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INTRODUCTION

The Gospel of Peace is the Essene priesthood's view of the teachings of Jesus. Some stories are not found in other gospels, and some are fairly eccentric teachings of questionable origins. With a mystic Vegan approach, the Essenes considered their orthodox priesthood to be the legitimate rule of the temple at Jerusalem, opposed to the Hasmonean preisthood that condoned the ritual animal sacrifices so famously chastized by Jesus.

The Teaching to the Beggars is a sweet story that covers some unusual doctrines probably exaggerated by infidels. The Teaching of the Sevenfold Peace is a rendition of the Sermon on the Mount, that elaborates on the Beatitudes from the Essene orthodoxy point of view. Some questionable tracts have been excluded. The Gospel of Peace is followed by a few books of Essene doctrine.

It must be understood that Jesus was probably quoted by Essene priests at a later time, since he is not recorded elsewhere to have espoused Vegan or other mystic doctrines. He seems to wish to appeal to the people with a simple message, not the complex doctrine used at the Essene monastery at Qumran.

The teacher's affiliation with the Essene academy at Qumran (which had some issues with corruption) appears to have been balanced by the diversity of his education with the Coptic monks of Egypt when he was young, and presumably the Buddhist monks of the Himalayas when he was in his 20s.

In theory, Jesus attended the Essene academy at Qumran for a time, after he reached the age of maturity at about nineteen years. Possibly dissatisfied with the bizarre curriculum of the Qumran school sometimes associated with the Earth's moon, Jesus apparently traveled to India and the Himalayas with the apostle Thomas to study Jainism, Brahminism, and Buddhism. All three ancient faiths revolve around the same principles of renunciation and purification that Jesus taught to the people of Judea, his disciples, and the Apostles. (Jesus also appears to have studied the Zoroastrian faith of the Persian prophet Zarathustra, who taught a few generations after David's generation.)

Paul would later re-invent the wheel, and insist that all people that do not renounce the world are sinful heathens condemned to Hell, and must believe in the Gospel of the Resurrection in order to be saved from damnation. Jesus, however, appears to have taken a more practical view of renunciation as the great call for lost people of the world, people whom the teacher regarded to be sickened by their adherence to unhealthy, unspiritual, and unlawful practices of indulgent immorality, which exceeded the universal limits designated by other teachers of the Law.

Indeed, Jesus was attempting to reform religion in the kingdom of Judea into a more sensible form of mellow faith and practical works in the renouncing of the corrupt worldy practices common in the ancient near East. The Nazorean themes of Jesus obviously followed the ancient traditions of the Nazirite vows, which were the same vows of renunciation that Brahmins and Buddhist monks vowed in the East. The 'Nazirite' vow to be 'set apart' from the people for a time, correlates with the doctrine of Baptism, in that the person seeking purification must 'goes under the water' for a time. Many religious hermits (sometimes called Anchorites) lived in the wilderness, not unlike John the Baptizer.

Jesus apparently preached the Eastern doctrines of renunciation to the more corrupt elements of society, specifically to the people drawn to or born into the criminal element of gangs that prevailed in the ancient and modern world dominated by the Roman mob and anti-religious sects.

Jesus openly called the most corrupt people in society to repent of criminal activity, to renounce their property gained illicitly, and to enter a religious community of one form or another to completely resolve their social problems. (Starting with a time of retreat and solitude to clear their mind,) That particular message appears to be at the core of the Gospel ministry of Jesus the Christ, the anointed Messianic teacher of Israel.

The Teachings of Jesus to the Beggars CHAPTER ONE

Divisions 1-30

about the Kingdom of Our Mother on Earth

Translated by the grand E. B. Szekely (pronounced Say-Kay) from the once secret archives of the Vatican, and in old Slavonic in the Royal Library of the Hapsburgs (now the property of the Austrian government).

An introduction appears to be missing. The setting is evidently right after the Sermon on the Mount, near the beginning of the preaching of the Good News.

Some of the teachings are from the Essene doctrine that was withheld from the four gospels of the canon. The call is apparent for the crooked to either follow or join a religious order, in order to fully restore their estate in the Kingdom of Heaven.

