The Essene Gospel of Peace (Diet/Health)
FASTING, PRAYER, CLEANSING
p14
Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by fasting and by prayer. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man.
(By ‘plagues’, EGOP at least partly means physical illness.) We are not to fast publicly. I know that it can seem to help to fast with others, but there are also disadvantages to telling others we are fasting. It can introduce an element of competition and when we tell others how long we are fasting/have fasted there might be an element of ego gratification creeping in. Some may not be able to resist telling others how difficult it is in an attempt to gain admiration or sympathy, and, in so doing, risk being derailed by this. Also, if we tell others we are fasting, we may be subject to their well-meaning attempts to stop us.
Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and there in the midst of them shall you find the angel of air. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I tell you truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within.
Easy to understand. We all know that taking deep breaths can help calm and detoxify. We all understand the importance of fresh air.
p15
…seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer [allow] the angel of water to embrace all your body…the angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you…
We are to wash ourselves, to clean ourselves outside and inside. Here is an indication that EGOP is instructing us to allow water to enter our body for purification.
p15/16
And he who cleanses himself without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations….Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels.
p16
Afterwards rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease.
Note that the process is to be accompanied by prayer.
Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations and uncleannesses which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manners of pains.
This suggests that the process eliminates toxins etc that were causing pain.
I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river’s foam….And this holy baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new life. For your eyes shall henceforth see, and your ears shall hear. Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism…
The process is to be repeated until the water runs clean. This quite clearly defines baptism as an actual inward physical cleansing - nothing like baptism as normally understood nowadays. However, it does say that it results in a ‘new life’ and that we shall then ‘see’ and ‘hear’. As there is no indication that Jesus was talking to blind and deaf people only, I think it fair to assume that Jesus did not intend the words ‘see’ and ‘hear’ to be understood in the literal, but meant that physical cleansing would result in a spiritual ‘opening of the eyes’.
And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer [allow] the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body…
p17
The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him,…
Note that 'angels' are physical manifestations of God - the air, water, sunlight. The ‘Son of Man’ here is man, ie the term is not reserved for Jesus exclusively.
When the Earthly Mother’s angels enter into your bodies…then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and by your skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by your hinder and your privy parts.
We know that bad breath, BO, smelly urine, smelly poos etc are indications of a toxic body. Even those who are ‘relatively’ healthy may experience one or all of these when fasting and the body is cleaning.
And when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure as our Earthly Mother’s blood and as the river’s foam…And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of the sun…
p18
…no one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother.
In EGOP, the Mother is the earth - the physical. The Father is the spiritual. We cannot reach the spiritual without cleaning ourselves physically first.
p24
And many unclean and sick followed Jesus’ words and sought the banks of the murmuring streams…they fasted, and they gave their bodies to the angels of air, of water, and of sunshine…And all of them saw all evils, sins and uncleannesses depart in haste from them.
And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels, and some had an issue of spittle, and evil-smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts. All these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others by the eyes and ears. And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body, over all their skin. And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which came out uncleannesses with an evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and as hard almost as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking gases from their bowels, like the breath of devils. And their stench became so great that none could bear it.
These people were very ill. As they detoxified, they were sick, they salivated, they had poo-breath, they had skin eruptions. Mucus flowed from their noses. Pus came from their eyes. They sweated. They urinated frequently. There was blood in their urine. The sand was stones in the kidneys and liver. And there were bad smells. Natural Hygienists will recognise many of these symptoms of detoxification. Of course, most people nowadays experiencing symptoms such as these would find them alarming and as something to be stopped at all costs. And ‘cost’ it would be, as modern medicine (and, Natural Hygienists believe, herbal as well as 'pharmaceutical' medicine), in its attempts to suppress the symptoms, would reverse the process of detoxification and true healing would not occur, with the patient becoming more ill with the burden of toxins from the drugs used to ‘treat’.
And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms
They were rid of intestinal worms.
p28
You have been gluttonous, winebibbers and gone a-whoring
Your Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven years…but pay honestly and persevere till the seventh day…
Seven (consecutive) days’ fasting for each seven years’ sin.
