Jena (Essenes)
1. Augustus Cæsar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler of Jerusalem.2. Three provinces comprised the land of Palistine: Judea, and Samaria, and Galilee.3. Joachim was a master of the Jewish law, a man of wealth; he lived in Nazareth of Galilee; and Anna, of the tribe of Judah, was his wife.4. To them was born a child, a goodly female child, and they were glad; and Mary was the name they gave the child.5. Joachim made a feast in honour of the child; but he invited not the rich, the honoured and the great; he called the poor the halt and the lame, the blind, and to each one he gave a gift of raiment, food or other needful thing.6. He said, The Lord has given me this wealth; I am his steward by his grace, and if I give not to his children when in need, then he will make this wealth a curse.7. Now, when the child was three years old her parents took her to Jerusalem, and in the temple she received the blessings of the priests.8. The high priest was a prophet and a seer, and when he saw the child he said,9. Behold, this child will be the mother of an honoured prophet and a master of the law; she shall abide within this holy temple of the Lord.10. And Mary did abide within the temple of the Lord; and Hillel, chief of the Sanhedrim, taught her all the precepts of Jews, and she delighted in the law of God.11. When Mary reached the age of womanhood she was betrothed to Joseph, son of Jacob, and a carpenter of Nazareth.12. And Joseph was an upright man, and a devoted Essenes.
The Dead Sea sits below the cliffs of Qumran, where an Essene community once lived at the edge of the water.
In Jesus and the Essenes, that name does more than describe salt.
Jesus and the Essenes
For this page I drew on Dolores Cannon’s Jesus and the Essenes (1992).
In that book she records sessions with a subject who described life in the Qumran Essene community in the years around Jesus, including daily detail, landscape, and how that community spoke about places like the Sea of Death.
Jesus and the Essenes is one of the books I use when I follow Akashic / regression memory instead: naming, memorial meaning, and shore detail (pitch, tar, Sodom and Gomorrah) as they were held in that account.
You can find the book in my library: Jesus and the Essenes (also listed under Books about Atlantis).
In my reading, the Essene-linked voice treats the Sea of Death as a memorial name first, and only then as a strange body of water.
Pliny names the lake Asphaltites for its bitumen and places Essenes on the west shore (Natural History 5.71–73).
In the same source tradition, that community is linked to the Essenes, groups whose memory of the land included places of power, destruction, and covenant.
Pliny’s west-shore Essenes are another thin bridge to that setting.
I write more about that lineage on the Essenes page.
In Jesus and the Essenes, that smell is part of what makes the place peculiar, next to the memorial of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Why is the Dead Sea called the Sea of Death?In the Essene-linked account in Jesus and the Essenes, it is called the Sea of Death because Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed on these shores, and the name is kept to remind us of that.
What does Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with the Dead Sea?In Jesus and the Essenes, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is located on these shores and given as the reason for the name Sea of Death.
Did the Essenes live by the Dead Sea?Yes.
Pliny also places Essenes on the west shore of the asphalt lake.
On this site I discuss that community further on the Essenes page.
If you want the wider human timeline that places Essene memory, lost civilizations, and later ages on one map, see the Drums of Atlantis timelines.
Jesus and the Essenes
From Jesus and the Essenes
As Essenes we knew that our origins were of the stars, and that at the beginning of things we were star people.
In other words, Yeshua was born into a sect of Essene-type Judaism called Nazarenes.
Certain historians show that the Essenes eventually bifurcated into two camps by the first century: the Qumran Essenes to the south and the Nazarenes to the north.
The Qumran Essenes believed that sex was the ultimate vice for man and must be avoided at all costs to be truly holy.
These are the two sects of Essenes.
What's interesting is when you study the Nazarenes and especially the Essenes, you see Jesus speaking and preaching multiple known Essene creeds and axioms from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This Essene-type Judaism was actually what Jesus emerged from, and his sect emerged from.
