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The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER FIVE

Divisions 121-155

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

121.

And if afterward there remain within you any of your past sins and uncleannesses,

seek the angel of Sunlight.

 

122.

Put off your shoes and your clothing,

and let the angel of Sunlight to cleanse all your body.

 

Then breathe long and deeply,

that the angel of Sunlight may be brought within you.

 

123.

And the angel of Sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean things

which defiled your body within and without.

 

124.

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.

 

125.

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.

 

126.

None may come before the face of God,

whom the angel of Sunlight does not allow to pass.

 

127.

Truly, all must be born again of sun and of truth,

for your body purifies in the bright sunlight of the Earthly Mother,

and your spirit purifies in the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father.

 

128.

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 men might go always from each angel to the other.

 

129.

Likewise, holy is the embrace of the angels of the Air, Water, and Sunlight.

 

They are indivisible sons and daughters of the Earthly Mother,

so do not you put asunder those whom Earth and Heaven have made one union.

 

130.

Let these three angel brethren enfold you every day in their wings

and let them abide with you through all your fasts.

 

131.

"For I tell you truly, the power of devils,

all sins and uncleannesses,

shall depart in haste from the body of him who is cleansed by these three angels.

 

132.

As thieves flee from a deserted house at the arriving 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,

 

133.

Even so shall flee from your bodies all devils of evil, all past sins,

and all uncleannesses and diseases which defiled the temple of your bodies.

 

134.

When the Earthly Mother's angels enter into your bodies,

in such wise that the lords of the temple repossess it again,

 

then shall all the evil smells depart in haste from your breath and your skin,

purifying by the waters your mouth and your skin,

and your hinder and privy parts.

 

135.

And all these things

you shall see with your eyes,

and smell with your nose, and touch with your hands.

 

136.

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.

 

137.

And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers;

your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits ripening upon the leaves of the trees;

 

138.

The light of your eyes as clear and bright

as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue sky.

 

139.

And now shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you.

 

And your breath, your body, and your spirit

shall be one with the breath, the body, and the spirit of the Earthly Mother,

 

140.

That your spirit also may become unified with the spirit of your Heavenly Father.

 

For truly, no one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother.

 

141.

Even as no newborn can understand the teaching of his father

till his mother has suckled him,

 

While the child is yet small,

his place is with his mother, and he must obey his mother.

 

142.

When the child is grown up,

his father takes him to work at his side in the fields,

and the child goes back to his mother only when the hour to sup dinner has arrived.

 

143.

And now his father teaches him,

that he may become skilled in the works of his father.

 

144.

And when the father sees that his son understands his teaching and does his work well,

 

He wills to give him all of his property,

that they may belong to his beloved son when he is gone,

and that son may continue his father's work.

 

145.

I tell you truly,

happy is that son who accepts the counsel of his mother and walks therein.

 

And ten times happier is that son who also accepts and walks in the counsel of his father,

 

146.

For it was said to you,

 

“Honor thy father and thy mother

that thy days may be long upon this earth.”

 

Yet I say to you, Sons of Man:

 

147.

“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 may be yours in the heavens.”

 

148.

And yet the Heavenly Father is hundreds of times greater

than all fathers by seed and by bloodline,

 

and a hundreds of times greater

is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the body.

 

149.

And dearer is the Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly Father

and of his Earthly Mother

 

than are children in the eyes of their fathers by seed and by bloodline,

and of their mothers by the body.

 

150.

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 by bloodline,

and of all mothers by the body.

 

151.

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 bloodline,

and of your mothers by the body.

152.

"And your true brothers are all those

who do the will of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother,

and not your brothers by bloodlines.

 

153.

I tell you truly,

that your true brothers in the will of the Heavenly Father and of the Earthly Mother

will love you a hundred times more than your brothers by blood.

 

154.

For since the days of Cain and Abel,

when brothers by blood transgressed the will of God,

 

there is no true brotherhood by blood,

nd brothers do unto brothers as do strangers.

 

155.

Therefore, I say to you,

Love your true brothers in the will of God

a hundred times more than your brothers by bloodlines only.

 

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER SIX

Divisions 156-180

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

156.

"It is by love,

that the Heavenly Father, and the Earthly Mother,

and the sons of men become one.

 

157.

For the spirit of Man was created from the spirit of the Heaven Father,

and his body from the body of the Earthly Mother.

 

158.

