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[[File:1280px-HouseAltar-AkhenatenNefertitiAndThreeOfTheirDaughters-rev.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=caption|Ikhnaton and Nefertiti. The sun disk of Aton is seen above them, each ray ending in a hand extending blessing (Egyptian Museum, Berlin)]] | <languages /> | ||
[[File:1280px-HouseAltar-AkhenatenNefertitiAndThreeOfTheirDaughters-rev.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=caption|<translate>Ikhnaton and Nefertiti. The sun disk of Aton is seen above them, each ray ending in a hand extending blessing (Egyptian Museum, Berlin)</translate>]] | |||
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The messengers [[Mark L. Prophet]] and [[Elizabeth Clare Prophet]] were embodied as '''Ikhnaton''' (Amenhotep IV) and '''Nefertiti''', who ruled Egypt in the fourteenth century <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. Pharaoh Ikhnaton introduced a revolutionary religion into Egypt based on the worship of the one God, and he is remembered for having founded the first form of modern monotheism. | The messengers [[Mark L. Prophet]] and [[Elizabeth Clare Prophet]] were embodied as '''Ikhnaton''' (Amenhotep IV) and '''Nefertiti''', who ruled Egypt in the fourteenth century <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. Pharaoh Ikhnaton introduced a revolutionary religion into Egypt based on the worship of the one God, and he is remembered for having founded the first form of modern monotheism. | ||
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Seven hundred years before Isaiah, Ikhnaton proclaimed the vitalistic conception of the Deity, found in the trees and flowers and all forms of Life—with the sun as the emblem of the ultimate power he now proclaims as the I AM Presence. Although the consciousness of the people was not ready for the one God in Ikhnaton’s day, the impact of monotheism is felt to the present day throughout the world’s great religions. | Seven hundred years before Isaiah, Ikhnaton proclaimed the vitalistic conception of the Deity, found in the trees and flowers and all forms of Life—with the sun as the emblem of the ultimate power he now proclaims as the I AM Presence. Although the consciousness of the people was not ready for the one God in Ikhnaton’s day, the impact of monotheism is felt to the present day throughout the world’s great religions. | ||
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[[File:GD-EG-Caire-Musee061.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=caption|Statue of Ikhnaton from his Aten Temple at Karnak (Egyptian Museum of Cairo)]] | [[File:GD-EG-Caire-Musee061.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=caption|<translate>Statue of Ikhnaton from his Aten Temple at Karnak (Egyptian Museum of Cairo)</translate>]] | ||
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== End of their reign == | == End of their reign == | ||
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Others argue that the dates of Moses and Ikhnaton are not at all certain and that the Exodus of the Hebrews may have occurred a century before Ikhnaton. In 1939 Sigmund Freud published ''Moses and Monotheism'', in which he claimed that Moses was a native Egyptian and disciple of Ikhnaton who taught the religion of Aton to the Israelites. | Others argue that the dates of Moses and Ikhnaton are not at all certain and that the Exodus of the Hebrews may have occurred a century before Ikhnaton. In 1939 Sigmund Freud published ''Moses and Monotheism'', in which he claimed that Moses was a native Egyptian and disciple of Ikhnaton who taught the religion of Aton to the Israelites. | ||
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[[File:524px-Nofretete Neues Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=caption|Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, Berlin]] | [[File:524px-Nofretete Neues Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=caption|<translate>Bust of Nefertiti in Neues Museum, Berlin</translate>]] | ||
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== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
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