Gospel Of Essenes Book 1 - Pt 3 Of 3

The Essene Gospel of Peace,

Book 1,

Part 3,

The final part.

I'll just give you the previous paragraph.

And it was by the bed of a stream,

Many sick fasted and prayed with the gods,

Angels,

For seven days and seven nights,

And great was their reward,

For they followed Jesus' words.

And with the passing of the seventh day all their pains left them.

And when the sun rose over the earth's rim,

They saw Jesus coming towards them from the mountain with the brightness of the rising sun about his head.

And he greeted them,

Peace be with you.

And they said no word at all,

But only cast themselves down before him and touched the hem of his garment and token of their healing.

Give thanks not to me,

But to your earthly mother,

Who sent you her healing angels.

Go and sin no more,

That you may never again see disease,

And let the healing angels become your guardians.

But they answered him,

Whither shall we go,

Master?

For with you are the words of eternal life.

Tell us what are the sins which we must shun,

That we may never more see disease.

And Jesus answered,

Be it so according to your faith.

He sat down among them,

And he said,

It was said to them of old time,

Honour thy heavenly Father and thy earthly Mother,

And do their commandments,

That thy days may be long upon the earth.

And next,

After it was given this commandment,

Thou shalt not kill.

For life is given to all by God,

And that which God has given,

Let not man take away.

For I tell you truly,

From one mother precedes all that lives upon the earth.

Therefore he who kills,

Kills his brother.

And from him will the earthly mother turn away,

And will pluck from him her quickening breasts.

And he will be shunned by her angels,

And Satan will have his dwelling in his body.

And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb.

For I tell you truly,

He who kills,

Kills himself.

And whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts,

Eats of the body of death.

For in his blood every drop of their blood turns to poison.

And in his breath,

Their breath to stink.

And in his flesh,

Their flesh to boils.

And in his bones,

Their bones to chalk.

And in his bowels,

Their bowels to decay.

And in his eyes,

Their eyes to scales.

And in his ears,

Their ears to wax the issue.

And their death will become his death.

For only in service to your heavenly Father are your debts of seven years,

Forgiven in seven days.

But Satan forgives you nothing,

And you must pay him all.

Eye for eye,

Tooth for tooth,

Hand for hand,

Foot for foot,

Burning for burning,

Wound for wound,

Life for life,

Death for death.

For the wages of sin is death.

Still not.

Neither eat the flesh of your innocent prey,

Lest you become the slaves of Satan.

For that is the path of sufferings,

And it leads unto death.

But do the will of God,

That his angels may serve you on the way of life.

Obey,

Therefore,

The words of God.

Behold,

I have given you every herb-bearing seed,

Which is upon the face of all earth,

And every tree,

And which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed.

To you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth,

And to every fowl of the air,

And to everything that creepeth upon the earth,

Wherein there is breath of life,

I give every green herb for meat.

Also the milk of everything that moveth and liveth upon earth shall be meat for you.

Even as the green herb have I given unto them,

So I give their milk unto you.

But flesh,

And the blood which quickens it,

Shall ye not eat.

And surely your spurting blood will I require,

Your blood,

Wherein is your soul,

I will require all slain beasts,

And the souls of all slain men.

For I the Lord thy God,

Am a God strong and jealous,

Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,

Unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,

And keep my commandments.

Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

And with all thy soul,

And with all thy strength.

This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like unto it,

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

There is none other commandment greater than these.

And after these words they all remained silent,

Save one who called out,

What am I to do,

Master?

If I see a wild beast rend my brother in the forest,

Shall I let my brother perish or kill the beast?

Shall not I thus transgress the law?

And Jesus answered,

It was said to them of old time,

All beasts that move upon the earth,

All fish of the sea,

And all fowl of the air,

Are given into thy power.

I tell you truly,

Of all creatures living upon the earth,

God created only man after his image.

Your beasts are for man,

And not man for beasts.

You do not therefore transgress the law if you kill the wild beast to save your brother's life.

For I tell you truly,

Man is more than the beast.

But he who kills the beast without a cause,

Though the beast attack him not,

Through lust for slaughter,

Or for its flesh,

Or for its hide,

Or yet for its tusks,

Evil is the deed which he does.

For he is turned into a wild beast himself.

Wherefore is his end also as the end of the wild beasts.

And then another said,

Moses,

The greatest in Israel,

Suffered our forefathers to eat the flesh of clean beasts,

And forbade only the flesh of unclean beasts.

