The Jesus Diet
Part 3

Rev Abba Nazariah, DD

My dear friend and fellow Essene teacher, Viktoras Kulvinskas, in his classic book Survival Into The 21st Century, provides the following excerpt from an article that appeared in the London Chronicle newspaper:

A woman of 50, who looks like she is 30, claimed yesterday that she... has beaten old age, and expects to live at least 150 years. She has set out to do it by giving up food. Twenty years ago she ate three normal meals a day. Slowly for 12 years she reduced her eating until she was keeping fit on one meal a day of grass, chickweed, clover, dandelion and an occasional glass of fruit juice. Five years ago she switched entirely to juices and raw tomatoes, oranges, grasses and herbs. Now she drinks nothing but a glass of water flavored with a few drops of lemon juice.

She says, "There is much more in sunlight and air than can be seen with the naked eye or with scientific instruments The secret is to find the way to absorb that extra - that cosmic radiation - and turn it into food." Each year she goes to Switzerland for the better air and climbs mountains on a diet of water from the streams. "You see", she explains, "my body cells and blood have changed considerably in composition. I'm impervious to heat, hunger or fatigue. Winter or Summer, even in Switzerland, I wear only a short sleeved jumper and skirt. In cold weather people stare at me. while they shiver in furs, I am warm. I'm as strong as a man, and need only three hours sleep for mental relaxation. As my body is free of toxins, I'm never ill. I had to advance slowly from vegetarianism to uncooked fruit and then to liquid. Now I'm working toward cosmic food (Air). I've passed the eating stage and could not eat if desired as my alimentary canal has changed considerably. It is no longer a filthy tube and is unable to handle any fiber. Instead of thinking my life will end in ten years, I'm growing younger."

It is important to note that Barbara Moore, M.D., the woman described in the above excerpt, made her amazing transition over a many year period. Keep that in mind! Also in Survival Into The 21st Century, Viktoras Kulvinskas provides an excerpt from a book by Dr. Morris Krok, written in 1961, titled Conquest of Disease. In that excerpt, Dr. Krok reproduces part of a speech given by Dr. J. Moore:

By experimenting on myself I've found that neither energy nor body heat comes from food. It's a fact, paradoxical, yet true, that I spent three months in the mountains of Switzerland and Italy eating nothing but snow and drinking only snow water. I was climbing mountains daily, not just fasting and sitting down reading a book or gazing at the sky. No, I was hiking daily from my hotel to the mountains, often 15 miles, climbing up to seven or eight thousand feet, then coming down and walking another 15 to 20 miles to my hotel.

When I discovered this I went a step further. I wanted to see whether I could live without food at all not for two or three months, but for a longer period I found this also possible, but not quite on an ordinary level as it were. I can do that in the mountains, but it is more difficult when I come down to an ordinary level. I find the air is different. I hope in time to live entirely on air.

Viktoras then briefly reports on a number of Breatharians:

Marie Frutner, a Bavarian girl who lived on water without food for 40 years, was under observation for a time in Munich in 1835.... Dr T. Y. Yan gave the following report on Yand Mel age 20, who hasn't eaten for the last 9 years: She shows no signs of starvation, leads perfectly normal life except having lost her desire for food. Her alimentary tract has become dormant and rudimentary; she takes no water.... Caribala Dasi, has been living for the past 40 years without taking food or water.... Dhanalak Shumi of Marcara, India, age 18, for over a year took no food or water.... Teresa Avila, Bavarian peasant, born 1898, has taken no food no water and no sleep since 1926, she is not thin or sickly, works in her garden, and is described as one of the happiest persons.... Giri Bala, Bahar, West Bengal, now over 70 years, has taken no food or fluid since she was 12. She has never been sick, is an expert at yoga, is always happy, looks like a child does normal housework, has no bodily excretions.

As previously stated, Jesus only requires that one become vegetarian in order to become his disciple. That is a partial reversal of the second fall of mankind, and a satisfactory step for this lifetime. As vegetarians, at least we do not murder and eat animals. But Jesus' hope is that we will go on to become Essene Fruitarians and completely reverse the second fall, by returning to the diet of Genesis 1:29. By doing so, we are preparing ourselves to eventually reverse even the first fall of mankind and return to residence in heavenly realms in which beings do not eat the bodies of other beings, -- not even the bodies of plants. While that is our goal, most of us will not achieve that this lifetime. But if we reverse the second fall this lifetime, -- by becoming Essene Fruitarians -- maybe we can reverse the first fall in our next lifetime! After all, the above examples demonstrate that Breatharianism is possible even on planet earth! (In the heavenly realms we will be Lovearians, depending on no outside fuel -- not even air -- to sustain us. We will be fueled by love, which, the more you put out, the more you have.)

