CHRISTIAN UNIVERSAL LIBRARY

THE DIVINE HISTORY OF JESUS CHRIST

 

THE ESSENIAN ORIGIN OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

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The Death of Zechariah

 

Let us keep in mind that the Death Sentence against Jesus and the Jewish anti-Christian persecutions created a reputation for the Jews as murderers of their own brothers for religious dissension, a fact that until 66 was intrinsically forbidden by the laws of Roman Law. The Pax Romana imposed its empire on the pillar of religious freedom. It is true that the official religion of Rome was financed by Rome, but no other measure against other religions was in force and every other measure in favor of the Roman religion had been repealed. It was in this historical context that the Jews opened their anti-Christian persecutions of extermination of the followers of Jesus within their own territory. Unfortunately for them the anti-Christian terrorism practiced by the murderers of St. Stephen, James the Greater and James the Less, marking these three deaths the three murderous persecutions of extermination executed by the authors and children of those who called for the Death Sentence of the Master, and the consequent strategy of anti-Christian propaganda at the international level, not only did not result to the Jews in their favor but ended up turning against them and were massacred, their land ravaged and the survivors banished from their properties.

As a result of this situation and forged in the most criminal hatred against Christianity, in turn a traitor to his own, Flavius Josephus would write his History of the Antiquities and the Wars of the Jews. In his books it was natural that any reference that could lead the historians of the future to the true History of Christ, his Origins and his Death, by logic I say, had to be buried by manipulating the names of the actors and hiding the events behind the circumstances of the kings of Israel from the Maccabees to the Herods. The day this same Flavius Josephus and his allies of rebellion against Rome decided to set fire to the Archives of the Temple of Jerusalem the purpose in mind was to erase from History any legal document by which the Historicity of this Jesus Christ could be certified.

Traitor to his allies and brothers in blood and arms, and survivor of the destruction of his nation, Flavius Josephus lived on his knees at the feet of the Roman master, just like a dog, but a dog in whose veins the blood was hatred and all that hatred concentrated towards a target: Christianity. In his History look for any element about the existence of Zechariah and Elizabeth, being as this Zechariah was a superimportant actor in his days, which the apocrypha themselves collect, elevating him to the same high priesthood, unreal but remarkable in relation to the existence of a fame that remained in the memory of many, although relegated to the prison of forbidden memories; to search in the Jewish Histories, I mean, any mention of the son of Abijah, that same Abijah whose name, being a Jew of pure strain Flavius Josephus manipulated and Hellenized him, remaining as Abtalion in his Jewish Wars; to search in this Antihistory of the Jewish People a source of information for the reconstruction of the pre-Messianic times, both Hasmonean and Herodian, is to make an exercise of supreme idiocy. It is like going to look for the fruit of the Tree of Life at the devil's table.

In the Divine History I abandoned the account of the Life of Zacharias and Elizabeth and their son the Baptist in order to keep the thread around the Holy Family. It is time to pick it up and reopen the chapter of the Murder of that Zechariah about whose death, and the life of his firstborn and only begotten son, John the Baptist, God, according to Jesus, would ask his people for an account.

I said in the Second Part of the Divine History that the Temple of Jerusalem had a 24-hour service, and each hour corresponded to one of the twenty-four priestly families, from which the high priest was then chosen. One of these hours was held by the father of Zechariah, the Abijah whose name was corrupted by his Hellenization by the Jewish Judas, Flavius Josephus, and Antichrist par excellence in the eyes of John the Evangelist. It is to this Hour that the Gospel refers when it speaks of the Temple Shifts. Zechariah inherited this Hour from his father. Obviously this Hour said it all about the importance of the worshipper in the hierarchical structure of the Temple.

