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If he was admitted, he had to undergo a period of probation, and to take a solemn oath that he would not betray to strangers the secrets of the Essenian discipline.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

A refugee from Jerusalem, with Timothy lost somewhere in Galilee, he invades the Essenian monastery.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

We have but a fragment of the Essenian religion,—but one end of their creed,—mere scraps furnished us by Philo, Josephus, and Pliny.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

We should find his ancestors were Essenian Jews.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

And finally, after the Essenian Jesus Christ, with some new radical ideas, proclaimed, "Ye have heard it hath been said by them of old time" thus and so, "but I say unto you" differently.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey