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The Seven Essene Mirrors
Bonnie Moss (c) April, 2013
Seven Essene Mirrors- Relationships and the Spiritual Path

How many times a day do you look at a mirror? 
Do you see beyond the image you are looking at?

Pools of dark still waters collected in a vessel 
was used as a mirror way, way back in time. 
Obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass 
were the first manufactured mirrors. Examples 
can still be found in Anatolia, Turkey, believed 
to date back to around 6000 BC. There is a more 
intriguing aspect to the significance of mirrors as
the Essenes believed.

Who were the Essenes

The Essenes were an important Jewish group 
which flourished in Palestine from the late second 
century B.C. to the late first century A.D. Historians 
and scholars like Philo, Josephus, Pliny, and 
Hippolytus generally agree quite closely on the main 
characteristics of the group. Asceticism was a 
central trait. 

Many Essenes were devoted to the celibate ideal, 
though Josephus mentions a group who married.
They eschewed luxury items, such as oil, and avoided 
all unnecessary social and economic contacts with 
non-Essenes. Their highly regimented life centered 
on prayers, rigorous work, frequent illustrations, and 
studies of Scriptures. Essene was a name believed 
to be applied by their contemporaries.

The Essenes were members of an ascetic Jewish 
sect of the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. 
Most of them lived on the western shore of the Dead Sea. 
They are identified by many scholars with the Qumran 
community that wrote the documents popularly called 
the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

"(The similarity between a number of Essene and 
Christian concepts and practices (kingdom of God, 
baptism, sacred meals, the position of a central teacher, 
titles of officeholders, and community organization) has 
led some people to assume that there was a close kinship 
between the Essenes and the groups around John the 
Baptist and Jesus Christ. It is possible that after the 
dissolution of the Essene community some members 
followed John the Baptist or joined one of the 
early Christian communities, but any other direct 
connection seems unlikely.)
"Wikipedia 

                         
Seven Essene Mirrors
                          
 First mirror-  what we feel at the moment-pain,anger
                          
 Second mirror- what we judge 
                          
Third mirror- what is lost, taken away from us, or what we gave away                   
                          
 Fourth mirror- most forgotten love        
                          
 Fifth mirror- Father/ Mother                             
                          
Sixth mirror- quest in darkness, light and dark part of the soul
                          
 Seventh mirror -Self perception

Through relationships, the mirrors reflect back to us, 
at that moment, the power of thought, feelings, emotions 
yet still unknown to us. We can not ignore the role of 
relationships which we live each present moment. The 
actions of our relationships,their choices,frustration, anger,
love or joy, wrong choices or wrong words are reflective 
reality at that moment. 



Patterns of behavior: radiating what we feel at 
the moment, is mirrored back to us. We are 
judging or frustrated at the moment; or realize 
what we have given away, or lost or taken away 
from us.

Gregg Braden  writes: "From the perspective of the 
ancient Essenes, every human on the earth is an
initiate in the Mystery School that we call Life. 
Whether they are conscious of it or not, every 
human will experience in the presence of others 
mirrors of themselves in that moment. If we have 
the wisdom to recognize those mirrors, we may 
accelerate the evolution of emotion and 
understanding."

We are made to believe that a trait in another 
person that we dislike or disapprove reflects a 
shadow of ourselves. Not necessarily so. 
Negative experiences are not stumbling blocks 
when dealt with properly.Look at these as 
reflective mirrors that is calling our attention. 

FIRST MIRROR reflects to us that which 
we are at the moment. It could be a hurt 
that nags now and then; a wrong-doing 
that is almost forgotten that brought pain 
or anger.Patterns of behavior that radiates 
at that moment is mirrored back at us.

SECOND MIRROR reflects to us that 
which we judge. It is something we have 
an emotional charge with, something we 
have either been wounded by in the past 
and have not forgiven.Look at these issues 
carefully. 

If we judge and condemn with an emotional 
charge,we will attract exactly what we judge 
into our lives.A frustrating bahavior is reflected 
back,if more than one person is involved, 
consider this as a mirroring of reflective reality.

Possible common thread or possibility arise 
from important issues with an emotional charge. 
These are important values- honesty, integrity, 
respect, kindness, compassion, etc..

THIRD MIRROR reflects back to us something 
we lost, gave away, or was taken away. When 
we see something we love and desire in another,
it is often something we have lost, given away 
or had been stolen in our own lives. Every 
relationship is a relationship with self and often 
we try to reclaim what was lost, what we gave
away, or had been taken away as a child or 
as an adult. It could be joy, innocence, honesty, 
integrity,respect, courage or love. All of which 
can be reclaimed within self. 