Essene Fruitarians do not want to kill anything, because we love everything. We don't even want to kill plants. Hey, we don't even want to kill insects or bacteria, which is why we are headed for the heavenly realms wherein we will have angelic bodies of light that require no killing of anything. We are fools... for Christ! While we believe our dietary path is healthy, we realize it is not without risk. We willingly take the risk of departing from mainline dietary practice because we are tired of being killers. We want to become lovers. To truly become lovers, we must mutate. Transmutation is our prayer. Angelic ascension is our answer.

Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism is mature Essene Fruitarianism. We have already stated that it is not practical to attempt to frilly embrace Phase Three while living a normal modern lifestyle. We have also stated that, at the level of Phase Three, we are required to actually know that the food we eat was harvested without killing the plant. You will recall that at the level of Phase Two we were permitted to make a reasonable assumption that our food was harvested without killing the plant. But the only reasonable assumption that is sure enough to meet the stricter criteria of Phase Three is in regard to tree-grown fruits and nuts; we know those are harvested without uprooting the tree. But other than tree-grown fruits and nuts, we must have actual personal knowledge that each food item we eat was harvested without killing the plant. As pointed out previously, this means that most Phase Three Essene Fruitarians must be involved in growing much of their own food. Also, most will live in an area where organic farms are prevalent and can be personally visited, even if this means moving. Having reminded you about the things we said about Phase Three several pages ago-- before we went on our long excursion into esoteric topics such as the Fall of Mankind and Breatharianism --we will now consider the other requirements of Phase Three of Essene Fruitananism.

Whereas at Phase Two we are required to eat mostly organic, at Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism we are required to always eat organic. As with the situation described in the above paragraph, this requires living in an area where organic farms are prevalent and, best of all, growing much of your own food. Again, as described above, this may mean moving. The optimum situation would be to live in an Essene intentional community that specializes in growing organic produce. (Essene Church of Christ, of which I am the founder, has just established the first of what we hope will be a global network of such Essene farm communities. We have established the first community in Arizona, and are now attempting to establish one in Oregon near our headquarters. Contact me if interested in more information on this project.)

As with Phase Two, Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism is 100% raw. But at Phase Three we add the requirement that the food be VERY FRESH. Obviously, this is always a good idea, even at Phase One and Phase Two; but at Phase Three it is REQUIRED. In The Essene Gospel of Peace, Jesus declares:

For... frozen and rotted foods will... freeze and rot your body also.... From the coming of the month of Ijar, eat barley; from the month of Sivan, eat wheat, the most perfect of all seed-bearing herbs.... And from Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may diminish and Satan may depart from it. In the month of Elul gather the grape that the juice may serve you as drink. In the month of Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel of sun, that your bodies may increase, for the angels of the Lord dwell in them. You should eat figs rich in juice the months of Ab and Shebat... And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the month of Thebet, that your blood may be cleansed of all your sins. And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your beasts, because for this did the Lord give the herbs of the fields to all the beasts that render milk.... Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees bear.

In other words, EAT WHAT IS FRESH AND IN SEASON. Do not eat raw foods that have been frozen and kept in storage for weeks or months. While this may not seem very practical, remember: Phase Three is not practical! (It is not practical in the context of the modern, fast-pace lifestyle. Of course, in the context of health, well-being and spiritual transcendence, Phase Three is indeed practical!) IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE ABOVE WORDS OF JESUS BE PROPERLY INTERPRETED. Jesus was telling folks in ancient Israel to eat the foods that were in season there; he is not telling you to eat Barley in the month of Ijar -- unless that happens to be what is in season in your neck of the woods! Jesus is telling you to eat what is fresh and in season WHERE YOU LIVE. Perhaps, due to today's fast transportation system, certain organic foods from distant locations might arrive at your health food store fresh; however, you still must be certain they are organic -- which is rather difficult when the grower is far away. Certainly, you can be much more certain that a food is fresh and organic when the grower is YOU and the time of harvest is NOW.

