Essens

Essens and their Birminghams twenty to fifty meters down at the bottom of the sea; they have their overcrowded industrial zones, ports, transport lines and cities of a million inhabitants; in short, they had their more or less 31 unknown but, it seems, highly technically developed world.

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But the sect of the Essens affirm, that fate governs all things, and that nothing befalls men but what is according to its determination.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Pharisees, another the sect of the Sadducees, and the other the sect of the Essens.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

The doctrine of the Essens is this: That all things are best ascribed to God.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Casaubon here truly observes, asserting, that the Pharisees were between the Essens and Sadducees, and did so far ascribe all to fate or Divine

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

The Essens also, as we call a sect of ours, were excused from this imposition.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

We have thought it proper to relate these facts to our readers, how strange soever they be, and to declare what hath happened among us, because many of these Essens have, by their excellent virtue, been thought worthy of this knowledge of Divine revelations.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Now there was one of these Essens, whose name was Manahem, who had this testimony, that he not only conducted his life after an excellent manner, but had the foreknowledge of future events given him by God also.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

However, it is but fit to set down here the reasons wherefore Herod had these Essens in such honor, and thought higher of them than their mortal nature required; nor will this account be unsuitable to the nature of this history, as it will show the opinion men had of these Essens.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

They none of them differ from others of the Essens in their way of living, but do the most resemble those Dacae who are called Polistae [4] [dwellers in cities].

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709