The Essene Tradition goes back to Enoch, its founding Father. It was born from the alliance of this out-of-the-ordinary man – and then of an entire people – with the divine world, many tens of thousands of years ago, at a time when mankind had fallen from the primeval world. Then, this tradition perpetuated itself in an uninterrupted manner by progressing from one Master to another, bringing the Light of Wisdom into all cultures, from one century to the next. The Essene Tradition is also called the Primordial Tradition, because it gave birth to all the great civilizations and spiritual streams which brought us all which is beautiful, true and sacred in this world. It is by this continuous alliance with the divine world – and through its representatives – that the Essene Tradition was able to radiate the Light within all the traditions of all cultures, bringing an essential knowledge to mankind gone astray. Go now and discover the fabulous story of the Essenes through the ages, under the guidance and benevolence of the great Masters of their Tradition, from Enoch to our times.

Recognized in the sacred texts of all the traditions of the world (under different names) as the first man who rose up from the Fall (see Glossary), Enoch is the one who liberated man from the influence of the sick angels by showing him the way to wisdom. He brought the Light of divine knowledge to a world in perdition, a world caught up in the darkness of ignorance and unconsciousness. Thus, Enoch was the first Messiah; Master Jesus himself will later claim his affiliation to Enoch.
Enoch created the first Mystery Schools (see Glossary) and erected the first temples of mankind on the earth, the first pyramids.

Atlantis is a continent that has disappeared. As its name indicates, this continent used to occupy the space covered by the Atlantic Ocean, and even more. In these ancient times mankind’s consciousness was not at all like it is today. Men did not live inside their physical bodies and were not even aware of them. Furthermore, the human body absolutely did not have the shape it has today. The shape of the body was then really malleable, like some kind of clay, and fluctuated with the individual’s level of moral and spiritual conscience, even if man did not really have an individual conscience at the time. Mankind was living in a dream-like conscience; there was no day or night or even life or death. When a man died, he did not really notice because he was permanently residing in what we call “the beyond”; there was no terrestrial life. Man was a creator with his mind and did not really know of matter; it did not exist for him because he was living in an invisible world, meaning subtle and without any clear borders. Men were still living in a state of widened consciousness.

The Indians and a number of first peoples have kept a memory of these ancient times which they call the times of “the Birdmen”. This is why they put feathers on their heads, to commemorate this ancient past and to forever remember their divine origins. It was an external living symbol that was speaking to them from the inside, stating that they were not only physical bodies but also living souls, free to travel through many worlds.

The Egyptians also cultivated the memories of these faraway times; they called it the times of the “Sons of Horus”. Horus was the sun bird, the original cosmic man, the Christ, the one who directs the Initiates to the realms of the immortal spirit.

In Atlantis, only those “Sons of Horus” knew of evil and could study it without getting caught up in it. A number of legends speak of this secret science that allowed the Initiates to keep demons as prisoners and contain them, keeping them from breaking loose and invading mankind. Those demons were not negative in essence. They were, simply, the forces of decomposition and their task was to decompose matter and all that is perishable. But they could become negative and cruel if man was to betray the divine laws to control other beings. This is how, among the Initiates of Atlantis, traitors and beings with bad intentions arose and wanted to use the powers of destruction of the demons for their own personal gains of power, to dominate the world and all of its creatures.

The greater part of mankind was seduced and attracted by the physical world that glittered intently in the hands of those who had decided to enslave mankind for their own glory. And so, once more, just like in Lemuria (the era that preceded Atlantis and when Enoch appeared), mankind fell and lost its primordial nature, its being a cosmic and universal man. Consciousness became a prisoner of the physical body and its senses, limited to its perception of the material world. This was the beginning of a lengthy decay of human consciousness, behind the misleading appearances of blazing technological and scientific advancements. Thus, history repeats itself at every new cycle of human evolution, and mankind today finds himself in the very same situation the Atlanteans were in before the destruction of their civilization.

Before the ancient Atlantean civilization – by its diverted use of the sons of Enoch’s sacred science – disappeared in the Flood the Bible refers to, it is said that Noah (an anagram of the name Enoch) constructed an ark for the preservation of the Covenant of Light of the Essene People and all the existing reigns of the Creation: not only the animal kingdom, the vegetal kingdom and the mineral kingdom, but also the Angels, the Archangels and the Gods... This ark was the School of God, the Essene Nation of which the mark for victory was given through a rainbow, a symbol of the union between heaven and earth, of the three invisible reigns of the Father with the three visible reigns of the Mother; with man standing in the middle like a magus, the unifier of two worlds.

