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The Essenes -- From Jesus to our Time

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This book helps us to understand the importance of the Essenes 2000 years ago and their impact on our modern civilization -eventhough the conventionnal Catholic Church would try to deny it :)

We discover that the idea of living together as brotherhood-sisterhood, is a concept that has been existing way before John Lennon. It's easy if we'd try...

I thoroughly enjoyed "The Essenes", a subject I have always been interested in reading about. I read many books on the Essenes, and this one offers a living, inner perspective. It is not an academic, dead work. The author found the living spirit of the Essenes, and reveals their rules of life, their organization, their principles. Deeply interesting.

I am interested in the Essenes and really wanted to like this book.

Olivier claims that from Enoch (aka Hermes, Thoth, etc) just about every avatar (Buddha, Zoaraster, Mohammed, Jesus, etc.) was an Essene. For much of this book a nebulous whispy spirituality is presented and the fruits of all enlightment are known from Enoch only through the Essenes. Olivier should know that current thinking is that Quamram were probably not Essenes at all. In short, the fluffiness of this book (claims without substantiation), tells almost nothing verifiable about the Essenes.

What it does claim in detail would have been revealed by texts somehow not destroyed by the evil 'church of St. Peter' which somehow missed thosed texts. The evidence is neither from the Dead Sea Scrolls but from revelation spiritually to Olivier. These two extremes, non-specific bantering (in the spirit of I'm OK, you're OK, I'm spiritual, wheee) to specifics with no substantation leave no middle way (a term familiar to Buddhists).

On the back cover Manitara claims that 'Only techniques can liberate man..' But his writing is largely unspecific and borders on the style of creative fantasy. This seems like a marketing piece by Oliver. It leaves you unsatisfied enough to wonder what he might be holding back so you might make the mistake of spending more money and time for the same fluffiness.

There are other sources of information on the Essenes. But unfortunately there are no writings (that this writer is aware of) that can be considered authentically Essene. This includes this book or the works of Szekely. The Gospel Of The Holy Twelve is held up as an authentic Aramaic/Essene text but the reader will need to decide that for themseves.

You are better off sticking with sources based on Dead Sea Scroll texts. But keep in mind those writings are in no way guaranteed to be Essene. The Essenes are a great concept but unless more texts are found their legacy has been lost to history. What people are creating today and saying is authentic 'Essene' is at best creative re-construction (based on 'Essene Gospel of Peace' which is of unverified authenticity) and at worst imagination.

There are rare moments in our life when the discovery of a book simply leaves us breathlessly filled with awe, gratitude and joy.

We recognize immediately that we have come upon a great treasure, and we sense immediately that it has begun to change us.

That has been my response to encountering this book.

There are no words: I recommend this book to anyone eager for truth, wisdom and beauty.

It's the best book on the Essenes I've ever read. I've just finished devouring it. Others only scratched the surface, and I always knew there was more. I have been searching for these teachings for years.

Thanks so much!

John

Wow. I really don't understand how anyone can miss the love and energy behind the words of this short, but beautiful little book.
Reading it was like coming home. The author revealed himself to me with such clarity, simplicity and authenticity that I think it would be impossible for anyone with the same lineage to doubt his or her heritage or membership in the invisible School. Sometimes a lot of words only serve to obstruct the pure intentions of the heart. I find it remarkable that one of the readers was left unsatisfied. It filled my being with Ancient Rememberance and Divine Peace. All is well. Thank you, Oliver Manatara, my eternal Brother. I, too, have a Vision for Humanity.

Wow. I really don't understand how anyone can miss the love and energy behind the words of this short, but beautiful little book.
Reading it was like coming home. The author revealed himself to me with such clarity, simplicity and authenticity that I think it would be impossible for anyone with the same lineage to doubt his or her heritage or membership in the invisible School. Sometimes a lot of words only serve to obstruct the pure intentions of the heart. I find it remarkable that one of the readers was left unsatisfied. It filled my being with ancient Rememberance. Thank
you, Oliver Manatara, my eternal Brother. I, too, have a Vision for Humanity.

I am interested in the Essenes and really wanted to really like this book.

Olivier claims that from Enoch (aka Hermes, Thoth, etc) just about every avatar (Buddha, Zoaraster, Mohammed, Jesus, etc.) was an Essene. For much of this book a nebulous whispy spirituality is presented and the fruits of all enlightment are known from Enoch only through the Essenes. Olivier should know that current thinking is that Quamram were probably not Essenes at all. In short, the fluffiness of this book (claims without substantiation), tells almost nothing verifiable about the Essenes.

What it does claim in detail would have been revealed by texts somehow not destroyed by the evil 'church of St. Peter' which somehow missed thosed texts. The evidence is neither from the Dead Sea Scrolls but from revelation spiritually to Olivier. These two extremes, non-specific bantering (in the spirit of I'm OK, you're OK, I'm spiritual, wheee) to specifics with no substantation leave no middle way (a term familiar to Buddhists).

On the back cover Manitara claims that 'Only techniques can liberate man..' But his writing is largely unspecific and borders on the style of creative fantasy. This seems like a marketing piece by Oliver. It leaves you unsatisfied enough to wonder what he might be holding back so you might make the mistake of spending more money and time for the same fluffiness.

There are other sources of information on the Essenes. But unfortunately there are no writings (that this writer is aware of) that can be considered authentically Essene. This includes this book or the works of Szekely. The Gospel Of The Holy Twelve is held up as an authentic Aramaic/Essene text but the reader will need to decide that for themseves.

You are better off sticking with sources based on Dead Sea Scroll texts. But keep in mind those writings are in no way guaranteed to be Essene. The Essenes are a great concept but unless more texts are found their legacy has been lost to history. What people are creating today and saying is authentic 'Essene' is at best creative re-construction (based on 'Essene Gospel of Peace' which is of unverified authenticity) and at worst imagination.

This book echoes deepest of me... because he speaks to us about people of a simplicity and an authenticity which it is good to know and to recognize in oneself to go towards a larger respect of all the reigns. A book for the researchers of truth, the hearts which feel lost on this ground, in the current world and which want to work for a new future and in the light... (Sorry for my English)

Olivier Monitara's books are a source of many dicussions among Rosicrucians of different Orders . His writings are powerful ,
inspiring ,poetic . I feel his love , sincerity and his
Divine inner being . Because I consider him as my brother,
though he is a Johannite ,and want him to inspire all his readers, I'll make one negative comment about the book .
Olivier should be more careful in the future when writing about
real and symbolical people , dates ,and historical events .
Blessings upon all