Akhetaton, Moses AND Monotheism

MOSES AND MONOTHEISM by SIGMUND FREUD

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN by KATHERINE JONES

1939

Without Akhetaton (Ikhnaton), would there have been a religion with one God? Would there have been an exodus or Moses? What was the relation of Moses to Akhetaton? Freud offered his theories in 1938 which if anything provides ample research references.

In the sixth year of Amenhotep's reign this enmity had grown to such an extent that the king changed his name, of which the now proscribed name of the god Amon was a part. Instead ofAmenhotep he called himself Ikhnaton. [I follow Breasted's (American) spelling in this name (the accepted English spelling is Akhenaten). The king's new name means approximately the same as his former one : God is satisfied. Compare our Godfrey and the German Gotthold.] But not only from his name did he eliminate that of the hated God, but also from all inscriptions and even where he found it in his father's name Amenhotep III. Soon after his change of name Ikhnaton left Thebes, which was under Amon's rule, and built a new capital lower down the river which he called

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There are two types of time lines (From Richard Bandler: "Get The Life You Want".)

In Time:

• The past is behind, the future is in front.
• You don't remember the past or not often.

Through Time:

• The past is on your left, the future is on your right.
• You remember past events and are pretty punctual.

That blew me away. My poor mother. A husband and 3 sons In Time while she and I were moving Through Time. Next time I show up on time to pick someone up and they're not ready I'll know why.

The Nag Hammadi Library ( http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html ) has: the Gospel Of Truth, the Gospel Of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip. Having read the Gospel of Thomas; the Gospel of Philip reminded me of it.

I read Elaine Pagels book “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas” years ago. In a nutshell anything not in the Bible was ordered destroyed. So they hid all the manuscripts from the great library in Egypt. They expand on it rather than hinder it's understanding. It was democratic. Anyone that didn't go along with them was dropped off on a deserted island. I thought that was rather amusing.

Ken Wapnick used the phrase “Some of the ancient Gnostic texts have Jesus speak about how he is "regaining himself," or "rejoining with himself," how he is "collecting all the fragments and reuniting them within himself." ”. Try http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/index.html

Free Lectures from the Gnostic Society are available at http://bcrecordings.net/store/index.php?main_page=page_4

• Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• The Greatest Treasures of Nag Hammadi
• An Introduction to The Gospel of Judas
• Altered States Ancient and Modern (it says Tennyson used the phrase “the individuality of self fades away”, he chanted his own name over and over to calm his mind; Richard Bandler(who says to quiet your mind think "shut up, shut up, shut up") refers to Altered States in his work too, but it's using the power of the mind to overcome things; these are forms of meditation, the state where all thought ceases)
• and others

Akhenaten (often also spelled Echnaton, Akhnaton, or rarely Ikhnaton) introduced monotheism, the belief that only one god exists, in Egypt represented by Aten (or Aton) . Did his family use Mandrake to reach altered states of consciousness? (Lecture 4 above). Monotheism set the stage for Moses. Did you know Gypsy is derived from Egyptian?