Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Cannon

Author:Dolores Cannon
Language: eng
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In the drawing it can be noted that the earthquake damaged one end of the community and left a large crack, part of which ran through one of the baths. The archaeologists also found evidence that some of the damage was repaired, especially around the tower. I wanted to ask about this, but I would not mention the word 'earthquake'.

D: Do you know anything about any natural catastrophes that have occurred since you have lived there?

S: (Pause, as though thinking.) Ah! You mean when the ... I remember when I was little my mother said that there was the shaking of the cliffs. At one time there was great fear that the whole place would fall off into the sea. I was two or three, maybe, I'm not sure. I have no memory of it.

D: Did it do any damage to the community?

S: There is a hand-span gap where that part of it slipped and fell.

Apparently he meant a crack. I asked where it was located. She used hand gestures in his explanation.

S: Let me think here . .. it is along the wall. The wall runs like this, the cliff wall and it is on that way. On that corner, toward the bathhouse and the assembly hall and that area. It runs through in a diagonal. (I think this last word is correct. It was hard to understand.)

D: Did the crack go through the bathhouse?

S: Yes, but the crack was not so that the water escaped. It was repaired. The people of the community took it in their stride. They knew it was about to happen, therefore there was no loss of life. They had been told. (Did he mean psychically?)

D: But the damage was not bad enough that the people left?

S: Fora while I think they probably stayed away while the repairs were being done. They could have gone anywhere. They could have gone and stayed only in the housing. They could have gone perhaps to caves. As I say I was too young to remember. I only know what I have been told. I do not remember never being here.

D: I have heard it said that your people abandoned the community for many years.

S: We made them think so. If they forget us they leave us alone.

D: But surely people would come and rob you if they thought the community was deserted and unguarded?

S: They knew better than that. It is never unguarded.

This again seemed to refer to some mysterious method of protection.

I have presented all of this section in detail so that the life of Jesus may be understood against this background. The people who lived there at Qumran were concerned with one main objective, the accumulation and preservation of knowledge and the passing-on of that knowledge through teaching those who were qualified to learn. The Essenes appeared to be placid and passive, living enclosed in their own little world. Secluded like this, it was a virtual paradise, a perfect place completely self-sustaining. It was amazingly modern by the standards of Israel at the time.

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