Face - of God - Cistene Chapel (Michelangelo) Without any doubt, Akhenaten made an awesome statement in drawing a most definite line in the Egyptian sand that would forever set the standard for every human being ever born from that time onwards - even if billions of people since have had no concept that it was, and still is by any reasonable evaluation, a most outstanding and authoritative act of a truly outstanding young man. His TRUST then, as being on a most obvious display, was not based upon the imaginings of any man or men, or upon any superstitious speculation - from any religious determination, such as the religionist of Amen was promoting. For in hindsight, we can now clearly see that Akhenaten's was a TRUST in 'WHAT IS' - and what has - ALWAYS BEEN!
So Akhenaten was eventually proven to have placed his TRUST in a far more genuine understanding - a more bona-fide and provable set of beliefs if you will. All of which now saw the Amen priesthood with a major dilemma - how on earth were they going to explain that all their dire proclamations of doom were now proven as being obviously unfounded? And if Akhenaten's belief was subsequently to have been proven substantial and valid in the face of such emphatic opposition, what was so different about his understanding that delivered unto him such a strong TRUST in what we would in 2008 hindsight proclaim - the obvious? What was the difference that we can today; still witness for ourselves?
Indeed his TRUST was placed squarely in an alternative ‘heaven’ - of what was - and still is - 'WHAT IS' – The ATEN (YAHWEH), no less! We will be delving further into this alternative heaven in subsequent posts - as it is being revealed for our witness.
From where we are now, we can only surmise as to how such astounding conclusions were brought to Akhenaten's attention through his awesome heritage. Whatever the circumstances of his birth; whether he was a purely Hebrew child born outside the palace, and as a baby floating in a basket down a river – plucked by the daughter of Pharaoh for her amusement, or (as this blog favors) was born to the Egyptian Pharaoh and his beautiful Hebrew wife Tiy, we know that he was, as a child; far from favored by his Pharaoh father Amenhotep III.
We also know that his great grandfather Joseph was alive until shortly before his ascension to the throne, and would have been a great influence upon the young lad in his formative years. So what was so different about this young ruler's belief system that brought him to the place to have such an authentic and provable understanding of ‘WHAT IS’, occasioning such unparalleled courage in the face of such determined and threatening opposition? And what can 
we draw upon in 2008, from his undoubted belief structure?
Many Egyptologists have struggled with exactly what Akhenaten actually believed, as being his worship system. They all agree that he thoroughly rejected Amen as the ‘head deity’ or any deity at all, and replaced him (and all pagan 'gods') with only ONE - indeed; ‘The Aten’, which (presuming we have the pronunciation correct) sounds very similar. They also agree that this belief system had something to do with the solar disc (sun), but why would Akhenaten turn the entire world on it’s collective ear for a second sun ‘god’ with almost the same name? And how does all this fit into what he (as Moses) taught those who followed him out of the place some 57 years later? Indeed, the witnessing of this blog is about to shed some serious light onto such details, that will astound in no small measure - particularly if the reader has been consuming the previous posts, for a few amazing facts of our ongoing witnessing will soon start falling into place in truly exciting ways.
Akhenaten’s worship was NOT towards the sun or any sun ‘god’ as such. Neither was it a religion in any way – binding or otherwise. It was in fact, a recognition and reverence to – none other than – LIGHT itself - but not the sun from whence it beams.
We can see (right and below) that the sun is certainly represented in the stone tablet engravings that still exist today, as depicting the reverence (by Akhenaten and his family) to; THE ATEN. Nevertheless, it is present merely as a physical representation that everyone understands as being the predominant medium that delivers to us; the physical (and spiritual) LIGHT - indeed the very same invisible LIGHT- for every aspect of our existence - being the very same thing that much of our previous witnessing has been about.
However as is obvious; it is not the sun, but the (lines representing the) dual entity that is the stuff of LIGHT, as issuing from the solar disc - being the focus of the reverence on display. In some artifacts, the lines of light streaming away from the sun, are completed at the ends with small hands or other indications of 'support', explaining that it is this invisible power source and energy supply that is being recognised as the supplier and facilitator to a man’s life and every effort. Which also explains why there were to be no idols permitted according ‘THE ATEN’, for how on earth could anyone possibly manufacture any rock engraving or statue that would sufficiently depict or resemble invisible LIGHT?
