Angelology and the Esene's Daily Communions by the BArefoot Angel Man

Angelology and the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life represents all that is in alignment with living. It’s a symbol and a reality that serves to remind us of the importance of everything and how it all works together to serve the betterment of the whole. Imagine a tree-taking root in your own garden or backyard. As it is fed with the rain of heaven, the warmth of the sun, the nutrients in the soil and the cycle of shedding the old and bearing the new, we can see God at work. The Tree of Life not only signifies the mechanics of God but also the compassion of a loving Creator God. It provides shade and protection. It bears fruit that will nourish us and in many cases offers its whole being.

The Tree of Life touches every global community and penetrates every religion known to mankind. It has a physiological blueprint that parallels the universe’s Law of Seven in every facet of its existence. Like the Seven Chakras, The Seven Archangels, and the Seven Octaves, the Tree of Life has Seven Branches that represent a union of all that is; supported by the trunk. This represents our strength and diversity in acknowledging the many different aspects of ourselves. The branches are seen as male and female. They are:
q The lowest or First branch symbolizes our Body Self; our sense of wellness.
q The Second is an expression of our Personality; its vitality determines how well we are received and perceived by others.
q The Third branch represents our relationship with the Divine and how easily we are able to connect.
q The Fourth branch signifies our thirst for Knowledge.
q The Fifth branch is called the Void. Its health facilitates an understanding of the collective consciousness of oneness.
q The Sixth branch represents our Truth; the Essence of who we are, the ‘I AM’.
q The Seventh and final branch, like the Crown Chakra is the primary portal or connection to the divine allowing one to explore that which is not attached or of the physical body, keeping our own Tree of Life healthy is vital if we are to be productive instruments of God. But most importantly, the thing to remember is that the Tree of Life represents the highest degree of the world of existence, the position of the Word of God, and the Supreme Manifestation. It’s no wonder so many are driven to save the trees on this beloved planet. Each leaf that flourishes as a result of our love is legions of angels governed by the likes of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Archangels in our presence committed to sustaining our significance and the integrity with which we were created.

The Essene Communions

THEIR ACTUAL PRACTICE
Fragmentary records of ancient traditions which have come down to us show that during eons of time man has gradually begun to develop within his being, a certain receptive apparatus through which he is able to absorb the currents of force flowing in and around him, and consciously utilize them as sources of energy, harmony and knowledge.
The Essenes considered that the development of these receptive centres was an essential part of the individual’s evolution. They also considered that systematic and daily practice of a correct method was necessary for the development of them.
The First part of their Communion taught the meaning and purpose of each of the fourteen terrestrial and cosmic forces. The Second part of the Communions, was the actual practice or technique by which this apparatus can be developed. Through this practice, the subtle centres of the body can be opened and access given to the Universal storehouse of cosmic forces. The purpose of this was to put the organs of the physical body in harmony with all beneficial currents of the Earth and the cosmos, so that they can be utilized for the evolution of the individual and the planet.
Many early peoples had a similar technique. The Sumerians, the Persians at the time of Zoroaste, and the Hindus in their yoga systems, nine of which have survived the original fourteen, all sought to attain the same ends.
The technique which the Essenes handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, through thousands of years, was given to the neophyte (student) in their Brotherhoods only after seven years’ probationary training had been completed. He then had to take the Great Sevenfold Vow, never to reveal the communions without permission, and never to use the knowledge and power gained through them for material or selfish purposes.

PROLOGUE TO THE COMMUNIONS
Previous to speaking the actual words of a communion, the Essene solemnly and reverently repeated the following prologue:
“I enter the Eternal and Infinite Garden with reverence to the Heavenly Father, the Earthly Mother and Great Masters, reverence to the Brotherhood of the Elect.”

He then thought reverently about the angel or force with which he was about to commune, contemplating its meaning and purpose in his own life and body, as taught in the First Communions.

THE MORNING COMMUNIONS
The Communions with the Forces of the Visible Realms
DAYS CONTEMPLATIVE FORCE
Saturday Earthly Mother Food Nutrition
Sunday Angel of Earth Top Soil Growth Regeneration Glands
Monday Angel of Life Trees Vitality Life Force
Tuesday Angel of Joy Beauty Harmony
Wednesday Angel of Sun Sunrise Fire of Life
Thursday Angel of Water Blood, Rivers, etc. Circulation
Friday Angel of Air Breath Energies of Atmosphere
THE NOON CONTEMPLATIONS

The Peace Contemplative Communions
DAYS PEACE WITH THE
Saturday Kingdom of the Heavenly Father
Sunday Kingdom of the Earthly Mother
Monday Culture
Tuesday Humanity ( Social Peace)
Wednesday Family ( Feeling Body)
Thursday Mind (Thinking Body)
Friday Body (Acting Body)

THE EVENING COMMUNIONS

The Communions with the Powers of the Invisible Realms
DAYS CONTEMPLATIVE FORCE
Saturday Angel of Eternal Life Superior Planets Overcoming Gravity
Sunday Angel of Creative Work Bees Creative Works of Man
Monday Angel of Peace Crescent Moon Peace Within
Tuesday Angel of Power Stars Superior Acts Nervous SystemCosmic Ocean of Life
Wednesday Angel of Love Superior Feeling EmotionsCosmic Ocean of Love
Thursday Angel of Wisdom Superior Thoughts Thinking Body
Friday Heavenly Father Cosmic Currents Final Union with Cosmic Ocean

“ May He bless thee with every good,
May He keep thee from all evil
And illumine thy heart with the knowledge of life
And favour thee with eternal wisdom.
And may He give His Sevenfold blessings upon thee
To everlasting Peace.” From the Manual of Discipline of the Dead Sea Scrolls .

