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Authors: Erich von Däniken
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his neighbour like himself. That was the leitmotiv of all Jesus'
speeches.
The Essenes spoke of the 'Sons of Light' who fight against the 'powers of darkness'. Who does not know these metaphors from Jesus' sayings?
The Essenes preached the 'spirit of truth' and promised 'eternal life'. Jesus did so, too.
The Essenes spoke of 'members of the New Covenant' and the 'Holy Ghost'. What did Jesus do?
The Essenes had communal meals preceded by saying grace - like Jesus at the Last Supper.
The Essenes spoke of the foundation 'that will not be shaken' - Jesus of the rock (Peter) against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.
'Beatitudes' were found in the fourth Qumran cave that begin sentence after sentence with the word
'Blessed' - the opening phrase that Jesus used in his Sermon on the Mount.
The Essenes required every member who had just entered their community to confess his sins - an iron law of Christianity.
With so many proofs (they are no mere indications), the question inevitably arises whether Jesus, too, did not spend a period among the Essenes, just like the historian Flavius Josephus. For nineteen Christian centuries clever men puzzled over the accounts of Flavius Josephus: no one knew anything about the Essenes. They are not mentioned in the Gospels or the Acts of the Apostles. Had Flavius Josephus penned a science-fiction story about a non-existent order? The discovery of the Qumran Scrolls posthumously confirmed him as a scrupulous historian.
One of the branches of the Bank of the Holy Ghost in Rome It is owned by the Vatican Anyone who believes should feel safe in opening an account there!
The dark clouds opened and the whirling sun began its firework display against a background of clear blue sky Fatima is one great garden of expectation on 13 May and 13 October every year.
Fatima The children Jacinta Martos Francesco and Lucia Santas had their first vision of Mary around noon on 13 July 1917 70,000—80,000 pilgrims saw the solar miracle on 13 October 1917.
From 11 February to 16 July 1858 Bernadette Soubirous had a total of 18 visions of Mary in this grotto on the spot where the marble statue is worshipped by the hopeful today.
At night searchlights illuminate the row of taps from which bottles of all shapes and sizes are filled with 'miraculous water.' According to analysis it is ordinary tap water.
A candle stall with a notice in German (There are others in all known languages ) The sea of candles has been shining since 1858 The massive turnover also helps the Church.
Day after day the concourse below the basilica teems with thousands of pilgrims — Five million a year.
In the square in front of the basilica male and female helpers push incapacitated patients towards the miracle in wheel-chairs.
One of the many daily rosary processions, with megaphones and singing. They follow a strict timetable.
Au Saint Basque. ... At Lourdes the saints are invoked to sell you everything — bottles, rosaries, clogs
...
Profane commerce flourishes side by side with prayer and hope.
Cars from all over the world. Shops with religious items by the dozen and in every one of them the Madonna, 'made in Lourdes'.
Nowhere else in the world have I seen such a collection of differently shaped bottles potbellied and spherical rectangular and triangular pocket sized and gallon-sized in every conceivable colour — all for the wonder working water.
There is nothing they haven't got in the religious shops pictures of the saints and clogs purses bells plates and sunglasses with the Madonna on every one.
I still remember perfectly the day when I, as a boarder at the strict Catholic College of Saint-Michel, Fribourg, first heard Jesus' moving speech of farewell to his Apostles, in which he announced the 'Last Judgment' to them and prophesied that the Lord 'shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left' (Matthew 25:33 et seq.).
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come,
speeches.
The Essenes spoke of the 'Sons of Light' who fight against the 'powers of darkness'. Who does not know these metaphors from Jesus' sayings?
The Essenes preached the 'spirit of truth' and promised 'eternal life'. Jesus did so, too.
The Essenes spoke of 'members of the New Covenant' and the 'Holy Ghost'. What did Jesus do?
The Essenes had communal meals preceded by saying grace - like Jesus at the Last Supper.
The Essenes spoke of the foundation 'that will not be shaken' - Jesus of the rock (Peter) against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.
'Beatitudes' were found in the fourth Qumran cave that begin sentence after sentence with the word
'Blessed' - the opening phrase that Jesus used in his Sermon on the Mount.
The Essenes required every member who had just entered their community to confess his sins - an iron law of Christianity.
With so many proofs (they are no mere indications), the question inevitably arises whether Jesus, too, did not spend a period among the Essenes, just like the historian Flavius Josephus. For nineteen Christian centuries clever men puzzled over the accounts of Flavius Josephus: no one knew anything about the Essenes. They are not mentioned in the Gospels or the Acts of the Apostles. Had Flavius Josephus penned a science-fiction story about a non-existent order? The discovery of the Qumran Scrolls posthumously confirmed him as a scrupulous historian.
One of the branches of the Bank of the Holy Ghost in Rome It is owned by the Vatican Anyone who believes should feel safe in opening an account there!
The dark clouds opened and the whirling sun began its firework display against a background of clear blue sky Fatima is one great garden of expectation on 13 May and 13 October every year.
Fatima The children Jacinta Martos Francesco and Lucia Santas had their first vision of Mary around noon on 13 July 1917 70,000—80,000 pilgrims saw the solar miracle on 13 October 1917.
From 11 February to 16 July 1858 Bernadette Soubirous had a total of 18 visions of Mary in this grotto on the spot where the marble statue is worshipped by the hopeful today.
At night searchlights illuminate the row of taps from which bottles of all shapes and sizes are filled with 'miraculous water.' According to analysis it is ordinary tap water.
A candle stall with a notice in German (There are others in all known languages ) The sea of candles has been shining since 1858 The massive turnover also helps the Church.
Day after day the concourse below the basilica teems with thousands of pilgrims — Five million a year.
In the square in front of the basilica male and female helpers push incapacitated patients towards the miracle in wheel-chairs.
One of the many daily rosary processions, with megaphones and singing. They follow a strict timetable.
Au Saint Basque. ... At Lourdes the saints are invoked to sell you everything — bottles, rosaries, clogs
...
Profane commerce flourishes side by side with prayer and hope.
Cars from all over the world. Shops with religious items by the dozen and in every one of them the Madonna, 'made in Lourdes'.
Nowhere else in the world have I seen such a collection of differently shaped bottles potbellied and spherical rectangular and triangular pocket sized and gallon-sized in every conceivable colour — all for the wonder working water.
There is nothing they haven't got in the religious shops pictures of the saints and clogs purses bells plates and sunglasses with the Madonna on every one.
I still remember perfectly the day when I, as a boarder at the strict Catholic College of Saint-Michel, Fribourg, first heard Jesus' moving speech of farewell to his Apostles, in which he announced the 'Last Judgment' to them and prophesied that the Lord 'shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left' (Matthew 25:33 et seq.).
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come,
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