by Johanne GT Joan

For a better world

The Essene Brotherhood, which confronted the Roman rulers in the 1st century AD, posed a significant threat to the entire Roman Empire. As a result, the Brotherhood was persecuted, and its teachings were distorted over time. In order to restore Roman "order," the Romans were forced to develop strategies that counteracted the Brotherhood's principles.

Values and principles such as the worship of the earth and the elements, animal rights, vegetarianism, women's equality, and the equality of all human beings have been systematically undermined. These distorted narratives have been spread and practiced over a period of 2,000 years, contributing to the current global crisis—characterized by environmental pollution, ecological disasters, the suffering and abuse of animals, and the oppression and enslavement of women. In Islam, considered an evolution of Christianity, women are often denied the soul, leading to subordination to men, and disobedience can be punished with extreme punishments.

Restoring appreciation for the earth, women, and animals would realize the divine plan, which is based on love. In such a world, hunger could be eliminated, as everyone would work together in the garden of brotherhood, and no one could stand idly by while their fellow human beings suffer. The Essene Baptist emphasizes that no one would have to suffer hunger if the world implemented the model of brotherhood.

They don't matter: Animals suffer the most in this world

For the welfare of animals

In Christianity, from a divine perspective, inflicting suffering on animals is not considered a sin. As a result, these sentient beings, who experience joy, pain, and even grief, are still often exploited, tortured, and killed by humans without compassion. The authenticity of the Essene Gospel could help restore animals' legitimate rights and freedom.

The Essene prophet called animals our brothers and described their killing as fratricide. He considered the consumption of slaughtered animal meat the greatest sin a person can commit against their body and soul. This revelation led the Jews to stop eating animals and to view them as friends and companions.

Unfortunately, this teaching was distorted. In order to encourage meat consumption in the Roman Empire, animals were portrayed as inferior and soulless. From Jesus' words, we even learn that we can consume anything without hesitation (Mark 7:18-19). Through the doctrine of grace and the misinterpretation of the Holy Man's words, animals lost their protection and were no longer viewed as living beings, but as a product for culinary enjoyment.

  • Quotes from the Essene Anabaptist

    Honor your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother and keep their commandments, so that your days may be long on this earth." And the next commandment was: "You shall not kill." For God gives life to all, and what God has given, man shall not take away. For truly I tell you, everything on earth comes from the one mother. Therefore, whoever kills kills his brother. And the Earthly Mother will turn away from him and will withhold her life-giving breasts. And her angels will avoid him, and Satan will take up residence in his body. And the flesh of slain animals will become his own grave in his body. For truly I tell you, whoever kills kills himself, and whoever eats the flesh of murdered animals eats of the body of death.



    God commanded your forefathers, “You shall not kill.” But their hearts were hardened, and they killed. Moses wished that they should at least not kill people, and he permitted them to kill animals. But your forefathers’ hearts became even harder, and they killed people as well as animals. But I say to you, “Do not kill people or animals, nor even the food that you put in your mouths.” For if you eat living food, it will give you life; but if you kill your food, dead food will kill you. For life comes from life, and death comes from death. For whatever kills your food kills your bodies. And whatever kills your bodies kills your souls. And your bodies become what your food is, just as your spirit becomes what your thoughts are.

To protect the environment

Since the beginning of time, humans have cared for the earth, protected it, and honored its elements. However, this awareness changed with the teachings of Christianity, which described the earth as a transient place of evil—a cursed place, in a sense. In Christianity, cultivating and caring for the earth is considered an expression of unbelief, while in the Essene Gospel, the pursuit of harmony with Mother Earth plays a central role.

A believing Christian even leaves family and children to spread the "Good News" or the gift of grace, assured that God will ensure that he and his family suffer no want.

This distorted view was created out of a desire to maintain Roman power, which was threatened by the Essene movement. Furthermore, the expansion of the Essene Brotherhood, whose autonomy was undermining the Roman "order," was to be halted. This strategic move against the earth led to the impossibility of environmental awareness developing for over 2,000 years. To this day, there are Christians who intentionally pollute the earth to demonstrate their faith. Only when the elements began to work against humans did they begin to pay attention to the environment again.

John the Baptist called the earth holy and called the elements that serve us angels. Through the restoration of true early Christian teachings regarding the environment, believers will no longer doubt that those who sin against the environment or poison the earth are violating divine law. When environmental protection is recognized as a Christian commandment, much more effort will be made in the future to cleanse and care for the earth.