THE SEVENFOLD PEACE OF THE ESSENES
The Sevenfold Peace of the Essenes was the summation of their inner teaching.
Their Tree of Life and the Communions taught man his relationship with the fourteen forces of the visible and invisible worlds. The Sevenfold Peace explains his relationship to the parts of his own being and to his fellow men, showing how to create peace, harmony in the seven categories of his life.

Harmony to the Essenes meant peace.
They considered that human life can be divided into seven departments or compartments:
Ø Physical
Ø Mental
Ø Emotional
Ø Social
Ø Cultural
Ø Relationships with Nature
Ø Relationships with the entire Cosmos.

Man, it was held, has three bodies that function in each of these departments:
Ø A Feeling Body – the feeling body’s highest Power is LOVE.
Ø A Thinking Body – the thinking body’s highest Power is WISDOM.
Ø An Acting Body – the acting body’s FUNCTION is to translate the WISDOM of the Thinking Body and the LOVE of the Feeling Body into ACTION in an individual’s social and cultural worlds and in his utilisation of the Terrestrial and Heavenly Forces.
The Sevenfold Peace explains the utilisation of these Powers and Forces with the utmost clarity. Every Noon, a Peace Contemplation was held with one aspect of Peace; and every Sabbath was collectively dedicated to one, the entire cycle covering all phases of man’s life being completed in seven weeks’ time.

1 PEACE WITH THE BODY
The word used by the Essenes to indicate the physical body, both in Aramaic and in Hebrew, signified the body’s function, to act, to move. This differs greatly from other concepts. The Greeks, for instance, exalted the body for its esthetic qualities, its proportions and beauty and were unaware of any deeper purpose. The Romans looked upon the body simply as an instrument of strength and power for conquering nations, planting the Roman eagle in far lands. The medieval Christians disdained the body, considering it the source of all man’s troubles, a barrier between man and God.
The Essenes had a much deeper understanding than any of these, they knew that in the acting body, evolving through hundreds of thousands of years, are manifested all the laws of life and the Cosmos; in it is to be found the key to the whole universe. In their detailed studies of man’s role and relations with the universe, they considered that man had three roles:
Ø One of individual evolution.
Ø A function in regard to the Planet on which he lives.
Ø A purpose as a unit of the cosmos.
The acting body has its part to play in all three of these roles. It is a Divine product, created by the law for the purpose of the Creator, in no way inferior to any other instrument of man, nor to anything else in the universe. It is waiting for man to make conscious use of its terrestrial and spiritual energies.
The Essenes knew that man is not an isolated being alone in the universe, but one among other beings on earth and on other planets, all of whom have acting bodies which are evolving even as is man’s own. All of these acting bodies are therefore related to each other and effect each other. Every individual’s bodily health and vitality is consequently of the utmost importance both to himself and to all other beings on earth and on all other planets.
The daily practices of the Essenes were derived from this dynamic all-sided concept of the acting body as an integral part of the whole universe and their extraordinary health and vitality was a result of it. those who joined the Brotherhood were taught:
Ø How to adapt the body to the constantly changing field of forces in which it lives and moves.
Ø The effects on the organisms of different foods and the different natural forces of earth, the sun, air, and water.
Ø How disease is created by deviations from the law and how to heal diseases from these deviations.
Ø The qualities and curative powers of different herbs and plants, of heliotherapy and hydrotherapy, and the proper diet for every ailment. They were instructed in right breathing and in the power which thought holds over the acting body.
Ø The spiritual and material value of moderation in all things, and that fasting was a way to regenerate the body and to develop the will and in this way increase spiritual power.
These practices brought peace and harmony to the acting body. But undue importance was never attached to it. the consideration and care they gave it was solely to keep it in good health as an instrument through which they could perform acts of wisdom and love for their fellowman. In this way the acting body participated in the evolution of the individual, of the planet and the cosmos, thus enabling the individual to become a co-creator with the law and with God.

11 – PEACE WITH THE MIND
At the very heart of the teachings of the Essene’s way of life was Peace. They perceived Peace as being the Creator of thought. This was reflected in the Sevenfold Peace. The Essenes considered thought to be a superior force, more powerful that the force of either feeling or action, because it is the instigator of both. The totality of an individual’s thoughts was his thinking body. The Essenes considered an individual’s thinking body, like his acting body, has three functions, an individual. A planetary and a cosmic function. The Essenes knew that only a small minority of mankind makes use of the great capacity of the thinking body. They knew that the majority use their thinking bodies quite haphazardly, unaware of their thoughts can be used to build or to destroy.
According to the Essenes, if man fails to become consciously aware of the Law, he deviates from it unknowingly for he is surrounded by fields of inharmonious forces prompting him to deviations. These deviations create all the imperfections in his world, all the limitations and negations in his thoughts and feelings and physical well-being, in his environment, in society and the entire planet. Every time man creates or accepts an inferior thought, he is accepting an inferior force into his world. So every individual who has a negative feeling, emotion and thought, a limiting, negative or inharmonious thought starts a chain reaction of deviations which spreads throughout the planet and the planetary worlds, causing even further deviations, negations, limitations and inharmonies. This inharmony is contagious just as many diseases are contagious.
The great Essenic masters taught man how to prevent these waves of inharmony, right at their source, before the first inharmonious thought is created. They taught man the right way of thinking, the way of never deviating from the Law, never receiving or accepting into the consciousness any thought less than perfection.