It was like the initiation into Jesus's movement: "If you want to prove to us that you really mean what you say"—and this is very Essene; the Essenes had multiple initiation rites people had to pass to prove they really wanted to be an Essene.
So it's very Essene of Jesus to do this.
Philo and Josephus both say that the average age of an Essene in their time was over a hundred years, maybe 120.
The Book of Enoch, possibly authored by the Essenes, may have originated from this community.
The Essenes also developed the concept of the seven-rayed god, linked with Chnubis, a lion-serpent deity.
Jena (Essenes)
Historical suppression by early Vatican councils marginalized Sophia Christ and Gnostic teachings, portraying Mary Magdalene as a fallen woman instead of Yeshua's equal partner and high Essene initiate.
≈146 BCE – ≈1406 years after ExodusThe Aseneans (Essenes) appeared among the scattered Faithists.
Yes, I agree that Oahspe presents the Essenes (Aseneans) as preservers of pure Jehovih worship, while portraying mainstream Israelites/Jews as having deviated toward idolatry and "Lord God" worship.
This contrasts with the canonical Bible, where Essenes are not mentioned, and true knowledge is tied to the Torah and prophets.
Essenes/Aseneans role: Oahspe credits Essenes with preserving pure knowledge and raising Joshu; Bible does not mention Essenes, focusing on prophets, priests, and (in New Testament) Jesus as the restorer without Essene link.
Joshu figure: Oahspe's Joshu is an Essene-raised iesu stoned at 36, restoring rites; Bible's closest is prophetic (Old) or Jesus (New), crucified not stoned, with no exact match.
Suddi, an Essene teacher from past-life regression sessions (recorded in Dolores Cannon's book Jesus and the Essenes), gave a version of Moses' life that differs from the standard Biblical account.
Source: Jesus and the Essenes
According to Gnostic and Essene traditions, Mary Magdalene was not a fallen woman as depicted in later Church doctrine.
Instead, she was a high initiate within the Essene community, a mystical group dedicated to preserving ancient wisdom.
Yeshua and Mary Magdalene’s connection to the Essenes ties their teachings to John the Baptist, who played a pivotal role in Yeshua’s spiritual mission.
The Essenes preserved spiritual technologies encoded with knowledge of Earth's energetic grids and the Christos Templar teachings.
In the time of Jesus of Nazareth, Jews in Palestine were fragmented among the clerical and politically powerful Pharisees, the pious Sadducees, and the unconventional Essenes.
It is interesting to note that in the Scriptures Jesus condemned both the Pharisees and Sadducees but pointedly ignored the Essenes, leading many to believe he favored the Essene philosophies.
The Essenes of Jesus’s time produced literature containing their own intricate codes and allegories to protect their knowledge from the uninitiated as well as from the Roman authorities.
A prevailing theory suggests they were authored by the Essenes, a devout Jewish sect that practiced asceticism and lived in Qumran until the settlement was destroyed by Roman forces around 70 CE.
Scholars attribute the authorship of these scrolls to the Essenes, a mysterious sect that lived in isolation to preserve their teachings.
The Essenes reportedly fled persecution after Jesus's crucifixion, migrating to areas such as Egypt, Tibet, and the Americas.
Essene Community: Another theory is that the treasures belonged to the Essenes, the Jewish sect believed to have lived at Qumran, attempting to safeguard their wealth from the Romans.
Brook of Essene - Refers to a brook or stream that might be associated with the Essenes, the presumed inhabitants of Qumran.
Gregg Braden discusses the Essenes' understanding of human relationships, which they categorized into seven mysteries.
The Seven Mirrors of Relationship, as described by Gregg Braden and rooted in the teachings of the Essenes, reflect how our interactions with others serve as mirrors, revealing deeper truths about ourselves.
I did not see that it would jeopardize the story of the Essenes if I looked for information about Sodom and Gomorrah.
Thousands of years later, in the time of Jesus of Nazareth, these were called "Essenes." But Atla, which possessed such a wealth of literature, had, with a single exception, no books on the subject.