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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 (or Akhenaten, as the name is sometimes spelled) 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.
 
== Early life ==
 
Ikhnaton lived during the New Kingdom period of the XVIIIth Dynasty in Egypt from approximately 1390 to 1360 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. He was the son of Amenhotep III, an incarnation of [[Serapis Bey]]. His great-great grandfather was Thutmose III, an incarnation of beloved [[Kuthumi]], known as a mighty conqueror in battle.
 
Ikhnaton’s childhood is not spoken of. He did marry Nefertiti and they had six daughters. Soon after his marriage, he ascended to the throne of Egypt. He decided to break entirely with the old cults and make Aton the sole god.
 
There was such a corruption of the plurality of God that he went back to the original source to draw people’s attention away from the corrupt manifestations. We can see that [[Gautama Buddha]] had a similar purpose in his defining of the self. Sometimes it becomes necessary to remove all accoutrements of religious tradition when these become corrupted so that all can go back to the single source, the one God, the Father.   


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Thirty-three centuries ago, Ikhnaton (or Akhenaten, as the name is sometimes spelled) recognized the one God in the spiritual Sun behind the physical sun, and he called this God “[[Aton]].” Ikhnaton visualized the Infinite One, Aton, as a divine being “clearly distinguished from the physical sun” yet manifest in the sunlight. Ikhnaton gave reverence to the “heat which is in the Sun,” as he saw it to be the vital heat that accompanied all Life.<ref>James Henry Breasted, ''A History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest'' (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912), pp. 360, 361.</ref>
Ikhnaton recognized the one God in the spiritual Sun behind the physical sun, and he called this God “[[Aton]].” Ikhnaton visualized the Infinite One, Aton, as a divine being “clearly distinguished from the physical sun” yet manifest in the sunlight. Ikhnaton gave reverence to the “heat which is in the Sun,” as he saw it to be the vital heat that accompanied all Life.<ref>James Henry Breasted, ''A History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest'' (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912), pp. 360, 361.</ref>


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Impatient with the practices of priests of Amon at Thebes, the king not only denounced their gods and ceremonies as a vulgar [[idolatry]], but built a new capital for the kingdom, Akhetaten (known to archaeologists as [[Tel el Amarna]]), located nearly three hundred miles north of the ancient city of Thebes. Ikhnaton prohibited the worship of the old [[Nephilim]] gods, particularly Amon, the chief god, and ordered their names and images erased from the monuments. These were both embodied and disembodied fallen angels, to whom the black priests had erected their altars.   
Impatient with the practices of priests of Amon at Thebes, the king not only denounced their gods and ceremonies as a vulgar [[idolatry]], but built a new capital for the kingdom, Akhetaten (known to archaeologists as [[Tel el Amarna]]), located nearly three hundred miles north of the ancient city of Thebes. Ikhnaton prohibited the worship of the old [[Nephilim]] gods, particularly Amon, the chief god, and ordered their names and images erased from the monuments. These were both embodied and disembodied [[fallen angel]]s, to whom the black priests had erected their altars.   


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Unfortunately, the reign of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti was but a tender interlude in Egypt’s era of power. An idealistic reformer, Ikhnaton was not wont to send Egyptians to war in defense of dependencies of Egypt that had been invaded. As a result, the Egyptian empire shrank, and the ruler found himself without funds or friends.   
Unfortunately, the reign of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti was but a tender interlude in Egypt’s era of power. An idealistic reformer, Ikhnaton was not wont to send Egyptians to war in defense of dependencies of Egypt that had been invaded. As a result, the Egyptian empire shrank, and the ruler found himself without funds or friends.
 
As Ikhnaton had no son, his oldest daughter was married to Smenkhkare, thereby making Smenkhkare the legitimate heir to the throne.  Ikhnaton then associated Smenkhkare with him as co-regent.


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In the seventeenth year of Ikhnaton’s reign, he, his wife and the eldest daughter disappeared. Scholars have guessed that they were murdered. By whom and when and how is unknown. [[El Morya]] has shown us that it was the chief military leader, General Horemheb, who led a revolt against Ikhnaton and Nefertiti, and stabbed them to death.   
In the seventeenth year of Ikhnaton’s reign and the third of the co-regency, he, his wife and the eldest daughter disappeared. Scholars have guessed that they were murdered. By whom and when and how is unknown. [[El Morya]] has shown us that it was the chief military leader, General Horemheb, who led a revolt against Ikhnaton and Nefertiti, and stabbed them to death.   


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People who have commented on this life consider that Ikhnaton was poor in politics and diplomacy, that the revolution was so intense that it very soon destroyed him. But we understand that unless there be a cutting off by the ax at the root of error we cannot move on. We cannot allow the vines of [[Serpent]] to grow in our midst and expect that we are going to be able to prosper with the [[Tree of Life]].
He understood the absolute, noncompromising attitude required with the fallen angels so much so that he reveals to us that we cannot afford to have sympathy with those who are the fallen angels and give them room and therefore allow their vibration to contaminate the Holy of Holies. This is the great message of Amarna—noncompromise. We do not compromise the living truth. And we do not give space to the false gods to appease their priests.


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The devotion to Truth demonstrated by these rulers is typical of the qualities required for true messengers of God. Ikhnaton’s virtue was not in military victory or in political bargaining with the priests of Amon, but in his total lack of compromise with error.
The devotion to Truth demonstrated by these rulers is typical of the qualities required for true [[messenger]]s of God. Ikhnaton’s virtue was not in military victory or in political bargaining with the priests of Amon, but in his total lack of compromise with error.


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His devotion to his queen was often publicly displayed and depicted in Egyptian art. The [[akashic records]] show that Ikhnaton had a great sense of mission to outpicture the principles of the [[Brotherhood]], not only in his private life, but also in the laws of Egypt. The culture that the king and queen brought forth at Tel el Amarna in art, in poetry and in music was under the direction of the Brotherhood, inspired from [[Venus (the planet)|Venus]] and the ancient lands of [[Mu]] and [[Atlantis]] when these civilizations were at their height.   
His devotion to his queen was often publicly displayed and depicted in Egyptian art. The [[akashic records]] show that Ikhnaton had a great sense of mission to outpicture the principles of the [[Brotherhood]], not only in his private life, but also in the laws of Egypt. The culture that the king and queen brought forth at Tel el Amarna in art, in poetry and in music was under the direction of the Brotherhood, inspired from [[Venus (the planet)|Venus]] and the ancient lands of [[Mu]] and [[Atlantis]] when these civilizations were at their height.   
James Breasted, the eminent Egyptologist, says of Ikhnaton:
<blockquote>There died with him such a spirit as the world had never seen before,—a brave soul, undauntedly facing the momentum of immemorial tradition, and thereby stepping out from the long line of conventional and colourless Pharaohs, that he might disseminate ideas far beyond and above the capacity of his age to understand. Among the Hebrews, seven or eight hundred years later, we look for such men; but the modern world has yet adequately to value or even acquaint itself with this man, who in an age so remote and under conditions so adverse, became the world’s first idealist and the world’s first ''individual'' ... the most remarkable of all the Pharaohs,... the first prophet of history.<ref>Breasted, ''A History of Egypt'', pp. 393, 356, 377.</ref></blockquote>


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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, June 21, 1981.
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