111 PEACE WITH THE FAMILY

The Third Peace of the Essenes, peace with the family, concerns harmony in the feeling body, harmony in the emotions. By the term family, the Essenes meant those in the individual’s immediate environment, the people he contacts in his daily life and thought, his family, relatives, friends and associates. According to the Essene tradition, harmony with these people depends upon the feeling body.
The natural function of the feeling body is to express love. Mankind has been told this over and over again by the Great Masters, Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Moses and the prophets. He has been given the law that he should love his Creator with all his thinking, feeling and acting bodies. Life in all its spheres, aspects and manifestations is the demonstration of creative love.
Divine love is a great cosmic power, a cosmic function. It is the law of all man’s bodies, but it is expressed most powerfully through the feeling body. All of the Great Teachers of humanity through thousands of years have warned man of the consequences of deviation form the law of the feeling body. Buddha pointed out how it results in suffering, suffering for the individual and suffering for humanity.
The Essenes showed that the feeling body can be the most powerful instrument for the production of health, vitality and happiness, and that through its right functioning in expressing love, man can create the kingdom of heaven in and around himself and the whole human family.
The Essene peace with the family is the great Law in its expression of men’s love toward one another, a law revealed to little children but often hidden from the minds of men.

1V – PEACE WITH HUMANITY
The Fourth peace of the Essenes referred to harmony between groups of people, to social and economic peace.
Mankind has never enjoyed social peace in any age in history. Man has always exploited man economically, oppressed him politically, and suppressed him by military force. The Essenes knew these injustices were caused by deviations from the law. The very same deviations that produce inharmony in man’s personal life, in his acting, thinking and feeling bodies, produce wealth and poverty, masters and slaves, social unrest.

The Essenes regarded both riches and poverty to be the result of deviations from the law. They considered great wealth is concentrated into the hands of the few because man’s exploitation of man, in one-way or another. This has caused misery for both suppressor and suppressed. The many feel hatred and its kindred destructive emotions. This produces fear in the hearts of the exploiters, fear of revolt, fear of loosing their possessions, even their lives.
Poverty was held to be an equal deviation from the law. A man is poor because of wrong attitudes of thinking, feeling and acting. He is ignorant of the law and fails to work with the law. The Essenes showed that there is abundance for every one of all that a man needs for his use and happiness.
Limitations and over-abundance are both artificial states, deviations from the law. They produce the vicious circle of fear, and revolt, a permanent atmosphere of inharmony, affecting the thinking, feeling and acting bodies of both rich and poor, continually creating a state of unrest, war and chaos. This has been the condition throughout recorded history. The rich and poor alike suffer the consequences of their deviations.
The Essenes knew there was no escape from this circle of oppression, hatreds and violence, wars and revolutions, except through changing the ignorance of the individuals in the world. They knew that it takes a long time for individuals to change his ideas, thinking and habits and learn to cooperate with the law. The individual has to do the changing; nobody else can do it for him.
The solution, which the Essenes offered for economic and social harmony, can be applied in every age, the present as well as the past. It contained four factors:
1. Separating from the chaotic conditions of the mass of mankind, which refuses to obey natural and cosmic law.
2. Demonstrating a practical social system based on natural and cosmic law.
3. Communicating these ideas to the outside world through teaching, healing and helping others according to their needs.
4. Attracting to their communities other individuals who are sufficiently evolved to be willing to cooperate with the law.
The Essenes withdrew from the inharmony of cities and towns and formed brotherhoods on the shores of lakes and rivers where they could live and work in obedience to the law. They established there economic and social systems based wholly on the law. No rich and no poor were in their brotherhoods. No one had need of anything he did not have; and no one had excess of things he could not use. They considered one condition as deteriorating as the other.
They demonstrated to humanity that man’s daily bread, his food and all his material needs can be acquired without struggle through the knowledge of the law.
Strict rules and regulations were necessary for all lived in accord with the law. Order, efficiency and individual freedom existed side by side. The Essenes were extremely practical as well as highly spiritual and intellectual.
They took no part in politics and adhered to no political factions, knowing that neither political or military means could change man’s chaotic condition. They showed by concrete example that exploitation and oppression of others were

completely unnecessary. Many economic and social historians have considered the Essenes the world’s first social reformers on a comprehensive scale. The brotherhoods were partly cooperative –each member of the group had his own small house and garden large enough for him to grow whatever he especially desired. But he also took part in communal activities wherever his service might be needed, such as in pasturing of animals, planting and harvesting of crops most economically grown on an extensive basis. The Essenes were proficient in agriculture with a thorough knowledge of plant life, soil and climatic conditions. In comparatively desert areas they produced a large variety of fruits and vegetables of the highest quality and in such abundance they periodically had surplus to distribute to the needy.
Their scientific knowledge was such that they could do all of this in a comparatively few hours each day, leaving ample time for their studies and spiritual practices. Nature was their Bible. They considered gardening educational, a key to the understanding of the entire universe, revealing all its laws, even as does the acting body. They read and studied the great book of nature throughout their lives, in all their brotherhoods, as an inexhaustible source of knowledge, as well as of energy and harmony. When they dug in their gardens and tended their plantings they held communion with the growing things, the trees, sun, soil, rain. From all of these forces they received their education, their pleasure and their recreation. One of the reasons for their great success was this attitude toward their work. They did not consider it as work but as a means of studying the forces and laws of nature.
The Essenes knew it takes many generations to effect changes in people or in mankind as a whole, but they sent out teachers and healers from their brotherhoods whose lives and accomplishments would manifest the truths they taught and little by little increase mankind’s understanding and desire to live in accord with the law. The Essense brotherhood at the Dead Sea for many centuries sent out such teachers as John the Baptist, Jesus and John the Beloved. They warned again and again of the consequences of man’s social and economic deviations from the law. Prophet after prophet was sent forth to warn of the dangers incurred by social injustices that existed then even as they exist today.
The mass of mankind failed to listen, failed to gain any understanding of social and economic peace. Only the few more evolved individuals heeded. Of these, some were selected to work in the brotherhoods as examples of peace and harmony in all aspects of existence.
The Essenes knew that through the cumulative effect of example and teaching the minority who understand and obey the law will someday grow through the generations to become, finally, the majority of mankind.
Then and then only will mankind know the fourth peace of the Essenes, peace with humanity.

