Nearly two thousand years have passed since the Son of man taught the way, the truth and the life of mankind. He brought health to the sick, wisdom to the ignorant and happiness to those in misery. He conquered half of humanity and the whole of the civilization of the West. This fact proves the eternal vitality of the Master's words, and their supreme and incomparable value. The content of this book represents only about a third of the complete manuscripts which exist in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Archives of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian Government). We owe the existence of these two versions to the Nestorian priests who, under pressure of the advancing hordes of Genghis Khan, were forced to flee from the East towards the West, bearing all their ancient scriptures and ikons with them. The ancient Aramaic texts date from the 3rd century after Christ, while the old Slavonic version is a literal translation of the former. Exactly how the texts traveled from Palestine to the interior of Asia into the hands of the Nestorian priests, archeologists are not yet able to reconstruct for us. We have nothing to add to this text. It speaks for itself. The reader who studies the pages that follow with concentration, will feel the eternal vitality and powerful evidence of these profound truths which mankind needs today more urgently than ever before.

The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book One

International Biogenic Society

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.

The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book 2: The Unknown Books of the Essenes

Religion & Spirituality

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Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, will come as a surprise to those readers who are aware of Dr. Szekely's death in 1979. If I were also a philologist, or scholar, or archeologist, I might be able to provide some explanation. But I am only his faithful famulus amanuensis, and the instructions he left me were clear and explicit: "Two years after my death, you shall publish Book Four of The Essene Gospel of Peace." That was all, and I am now carrying out that wish. This book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, represents yet another fragment of the complete manuscript which exists in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Library of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian government). As to the reason for the delay in its publication, I can only surmise that Dr. Szekely wanted the vivid reality of these ageless truths to stand alone, obscured even by the presence of the translator. He did say in his Preface to the first London edition of Book One in 1937 that " we have issued this part before the rest because it is the part of which suffering humanity has most need today." Perhaps, in the same way, the troubled world of forty-four years later needs this fourth volume of The Essene Gospel of Peace. --- excerpt from book's Preface by Norma Nilsson Bordeaux

Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Four: The Teachings of the Elect

The Essene Science of Life

Székely, Edmond Bordeaux

The Essene Code of Life as followed by the brotherhoods at the Dead Sea and Lake Mareotis from the original Aramaic and French translation compared, translated and edited by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely. A complete translation, from the Aramaic, of the manuscript discovered by Count Volney during his travels in Egypt and Syria, 1783-85; giving a record of the discourses between the famous Roman Historian, Josephus Flavius, as pupil, and Banus, the Essene, as master, during Josephus' three years' sojourn with Banus in the Desert of the Dead Sea, for his initiation into the Essene Teaching and Traditions.

The Essene Code of Life

Six days of Lectures by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely at the July 1979 International Seminar on The Essene Way and Biogenic Living held at the International Correspondence Center of the International biogenic Society, Orosi, Costa Rica.

The First Essene

From the remote ages of antiquity a remarkable teaching has existed which is universal in its application and ageless in its wisdom. Fragments of it are found in Sumerian hieroglyphs and on tiles ans stones dating back some eight of ten thousand years. Some of the symbols, such as for the sun, moon, air, water and other natural forces, are from an even earlier age preceding the cataclysm that ended the Pleistocene period. How many thousands of years previous to that the teaching existed is unknown. To study and practice this teaching is to reawaken within the heart of every man an intuitive knowledge that can solve his individual problems and the problems of the world. Traces of the teaching have appeared in almost every country and religion. Its fundamental principles were taught in ancient Persia, Egypt, India, Tibet, China, Palestine, Greece and many other countries. But it has been transmitted in its most pure form by the Essenes, that mysterious brotherhood which lived during the last two or three centuries B. C. and the first century of the Christian era at the Dead Sea in Palestine and at Lake Mareotis in Egypt. In Palestine and Syria the members of the brotherhood were known as Essenes and in Egypt as Therapeutae, or healers.... From its antiquity, its persistence through the ages, it is evident the teaching could not have been the concept of any individual or any people, but is the interpretation, by a succession of great Teachers, of the Law of the universe, the basic Law, eternal and unchanging as the stars in their course, the same now as two or ten thousand years ago, and as applicable today as then. (excerpt from chapter The Essenes and Their Teaching)

The Essene Way Biogenic Living

Search for the Ageless (One)

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Without a doubt, the preparation of this 1991 edition of Professor's memoirs, Search for the Ageless, Volume Two, has been one of the most difficult tasks I have had to face in the twelve years since Professor died and left me solely in charge of his beloved "spiritual children," his books. The book has not had a new edition since it was written in 1977, and when it finally went out of print, we discovered that the negatives were too old and brittle to be used again; hence this new edition. I admit there was a great temptation to add lengthy footnotes on almost every page, as so many things have changed in the fourteen years since the book was written, But, except for adding some archival illustrations which were not accessible to us in 1977, and just a few (short) footnotes, his original text has been left alone. After all, one's memoirs are supposed to represent things as they were when the author wrote them, and integrity is vital in all things, including the preparation of a new edition of a book. Excerpt from the Postscript by Norma Nilsson Bordeaux Szekely

The Great Experiment (Search for the Ageless, Volume Two)

The third volume of Edmond Bordeaux Szekely's autobiography Search for the Ageless includes the factual, scientific, revolutionary results of his Great Experiment in the fields of ecology, organic gardening, prolongation of life, and prevention of disease and aging. If you want to apply in your life the practical benefits of half a century of immense accomplishments, do not miss reading this book. It will change your life in a way nothing you have ever read has been able to do

The Chemistry of Youth (Search for the Ageless, Vol. 3)

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