Therefore, become perfect

as the spirit of your Heavenly Father is perfect

and the body of your Earthly Mother are perfect.

 

159.

And so love your Heavenly Father,

the way He loves the spirit of your soul,

 

and love your Earthly Mother,

the way She loves the flesh of your body.

 

160.

And so love your true brothers,

the way your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother love them,

 

and then your Heavenly Father shall give you his holy spirit,

and your Earthly Mother shall give you her holy body.

 

 

161.

And then shall the sons of men give like brothers

love to one another,

 

the love which they received from

their Heavenly Father and from their Earthly Mother;

 

and they shall all become comforters of eachother.

 

162.

And then shall disappear from the Earth all evil and all sorrow,

and there shall be love and joy in all the world,

 

and then shall the Earth be like the Heavens,

and then the Kingdom of God shall come.

 

163.

And then shall the Son of Man appear in all his glory, Daniel 7

to inherit the Kingdom of God.

 

And then shall the sons of men divide their divine inheritance,

the Kingdom of God.

 

164.

For the sons of men live within

the worlds of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother,

 

and the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother

live within them and their world.

 

165.

And then with the kingdom of God

shall come the end of the times,

 

for the Heavenly Father's love gives to all

life everlasting in the kingdom of God.

 

166.

For love is eternal,

Love is stronger than death.

 

167.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,

I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

 

168.

Though I tell what is to come,

and know all secrets, and all wisdom;

 

and though I have faith strong as the storm which lifts mountains from their seat,

yet have not love for others, I am nothing.

 

169.

And though I sell my goods to help feed the poor,

and give all my estate which I have received from my Father, [ to the kingdom of God]

 

yet have not love [ for my brothers and sisters],

I will not profit.

 

 

170.

Love is patient,

love is kind.

 

171.

Love is not envious,

 

[Love] works not evil,

[Love] knows not pride;

 

172.

[Love] is not rude, neither selfish;

 

[and] is slow to anger,

 

173.

[Love] imagines no mischief;

 

[Love] rejoices not in injustice,

but delights in justice.

 

174.

Love defends all,

love believes all,

 

love hopes all,

love bears all;

 

175.

[Love] never exhausts itself;

 

Though as for tongues they shall cease,

and as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

 

176.

For we have truth in part, and error in part,

 

yet when the fullness of perfection is come,

that which is in part shall be blotted out.

 

177.

When a man was a child he spoke as a child,

understood as a child, thought as a child;

 

but when he became a man he put away childish things.

 

178.

For now we see through a glass [dimly]

and through dark sayings.

 

179.

Now we know in part,

yet when we are come before the face of God,

we shall not know in part, but even as we are taught by him [in full.]

 

180.

And now remain these three:

 

faith and hope and love;

yet the greatest of these is love.

 

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER SEVEN

Divisions 181-210

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

181.

"And now I speak to you in the living tongue of the living God,

through the holy spirit of our Heavenly Father.

 

182.

[Yet] t here is none among you that yet can understand all this of which I speak.

 

183.

[Them that] expounds to you the scriptures,

speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead men,

through his diseased and mortal body.

 

184.

Him, therefore, can all men understand,

for all men are diseased and are in death.

no one sees the light of Life.

 

185.

A blind man leads the blind on the dark paths of sins diseases and sufferings;

and at the end, all fall into the pit of death.

 

186.

"I am sent to you by the Father,

that I may make the light of life to shine before you.

 

187.

The light lightens itself and the darkness,

yet the darkness knows only itself, and knows not the light.

 

188.

I have still many things to say to you,

yet you cannot bear them yet,

 

for your eyes are accustomed to the darkness,

and the full light of the Heavenly Father would make you blind.

 

189.

Therefore, you cannot yet understand that which I speak to you

concerning the Heavenly Father who sent me to you.

 

190.

Therefore, follow first only the laws of your Earthly Mother,

of which I have told you.

 

191.

And when her angels shall have cleansed and renewed your bodies

and strengthened your eyes,

 

you will be able to bear the light of our Heavenly Father.

 

192.

When you can gaze on the brightness of the noonday sun with unflinching eyes,

 

you can then look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father,

which is a thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns,

 

193.

Yet how should you look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father,

when you cannot even bear the shining of the blazing sun?

 

194.

Believe me, the sun is as the flame of a candle

beside the sun of truth of the Heavenly Father.

 

195.

Therefore, have only faith and hope and love.

