I've concluded that the Gnostics were created to offramp people from a Christianity growing in popularity. Most of what I've heard of their doctrine is nonsense, completely without base. That is, as you read any of their material, ask yourself, "How would anyone come to know this exactly?"
That being said, I thought they were dead on with this, and the subject is key to the source and solution for almost all the problems we face. It's importance cannot be overestimated. The Dark Occultists that run this world are well aware of it and wish no one was talking about it.
The Essenes (and Jesus may have been one) were on to this long before the Gnostics. They referred to it as souls that were "asleep", "awake", and "drowsy". So when Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead", he was really saying it was pointless to try to wake the sleeping, and moving ahead as a wakened person was to take precedence.
My guess has long been that we have an instance of the 80/20 rule on our hands: 80% hylics, 16% psychics, 4% pneumatics. (Disappointing, I know.) The focus should be on waking psychics to become pneumatics, as the hylics may be a lost cause.
There is much, much confirming and collateral evidence for this but this comment is too long already.
Thank you for bringing up the Essenes. I want to do more research on them. Do you have any recommendations on.... more accurate information about them and their beliefs? The best books, videos, etc?
No, I'm really sorry I don't. I've never actually researched them but I can tell you why I "turned on my radar" about them.
First, though, let me say that what you'll hear all the time is that, "Oh, they were just another sect of Jews like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Ho hum." I think now that's a deliberate ploy to derail interest in them.
(Don't hold me to any of the following because as I say I never did any disciplined researched and it's off the top of my head.)
As I mentioned, I stumbled across a reference to Jesus being an Essene, but at the time I didn't make anything of it. Then I stumbled across someone saying that the Essenes were one and the same as the Therapeutae. That's where we get words like "therapeutic" and "therapy", because the Therapeutae were known primarily as healers of body, mind, and spirit.
And I had always thought it was just some sleepy burg, but one of their centers turned out to be in Nazareth. There they were known as the--you got it--Nazarene. Whoa, didn't they call Jesus "the Nazarene"? We're always told that "Jesus the Nazarene" just meant that he was a dude from Nazareth, which technically it does. But I did a little informal counting and found that he was called "Jesus the Nazarene" twice as often as "Jesus of Nazareth". And just as a note, the Hebrew for "Christians" is "nazrim" (while "goyim" means "non-Jews").
My conclusion is that, in addition to whatever else he may have been, Jesus was trained by and a member of this group of powerful healers. So it always seemed to me the Essenes deserved a good looking into (to which I've never got around).
I've concluded that the Gnostics were created to offramp people from a Christianity growing in popularity. Most of what I've heard of their doctrine is nonsense, completely without base. That is, as you read any of their material, ask yourself, "How would anyone come to know this exactly?"
That being said, I thought they were dead on with this, and the subject is key to the source and solution for almost all the problems we face. It's importance cannot be overestimated. The Dark Occultists that run this world are well aware of it and wish no one was talking about it.
The Essenes (and Jesus may have been one) were on to this long before the Gnostics. They referred to it as souls that were "asleep", "awake", and "drowsy". So when Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead", he was really saying it was pointless to try to wake the sleeping, and moving ahead as a wakened person was to take precedence.
My guess has long been that we have an instance of the 80/20 rule on our hands: 80% hylics, 16% psychics, 4% pneumatics. (Disappointing, I know.) The focus should be on waking psychics to become pneumatics, as the hylics may be a lost cause.
There is much, much confirming and collateral evidence for this but this comment is too long already.
Thank you for bringing up the Essenes. I want to do more research on them. Do you have any recommendations on.... more accurate information about them and their beliefs? The best books, videos, etc?
No, I'm really sorry I don't. I've never actually researched them but I can tell you why I "turned on my radar" about them.
First, though, let me say that what you'll hear all the time is that, "Oh, they were just another sect of Jews like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Ho hum." I think now that's a deliberate ploy to derail interest in them.
(Don't hold me to any of the following because as I say I never did any disciplined researched and it's off the top of my head.)
As I mentioned, I stumbled across a reference to Jesus being an Essene, but at the time I didn't make anything of it. Then I stumbled across someone saying that the Essenes were one and the same as the Therapeutae. That's where we get words like "therapeutic" and "therapy", because the Therapeutae were known primarily as healers of body, mind, and spirit.
And I had always thought it was just some sleepy burg, but one of their centers turned out to be in Nazareth. There they were known as the--you got it--Nazarene. Whoa, didn't they call Jesus "the Nazarene"? We're always told that "Jesus the Nazarene" just meant that he was a dude from Nazareth, which technically it does. But I did a little informal counting and found that he was called "Jesus the Nazarene" twice as often as "Jesus of Nazareth". And just as a note, the Hebrew for "Christians" is "nazrim" (while "goyim" means "non-Jews").
My conclusion is that, in addition to whatever else he may have been, Jesus was trained by and a member of this group of powerful healers. So it always seemed to me the Essenes deserved a good looking into (to which I've never got around).