Essenian

The master was, in consequence, robbed and murdered; the slaves accused the Essenian, before the judges, of having betrayed his master.

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Ezion-Geber the whole of his family, which consisted of his wife, then far advanced in years, a son, and a daughter; he had in his train two eunuchs, one of whom acted as a cook, and the other as a laborer and vine-dresser; and a pious Essenian, who knew the

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The Essenian, struck with inexpressible horror, would dwell no longer with a man who thus violated and defiled the law, and fled.

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The Jew accordingly married his sister, and had a daughter by her, notwithstanding all the protestations of the Essenian; and this was the only offspring of a marriage which one of them thought very legitimate, and the other absolutely abominable.

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But the Essenian said: “The law does not allow lying; I swear to you that he is at home, and that he has a great deal of money.”

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The Essenian said, that he would tell no lies, and that nothing in the world should induce him to tell one; and he was hanged.

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“Essenian,” never even once occurs in the four Gospels, in the Apocrypha, or in the Acts, or the Epistles of the apostles.

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If he was admitted, he had to undergo a period of probation, and to take a solemn oath that he would not betray to strangers the secrets of the Essenian discipline.

Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893

We are thus led to conclude that the Jewish side of Christianity is simply Essenian, but that the major part of the religion is purely Pagan, and that its rise under the name of Christianity must be sought for in Alexandria rather than in Judæa.

The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890

Nevertheless, though we cannot regard Jesus as actually a member of the Essenian community or sect, we can hardly avoid the conclusion that he, as well as John the Baptist, had been at some time strongly influenced by Essenian doctrines.

The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876