Daily quote by Essenes

• According to the ‘'Rule of the Community’', reported in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, community life was strictly organized. All property was held in common. Aspiring adepts had to undergo a long apprenticeship before being accepted as full members. The neophyte took a “terrible oath” in which he pledged to hate the perpetrators of injustice forever.
  • Ernest O. Hauser, Chi erano gli Esseni, quoted in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, March 1985.