Stuart Wilson - The Essenes: Children of the Light

The Essenes

Children of the Light

by

Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis

Copyright 2005 Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis

All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, photographic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc., except for brief quotations embodied in literary articles and reviews.

For permission, or serialization, condensation, adaptions, or for our catalog of other publications, write to: Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 754, Huntsville, AR 72740, Attn: Permissions Department.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilson, Stuart - 1937 - Prentis, Joanna - 1943

The Essenes by Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis

Eyewitness accounts of the secrets of the mystery school of the Essenes at Qumran; and Jesus and Joseph of Arimatheas connection with the Essenes. The information was gained through regressive hypnosis, conducted by Joanna Prentis. Includes Bibliography and Index.

1. Essenes 2. Jesus 3. Hypnosis 4. Reincarnation 5. Joseph of Arimathea 6. Mary Magdalene 7. Melchizedek 8. Druids

I. Wilson, Stuart, 1937 - II. Prentis, Joanna, 1943 - III. Essenes IV. Title

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004117349

ISBN: 1-886940-87-8

Cover Art: The Living Christ by Pamela Matthews

Cover Design: Brian Grimmer - theGrafixguy

Book Design: Julia Degan

Book Set in: Times New Roman, Garamond

Published By

WWW.OZARKMT.COM

Printed in the United States of America

We would like to say a big thank you to all those who took part in the groups at the Starlight Centre, and particularly to those whose regression sessions form the core of this book. This is very much your book, and we feel privileged to have been part of this process which has renewed so many links of friendship. Sadly our friend Martha, one of the seven regression subjects, died before this book was published. Our thoughts are with you, Martha, and the whole group misses you.

Joanna writes: I would like to acknowledge my daughter Tatanya for her help and supplying information for this book. My thanks also to the rest of my family, Larissa, Katinka and Chris, for their patience and for putting up with me whilst I co-wrote this book. All of you, thank you. Our special thanks to Dolores Cannon for her help and support during the development of this book. In particular we are grateful for her advice on extending the manuscript, and her help in identifying areas that needed more research. By going back to the regression process much new and interesting information emerged.

Our thanks to Anne MacEwen, President of the Essene Network International, for tracking down sources and for reading the manuscript and identifying mistypings. We are grateful to Anne and to Sylvia Moss for their encouragement and support, especially during the Networks Summer Gathering in July 2001. This convinced us that it was worthwhile making one final effort to access the Melchizedek material.

Many thanks to Maggi Fielder for suggesting sources, reading the manuscript and making many useful comments; to Ann Ross, Dechen Powell and Felicity Bartlett for suggesting sources; Martin Holyoak for letting us see the book by Gaura Devi; and Jackie Dixon for reading the manuscript and identifying mistypings.

We are grateful to the following for permissions to quote from copyright material:

The quote from The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden is reprinted by permission of Random House (2000 by Gregg Braden).

The quote from Poetical Works of Robert Browning edited by Ian Jack and Margaret Smith is reprinted by permissions of Oxford University Press ( Ian Jack and Margaret Smith 1983).

The quotes from Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Cannon are reprinted by permission of Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc. (2000 by Dolores Cannon).

The quote from Fire of Transformation: My Life with Babaji by Gaura Devi is reprinted by permission of Nymet Press (2001 by Gaura Devi).

The quote from The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean translated by M. Doreal is reprinted by permission of Source Books (M. Doreal).

The quote from Mary Magdalene: Christianitys Hidden Goddess by Lynn Picknett is reprinted by permission of Constable & Robinson Ltd (2003 by Lynn Picknett).

The quote from The Lost Magic of Christianity: Celtic Essene Connections by Michael Poynder is reprinted by permission of Green Magic (2000 by Michael Poynder).

The quote from Summons to a High Crusade by Sir George Trevelyan is reprinted by permission of Findhorn Press (1986 by Findhorn Press).

The quote from Sir George Trevelyans Foreword to The New Essenes by Sophie Edwards is reprinted by permission of Sophie Edwards (1983 by Sophie Edwards). The quotes from The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes (London 1997) are reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. (1962, 1965, 1968, 1975, 1987, 1995, 1997 by Geza Vermes).

The lines from St. Matthews Gospel quoted on page 195 are from The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

Our thanks to Ashian Belsey for permission to quote from her book Beyond Fear: Teachings from the Ascended Masters, published by Excalibur Editions in Munich; to Anne Hughes for her quotes; and to Anne MacEwen for permission to quote the Essene Network version of the Prologue.

I am a writer on new perspectives and the author of a best-selling name dictionary called Simply the Best Baby Name Book. I moved to mid Devon in the English West country in 1990 to work on the development of the Starlight Centre with its co-founder Joanna Prentis. The Centre focuses on healing and the transformation of consciousness.

This book is the result of our collaboration in the field of past life regression. Joanna is a qualified hypnotherapist and past life therapist, and conducted the sessions. I transcribed the tapes and edited the material into book form.

We have each contributed an introductory section, and we wrote commentaries where appropriate in the text. I also wrote a summation putting the project into perspective.

The regression process which forms the core of this book involves a number of sessions with a total of seven subjects:

Subject's name --- Essene name

Stuart --- Daniel Benezra

Rowena --- Joseph of Arimathea

John --- Luke

Roberta --- The Silent One

Martha --- Name not given

The two other subjects, Nicky and Carol, were followers of Jesus, but we did not find an Essene connection.

We are not saying that Rowena is the incarnation of the entire higher self of Joseph of Arimathea. One higher self may incarnate in several simultaneous soul aspects and we regard Rowena as an aspect of Joseph. This means that other people now living could also be aspects of Joseph. However, as individuals go through the regression process, it feels to them as if they are the entire being.

The first four subjects knew one another during that life: three lived in communities to the west of the Dead Sea, whilst the fourth (Joseph) traveled frequently and visited all three communities. The close links between these four people formed a key which enabled us to penetrate the Essene veil of secrecy. It made it possible for us to access information in a number of areas including some quite sensitive material concerning security issues. This information, including the location of Essene communities and the existence of a Core Group, has not previously been revealed, and advances our knowledge of the way in which the Essenes functioned. So does the material on Essene philosophy and the balance of priests and lay Brothers. The information emerging from this process both confirms previous regression work, and opens up an entirely new understanding of the lives and thought world of the Essenes. The Essenes did not refer to Jesus by that name. For reasons of secrecy and security he was referred to either as Benjoseph (literally, 'the son of Joseph') or as Yeshua, another form of this name being Jeshua. We realize that these names may well be confusing to the reader, and whenever he is referred to in the regression sessions we have altered this to read Jesus.