…the devils of Satan write all your evil deeds in a book, in the book of your body and your spirit’
Our bodies are a record of our sins.
p30
And they showed Jesus their feet in which the bones were twisted and knotted and said ‘Neither the angel of air, nor of water, nor of sunshine has assuaged our pains, notwithstanding that we baptized ourselves, and do fast and pray…’ And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the water and the sun’s heat had softened to clayey mud the earth by the edge of the water. ‘Sink your feet in the mire, that the embrace of the angel of earth may draw out from your bones all uncleanness and all disease…’
Clay is used for healing on the outside of our bodies.
p32
And Jesus milked an ewe…he put the milk upon the sand made hot by the sun…And the milk became hot by the strength of the sun…And lo, the vapor of the hot milk began to rise slowly into the air…And the sick man whom Satan tormented did breath within himself, deeply, the rising whitish vapor. ‘Straightway will Satan leave your body, since for three days he starves and finds no food within you.
The physical ‘plagues’ (worms, parasites and so forth) had not been ‘fed’ as the man had fasted for three days. The man was then asked to inhale the vapour of the hot milk.
He [Satan] will come out of you to satisfy his hunger by the hot steaming milk, for this food finds favour in his sight.’
Jesus…drew out from the sick man all the body of the monster which was almost as long as the man. When the abominable worm came out of the sick man’s throat, he recovered at once his breath, and then all his pains ceased.
Thus the symbole of healing with the serpents climbing up a staff.
MEAT
p36
And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns to poison…in his breath their breath to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their bones to chalk;
When we eat meat poisons form in our blood.
When we eat meat our breath stinks.
When we eat meat…our bones turn to chalk!! Here’s a modern-day description of osteoporosis - ‘your bones turn to chalk and break with the slightest trauma’. For decades it had been thought that osteoporosis (bone problems in middle age) were due to calcium deficiency. People (middle-aged women especially) were told to eat lots of dairy. But recent research has shown that high consumption of ‘protein’ foods, such as meat, creates an acidic environment, causing the body to leech calcium from the bones in order to maintain optimum pH balance, causing…osteoporosis!
p37 [continuation of the instruction not to eat meat]
…in his bowels their bowels to decay.
When we eat meat, our bowels will decay.
…in his eyes their eyes to scales…
Meat-eating accelerates blindness and clogg up the body were a film of scales builds on the eyes... called cataracts.
…in his ears their ears to waxy issue…
And their death will become his death.
Then another said: ‘Moses, the greatest in Israel, suffered [allowed] our forefathers to eat the flesh of clean beasts, and forbade only the flesh of unclean beasts. Why, therefore, do you forbid us the flesh of all beasts? Which law comes from God? That of Moses, or your law? And Jesus continued ‘God commanded your forefathers: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ But their heart was hardened and they killed. Then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men, and he suffered them to kill beasts’.
So EGOP tells us that the law that allowed men to kill some beasts came from Moses, rather than God.
VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN?
‘Obey, therefore, the words of God: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed…and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Note that ‘meat’ here is simply the word for ‘food’; this is also generally the way the word is used in the Bible. God has given us ‘plant food’ for meat. This is backed by Genesis 1:29 ‘And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for food.’ ('Herb' is the name for any plant.) This scriptural mandate for a vegetarian diet was used by the Nazarene sect. Although in the Bible it talks of Jesus being from ‘Nazareth’, many scholars say that there was no such place as Nazareth and that Jesus was in fact a ‘Nazarene’.
Also the milk of everything that moveth and liveth upon earth shall be meat for you;
EGOP allows the drinking of the clean animals’ milk.
But flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat.
HOW WE SHOULD EAT
p39
Therefore, eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also.
We will see later that Jesus instructed us not to cook our food at all. EGOP says also that we should not freeze our food, neither eat food that has rotted. This is with wisdom because some foord need to be cooked or soaked for long periods before eating such as legumes.
p40
‘Master, where is the fire of life?’ asked some of them. ‘In you, in your blood, and in your bodies’. ‘And the fire of death?’ asked others. ‘It is the fire which blazes outside your body, which is hotter than your blood. With that fire of death you cook your foods in your homes and in your fields…Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed.’
