Welcome to the recordings of the Gospel of Essenes.
I'm Annabelle Drum.
Who were the Essenes?
They were a spiritually advanced group of people who lived over a period dating back many thousands of years to the Old Testament times.
The last of their texts were more recently discovered and dated to around about a hundred years after the life of Jesus.
Jesus was considered one of their most advanced members of the community and his words are recorded here in a more authentic version of what may previously have been lost in translation.
There's more of a description of who the Essenes were,
Where they lived,
And what gifts they had at the beginning of my recording of Book 3.
You don't have to run through the books in order as they contain pieces of texts collected from different locations.
In this book though,
The first one,
The story does run from parts 1 to part 3.
I noticed this book contains the use of words that feel like they might have had different meanings or connotations in the past,
So you might note them as you come across them in these recordings.
For example,
The word want is to be without,
So think about she was left wanting.
And when we say I want an apple,
We're basically confirming with the universe we are without.
If you've ever looked at the law of attraction,
Your thoughts become words,
Your words become your reality,
So you stretch out the length of time you might be without the apple until you change your words.
Getting rid of that word want will be very helpful.
Another example is the word sin,
Which is used as a discrepancy,
Maybe something out of alignment with the best outcome,
Or even a physical expression in a body of a low frequency.
Satan comes in different forms as well,
So you need to lose the interpretation that we have these days of some being with horns and a red face.
At one point in these recordings,
Satan is described as a physical parasite in the body,
And then later as a temptation away from what is right and good.
So in those days,
The word might have been more of a general term.
You might need to keep an open mind and listen without thinking too much to get the feel of the message.
Abominations,
This is another example of a word that may have changed its meaning.
So rather than hearing the word and thinking of some great judgment that the one who committed them should be ashamed of,
Instead keep an open mind as to how it is described,
Because it may simply mean somebody who has committed an act,
Thought,
Or word which is off the pathway to light.
From what I understand,
There are African villagers who still look upon bad behaviour in this way,
And the village would crowd around that person encouraging them back to the path of light,
Rather than to punish them and make them feel ashamed.
It's a very different way to approach a problem using love and support as a method of correction.
In part three of this book,
Jesus mentions things which are good to eat in different months spoken in Hebrew.
So we'll match the time of year to the Northern Hemisphere,
And if you're in the Southern Hemisphere,
Your seasons will be the opposite,
So you just add six months to each one.
The words are fairly easy to look up if you want to find what they are,
But when he speaks of fruits and vegetables,
It's fairly clear as to what seasons he's speaking of.
The table of the earthly mother seems to be a physical table of food,
And the table of the heavenly father is a spiritual concept.
Essenes were very mindful as they ate,
They would not eat unless their mind was peaceful and feeling gratitude,
So imagine if we all did that,
How our tummies would relax and digest more efficiently.
So in this book,
Parts one and two are a health lesson from Jesus,
Teaching you to heal yourself,
Very different from the Bible where we're not taught that at all,
We're only taught how amazing Jesus was in being able to solve all our problems.
Part two is more lessons from Jesus and the story of the prodigal son.
And part three is how to maintain your health.
It mentions an eye for an eye,
Which was in the Old Testament,
Your diet,
The Ten Commandments,
And how we ended up with so many rules.
So I hope you enjoy this three part series of book one.
The Essene Gospel of Peace,
Book one,
Translated and edited from original Hebrew and Aramaic texts by Edmund Sekei.
Part one.
And then many sick and maimed came to Jesus,
Asking him,
If you know all things,
Tell us why do we suffer with all these grievous plagues?
Why are we not whole like other men?
Master,
Heal us,
That we too may be made strong,
And need abide no longer in our misery.
We know that you have it in your power to heal all manner of disease.
Free us from Satan and from all his great afflictions,
Master,
Have compassion on us.
And Jesus answered,
Happy are you that you hunger for the truth,
For I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom.
Happy are you that you knock,
For I will open to you the door of life.
Happy are you that you would cast off the power of Satan,
For I will lead you into the kingdom of our mother's angels,
Where the power of Satan cannot enter.
And they asked him in amazement,
Who is our mother,
And which her angels,
And where is her kingdom?
Your mother is in you,
And you in her.
She bore you,
She gives you life.
It was she who gave you your body,
And to her shall you one day give it back again.
Happy are you when you come to know her and her kingdom.
If you receive your mother's angels,
And if you do her laws,
I tell you truly,
He who does these things shall never see disease.
For the power of our mother is above all,
And it destroys Satan and his kingdom,
And has rule over all your bodies and all living things.
The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our earthly mother.
Her blood falls from the clouds,
Leaps from the womb of the earth,
Babbles in the brooks of the mountains,
Flows wide in the rivers of the plains,
Sleeps in the lakes,
Rages mightily in tempestuous seas.
The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our earthly mother.
Her breath is azure in the heights of heavens,
Sows in the tops of the mountains,
Whispers in the leaves of the forest,
Billows over the corn fields,
Slumbers in the deep valleys,
Burns hot in the desert.
The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our earthly mother,
Of the rocks and of the stones.
They stand naked to the heavens,
On the top of the mountains,
Are as giants that lie sleeping on the sides of the mountains,
As idols set in the desert,
And are hidden in the deepness of the earth.
The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our earthly mother,
Whose flesh waxes yellow and red in the fruits of the trees,
And nurtures us in the furrows of the fields.
Our bowels are born of the bowels of our earthly mother,
And are hid from our eyes,
Like the invisible depths of the earth.
The light of our eyes,
The hearing of our ears,
Both are born of the colours and the sounds of our earthly mother,
Which enclose us about as the waves of the sea are fish,
As the eddying air a bird.
I tell you,
In very truth,
Man is the son of the earthly mother,
And from her did the son of man receive his whole body,
Even as the body of the newborn babe is born of the womb of his mother.
I tell you truly,
You are one with the earthly mother.
She is in you,
And you in her.
Of her were you born,
In her do you live,
And to her shall you return again.
Keep therefore her laws,
For none can live long,
Neither be happy,
But he who honours his earthly mother and does her laws.
For your breath is her breath,
Your blood her blood,
Your bone her bone,
Your flesh her flesh,
Your bowels her bowels,
Your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears.
I tell you truly,
Should you fail to keep but one only of all these laws,
Should you harm but one only of all your body's members,
You shall be utterly lost in your grievous sickness,
And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I tell you,
Unless you follow the laws of your mother,
You can in no way escape death.
And he who clings to the laws of his mother,
To him shall his mother cling also.
She shall heal all his plagues,
And he shall never become sick.
She gives him long life,
And protects him from all afflictions,
From fire,
From water,
From the bite of venomous serpents.
For your mother bore you,
Keeps life within you.
She has given you her body,
And none but she heals you.
Happy is he who loves his mother,
And lies quietly in her bosom.
For your mother loves you,
Even when you turn away from her.
And how much more shall she love you if you turn to her again.
I tell you truly,
Very great is her love,
Greater than the greatest of mountains,
Deeper than the deepest seas.
And those who love their mother,
She never deserts them.
As the hen protects her chickens,
As the lioness her cubs,
As the mother her newborn babe,
So does the earthly mother protect the son of man from all danger,
And from all evils.
For I tell you truly,
Evils and dangers innumerable lie in wait for the sons of men.
Beelzebub,
The prince of all devils,
The source of every evil lies in wait in the body of all the sons of men.
He is Death,
The Lord of every plague,
And taking upon him a pleasant remnant,
He tempts and entices the sons of men.
Riches does he promise,
And power and splendid palaces,
And garments of gold and silver,
And a multitude of servants,
All these he promises renown and glory,
Fornication and lustfulness,
Gluttony and wine-bibbing,
Riotous living and slothfulness and idle days.
And he entices every one that to which their heart is most inclined.
And in the day of the sons of men have already become the slaves of all these vanities and abominations.
Then in payment thereof,
He snatches from the sons of men all those things which the earthly mother gave them so abundantly.
He takes from them their breath,
Their blood,
Their bone,
Their flesh,
Their bowels,
Their eyes and their ears.
And the breath of the son of man becomes short and stifled,
Full of pain and evil smelling,
Like the breath of unclean beasts.
