The Mysterious Angel Scroll...

Rumors about missing scrolls? Interesting read.....

ARCHAEOLOGY


The Mysterious Angel Scroll



“I promised that I would not carry the secret of this missing scroll with me to my grave.”

Israel Today - An air of mystery has always surrounded the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the caves of Qumran in 1947. Adding to the intrigue over the years, have been persistent rumors about missing scrolls, including one said to be hidden somewhere in Europe. This manuscript—known as the Angel Scroll—would have remained a secret were it not for Father Gustave Mateus, a German Benedictine monk appointed by the Vatican in the early 1970s to search for the missing Dead Sea Scrolls. “I promised that I would not carry the secret of this missing scroll with me to my grave,” he wrote before his death in 1996.

In the mid-1970s, Father Mateus, along with other priests/scholars appointed to track down the missing scrolls, was tipped off about a scroll that had been discovered by a Bedouin child in Jordan. It was hidden in a large clay jar in a cave near Wadi Al-Mojab (in Hebrew, Nahal Arnon), on the southeastern shore of the Dead Sea. The monks, under Church instructions to buy anything they came across, began negotiations with an antiquities dealer in Amman who was in possession of the scroll.

A year later, Father Mateus received the first proof of the existence of the scroll: a 3 mm fragment with the Hebrew words chesed (grace) and ya’ar (forest) on it. “I was in no doubt that I was holding an authentic tiny fragment of an ancient Hebrew scroll,” Mateus writes.

The negotiations dragged on for six long years, until the monks finally purchased the scroll for what Mateus described as a “huge sum” of money. Then, the scroll was smuggled illegally out of Jordan to his monastery on Germany’s border with Austria, and it remains there to this day. The scroll remained a well-guarded secret, because the Benedictine monks imposed a vow of silence.

For ten years, Father Mateus and the other monk-scholars poured over the scrolls, painstakingly deciphering its mysteries. Mateus was eventually convinced that this was one of the most significant documents ever discovered. “I found in it one of the earliest sources for both the Jewish and Christian esoteric and mystic literature,” he wrote. “In fact, I discovered in it the source for the beginning of Christianity, and the point of contact between it and the Jewish sects.” Therefore, Mateus decided that the scroll was too important to remain a secret.

“Should this scroll be truly authentic, this will be the discovery of the century, much more valuable and precious than other Qumran scrolls,” said Stephen Pfann, a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. Pfann, one of 55 members of an international research committee in Israel that edits the Qumran scrolls, has worked on more than a quarter of the text, although only via computer.

The scroll originates from the first century. Its language is post-Biblical Hebrew, with a few terms borrowed from Greek and Aramaic. It is called the Angel Scroll because it describes a vision of the heavens, revealed by the Angel Pnimea to the author, Yeshua [Jesus] Ben Pediah, the priest. The vision foretells, among other things, the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. The document uses several terms characteristic of the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as the “Sons of Light,” the “new” or “renewed covenant [testament],” “El” for God and “Belial” for Satan. The text also describes “angels ascending toward the heavens” and the “throne of God.”

After meticulous research, Pfann is convinced that the language and concepts presented in the scroll correspond with the teachings of Jesus and the writings of Paul. If authentic, he says, “the scroll could represent an important missing link between early Christianity, early Judaism and Qumran.”

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Some more on this angel scroll....any thoughts?

New 'Angel' Dead Sea
Scroll Contains Astral
Implications
By Barry Chamish



A "lost" Dead Sea Scroll has reportedly been uncovered and if it is proven authentic, it reveals a new understanding of how the ancient Israelites viewed their God, his angels and their place in the heavens.

Called the "Angel Scroll," it is a thousand lines long, was purchased in Jordan in 1970 by a group of Benedictine monks and spirited away to their German monastery. Upon his death in 1977, one of the group, Father Gustav Mateus, bequeathed his photographs and hand transcriptions of the scroll to an unnamed Jerusalem college administrator. He handed the material over to Stephan Phann, a member of the team of scholars translating the scrolls held by the Israeli government, and his findings were released to the newsmagazine The Jerusalem Report.

Phann has declared that, "If the scroll is a hoax, it's a very good one. It's a serious literary work."

But others are more skeptical. The existence of Father Mateus has not been proven and the Jerusalem Report, little more than a source of disinformation for the Labor Party, is hardly a reliable venue. That said, experts are in general agreement that the text of the scroll so far released "feels" genuine.

What little of the scroll that has been released, reveals its storyline is a journey to the heavens accompanied by angels. According to Phann, the text is full of "divine chariot-throne themes with elaborate details of angels ascending heaven's multiple gates." And this should be of great interest to the minions (most inspired by Von Danieken) who take a literal view the bible's words, putting the many references to wheels within wheels, flying scrolls, pillars of fire, etc. into a UFO context.

Longtime Israeli ufologist, now a student of kabala, Mordechai Spasser believes it would be a mistake to interpret the new scroll from a UFO viewpoint. "What I've read appears to me to be philosophy on an astral plane, or simply, Jewish mysticism."

Keeping that possibility in mind, or melding it with the popular UFO readings of extant Jewish holy scriptures, here are two passages from the Angel Scroll, with my literal interpretation following both:

"And the Angel Pnimea said to me: "And son of man, lift up your eyes and see all the secrets...that are in the fourth gate which is the gate of birth. And I saw, and it was like the womb and the chambers of the stomach, and its waters gush and roar like the breakers of the sea on the wall of the cave, which cannot withstand its fury. And here is a seed of life in the water emanating from the seed of man and from the seed of the woman for male and female that He created. And the seed that is joined from the two seeds is not like a clean slate. It is written inside and outside and it has within knowledge and understanding before its creation and before its creation in the womb. And the beginning of the child is not in the birth or in conception nor is its end in death."

It appears that the narrator was shown an advanced real-time version of our pathetic ultrasound technology. He stands before a gate, or unknown to him, a monitor and sees male ejaculation into the womb, including a closeup of sperm and egg. He witnesses conception and is then told the secrets of DNA and genes. Pointedly, God has created both within mankind.

"According to the plan of that day, the Voice went forth to me and directed me and he drove me by the Spirit. And a vision was revealed to me from the Most High, and Pancimeia, Prince of Angels lifted me up in the Spirit and I ascended heavenward above the high places of the clouds and he showed me the great world and the image of the gods. And I pondered the appearance round about and there was no time and no place and their appearance from the dwelling places of light was like a rainbow in the clouds. And they had no bodies and no bodily structure and the dominion of darkness was over all of the earth round about."

Now this is one accurate description of a trip in the Space Shuttle. First the traveller passes above cloud level. He observes the high places of the clouds, possibly those ridges unseen at ground level. Then he sees the earth from space and it is surrounded by darkness. He is shown images of the gods and their homes on a control monitor and marvels at the fine color quality and at the bizarre fact that there is no firmament to the images on the screen.

That said and interpreted, I for one, am looking forward to reading the full text of the Angel Scroll.

Weird!!!

i have always believed that God created us(our souls and spirit) in heaven before he created the earth and stars......then...when he decided to put us on earth in a human body.....our guardian angel took us down to our body....the flesh body that Jesus formed in our mother's womb....btw:Jesus formed his own body in Mary too(all things were created by him,and for him)

cool ........