CANNON DOLORES – JESUS AND THE ESSENES by Unknown

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Language: fra
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Jesus and the Essenes

trance which Katie experienced made deception impossible. She slipped in and out of the personality of Suddi with great ease and literally became this ancient person in all respects during the three months we visited with him.

I wish to include here some quotes from Josephus that I believe have a bearing on our story. "There are also some among them (the Essenes) who undertake to foretell future events, having been brought up from their youth in the study of the sacred Scripture, in divers purifications, and in the sayings of the prophets; and it is very seldom that they fail in their predictions.

"They despise suffering, and overcome pain by fortitude.

Death, if connected with honour, they look upon as better than long life. Of the firmness of their minds in all cases the war with the Romans has given ample proof; in which, though they were tortured, racked, burned, squeezed and subjected to all the instruments of torment, that they might be forced to blaspheme the lawgiver (Moses) or eat what was forbidden, yet they could not be made to do either of them; nor would they even once flatter their tormentors or shed a tear, but, smiling through their torments and mocking their tormentors, they cheerfully yielded up their souls, as those who would soon receive them back again."

The Essenes had to swear "not to conceal anything from the brotherhood, not to disclose anything belonging to them to those without, even though it were at the hazard of his life. He was, moreover, to swear not to communicate to anyone their doctrines in any other way than he has received them."

This explains the difficulty I had obtaining answers at times, and why I had to turn to devious methods of gaining information. I am surprised that I was able to get it at all. I was trying to make him violate a strict, basic rule of his life, something that people under hypnosis will not do. They will never do anything that is against their morals. But these were not Katie's morals, they were Suddi's.

This shows how closely Katie was identifying with the Essene and how completely she had become him. It also explains why it was easier to obtain information from Suddi as a child. He had not yet taken this oath and in his innocence he was unaware that he was revealing anything that was forbidden. We should be grateful that we were able to receive any information, even by hook or crook.

This is another example of the great bond of trust that had been

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built between Katie and me. I do not believe this information would have been released under any other circumstances.

Ginsburg related in his book, The Essenes and the Kabbalah, published in 1864, that this secrecy was not uncommon, "since the Pharisees also would not indiscriminately propound the mysteries of the cosmogony and the theosophy, which, according to them, are contained in the history of the Creation and in the vision of Ezekiel, except to those who were regularly initiated in the order".

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