 After the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and intense public interest in the Essenes, Szekely republished an updated version as "The Essene Gospel of John".The scrolls appearing on the title page of later editions are not the manuscripts Szekely claimed to translate, but a reversed image of a Dead Sea Scroll from Professor Millar Burrows "The Dead Sea Scrolls", published in 1958.In 1940, Szekely and his wife opened a camp they named Rancho la Puerta in Baja California.