V PEACE WITH CULTURE
The Essenes held that man can take his rightful place in the universe only by absorbing all possible knowledge from the great teachings which have been forth by the Masters of Wisdom. According to Essene traditions, these masterpieces represented one-third of all knowledge. They considered there are three pathways to the finding of truth. They are:

1. The path of intuition.
2. The pathway of nature, that of the scientist.
3. The pathway of culture, that of the great masterpieces of literature and the arts.

The Essenes perceived many precious manuscripts in their brotherhoods, which they constantly studied by a method found in no other school of thought in antiquity. They studied them by following the first two pathways to truth: intuition and nature.
Through intuition they endeavoured to apprehend the original higher intuition of the master and so awaken their own higher consciousness. Through nature, from which the great masters drew comparisons to express their intuitive knowledge to the masses drew comparisons to express their intuitive knowledge to the masses, the Essenes correlated their own intuitive observations with the teachings of the masters. By this continual comparison between nature, their own intuitions and the great masterpieces of culture, their own individual evolution was advanced.
The third part of all wisdom, represented by the culture of humanity, was held by the Essenes to be necessary for man’s evolution. In no other way could he gain an all-sided understanding of the laws of life through contact with the cosmic ocean of thought.
This contact, through the eternal thinking body of a great master, is the sacred purpose and the priceless privilege of peace and harmony with culture.

VI – PEACE WITH THE KINGDOM OF THE EARTHLY MOTHER
The sixth peace teaches harmony with the laws of terrestrial nature, the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. The unity of man and nature is a basic principle of the Essene science of life.
Man is an integral part of nature. He is governed by all the laws and forces of nature. His health, vitality and well-being depend upon his degree of harmony with earth-forces; and that of every individual, every nation and the whole of humanity will always be in direct proportion to man’s observance of terrestrial laws.
Universal history shows that every nation reached its greatest splendour by following the great law of unity between man and nature. Its vitality and prosperity flourished when the people lived a simple natural life of cooperation with nature. But when the nation or civilization deviates from unity and nature, it inevitably disintegrates and disappears.
The unity of man and nature has never been so heavily transgressed as in the present day. Modern man’s building of cities is in entire variance with nature. The city’s stone and concrete walls are the symbols of man’s separation from nature, of his aggressive way of life with its urges to subjugation of others and to constant competition, one with another. His present centralized, technical and mechanized life creates a chasm separating him from nature, a chasm which never was wider or deeper.
Unity with nature is the foundation of man’s existence on the planet. It is the foundation of all economic systems, of all social relationships between groups of people. Without it, the present civilization like those of the past will move toward decline and decay.

The unity between man and nature has been given its most complete and poetic expression in the second chapter of the Essene Gospel of John in which Jesus borrowed his whole terminology from nature to show that man is an integral part of it. Jesus gave a last warning regarding this unity and the necessity of returning to it.
Antediluvian man, the Zoroastrian, the Brahman, the Buddhist, the Essene, all consider the forest and nature to be man’s friend and protector, the mother providing all his earthly needs.
Man needs today to learn harmony and peace with nature more than in any other age in history. There are enormous regions over the earth where he is letting the topsoil deteriorate and disappear. Never before has there been such wholesale destruction of forests, not only in one or two countries, but all over the five continents. As a consequence of this lack of cooperation with nature the desert areas of the world are increasing, drought is more and more frequent, floods periodically inundate the land. There is an unmistakable deterioration of climate; excessive cold, excessive heat and increasing hordes of insect pests damage crops throughout the world. Instead of following the noble tradition of the Essenes contemporary man fails to recognise the great law of unity and cooperation with nature, and seems bent on deteriorating his heritage, refusing to read the great open book of nature which reveals all the laws of life and shows the way to ever increasing happiness for man.
The Essene teaching shows the only way of organizing man’s life on this planet, the only foundation for a healthy humanity, peace with the kingdom of the Earthly Mother.

VII – PEACE WITH THE KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER.
This, the seventh peace, includes all other aspects of peace. The kingdom of the Heavenly Father is the universe, the entire cosmos. It is ruled by the One Law, the totality of all laws. The Heavenly Father is the Law.
Law is everywhere present. It is behind all that is manifest and all that is unmanifest. A stone falls, a mountain forms, seas flow according to law. In accord with law solar systems arise, evolve and disappear. Ideas, sensations, intuitions come and go in man’s consciousness according to law. All that is, concrete or abstract, material or immaterial, visible or invisible, is used by law, the One Law.
The Law is formless as a mathematical equation is formless. Yet it contains all knowledge, all love, all power. It eternally manifests all truth and all reality. It is man’s teacher and friend, showing him all he must do, and know, and be to evolve to the being which he will someday become. The Law guides man in every problem, through every obstacle, telling him always the perfect solution.
Peace with the Law means peace and harmony with the cosmic ocean of all the cosmic forces in the universe. Through this peace, man makes contact with all the cosmic space. Through it he is able to attain realization of his unity with all the forces in the universe, those of earth and those from all other planets in the solar systems.
Through this peace he can become united with the highest values in the universe. Through this peace is awakened the inner intuition which was followed by the mystics and prophets of all ages. Through this peace man contacts his Creator.

This peace completes man’s evolution. It brings him total happiness. It is his final goal. Man is a part of the totality of the universe.

