"The Essenes Gospel of Peace, Book 2" by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
The Essene method of interpretation of these books is, on the one hand,
to place them in harmonious correlation with the laws of the human
consciousness and of nature, and, on the other, to consider the facts
and circumstances of the age and environment in which they were written.
This approach also takes into account the degree of evolution and
understanding of the people to whom the particular master was addressing
his message. Since all the great masters had to adapt their teaching to
the level of their audience, they found it necessary to formulate both
an exoteric and esoteric teaching. The exoteric message was one
comprehensible to the people at large and was expressed in terms of
various rules, forms and rituals corresponding to the basic needs of the
people and the age concerned. Parallel with this, the esoteric
teachings have survived through the ages partly as written and partly as
unwritten living traditions, free from forms, rituals, rules and
dogmas, and in all periods have been kept alive and practiced by a small
minority. It is in this spirit of the interpretation of the Truth that
the Essene Gospel of Peace will be translated in the following pages.
Rejecting the dogmatic methods of literal and purely scientific
interpretation as well as the exaggeration of the symbolists, we shall
try to translate the Essene Gospel of Peace in the light of our
consciousness and of nature, and in harmony with the great traditions of
the Essenes, to whose brotherhood the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls
themselves belonged.
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