FOURTH MIRROR reflects back to us our 
most forgotten love. This could be a way of 
life, a lost or unfinished relationship. Often 
it is a past life where a wrong conclusion 
from past experience was created. These 
will recreate themselves over and over 
until the right conclusion is registered in 
the soul as wisdom. Mirrors can be subtle 
and go unnoticed. These are different 
qualities or patterns of  compulsive or 
addictive behavior in us that we see in 
the eyes of someone else. It is giving away, 
little by little, people or things that we hold dear. 

These can include controlling trait, sex, 
money, power, materialism and other issues 
of a compulsive behaviour.These patterns 
unfold slowly, rearranging lives to accomodate 
these compulsive/addictive behaviours.

Unknowingly, a great part of oneself can 
be lost slowly.When this mirror appears 
and we can honestly look at these in the 
eyes of someone else,it is a way to re-enforce 
what was lost and perhaps find these lost 
and forgotten loves.

FIFTH MIRROR reflects back to us 
Father/Mother image. It is often said we 
marry our father or mother. We also often 
become them acting out the same healthy 
and unhealthy patterns we learned as a child. 
Our fathers and mothers to us as children are 
Gods. It will often reflect the same relationship 
we have with others and the Father/Mother 
God principle. 

Parents can possibly hold to us a mirror of
themselves and their expectations and filtered 
down to their children. They hold a mirror 
showing their beliefs and perceptions. This 
mirror includes anyone who has cared or 
cares for us. They hold a mirror where we 
can see our expectations or our judgment.

SIXTH MIRROR reflects back to us the quest 
for darkness or what is often referred to as the 
Dark Night of the Soul.This is when we meet
our greatest challenges, our greatest fears. We 
are making an effort to gather the tools and 
understanding in life to confront them. 

God never gives one any more than they can
handle and we have a choice in every experience 
to greet it as a powerful manifestation of 
God/Goddess or choose to be a victim.There 
is a dark and a light side to all of us. It is our 
choice to immerse in darkness or muster 
the will to find the Light.

These are the pain, fears, doubts that is part 
of life.This mirror holds the possibility of finding 
the strength to move beyond. We have the tools 
to deal with the darkness. People who care for 
us hold before us a mirror where we can see 
our expectations and judgments. Distinguish 
the possibilities of the good and bad image 
before us.

There is a balance in life- trust yourself, you 
have learned your lessons. You can find 
balance amid imbalance with this self-mastery. 
The conscience holds a mirror of the experience 
of light and dark.

SEVENTH MIRROR reflects back to us our 
self-perception. Others will perceive and treat 
us according to how we perceive and treat ourselves. 
If we have a low self-esteem and do not 
acknowledge our wisdom and beauty, others
will not acknowledge them. If we are angry, 
bitter and unloving to others, they in turn will 
often react in the same way towards us. 

If we change our perception of ourselves, we 
change our world. Maybe it is time to be kind, 
loving and compassionate to ourselves and 
others. Remember the saying, “The only 
reason anyone has power over you is you 
want something from them.” Whether it be 
love, joy, or a personal God connection, maybe 
that something can be found within.




What criteria or values do you live by? Do you 
apply a yardstick in your life? The mirror concept 
does not always apply. Don't get stuck with the first 
mirror, which can be a reflection of  something 
about you that you'd rather forget. These encounters 
reflect how you feel at the moment. There are 
other mirrors to study. When you face up to one 
mirror, miraculously, the other mirrors come at 
you with a real force.

Sometimes the mirrors would apply, but sometimes 
they wouldn't. We had discovered the first mirror, but 
had yet to see the other mirrors, such as the second 
mirror, which reflects what we judge in the moment. 
We can be angry and adapt a get even mentality, 
we can live in denial, thinking that people will get 
what they deserve and that we feel nothing; or feel 
compassion. We can come from a place with no
judgment, consent and allow ourselves to 
acknowledge our feelings.

What the Essenes said was that through and with 
our relationships, we get to know and master ourselves 
in this world. We will see one or some combination 
of mirrored patterns in others. Do you believe that 
you are not good enough? Think about why you live 
your life the way you do, and how you do it. It is in 
the presence of others that we recognize ourselves.
            
 Compassion- no attachment to the outcome
                                                  
Thought without attachment
                                                   
Feeling without distortion
                                                   
Emotion without charge..... Gregg Braden

Ref:
James Gillaird : http://journey-to-my-soul.blogspot.ca/p/7-essene-mirrors.html
Gregg Braden-author bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and technology

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