Why therefore do you forbid us the flesh of all beasts?

Which law comes from God?

That of Moses,

Or your law?

And Jesus answered,

God gave by Moses ten commandments to your forefathers.

These commandments are hard,

Said your forefathers,

And they could not keep them.

When Moses saw this,

He had compassion on his people,

And would not that they perish.

And he gave them ten times ten commandments.

For he whose feet are strong,

As the mountain of Zion,

Needs no crutches.

But he whose limbs do shake,

Gets further having crutches than without them.

And Moses said to the Lord,

My heart is filled with sorrow,

For my people will be lost.

For they are without knowledge,

And are not able to understand thy commandments.

They are as little children,

Who cannot yet understand their father's words.

Suffer,

Lord,

That I give them other laws,

That they may not perish.

If they may not be with thee,

Lord,

Let them not be against thee,

That they may sustain themselves,

And when the time has come,

They are ripe for thy words,

Reveal to them thy laws.

For that did Moses break the two tablets of stone,

Whereon were written the ten commandments,

And he gave them ten times ten in this deed.

And of these ten times ten,

The scribes and the Pharisees have made a hundred times ten commandments.

They have laid unbearable burdens on your shoulders,

That they themselves do not carry.

For the more nigh are the commandments to God,

The less do we need.

And the farther they are from God,

Then the more do we need.

Wherefore are the laws of the Pharisees and scribes innumerable,

The laws of the Son of Man seven,

Of the angels three,

And of God one.

Therefore I teach you,

Only those laws which you can understand,

That you may become men.

And follow the seven laws of the Son of Man.

Then will the unknown angels of the Heavenly Father also reveal their laws to you,

That God's Holy Spirit may descend upon you and lead you to his law.

And all were astonished at his wisdom and asked him,

Continue,

Master,

And teach us all the laws which we can receive.

And Jesus continued,

God commanded your forefathers,

Thou shalt not kill.

But their heart was hardened,

And they killed.

And then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men,

And he suffered them to kill beasts.

And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet more,

And they killed men and beasts likewise.

But I do say to you,

Kill neither men nor beasts,

Nor yet the food which goes into your mouth.

For if you eat living food,

The same will quicken you.

But if you kill your food,

The dead food will kill you also.

For life comes only from life,

And from death comes always death.

For everything which kills your foods,

Kills your bodies also.

And everything which kills your bodies,

Kills your souls also.

And your bodies become what your foods are,

Even as your spirits likewise become what your thoughts are.

Therefore,

Eat not anything which fire or frost or water has destroyed.

For burned,

Frozen,

And rotted foods will burn,

Freeze,

And rot your body also.

Be not like the foolish husbandman,

Who sowed in his ground cooked and frozen and rotten seeds.

And the autumn came,

And his fields bore nothing,

And great was his distress.

But be like that husbandman,

Who sowed in his fields living seed,

And whose fields bore living ears of wheat,

Paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted.

For I tell you truly,

Live only by the fire of life,

And prepare not your foods with the fire of death,

Which kills your foods,

Your bodies,

And your souls also.

Master,

Where is the fire of life,

Asked one of them.

In you,

In your blood,

And in your bodies.

And the fire of death,

Asked another.

It is the fire which blazes outside your body,

Which is hotter than your blood.

With that fire of death you cook your foods in your homes and in your fields.

I tell you truly,

It is the same fire which destroys your foods and your bodies,

Even as the fire of malice,

Which ravages your thoughts,

Ravages your spirits.

For your body is that which you eat,

And your spirit is that which you think.

Eat nothing therefore,

Which is stronger fire than the fire of life has killed.

Wherefore prepare and eat all the fruits of trees,

And all the grasses of the fields,

And milk of beasts good for eating.

For all these are fed and ripened by the fire of life.

All are the gift of the angels of our earthly mother,

But eat nothing to which only the fire of death gives savour for such is of Satan.

How shall we cook our daily bread without fire,

Master,

Said some with astonishment.

Let the angels of God prepare your bread.

Moisten your wheat,

That the angel of water may enter it.

Then set it in the air,

That the angel of air may embrace it.

And leave it from morning to evening beneath the sun,

That the angel of sunshine may descend upon it.

And the blessing of the three angels will soon make the germ of life to sprout on your wheat.

Then crush your grain,

And make thin wafers,

As did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt,

The house of bondage.