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE, BOOK 1

1.

And then many sick and lame men came to Jesus, begging of Him,

“If you know all things, tell us,

Why do we suffer with these grievous plagues?

2.

Why are we not whole like other men?”

“Master, heal us, that we too may be made strong,

and no longer abide in our misery.”

3.

“We [have heard] 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."

4.

And Jesus answered -

"Happy are you that you hunger for the truth,

for I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom.

5.

Happy are you, that you knock,

for I will open to you the door of life.

6.

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."

7.

And the beggars asked Him in amazement:

"Who is our Mother and her angels?

And where is her kingdom?"

8.

“'Our Mother' is the Earthly Mother,

and her angels are her servants and creatures.

Her kingdom, called 'Mother Earth',

is a spiritual kingdom situated here below on Earth

9.

Her angels are the creatures of the town wherein she dwells.

They are her servants and her creatures,

and they are her children,

even as babes within her womb.

10.

The kingdom of Our Earthly Mother is of the day,

and of the bright light of daytime,

Of the blue sky and the warm air,

and of the blooming flowers of the day.

11.

Our Mother's kingdom is of the bright morning sun,

and the early activity of the day,

A kingdom of sleeping men and busy children

that leave to climb mountains,

to stand upon the heights of the Earth.

12.

Hers is a kingdom that feeds and nurtures the Father and his kingdom,

and has rule over the bodies [of] all living things.

Her kingdom is of the gardens or fields near her home,

and the streams that provide water for her kingdom.

13.

Her kingdom is a world of nuturing,

and of mercy and compassion,

yet also a kingdom governed over by her rules and domestic laws.

14.

For Our Mothers Earthly Kingdom is a place

where the lawless and rebellious spirits may not enter.

15.

“Your Mother is within you, and you are within in her.

She bore you [in the womb, and] she gives you life.

16.

It was who gave to you your body,

and to her shall you one day give it back again.

17.

Happy are you when you get to know her and her kingdom;

if you receive your Mother's angels,

and obey her laws and commands.”

18.

“I tell you truly, he who does these things

shall never see disease,

for the power of Our Mother is above all

19.

For the laws of Our Mothers kingdom

destroy Satan and his kingdom,

and has rule over your bodies and all living things.

20.

“For the Kingdom of Our Mother

is of the Spirit which dwells inside us,

the spirit born of the womb of our Mother,

Her [spirit] falls from the clouds;

leaps from the womb of the earth;

21.

It babbles in the brooks of the mountains;

flows in the wide rivers of the plains;

sleeps in the lakes;

rages mightily in tempestuous seas.

22.

"The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother.

Her breath is azure [blue] in the heights of the heavens;

23.

[It] soughs in the tops of the mountains;

whispers the leaves of the forest;

billows over the cornfields;

slumbers in the deep valleys,

burns hot in the desert.

24.

The flesh of our bodies was born of Our Mother's Womb

"The tenderness of our flesh is the flesh of our Mother's;

25.

Which is comparable to the fruit of the orchards,

whose flesh waxes yellow and red in the fruits of the trees,

[and] nurture s us the furrows of the fields,

26.

The hardness of our teeth and bone are from the milk of our Earthly Mother,

of the cows and she-goats

who are as giants who lie sleeping in the pastures on the hillsides,

or stand in the heavens on the tops of the mountains

27.

"Our innard parts are born of the innard parts of our Earthly Mother,

and are hid from our eyes, like the invisible [minerals] of the earth.

28.

"Both the light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears,

are born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother;

which carry us about, as the waves of the sea, a fish,

as the moving air, a bird.

29.

"I tell you in very truth,

Man is the son of the Earthly Mother,

30.

For from her did each Man receive his body,

even as the body of the newborn babe is born of the womb of the mother.

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER TWO

Divisions 31-65

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

31.

I tell you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother,

she is in you, and you are in her.

Of her were you born, and in her you live,

and to her shall you return again.

32.

Therefore, keep her laws,

for none can live long, nor be happy,

Except he who honors his Earthly Mother,

and obeys her laws and does her commands.

33.

For your breath is her breath;

your body is her body;

your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears.

34.

