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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)]] | [[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)]] | ||
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. | ||
==Ikhnaton’s monotheism == | ==Ikhnaton’s monotheism == | ||
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== Influence on Judaism == | == Influence on Judaism == | ||
Some have theorized that the monotheism of the Hebrews was founded upon the Egyptian pharaoh Ikhnaton’s worship of the one sun god. In about A.D. 80 the Jewish historian Josephus quoted Manetho, an Egyptian historian, as stating that Moses was a priest of the Egyptian city of Heliopolis who became the leader of a group of heretics (i.e., the Hebrews). | Some have theorized that the monotheism of the Hebrews was founded upon the Egyptian pharaoh Ikhnaton’s worship of the one sun god. In about A.D. 80 the Jewish historian Josephus quoted Manetho, an Egyptian historian, as stating that [[Moses]] was a priest of the Egyptian city of Heliopolis who became the leader of a group of heretics (i.e., the Hebrews). | ||
According to Hebrew tradition, Moses was raised in Egypt and is said to have been educated “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians”<ref>Acts 7:22.</ref> at Heliopolis (the biblical city of On). Summarizing this theory, Robert Silverberg writes in his book ''Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh'': | According to Hebrew tradition, Moses was raised in Egypt and is said to have been educated “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians”<ref>Acts 7:22.</ref> at Heliopolis (the biblical city of On). Summarizing this theory, Robert Silverberg writes in his book ''Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh'': | ||
<blockquote>Since Heliopolis was the center of the solar cult of Re, out of which Atenism developed, the wisdom Moses would have learned there could well have been the monotheistic solar worship that theologians of Heliopolis had pondered since the days of the Old Kingdom.<ref>Robert Silverberg, ''Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh'' (Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1964 ), pp. 191–92.</ref></blockquote> | |||
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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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 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. | ||
His devotion to his queen was often publicly displayed and depicted in Egyptian art. The akashic records | 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. | ||
The bust of Nefertiti that can be seen today in a museum in Berlin is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Amarna age. When one compares the portraits of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti with present-day photographs of the messengers, he will see how the characteristics of the soul are outpictured again and again in the physical form; indeed the physical form is the counterpart of the etheric. The resemblance may carry over for many embodiments until the traits change. | The bust of Nefertiti that can be seen today in a museum in Berlin is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Amarna age. When one compares the portraits of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti with present-day photographs of the messengers, he will see how the characteristics of the soul are outpictured again and again in the physical form; indeed the physical form is the counterpart of the etheric. The resemblance may carry over for many embodiments until the traits change. | ||