It is the period when, around 5 000 B.C., the imposing Egyptian nation was truly born, during the reign of Menes, the great Pharaoh. Sadly, the true history of mankind has been the victim of very serious mutilations and the so-called official history has relegated this ignored Egyptian era to the rank of “prehistory”... all this when our contemporary scientists still cannot understand the incredible science that allowed the Egyptians to construct the pyramids. Thus, what we know of Egypt today is only about a degenerated Egypt, the one which was ruled by the usurpers of the Pharaoh, after the reign of Akhenaton, the last Pharaoh, Son of the Sun and son of Enoch.

The hidden origins of our present governments’ anarchy

The end of this ignored period of history started sometimes around 3 200 B.C. A man named Irshu, the son of the king of India, fomented a plot to gain access to the throne because he could not bear the concept of hierarchy founded by Rama. Indeed, Irshu did not possess the wisdom of the Initiates; he was full of pride and wanted to seize all the power for himself and acted without the pure and impersonal will of his Mothers and Fathers, the Essenes. He wanted to accede to the throne without having to pass through the trials of Initiation. For those trials would ineluctably reveal the weaknesses, the intentions and the nature of the forces that belonged to the candidate.

He then took advantage of his mastery over the art of speech and put forward his inheritance of royal blood as well as his diplomatic relations to secretly generate an uprising against the authorities. Irshu, like a dictator acclaimed by a people unaware of its choice, progressively banished the circle of wise men and priests – the guardians of true justice – from the government. This is how mankind saw a new kind of government appear: anarchy disguised as democracy.

This is in fact a universal tragedy which, slowly but surely, propagated all over the earth, hurling the whole of mankind into darkness, into discord, into disharmony, into division and war.

If anarchy has been at the head of our governments for over 3 000 years, it is because the nation leaders no longer have to submit themselves to the trials of Initiation, trials which showed the candidates to what extent they were nothing without the help of a superior world... and that only service for the divine world, for the well-being of all, could crown a man Son of the Light and the guide of an entire people.

Thus, the true aristocracy has been soiled, profaned, reduced to a simple heredity by blood and is no more based on the royalty of the soul and the kindness of the man which were put to the test by the great trials of Initiation. Only then was it known that a man was no longer a man for he was united to the Gods and had become, in his time, a Father for all beings.

It is in this context, hostile to the advent of the great Essene Masters, that Krishna was born, which explains the deep similarities between his birth and that of Jesus. From then on, only Egypt remained to carry the great Light brought by Enoch, even in its way of controlling the people. Thus, it is in the Temple-Schools of Egypt that Krishna was trained to prepare for its mission: to restore the teaching and the place of the Brahmans – name of the wise men and priests in India – back to their original purity, in the government and the traditions of the Hindu people.

But the poison injected by Irshu in the heart of humanity spread like a plague as the centuries passed, always seeking to gain more territories…

Thus, before this poison could reach the great people of China, a son of Enoch appeared to prevent this evil and to establish a strong and stable foundation in the Chinese government so that wisdom and justice would keep their place.

Nearly unknown to our Occidental culture, Fu Xi is the Founding father of the amazing civilization of the Sons of the Sky of China; he is also an author of Xing (founding texts of China and its thousand-year-old wisdom), from which very famous I Ching is issued. It is thanks to this out of the ordinary being and to his sacred texts that China remains, at the present time, the country which saw the longest lasting peace (several thousands of years); an era of peace that ended only a few centuries ago.

The incarnation of Zoroaster, the great Essene Master, corresponds to a particular phase in the evolution of mankind, to a time when man started to become aware of the importance of the Earth. Indeed, before him, the Hindus were taught that the Earth was “Maya”, an illusion which man had to seek to leave. But if that concept had been true during a certain era, it was necessary from then on for man to get nearer to the Earth and to take root in it in order to acquire an individual conscience and the power of free will.

