talmud as well as the accounts of Pliny, Josephus, and other ancient writers, this tribute explores their rise and progress, their relationship to both Judaism and Christianity, and more. The Kabbalah is a guide to those wishing initiation into the mysteries of this esoteric doctrine and its extraordinary if veiled influence on Jewish culture over the centuries. Elementary but also comprehensive, it offers easy-to-understand explanations of matters of Jewish history and literature with which the lay reader may not be familiar. Here, in one volume, are two classic essays, dating from 1863 and 1864, on Jewish mysticism by one of the most prominent Hebrew scholars of the 19th century. Hebrew Massoretic scholar CHRISTIAN D. GINSBURG (1821-1914) was born in Poland but spent much of his literary life in England. He is also the author of The Song of Songs and Coheleth and Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Essene traditions, the earliest teacher of humanity known to us was Enoch, the founder of the Essene Brotherhood, who taught how to unite the thinking body of man with the cosmic ocean of thought, infinite and eternal. Next came the Persian Zoroaster, with his teaching of the Cosmic Order. After him, Moses brought down from the Mountain of Sinai the tablets containing the Essene communion with the angels. Another link in the succession was the teaching of Buddha, who, in the Far East, set in motion the Cosmic Wheel of Life. Finally, there was the Essene Brotherhood as the Dead Sea which planted the Essene Tree of Life, whose highest brancj was represented by the Essene Jesus, latest and therefore closest to us of all the great teachers of humanity. The quintessence of his revelation is found in the Sermon on the Mount. According to the Essene traditions, each of the great teachers of humanity revealed the whole truth in a complete, all-sided and absolute revelation, si

In the Game of Asha, with its drama of light and darkness, the interplay of forces of light and darkness, the interplay of forces of good and evil, we experience the power of the Avestic tradition. In the Essene Tree of Life, with the branches of man reaching toward the Heavenly Father, and the roots of man sunk deep into the Earthly Mother, the symbolism of the Biblical Patriarchs is revealed. Both the Game of Asha and the Essene Tree of Life are reflections of the same truth: in his quest for perfection, man is always guided by the visible forces of nature, and invisible forces of the cosmos.

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 ans stones dating back some eight of 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. 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.... From its antiquity, its persistence through the ages, it is 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 course, the same now as two or ten thousand years ago, and as applicable today as then. (excerpt from chapter The Essenes and Their Teaching)