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was replaced by the conspirators with a “city besieged by the<br />

enemy <strong>and</strong> ‘talking peace’";<br />

“Beelzebub, the seed of Satan, which is passed on to the<br />

fourth generation, the worm who never dies,” the falsifiers<br />

exchanged with “the evil, the tyrant, the lord, or the one<br />

who becomes a father.” The “Holy Law” that governs everything<br />

with "doctrine"; “Mother Earth” also receives a<br />

negative undertone, as in the NT. “The tyrant” is Beelzebub,<br />

the most powerful of all demons, who destroys the<br />

temple of the body. He is the germ of Satan, that causes corruption.<br />

The scenarios of destruction are reminiscent of the "Habakkuk<br />

comment" <strong>and</strong> the war scroll from the Qumran roles.<br />

It is surprising that the authors made concessions with regard<br />

to the term "temple". For peace <strong>and</strong> holiness can be<br />

attained according to the <strong>Gospel</strong> of <strong>Essenes</strong> exclusively<br />

through the rebirth of the body, when the evil tyrant (Satan)<br />

is expelled. This is the Essene Baptism. Baptism in the New<br />

Testament is, however, represented only symbolically: a<br />

concession which amounted to a great risk, because, unlike a<br />

city, a temple cannot be defiled. It must stay clean. To imply<br />

the “temple” might refer to the human body would point to<br />

the urgency of the quest for perfection, <strong>and</strong> perfection would<br />

nullify grace. I think the the fictitious figure of figure of Silvanus<br />

did not think about this - an error that would not have<br />

escaped the NT plagiarists.<br />

Interesting <strong>and</strong> worthy of note is that the falsifiers corrected<br />

issues in the Essen <strong>Gospel</strong> that were are falsified in the NT,<br />

though on a different level. They did so without invalidating<br />

the Doctrine of Grace. Therefore, one could even consider<br />

them as having “clarified things.“ At the end of the letter,<br />

however, they proceeded even further <strong>and</strong> corrected the<br />

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