THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE
Book One - Part One
Foreword - Preface - Text
Tanslated from Aramaic by Edmond Bordeaux
Szekely
FOREWORD
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 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 Habsburg (now the property of the Austrian Government).
We
owe existence of these two versions to the Nestorian priests who, under pressure
of the advancing hordes of Genghis Khan, were forces 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.
"And the truth shall
bear witness of itself."
London, 1937
EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY
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PREFACE
Fifty years have passed since the first publication of Book One of the Essene
Gospel of Peace, as well as the founding of the International Biogenic Society, dedicated
to the all-sided application of the ageless Essene Teachings in our daily lives in
the twentieth century. In that time, the world has undergone a devastating global
war and once again faces seemingly insurmountable problems in the form of planetary
pollution, food and energy shortage, and growing tensions between political philosophies.
And still these timeless words of Jesus continue to sow their seeds of peace and
love in a troubled world. Over ten million readers have absorbed the message of the
Essene Gospel since 1928, and their numbers grow daily. Victor Hugo said, "There
is no greater power than that of an idea whose time has come." Perhaps the idea
of the simple strength of the Essene philosophy has finally come. Perhaps it is not
yet too late for the transforming power of these words of Jesus, in their original
purity and simplicity, to work its magic on a world which needs it as never before
in history.
After more than forty years of extensive research concerning
events which transformed the whole history of our planet, the serious seeker of truth
may now read, in addition to this Book One, its sequels, Book Two: The Unknown Books
of the Essenes, and Book Three: Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood."*
In
1975, a major event took place: the long-awaited publication of the Discovery of
the Essene Gospel of Peace - a book which finally answers the questions regarding
the Essene Gospel addressed to us during the last half century from all over the
world. Volume One of Search for the Ageless, published in 1977, also sheds light
on the amazing history of the Essene Gospel, and Volume Two, The Great Experiment,
tells of the wildfire growth of the Essene-Biogenic Society movement, a spiritual
renaissance taking place all over the world within the framework of the International
Biogenic Society. Volume Three, The Chemistry of Youth, correlates the thousands
of facts and discoveries in modern medical research and biochemistry. And the all
encompassing textbooks of the International Biogenic Society, The Essene Way-Biogenic
Living, verifies the eternal principles of the Essene Gospel of Peace, giving concrete,
practical instructions on how to apply them in our daily lives in the twentieth century.
Now in a newly improved, enlarged edition (it first appeared in 1928 in France as
La Vie Biogenique), this "Essene Encyclopedia" has reached a popularity
second only to this volume with readers all over the world.
EDMOND BORDEAUX
SZEKELY
* Book Four: The Teachings of the Elect was published posthumously
in 1981.
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ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE
They sent out healers. And one of these
was Jesus, the Essene. He walked among the sick and the troubled, and he brought
them the knowledge they needed to cure themselves. Some who followed him wrote down
what passed between him and those who suffered and were heavy-laden. The Elders of
the Brotherhood made poetry of the words, and made unforgettable the story of the
Healer of Men, the Good Shepherd. And when the time came at last for the Brothers
to leave the desert and go to another place, the scrolls stayed behind as buried
sentinels, as forgotten guardians of eternal and living truth.
A dark age
began, a time of savagery, of barbarism, of book-burning, of superstition and worship
of empty idols. The gentle Jesus was lost forever in the image of a crucified God;
the Essene brothers hid their teachings in the minds of a few who could preserve
them for their descendents, and the Scrolls of Healing lay neglected beneath the
shifting shadows of the desert..."
The Discovery of the Essene Gospel of
Peace.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
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BOOK ONE
And
then many sick and maimed came to Jesus, asking him: "If you know all these
things, tell us, why do we suffer with 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, were
the power of Satan cannot enter."
And they asked him in amazement: "Who
is our Mother and which are 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 to 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
bloods which runs in us is born of the blood of our Earthly Mother. Her blood falls
from the clouds; leaps up 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 the heavens; soughs
in the tops of the mountains; whispers in the leaves of the forest; billows over
the cornfields; 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 tops of 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 our 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 is of our eyes, the hearing
of our ears, both are born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother; which
enclose us about, as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird.
"For
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 honors 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 wise 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 n ever become sick. She gives him long life, and protects
him from all afflictions; from fire, from water, from the bit 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. (pages 9-10)
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 pleasing raiment, 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 by that to which their heart is most inclined. And in the day that
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,
with scabs and boils that are an abomination. And his bowels become full with abominable
filthiness, 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. 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 (*himself).
"For
no man can serve two masters. For either he serves Beelzebub 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 that laws of life and wander not
upon the paths of death. For in them the forces wander not upon the paths of death.
For in them the forces of life wax not 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 or the scribes.
And though the sun was now set, they de parted not to their homes. They sat
round about Jesus and asked him: "Master, which are these laws of life? Rest
with us awhile longer and teach us. We would listen to your teaching that we may
be healed and become righteous."
And Jesus himself sat down in their
midst and said: "I tell you truly, none can be happy, except he do the Law."
And the others answered: "We all do the laws of Moses, our lawgiver,
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 for living
men. In everything that is life is the law written. You 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 mad 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, you bowels,
your eyes, your ears, and in every little part of your body. The 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?"
"How
many we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures? Where are they written?
Read them to use 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 and your ears are stopped with deafness. For I tell you, it profits
you not at all that you pore 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 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 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 in 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 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 that you fast, you shall never be freed
from the power 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 uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And thus shall
your evil-smelling and unclean things rise out of you, as the smoke of 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 of a
sweet odor. No man may come before the face of God, whom the angel of air let’s 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 your body. Cast yourselves
wholly into his enfolding arms, and as often as you move the air with your breath,
move with your body the water also. I tell you truly, the angel of water shall cast
out of your body all the uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And all
unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you, even as the uncleannesses
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 of a sweet odor. No man may come before the face of God
whom the angel of water lets not pass. In very 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 your 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 to tombs that outwards
are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and
abominations. So I tell you truly, suffer the angel of water to baptize you also
within, that you may become free from all your past sins, and that within likewise
you may become as pure as the river’s foam sporting in the sunlight.
"Seek,
therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its
inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon
the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer
the end of the stalk of the tailing gourd to enter your hinder parts (Hebrew text:
anus), that the water may flow through all your bowels. Afterwards rest kneeling
on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive
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
uncleanesses which defiled 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, that the angels of air and of water may
eternally abide in you and serve you evermore.
"And if afterward there
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. 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 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 odor. 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.
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