"I tell you truly, should you fail to keep even one of all these laws,

should you harm even one of all your body's members,

you shall be utterly lost in your grievous sickness,

and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

35.

I tell you, unless you follow the laws of your Mother,

you can in no wise escape death.

36.

And he who clings to the laws of his Mother,

to him shall his Mother cling also.

She shall heal his plagues,

and he shall not become sick.

37.

She gives him long life,

and protects him from afflictions,

from fire and water, and from the bite of venomous serpents.

38.

For your Mother bore you, keeps life within you.

She has given you her body, and she heals you.

39.

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?

40.

I tell you truly,

very great is her love,

greater than the greatest of mountains,

[and] deeper than the deepest seas.

and those who love their Mother, she never deserts them.

41.

As the hen protects her chickens, and the lioness her cubs,

[and] the mother her newborn babe,

so does the Earthly Mother protect the son [s] of man [kind]

from all danger and from all evils.

42.

"For I tell you truly,

innumerable evils and dangers lie in wait for the sons of men.

Even the very devil Satan and his angels

43.

Beelzebub, the prince of all devils,

the source of every evil,

lies in wait in the body of all the sons of men.

44.

He is death, the lord of every plague,

and placing upon him a pleasing raiment,

he tempts and entices the Sons of Men.

45.

Riches does he promise,

and power, and splendid palaces,

and garments of gold and silver,

and a multitude of servants,

46.

All these he promises;

Renown and glory,

fornication and lustfulness,

gluttony and wine-bibbing,

riotous living, and slothfulness of idle days.

47.

And he entices each one by that which their heart is most inclined.

48.

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.

49.

He takes from them their breath, their bodies,

their blood, their bone, their flesh, their bowels

their eyes and their ears.

50.

And the breath of Men becomes short and stifled,

full of pain and evil-smelling,

like the breath of unclean beasts.

51.

And his blood becomes thick and evil-smelling,

like the water of the swamps;

it clots and blackens, like the night of death.

52.

And his bone becomes hard and knotted;

it melts away within and breaks asunder,

as a stone falling down upon a rock.

53.

And his flesh waxes fat and watery;

it rots and putrefies, with scabs and boils that are an abomination.

54.

And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness,

with oozing streams of decay;

and multitudes of abominable worms have their habitation there.

55.

And his eyes grow dim, till dark night enshrouds them,

and his ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave.

56.

And last of all shall the erring of Men lose life.

For kept not the laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin.

57.

Therefore, are taken from him all the gifts of the Earthly Mother:

breath, blood, bone, flesh, bowels,

the eyes and the ears,

And after all else, Life,

with which the Earthly Mother crowned his body.

58.

"Yet if the erring son of Men be sorry for his sins and undo them,

and return again to his Earthly Mother;

59.

And if he obey his Earthly Mother's laws

and free himself from Satan's clutches, resisting his temptations,

60.

Then does the Earthly Mother receive again her erring Son with love

and sends him her angels that they may serve him.

61.

I tell you truly,

when the Son of Men resist the Satan that dwells in him,

and does not his will,

62.

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.

63.

"For no man can serve two masters.

Either he serves Beelzebub and his devils

or else he serves our Earthly Mother and her angels.

he serves either death or he serves life.

64.

I ten you truly, happy are those that do the laws of life,

and wander not upon the paths of death.

For in them the forces of life wax strong,

and they escape the plagues of death."

65.

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 scribes.

And though the sun was now set, they departed not to their homes.

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER THREE

Divisions 66-90

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

66.

They sat round about Jesus and asked him:

"Master, which are these Laws of life?

67.

Rest with us awhile longer and teach us.

We would listen to your teaching

that we may be healed and become righteous."

68.

And Jesus sat down among them and he said:

"I tell you truly,

none can be happy, except he obey the Law."

69.

And the others answered:

"We all do the laws of Moses, our lawgiver,

even as they are written in the holy scriptures."

70.

And Jesus answered:

"Seek not the Law in your scriptures,

for the Law is life, whereas the scripture is dead.

71.

I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing,

yet through the living word.

72.

The Law is living word of living God to living prophets for living men.