A miniature Vatican State, these 24 Priests of the 24 Temple Shifts were the 24 heads of the 24 Ministries upon which the Templar Bureaucracy was based. Birth Registration, Sin Taxes, Sale of Animals and Birds for the Sacrifice of Atonement, Tithe Collection at national and international level ... in short, a State within the Jewish State. As a general rule, this Worship Shift was inherited from fathers to sons and only in case of not having descendants, the Shift passed to another priestly family. Sometimes it was sold to the highest bidder. The case of Zechariah, the heir of Abijah, was just that. But his assassination did not come from the need to remove the priest in order to share his position by reason of the election, always disposed to the corruption of the electors.

Let us also say that Zechariah's father was one of the few men of the Temple that King Herod not only respected, but also exalted for his courage and his fame as a prophet before his people. Under the shadow of this father and the cover of his fame before the court of the king of the Jews, a Palestinian to boot, Zechariah made his administrative career within the Templar bureaucracy. Destined as he was by birth to occupy the head of one of the ministries on which the Temple founded its material existence, Zechariah chose the Genealogical and Historical Archives, on which the registry of Births depended. The reason why the registry and not precisely another function is understood from the Divine-History.

The search for the true and legitimate heir to the Crown of David became the number one objective during the time between the end of the reign of the Hasmoneans and the beginning of the reign of the Herods. Zechariah vowed his life to discover the whereabouts of the Living Heir to the Crown of Israel. The historical circumstances against him, Herod newly in power, Zechariah played to perfection the trick of that prophet Daniel who with one hand served the king of Babylon and with the other worked the ruin of his kingdom. If you have read the Divine History you already know the marvelous adventure of his saga, the Doctrine of the Alpha and the Omega, the discovery of the two messianic houses and the Vow of Mary. All these things happened in secret and no one violated her seal until an accidental event came to open it and expose the antiherodian-prodavidical plot that had been weaving against her Crown by her favorite among the priests, the son of Abijah, naturally. This accidental chance event is called the Visitation of the Magi.

In the apocryphal gospels, of which the protoevangelium is their flagship, these Magi are treated as kings of India, Persia and Arabia. This fact is enough to understand why the sages of the first centuries banished such stories from the divine canon. That, however, as I have said, they collected forbidden memories and played with them to build their own golden pyramid. In the Second Part of the Divine History I have already discovered who those characters really were. The fact is that, against their will, those Magi discovered to the Herods the messianic plot that, behind their backs, but in their shadow, had been woven. If at first Herod did not want to believe that his favorite and protégé, the son of Abijah, was the head of that plot as soon as the mystery of his muteness, his retirement and his absence from the Temple without closing the question of the succession of his Turn, was discovered, "because Elizabeth had given birth to a son", Herod's resistance gave way.

It was the occasion that had been waiting for those who had wanted to buy Zechariah's turn and had gotten nothing. Now they could finish with the problem, to submit the succession to election and that the highest bidder took the turn of Abijah. But if for these assassins in holy robes the uncovered plot served them the sacred occasion to rise to the direction of the Temple, becoming part of the Priestly Dome, for the interested party, Zechariah, father of John, the question was to close the way that could lead the Beast to the Holy Family: through the sacrifice of his own life. The blood of the Innocents shed, the thirst of the Beast would be quenched.

In the desert lived in caves closed and isolated communities of peaceful dissident Jews. Among those cavemen of Roman times Zechariah hid his wife and child. Then he went to the Temple to continue with his turn as if nothing had happened and knew nothing at all about the Magi, the star of Bethlehem ... For they were looking for their lives, the sooner they finished, the better. And so they did. They kicked him to death, they bit him to death, they clawed him to death, they punched him to death. A pack of dogs that called themselves servants of the Most High and hid the mark of the devil they served under sacred robes adorned with silver bangs and anointed with gold dots, lifelong saints, fathers of the people by divine inspiration, dogs on two legs threw themselves on the Man of God and paid him for his services by beating him until his skull burst, his ribs were shattered and embedded against his back, his legs and arms were broken to the point of delirium and not even his mother could recognize whose corpse was the one they had killed at the door of the Temple, "under the gazilophacio".