The Essenes spoke of the three parts of man:
Ø The Material Body
Ø The feeling body.
Ø The thinking body.
But they were always aware that these three parts were not a division in reality for they are all parts of the one higher body, the spiritual body. And this spiritual body is one with and part of all else in the universe.
Man’s failure to understand this causes an infinite complexity of false limitations. He not only limits himself in regard to the supply of his material needs, but in regard to his capacities, his abilities and powers of thinking, feeling and acting. He lives a life of mediocrity because of these false ideas of limitations which he fastens upon himself.
Peace with the Kingdom of the heavenly Father is therefore only possible as man eliminates these deviations and learns to cooperate with the Law, establishing peace and harmony with each of the aspects of the Sevenfold Peace, the acting, thinking and feeling bodies, the family, humanity, culture and nature. Only then can he know the seventh peace, total peace.
The Essenes taught this peace to humanity so that they could overcome all limitations and contact their universal Source, the same Source with which the great masters throughout the ages have united their consciousness when they gave forth their intuitive teachings showing man how to become conscious of the law, understand it, work with it, and manifest it in action.
All history is a record of the self-imposed limitations of man and his efforts to overcome them. These efforts have been made individually, by groups or nations, and in a planetary sense. But they have almost always been made negatively, inharmoniously, through struggle and further deviations from the law. Thus they have bound man in further limitations, further inharmony and further separation in thought from his Source.
The Kingdom of the Heavenly Father is always open to him. His return to the universal consciousness, universal supply, is always possible. Once he makes the decision to return and puts forth the persistent effort, he can always go back to the Source, his Heavenly Father, from whom he came and from whom he has never in reality been away.
The great peace of the Essenes teaches man how to go back, how to take the final step that unites him with the cosmic ocean of superior radiations of the whole universe and reaches complete union with the heavenly Father, the totality of all Law, the One Law.
This was the ultimate aim of all Essenes and governed their every thought, feeling and action. It is the final aim, which all mankind will one day achieve.

THE SEVENFOLD VOW
The vow which the neophyte (trainee) was required to take before being given the words of the Communions was divided into seven parts in keeping with the Essenes’ use of the number seven. The vow was as follows:

1. I want to and will do my best to live like the Tree of Life, planted by the Great Masters of our brotherhood, with my Heavenly Father who planted the Eternal Garden of the Universe and gave me my spirit; with my Earthly Mother who planted the Great Garden of the Earth and gave me my body; with my brothers who are working in the Garden of our brotherhood.
2. I want to and will do my best to hold every morning my Communions with the angels of the Earthly Mother, and every evening with the angels of the Heavenly Father, as established by the Great Masters of our brotherhood.
3. I want to and will do my best to follow the path of the Sevenfold Peace.
4. I want to and will do my best to perfect my Acting body, my Feeling body and my Thinking body, according to the teachings of the great Masters of our Brotherhood.
5. I will always and everywhere obey with reverence my Master, who gives me the Light of the Great Masters of all times.
6. I will submit to my Master and accept his decision on whatever differences or complaints I may have against any of my brothers working in the Garden of our Brotherhood; and I shall never take any complaints against a brother to the outside world.
7. I will always and everywhere keep secret all the traditions of our Brotherhood, which my Master will tell me; and I will never reveal to anyone these secrets without the permission of my Master. I will never claim as my own the knowledge received from my Master and I will always give credit to him for all this knowledge and power I have gained through initiation from my Master for material or selfish purposes.

With the coming of the day
I embrace my Mother,
With the coming of the night
I join my Father,
And with the outgoing of evening and morning
I will breathe Their Law,
And I will not interrupt these Communions
Until the end of time.