This is why all the teachings of Zoroaster were based on the knowledge of the mysteries of the grain of wheat - the fertilizing principle of the Father - and the mysteries of the Earth - the creative and generating principle of the Mother. Thus, man learnt how to plant and help the seeds of a good, just and beautiful life to grow, to create a future for himself within the Light. By studying the book of nature and through it, he had to understand all the mysteries of life as well as the sacred science which makes it possible to control evil by putting it at the service of the well-being of all. It was the antique science of magic, the royal path of the ancient Atlantean Initiates which gave man knowledge and mastery over all kinds of influences, negative as well as positive. This is why Zoroaster was called the Father of the Magi and that the latter came to honour him when he reincarnated as Jesus.

Thus, Zoroaster made it possible for mankind to accept the process of incarnation and to open a path for the divine world to manifest within the reality of the Earth.

Hermes Trismegistus manifested himself in the continuity of the tradition of the Magi and of the work accomplished by the great Zoroaster. Knowing that a long era of darkness and decadence of the human conscience was beginning, progressively gaining ground around the whole earth and driving mankind toward systematic profanation of the mysteries, of all which is pure and sacred, Hermes accomplished a work of utmost importance for the next generations, as well as for us.

Under the seal of the hieroglyphs (magic writings with three levels of interpretation), he caged and concealed the whole of the secret science of Egyptian hieroglyphs so that no malevolent being could use it for its own political and personal gain, just like it had happened at the end of Atlantis, causing its final destruction. This is where the Tarot (an anagram of Torah: the law, a divine Teaching) originates from. Within its esoteric symbolism can be found the complete knowledge of the laws that govern the universe, mankind and the divine world (the three worlds mentioned in the kabbalah, the trinity and in any tradition). This is why Hermes was titled Trismegistus (three times great), the one who knows and can travel through all the worlds. Moreover, the Greeks, who honoured him like a God, represented him with wings at his feet and dubbed him “messenger of the Gods”. He is also the Father of the medicine for the body and the soul, the one who knows all the secrets of healing. This is why the Essenes are associated him with Archangel Raphael whose name means “healing by God”. The Greeks have called him “Esculape”, which means “the great remedy”.

And Hippocrates himself, the Father of “official” medicine, claimed to come from the lineage of Hermes Trismegistus and placed himself under his authority.

Born in the antique kingdom of Chaldea, in the same regions where Zoroaster lived, Abraham acquired the mission to keep the Essene Tradition alive and to allow for the future great Masters to incarnate in world becoming ever more hostile to their manifestation. Just like Enoch, like Noah, like Rama, (Abraham or “Ab Rama” means the heir of Rama, the one who comes after Rama) and like Moses, he reconstituted and gathered all the Children of the Light under the banner of only one people, a people within all peoples. He called it Israel (which means “Son of the Sun”) as a tribute to his glorious ancestors, the Pharaohs, Sons of the Sun, whose reach and power to act were increasingly shrinking due to the ever growing schism of Irshu.

Contrarily to common beliefs, Akhenaton is not the first worshipper of the One God (Aton or Amon Ra, in Egypt). He simply was a Pharaoh who restored the antique Essene vision of the One God hidden behind each and every divinity, behind all the faces of life. He banished the cult of idols solely dedicated to the service of the well-being of man, to the detriment of all the other kingdoms of beings. He was murdered through the initiative of his wife Nefertiti, who participated to the fall of mankind and made it even worse by definitively relieving – through Akhenaton – the lineage of the Pharaoh, Sons of the Sun, from the government of nations.

Moses, son of royal Egyptian lineage, was destined to become a Pharaoh in order to re-establish the antique synarchy of Ram and the government of the Sons of Horus (link to Atlantis) at the head of Egypt.

Initiated in the Temple-Schools of mysteries to prepare for his mission, Moses went victoriously through all the trials of the Initiation of the Sons of the Sun (to learn more, read Olivier Manitara’s book: The Initiation of the 7 Sons of the Sun / L’Initiation des 7 Fils du Soleil), until he reached a perfect mastery. But some traitors got on his way, opposing to his accession to the throne because of hate and jealousy. Then, helped by his invincible determination, Moses went for a coup d’état that failed, which explains his running away from Egypt with all the statues of the Gods and the secret books given to the Egyptian Hierophants by Hermes Trismegistus. Thus, the Tarot of Hermes became the Torah (an anagram of Tarot) of Moses, the Law and the Teachings of the divine world for mankind... And Israel, the People of the Children of the Light, then entered a critical phase in its history, finding itself in exile, searching for a new land so that the uninterrupted Tradition of the Essenes, the sons and daughters of Enoch, may live on.