Why all the fuss about freshness? Kirlian photography has demonstrated that the fresher a fruit or vegetable is, the more powerful is its subtle organizing energy field (SOEF). A fruit or vegetable photographed by the Kirlian technique within several minutes of being harvested displays a powerful, radiant aura of blazing light. The same fruit or vegetable photographed by the Kirlian technique several hours after harvest still displays a decent energy field, though it has definitely diminished from when it was harvested. The same fruit or vegetable photographed two days after harvest, still has a bit of an energy field, but not much. The same fruit or vegetable photographed a week after harvest has no discernible energy field. Thus, the fresher the fruits and vegetables are that you eat, the more powerful is their subtle organizing energy field (SOEF). And as Dr. Cousens made clear in a previous section of this article, the SOFFs of fruits and vegetables feed the human SOEF. A healthy human subtle organizing energy field (SOEF) is the key to physical well being, as well as spiritual unfoldment.

As with Phase Two, at Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism we are required to eat 100% raw. This includes our seasonings and salad dressing. This includes our beverages.

As with Phase Two, at Phase Three we are required to fast one day per week. As with Phase Two, we may use the ancient Hebrew method of calculating a day: from sunset to the next sunset equals one day. Whereas at Phase Two we could choose any day of the week to conduct our fast, at Phase Three we must follow Jesus' specific instructions to fast on the Sabbath: Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Whereas at Phase Two we may fast on either juice or water, at Phase Three we are required to fast on water.

On Phase Two we were required to "become aware of and attempt to implement," proper food combining, but at Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism we drop the word "attempt". At Phase Three we must become aware of' and implement, proper food combining.

On Phase Three of Essene Fruitarianism, we are required to eat no more than two major meals per day (a piece of fruit or glass of juice is not counted as a major meal). We must eat no solid food before noon (juice okay before noon) and our last solid food of the day must be eaten around sunset. While we are permitted as many as two major meals per day, some may achieve the level whereat they eat but one major meal per day. All of the requirements listed in this paragraph are adapted from the following words of Jesus, as found in The Essene Gospel of Peace:

Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens, and again when it is set. And you will never see disease, for such finds favor in the eyes of the Lord And if you will that the Angels of God rejoice in your body, and that Satan shun you afar, then sit but once a day at the table of God. And then your days will be long upon the earth, for this is pleasing in the eyes of the Lord.

Phase Three Essene Fruitarians should attempt to save one or more seeds from each fruit or vegetable they eat, for later planting. With some foods this is more feasible than with other foods. This is not a requirement, but an invitation to advanced ahimsa (harmless-ness). When we eat from a plant or tree and then in return take responsibility to plant its seed, we are manifesting the true spirit of Essene Fruitarianism: LOVE.

Although I have divided Essene Fruitarianism into three separate phases, it is okay to take elements from each phase and create your own hybrid. For instance, you may be ready and willing to eat only twice per day, but not ready and willing to eat 100% organic. Or, you may be willing to follow most of the rules of Phase Two, but eat 75% raw instead of 100%. All sons of combinations of the various elements of the three phases are possible. But if you create a hybrid, be honest and call it a hybrid. For clarity of communication, let us honor the definitions of each phase given herein; if you are practicing a mix of the elements of Phase One and Phase Two, say so, rather than call it Phase Two. Likewise, if you are practicing a mix of the elements of Phase Two and Phase Three, say so, rather than call it Phase Three.

It has been stated that an Essene Fruitarian eats only the part of a plant that can be eaten without killing the plant. So, what specific plants can't we eat? We can eat most above ground fruits and vegetables, BUT CANNOT EAT MOST UNDERGROUND VEGETABLES. Such root vegetables as carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, rutabagas, etc., are off limits to Essene Fruitarians. There may be some exceptions to the ban on root vegetables. For instance, if you do the harvesting yourself; potatoes can be harvested without killing the plant: The root system of a potato is extensive and has many potatoes connected to it; dig around it and only harvest a few, leaving the rest so that the plant does not die. (This is similar to the way the ancient Essenes harvested honey; they were only permitted to take a tithe of 10% of the honey from each hive, so that the bees would not die.) Thus, a Phase One Essene Fruitarian who still eats some cooked food can have a baked potato. Probably the biggest sacrifice is carrot juice! (A friend told me that the ends of carrots can be cut off, put in a glass of water until they grow new root systems, and then replanted in soil. He therefore claims that carrots can potentially be eaten without killing the plant. I have not yet attempted this process of replanting the ends of juiced carrots; but, if it works, maybe you can still have your carrot juice!) With above ground fruits and vegetables, most can potentially be eaten without killing the plant, but, at Phase Two and especially at Phase Three, we must pay attention to how each particular plant was actually harvested in order to make our determination.