From “The Manual of Discipline” of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Essene Psychology
The Essenes expressed an exceptional knowledge of psychology in their practice of the Communions with the natural and cosmic forces. They knew that man has both a conscious and subconscious mind and were well aware of the powers of each.
In making one group of their Communions the first activity of the morning, they consciously set in motion forces that became the keynote of their whole day. They knew that a thought held strongly enough in the consciousness at the beginning of the day influences the individual throughout his waking hours. The morning Communions consequently opened the mind to harmonious forms of energy into the physical body.
The evening Communions, performed as the last act in the evening before sleep, applied the same principle. The Essenes knew that these last thoughts influenced subconscious mind throughout the night, and that the evening Communions therefore put the subconscious into contact with the storehouse of superior cosmic forces. They knew that sleep can thus become a source of deepest knowledge.
The average man experiences this at times, finding a problem solved during sleep. Many writers, scientists and other creative workers have also found that their inventions and ideas have come to them during the night or in the early morning.
The knowledge received during sleep is a working of natural law. The Essenes knew that the higher forces set into action before going to sleep, when the earthly forces of the myriad activities of the day are stilled, would result in the progressive attainment of the lofty objectives of their evening Communions. They also knew that any negative or inharmonious thought held in their consciousness would lower their resistance to the negative forces in the outside world.
The Essenes had a profound knowledge of the body and also of the mind. They knew that the two could not be separated as they form a dynamic organic unit, and what affects one, affects the other. The Essenes antedated psychosomatic medicine by several thousands of years.
In addition to this they paid great attention to the food they ate, that it might harmonize with natural law, but they were equally careful of their diet in thought and emotions. They were fully cognizant that man’s subconscious mind is like a sensitised plate registering everything the individual sees, or hears, and that it is therefore necessary to prevent all interior thoughts, such as fear, anxiety, insecurity, hatred, ignorance, egotism and intolerance from entering the gate of the subconscious mind.
The natural law that two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time was clear to them and they knew a person cannot think of two things simultaneously. Therefore if the mind is filled with positive, harmonious thoughts those that are negative and inharmonious cannot lodge in it. The subconscious can be regenerated by a diet of good and harmonious thoughts and feelings administered all during the day, but especially at those moments of borderland consciousness when receptivity is at its best. When it is thus regenerated it will become a source of energy and harmony to the mind and body. It will be a friend sending constructive harmonious messages to every part of the body, causing them to function efficiently.
Certain facts known to the Essenes about introducing a thought or thoughts into the subconscious mind. The natural law that two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time was clear to them and they knew a person cannot think of two things simultaneously. Therefore if the mind is filled with positive, harmonious thoughts those that are negative and inharmonious cannot lodge in it.
Positive harmonious thoughts must be introduced into the subconscious to replace all inferior ones, just as the cells of the body must constantly be replaced by food, water, air as the old cells of the body are broken down.
The subconscious mind can be regenerates by a diet of good and harmonious thoughts and feelings administered all during the day, but especially at those moments of borderline consciousness when its receptivity is at its best. When it is thus regenerated it will become a source of energy and harmony to mind and body. It will be a friend sending constructive harmonious messages to every part of the body, causing them to function efficiently.
Certain facts known to the Essenes about introducing a thought into the subconscious have been rediscovered by modern psychologists. It is known that when a person is fully conscious, his subconscious mind does not easily accept a purposeful suggestion. And when he is in a subconscious state he cannot of course influence his subconscious consciously. But there are moments when the consciousness is only half submerged in the subconsciousness, moments such as occur just before going to sleep, just after awaking from sleep, and sometimes when in a state of reverie such as is occasioned by beautiful music or poetry. At such moments the subconscious mind is most receptive to what is given to it.
Many teachings of great religions and practices of ancient and modern philosophical systems, both those of the East and of the West, as well as those of the Essenes, utilize this all-important psychological fact. The subconscious is dynamic, ever changing, even as the cells of the body, and it is constantly being fed by the experiences and impressions it receives from the conscious mind. These experiences include all thoughts and feelings held forcefully enough to create an impression upon it. The traumatic experiences of childhood are those, which have been felt with great intensity and fed into the subconscious mind, but never replaced by new and more constructive impressions and experiences.
The subconscious has been defined as the totality of an individual’s experiences from birth to the current moment. Every dynamic new experience changes it; and it can be consciously changed according to the degree of the intensity of the impression put into it. The more intense the impression the more lasting it will be in the subconscious.
Certain other factors were known by the Essenes to govern the acceptance by the subconscious mind of a thought or feeling. One was that if the conscious mind does not accept the thought as a reality and a possibility, the subconsciousness would also reject it.
Another was the necessity of projecting the thought to the subconscious without effort, spontaneously. If an effort is made, the fully conscious state is evoked and the subconscious cannot be reached. To act spontaneously and without effort requires complete relaxation of mind and body. This was part of the Essene practice.
They accomplished the first step in relaxation by releasing the tensions or contractions of one group of muscles after another over various parts of the body. The second step was shallow breathing. This lessons the transport of oxygen in the lungs and thus decreases the activities of the nerves and other parts of the organism since activity and relaxation cannot occur at the same time. The third step was to avoid thought. Through these steps, the Essenes brought a kind of semi consciousness into which a new thought or feeling could be readily introduced into the subconscious.
The thought introduced in this way should be rhythmic enough to maintain the state of relaxation and semi-consciousness. And it should have sufficient power to penetrate into the subconscious and be completely accepted as reality. These preconditions of consciously placing thoughts and feelings in the subconscious mind were perfectly met in the practice of the Essenes.
The Essene’s knowledge of the conscious mind was as profound as their understanding of the subconscious. Their concept of psychology was so all-sided they knew the objectives of their Communions could not be attained through the intellectual processes alone, but that the force of feelings is also necessary. Knowledge must arouse an emotion before action is produced.
Feeling is not merely an involuntary process, as many people believe. It is part of the activity of will. The Essenes considered will contains, or is the mechanism of three factors: thought, feeling and action. This concept can be illustrated in modern terms by comparison to the parts of the automobile. Thought is the steering wheel; feeling is the motor or force; action corresponds to the wheels. All three parts must work in collaboration. An objective is thought of, a desire or feeling is aroused, action takes place. Feelings can be mastered! Few believe this!
Of the three forces, thought, feeling and action, thought is the youngest, and consequently the weakest influence in man’s consciousness. The Essenes believed man should analyse his thoughts and feelings and determine which give him power to carry out a desired action and which paralyse it. There is always a feeling behind every action. A right feeling is necessary to produce a right action. Right feelings are sources of energy, harmony and happiness. If they are not sources of these qualities, they are not only valueless; they are dangerous. Feelings can be placed into one of these categories: those that create energy and those that exhaust it. Through this analysis man can begin to develop will. The feeling that creates the greatest energy is love; in all its manifestations for love is the primordial source of all existence, of all sources of energy, harmony and knowledge. Manifested in terrestrial nature it gives all that is necessary for health.
The three enemies of will are dispersion of energy, laziness and sensuality. These three can lead to another formidable enemy of will: disease. Good health is the will’s great friend. A dynamic healthy individual commands, and the will obeys; whereas muscular pain or nervous weakness paralyses the will. This was one of the reasons the Essenes laid such stress on good health and the way of living and thinking that produces health.
The practice of the Communions required continual exercise and use of will. They considered every great value in human culture owes its creation to the exercises of the will, and that the true values were only produced by those who use the will.
Through their profound understanding of psychological forces the Essenes Communions taught man the way of freedom, the way of liberation from blind acceptance of negative conditions either in the physical body or the mind. They showed the way of optimal evolution of both mind and body.

