[Freeswitch-users] Does FS ESL provide session command?

According to http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Event_Socket, ESL only supports: api, bapi, event, myevents, divert_events, filter,sendevent, sendmsg, hangup, auth, exit,log, nolog, noevents, nixevent. How come I don't see a way to create a session via ESL. like in lua, freeswitch.Session(dialstring); one way to accomplish this in ESL is : api originate dialstring &hold(), is this = Session(dialstring) ? thanks