It was the class of the Ḥasidim and their successors, the Essenes, who made a special study of the prophetical writings in order to learn the future destiny of Israel and mankind Dan. ix.
Both the Pharisees and the Essenes believed in the resurrection of the body, Josephus' philosophical construction of their belief to suit the taste of his Roman readers notwithstanding see"B. J." ii.
The Essenes were a true religious sect, originating during the Maceabeean revolt, whose requirements were in some respects more exacting than those of the Pharisees.
During the almost 2000 years of church history since then,there have been various movements similar to the Essenes- particularly during the last couple of centuries.
One school disclaimed any serious link between the Essene community and the early Christian Church, the other saw the Essenes as the earliest Christians.
Instead, however, of remaining in the wilderness like John, or like the Essenes, with whose tendencies his own show some affinity, he returned to his native district and sought out those whom he wished to influence.
The Messianic leader of the Essenes was named simply"The Teacher of Righteousness," who, like Jesus, had met a violent end at an unspecified time in the past, in his case at the hands of someone referred to as"The Wicked Priest.".
We met as Essenes, and even as a subgroup of the Essenes to really bring in the Christ seed here on Earth, to bring in the awakening consciousness to a consciousness that has long been asleep.
This meaning may in itself have been themain reason for its having been ignored: if the Essenes existed before the dates given in the gospels for the life of Jesus, they could not be looked upon by the early Church as his followers.
All the indications are that Phinehas(Pinhas/Panehesy), presented as the hero of the assassination and subsequent massacre in Sinai, was actually responsible for those events-he is the one identified by the Qumran Essenes as the Wicked Priest- and paid for it with his life.
Eccl., II, iv indeed preserves a legend that Philo had met St. Peter in Rome during his mission to the Emperor Caius; moreover, that in his work on the contemplative life he describes the life of the Christian Church in Alexandria founded by St. Mark,rather than that of the Essenes and Therapeutae.
Jesus, who had shared the Last Supper with hisApostles at the second floor of meeting place of the Essenes, next to the house of Caiaphas, the High Priest, and had sent Judas Iscariot as a messenger to tell the high priest his final decision on the Crucifixion, told the rest of the disciples as follows:"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
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