“He assigned to man two spirits with which he should walk.
They are the spirits of truth and of falsehood, truth born out of the spring of Light, falsehood from the well of darkness.
The dominion, of all the children of truth, is in the hands of the Angels of Light so that they walk in the ways of Light.
The spirits of truth and falsehood struggle within the heart of man, behaving with wisdom and folly.
And according as a man inherits truth so will he avoid darkness.
Blessings on all that have cast their lot with the Law, that walk truthfully in all their ways.
May the Law bless them with all good and keep them from all evil, and illuminate their hearts with the insight into the things of life and grace them with knowledge of things eternal.”
From “The Manual of Discipline” of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

THE EARTHLY FORCES
The following are the meanings and uses of the earthly forces.
1) The sun is a very important source of energy and its solar power is to be contacted and utilised to the utmost every day in the form that is best for the health and well being of the individual.
2) Water is an essential element of life. It is to be used in the proper way in diet and a bath in water is to be taken every morning throughout the year.
3) Air has a tremendous role in the health of the body and as much time as possible is to be spent outdoors breathing pure fresh air and utilizing the energies of the atmosphere for health.
4) Food is to be of the right kind and taken in the right amount to supply another vital force to the organism.
5) Man was considered to be a force representing each one’s right and responsibility toward his own evolution. Each individual is to use every moment to further his progress in life and it is a job, which no one can do for him. He is to know, and understand, his own potentialities and find the most practical way of developing and utilizing then in the service of mankind.
6) Earth represents the two aspects of the generative force, which creates more abundant life on the planet. The one creates life from the soil, producing the trees and vegetation. The other manifests sexual energies in man. The individual is to understand and utilise the most optimal ways of growing plants and food, and of a harmonious sexual life.
7) Health is dependant upon man’s harmonious relationship with all the forces of earth, with the sun, water, air, food, man, earth and joy. The individual is to realise the importance of good health for his own sake and for the sake of others; and he is to practice all ways of improving his health, in thinking, feeling and acting.
8) Joy is man’s essential right and he is to perform all his daily activities with a deep feeling of joy surging within him and radiating around him, understanding its great importance for himself and others.

These are the forces of nature which man is to learn to understand and utilize. The following eight powers of the cosmos are even more important in man’s life, for he cannot live in complete harmony with the earthly forces unless he is also in harmony with the heavenly powers.

THE COSMIC FORCES
1) Power is manifested continually through man’s actions and deeds, both of which are the result of his cooperation or lack of cooperation with all the other powers and forces, in accord with the iron law of cause and effect. The individual is to understand the importance of good deeds; and he is to realize that his personality, position and environment in life are the result of his past deeds, even as hit future will be exactly what his present deeds make it. He is therefore to strive at all times to perform good deeds that express harmony with the laws of both nature and the cosmos.
2) Love is expressed in the form of gentle and kind words to others, which affect the individual’s, own health and happiness as well as that of others. Sincere love toward all beings is to be manifested by harmonious feelings and words.
3) Wisdom is manifested in the form of good thoughts and it is man’s privilege and right to increase his knowledge and understanding in every way possible so that he may think only good thoughts. He is to seek to grow in wisdom so as to understand more and more the cosmic order and his own role in it. Only by attaining a degree of wisdom can an individual learn to hold only good thoughts in his consciousness and to refuse to entertain negative destructive thoughts about any person, place, condition or thing.
4) Preservation of values and concerns the power to preserve all that is useful and of true value, whether a tree, plant, house, relationship between people or harmony in any form. When anyone destroys, or lets any good thing go to waste, deteriorate or be damaged, whether material or immaterial, he is cooperating with the negative destructive forces of the world. Every opportunity is to be used to prevent damage to whatever has value.
5) Creation signifies the necessity for man to use his creative powers, since his role on the planet is to continue the work of the Creator. He is therefore to try to do something original and creative, something new and different, as often as he can, whether it is an invention of some kind, a work of art, or anything, which will benefit others.
6) Eternal Life concerns man’s sincerity with himself and others in all he does and with all those whom he meets. He is to be deeply sincere in analysing his relationship, his understanding and utilization of all the forces of nature and the cosmos; and he is to make every effort to evaluate himself honestly as he actually is without rationalizing or justifying the things he does or says or thinks.
7) Work is the precondition of many other values. It means the performance of one’s daily tasks with care and efficiency. It is an individual’s contribution to society and a precondition of happiness for all concerned, for when one person does not perform his work properly, others have to do it. Man is to learn to have a deep feeling of satisfaction in his work so that he may return to society all he receives from it.

8) Peace is to be created and maintained by every individual within and around himself that he may be an instrument in helping to prevent inharmony, enmity and wars, since the condition of the whole of humanity depends upon the condition of its atoms, the individuals who compose it. The individual is to feel deeply the need for this inner peace and to do all he can to establish and maintain it wherever he is.

The person who evaluates himself according to these sixteen elements of life will know clearly wherein his personal development may be improved, and in what ways he can help more fully in the evolution of humanity.

By so doing he will move further toward his final goal, the goal toward which all mankind is moving, union with the Heavenly Father.

“ I have reached the inner vision and through Thy spirit in me
I have heard Thy wondrous secret.
Through Thy mystic insight
Thou hast caused a spring of knowledge
To well up within me,
A fountain of power, pouring forth living waters,
A flood of love and all-embracing wisdom
Like the splendour of eternal Light.”