 

I tell you truly, you shall not [lose] your reward.

 

196.

If you believe in my words,

you believe in Him who sent me,

 

who is the lord of all,

and with whom all things are possible.

 

197.

For what is impossible with men,

all these things are possible with God.

 

198.

If you believe in the angels of the Earthly Mother and do her laws,

your faith shall sustain you and you shall never see disease.

 

199.

Have hope also in the love of your Heavenly Father,

 

for he who trusts in Him shall never be deceived,

nor shall he ever see death.

 

200.

"Love one another, for God is love,

and so shall his angels know that you walk in his paths.

 

201.

And then shall all the angels come before your face and serve you.

 

202.

And Satan with all sins,

diseases and uncleannesses shall depart from your body.

 

203.

Go, eschew your sins;

repent yourselves;

 

204.

baptize yourselves;

that you may be born again and sin no more."

 

205.

Then Jesus rose.

 

And all else remained sitting,

for every man felt the power of his words.

 

206.

And then the full moon appeared between the breaking clouds

and folded Jesus in its brightness.

 

And he stood among them in the moonlight,

as though he hovered in the air.

 

207.

And no man moved, neither was the voice of any heard.

 

And no one knew how long a time had passed,

for time stood still.

 

208.

Then Jesus stretched out his hands to them and said:

“Peace be with you.”

 

And so he departed,

as a breath of wind sways the green of trees.

 

209.

And for a long while yet, the company sat still,

 

and then they woke in the silence,

one man after another, like as from a long dream.

 

210.

Yet none would leave,

as if the words of him who had left them ever sounded in their ears.

 

 

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER EIGHT

Divisions 211-235

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

211.

And they sat as though they listened to some wondrous music.

 

212.

Yet at last one said, as it were a little fearfully,:

 

"How good it is to be here."

 

213.

Another:

"Would that this night were everlasting."

 

And others:

"Would that he might be with us always."

 

214.

"Of a truth he is God's messenger,

for he planted hope within our hearts."

 

215.

And no man wished to go home, saying:

“I go not home where all is dark and joyless.”

 

“Why should we go home where no one loves us?"

 

216.

And they spoke on this wise,

for they were almost all poor,

lame, blind, maimed,

 

beggars, homeless,

 

217.

Despised in their wretchedness,

who were only sheltered for pity's sake in the houses where they found a few day's refuge.

 

218.

Even a certain few, who had both home and family, said:

"We also will stay with you."

 

219.

For every man felt that the words of him who was gone

bound the little company with threads invisible.

 

And all felt that they were born again.

 

220.

They saw before them a shining world,

even when the moon was hidden in the clouds.

 

221.

And in the hearts of all of them blossomed wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty,

the flowers of joy.

 

222.

And when the bright sunbeams appeared over the horizon,

they all felt that it was the sun of the coming kingdom of God.

 

223.

And with joyful countenances they went forth to meet God's angels.

 

And many unclean and sick followed Jesus' words

and sought the banks of the murmuring streams.

 

224.

They put off their shoes and their clothing,

they fasted,

and they gave up their bodies to the angels of air, of water, and of sunshine.

 

[Here begins a macaabre scene of allegory, fit for a dramatic theatre]

 

225.

And the Earthly Mother's angels embraced them,

possessing their bodies both inwards and outwards.

 

And all of them saw all evils,

sins and uncleannesses depart in haste from them.

 

226.

And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels,

 

and some had an issue of spittle,

and evil-smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts.

 

227.

All these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths.

 

In some, by the nose,

in others by the eyes and ears.

 

228.

And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body,

over all their skin.

 

And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth,

from which came out uncleannesses with an evil smell,

 

229.

And urine flowed abundantly from their body;

and in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees;

 

that of others was almost red or black,

and as hard almost as the sand of rivers.

 

230.

And many belched stinking gases from their bowels,

like the breath of devils.

 

And their stench became so great that none could bear it.

 

231.

And when they baptized themselves,

the angel of water entered their bodies,

 

and from them flowed out all the abominations and uncleannesses of their past sins,

 

and like a falling mountain stream,

gushed from their bodies a multitude of hard and soft abominations.

 

232.

And the ground where their waters flowed was polluted,

and so great became the stench that none could remain there.

 

233.

And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms

which writhed in impotent rage

after the angel of water had cast them out of the bowels of the sons of men.

 

234.

