Essenes

Where each worldview places it
The Palestine branch of the Egyptian Therapeutae, fanatics following Levite texts to the letter. With the Nazarenes they were the bridge from the Old Testament to Christianity, and they are one origin of Freemasonry[1].
Aliases
Essene BrotherhoodEssene Community
Controls / directs
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Answers to / controlled by
Places
QumranMasada (their last bastion, 74 AD)the Dead Sea[2]
Author's claims · 5
  1. 01Their Dead Sea Scrolls drew on Enoch[3].
  2. 02They used drugs and astrology[4].
  3. 03W. Wynn Westcott traces the Freemasons to them[5].
  4. 04The Templars shared their Atbash cipher[6].
  5. 05Brian Desborough says Qumran was a leper colony[4].

Notes

  1. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter two: "Don't mention the reptiles" (part 2); Chapter Four: The Suns of God (part 2); Chapter Eight: Same face, different mask (part 1).
  2. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Four: The Suns of God (part 2); Chapter Five: Conquered by the Cross (part 1).
  3. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter two: "Don't mention the reptiles" (part 2).
  4. ↑ a b The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Four: The Suns of God (part 2).
  5. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Four: The Suns of God (part 2); Chapter Eight: Same face, different mask (part 1).
  6. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Fifteen: Satan's Children (part 1).
  7. ↑ The Hour of the Time (1992–1994), Hour 35 - Secret Societies & The Vatican II.