This suggests we should be eating nothing that has been heated beyond body temperature, ie in round terms around 100 degrees F.
p40
Prepare and eat all fruits of trees, and all grasses of the fields, and all milk of clean beasts good for eating.
Just as ‘meat’ means ‘food’, rather than animal parts, ‘fruits’ probably means anything that comes from a tree, that is, fruit as we generally understand it, and nuts. This excerpt is saying that anything that comes from trees, ‘grasses’ (Rices and cereal grains) and milk is ‘good’, although it does not say that these are the only things we are allowed to eat. Note the word ‘Prepare’. Later references suggest that this would not mean anything more than preparing food so that we can eat it, eg removal of inedible peel, soak and etc.... ‘All milk of beasts good for eating’ implies that some milk of beasts isn’t good for eating, meaning the unclean.
Then crush your grain, and make thin wafers, as did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt….
As EGOP describes the process by which we should make bread (‘cooked’ by the sun only) it is saying here that the bread the Israelites took with them when fleeing Egypt was not oven-cooked. EGOP defines cooking in the way raw fooders would generally understand it, as heating beyond a point somewhere between body heat and the heat of hot sun.
So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses (rices) of the field, the milk of (clean) beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way of sins and of diseases unto death.
And when you eat at her table, eat all things even as they are found on the table of the Earthly Mother.
Cook not
…neither mix all things one with another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs…
And if you will that the angels of God rejoice in your body, and that Satan shun you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God.
This ideal is to eat once a day. Both the twice or once a day support intermittent fasting which is very healthy for the body.
p43
From the coming of the month of…
We should eat foods in season.
eat barley and etc...
EGOP recommends the eating of barley and wheat, so clearly includes cereal grains in man’s diet, but they need to be rinsed and soaked first..
eat wheat, the most perfect among all the seed-bearing herbs. And let your daily bread be made of wheat, that the LORD may take care of your bodies.
A reminder that we are talking about wheat that is raw and sprouted, not cooked, although it’s a fair point that wheat thousands of years ago would have been quite different to wheat of today.
From Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may diminish and Satan may depart from it. In the month of Elul, gather the grape that the juice may serve you as drink. In the month of Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel of sun, that your bodies may increase…
Sour grape…this would appear to be referring to unripe grapes. In the next month, we are told to gather ripe grapes. In the month after that we are told to gather sun-dried grapes to build our bodies.
You should eat figs rich in juice in the months of Ab and Shebat, and what remain, let the angel of sun keep them for you; eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees bear no fruit.
We should eat ripe figs, then keep sun-dried figs to eat with almonds in the months when the trees bear no fruit. So this would appear to be allowing the eating of sun-dried fruit and nuts when there is no fruit on the trees.
And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the month of Thebet (spring), that your blood may be cleansed of all your sins.
The word 'herb', in EGOP and the Bible, means plants in general. These are mild herbs that nourish the body. All Melchizedek holders need to be herbalists.
And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your (clean) beasts
Note: It is not saying we should keep animals perpetually pregnant. You need to have an abundance of animals. It is not saying that we should be taking milk in those months where, naturally, animals would be feeding their young, For this is against the commandment if we take from the mother when her children are still needing milk.
Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees bear. And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for food that which is best for each.
We do not need to seek foods from far away or exotic, for the Lord provides everything to everyone. Be content with what's in your land.
Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste…defiling their bodies with all manner of abominations.
We should eat slowly. We know that if we do our bodies will have time to signal satiety.
And when you eat, have above you the angel of air, and below you the angel of water. Breathe long and deeply at all your meals, that the angel of air may bless your repasts.
As food gets into are body, oxygen helps to transport nutrients better, and it's implying to first have water in you before any food, meaning in the morining first drink water and when you eat breathe deeply. (Breathing deeply is how you control your own body and can influance your own body against poisons, threats and etc...)
And chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that the angel of water turn it into blood in your body.
The more we liquify our food when chewing, the better for our digestion. Chemicals in the saliva pre-digest food.
…his inwards [inside of the body] into an altar, if he does the commandments of God. Wherefore, put naught upon the altar of the Lord when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon any one with anger…for all that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your body
We should not eat when we are unhappy, angry or any negatives…we should only eat when we are happy and truly desire food.
And never sit at the table of God before he calls you by the angel of appetite.
We should never eat unless we really feel like eating.
On six days feed your body with the gifts of the Earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your Heavenly Father. On the seventh day eat not any earthly food, but live only on the words of God…And let not food trouble the work of the angels in your body throughout the seventh day.
We should fast for one day every seven days. We must drink Holy Water (rain or distilled) during this fast.
Wake not by night, neither sleep by day, lest the angels of God depart from you.
We should sleep at night only. We should not be waking in the night. It's speaking on the Circadian rhythm of the body and not to disrupt it. It works best with the sun.
And take no delight in any drink, nor in any smoke from Satan, waking you by night and making you to sleep by day. For I tell you truly, all the drinks and smokes of Satan are abominations in the eyes of your God.
Smoking, coffee, alcohol, drungs and etc. - abominations then, as they are now. Also it says the smokes of satan, this is not the same as the incense burnt in the temple. It's about substances that harm your body such as tobacco or poison plants. Mild Cannabis (which is low THC) brings healing, while man's altered variants with high THC bring war.
46
And let not your bodies become either hotter or colder than as God's angels warm or cool them. And if you do the commandments of the Earthly Mother, then as oft as your body becomes too hot, will she send the angel of coolness to cool you, and as oft as your body becomes too cold, will she send you the angel of heat to warm you again.
When we learn to adapt to the cold or heat with strict learning we can recieve great strength. Cold water for example keeps your blood vessles strong and can grow them and helps deal with stress by giving your body a break. Jesus said to bath in a river everyday... While hot water can help rid sicknesses...
p48, the last page of The Essene Gospel of Peace:
Come to me, all that are weary and that suffer in strife and affliction! For my peace will strengthen and comfort you. For my peace is exceedingly full of joy. Wherefore do I always greet you after this manner: 'Peace be with you!' Do you always, therefore, so greet one another, that upon your body may descend the peace of your Earthly Mother, and upon your spirit the peace of your Heavenly Father. And then you will find peace also among yourselves, for the kingdom of God is within you. And now return to your Brothers with whom hitherto you were at war, and give your peace to them also. For happy are they that strive for peace, for they will find the peace of God. Go, and sin no more. And give to everyone your peace, even as I have given my peace unto you. For my peace is of God. Peace be with you.'
And he left them.
And his peace descended upon them; and in their heart the angel of love, in their head the wisdom of law, and in their hands the power of rebirth, they went forth among the Sons of Men, to bring the light of peace to those that warred in darkness.
And they parted, wishing one to another:
'PEACE BE WITH YOU'.
FASTING, PRAYER, CLEANSING
p14
Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by fasting and by prayer. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man.
(By ‘plagues’, EGOP at least partly means physical illness.) We are not to fast publicly. I know that it can seem to help to fast with others, but there are also disadvantages to telling others we are fasting. It can introduce an element of competition and when we tell others how long we are fasting/have fasted there might be an element of ego gratification creeping in. Some may not be able to resist telling others how difficult it is in an attempt to gain admiration or sympathy, and, in so doing, risk being derailed by this. Also, if we tell others we are fasting, we may be subject to their well-meaning attempts to stop us.
Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and there in the midst of them shall you find the angel of air. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I tell you truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within.
Easy to understand. We all know that taking deep breaths can help calm and detoxify. We all understand the importance of fresh air.
p15
…seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer [allow] the angel of water to embrace all your body…the angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you…
We are to wash ourselves, to clean ourselves outside and inside. Here is an indication that EGOP is instructing us to allow water to enter our body for purification.
p15/16
And he who cleanses himself without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations….Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels.
p16
Afterwards rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease.