In order for the Covenant of Light with the divine world to stay alive and pure, Moses created a sacerdotal college of 70 priests, guardians of the Torah and its secret, esoteric, hermetic (meaning “which comes from Hermes”) doctrine, reserved to the Initiates, to the Magi. Moses then passed the Covenant on to Joshua the prophet. This is how was engendered the lineage of the 24 prophets of Israel, who passed down the torch of the Covenant from a century to the next, until the incarnation of the Christ in through our Master Jesus.

A contemporary of Moses, also trained secretly in the Temples of Egypt, Orpheus accomplished in Greece what his co-initiate could not accomplish in Egypt. He re-established the antique synarchy of their common ancestor, the great Rama, by instituting the Great Amphictyonic League, similar to the Knights Templar, protectors of the people and responsible for the activation of the temples.

The Gods of Olympia found in Greek mythology were in fact the great Initiates who used to live in the Rila mountain range in Bulgaria, where Orpheus implemented his School of mysteries. And once again, more than 3 000 years later, Master Peter Deunov reinstated the cult of mysteries through his initiatic School, resuscitating the divine memory of all that had been taught and transmitted by the sublime Orpheus. It is surprising to realize that both those great Masters were geniuses in the musical domain, Master Peter Deunov with his violin and Master Orpheus with his lyre. Both were also extraordinary doctors who could heal the body, and also, and to a greater extent, take care of the soul and the mind.

Elias is the heir of the secret teachings of Moses which were meant to keep the Essene Tradition pure and untouched so that the Christ (Horus for the Egyptians, the great spirit of the sun) could find the right conditions for his incarnation in through a great Essene Master. This is why Elias reinstated in secret the teachings of Isis and initiated the construction of a temple for the initiation of women on Mount Carmel, where Mary, the Essene Virgin, would be trained for her mission. Thus, from Elias, was born a stream of women, initiated to the Mother, to the virtues of kindness, of tenderness, of purity, without which Jesus could not have been born and the Christ could not have appeared in this world to deliver it from ignorance and unconsciousness.

Practically unknown because he was put aside from official history, Numa is the last Essene Master, the last son of Enoch to have been at the head of a nation. At a time when anarchy and power were totally dominating the head of Italy (formerly Etruria), Numa, like almost all the great Masters of the past, was trained in the Temple-Schools of Egypt and accomplished the great Initiation of the Sons of the Sun. Thanks to his heroic courage and undeniable wisdom, he still had to make use of some tricks to slip through the net held by the Roman usurpers and reach the head of Italy. Just like Orpheus and Elias, he restored the sacred order of the Vestales and helped enforce peace and harmony for many decades before being murdered by his jealous and power-hungry detractors. It is interesting to note that when the Order of the Vestales was dissolved, the Roman Empire crumbled.

After travelling to nearly all the temples of the world and collecting their esoteric teachings, Pythagoras arrived at the doors of the Temples of Egypt, introducing himself as a Master, but was kept from entering because of his lack of humility. He finally kneeled in front of the superior wisdom of the Egyptian hierophants and climbed, one after the other, all the steps leading to the Initiation of the Sons of the Sun. At a time when the Greek people’s conscience was under the grip of superstition, which reduced the sublime teachings of Orpheus to dead words, Pythagoras re-established the Mystery School and instated a veritable education for man: at the same time spiritual, intellectual (mathematics, astrology, kabbalah, etc...), moral (psychology, art of speech), artistic (music, chant, dance, etc...). His influence even reached beyond the boundaries of Greece.

Born and trained in a community of initiates linked to the stream of the Essene wisdom, Siddhartha Gautama, known as “the Buddha”, “the Awakened One” had a much more important contribution on civilization than is usually believed, beyond his spiritual influence. All the kingdoms of Asia were touched and renewed by the wisdom of this great Essene Master. With great eloquence, Buddha showed to every being the necessity for mankind to establish peace in himself and with all which exists around him, if he is to see it materialize in this world.