Put them back again beneath the sun from its appearing,

And when it has risen to its highest in the heavens,

Turn them over on the other side,

That they be embraced there also by the angel of sunshine.

And leave them there until the sun is set.

For the angels of water,

Of air and of sunshine,

Fed and ripened the wheat in the field,

And they likewise must prepare also your bread.

And the same sun,

Which with the fire of life made the wheat grow and ripen,

Must cook your bread with the same fire,

For the fire of the sun gives life to the wheat,

To the bread,

And to the body.

But the fire of death kills the wheat,

The bread and the body.

And the living angels of the living God serve only living men.

For God is the God of the living and not the God of the dead.

So eat always from the table of God the fruits of the trees,

The grain and grasses of the field,

The milk of beasts and the honey of bees.

For everything beyond these is of Satan,

And leads by the way of sins and of diseases unto death.

But the foods which you eat from the abundant table of God give strength and youth to your body,

And you will never see diseases.

For the table of God fed Methuselah of old,

And I tell you truly,

If you live even as he lives,

Then will the God of the living give you also long life upon the earth as was his.

For I tell you truly,

The God of the living is richer than all the rich of the earth,

And his abundant table is richer than the richest table of feasting of all the rich upon the earth.

Eat therefore all your life at the table of our earthly mother,

And you will never see want.

And when you eat at her table,

Eat all things even as they are found on the table of the earthly mother.

Look not,

Neither mix all things one with another,

Lest your bowels become as steaming bogs,

For I tell you truly,

This is abominable in the eyes of the Lord.

And be not like the greedy servant who always ate up at the table of his Lord the portions of others,

And he devoured everything himself,

And mixed altogether in his gluttony.

And seeing that,

His Lord was rough with him and drove him from the table.

And when all had ended their meal,

He mixed together all that remained upon the table,

And called the greedy servant to him,

And said,

Take and eat all this with the swine,

For your place is with them and not at my table.

Be keyed therefore,

And defile not with all kinds of abominations the temple of your bodies.

Be content with two or three sorts of food,

Which you will find always upon the table of our earth mother.

And desire not to devour all things which you see around you,

For I tell you truly,

If you mix together all sorts of food in your body,

Then the peace of your body will cease.

And endless war will rage in you,

And it will be blotted out even as homes and kingdoms divided against themselves work their own destruction.

For your God is the God of peace,

And does never help division.

Arouse not therefore against you the wrath of God,

Lest he drive you from the table,

And lest you be compelled to go to the table of Satan,

Where the fire of sins,

Diseases,

And death will corrupt your body.

And when you eat,

Never eat unto fullness.

Flee the temptations of Satan,

And listen to the voice of God's angels.

For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more.

But live by the Spirit,

And resist the desires of the body.

And your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of the angels of God.

So give heed to how much you have eaten when your body is sated,

And always eat less by a third.

Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina,

Which is about six hundred and forty grams,

Or twenty-three ounces.

But mark that to go not beyond two.

Then will the angels of God serve you always,

And you will never fall into the bondage of Satan and of his diseases.

Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often,

For I tell you truly he who eats more than twice a day does in him the work of Satan.

And the angels of God leave his body,

And soon Satan will take possession of it.

Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens,

And again when it is set.

And you will never see disease,

For such finds favour in the eyes of the Lord.

And if you will,

That the angels of God rejoice in your body,

And that Satan shun you afar,

Then sit but once a day at the table of God.

And then your days will be long upon the earth,

For it is pleasing in the eyes of the Lord.

Eat always when the table of God is served before you,

And eat always of that which you find upon the table of God.

For I tell you truly,

God knows well what your body needs and when it needs.

From the coming of the month of Ejarr,

This is I-J-A-R,

You can look that one up,

I think it is roughly around April to May,

In the Northern Hemisphere,

Eat barley.

But from the month of Sivan,

Which is S-I-V-A-N,

Eat wheat,

The most perfect among all seed-bearing herbs.

And let your daily bread be made of wheat,

That the Lord may take care of your bodies.

From Tammuz,

That's T-A-M-M-U-Z,

Eat the sour grape,

That your body may diminish,

And Satan may depart from it.

In the month of Elul,

That's E-L-U-L,

Gather the grape that the juice may serve you as drink.

In the month of Marchesvan,

That's M-A-R-C-H-E-S-V-A-N,

Gather the sweet grape,

Dried and sweetened by the Angel of Sun,

That your bodies may increase,

For the angels of the Lord dwell in them.