We will be delving deeper in subsequent posts; into our witness according these amazing details and further 'falling into place' will result. For now, it is very significant to note that Akhenaten's observation towards LIGHT, was not only represented via a (religious style) reverence (as above), but also removed from any religious overtone whatsoever (as below) as being present in the everyday life of the individual - as continually under the nurture of that same over-all power supply - as we have been witnessing previously (to everything that has and is life) - and as directed towards the thankful 'receiver' of such, as Pharaoh Akhenaten clearly demonstrated he was.
The term ‘worship’ as relating to religion, has over the millennia since, changed quite significantly in understanding - to the point that we now view it not as an ongoing reverence and thankfulness (as we witness above) so much any longer, but rather as basically an action that is designed to keep the object of our worship (Amen, god, Zeus, Mars, Allah, Buddha, Ganesha, Vishnu, Jesus etc.) sufficiently satisfied towards us, in order that we will be in turn ‘blessed’ by his / her / their hands; in the same manner as the worship system towards Amen - for the purpose of keeping him sufficiently happy so that the sun would appear tomorrow, and life would be permitted to continue and prosperity to flourish for another day. And therein lies the evidence of the fundamental difference in the two concepts of 'worship' - between;
A. Akhenaten's 'THE ATEN' recognition and reverence, vs
B. The priesthood's 'Amen' style bondage through religion.
The correlation between Amen 'adherence' with it's chains of bondage upon the Egyptian society and the individual through it on the one hand, and current systems of doctrinal creed around the world today on the other; is more apparent in some of the religions on offer than others, however any reasonable and honest open-eyed witnessing will soon enough reveal that ALL religions the world over, have ever since been founded in some manner or another upon the identical principles, and still adhere to this same premise of requiring adherence in various ways, as being the center shaft around which the rest of the beliefs of the respective creed revolve – similar in many respects to how a wheel operates.
Such formulated concepts according to the various contemporaneous doctrines and persuasions might seem reasonable enough to a dyed-in-the-wool religionist as he sits at the end of years of the respective drip-fed tuition via his family and/or church elders, and his society in general – drenched as it certainly is in the prevailing religious beliefs of the particular culture - as unquestionably derived in it's own peculiarities over time - from the very same original - indeed the Babylonian model that found it's full voice in ancient Egypt.
So the adherents of (say) the Christian follower of 'Jesus' may frown upon the Buddhist's Buddha who may sneer at the Islamic servant of Mohamed, who may laugh at the elephant god 'Ganesha' of the Hindu, who will disapprove of the Taoist Miroku, and the list can go on-ad-infinitum. Even so, all the respective adherents are entirely convinced upon the authenticity and validity of their chosen denomination. This is the stuff that is the alpha and omega of religion as a whole, such as has flourished on the back of the Babylonian original through the Egyptian fulfilment.
Regardless of the peculiar pathway to the relevant creed in which each 'devotee' now finds himself as adherent; has any of these religious followers (as above) ever considered the origins of their respective doctrines and beliefs, such that he finds himself determinedly founding his TRUST upon? He certainly believes he has, yet can still sneer at all the others, who are (not surprisingly) sneering back at him. For all are equally convinced in the utter 'truth' of their creed, and the obvious 'false' of each in the others.
Has the Christian for instance contemplated why he religiously uses the curious identification ‘Amen’ at the end of all his prayers; thereby directing to and celebrating the same Egyptian head deity of pagan origin that Akhenaten rejected? Or maybe where the religious concept of a humanistic ‘devil’, often represented as an evil snake originates? Or for that matter, where we get the notion of a humanoid ‘god’ who looks like a frowning deviate old man (above) with long grey hair and matching beard; or - he being the boss god of a set of three - trinity (godhead), the two others being underlings also of humanesque appearance, with one actually being his own son - to a human mother of course?
Has our religious friend ever considered that the bottomless pit receptacle to which he offers his life-long servitude; being the current Pharaoh/Caesar as he sits on his high chair in Rome, still (after 3000+ years) considering himself as a ‘god’ or (more politically correct) ‘god’s representative’ – or (even) ‘vicar of christ’? Perhaps he would like to explain why it is that one of our ‘holy' pontiff's head coverings is a ‘triple crown’, or papal tiara (below right), proclaiming him to be ‘god of the three heavens - the upper, the middle (earth) and the underworld’.