  • Quotes from the Essene Anabaptist

    For your mother bore you, and she sustains life within you. She gave you your body, and she is able to heal it. Blessed is he who loves his mother. For your mother still loves you, even when you have turned away from her. How much more will she love you if you turn to her! Truly, I tell you, her love is very great, greater than the highest mountains, deeper than the deepest seas. And whoever loves his mother will never abandon her. As a hen protects her chicks, as a lioness protects her cubs, as a mother protects her newborn child, so the Earth Mother protects the human child from all dangers and evil.



    Truly, all must be reborn through air and truth; for your body breathes the air of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit breathes the truth of the Heavenly Father.



    Children of men: Honor your Earth Mother and keep all her laws, so that you may live long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly Father, so that you may attain eternal life in heaven. For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and blood, and the Earth Mother is greater than all natural mothers. And the Heavenly Father and the Earth Mother love the human child more deeply than his father by seed and blood and his natural mother can. And the words and laws of your Heavenly Father and your Earth Mother are wiser than all the words and will of all fathers by seed and blood and of all natural mothers. Also of greater value is the inheritance of your Heavenly Father and your Earth Mother, the eternal kingdom of earthly and heavenly life, than anything that your fathers by seed and blood and your natural mothers can pass on to you.

The earth and its elements are sacred! Humanity has turned its back on its mother, and Christianity has denied her any appreciation.

The prominent role of women has been fought by the Papal Church since Christianization

Against the oppression of women

Christian doctrine considers everything feminine to be, in a sense, cursed. The earth is viewed as a place of evil, while women are seen as the perpetrators of humanity's corruption through original sin. Restoring the true values of women's status could herald an end to inequality and cruelty toward them. At the same time, the true values for which women have always been suppressed would be reinstated in this world.

The authors of the falsification did not shy away from committing blasphemy by inventing original sin to enslave and oppress women. Men were persuaded that they were the crown of creation and that women were subservient to them. This message was tempting to many men, as it allowed them to dispose of women as they pleased. They subsequently abused their physical power to carry out this supposedly divine message.

The dark intentions of the Church and distorted Christian teachings led to a one-sided male-dominated world in which men felt empowered and unwilling to share their power with women. This led to a situation that has maneuvered the world into the dilemma we see today, in which the protective and nurturing feminine elements are completely absent, and humanity has missed the opportunity for a better world.

A world dominated by men is often harsh and merciless. Only a balanced distribution of power and decision-making between women and men regarding earthly affairs could have made the Earth a harmonious place. Women, as the spiritual support of men and the giver of life, could have brought their loving and protective qualities to all areas of politics and the shaping of the Earth. Together, men and women could have created a paradise on Earth in which the values of equality, freedom, and fraternity are authentically lived.

  • Quotes from the Essene Anabaptist

    "At this, an old woman who approached the group to hear Issa better was pushed aside by one of the disguised men, who placed her in front of them. Then Issa said: "It is not good for a son to push away his mother so that he can take the place that belongs to her. Anyone who thus disrespects his mother—the most sacred being after God—is unworthy of the name son."


    Listen to what I say to you: Respect the woman, for in her we see the Mother of the universe, and all the truth of divine creation will come through her.


    She is the source of all that is good and beautiful, for she is also the seed of life and death. Man depends on her in all his being, for she is his moral and natural support in his efforts. In pain and suffering, she brings you forth; in the sweat of her brow, she watches over your growth, and you, until her death, cause her to exercise the greatest care. Bless her and venerate her, for she is your only friend and support on earth. Respect her, defend her. By doing so, you will gain her love; you will find favor with God, and for her sake, many sins will be forgiven you.


    Love your wives and respect them, for they will be the mothers of tomorrow and later the grandmothers of an entire nation. Be obedient to women; their love ennobles men, softens their hardened hearts, tames the wild beast within them and transforms them into lambs. Women and mothers are the priceless treasures God has given you. They are the most beautiful ornaments of the universe, and from them is born everything that we inhabit on earth. Just as the Lord of hosts separated light from darkness and dry land from water, so women possess the divine gift of bringing out of men's evil nature all the good that is in them. Therefore, I tell you, after God, your best thoughts must belong to women, for she is the divine temple where you will most easily attain perfect happiness.


    Draw your moral strength from this temple. There you will forget your worries and failures and regain the love and compassion you need to help your fellow human beings.