The death of Zechariah, father of the Baptist and son of Abijah, closed the ways that could have led the Herods to his son John, and most importantly, to the Son of Joseph. This, warned about the Slaughter of the Innocents and the murder of Zacharias, his mentor, took his wife, his son, and together with Cleophas, the brother of his wife, and Mary of Cleophas and their sons and daughters, emigrated to Egypt at that time in its splendor under the rule of Octavian Caesar Augustus, patron of the so-called Golden Age of the Roman Empire.

2

John the Baptist among the Essenes

 

The structure of the events surrounding the Birth of the Kingdom of God leaves little room for intervention from the future in the determining events of its Foundation. God having brought to an end the Era of his Empire, and proclaimed the Unification of all the Crowns of the Universe in the Head of his Only Begotten, from then on and for Eternity, the transcendence of Humanity in this Chapter for Eternity is deduced from the place where this revolutionary change of Era took place: The Earth. It was men who laid their lives at the feet of this Divine Project, and when they had to surrender it, they did not hesitate to put their necks on the tray. Before blood there is no doubt; doubt is for subtle spirits, geniuses of emptiness, lovers of form. The human being is something more than a creature of the abyss. And this is what will be demonstrated in these Reflections.

I will leave for now the return to the issue of the Roman Nationality "by right" of the Jews, which existed, as in the case of St. Paul, a contemporary of Jesus if I remember correctly, although not a fellow countryman in the sense of the small homeland, but of the race, etcetera; and instead of asking ourselves when the Empire stripped itself of its Citizenship to clothe its subjects with it, it would be more convenient to postulate why Octavian Augustus did not extend this Universality, which comes from Law, when, having studied his genius, it is clear from his works that this Universality could not have escaped his thought, for what suits the Genius is not Vulgarity but the break with the agonizing symphony of agglutinating and monolithic traditions, against whose schizoid rhythm, translated into civil wars, Octavianus man faced life and death, from which it should be understood that it would have been very difficult for his Mind to have escaped the final benefits of a Revolutionary Expansion of Human-Roman Law to all the peoples of the civilized world. A philo-ideological root from which would come to light the Universal Registration Movement as a gateway to Roman Citizenship that, proceeding from the Law, would tear down the wall between Romans and other peoples of the Empire. Movement in whose framework we must see the Universal Enrollment that forced Joseph, the father of Jesus, to move from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but that we see surrounded by blood, as it could not be less, in uprising of protest against the Attempt of the Roman to Brother all the peoples in the Right, and it would be the definitive material proof that Octavian needed to convince himself that in many aspects he had been born for a Future that he would not know in flesh, because to live in the light of whose Right the world was not much less prepared. So Octavian the Politician won the day over Octavian the Man and in the face of the bloody Jewish response to his Attempt to Export Roman Citizenship to all the Peoples of the Empire, Augustus adapted himself to the facts and left for the Future the achievement of so great a good.

There will be time, then, to return to the Judgment of Jesus and marvel at the fact of his presence, no longer before the Sanhedrin but before the Roman governor himself, when in the course of the Gospels themselves we see how the Jews applied the death penalty right and left with total impunity. But not crucifying "the dogs"; the Crucifixion was the electric chair of the time, reserved for the Empire, but stoning in the public street the same to a harlot, adulterous case of the Gospels, "let him who is without sin cast the first stone", as to a saint (St. Sebastian for example). From where it is deduced, from what is seen and what is known, that the Empire did not annul the Patriotic Right of the Peoples, and left to the subject States the power over life and death referred to internal causes.