Possibly he might be interested to learn that the word ‘mayhem’ has it’s derivation in the Egyptian (third of the trinity) god ‘Mehen’, or that the original name for the book of Revelation, being a Biblical foretelling of ‘the end’ – (of the age), was originally entitled ‘Apocalypse’, which as a title; is a derivation from the Egyptian deity of ‘the end’, being the enemy of Amen; Apopohis, who as a snake deity, was determined upon eternal doom and destruction for the planet as a whole. We will be witnessing much more on Apopohis in the next post.
When faced with these and other definitions which we will soon be reviewing, being the very foundations worldwide for presiding religious doctrines, the religionist is quick to offer up a string of formulated explanations in his fervor to separate the obvious (many banded) linkages inextricably tying them all to the pagan Babylonian/Egyptian belief structure that Akhenaten made his momentous stance of rejection against.
He will explain for instance that ‘New Testament’ scripture, was most curiously written by Jews, predominantly reporting on the activities of a Jewish 'Jesus', for the purpose of other Jews to read, yet amazingly was written in - Greek; then translated into English for our (later) use, and translated again a few more thousand times, all the time conveniently omitting the centuries of handling of the thing (in between) by the decisively decrepit pagan Roman war machine, that had only one purpose – to continue to serve the ideals of religious domination in it's quest to control the world's population via it's universal (catholic) dogma - through fortune, fear and force; as conveniently modelled around 1500 years earlier - in (predominantly pagan) Egypt. Even so, he will applaud the absolute infalliblity of 'the WORD of God', without noticing that the thing itself is chock filled with discrepancies, and condemnations inside it's very own pages for the corrupt scribes who; over the centuries and millenium passed the thing down to us.
Even this very day, the head dude of Rome; religionist Caesar himself (left & right) - as he sits in his high chair with the very same stupid grin - that comes from knowing how mesmerized his followers are in religiously and blindly giving their bondaged all - to him; as he still wears the very same stupid fish head ornamentation that 3000+ years ago adorned Pharaoh (L & R below) - whilst he leads his bondaged subservients in prayers to the very same ‘Amen’, who is even today; still the very same head man-god of the very same humanoid ‘trinity’, still hiding behind the clouds in the very same sky and still fighting the very same snake-man enemy - in the service of the very same - planet Earth; as continuing, but only under his very same mercy and good graces, despite his being more inclined to - in the very same manner - punish as a result of his very same anger towards the very same - you and me.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same".
(French proverb)
Billions of people now religiously defer the world over to; “God”, as if it is some kind of name, but even the most ardent practitioner will not be able to muster the courage to claim it as a name at all - to any degree. Nonetheless, nearly 100% of their prayers to this unnamed ‘god’ will culminate in the very same definite and obvious name - ‘Amen’, seemingly because the person praying is conversant in what this ‘Amen’ is all about. The sad thing is that he quite simply has no understanding, and even more sadly; most will be highly offended at any suggestion as according the OBVIOUS witnessing of this blog.
Saddest of all - even if he fails to comprehend any of this; even so - via his own words as repeatedly issuing from his own tongue - he continually echoes upon what authority and foundation stands his religiously based TRUST – most assuredly being the Egyptian head deity of the sun and universal order – fundamentally Amen himself.
The reader of this blog naturally; has no similar misunderstandings.
In the end, Akhenaten at the tender age of 17, by the authority of his ALTERNATIVE TRUST - in 'WHAT IS', not only;
- Challenged the very tenets of the system of pagan idolatry that was and is (even today) religious bondage - with PERFECT results of vindication, then;
- For a further 17 years explained the proven realities of ‘WHAT IS’, and has always been ‘WHAT IS’; at the same time proving WHAT IS WRONG - with religion; but also;
- After it appearing that he had been overpowered and removed by an uprising of the same idolatrous pagan structure - of Amen, he then;
- Returned as one old man and his ‘brother’ (who was NOT his brother at all), to again challenge in no uncertain manner the now fully restored to full power - entire nation of pagan idolatry (to Amen) along with their powerful and wealthy priesthood, and;
- Proved (again) the ultimate authority of ‘WHAT IS’ over ‘what is supposed by traditionalist superstition’, when he made the superlative statement that one man alone (with his help-meet) - by the superior authority of ‘WHAT IS’ could (again) stand in the presence of, and challenge face on; the entire garnered worldly force possible, and finally;
- Walked away in safety and assurance and victory - with the entire slave-power-supply-engine of the proud but now devastated and hapless society – leaving the remainder in a monumental and dire quandary - to consider their choices, as still under bondage to; Amen and his priesthood.