A contemporary of Buddha and Pythagoras, Laozi, just like Fu Xi, his glorious ancestor, help the wisdom of the Essene shine at its brightest; one century later, it inspired Confucius to lay the foundations of the Chinese government. The Tao Te Ching written by Laozi is probably the most important book of wisdom ever written, inspired by the very source of the intelligence of the universe that reveals itself through the great book of the living nature.

Plato finds his place in the lineage of Orpheus and Pythagoras, who got their teachings directly from Egypt. Just like his two ancestors, Plato re-established the Mystery School, in a more secretive way, by the means of the Academy, a kind of secular university in which were renewed all the Pythagorean teachings. He had a considerable influence which got as far away as the Occident, notably through the great cultural movement of the Renaissance.

Saint John the Baptist, Jesus and Saint John, trained from their youngest age by the great Master of the Essene Fraternity on Mount Horeb, are like the very same being. Saint John the Baptist prepared all the conditions for the coming of Christ which he had prophesized as Elias.

And when Jesus appeared in “front of the scene”, as the living incarnation of Christ, Saint John the Baptist disappeared, beheaded by the orders of King Herod. After three years of public service, Jesus also disappeared, crucified by the people supposed to welcome him and crown him king of Israel. The Alliance with the Christ – the Master within all Masters – was then entrusted in Saint John, the beloved disciple, who became the new great Master of the Essene People, the bearer of Christ and the guardian of his secret doctrine for the next two thousand years. From the Mystery School of the Christ, which he resuscitated and founded with the help of the Virgin Mary, a new river of Essene Wisdom was born and it prolonged itself through the Fraternities of the Manicheans, the Bogomils, the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Rosicrucians, up to the contemporary Essene Nation and Essene School.

For the Essenes, Jesus is not a being that simply descended from the skies, appearing from nothing. He was the matured fruit of the great millennial tree of the Essene Tradition, the end result of a very lengthy work, from the prayers and the sacred rituals of millions of souls who have worked in silence so that, one day, this being of Christ might touch the earth through a great Master and teach the whole of mankind. Jesus was the response of the Father and the Mother to all those souls in dire need of truth justice and peace.

Thus, the birth and apparition of Jesus in our History are not something “miraculous” if this means irrational and unexpected. For the Essenes, it had to happen as clearly and scientifically as the apple has to grow on the apple tree.

The preparation, the birth and the evolution of Jesus have been in great part a “feminine matter”. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a great priestess of the Essene People, trained and prepared for her mission on the slopes of Mount Carmel, inside the temples constructed through the initiative of Elias the prophet. Thus, she actively contributed to her son’s development by passing down all her virtues to him. Then, when he reached adulthood, it is Mary Magdalene who took great care to make sure that Jesus always had the best conditions to fulfil his mission.

Those two extraordinary women became, in their turn, authentic Masters, living incarnations of the Mother of the world, the daughters of Isis, the great initiator who knows all the secrets to engender Light on the earth. Jesus himself, like all the great Masters and guides of the People of Essenia, is a son of Isis. “No man may go toward the Father without passing through the Mother.” (words from the mysteries of Egypt)

Mani was born in the year 216 A.D., in Persia, in a Gnostic community linked to the Mystery Schools of Egypt and to the Palestinian Essenes. By his union with the source of all knowledge, Mani was able to teach the Christians the profound, esoteric and liberating aspects of universal Christianity. He was unveiling the foundations of the divine magic of Zoroaster to the magi of Iran. To the Buddhists, he explained the path toward the liberation of the soul by the elaboration of a body of wisdom through the cycle of reincarnations, etc... This exceptional man, this being like no other, this lover of God has thus devoted his life to spread the Teachings of the Light to the four corners of the world. The Church of Justice (the name of the official religion of Mani) he instituted radiated its light through the whole world for more than a thousand years.

Muhammad was born in the Middle-East in a Nestorian community linked, just like Mani, to the Mystery Schools of Egypt and to the Palestinian Essenes. Through his alliance with Archangel Gabriel (like Moses, Laozi, Jesus, Mani and all the pharaohs of Egypt), Muhammad received the surahs of the Qur’an, the divine commandments for the Arab people. Thanks to the strength of will, the rigour of discipline and the aspiration for knowledge he transmitted to his followers, Islam shone a light on what was then known as the “civilized” world (the whole of Europe and the Middle-East) for many centuries before fanaticism became the only master of this religion which was reduced to mere words.

