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The
Therapeuts
and Essenes
were the
First
Christians
and their
writings
were our
Gospels and
Epistles,
according to
the Fathers
of Church
History (Eusebius,
Epiphanius,
etc.) and as
such they
were
allegorical,
with a
hidden
Gnosis.
They were
first called
"Christians"
at Antioch,
the Center
of
Gnosticism
after
Samaria, Mr.
Carmel and
St. John on
the Jordan,
to be
indoctrinated
by
Saturninus
who taught
Encratism or
the
Abstinence
from animal
food of all
kinds beside
carnal
passion,
from which
Christian
Cenobites
and
monasticism
followed.
The Ecclesia
of Primitive
or Gnostic
Christians
continued
this
tradition
altho Rome
sought to
smash every
Gnostic
concept with
Excommunication
and
Anathemas
with their "Ecumenical"
Councils.
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