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Veda  and  the  Upanishads  mention  the  brahmanical  communities  munis  and  vrâtyas;  in
               second place, that in the Age of Buddha, historic personage of the VII century B.C., already
               existed the groups that would be formed in Sanghas.
                      But  this  is  not  about  if  the  Benedictines  were  Buddhist  or  if  they  had  something  in
               common  with  the  Buddhism  Priests,  as  the  Benedictines  Priests,  obeyed  to  the  White
               Fraternity in secrecy, real Occult Force of the Monasticism «Oriental» and «Occidental». The
               White  Fraternity,  in  fact,  were  the  authors  of  a  work  entitled  «Rules  of  the  Masters  of
               Wisdom»,  of  universal  diffusion  and  that  in  Occident  was  known  since  the  II  century  as
               «Regula  Magistri  Sapientiae»  by  many  Christian  sects  and  also  for  gnostic  Jews.  Thus,
               nothing original would be in the occidental monasticism which would answer, on the contrary,
               to the most orthodox dispositions that the White Fraternity rules on the matter.
                      In the first centuries of the Christian Age when the Roman Empire admitted «Paganism»
               and maintained contact with the populations of Asia, was perfectly known the existence of the
               monkish  oriental  life;  even  some  illustrious  men  as  Apollonius  of  Tyana,  contemporary  of
               Jesus, had travelled to the Tibet and received instruction in their monasteries. Some gnostic
               sects, that reached to comprehend and to oppose the plans of the White Fraternity, have left
               testimony  that  it  was  known  in  the  main  cities  of  Middle  East:  Alexandria,  Jerusalem,
               Antioquia,  Caesarea,  Ephesus,  etc.  But  the  institution  of  the  monasteries  is  not  established
               from one day to another: it is necessary to follow a strict formation process, a method which is
               known since the age of the Atlantis and the Priests of the Cultural have used universally; the
               Buddhist priests, previous deformation of the Kshatriya Siddhartha, created the monasticism
               Buddhist-Tibetan,  Chinese,  Indian  and  Japanese.  This  method  determines  what  must  start
               from a phase of social anarchic-mysticism, characterized by the proliferation of illuminated,
               hermits, and Saints: this stage has as objective to promote the belief that the future monkish
               institution is spontaneous product of the people. In this form the populations would accept
               naturally the existence and the work of the monasteries, and, the most important, will be also
               accepted by the Kings and governors. And this infallible method is applicable in any population
               and with the assistance of any religion.
                      In the mark of Judeochristianity, in the I century is already started the application of
               the method and emerges in the Middle East multitude of ascetics and Saints who retire to the
               deserts and mountains to live in solitude. During the II and III centuries grows so much the
               population of anchorites that many decided to join under the command of a superior Saint and
               the order of some rule: are constituted then the communities of cenobites; nevertheless, the
               community of the cenobites didn't reach yet the union grade required for the monastic way of
               life due to every member continued with the eremite life and are only gathered to pray and
               feed.  And  with  the  anchorites  and  cenobites,  roam  everywhere  the  «wandering  friars»,
               occidental  version  of  the  «oriental  mendicant  monks».  In  the  V  century,  the  colonies  of
               anchorites and cenobites, counted thousands and thousands of members in Egypt, Palestine
               and Middle East: in just one diocese of Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, lived twenty thousands of female
               eremites and one hundred anchorite hermits, while in life of Saint Pachomius existed seven
               thousands  cenobite  monks  in  their  monasteries,  that  reaches  to  fifty  thousand  in  the  V
               century. With this I want to exemplify, Dr. Siegnagel, the magnitude of the pre-monastic, an
               already knew movement was the one of Far East inspiration.
                      In the propitious moment to institute the occidental monasticism, and to diffuse the

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