Padmasambhava means “one born from the lotus”. Almost unknown to our occidental culture, this extraordinary being saved the wisdom and Tradition of the Essene from the grip of the thieves of the Light. From Palestine to Tibet – accompanied by a few wise men – he brought back the totality of the precious documents which imperatively had to stay out of the reach of any profaner. The Tradition tells us that he had to fight against demons to preserve the Teachings of the Children of the Light. Padmasambhava is the first Dalai Lama of Tibet. It was him who truly instituted – and not the Buddha – Tibetan Buddhism into the Himalayas, in the place now known as Lhasa, the current capital of Tibet.

Around the year 800 of the Christian era, persecutions against the Manicheans were multiplying. Moreover, the religion of Mani became increasingly misunderstood and, having no more Masters at its head to breathe the spirit which vivifies and continuously renews into it, the Teachings were becoming no more than mere words.

Thus, the immortal religion of the Light was reborn from its ashes into a new form, in Bulgaria, through the Fraternity of the Bogomils, the “Friends of God”. There, a number of great Initiates, the Magi, re-actualized the powerful teachings of Mani, who had once taught on this land like Orpheus, and closer to our times, like Master Peter Deunov.

The Order of the Temple was created through the initiative of Hugues de Payens, a knight of the Crusades, to defend the pilgrims coming to Jerusalem and who were attacked regularly.

This is nothing but the external event which triggered the quest and secret mission of Hugues de Payens and the knights of the temple.

The latter, being in close contact with the autochthones of the Middle-East, and without the pope knowing it, brought back a great quantity of knowledge (esoteric architecture, notably) from the imposing Arab civilization to Western Europe, and quickly became the main financiers and superintendents of the Middle-Ages (cathedrals, etc…).

But, Europe being under the yoke of the Church and its Inquisition, the Knights Templar were being hindered in their vast projects and constrained to dissimulate a great part of their affairs. But this did not stop them from establishing new freedoms in Europe (which we are indebted to), like the right to receive free health-care (it is the Knights Templar who created the first hospices, which later became hospitals) and the right to travel freely from a territory to another.

Their ultimate goal was, as for the Cathars, the creation of a new culture and civilization, free from fear and dogmas, and so the Knights Templar secretly sent their fleet toward the Americas. There, all the conditions for this imposing project seemed to be met. Furthermore, the Knights Templar were sharing profoundly humane and respectful relationships with the autochthones through fair trade and important cultural and esoteric exchange.

But, ill of envy, the cruel and barbaric king of France, Philip the Fair, alerted of those plans by a traitor, had the Order of the Temple dissolved immediately. Out of folly, he had all the Knights Templar, up to the last of them, Jacques de Molay, judged and condemned to torture, and to be burned at the stake.

But like the Manicheans, the Bogomils were also persecuted and driven out of Bulgaria by the Bulgarian authorities themselves; this earned Bulgaria the pains of five centuries of occupation and persecution by the Turks. Then, the great Master of the Bogomil Fraternity, Nicetas, left Bulgaria with the last survivors and went to the Pyrenees, where some great wise men were staying. During a high council, in the year 1167, Nicetas, dying, passed down the torch of the Teaching of the Light to this circle of wise men which would give birth to Catharism. Catharism would bring a new culture which would, in only a few decades, radiate and illuminate the whole of Europe, liberating men and women from the prison of dogmas imposed by an obscurantist, murderous, Catholic Church. But then again, the beings of power could not suffer seeing their manipulations unveiled in such a fashion, and millions of human beings were killed in the name of the God of love, just like Christ himself had predicted. In the year 1244, the whole Cathar sacerdotal college (more than 200 Cathar priests and priestesses) was burned alive on an immense stake, at the foot of Montsegur, the cradle of Catharism.

