What are the Essene gospels of peace trying to teach us? Few know! While most modern Christian theologians and scholars dismiss the texts as fake or worse - as conjured satanic teachings - it appears those who uncovered their hidden resting place and later translated them, were missing some vital knowledge. Far more detail lyes hidden within the culture of a people than within the language on their parchment. This is a precept that virtually everyone outside of our Hebrew culture, along with those rebellious cousins within the halls of Babylonian Judaism have either never knew, or purposely redirected. If you never knew that a Law existed, then how would it benefit you to read the instructional texts from a people whose culture only lives on in so few? With the majority of those few totally unwilling to share its vital details because they have long sought another god and another law! How would you identify that another, more ancient and original law from the Eternal Creator existed within any specific text when those who choose evil over good actively obscured the cultural knowledge proving that law extant, only later to abscond with the entirety of those texts for thousands of years? There must be a reason they hid them! Now we can better understand how modern translators who were reared in other religions far and away culturally from the original ancient Hebrew culture and language, while also heavily influenced by their personal religion & culture, missed the mark in so many areas as to render that work confusing at best. And at worst, impotent. First and foremost, I will tell you with great authority on the subject that the Essene sects spiritual path, which was NOT a religion, was based solely on what should be known as the 1st law, which is the law that they knew and kept. That law was NOT the law of the Judeans. It was, however, the Law that Jesus taught, but also the law that has never been taught inside the body of Christianity. Nor has anyone inside of Christianity or Judaism identified the 1st Law from these "Essene Gospel of Peace" texts as being the most important and holy precept for all the souls of man in over 2000 years! Even the title name has been misleading because it does not steer the reader past the texts being more than an apocryphal curiosity that is generally dismissed as near heresy by their religious leaders. Beyond doubt the Law of the Essene's and their texts, once rendered correctly and clearly understandable, are nothing less than the Torah - (Instruction) manual for all those who have already found their return vector back to the Eternal Creator via His 1st Law of the Everlasting Agreement; as well as for those truly searching past the decay of corporatized religions and on their way back to this path.

This book offers a novel approach for the study of law in the Judean Desert Scrolls, using the prism of legal theory. Following a couple of decades of scholarly consensus withdrawing from the "Essene hypothesis," it proposes to revive the term, and suggests employing it for the sectarian movement as a whole, while considering the group that lived in Qumran as the Yahad. It further proposes a new suggestion for the emergence of the Yahad, based on the roles of the Examiner and the Instructor in the two major legal codes, the Damascus Document and the Community Rule. The understanding of Essene law is divided into concepts and practices, in order to emphasize the discrepancy between creed, rhetoric, and practices. The abstract exploration of notions such as time, space, obligation, intention, and retribution, is then compared against the realities of social practices, including admission, initiation, covenant, leadership, reproof, and punishment. The legal analysis yields several new suggestions for the study of the scrolls: first, Amihay proposes to rename the two strands of thought of Jewish law, formerly referred to as "nominalism" and "realism," with the terms "legal essentialism" and "legal formalism." The two laws of admission in the Community Rule are distinguished as two different laws, one of an association for a group as a whole, the other as an admission of an individual. The law of reproof is proven to be an independent legal procedure, rather than a preliminary stage of prosecution. The methodological division in this study of thought and practice provides a nuanced approach for the study of law in general, and religious law in particular.

This Aramaic study of Yeshua’s spiritual teachings offers profound new insights into the New Testament, the Essenes and Dead Sea Scrolls, Mary Magdalene, and much more. Lars Muhl has had a lifelong burning interest in Jesus, not only as an archetype, savior, bodhisattva, and elder brother, but also in relation to the Essenes from the Dead Sea. The Law of Light is the result of his many years spent studying Aramaic and the techniques of Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua spoke Aramaic. Through the Aramaic language, his teachings offer not just another interpretation of the New Testament, but the unveiling of a secret message that attempts, once and for all, to settle centuries-old conceptions of sin, and to once again connect man with the heavenly spiritual source. The core of Yeshua’s Aramaic message is intimacy, freedom, selfless awareness, unconditional love, compassion, and forgiveness. In all he says, there exists a hidden invitation to us to be present in, and dedicated to, everything with which we engage. Five minutes of total devotion is worth more than hours of hectic exertion. The aim is to set mankind free and to dismiss everything that is bound up in false notions.

By bringing this holistic analysis of the evidence to bear, Joseph adds a powerful and insightful voice to the decades-long debate surrounding the Essenes and Christianity.

Originally published: Huntsville, Ark.: D. Cannon, c1985.

Decodes the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal Christianity’s hidden Essene origins • Reveals the Essenes as key figures behind Jesus’s trial, torture, and crucifixion • Shows how Jesus, a former Essene himself, was deemed “the Wicked Priest” for his liberationist politics and humanist bent • Examines the lost Christian doctrine of reincarnation and the secret role of Gabriel in the Virgin Birth The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, are generally believed to have been written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes between 350 BCE and 70 CE--but until now no convincing methodology has linked the Scrolls to the actual life and teachings of Jesus. Marvin Vining builds from the controversial work of Barbara Thiering to demonstrate that the Scrolls do speak directly to the origins of Christianity and even reflect a mirror image of the Gospels from the perspective of Jesus’s enemies. Christianity arose out of a schism between the exclusivist, rigid, and militant views of the Essenes and the inclusivist, tolerant, and nonviolent views of Jesus. Jesus was raised an Essene, but he refused to follow their orthodoxy. Vining shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in a secret coded language called pesher in which Jesus emerges as the Wicked Priest, the antagonist to the Teacher of Righteousness who was the leader of the Essenes. Jesus the Wicked Priest revitalizes the Gospel message by revealing Jesus’s true role as a tireless social reformer and revolutionary teacher. Vining’s study reopens Christian doctrinal questions supposedly long settled, such as reincarnation and the Virgin birth--even demonstrating that these two issues are related. He discloses that the angel Gabriel was incarnate in a living human being and transmitted the seed of a holy bloodline to the Virgin Mary.