The Essene Nazarean Church

of Mount Carmel

The Essene Nazarean Church of Mount Carmel is the congregation of the B'nai-Amen Temple Order, an esoteric spiritual Order, which fully embraces the deeper levels of the ancient Nazarean 'Way' of Yeshua Ha Mashiakh (Jesus the Messiah). We are a modern resurrection of the ancient B'nai-Amen Temple Order of the Carmelite, Nazarean Essenes.

There were anciently two branches of Essenes - the Ossaeans and the Nazareans. The southern Ossaeans were known as the B'nai-Zadok, or "Children of Zadok." The northern Nazareans were known as the B'nai-Amen, or "Children of God."

The B'nai-Amen lived in and around Nazarean Temples such as the one on Mount Carmel and the smaller one in the Essene Quarter of western Jerusalem (now known as the "Church of the Apostles, or Cenacle).

The Nazareans had no intentions on the main Jerusalem Temple or in restoring its animal sacrifice cult. In fact, Nazareans abhorred all animal sacrifice and rejected, as forgeries and fictions, all Jewish scriptures that encourage such barbaric practices. Nazareans also had a different calendar than the Qumran B'nai-Zadok, a different set of scriptures, a different "Teachers of Righteousness," and a different and more positive attitude toward marriage and women.

It was into the ancient and mystical B'nai-Amen Temple Order of the Nazarean that Yeshua Ha Mashiakh was born; as it is written: "He shall be called a Nazarean!" (Matthew 2:23). This B'nai-Amen Temple Order was the advanced level of the Nazarean Covenant which brought forth the "Chosen Ones," and is that advanced level of truth which Yeshua has again restored and is again seeking to make available to all righteous Nazareans who wish to espouse its fullness.

The Essene Nazarean Church of Mount Carmel consists of men and women of high moral character, dedicated to studying and teaching the ancient mysteries and applying the Nazarean Essene teachings of Yeshua Ha Mashiakh (Jesus, the Nazarean Essene). We are also dedicated to preserving the original texts as best we can. We do not condone tampering with the manuscripts of antiquity.

The Essene Nazarean Church of Mount Carmel and the B'nai Amen Temple Order in North America stands alone, separate and autonomous, or rather, autocephalous. The Order has no origination from nor association with any other Order claiming the Essene and/or Nazorean name in the United States or Europe.

• Temple Order - This term refers to the Mystery School status of the Essene Church. It implies a hierarchical and layered Priest and Priestess society, arranged after a Holy and Heavenly pattern, where initiates graduate from one Office and degree of wisdom to the next through Ceremonial Initiations in the Temple..
• Essene - An ancient term of the sect of Judaism which birthed, raised and then followed the Master - Yeshua (Essene Jesus). Noted for their vegetarianism, communal living and healing art focus.
• Nazarean - Denotes those under a special vow of holiness wherein one's whole life is consecrated upward toward purity and perfection. Nazareans were also noted for their abstinence from social drinking. Essene villages near Mount Carmel were filled with Nazareans, hence the village name of Nazareth.
• Mount Carmel - A spiritual stronghold of the northern Essene movement. A place spoken of in reverence by ancient Egyptian Priests, a place where Pythagoras (the father of mathematics and philosophy) studied, the place of the Oracle and Altar of Elijah the Prophet, a place where Yeshua (Jesus) is said to have been taught and a place whence a remnant of Hebrew speaking followers of Yeshua inspired the formation of the Catholic Carmelite Order.
• Yahshua - Phonetic spelling of Yeshua.
• Ha Mashiakh - The Messiah, The Anointed or The Christ, the title of Yeshua in his role as anointed Savior.