Event Description

Toronto Lodge cordially invites you to their members-only Teleconference and discussion on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, which is being presented by Arlene Terry. This article, “Were John the Baptist or Jesus Essenes?” by Robert Feather, MIMMM, C. Eng., can be found in the Rosicrucian Digest, No. 2, 2007.

Where does current conventional scholarship stand on the possibility of a connection between Jesus and other characters from the Christian Scriptures, and the Qumran-Essene community? The Dead Sea Scrolls and books have produced increasing evidence to support the likelihood that early members of Jesus’ followers, including John the Baptist, and even Jesus himself, were members of the Qumran community. When one looks at some factors tending to confirm the continuity of specifically Essenic thinking and practices that have been transmitted on into Christianity, and by extension into Islam, it becomes irresistible not to conclude that both Jesus and John the Baptist must have been intimately involved with Qumran.

Please join us as presenter Arlene leads us in a discussion on “Were John the Baptist or Jesus Essenes?”

 Program: 

1) Arrivals and Pleasantries

2) Welcome & Announcements

3) Introduction of presenter Arlene Terry

4) Reading and discussion, “Were John the Baptist or Jesus Essenes?”

5) Closing