The Gospel of the Essenes

To know about the Essenes is to travel to the heart and soul of the human kind to find the common goodness amoung us and the deep wisdom we are all "connected" to inside ourselves. The Essenes had an uncanny understanding of life in general, the way things interact with us in nature, and the way everything interacts with God. The Essenes, the sacred "keeper of the Word" represent a marvelous culture, from which our savior Jesus Christ learned so much about us. They had many of the beliefs our Rabi later preached about. The concept of sin, faith, the intimacy in the relationship with God without rituals and animal sacrifices, forgiveness, common share of material properties, the Holy Spirit, miracles through faith, and many more. In fact, many scholars agree that the early christian church applied many of these concepts, very present in the book of Romans and the one written by Lucas: Acts. This is a very good book, not the best on the matter, but good enough to start to wonder about this community. You would have to make your own judgment wether to believe or not the claims of its author (that he found ancient scripts about the Essenes and translated them). I recommend this book.

This book was astounding; beautifully poetic in its simplicity. If we all followed the guidelines in this book, there would be little strife. Truly lyrical....provoking.

Magestically mysterious...although I do not see any Christian influence besides what it "tells" example the sayings of Jesus, it is more Paganistic than anything, which sheds a whole new light on what the true teachings of Christ were! Could he have been a Pagan Sorcerer? I believe so.

This book gives us back the wisdom that was taken from us in the interests of priestcraft. The logic and science of the Essenes should be put in the hands of every preacher, rabbi, politician, teacher, and human being who has been affected by western civilization and organized religion.

I have read Book 2 of the Gospel of the Essenes and there are abosultely no earthly words to describe this fantastic work and how it relates to all of Christianity. It was written in the time of Jesus and there is no doubt with the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls that Jesus visited the Brotherhood of the Essenes, an early Jewish sect and was heavily influenced by their deep reverence for spirituality and God. There is no doubt that this book will take anyone spitually inclined-Jew, Christian, Muslim, etc. much, much closer to God. Highly recommended. A deeper understanding of early religions and how ancient peoples may have been closer to the truth of God than anything in modern religions.