Mystic Monday: The Essenes and The Baptizer
"(John the Baptist) lives in the tension between the old world and the new, between what is and what is to come." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is remarkable what we can learn from a lost goat.
The Essenes were one of the three major sects within Judaism during the Second Temple period [516 BC-70 AD]. The other two were the Pharisees and the Sadducees.1
Originally, very little was known about The Essenes, …