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Just north of Captain Morgan's is an impressive compund which has a wedding chapel, church, Jonas the Whale (out front), a huge, deep swimming pool, a large house, and it is all abandoned. What is the history for this site? The pool itself is just massive.

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If it is right beside Capt. Morgans I think that was a group that thought the world was going to end in 2000 and they left after the world did not end. At least that is what I was told.... so a religious group owned it.
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My wife pointed out to me it is the story of Jonah, and the Whale. Not Jonas the Whale. Anyway, the world was coming to an end in 2000? When George W. Bush was elected?

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"# 10 Essene Way

An Orlando food-supplement magnate has poured millions into what was the former The Belizean resort on North Ambergris. The result is a lavish but, some think, kitchy resort-cum-New Age/religious retreat. Originally, the idea was that the Essene Way would be a place for terminally ill adults to enjoy a last vacation, but the hotel and restaurant are now open to the public."

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Who Were the Essenes?



Since the archaeological discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946, the word "Essene" has made its way around the world--often raising a lot of questions. Many people were astonished to discover that, two thousand years ago, a brotherhood of holy men and women, living together in a community, carried within themselves all of the seeds of Christianity and of future western civilization. This brotherhood--more or less persecuted and ostracized--would bring forth people who would change the face of the world and the course of history. Indeed, almost all of the principal founders of what would later be called Christianity were Essenes--St. Ann, Joseph and Mary, John the Baptist, Jesus, John the Evangelist, etc.


The Essenes considered themselves to be a separate people--not because of external signs like skin color, hair color, etc., but because of the illumination of their inner life and their knowledge of the hidden mysteries of nature unknown to other men. They considered themselves to be also a group of people at the center of all peoples--because everyone could become part of it, as soon as they had successfully passed the selective tests.
They thought, and rightly so, that they were the heirs of God's sons and daughters of old, the heirs to their great ancient civilization. They possessed their advanced knowledge and worked assiduously in secret for the triumph of the light over the darkness of the human mind.

They felt that they had been entrusted with a mission, which would turn out to be the founding of Christianity and of western civilization. They were supported in this effort by highly evolved beings who directed the brotherhood. They were true saints, Masters of wisdom, hierophants of the ancient arts of mastery.


They were not limited to a single religion, but studied all of them in order to extract the great scientific principles. They considered each religion to be a different stage of a single revelation. They accorded great importance to the teachings of the ancient Chaldeans, of Zoroaster, of Hermes Trismegiste, to the secret instructions of Moses and of one of the founding Masters of their order who had transmitted techniques similar to those of Buddhism, as well as to the revelation of Enoch.
They possessed a living science of all of these revelations.
Thus, they knew how to communicate with angelic beings and had solved the question of the origin of evil on the earth.



One of their major preoccupations was to protect themselves from any contact with evil spirits, in order to preserve the purity of their souls. They knew that they would only be on earth for a short time, and they did not want to prostitute their eternal souls. It was this attitude, this strict discipline, this absolute refusal to lie or compromise, that made them the object of so much persecution through the ages.

The Essenes considered themselves the guardians of the Divine Teaching. They had in their possession a great number of very ancient manuscripts, some of them going back to the dawn of time. A large portion of the School members spent their time decoding them, translating them into several languages, and reproducing them, in order to perpetuate and preserve this advanced knowledge. They considered this work to be a sacred task.






The Essenes considered their Brotherhood-Sisterhood as the presence on earth of the Teaching of the sons and daughters of God. They were the light which shines in the darkness and which invites the darkness to change itself into light. Thus, for them, when a candidate asked to be admitted to their School, it meant that, within him, a whole process of awakening of the soul was set in motion. Such a soul was ready to climb the stairs of the sacred temple of humanity.
The Essenes differentiated between the souls which were sleeping, drowsy, and awakened. Their task was to help, to comfort, and to relieve the sleeping souls, to try to awaken the drowsy souls, and to welcome and guide the awakened souls. Only the souls considered as awakened could be initiated into the mysteries of the Brotherhood-Sisterhood. Then began for them a path of evolution that could not stop anymore through the cycle of their incarnations.


Everybody knew the Brothers and Sisters in white. The Hebrews called them "The School of Prophets"; and, to the Egyptians, they were "The Healers, The Doctors". They had property in nearly all of the big cities; and, in Jerusalem, there was even a door that bore their name: the door of the Essenes. Despite some fear and joking, due to the rejection of that which one does not know, the people as a whole felt respect and esteem for the Essenes because of their honesty, their pacifism, their goodness, their discretion, and their talent as healers, devoted to the poorest as well as to the richest. They knew that the greatest Hebrew prophets came from their lineage and their School.
Moreover, even if the Brotherhood was very strict about the law of secrecy with regard to its internal doctrine, it cultivated many points of contact with the people, notably through places of lodging for the pilgrims from every horizon, through helpful actions in difficult periods, and especially through the healing of illnesses. These places of primary teaching and of healing were located in precise areas where people could go freely.



Nee nee neeny.....nee nee neeny....you've just entered.....THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

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Athlete, entrepreneur, natural health advocate, Bible scholar, humanitarian, family man - Tom Ciola has been known as all of these things through the years. His involvement with health, fitness and nutrition began in 1970 with the establishment of a combination health food store and health club in Utica, New York. In 1975, he founded National Health Products - a leading company in the field of sports nutrition supplements. Always known as an innovator, his product Hot Stuff was the most successful bodybuilding supplement of the 90s.


He has had an active and successful career in both bodybuilding and powerlifting and was named Mr. New York State in 1975. As a strong advocate of drug-free athletics, he organized the Natural Bodybuilders of America (NBBA) in 1980 which sponsored the first Natural (drug-free) Mr. America competition in 1981. He has also published several newsletters on health and fitness, including Surviving and The Natural Bodybuilder.
...He has been a student of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, theology and comparative religion for more than 30 years. He was one of the founding members in 1993 of The Essene Way mission/retreat and church in Belize, Central America. His most recent ventures include the launching of Logia: Foods of the Bible and Temple magazine.
...He has been married to his wife Marcia for 33 years and has six children and nine grandchildren.

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The resort was first called the Belizean and was built by a Frenchman, who's family was purported to be owners or major stockholders of Perrier. He died and the resort was then sold.

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Thanks Tommy. All this talk of the Essenes makes me feel like reading the Da Vinci Code all over again.


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love that old place. still a friend living there... i have a cool old VHS tape about the place when it was the Essene Way...

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I was told that Captain Morgan's purchased it in order to expand. The person who told me/husband/friend was in management.

Anybody else hear the same?


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