During the 15th century, a man only met very rarely in the history of humanity appeared in Germany. Never mentioned in official history, Christian Rosenkreuz, just like the Knights Templar, roamed the whole Mediterranean Basin, and everywhere he went he was recognized as the reincarnation of one of mankind’s great guides such as Rama, Hermes Trismegistus, and Jesus. Going back to Europe at the age of 35, Christian Rosenkreuz had assimilated and memorized the essential of the esoteric knowledge and magical know-how of the greatest civilizations of the world. Helped by this universal knowledge, he created around himself the magical circle of the twelve currents of the Primordial Tradition of the Essenes through the twelve beings who were predestined for this secret mission. Just like Enoch, he traced the circle of the faithful guardians of the divine mysteries. This is how was born the Rosicrucian movement which was to bear obvious fruits within the western world and culture during the following centuries, encompassing many of life’s domains. Through the great reformists of medicine, science, religion, education, such as Paracelsus, Francis Bacon, Jan Amos Comenius, Jacob Boehme, and more recently, Goethe, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin or Rudolf Steiner, the Rosicrucian movement never ceased to wisdom and life where there once was superstition and death.

Rudolf Steiner was able to show and reveal to the world, through his works and the results he obtained, an overview of the universal reach of the Rosicrucian reform, in domains such as medicine, education, sociology, chant, dance, art, nutrition, etc… Contemporary to Rudolf Steiner and recognized by him like a great Master and guide for mankind, the incarnation of Peter Deunov is a turning point in the history of the People of Essenia, and in the general evolution of mankind. Peter Deunov was the one to pour the waters of the new life; he was the living incarnation and herald of the new era, that of Aquarius. Undisputed healer of bodies, souls, and spirits, genius musician, hiking tirelessly through the high mountains until his death (at age 86), extraordinary teacher and spiritual Master, one could say without any doubt that Peter Deunov entered the legend of the men who became God on earth, just like Jesus, Buddha, and all the great Essene Masters. The hippy movement – which was aborted, because it was not wisely guided – the rise of vegetarianism, the birth of activist movements for the protection of animals and forests, as well as the birth of children with uncommon natural gifts, are some examples of the indirect influence and the highly beneficial effects on humanity generated by Masters Peter Deunov and his disciple, who became Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. The latter completed and considerably enriched the teachings of his beloved Master, just like Saint John did with Jesus, his Master and friend.

From the youngest age, Olivier Manitara has showed all the signs which allow to recognize the incarnation of a great Master of the Essene Tradition. Just like the tulkus of the Tibetan tradition, Olivier Manitara has been recognized by his own tradition like an authentic Master, a representative, a direct heir of the Essene wisdom.

His great humility, his love and great reverence for mankind’s great wise men and guides who came before him, and most of all, the unbelievable deeds and the trials he endured in silence to realize them, are undeniable proof of Essene mastery.

Through his direct contact and alliance with the divine world, Olivier Manitara brings life back to all the paths which, in other times, have led mankind toward the Divine, united with the Mother. Through the contemporary Essene School, created on august 19, 1991, a number of traditions, now on the verge of extinction, were able to rise from their ashes.

Thus, the Essenes celebrate divine life and spirit within all of the world’s traditions, with the aid of meditation, sacred chants and dances, magical ceremonies, in a festive ambiance, sharing everything that is beautiful and divine within mankind. During those ceremonies, the animal, vegetal, and even mineral kingdoms are invited to take part in the celebration of the Divine.

This celebration of the Divine, which belongs to the Essenes of the whole world, then takes on a totally different meaning through the creation of the Circle of the Archangels in 2006. It was instituted by Olivier Manitara, thanks to his alliance with the four Archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel. This is how the Essene Gospel of the Archangels was born, like the beginning of a new manifestation of the divine world in the world of men, just like it had happened 2000 years ago.

In 2007, the Circle of the Archangels got to an even higher level by becoming the entry point of the Essene Formations, a genuine rebirth of the initiatic path which used to lead neophytes to divine mastery by opening the doors of immortality. Thus, for the first time in the history of mankind, the doors of Initiation were opened to a large audience and the path of Light became accessible to a great number of people. Indeed, those mysteries used to be reserved to the privileged elite. The requirements to enter this path were very strict and only a few beings were admitted in the Temple-Schools of mysteries.

The Beginning of a New Era with the Essene Villages

This is the sign of a new era beginning, for the whole of mankind, or at least for those who possess the ears to hear this call to awakening and action, and the hands to start building the new world which is asking to appear.

This is why was simultaneously created the Essene Nation, a way to take a stand and declare the will of the Essenes of today to act concretely for the protection and preservation of the patrimony of the first peoples’ wisdom.

