Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915 · New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 46
the principal doctrinesand practices of the Essenes must have assimilated manyforeign elements, and the opinion that they borrowedlargely from the old Oriental, Parsee, and Chaldeannotions, may be said to have been very commonlyaccepted. In a remarkable book—The Three Oldest Documentsof the… … THE TWO ST. JOHNS.Eminent Patrons of Masonry. The Essenes. 33 the Culdees, and in the usage of the latter he finds numer-ous points of agreement with those of the Essenes andthe Roman Collegia. A still bolder hypothesis has been advanced by Mr.Herbert, in his Briiannia after the Romans.…
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