And his blood becomes thick and evil smelling,
Like the water of the swamps.
It clots and blackens like the night of death.
And his bone becomes hard and knotted.
It melts away within and breaks asunder,
As a stone falling down upon a rock.
And his flesh waxes fat and watery,
It rots and putrefies and scabs and boils that are an abomination.
And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness and with oozing streams of decay,
And multitudes of abominable worms have their habitation there.
And his eyes grow dim till dark night enshrouds them and his ears become stopped,
Like the silence of the grave.
And last of all shall the erring son of man lose life,
For he kept not the laws of his mother and added sin to sin.
Therefore are taken from him all the gifts of the earthly mother,
Breath,
Blood,
Bone,
Flesh,
Bowels,
Eyes and ears,
And after all else,
Life.
With which the earthly mother crowned his body.
But if the erring son of man be sorry for his sins and undo them,
And return again to his earthly mother,
And if he do his earthly mother's laws and free himself from Satan's clutches,
Resisting his temptations,
Then does the earthly mother receive again her erring son with love,
And sends him her angels that they may serve him.
I tell you truly,
When the son of man resists the Satan that dwells in him,
And does not his will,
In the same hour are found the mother's angels there,
That they may serve him with all their power,
And free utterly the son of man from the power of Satan.
For no man can serve two masters,
For either he serves Beersapop and his devils,
Or else he serves our earthly mother and her angels.
Either he serves death or he serves life.
I tell you truly,
Happy are those that do the laws of life,
And wonder not among the paths of death.
For in them the forces of life wax strong,
And they escape the plagues of death.
And all those round about him listened to his words with amazement,
For his word was with power,
And he taught quite otherwise than the priests and the scribes.
And though the sun was now set,
They departed not to their homes.
They sat round about Jesus,
And asked him,
Master,
Which are these laws of life?
Rest with us a while longer,
And teach us.
We would listen to your teaching,
That we may be healed and become righteous.
And Jesus himself sat down in the midst,
And said,
I tell you truly,
None can be happy except he who do the law.
And the others answered,
We do all the laws of Moses,
Our law giver,
Even as they are written in the holy scriptures.
And Jesus answered,
Seek not the law in your scriptures,
For the law is life,
Whereas the scripture is dead.
I tell you truly,
Moses received not his laws from God in writing,
But through the living word.
The law is living word of living God to living prophets of living men.
In everything that is life is the law written.
You'll find it in the grass,
In the tree,
In the river,
In the mountain,
In the birds of heaven,
In the fishes of the sea.
But seek it chiefly in yourselves.
For I tell you truly,
All living things are nearer to God than the scripture,
Which is without life.
God so made life and all living things that they might,
By the everlasting word,
Teach the laws of the true God to man.
God wrote not the laws in the pages of books,
But in your heart and in your spirit.
They are in your breath,
Your blood,
Your bone,
In your flesh,
Your bowels,
Your eyes,
Your ears,
And in every little part of your body.
They are present in the air,
In the water,
In the earth,
In the plants,
In the sunbeams,
In the depths,
And in the heights.
They all speak to you that you may understand the tongue and the will of the living God.
But you shut your eyes that you may not see,
And you shut your ears that you may not hear.
I tell you truly that the scripture is the work of man,
But life and all its hosts are the work of our God.
Wherefore do you not listen to the words of God which are written in his works?
And wherefore do you study the dead scriptures,
Which are the work of the hands of men?
And then they said,
How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures?
Where are they written?
Read them to us from there where you see them,
For we know nothing else but the scriptures which we have inherited from our forefathers.
Tell us the laws of which you speak,
That hearing them we may be healed and justified.
Jesus said,
You do not understand the words of life because you are in death.
Darkness darkens your eyes.
Your ears are stopped with deafness.
For I tell you,
It profits you not at all that you pour over dead scriptures if by your deeds you deny him who has given you the scriptures.
I tell you truly,
God and his laws are not in that which you do.
They are not in gluttony and in wine-bibbing,
Neither in riotous living nor in lustfulness,
Nor in seeking after riches,
Nor yet in hatred of your enemies.
For all these things are far from the true God and from his angels.
