The second of God’s hidden names is the word Almighty and is typically
translated by Near Eastern scholars from Aramaic as Shaddai (meaning
“Almighty”) or El Shaddai (meaning “God Almighty”). This is one of the
seven names of God that are substituted for God’s actual name over 6,800
times in the Hebrew Bible. The other six names are Ehyeh, meaning “I will
be”; Tzevaot, meaning “host”; Elohim, meaning “gods”; El, meaning
“God”; and Eloah, also meaning “God.”
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Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a mysterious group of healerscholars formed communities near the present-day Dead Sea in an area
known as Qumran. The community included many religious sects,
including the Nazarenes and the Ebionites, people known collectively as the
Essenes. While the origin and nature of the Essenes remains controversial
today, their existence is undisputed. Some of the first references to the
lineage of the Essenes are found on clay tablets of ancient Sumer dating as
far back as 3500 B.C.E. They’re also recorded in historic writings that range
from those of 1st-century Roman scholars Flavius Josephus and Pliny the
Elder, where Essenes are referred to as a “race by themselves, more
remarkable than any other in the world” in manuscripts preserved today in
libraries and museums that include the Austrian National Library in Vienna,
the British Museum in London, and the Vatican Library in Vatican City.
Elements of nearly every major religion of the world today, including
those indigenous to China, Tibet, Egypt, India, Palestine, Greece, and the
American desert Southwest, may be traced back to the original wisdom
preserved by the Essenes. Many mystical traditions from the Western world,
in particular, have roots in this body of information, such as the traditions of
the Freemasons, Gnostic Christians, and Kabbalists. Wisdom Code 8 is
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