Because our above descriptions of the three phases of Essene Fruitarianism are spread out over so many pages, I will now provide a convenient "at-a-glance" synopsis of each. But don't ever limit yourself just to the following abbreviated descriptions; much of the important information about each phase is available only in the body of this essay. Alter providing a brief synopsis of each phase, I will conclude this article by giving some sample daily meal plans.

SYNOPSIS OF PHASE ONE

• Phase One allows us to make a gradual transition into Essene Fruitanarism.
• All of the foods we eat must potentially be able to be eaten without killing the plant.
• We must attempt to eat mostly organic foods.
• 2/3 of our food must be raw with goal of eventually achieving 100% raw.
• We should become aware of the additional requirements of Phase Two and Phase Three and begin, step-by-step, to incorporate those elements as able.

SYNOPSIS OF PHASE TWO

• We are required to eat only foods that we can reasonably assume were actually harvested without killing the plant.
• We are required to eat mostly organic foods.
• We are required to eat 100% raw.
• We are required to fast one day per week. (Can be the ancient Hebrew day: sunset to sunset.) Can be any day of the week. Raw juices and/or water permitted.
• We are required to become aware of and attempt to implement, proper food combining.
• We are required to make every effort not to overeat.

SYNOPSIS OF PHASE THREE

• We are required to have actual personal knowledge that the foods we eat were harvested without killing the plant. (In the case of tree-grown fruits and nuts a reasonable assumption is still permitted.)
• We are required to always eat organic foods.
• We are required to eat 100% raw.
• We are required to eat food that is fresh and in season.
• We are required to fast on the Sabbath: Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. (Water only, no juice permitted.)
• We are required to become aware of and implement, proper food combining.
• We are required to eat no more than two major meals per day. (A piece of fruit or glass of juice, etc., does not count as a major meal.)
• We are required to eat no solid food before noon. (Raw juice is okay before noon.)
• We are required to begin our last major meal of the day no later than sunset.
• We should attempt to save one or more seeds from each fruit or plant we eat for later planting. (This is not a requirement, but an invitation to advanced Ahimsa.)

SAMPLE DAILY MEAL PLANS FOR EACH PHASE

The following are only a few sample daily meal plans, not an exhaustive list. These several examples are intended just to give you the general idea of the foods one might eat on a typical day at each phase of Essene Fruitarianism.

Sample Phase One Breakfasts:

1. Four organic bananas.
2. Four organic bananas blended with a little water and a tablespoon of raw carob powder. (This tastes like a chocolate shake!)
3. A bowl of organic figs, dried or fresh.
4. An organic melon.
5. Raw organic fruit juice.
6. Raw organic vegetable juice. (Cucumber makes a good base.)
7. Two or three organic apples.

Sample Phase One Lunches:

1. Two baked potatoes.
2. Two baked sweet potatoes.
3. Steamed brown rice.
4. Baked squash.
5. Large vegetable salad.
6. Essene bread.
7. Fruit salad

Sample Phase One Dinners:

1. Large vegetable salad.(If you did not have salad for lunch, have it for dinner.)
2. Select a gourmet raw food recipe from Gabriel Cousens' book, Conscious Eating. (available from our Essene Church)
3. Two baked potatoes.
4. Two baked sweet potatoes.
5. Baked squash
6. Steamed millet.
7. Select a gourmet raw food dish from the book, Angel Foods - Heavenly Foods for Heavenly Bodies, by Cherie Soria. (available from our church)

NOTES ON PHASE ONE FOODS. On Phase One, you are required to eat 2/3 raw. Thus, you can have one cooked meal per day. I recommend that your breakfast be raw and usually fruit. Your lunch or dinner can be cooked. Whichever is your cooked meal, lunch or dinner, the other should be a large vegetable salad meal. In other words, you should get in the habit of having one of your meals each day -- lunch or dinner --be a large vegetable salad. The salad should feature a dark green leafy vegetable, such as romaine lettuce or kale, NOT ICEBURG LETTUCE. A ripe Haas avocado is the crown jewel of any raw salad! Do not eat anything cooked with it; let the salad be the entire meal. And when you eat your cooked meal, let it be a mono-meal: one food item, not several. For instance, a couple of baked potatoes, alone. Or a bowl of brown rice, alone. Or a baked squash, alone.

If you use any dairy product that is not raw, it should be plain (unflavored) organic yogurt or kefir from a health food store. The ingredient in dairy products that causes mucus and digestion problems is lactose. However, in fermented dairy products such as yogurt and kefir, the lactose is predigested and can be tolerated by most people.

Between meal snacks should be confined to raw fruits, raw vegetables, raw juices, raw or fermented dairy, or Essene bread. This is true on all three phases of Essene Fruitarianism.