And then descended upon the power of the angel of sunshine,

and they perished there in their desperate writhings,

trod underfoot by the angel of sunshine.

 

235.

And all were trembling with terror when they looked upon all these abominations of Satan,

from which the angels had saved them.

 

And they rendered thanks to God who had sent his angels for their deliverance.

 

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER NINE

Divisions 236-260

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

236.

And there were some whom great pains tormented,

which would not depart from them;

 

and knowing not what they should do,

they resolved to send one of them to Jesus,

for they greatly wished He should be with them.

 

[Jesus appears to have been praying alone, some distance away. The beggars were possibly accompanied by an Essene disciple, for they were healers that tended to the sick. Therefore the story was recorded.]

 

237.

And when two [of them] left the others to seek for [him],

they saw Him approaching by the bank of the river,

 

and their hearts were filled with hope and joy when they heard His greeting,

"Peace be with you."

 

238.

And they desired to ask him many questions,

yet in their astonishment they could not begin, for no thought entered into their minds.

 

239.

Then said Jesus to them:

"I come because you need me."

 

240.

And one cried out:

"Master, we do indeed!

 

Come free us from our pains."

 

241.

And Jesus spoke to them in parables:

 

"You are like the Prodigal Son,

who for many years did eat and drink,

and passed his days in riotousness and lechery with his friends.

 

242.

And every week without his father's knowledge he incurred new debts,

and squandered all in a few days.

 

243.

And the moneylenders always lent to him,

because his father possessed great riches and always paid patiently the debts of his son.

 

244.

And in vain did he with fair words admonish his son,

for never listened to the admonitions of his father,

 

who besought him in vain that he would give up his debaucheries which had no end,

and that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor of his servants.

245.

And the son always promised him everything if he would pay his old debts,

yet the next day he began again.

 

246.

And for more than seven years the son continued in his riotous living.

 

Yet, at last, his father lost patience

and no more paid to the moneylenders the debts of his son.

 

247.

"If I continue always to pay," he said,

"there will be no end to the sins of my son."

 

248.

Then the moneylenders, who were deceived,

in their wrath took the son into slavery,

 

that he would by his daily toil pay back to them the money which he had borrowed.

 

249.

And then ceased the eating and drinking and the daily excesses.

 

250.

From morning until night by the sweat of his face he watered the fields,

and all of his limbs ached with the unaccustomed labor.

 

251.

And he lived upon dry bread,

and had naught but his tears with which he could water it.

 

252.

And three days after he suffered so much from the heat and from weariness

that he said to his master:

 

253.

“I can work no more, for all my limbs do ache.

 

How long would you torment me?”

 

254.

[The lord answered him],

Till the day when by the labor of your hands you pay me all your debts,

and when seven years are passed, you will be free.'

 

255.

And the desperate son answered weeping:

“Yet I cannot bear so much as seven days.”

 

Have pity on me, for all my limbs do burn and ache.'

 

256.

And the wicked creditor cried out:

'Press on with the work!

 

257.

If you could for seven years spend your days and your nights in riotousness,

now must you work for seven years.

 

 

258.

I will not forgive you till you pay back all your debts to the uttermost drachma.'

 

259.

And the son, with his limbs racked with pain,

went back despairing to the fields to continue his work.

 

260.

Already he could hardly stand upon his feet because of his weariness and of his pains,

when the seventh day was come-the Sabbath day,

in which no man works in the field.

 

 

The Essene Gospel of Peace CHAPTER TEN

Divisions 261-290

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE 1

261.

Then the son gathered the remnant of his strength,

and staggered to the house of his father.

 

262.

And he cast himself down at his father's feet and said:

 

'Father, believe me for the last time

and forgive me all my offenses against you.

 

263.

I swear to you that I will never again live riotously

and that I will be your obedient son in all things.

 

Free me from the hands of my oppressor.

 

264.

Father, look upon me and upon my sick limbs,

and harden not your heart.'

 

265.

Then tears came into his father's eyes,

and he took his son in his arms, and said:

 

'Let us rejoice, for today a great joy is given me,

because I have found again my beloved son, who was lost.'

 

266.

And he clothed him with his choicest raiment

and all the day long they made merry.

 

And on the morning of the morrow he gave his son a bag of silver

that he might pay to his creditors all that he owed them.

 

267.

And when his son came back, he said to him:

 

'My son, do you see that it is easy, through riotous living,

to incur debts for seven years,

 

yet their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven years.'

 






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