Accompanying him on severalvoyages was his young nephew Jesus. Now with insights afforded us by the Essene teachings, along with other corroborating evidence, it is apparent that Joseph was well aware of the singular destiny that awaited his gifted nephew. So, it is not too far-fetched to read that Jesus had the opportunity to study under master teachers in universities of the Druids, while accompanying his uncle Josephius to England. 6.

The Essenes (Essenoi), were the attendants of the Temple of Artemis, in Ephesus (see the 3rd century BCE inscriptions- Syll_352 , Syll_354, Syll_363).Augustine’s Manichee past had a huge influence on the formation of his Christian theology. His interest in the big question: ‘Where does evil come from?’ was one of the preoccupations of the Manichees, and a favourite opening line when they engaged in debate.

Bauer, Walter; Kraft, Robert A. (1996) [1971]. Orthodoxy and heresy in earliest Christianity. Mifflintown, Pennsylvania: Sigler Press. ISBN 0-9623642-7-4.The Teacher of Righteousness (in Hebrew: מורה הצדק Moreh ha-Tzedek) is a figure found in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, most prominently in the Damascus Document. [1] This document speaks briefly of the origins of the sect, probably Essenes, 390 years after the reign of Nebuchadnezzar (d. 562 BC) and after 20 years of looking blindly for the way. "God... raised for them a Teacher of Righteousness to guide them in the way of His heart". [2] Szekely’s The Essene Gospel of Peace might have remained in relative obscurity if orthodoxy had had its way. With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls a few decades later , this new evidence of a thriving Essene Community at Qumranin the centuries leading up to the birth of a prophesied Messiah, gives us irrefutable proof that this sect was focused on preparing to welcome, nurture and protect the son of manand his globally transformational and timely mission.

Shaw, George Bernard (2004) [1912]. Androcles and The Lion. Fairfield, Iowa: 1st World Library – Literary Society. ISBN 1-59540-237-3. OCLC 63203922. The most elaborate and detailed esoteric representation of the Essenes as the “cradle of Christianity,” however, comes from the Edgar Cayce readings. [xviii] These “Life Readings,” performed between 1934 and 1945, represent an extraordinary database of dozens of Cayce’s clients’ past lives spent in ancient Judea and Galilee at the time of Jesus. [xix] Cayce claimed to have accessed this information (via trance) directly from the “Akashic Records.” [xx] On one hand, however, these readings reflect what seems like genuine faithfullness to the Gospel narratives of Jesus’ birth, life, and death, especially the Nativity stories of the Virgin Birth, Jesus’ Davidic lineage, the Inn at Bethlehem, the visit of Wise Men, the Slaughter of the Innocents, and the Flight to Egypt. On the other hand, these readings contain numerous historically unsupported assertions of an Essene “Brotherhood” on Mount Carmel led by a teacher, healer, and prophetess named “Judy” who supervised Jesus’ education, ministry, and foreign travel. Schiffman, Lawrence H. (1991). From text to tradition: a history of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. New York City: Ktav Pub. House. pp.113–116. ISBN 0-88125-372-3. OCLC 23733614.

Baldwin, James (1995) [1963]. The fire next time. New York City: Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-60151-1. This reception history of esoteric speculation(s) on Jesus and the Essenes – as fascinating as it is in its own right – also reflects a much wider cultural suspicion – apparently supported by ancient discoveries like the Dead Sea Scrolls – that there is much more to the Jesus story than we know, always just beyond the reach of our present evidentiary limits. According to Josephus, the Essenes had settled "not in one city" but "in large numbers in every town". [32] Philo speaks of "more than four thousand" Essaioi living in "Palestine and Syria", [33] more precisely, "in many cities of Judaea and in many villages and grouped in great societies of many members". [34]