Some historians have pretended to make us eat with car wheels from the times of the Flintstones by affirming that the Jews were deprived of the power over life and death. And this they tell us over the corpse of St. Sebastian and that of that adulteress caught red-handed, who earned the very famous "I do not condemn you, go and sin no more" from Jesus. If Jesus was not stoned or sentenced to death by the Temple, when the Temple was stoning to death all its enemies and sinners, and with total impunity, what was the reason for this treatment of Jesus: against the Roman Law that forbade the Governor of the Empire to interfere in internal affairs that did not touch Roman Citizens? Was Jesus a Roman Citizen? And in fact the only crime for which an Imperial Governor had to answer before Caesar was not limited to his criminal actions against Roman Citizens?

Anyway, in this section we will jump from Jesus to John. The starting question is important: Where did John the Baptist come from?

God could get Abraham's children out of the stones. However, no one will take this saying literally. Not because God cannot turn stones into men, power that confirms the reality when we see so many two-legged stone heads filling the earth. And if it is because of the heart, which some have as hard as rocks ... Apart from this finding, the question stands out imperiously: Where did John the Baptist come from? And who knew, and how did he know, and why did he know that he who knew: That John was the son of that Elizabeth and that Zacharias?

This point nailed to the table, it would be convenient to tie it by affirming, or at least insinuating, that to draw the veil of the centuries and penetrate into the sancta sanctorum of the Memory of God Himself, we have to detach ourselves from the nature of our century. And what is true for us is true for all times and places. We are born and formed in a certain environment, and by logic the nature of that environment shapes the properties of our way of seeing and understanding the world.

But this works while we are still children. The purpose of this relationship between the subject and the world is to give birth in the being to a free spirit, perfectly formed to abstract from its circumstances and to contemplate the world, as an object, from the point of view of the subject who observes reality as if he himself did not belong to it.

Referring to universal reality as an entity in itself, with its own objective laws, and governed by its own judgments, the biohistorical legality of an alternative gaze is fostered in the individual himself, determining the recreation of events whose memory moves in time in the manner of shadows on a Chinese screen. Let's never forget that the highest wall against which our intelligence is fighting is the wall formed by the books of those who once called themselves "historians".

Either because they do not exist, or because those that do exist are documents manipulated for specific purposes, whoever wants to recreate past times must necessarily put on the table a method of reconstruction in whose toolbox these "official" documents are just one more instrument, but in no case the only valid one to open the door of the centuries and their things. To forget that the actors of History had at their service those same ones who wrote "History", and that those Historians were paid to tell what they told, this forgetfulness is an unforgivable renunciation in the eyes of a passionate and unwavering lover of Universal History, and although at the feet of scientific historians:

"without docs there is no Recreation of the Past and this Recreation must conform to those docs", one must affirm oneself in the denial of their scientific method and declare it dementia to pretend to reach the truth by following in the footsteps of those who devoted themselves to conceal it. Flavius Josephus is not the only "historian" who loved the truth above all things, and in the name of that love he took the Historical Truth and crucified it.

So where did John come from, and why did he feed on honey and locusts like the beasts? Being the son of that Zechariah, of the turn of Abijah, prince of the Temple of Jerusalem, only son of his father, heir of his Turn: to what was his withdrawal into the desert, his renunciation of his father's multicentennial inheritance due?

This is understood by affirming the Revelation of the Gospel, and assuming its value as a historical document. But if the Gospel is a novel in this case this question is fantasy and the discussion that follows is pure science fiction.

The choice is up to each one. I was not there when the events happened and I refer to the ink that was used to write this Doc: The blood.

For if in the blood is the life and the spirit is the life, the spirit is in the blood. So weighing the value of some "scientific historians" whose dementia congratulates itself in basing the recreation of the Universal History in Docs, sacrificing the Truth in the origin of those documents, in whose value they do not enter; against the value of the blood as "Historical Doc" each one must emit his judgment.

Example.

If, referring the History of Henry VIII. to the Docs of British History, that criminal was a saint, and among British historians, where is the one who calls bread, bread, and wine, wine, treats that "saint" as a criminal, and calls such a saint by his name: criminal? And a serial criminal, the worst kind of two-legged beast, all the more monstrous his crime when in his victory an entire nation renounced the most sacred thing, the critical judgment of free intelligence.