The Essenes, as a first people, as ecologists (even before the earth was polluted), have always been responsible for the harmony between mankind and the intelligent, living kingdoms which are part of nature. This is how the great worldwide project of the Essene Villages was created, genuine oases in the midst of the desert, in a world which is getting colder and ever more robotic, where man has become the one god, ungrateful and tyrannical, exploiting all the kingdoms of nature for his own gain.

The construction of three Essene Villages in France, Quebec, and Gabon is the seed of a new humanity, one who will bring about the Golden Age and has already begun to see it rise again. This new humanity is growing today under the banner of the Essene Nation. More than ever, it is calling for an union of forces, in the direction of all beings, of all peoples, just like Enoch, Rama, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mani, the Cathars, the Rosicrucian, etc., have done before.

A new era has been initiated by the last three representatives of the Essene Tradition, Masters Rudolf Steiner, Peter Deunov, and Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov.

Each one of those great Masters has consciously and impersonally vivified the body of Light of the Essene Tradition so that the Light could keep on manifesting as far as the reality of the earth and the world of man. There is no greater or more beneficial deed than this one or one harder to bear, and any man can comprehend it, it is a matter of will and humility… Not to look at a man who inevitably has imperfections (even Jesus had his!) but to concentrate and to put one’s self at the service of the Light which was impersonally brought by these beings, and of which they, themselves, were the most devoted and loyal servants. It is so easy to glorify a Son of God and pretend to be his “humble disciple” once the latter has left this world and can no more correct what is weak and creeping within us. Now is the time to wonder why Jesus only had about one hundred disciples while he was living, and millions of them, 20 centuries later, now that he is not here physically anymore. Thus, the authentic Masters do not look at the weaknesses of men but come back ceaselessly, from century to century, imperturbable and determined to reach their goals, despite the meanness and disgrace men are capable of, even at the expense of the greatest Light, which comes to liberate them and bring them true happiness.

But in fact, the Essene Masters don’t come here for mankind; they come for the Mother, the Earth and every creature, visible or invisible, who lives within her. Because without the Mother’s blessings, without the animal, vegetal, and mineral kingdom, without fire, air, water, and earth, mankind is nothing, they would instantaneously disappear. And without the Father, without the protective and benevolent presence of the Angels, Archangels, and Gods, without the uninterrupted Tradition of the Masters, which make this presence of the Father in the world of men possible, the latter are condemned to death and slavery for the benefit of the dark forces. The Essenes are the ones who have understood this secret and who, out of respect and love for the Mother, out of devotion and enthusiasm to serve the Father, construct the pure and sacred atmosphere, the divine placenta which will allow the incarnation of the Son of the Light, of the original man, through the bodies of the great Masters, the Father’s sent and chosen ones.

Olivier Manitara has resuscitated this primordial state of consciousness of the Essenes for our time, after dedicating a whole part of his own life to strengthen and help grow the deed of Light of the one he considers like his Father-Mother, Master Peter Deunov. Thus, the Essenes who are assembled today around the works of Olivier Manitara are already preparing the incarnation of their next representative, which will come as the reincarnation of Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov; himself preceding the triumphant return of Master Peter Deunov, and the coming of the Essene Nation all over the earth.

The goal of the contemporary Essene Nation is a major one; it is for the good of all, because, like the ancient Egyptians used to say: “When Pharaoh sits on the throne, in union with the divine world, like a servant of the Light, then the whole earth is within the Light, within protection, chance, happiness, and prosperity. “
Jesus said: “The greatest among you will be the greatest servant.” This was, is, and will be the motto of all the representatives of the divine world on earth, the great Masters of the Essene Nation.

Today, this new nation is supported by the Physical existence of the Essenia Foundation which is registered in Quebec and recognized by the Canadian government like a charitable organization.
One of the goals of the Essenia Foundation is to have the Essene Nation recognized as an actual nation, like a people of Light within all peoples.
Then we can walk on the earth, our Mother, at the side of our ancestors and the divine world, taking our lives and our destinies into our own hands for the well-being of all beings and for the accomplishment of the will of our shared Father.
In an era where everything is being levelled down and where the authentic traditions and the first peoples are being automatically destroyed, we, the Essenes, have decided, in harmony with the Light, to restore our tradition, our people, and to give a chance to the humanity of Light.

May all those who have awakened to see the dead-ends of today’s world find the strength to join and reinforce the great initiative begun by the Essenes of Today so that another choice of life become available, for the well-being of all beings.