Around 100 years ago in 1923 Edmond Szekely came across a manuscript of unsuspected
importance in the secret and dusty archives of the Vatican. This Gospel contained a mystery
whose words and sermons seemed strangely familiar - almost as if they had been taken from the
New Testament. But the parallels soon ended there for the teachings of this gospel were
clearly at odds with the established beliefs of the New Testament.The Essene Anabaptist as I
call him taught personal responsibility. Whereas Christian doctrine presents man as
fundamentally sinful and evil and therefore incapable of observing God's commandments and
describes his quest for perfection as delusional presumptuous and arrogant. The Essene
Anabaptist revealed that perfection was man's goal on earth. A bold statement that runs counter
to the foundations of established religion.In the New Testament Jesus affirms the harmlessness
of eating meat whereas in the Essene Gospel we are asked to consider treat and protect
animals as our brothers and sisters. The Essene Gospel declares the eating of meat to be the
greatest sin - an attack on one's own body and soul. In the New Testament Paul presents woman
as a subject of man while the Essene prophet praises her as the psychic force of man that he
should listen to. And the earth itself which plays no part in Christian teaching is described
by the Essene Baptist as our mother to be cared for and preserved from harm.While the New
Testament presents physical health as ephemeral and therefore undesirable the Essene prophet
sees physical purity and health as the foundation of spiritual salvation. He explained that all
men were impure by nature but that they held the key to health happiness and perfection.The
Essene prophet was not teaching a new religion but a philosophy of life in harmony with
nature. He was translating the language of nature in which God has recorded his immutable laws
which have lasted since the creation of the earth and which appeared with its creation. This
unknown version of Christianity would have led humanity in a completely different direction 2
000 years ago if it had not been falsified for reasons of power and economy.This English
translation differs somewhat from the standard French version and offers food for thought.For
90 years the mystery of the terminological similarity between the Essene gospel and the New
Testament gospels has remained unsolved. The Essenes' disciples had once written these words
and whispered their message across the millennia while the New Testament took root in people's
hearts.But fate hidden in the mists of time had other plans. It was serendipity - or perhaps
the action of an invisible hand - that led me to the forgotten pages. My fingers brushed over
the signs as if they were touching the secrets of eternity itself.And so began my journey an
odyssey through centuries past which took me through the dusty corridors of libraries and the
silent nights of meditation. I discovered the hidden parallels that like invisible threads
linked the Gospel of the Essenes to the writings of the New Testament.In my trilogy 'The Secret
of the True Gospel' I have woven the words into a novel of passion and truth. The surgical
precision of my research has revealed the inconceivable: the New Testament is a plagiarism a
distorted mirror that has obscured the light of the Essene Gospel for millennia. The present
work summarizes the facts that prove the authenticity and 2000-year antiquity of the Gospel of
the Essenes - thanks in particular to the writings of Nag Hammadi and the monastery of Mar
Saba.