Thus, when it comes to the study of history, we must guard, above all and first of all, against "the historians". It is certainly obligatory to refer to Flavius Josephus when traveling to the times of the Jews of the Pre-Christian Age, but at the same time one must touch his books with "iron gloves". And anyone who does not take his precautions will end up throwing stones at "the Christian dogs".

This decision taken, namely: the Gospel is a Historical Doc, we pull back the veil and look face to face the memory of those times when ... Zechariah, son of Abijah, the "Abtalion" of the last days of the Hasmoneans according to Flavius Josephus ... in the name of whose character the manipulation of the same facts narrated by "the historian" is evident from the incredible case he presents, by giving a Greek name to a full-blooded Hebrew, a high priest to boot.

The son of Abijah-Abtalion, heir of one of the 24 turns of the Temple, married to Elizabeth, of the Aaronic lineage for the greater glory of his heir, would be the father of our John. And it was this same Zechariah who, lying under one of the gates of the Temple, we left in a previous section. It is upon the death of this Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, that Jesus issued through His mouth the judgment of God against the murderers of His Servant, an octogenarian old man, when He said that "from Abel to Zechariah..." Indeed. They killed him with their fists, with their kicks, with their mouths?

How could they dare to kill an old man, prince of the Temple, at the gates of the tomb already, anyway? Why, and specifically just a few days after the Slaughter of the Innocents, had Zacharias not heard about what had happened in Bethlehem of Judah?

It would be useless for me to stop to look for a Doc that could serve us as proof when it comes to rooting the behavior of the characters of the Divine History according to the movement that I recreate on the march of the memories of their lives. Biohistory is to move the pieces in such a way that once the game is played there is no mystery in the air, except as a memory for those who did not know the course of events that gave the victory to the Winner. And if for each step it were necessary to remember the sequence in Time, the recreation would be a waste of time, in the same way that interpreting a language to someone who does not even know the language on which the translation is made is a waste of time. Thus had not Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist and son of Abijah-Abtalion of the Manipulated History of the Jews by Josephus, heard of the Slaughter of the Innocents, and gone, like a lamb with a lost sense of smell, to creep, in his ignorance, into the cave of the Herodian basilisk?

Truth admits of no digressions. Only the Lie is open to Doubt. Of course Zacharias was aware of the Slaughter of the Innocents and, knowing that to appear in the Temple would cost him his life, Zacharias made the decision that would earn his name Glory for Eternity: To throw more meat to the dogs in order to prevent hunger from keeping the Beast's sense of smell sharp, like a hungry wolf seeking the Life of the Child who had just been born. That meat was to be his own!

Let us bear in mind that to the coward the courage of the hero seems born of madness, and to the despot the blood of revolution tastes like rebellion, whence to base upon the judgment of such witnesses the nature of historical events is simply to renounce that which differentiates man from the beasts: the spirit of Truth. And not because it was Science that killed the truth of Spirit should we admit as Natural that which is repugnant to Intelligence. That is, whoever wishes to deal with another Being on a one to one basis, must see the Person in the fullness of its ontological faculties, and not mutating its properties for the sake of the times. This is a very common phenomenon among historians, especially considering that among the thousands of "professors" we can hardly find a few who were not at the service of their Lords and Masters, and as mercenaries of the pen, to look for more than one Procopius among them is, if not playing the blind man's game, then playing the fool for the pleasure of playing the clown.

In the old days, the common man, recognized as vulgar for his excellences, without knowing how to read and write, had to take the Nibelungadas of the emperors, kings and popes as if they were the word of God, although they were dictated to us by mercenaries of the pen, dogs faithful to their masters, and if not faithful, at least paid and well eaten. Nowadays we have the opportunity to read for ourselves, to see with our own eyes and to resort to the divine exercise of burning the barn in order to find the needle without making a fool of ourselves for the happiness and nirvana of their eminences, most excellent and divine crowned heads. Which is not to say that the suicidal proverb of the ignorant being happier than he who knows much is dead. It is to be believed that still, although not for long, we will have to wait for the day of the burial.