You should eat figs,

Rich in juice in the months of Ab and Shebat,

S-H-E-B-A-T.

And what remain,

Let the Angel of Sun keep them for you.

Eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees bear no fruits.

And the herbs which come after rain,

These eat in the month of Tebet,

T-H-E-B-E-T,

That your blood may be cleansed of all your sins.

And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your beasts,

Because for this did the Lord give the herbs of the fields to all the beasts,

Which render milk,

That they might with their milk feed man.

For I tell you truly,

Happy are they that eat only at the table of God,

And eschew all the abominations of Satan.

Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries,

But eat always that which your trees bear,

For your God knows well what is needful for you,

And where and when.

And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for the food that which is best for each.

Eat not as the heathen do,

Who stuff themselves in haste,

Defiling their bodies with all manner of abominations.

For the power of God's angels enters into you with the living food which the Lord gives you from his royal table.

And when you eat,

Have above you the angel of air,

And below you the angel of water.

Breathe long and deeply at all your meals,

That the angel of air may bless your repasts.

And chew well your food with your teeth,

Let it become water,

And let the angel of water turn it into blood in your body.

And eat slowly,

As it were a prayer you make to the Lord.

For I tell you truly,

The power of God enters into you if you eat after this manner at his table.

But Satan turns into a steaming bog the body of him upon whom the angels of air and water do not descend at his repast.

And the Lord suffers him no longer at his table.

For the table of the Lord is an altar,

And he who eats at the table of God is in a temple.

For I tell you truly,

The body of the Son of Man is turned into a temple,

And his innards into an altar,

If he does the commandments of God.

Wherefore put naught upon the altar of the Lord when your spirit is vexed,

Neither think upon any one with anger in the temple of God,

And enter only into the Lord's sanctuary when you feel in yourselves the calls of his angels.

For all that you eat in sorrow or in anger or without desire becomes a poison in your body.

For the breath of Satan defiles all these.

Rejoice with joy your offerings upon the altar of your body,

And let all evil thoughts depart from you when you receive into your body the power of God from his table.

And never sit at the table of God before he call you by the angel of appetite.

Rejoice therefore always with God's angels at their round table,

For this is pleasing to the heart of the Lord.

And your life will be long upon the earth,

For the most precious of God's servants will serve you all your days,

The angel of joy.

And forget not that every seventh day is holy and consecrated to God.

On six days feed your body with the gifts of the earthly mother,

But on the seventh day sanctify your body for your heavenly Father.

On the seventh day eat not any earthly food,

But live only on the words of God,

And be all the day with the angels of the Lord in the kingdom of the heavenly Father.

And on the seventh day let the angels of God build the kingdom of the heavens in your body.

As you labour for six days in the kingdom of the earthly mother,

And let not food trouble the work of the angels in your body throughout the seventh day.

And God will give you long life upon earth,

That you may have life everlasting in the kingdom of the heavens,

For I tell you truly,

If you see not diseases any more upon earth,

You will live forever in the kingdom of the heavens.

And God will send you each morning the angel of sunshine to wake you from your sleep.

Therefore obey your heavenly Father's summons,

And lie not idle in your beds,

For the angels of air and water await you already without.

And labour all day long with the angels of the earthly mother,

That you may come to know them and their works evermore and ever well.

But when the sun is set,

And your heavenly Father sends you his most precious angel sleep,

Then take your rest,

And be all the night with the angel of sleep.

And then when your heavenly Father sends you his unknown angels,

That they may be with you the live long night.

And the heavenly Father's unknown angels will teach you many things concerning the kingdom of God,

Even as the angels that you know of the earthly mother instruct you in the things of her kingdom.

For I tell you truly,

You will be every night the guests of the kingdom of your heavenly Father,

If you do his commandments.

And when you wake up in the morrow,

You will feel in you the power of the unknown angels,

And your heavenly Father will send them to you every night,

That they may build your spirit.

Even as every day the earthly mother sends you her angels,

That they may build your body.

For I tell you truly,

If in the daytime your earthly mother folds you in her arms,

And in the night the heavenly Father breathes his kiss upon you,

Then will the sons of men become sons of God.

Resist day and night the temptations of Satan.

Wake not by night,

Neither sleep by day,

Lest the angels of God depart from you.

And take no delight in any drink nor in any smoke from Satan,

Waking you by night and making you sleep by day.

For I tell you truly,

All the drinks and smokes of Satan are abominations in the eyes of your God.