Note that the process is to be accompanied by prayer.
Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations and uncleannesses which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manners of pains.
This suggests that the process eliminates toxins etc that were causing pain.
I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river’s foam….And this holy baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new life. For your eyes shall henceforth see, and your ears shall hear. Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism…
The process is to be repeated until the water runs clean. This quite clearly defines baptism as an actual inward physical cleansing - nothing like baptism as normally understood nowadays. However, it does say that it results in a ‘new life’ and that we shall then ‘see’ and ‘hear’. As there is no indication that Jesus was talking to blind and deaf people only, I think it fair to assume that Jesus did not intend the words ‘see’ and ‘hear’ to be understood in the literal, but meant that physical cleansing would result in a spiritual ‘opening of the eyes’.
And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer [allow] the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body…
p17
The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him,…
Note that 'angels' are physical manifestations of God - the air, water, sunlight. The ‘Son of Man’ here is man, ie the term is not reserved for Jesus exclusively.
When the Earthly Mother’s angels enter into your bodies…then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and by your skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by your hinder and your privy parts.
We know that bad breath, BO, smelly urine, smelly poos etc are indications of a toxic body. Even those who are ‘relatively’ healthy may experience one or all of these when fasting and the body is cleaning.
And when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure as our Earthly Mother’s blood and as the river’s foam…And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of the sun…
p18
…no one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother.
In EGOP, the Mother is the earth - the physical. The Father is the spiritual. We cannot reach the spiritual without cleaning ourselves physically first.
p24
And many unclean and sick followed Jesus’ words and sought the banks of the murmuring streams…they fasted, and they gave their bodies to the angels of air, of water, and of sunshine…And all of them saw all evils, sins and uncleannesses depart in haste from them.
And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels, and some had an issue of spittle, and evil-smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts. All these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others by the eyes and ears. And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body, over all their skin. And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which came out uncleannesses with an evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and as hard almost as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking gases from their bowels, like the breath of devils. And their stench became so great that none could bear it.
These people were very ill. As they detoxified, they were sick, they salivated, they had poo-breath, they had skin eruptions. Mucus flowed from their noses. Pus came from their eyes. They sweated. They urinated frequently. There was blood in their urine. The sand was stones in the kidneys and liver. And there were bad smells. Natural Hygienists will recognise many of these symptoms of detoxification. Of course, most people nowadays experiencing symptoms such as these would find them alarming and as something to be stopped at all costs. And ‘cost’ it would be, as modern medicine (and, Natural Hygienists believe, herbal as well as 'pharmaceutical' medicine), in its attempts to suppress the symptoms, would reverse the process of detoxification and true healing would not occur, with the patient becoming more ill with the burden of toxins from the drugs used to ‘treat’.
And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms
They were rid of intestinal worms.
p28
You have been gluttonous, winebibbers and gone a-whoring
Your Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven years…but pay honestly and persevere till the seventh day…
Seven (consecutive) days’ fasting for each seven years’ sin.
…the devils of Satan write all your evil deeds in a book, in the book of your body and your spirit’
Our bodies are a record of our sins.
p30
And they showed Jesus their feet in which the bones were twisted and knotted and said ‘Neither the angel of air, nor of water, nor of sunshine has assuaged our pains, notwithstanding that we baptized ourselves, and do fast and pray…’ And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the water and the sun’s heat had softened to clayey mud the earth by the edge of the water. ‘Sink your feet in the mire, that the embrace of the angel of earth may draw out from your bones all uncleanness and all disease…’
Clay is used for healing on the outside of our bodies.
p32
And Jesus milked an ewe…he put the milk upon the sand made hot by the sun…And the milk became hot by the strength of the sun…And lo, the vapor of the hot milk began to rise slowly into the air…And the sick man whom Satan tormented did breath within himself, deeply, the rising whitish vapor. ‘Straightway will Satan leave your body, since for three days he starves and finds no food within you.
The physical ‘plagues’ (worms, parasites and so forth) had not been ‘fed’ as the man had fasted for three days. The man was then asked to inhale the vapour of the hot milk.