Returning to our subject, the Death of Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, let us say that, if to a coward the mind of a brave man is an enigma, so much more unfathomable is that of a saint to a sinner of letters. Such hands having been those that wiped their faults in the blood of such madmen, how can we believe that it could have been otherwise than it has been! Recreated by historians whose freedom was that of the dog with the golden collar, how could the history of the days of Jesus have failed to be anything more than an "anti-history". Now, the free man prefers to live in a cave than to be a dog in a palace. Something that does not apply to "historians", and with greater force to the British School.

Since Flavius Josephus, seeking the survival of his race stripped his people of the natural spirit to the Patriarchs and Prophets, waiting for the historians of the Gentiles to find in the corpse of the Jew the soul of the Hebrew became a dilemma of nature that the Serpent posed to the other beasts of Paradise: Will God condemn the sin of a single man to the whole world? Josephus' answer was: Impossible. Paul's answer was: Of course. And since then Jews and Christians have lived like cats and dogs. That being the case, the Jew having stripped the Hebrew of his spirit, who will believe that Israel can see God in Christ! And if he cannot see what is in his own flesh, how will he have access to his memory?

Faced with the holiness of the Hebrew the Jew is in the same position as the coward before the hero, he is unable to understand the root of his movements. The Jew, not wanting to assume that God would condemn the whole world for one man, was able to assume as necessary the death of one man so that all his people would live, walking on whose path then were the lives of two, later those of three, and following the same path the Jew threw himself into the final solution that the famous Saul of Tarsus brought in his hand when he fell off his horse, because Jesus came out of him according to the Christians, because he was a coward according to the Jews. But back to the subject:

Zechariah, the father of the John in diapers, was perfectly aware of the Slaughter of the Innocents when he decided to present himself at the Temple in order to by the scandal of his death gain Joseph and Mary the necessary time to pack up and emigrate to Egypt.

We see how, oblivious to the Slaughter, Joseph and Mary present themselves in the Temple, and there they meet the other Star Protagonist of the Second Part of the Divine History of Jesus, Simeon the Younger, son of Simeon the Babylonian, the Semei of the history of Flavius Josephus, the partner of the Abtalion.

For the Tradition remains the poor old man worshiping the Messiah. For Joseph the words that that "old man" said in his ear: "Flee Joseph, take the Son of David and go to Egypt, for it is written: Out of Egypt I have called my son". The rest is written in the Divine History. In this section we will touch on what I did not write there.

Of course Zechariah knew that he was facing his death penalty of leaving the mountains of Judea where he lived and returning to Jerusalem after his period of muteness, precisely when the aspirants to enter the Temple of the 24 princes who ruled the Theocratic State of Jerusalem were already dividing their Turn. Zechariah knew that the scandal of his murder by the Temple dogs would force their masters to control them, lock them up and keep them quiet for a while, the time Joseph needed to take the Child and leave Israel.

But before sacrificing himself, Zechariah made arrangements to save the life of his son, the one who had been born to make the Voice heard in the wilderness. How could they not murder his son John once the news of his birth reached Jerusalem and entered the ear of the Herods! A child born in the manner of Isaac, to parents older than Methuselah? A Messiah, of course!

This is the true origin of John the Baptist.

Zechariah commands his wife to take their child and bring him to the caves of the Essenes, at the Dead Sea. Without name, as one who has saved his grandson from some slaughter, or as one who saves the son of a daughter caught in adultery and killed with stones, she who was by lineage sister of Mary, the sister of Moses, and by family was sister of the mother of Mary, Mother of Jesus, that Elizabeth, born a princess in the bosom of the Aaronite clans of Jerusalem, cultured as only she, obeys her husband, because she knows perfectly where her husband, Zechariah, goes, she takes off all her lady's clothes, takes her newborn son, six months old, seven at the most, and hides in the shadows of one of the caves where those Essene communities of the times of Herod and his sons lived. If any of those cave dwellers had ever met the wife of Zechariah, the son of Abijah, in other times, after the miraculous birth of their John, no one would have been able to say that that woman was the same one he knew. The miracle of the rejuvenation of her flesh had erased from her appearance the grandmother she should have been because of her age.