In everything that is life is the Law written.

73.

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;

yet seek chiefly in yourselves.

74.

For I tell you truly,

all living things are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life.

75.

God so made life and all living things that they might by the everlasting word

teach the laws of the true God to man.

76.

God wrote not the laws in the pages of books,

but in your heart and in your spirit.

The laws [of God] are in your breath, [and] in your body,

your eyes, and your ears,

and in every part of your body.

77.

The Laws are present in the air, in the water,

in the earth, in the plants,

in the sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights.

78.

They all speak to you that you may understand the tongue

and the will of the Living God,

yet you shut your eyes that you may not see,

and shut your ears that you may not hear.

79.

I tell you truly, that the scripture is the work of man,

yet life and all its hosts are the work of our God.

80.

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?"

81.

And they said to him,

“How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures?

Where are they written?”

82.

“Read them to us from there where you see them,

for we know nothing else

except the scriptures which we have inherited from our forefathers.

83.

Tell us the laws of which you speak,

that hearing them we may be healed and justified."

84.

Jesus said:

"You do not understand the words of life,

because you are in death.

The darkness of blindness darkens your eyes,

and your ears are stopped with deafness.

85.

For I tell you, it does not profit you at all,

if you pore over dead scriptures,

if by your deeds,

you deny him who has given you the scriptures.

86.

I tell you truly,

God and his laws are not in that which you do.

87.

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.

88.

For all these things are far from the true God and from his angels.

Yet all these things come from the kingdom of darkness and the lord of all evils.

89.

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.

90.

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.

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER FOUR

Divisions 91-120

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

91.

Therefore, purify the temple,

that the Lord of the temple may dwell therein

and occupy a place that is worthy of Him.

92.

And from all temptations of your body and your spirit,

[those which are] coming from Satan,

withdraw beneath the shadow of God's heaven.

93.

"Renew yourselves and fast.

For I tell you truly,

Satan and his plagues may be cast out by fasts and by prayer.

94.

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.

95.

And fast till Beelzebub and all his evils depart from you,

and all the angels of our Earthly Mother come and serve you.

96.

For I tell you truly,

unless you fast, you shall not be free from the tempting power of Satan

and from all diseases that come from Satan.

97.

Fast and pray fervently,

seeking the power of the living God for your healing.

98.

while you fast, eschew the sons of men

and seek our Earthly Mother's angels, for he that seeks shall find.

99.

"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.

100.

Put off your shoes and your clothing

and allow the angel of Air to cleanse your body.

[a contradiction of temptations appears to be forgery,

mixed with primitive techniques]

Then breathe long and deeply,

that the angel of Air may be brought within you.

101.

I tell you truly,

the angel of Air shall purify out of your body

all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within.

102.

And thus shall all 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.

103.

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.

104.

No man may come before the face of God,

whom the angel of Air does not let pass.

105.

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.

106.

“After the angel of Air,

seek the angel of Water.

Put off your shoes and your clothing

and let the angel of Water cleanse all your body.

107.

Cast yourselves wholly into his enfolding wings,

and as often as you move the air with your breath,

move with your body the water also.

108.

I tell you truly,

the angel of Water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses

which defiled it without and within.

109.

And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall cleanse out of you,

even as the uncleannesses of garments washed in water flow away

and are lost in the stream of the river.

110.

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.

111.

No man may come before the face of God

whom the angel of Water does not let pass.

112.

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 eternal life.

113.

For you receive the blood of your body from our Earthly Mother,

and the spirit of your soul from our Heavenly Father.

114.

"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.

115.

And he who cleanses himself on the outside,

yet remains unclean on the inside,

is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair,

yet are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations.

116.

So I tell you truly, let the angel of Water baptize you also within,

in your spirit, within your heart and mind,

that you may begin anew free from all your past sins,

and that within likewise you may become as pure as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight.

117.

I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these

Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast,

118.

Betake your body to the coursing river,

and there in the wings of the angel of Water

render thanks to the living God that He has freed you from your sins.

119.

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.

120.

Therefore, sin no more, after your baptism,

that the angels of Air and of Water may eternally abide in you

and serve you evermore.

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