But all these things come from the kingdom of darkness and the Lord of all evils.
And all these things do you carry in yourselves.
And so the word and the power of God enter not into you,
Because all manner of evil and all manner of abominations have their dwelling in your body and your spirit.
If you will,
That the living God's word and his power may enter you,
Defile not your body and your spirit,
For the body is the temple of the spirit.
And the spirit is the temple of God.
Purify therefore the temple,
That the Lord of the temple may dwell therein,
And occupy a place that is worthy of him.
And from all the temptations of your body and your spirit,
Coming from Satan,
Withdraw beneath the shadow of God's heaven.
Renew yourselves and fast.
For I tell you truly that Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by fasting and by prayer.
Go by yourself and fast alone,
And show your fasting to no man.
The living God shall see it,
And great shall be your reward.
And fast till Beelzebub and all his evils depart from you,
And all the angels of our earthly mother come and serve you.
For I tell you truly,
Except you fast,
You shall never be freed from the power of Satan and from all diseases that come from Satan.
Fast and pray fervently,
Seeking the power of the living God for your healing.
While you fast,
Eschew the sons of men,
And seek our earthly mother's angels.
For he that seeks shall find.
Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields,
And there in the midst of them shall you find the angel of air.
Put off your shoes and your clothing,
And suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body.
Then breathe long and deeply,
That the angel of air may be brought within you.
I tell you truly,
The angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleanliness which defiled it without and within.
And thus shall all evil smelling and unclean things rise out of you,
As the smoke of the fire curls upwards and is lost in the sea of the air.
For I tell you truly,
Holy is the angel of air,
Who cleanses all that is unclean,
And makes all evil smelling things a sweet odour.
No man may come before the face of God,
Whom the angel of air lets not pass.
Truly all must be born again by air and by truth,
For your body breathes the air of the earthly mother,
And your spirit breathes the truth of the heavenly father.
After the angel of air,
Seek the angel of water.
Put off your shoes and your clothing,
And suffer the angel of water to embrace all your body.
Cast yourselves holy into his enfolding arms,
And as often as you move the air with your breath,
Move your body,
The water also.
I tell you truly,
The angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleanliness which defiled it without and within.
And all unclean and evil smelling things shall flow out of you,
Even as the uncleanliness of garments washed in water flow away,
And are lost in the stream of the river.
I tell you truly,
Holy is the angel of water,
Who cleanses all that is unclean,
And makes all evil smelling things a sweet odour.
No man may come before the face of God,
Whom the angel of water lets not pass.
In every truth,
All must be born again of water and of truth,
For your body bathes in the river of earthly life,
And your spirit bathes in the river of life everlasting.
For you receive your blood from our earthly mother,
And the truth from our heavenly father.
Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you outwards only.
I tell you truly,
The uncleanness within is greater by much than the uncleanness without.
And he who cleanses himself without,
But within remains unclean,
Is like two tombs that outwards are painted fair,
But are within full of all manner of horrible uncleanliness and abominations.
So I tell you truly,
Suffer the angel of water to baptise you also within,
That you may become free from your past sins,
And that within likewise you may become as pure as the river's fulm sporting in the sunlight.
Seek therefore a large trailing gourd,
Having a stalk the length of a man.
Take out its innards,
And fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed.
Hang it upon a branch of a tree,
And kneel upon the ground before the angel of water.
And suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts,
That the water may flow through all your bowels.
Afterwards,
Rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water,
And praying to the living God that he will forgive you for all your past sins.
And pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease.
Then let the water run out from your body,
That it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan.
And you shall see with your eyes,
And smell with your nose all the abominations and uncleannesses which defiles the temple of your body.
Even all the sins which abode in your body,
Tormenting you with all manner of pains.
I tell you truly,
Baptism with water frees you from all of these.
Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast,
Till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river's foam.
Then betake your body to the coursing river,
And there in the arms of the angel of water,
Render thanks to the living God that he has freed you from your sins.
And this holy baptizing by the angel of water is rebirth unto the new life.
For your eyes shall henceforth see,
And your ears shall hear.
