from Essene Peace Gospel

from the Essene Gospel of Peace 1) Keep, therefore, nature's laws, for none can live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his mother earth and does her laws. For your breath is her breath; your flesh is her flesh; your eyes and your ears are her eyes and ears. 2) Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is Life, wheras scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing, but through the living word. The Law is the living word. In everything that is Life is the law written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea, but seek it chiefly within yourselves. For I tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in your heart and in your spirit. 3) Renew yourselves and fast. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man. (And when you eat, eat the ancient bread of your forefathers, for it tasty, sayeth the Lord). http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B5h_PTBALsU