He [Satan] will come out of you to satisfy his hunger by the hot steaming milk, for this food finds favour in his sight.’
Jesus…drew out from the sick man all the body of the monster which was almost as long as the man. When the abominable worm came out of the sick man’s throat, he recovered at once his breath, and then all his pains ceased.
Thus the symbole of healing with the serpents climbing up a staff.
MEAT
p36
And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns to poison…in his breath their breath to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their bones to chalk;
When we eat meat poisons form in our blood.
When we eat meat our breath stinks.
When we eat meat…our bones turn to chalk!! Here’s a modern-day description of osteoporosis - ‘your bones turn to chalk and break with the slightest trauma’. For decades it had been thought that osteoporosis (bone problems in middle age) were due to calcium deficiency. People (middle-aged women especially) were told to eat lots of dairy. But recent research has shown that high consumption of ‘protein’ foods, such as meat, creates an acidic environment, causing the body to leech calcium from the bones in order to maintain optimum pH balance, causing…osteoporosis!
p37 [continuation of the instruction not to eat meat]
…in his bowels their bowels to decay.
When we eat meat, our bowels will decay.
…in his eyes their eyes to scales…
Meat-eating accelerates blindness and clogg up the body were a film of scales builds on the eyes... called cataracts.
…in his ears their ears to waxy issue…
And their death will become his death.
Then another said: ‘Moses, the greatest in Israel, suffered [allowed] our forefathers to eat the flesh of clean beasts, and forbade only the flesh of unclean beasts. Why, therefore, do you forbid us the flesh of all beasts? Which law comes from God? That of Moses, or your law? And Jesus continued ‘God commanded your forefathers: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ But their heart was hardened and they killed. Then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men, and he suffered them to kill beasts’.
So EGOP tells us that the law that allowed men to kill some beasts came from Moses, rather than God.
VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN?
‘Obey, therefore, the words of God: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed…and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Note that ‘meat’ here is simply the word for ‘food’; this is also generally the way the word is used in the Bible. God has given us ‘plant food’ for meat. This is backed by Genesis 1:29 ‘And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for food.’ ('Herb' is the name for any plant.) This scriptural mandate for a vegetarian diet was used by the Nazarene sect. Although in the Bible it talks of Jesus being from ‘Nazareth’, many scholars say that there was no such place as Nazareth and that Jesus was in fact a ‘Nazarene’.
Also the milk of everything that moveth and liveth upon earth shall be meat for you;
EGOP allows the drinking of the clean animals’ milk.
But flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat.
HOW WE SHOULD EAT
p39
Therefore, eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also.
We will see later that Jesus instructed us not to cook our food at all. EGOP says also that we should not freeze our food, neither eat food that has rotted. This is with wisdom because some foord need to be cooked or soaked for long periods before eating such as legumes.
p40
‘Master, where is the fire of life?’ asked some of them. ‘In you, in your blood, and in your bodies’. ‘And the fire of death?’ asked others. ‘It is the fire which blazes outside your body, which is hotter than your blood. With that fire of death you cook your foods in your homes and in your fields…Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed.’
This suggests we should be eating nothing that has been heated beyond body temperature, ie in round terms around 100 degrees F.
p40
Prepare and eat all fruits of trees, and all grasses of the fields, and all milk of clean beasts good for eating.
Just as ‘meat’ means ‘food’, rather than animal parts, ‘fruits’ probably means anything that comes from a tree, that is, fruit as we generally understand it, and nuts. This excerpt is saying that anything that comes from trees, ‘grasses’ (Rices and cereal grains) and milk is ‘good’, although it does not say that these are the only things we are allowed to eat. Note the word ‘Prepare’. Later references suggest that this would not mean anything more than preparing food so that we can eat it, eg removal of inedible peel, soak and etc.... ‘All milk of beasts good for eating’ implies that some milk of beasts isn’t good for eating, meaning the unclean.
Then crush your grain, and make thin wafers, as did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt….
As EGOP describes the process by which we should make bread (‘cooked’ by the sun only) it is saying here that the bread the Israelites took with them when fleeing Egypt was not oven-cooked. EGOP defines cooking in the way raw fooders would generally understand it, as heating beyond a point somewhere between body heat and the heat of hot sun.
So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses (rices) of the field, the milk of (clean) beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way of sins and of diseases unto death.
And when you eat at her table, eat all things even as they are found on the table of the Earthly Mother.
Cook not
…neither mix all things one with another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs…
(and on p42 ‘For I tell you truly, if you mix together all sorts of food in your body, then the peace of your body will cease, and endless war will rage in you.)
EGOP says no to abombo-combos! Natural Hygiene teaches that if we mix foods that take different times to digest, fermentation will occur as one food blocks the exit of another. It also teaches that different environments (in terms of alkalinity/acidity) are required for the digestion of different foods and that if we mix incompatible foods, putrefaction will occur.
And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table of his lord, the portions of others. (And on p42 ‘And when you eat, never eat unto fullness….For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more…So give heed to how much you have eaten when your body is sated, and always eat less by a third.)
p42
Be content with two or three sorts of food, which you will find always upon the table of our Earthly Mother…And desire not to devour all things that you see around you.
Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often….he who eats more than twice in the day does in him the work of Satan…Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens and again when it is set.
This applys to adults, children need to be nourished more often just as Nephi says in 1 Nephi about there journeyings in the wilderness.
p42
Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina, but mark that it go not beyond two.
A mina is 50 shekels. A shekel is ½ oz, so we should eat at least 25 oz (about a pound a half) but not more than 50 oz (three pounds).
EGOP says no to abombo-combos! Natural Hygiene teaches that if we mix foods that take different times to digest, fermentation will occur as one food blocks the exit of another. It also teaches that different environments (in terms of alkalinity/acidity) are required for the digestion of different foods and that if we mix incompatible foods, putrefaction will occur.
And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table of his lord, the portions of others. (And on p42 ‘And when you eat, never eat unto fullness….For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more…So give heed to how much you have eaten when your body is sated, and always eat less by a third.)
p42
Be content with two or three sorts of food, which you will find always upon the table of our Earthly Mother…And desire not to devour all things that you see around you.
Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating often….he who eats more than twice in the day does in him the work of Satan…Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens and again when it is set.
This applys to adults, children need to be nourished more often just as Nephi says in 1 Nephi about there journeyings in the wilderness.
p42
Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina, but mark that it go not beyond two.
A mina is 50 shekels. A shekel is ½ oz, so we should eat at least 25 oz (about a pound a half) but not more than 50 oz (three pounds).
And if you will that the angels of God rejoice in your body, and that Satan shun you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God.
This ideal is to eat once a day. Both the twice or once a day support intermittent fasting which is very healthy for the body.
p43
From the coming of the month of…
We should eat foods in season.
eat barley and etc...
EGOP recommends the eating of barley and wheat, so clearly includes cereal grains in man’s diet, but they need to be rinsed and soaked first..
eat wheat, the most perfect among all the seed-bearing herbs. And let your daily bread be made of wheat, that the LORD may take care of your bodies.
A reminder that we are talking about wheat that is raw and sprouted, not cooked, although it’s a fair point that wheat thousands of years ago would have been quite different to wheat of today.
From Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may diminish and Satan may depart from it. In the month of Elul, gather the grape that the juice may serve you as drink. In the month of Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel of sun, that your bodies may increase…
Sour grape…this would appear to be referring to unripe grapes. In the next month, we are told to gather ripe grapes. In the month after that we are told to gather sun-dried grapes to build our bodies.
You should eat figs rich in juice in the months of Ab and Shebat, and what remain, let the angel of sun keep them for you; eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees bear no fruit.
We should eat ripe figs, then keep sun-dried figs to eat with almonds in the months when the trees bear no fruit. So this would appear to be allowing the eating of sun-dried fruit and nuts when there is no fruit on the trees.
And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the month of Thebet (spring), that your blood may be cleansed of all your sins.