There, in one of those Essene communities, allowed by the established Jewish powers of the time, Elizabeth nurtured her son and lived to teach him who his father was, how Zacharias, his father, was killed; how he, John, was born, his father's dumbness and the necessity of his death. Elizabeth cultivated her son's soul throughout his Infancy and Puberty in the Mystery of the Annunciation of Jesus, who Joseph and Mary, his parents, were, why they had to flee and why Zacharias imposed upon himself the duty of concealing his Flight by offering himself as a victim of scandal. He, John, was "the Voice of him that was to cry in the wilderness..."

The fact that she was a woman, and consequently could not be admitted as a full member of the Essene community of the Dead Sea, kept the "brotherhood" away from her son John, who, upon the death of his mother, withdrew to the desert in preparation for his Hour, surviving on honey and locusts.

Elizabeth would die at the time of Joseph, the time of Mary, when her son was already fending for himself and there was no one in this world who could subject him to more rules than those of his Birth.

The religious philosophy of the Essenes and the atmosphere of internal fraternity meant a moral formation of tremendous power over the future Baptist, especially since the origin of the Essenes was based on the impossibility of living under a nation that, with the rise of the Hasmoneans, signed its destruction by rebelling against the Law of the Crown, given by the Lord in perpetuity to the sons of David.

This is the true origin of the Essenes.

The Essenes refused to live under the sin of rebellion against the Decree of the Lord committed by the sons of the Maccabees, and, when the defeat of the Prodavidic Antiasmonean Movement was consummated, the defeated preferred poverty and isolation to living under the law of the king who rebelled against God.

Throughout the Hasmonean Dynasty the Essenes lived in isolation and grew through the constant trickle of subtle spirits into a quasi-troglodyte Community, which, thanks to the faithful nurturing of relatives, was able to survive the cause of its origin. Once the Hasmonean crown was abolished, 66 B.C., when Pompey entered and conquered the Middle East, the Essenes returned to the Nation. But when Herod ascended to power, committing in his eyes the Nation a crime infinitely more serious against the Lord God, because if before it was a Jew the rebel, now it was a Palestinian the usurper, the Essenes returned to their caves.

Whether peacefully or forced by Herod and his Jews is water from another mill. The fact is that the Galilee went into rebellion against the house of Herod since Antipater began to lean on Rome to elevate his house to the throne that the Hasmoneans had left vacant. Herod himself, though young, took it upon himself to annihilate this opposition to his family, and his triumph against the rebellious Galileans would win him fame and glory in the eyes of his future Roman godfathers.

It would be during this phase of humiliation of the Jews, dominated by a non-Hebrew Antidavidic House, that the Essene community of the Dead Sea desert became numerous. Herod, for his part, simply ignored them. Those cavemen of the desert, on the shores of the Dead Sea, had given themselves Peace and Brotherhood for gods and the more like them ... the better for their dynasty. They did no harm to anyone and were revered as saints by those who knew them .... the better for them ...

What better place than those Caves to hide a "child and his mother" from the murderous hands of the Beast that would devour the husband of Elizabeth "Zechariah's"?

John's words against the Jews of the Temple, continually calling them vipers, are understood from this formation and upbringing that his mother instilled in him. John knew who he was, and who the Messiah was, the ties that bound their houses and their blood, he knew the name of the son of Mary, his mother's grandniece, he knew the name of the Messiah, of the One who had been born without knowing a man, as his mother had revealed it to him. What John did not know was the face of Jesus. But this is another story.