 Szekely claimed to have translated a text he discovered at the Vatican in 1923, called "The Essene Gospel of Peace" which he published in four parts over several decades.With the 1974 edition, he also included what he said was the complete original Hebrew text from which he translated Book 1.In 1928 Szekely founded the International Biogenic Society, with Nobel Prize-winning novelist Romain Rolland Szekely travelled widely, to Tahiti, Africa, the Carpathians, France, and Eastern Europe.