    Do not let them suffer humiliation, for by humiliating them you humiliate yourselves, and you lose the feeling of love, without which nothing of them can exist on earth.


    Protect your wives so that they may protect you—yourselves and your household. Whatever you do for your mothers, your wives, your wives, a widow, or any woman in distress, you will do for your God."



For a return to personal responsibility

The Essene Baptist offered humanity a guide for a fulfilling and peaceful life on earth, as well as for eternal life. The central goal was to regain one's original purity. This purity could only be achieved through physical purity, since a pure body leads to pure thoughts, from which good deeds flow. These deeds shape the essence of the soul.

To realize this way of life, the establishment of a brotherhood was necessary. These brotherhoods caused considerable economic damage to the Roman rulers because they operated autonomously, engaged in no trade, and used no currency, exchanging everything among themselves. Furthermore, Roman authority posed a threat because the brotherhoods did not submit to Roman law and refused to worship the Roman emperor; their reverence was directed solely to God.

In an effort to restore Roman order, the brotherhoods were persecuted, dispersed, imprisoned, and murdered. When Roman power failed to stop the spread of the brotherhood, the Romans resorted to manipulating the Essene Gospel. They created a counterpart with similar terminology to relieve potential followers of responsibility for their own salvation; these counter-works are now known among the writings of the New Testament.

Thus, the religion of grace was born. Humanity was viewed as inherently evil and incapable of obeying divine commandments. For this reason, Jesus died for the sins of humanity. This belief appealed to potential followers and was defended because it allowed them to renounce nothing and still be saved by the blood of Christ.

Christians believed they belonged to a religion that, in reality, was not one and existed solely to restore Roman authority and their economic interests. Essene baptism, which consisted of seven days of fasting to cleanse impurities and regain health, was transformed into a symbolic baptism. Active healing was presented as miraculous healings performed by Jesus. While the New Testament recognizes that fasting leads to healing, as taught by the Essene Baptist, this teaching is packaged in such a way that the reader understands that it is not the fasting person himself who is healed, but that the healing is a power emanating from the fasting person praying for the sick or possessed.

This problematic indoctrination of grace nullifies the law of causality, which governs the relationship between cause and effect. However, the Essene Baptist clearly emphasizes that no one can atone for the sins of another and that everyone must take responsibility for themselves, their actions, and their lives. Those who fail to meet these requirements are reincarnated and undergo another earthly cycle until they have understood and implemented the divine principle.

Through the doctrine of grace, which is connected to the crucifixion of Jesus and which many people want to believe in because it is perceived as convenient and places no demands on its followers, they literally give up their independence and experience a kind of fool's license. Similar to someone declared insane, a Christian is not judged by his actions, but solely by his faith, or lack thereof, in Jesus Christ.

  • Quotes from the Essene Anabaptist

    "Know that no one can serve two masters. You cannot desire the riches of this world and also possess the Kingdom of Heaven. You cannot desire to own land and have power over men and also possess the Kingdom of Heaven. Wealth, land, and power, these things belong to no one, for they are of this world. But the Kingdom of Heaven is yours forever, for it is within you. And if you desire and seek what is not yours, then you will surely lose what is yours. Know, for I tell you truly, that nothing is given or received for nothing. Everything in the world, both human and angel, has a price. He who wants to accumulate wealth and precious things must run around kissing the hands of those he does not admire, waste his strength at other people's doors, say and do many false things, make gifts of gold and silver, and give sweet oils; all this and more must be done by a man who wants money and favor. And when you have attained it, what do you possess? Secure Wealth and power, freedom from fear, a peaceful mind, a day in the company of the Earth Mother's angels, a night in communion with the Heavenly Father's angels? Do you think you receive such great things for nothing? If man has two masters, he will either hate the one and love the other; or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and the world at the same time. Perhaps your well will dry up, precious oil will be spilled, your house will burn, your crops will wither; but you meet what befalls you with wisdom and love. The rain will refill the well, houses can be rebuilt, new seeds can be sown; all these things pass away, come again, and pass away again. But the Heavenly Kingdom is eternal and will not pass away. Therefore, do not exchange what is eternal for what will pass away in an hour.