From “The Book Of Hymns” of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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The Essene teachings are the ones that Moses brought from Mount Sinai. Moses was the giver of the Law, the One Law, and this Law governed all manifestations of life, and it governed the whole universe.
The Essenes taught that if man lived by this Law they would enjoy perfect health,
happiness and harmony in body, mind and spirit. There was daily communication with the Angels three times a day. On the morning and evening of each day a particular Angel was called upon e.g. Angel of the Sun, Angel of the Air, etc. and this connected them with both the cosmic and natural forces. The noontime was spent in contemplation e.g. peace with the body, peace with the mind and this contemplation showed them how to put the forces into practice in their individual lives.
The Sevenfold peace is how the Essenes lived their lives - seven days to a week, the tree of life with fourteen forces, seven visible and seven invisible. The Essenes believed that the human life could be divided into seven departments, physical, mental, emotional, social, cultural, its relationships with nature and the entire cosmos. Each Sabbath was dedicated to one aspect, so all phases of mans life was completed every seven weeks.
The Essenes lived at the Dead Sea in Palestine and at the Lake Mareotis in Egypt, where they were known as the Therapeutae or healers. They lived a simple life, a communal life, they were vegetarians, drank no alcohol, collected herbs for healing and they were devoted to their studies and communion with the heavenly forces.
They had many healers and teachers who went out into the world, Elijah, John the Baptist, John the Beloved and Jesus who of course is the one Essene master that everybody knows.
They connected with all the spheres of Angels but particularly with the Angel Bagua. They communed with the Earth Mother, Angels of Earth, life, joy, sun, water and air in the mornings and in the evenings Angels of Eternal life, creative work, peace, power, love, wisdom and the Heavenly Father.
As a Therapeutic Touch Practitioner I try to follow some of the teachings of the Essenes. I am a vegetarian, I do not take medication - I use herbal alternatives, I have quiet times in the mornings and communicate with guides, helpers and Angels. Most importantly, when doing healing sessions I call on the Angels and The Christ to help and assist and I just open up as a channel for pure love and light to flow through to the person being healed.
The oils that are used during a treatment are the same as mentioned in the Bible and used by Mary to anoint Jesus' feet -Frankincense, spikenard, rosemary and lavender. Jan Quigley 25 March 2005

The teachings of the Essenes date back over 2,000 years. They were the holders and teachers of the divine knowledge of the hidden mysteries of nature and worked in secret using this advanced knowledge for the Light. They considered themselves to be ‘the Light which shines in the darkness and which invites the darkness to change itself to Light’.
The Essenes lived during the last centuries BC and the first AD in Palestine and Egypt. The Hebrews knew them as ‘ The school of the prophets’, and to the Egyptians they were ‘The healers, or the doctors’.
They were a brotherhood of total equality, of gender and of race. They condemned slavery and did not have servants, performing all tasks themselves. They wore identical white robes, whether man or woman, and lived in communes. These communes fell mainly into 3 types:
one type was completely in nature in small villages separated from the outside world by a low wall. Here advanced knowledge and a oneness with nature meant they could grow crops successfully.
In cities they were to be found in large buildings that served both as inns and as hospitals.
The third type were monasteries that were situated in precise locations in accordance with the knowledge of the land and of the Light and the doors between it and the earth. Here time was spent studying ancient texts, translating and transcribing them for distribution, teaching and preservation of the knowledge.
Others were travellers who spent their lives wandering the lands spreading information and news e.g. John the Baptist, Jesus.
Although they were the ones who carried the seed of Christianity, Essenes did not belong to any one single religion – they considered each to be a different stage of a single revelation. They studied the Chaldeans, Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegiste, Moses and Enoch. They knew how to communicate with Angelic beings and had solved the question of the origin of evil on the earth. They protected themselves from evil to preserve the purity of their souls by using very strict discipline and an absolute refusal to lie or compromise. Their daily lives were ordered, ritualistic and simple, a fusion of silence, prayer, work and study.
The Essene communions were meditations which they performed twice daily, morning and evening. They related to their perception of man’s relationship with the 14 forces of the visible and invisible world. The communions originated through Enoch and later through Moses who wrote them on two tablets on Mt Sinai and gave them to Esrael. There are three objectives:

1 To make man conscious of the earthly and cosmic energies and forces
2 To be aware of the receptor sites in the human body that receive those energies
3 To be able to connect to the receptors and energies so that the body can absorb and utilise the universal energies and forces.

The meditations in the mornings related to the earthly forces, namely:
Mother Earth, Angels of Earth; Life; Sun; Joy; Water and Air.

The evening meditations related to the cosmic forces, namely:
Heavenly Father, Angels of Eternal Life; Creative Work; Peace; Power; Love and Wisdom.
The sevenfold peace concentrates on man’s relationship to the parts of his own being with respect to his fellow men, showing how to create peace and harmony in the seven categories of his life.
Man’s life was divided into seven areas: Physical; mental; emotional; social; cultural; with nature and with the cosmos.

These seven parts were then subdivided into three bodies:
q The acting body (translates into the action of daily life);
q The feeling body (translates into love)
q The thinking body (translates into wisdom).
The acting body had a part to play in three roles, individual evolution; in regard to Mother Earth and as a unit of the cosmos. They therefore strove to perfect the acting body by cleanliness, study of herbal medicine, hydrotherapy, moderation in all things and fasting.
All the above elements were nurtured, studied and used for the good of all souls on the earth, Mother Earth herself and the cosmos.
Jesus’ mother Mary, was an Essene by descent. She was brought up in the brotherhood and was therefore well placed to bring up a prophet or spiritual master. She wanted her child to feel close to simple people and go towards them in love, simplicity and free exchange. She wanted him to be liberated from everything that is ‘frozen’ in life, to live in liberty and love.
She knew before his birth that he was to be a master at a very early age and so she devoted her life to ensuring he was born as an Essene and received the education and the spiritual wisdom issued by the fraternity. This is how he was able to astonish people with his wisdom at the age of twelve.
It was the Essenes who taught Jesus to eat, to walk, to speak, to read, to write and to unite himself with Mother/Father of the world. This meant that at the age of seven he was able to unite himself with the Angelic realms and the divine source….a kick start in life that we would all wish for!
When projecting this lifestyle into the 21st Century and onto the life of a present day light worker it is easy to see that it is near impossible to replicate it.

Some have tried, mostly with the advent of the Kibbutz, so popular amongst the flowery people of the 60s.
Realistically, in present life all one can do is to be aware of the philosophies and, if one is in agreement with them, to apply them as and when one can. For example, to always give out love – even to people you can’t stand; to treat the earth with love and respect; to be aware that you are one small part of the whole and to keep in contact with the source.
PAULA MALLENDER