Let not hoard them by night or by day,

For the whoremonger is like a tree whose sap runs out of its trunk,

And that the tree will be dried up before its time,

Nor will it ever bear fruit.

Therefore go not a whoring lest Satan dry up your body,

And the Lord make your seed unfruitful.

Shun all that is too hot and too cold,

For it is the will of your earthly mother that neither heat nor cold should harm your body.

And let not your bodies become either hotter or colder than as God's angels warm or cool them.

And if you do the commandments of the earthly mother,

Then as oft as your body becomes too hot,

Will she send the angel of coolness to cool you.

And as oft as your body becomes cold,

Will she send you the angel of heat to warm you again.

Follow the example of all the angels of the heavenly Father and the earthly mother,

Who work day and night without ceasing upon the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth.

Therefore receive also into yourselves the strongest of God's angels,

The angel of deeds,

And work altogether upon the kingdom of God.

Follow the example of the running water,

The wind as it blows,

The rising and setting of the sun,

The growing plants and trees,

The beasts as they run and gamble,

The wane and waxing of the moon,

The stars as they come and go again.

All these do move and do perform their labours,

For all which has life does move,

And only that which is dead is still.

And God is the God of the living and Satan that of the dead.

Serve therefore the living God,

That the eternal movement of life may sustain you and that you may escape the eternal stillness of death.

Work therefore without ceasing to build the kingdom of God,

Lest you be cast into the kingdom of Satan,

For eternal joy abounds in the living kingdom of God,

But still sorrow darkens the kingdom of death of Satan.

Be therefore true sons of your earthly mother and of your heavenly Father,

That you fall not as slaves of Satan,

And your earthly mother and heavenly Father will send you the angels to teach,

To love and to serve you,

And their angels will write the commandments of God in your head,

In your heart and in your hands that you may know,

Feel and do God's commandments.

And pray every day to your heavenly Father and earthly mother that your soul become as perfect as your heavenly Father's holy Spirit is perfect,

And that your body become as perfect as the body of your earthly mother is perfect.

For if you understand,

Feel and do the commandments,

Then all for which you pray to your heavenly Father and your earthly mother will be given to you,

For the wisdom,

The love and the power of God are above all.

After this manner therefore,

Pray to your heavenly Father,

Our Father which art in heaven,

Their load be thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors,

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil,

For thine is the kingdom,

The power and the glory for ever.

Amen.

And after this manner pray to your earthly mother,

Our mother which art upon earth,

Hallowed be thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

And thy will be done in us as it is in thee.

As thou sendest every day thy angels,

Send them to us also.

Forgive us our sins as we atone all our sins against thee,

And lead us not into sickness,

But deliver us from all evil,

For thine is the earth,

The body and the health.

Amen.

And they all prayed together with Jesus to the heavenly Father and to the earthly mother.

And afterwards Jesus spoke thus to them,

Even as your bodies have been reborn through the earthly mother's angels,

May your spirit likewise be reborn through the angels of the heavenly Father.

Become therefore true sons of your father and of your mother,

And true brothers of the sons of men.

Till now you were at war with your father,

With your mother,

And with your brothers,

And you have served Satan.

From today live at peace with your heavenly Father,

With your earthly mother,

And with your brothers,

The sons of men.

And fight only against Satan,

Lest he rob you of your peace.

I give the peace of your earthly mother to your body,

And the peace of your heavenly Father to your spirit.

And let the peace of both reign among the sons of men.

Come to me,

All that are weary and that suffer in strife and affliction,

For my peace will strengthen you and comfort you.

For my peace is exceeding full of joy.

Therefore do I always greet you after this manner.

Peace be with you.

Do you always therefore so greet one another,

That upon your body may descend the peace of your earthly mother,

And upon your spirit the peace of your heavenly Father.

And then you will find peace also among yourselves,

For the kingdom of God is within you.

And now return to your brothers,

With whom hath thought you were at war,

And give your peace to them also.

For happier they that strive for peace,

For they will find the peace of God.

Go and sin no more,

And give to everyone your peace,

Even as I have given my peace unto you.

For my peace is of God.

Peace be with you.

And he left them,

And his peace descended upon them.

And in their heart the angel of love,

In their head the wisdom of law,

And in their hands the power of rebirth,

They went forth among the sons of men,

To bring the light of peace to those that ward in darkness.

And they pass it,

Wishing one to another.

Peace be with you.

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