"Ignorance breeds monsters
to fill up all the vacancies of
the soul that are occupied by
the vereties of knowledge. He
who dethrones the idea of law
bids chaos welcome in its
stead." —Horace Mann.

A Convert's View of the Essenes

Christian D. Ginsburg, a con-
vert from Judaism, first wrote
his essay, "The Essenes: Their
History and Doctrines," in 1864.
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save for Mr. and Mrs. George
Lowy, who run a road house
for passing truckers and fisher-
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Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Devel-
opment and Literature," first
published in 1863, it is now in-
corporated in a new volume.
published by Rutledge in Eng-
land and distributed in this
country by the Macmillan Co.
Importations Dept.
In view of the emphasis placed
on the Essenes as the possible
authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls
—a fact that is strongly eon-
tested by Prof. S. Zeitlin—this
essay is of special value at this
time. Dr. Ginsburg expressed
amazement that so little was
"known among intelligent Chris-
tians" about the Essenes, and
he wrote of their "exemplary
virtues" as having "elicited the
unbounded admiration of even
the Greeks and Romans."
The Ginsburg interpretation
is, of course, Christological.
"The highest aim of their (the
Essenes') life," he wrote, "was
to become the temples of the
Holy Ghost, when they could
prophesy, perform miraculous
cures, and, like Elias, be the
forerunners of the Messiah."
"The earnestness and deter-
mination of these Essenes to ad-
vance to the highest state of
holiness were seen in their self-
denying and godly life," Dr.
Ginsburg wrote 90 years ago."
He emphasized that this
brotherhood exemplified "the
lessons which Christ propounds
in Matthew, Chapter v."
Dr. Ginsburg wrote exten-
sively about the life and cus-
toms of the Essenes, their doc-
trines, their simple life. In the
present discussions over the
antiquity of the Scrolls, the
essay of 1864 has only historical
value, as a resume of the in-
formation handed down by Jose-
phus and Philo, by Christian
church historians and by hea-
then writers.
In his Kabbalah essay, Dr.
Ginsburg described how the
mysteries of this theosophy also
captivated many noted Chris-
tians; how they fascinated poets
as well as literary men and
philosophers .
There is an interesting obser-
vation by the author: "We are
not aware that anything has ap-
peared upon this subject since
the publication of Graetz's
(Heinrich Graetz, the historian)
researches on the Kabbalah and
Low's (Leopold Low, chief rabbi
of Szegedin) lengthy critique on
these researches."

Man's Own Nature
It is absolutely untrue that a line of conduct. No compulsion
man must do or refrain from or external influence is exerted,
doing a certain thing; the con- unless it is his own nature to
stellation at the time of his be weak. — Maimonides, Eight
birth does not determine his Chapters, VIII.

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