PHASE TWO SAMPLE DAILY MEAL PLANS

Sample Phase Two Breakfasts:

• See the list of sample breakfasts given for Phase One. That list is also suitable for Phase Two.

Sample Phase Two Lunches:

1. If juice was had for breakfast, you may select one of the non-juice items from the breakfast list for lunch, such as a melon or three apples or bowl of figs.
2. Essene bread (cooked in sun or in dehydrator)
3. Nut or seed cheese.
4. Several ears of raw corn on the cob.
5. Large vegetable salad.
6. One or two Haas avocados.
7. Soaked nuts or seeds.

Sample Phase Two Dinners:

1. If you did not have the large vegetable salad at lunch, you should have it for dinner. Unless you are fasting, nearly every day should include a large vegetable salad.
2. Any item from the lunch list.
3. If you have not yet had a fruit meal, select a fruit meal from the breakfast list for dinner.
4. Select a gourmet raw food main dish recipe from the book Living in the Raw, by Rose Lee Calabro.
5. See dinner four above!
6. See dinner four above!
7. See dinner four above!

Dinners Five, Six, and Seven: This book (available from the Essene Church) includes such delightful recipes as: Mock "Tuna", Raw Tofu dishes, Nut Patties, Raw veggie burgers, Raw Huinmus, Stuffed Spinach Pesto, Stuffed Peppers, raw pizza, raw burritos, and many more. All of these recipes are raw, but some may call for an ingredient that Essene Fruitarians do not eat, such as certain root vegetables; just leave those ingredients out!

PHASE THREE SAMPLE DAILY MEAL PLANS

Sample Phase Three Breakfasts:

1. Go for an early morning walk in nature and breathe deeply the fresh air. Recite the words of the Essene Communion with the Angel of Air: "Angel of Air, enter my lungs, and give the air of life to my whole body."
2. Drink some pure water immediately alter reciting the words of the Essene Communion with the Angel of Water: "Angel of Water, enter my blood and give the water of life to my whole body"
3. Sunbathe in the morning sun while you recite the Essene Communion with the Angel of Sun: "Angel of Sun, enter my solar center, and give the fire of life to my whole body."
4. Drink some raw vegetable or fruit juice immediately alter reciting the words of the Essene Communion with the Earthly Mother: "The Earthly Mother and I are One. She gives the food of life to my whole body."
5. Hug a tree as you recite the words of the Essene Communion with the Angel of Life: "Angel of Life, enter my limbs, and give strength to my whole body."
6. Stand barefoot in the soil or on the grass and recite the words of the Essene Communion with the Angel of Earth: "Angel of Earth, enter my generative organs, and regenerate my whole body."
7. Sit in your garden and behold the beauty as you recite the words of the Essene Communion with the Angel of Joy: "Angel of Joy, descend up on Earth, and give beauty to all beings."

Sample Phase Three Lunches:

1. Stand for awhile by an apple tree. When you notice an apple fall to the ground, pick it up and eat it. Or gently shake a limb so that the ripest apple falls to the ground. Or pick the apple that looks the ripest and smells the best. If you want another, repeat the process.
2. Stand by an orange tree and repeat the above process.
3. Stand by a pair tree and repeat the apple tree process.
4. Stand by an avocado tree and repeat the apple tree process.
5. Chew some wheat grass and swallow the juice.
6. Offer to pick the untended fruit tree in your neighbors yard, in exchange for a portion of the harvest. Eat some of your portion for lunch. Share some with your friends.
7. Visit a local organic farm. Pick several ears of corn (after paying for them!). Sit and pray. Eat the corn. (Corn is delicious raw!)

Sample Phase Three Dinners:

1. Walk in your garden. Notice a perfectly ripe vegetable. Give love to the plant the vegetable is growing on. Promise to plant a seed from the vegetable next Spring. Eat the vegetable, right there in the garden. Repeat the process with another ripe vegetable.
2. In your garden, squat near a row of lettuce. Carefully harvest the outer leaves of several lettuce plants, without uprooting the plants. Eat the leaves.
3. When you have more cucumbers in your garden than you can eat, pick several and juice them. Add some freshly picked greens. Drink the juice and notice how good you feel.
4. Instead of eating, meditate in your garden.
5. Instead of eating, dance in ecstasy in your fruit orchard.
6. When especially hungry; eat two large Haas avocados.
7. Have a feast: make a large vegetable salad from whatever is ripe in your garden. Invite friends over to share the feast. Alter dinner, form a song circle and sing sacred songs together.