Sin no more,
Therefore,
After your baptism,
And the angels of air and of water may eternally abide in you and serve you evermore.
And if afterward they remain within you,
Aught of your past sins and uncleannesses,
Seek the angel of sunlight.
Put off your shoes and your clothing,
And suffer the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body.
Then breathe long and deeply,
That the angel of sunlight may be brought within you.
And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean things which defiled it without and within.
And all the unclean and evil-smelling things shall rise from you even as the darkness of night fades before the brightness of the rising sun.
For I tell you truly,
Holy is the angel of sunlight,
Who cleans out all uncleannesses and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odour.
None may come before the face of God,
Whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass.
Truly all must be born again of sun and of truth.
For your body basks in the sunlight of the earthly mother,
And your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the heavenly father.
The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren.
They were given to the Son of Man,
That they might serve him,
And that he might go always from one to the other.
Holy likewise is their embrace.
They are indivisible children of the earthly mother.
So do not you put asunder those whom earth and heaven have made one.
Let these three brother angels enfold you every day,
And let them abide with you through all your fasting.
For I tell you truly,
The power of devils,
All sins and uncleannesses,
Shall depart in haste from that body which is embraced by these three angels.
As thieves flee from a deserted house at the coming of the Lord of the house,
One by the door,
One by the window,
And the third by the roof,
Each where he is found and whither he is able.
Even so shall flee from your bodies all devils of evil,
All past sins,
And all uncleannesses and diseases which defiles the temple of your bodies.
When the earthly mother's angels enter into your bodies,
In such ways that the lords of the temple repossess it again,
Then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and by your skin,
Corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin,
By your hinder and your privy parts.
And all these things you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose and touch with your hands.
And when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body,
Your blood shall become as pure as our earthly mother's blood,
And as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight.
And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers,
Your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees.
The light of your eye is clear and bright as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue sky.
And now shall all the angels of the earthly mother serve you,
And your breath,
Your blood,
Your flesh shall be one with the breath,
The blood,
And the flesh of the earthly mother,
That your spirit also may become one with the spirit of your heavenly father.
For truly no one can reach the heavenly father unless through the earthly mother.
Even as no new-born babe can understand the teaching of his father till his mother has suckled him,
Bathed him,
Nursed him,
Put him to sleep,
And nurtured him.
While the child is yet small,
His place is with his mother,
And he must obey his mother.
When the child is grown up,
His father takes him to work at his side in the field,
And the child comes back to his mother only when the hour of dinner and supper is come.
And now his father teaches him that he may become skilled in the work of his father.
And when the father sees that his son understands his teaching and does his work well,
He gives him all his possessions,
That they may belong to his beloved son,
And that his son may continue his father's work.
I tell you truly,
Happy is that son who accepts the counsel of his mother and walks therein,
And a hundred times more happy is that son who accepts and walks also in the counsel of his father.
For it was said to you,
Honor thy father and thy mother,
That thy days may be long upon this earth.
But I say to you,
Sons of man,
Honor your earthly mother,
And keep all her laws,
That your days may be long on this earth,
And honor your heavenly father,
That eternal life shall be yours in the heavens.
For the heavenly father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and by blood,
And greater is the earthly mother than all mothers of thy body,
And dearer is the son of man in the eyes of his heavenly father and his earthly mother than our children in the eyes of their fathers by seed and by blood,
And of their mothers by the body.
And more wise are the words and laws of your heavenly father and of your earthly mother than the words and the will of all fathers by seed and blood,
And of all mothers by the body.
And of more worth also is the inheritance of your heavenly father and of your earthly mother,
The everlasting kingdom of earthly and heavenly life than all the inheritances of your fathers by seed and by blood and of your mothers by the body.
And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your heavenly father and your earthly mother,
And not your brothers by blood.
I tell you truly that your true brothers in the will of the heavenly father and the earthly mother will love you a thousand times more than your brothers by blood.
For since the days of Cain and Abel,
The brothers by blood transgressed the will of God.
There is no true brotherhood by blood,
And brothers do unto brothers as do strangers.
Therefore I say to you,
Love your true brothers in the will of God a thousand times more than your brothers by blood.
This is the end of part one.