The word 'herb', in EGOP and the Bible, means plants in general. These are mild herbs that nourish the body. All Melchizedek holders need to be herbalists.
And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your (clean) beasts
Note: It is not saying we should keep animals perpetually pregnant. You need to have an abundance of animals. It is not saying that we should be taking milk in those months where, naturally, animals would be feeding their young, For this is against the commandment if we take from the mother when her children are still needing milk.
Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees bear. And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for food that which is best for each.
We do not need to seek foods from far away or exotic, for the Lord provides everything to everyone. Be content with what's in your land.
Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste…defiling their bodies with all manner of abominations.
We should eat slowly. We know that if we do our bodies will have time to signal satiety.
And when you eat, have above you the angel of air, and below you the angel of water. Breathe long and deeply at all your meals, that the angel of air may bless your repasts.
As food gets into are body, oxygen helps to transport nutrients better, and it's implying to first have water in you before any food, meaning in the morining first drink water and when you eat breathe deeply. (Breathing deeply is how you control your own body and can influance your own body against poisons, threats and etc...)
And chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that the angel of water turn it into blood in your body.
The more we liquify our food when chewing, the better for our digestion. Chemicals in the saliva pre-digest food.
…his inwards [inside of the body] into an altar, if he does the commandments of God. Wherefore, put naught upon the altar of the Lord when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon any one with anger…for all that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your body
We should not eat when we are unhappy, angry or any negatives…we should only eat when we are happy and truly desire food.
And never sit at the table of God before he calls you by the angel of appetite.
We should never eat unless we really feel like eating.
On six days feed your body with the gifts of the Earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your Heavenly Father. On the seventh day eat not any earthly food, but live only on the words of God…And let not food trouble the work of the angels in your body throughout the seventh day.
We should fast for one day every seven days. We must drink Holy Water (rain or distilled) during this fast.
Wake not by night, neither sleep by day, lest the angels of God depart from you.
We should sleep at night only. We should not be waking in the night. It's speaking on the Circadian rhythm of the body and not to disrupt it. It works best with the sun.
And take no delight in any drink, nor in any smoke from Satan, waking you by night and making you to sleep by day. For I tell you truly, all the drinks and smokes of Satan are abominations in the eyes of your God.
Smoking, coffee, alcohol, drungs and etc. - abominations then, as they are now. Also it says the smokes of satan, this is not the same as the incense burnt in the temple. It's about substances that harm your body such as tobacco or poison plants. Mild Cannabis (which is low THC) brings healing, while man's altered variants with high THC bring war.
46
And let not your bodies become either hotter or colder than as God's angels warm or cool them. And if you do the commandments of the Earthly Mother, then as oft as your body becomes too hot, will she send the angel of coolness to cool you, and as oft as your body becomes too cold, will she send you the angel of heat to warm you again.
When we learn to adapt to the cold or heat with strict learning we can recieve great strength. Cold water for example keeps your blood vessles strong and can grow them and helps deal with stress by giving your body a break. Jesus said to bath in a river everyday... While hot water can help rid sicknesses...
p48, the last page of The Essene Gospel of Peace:
Come to me, all that are weary and that suffer in strife and affliction! For my peace will strengthen and comfort you. For my peace is exceedingly full of joy. Wherefore do I always greet you after this manner: 'Peace be with you!' Do you always, therefore, so greet one another, that upon your body may descend the peace of your Earthly Mother, and upon your spirit the peace of your Heavenly Father. And then you will find peace also among yourselves, for the kingdom of God is within you. And now return to your Brothers with whom hitherto you were at war, and give your peace to them also. For happy are they that strive for peace, for they will find the peace of God. Go, and sin no more. And give to everyone your peace, even as I have given my peace unto you. For my peace is of God. Peace be with you.'
And he left them.
And his peace descended upon them; and in their heart the angel of love, in their head the wisdom of law, and in their hands the power of rebirth, they went forth among the Sons of Men, to bring the light of peace to those that warred in darkness.
And they parted, wishing one to another:
'PEACE BE WITH YOU'.
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