"The Essenes Gospel of Peace, Book 3" by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
"This third book of the Essene Gospel of Peace is a collection of texts
of great spiritual, literary, philosophical and poetical value, created
by two powerful, interwoven streams of tradition.
Chronologically,
the first is the stream of traditions to which the Hebrew people were
exposed in the Babylonian prison, dating from the Gilgamesh Epics to the
Zend Avesta of Zarathustra. The second is the stream of traditions
flowing with poetical majesty through the Old and New Testaments, dating
from the ageless Enoch and the other Patriarchs, through the Prophets
and on to the mysterious Essene Brotherhood.
In the buried
library of the Essene Brotherhood at the Dead Sea, where the greatest
number of scrolls were found, the texts of these two streams of
traditions were very much interwoven. They follow each other in a
strange succession: the powerful cubistic simplicity of the first
juxtaposed with the majestic, expressionist poetry of the second.
The
original texts of this collection may be classified into three
approximate groups: about seventy percent of them are completely
different from the ancient Sacred Books of the Avestas and the Old and
New Testaments; twenty percent are similar, and ten percent are
identical."
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