Fatal indoctrination: Belief in Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for the sins of humanity is a surrender of one's maturity

Untreated raw food is the key to health and purity of body, heart and mind

Holistic health

The body is considered the temple of God, and this represents the central message that John the Baptist addressed to humanity. This temple is the place where, when the time is right, the Spirit of God will take its worthy place: the reception of the Holy Spirit, which occurs in harmony with nature and divine law.

However, the temple can only be built on the foundation of a healthy and pure body. Physical purity is achieved exclusively through pure, living food and daily contact with nature. This purity leads to clear thoughts, which guide actions and shape the state of the soul. For this reason, John the Baptist urged people to purify their bodies and maintain purity through diet and contact with nature. To achieve this, he encouraged his followers to form a brotherhood in which they would collectively cultivate fruits, herbs, and vegetables and keep animals as friends to utilize their milk.

Due to its autonomy, the brotherhood posed a significant political and economic threat to the Romans in the 1st century AD. Therefore, the Essenes were persecuted, expelled from their community, and dispersed.

Since maintaining health was closely linked to the founding of a brotherhood, the ideology of health through homegrown, pure food had to be undermined. The Romans achieved this by introducing the Christian doctrine of grace, which states that the body has nothing to do with the soul and that man is saved not by his works but solely through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. This doctrine implies that man bears no responsibility for his salvation.

Given the authenticity of the Essene Gospel, we can no longer doubt that the purity of the body is indeed linked to the salvation of the soul. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before humanity can hope for positive changes in the laws of health as well. People will discover and live the secret of harmony and health. Doctors will no longer harm their patients with medication and create addictions, but will have to find ways to restore their patients' health. With the new understanding of the value of health, people will strive to keep their bodies healthy. Natural remedies will eventually replace pharmaceutical drugs. This will represent the rebirth of naturopathy.

From a divine perspective, poisoning the earth with pesticides and other chemical substances that endanger our health is a violation of divine law, since human health must come first.

  • Quote from the Essene Baptist

    "Do not think that it is enough for the angel of water to embrace you only externally. Truly, inner impurity is far greater than external impurity. And he who purifies himself externally but remains impure within is like the tombs, which are beautifully painted on the outside but are full of horrific impurities and abominations on the inside. So I tell you truly, let the angel of water baptize you internally as well, so that you may be freed from past sins and become as pure within as the bubbling of a river in the sunlight."

For a human sense of community

A closer look at the model of the Essene Brotherhood quickly reveals that this community would have been able to avoid many of the challenges we face today—such as disease, crime, and war.

It is important to remember that the members of this brotherhood belonged to a humanity that, through their purity of body, heart, and mind and strict discipline, embodied the values of love and selflessness. These people viewed and honored life in all its forms on Earth as sacred. Within this community, all people, regardless of origin, skin color, or cultural background, were considered brothers.

In the distant future, all of humanity is expected to ascend to a higher level of love, which is in accordance with God's plan for His children. No one can stop this process, and this moment is described by the Essene Baptist as paradise. In such a time, crime, envy, murder, and war would no longer be conceivable.

The divine language offers different levels of understanding, including the concept of the "Prodigal Son," which also symbolizes humanity returning to its roots after a period of decadence.

Through the story of the Prodigal Son, God wants to emphasize that the challenges of our time—debauchery, disappointment, violence, and fear—are a necessary evil that leads to insight. From this insight, humanity will be able to learn valuable lessons and transform its swords into gardening tools. They will realize that true happiness can only be achieved when all people reach out to one another.

  • Quote from the Essene Baptist

    "Through love, the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and the Son of Man become one. For the spirit of the Son of Man was created from the spirit of the Heavenly Father, and his body from the body of the Earthly Mother. And so love your Heavenly Father as he loves your spirit. And so love your Earthly Mother as she loves your body. And so love your true brothers as your Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother love them. And then your Heavenly Father will give you his holy body. And then the sons of men will love one another like true brothers with the love they received from their Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother, and they will comfort one another. And then from the earth all evil and sadness will disappear, and there will be love and joy on earth. And then the earth will be like heaven, and the Kingdom of God will come. And then the Son of Man will come in all his glory to inherit the Kingdom of God. And the sons of men will share their divine inheritance, the Kingdom of God. For the Sons of men live in the Heavenly Father and in the Earthly Mother, and the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother live in them. And with the Kingdom of God, the end of time will come; for the love of the Heavenly Father gives itself to all life in the Kingdom of God forever. For love is eternal, love is stronger than death."

The values and principles of the Essene Brotherhood posed a threat to the Roman Empire