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Atenist Bible?
Topic Started: Jul 28 2009, 12:39 PM (3,638 Views)
Ankhemmaat
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Osarsiph
Jul 28 2009, 12:39 PM
I read somewhere on this site about creating a Atenist Bible. It got me thinking that we have to agree on what Atenism means. What makes Atenism special compared to other religions.

Atenism is belief in the One God. There are no others gods but Aten. Every Atenist represents a facet of Aten. Every Atenist represents the power of the One. Everyone who is not an Atenist lives in darkness and is not of the One. Salvation only comes through being an Atenist. Everyone who rejects Aten not only lives in darkness but has no salvation in the afterlife. Every Atenist being a facet of the One true God has salvation in the afterlife. Those of us who live in the Light is saved and those in live in Darkness is condemned. Akhenaten being a facet of the One True God, is our Prophet and lives in the Light of Aten. We as Atenists must spread the truth about the One so as to save humanity from eternal destruction. Those who live in Darkness are dead and those who die in the Light shall live. We as Atenists being facets of the One are worthy inheritors of the Universe and of the afterlife.

Akhenaten's hymn to Aten is our primary scripture but we must expand on it. Today's Atenism must represent not only yesterday's truth but today's reality. Atenism is not dead but lives in every Atenist. Many lack faith because they know not the truth. We must make the truth clear.

I hope whoever reads this gains an understanding of the truth.

I disagree with some of your beliefs.
But if there is going to be an Atenist "Bible" then yes Ankenaton's hymns and other primary source things like stela inscriptions and I think the Amarna letters should be included as well. How to include more modern works may get into a "Council of Nicea" problem which would result in a bureaucratic and a dogmatic mess. So in some way, a lot should be up to the practitioner, not in a really new age-y way of anything goes, but derived from primary sources. That's my opinion on what an Atenist "bible" should be anyways, to try to keep it as close to Ankenaton's teachings as possible.
The concept of "self" as a singular and coherent entity is a fictional construct, and an individual rather comprises conflicting tensions and knowledge claims (e.g. gender, class, profession, etc). The interpretation of meaning of a text is therefore dependent on a reader's own personal concept of self.
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I have one critique of the above doctrines. I believe, since every living creature contains the life-force of Aten, they are all endowed with a divine essence, or soul, and are all eventualy welcomed into the embrace of the true and only God: Aten. All eventually reconcile with the divine and become cleansed of all unholiness. We're borrowing ideas which are ancient but strangely are new to us, because we haven't yet lived under the direction of a Supreme Pharaoh who is full of the unconditional love of the Aten like Pharaoh Akhenaten. Someday humanity might again know what it's like to live under the constant supervision and authority of the divine, where the principles of unconditional love will reign supreme. True and everlasting peace will come to this world when humanity accepts the Aten as the only God. A divine utopia, which I call the Kingdom of Aten, will eventually come, so long as we honor and venerate the oneness of Atenism. We must know what it means to be "At-One" with God, in order to bring such a utopia about.
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One reason I hesitated to leave catholicism behind was the writings of the great egyptian scholar Origen. His theory of apokatastasis ho panthon/reuniting of all things with God is a concept that attracted me, and ultimately it was what attracted me to Atenism. The great hymn is nothing but that belief stated in praises of the divine which surrounds us.

Which brings me back to the the topic of this thread. We have our bible. The hymns and the inscriptions are everything we need. Sure, it would be nice to have them collected in a modern English translation though...
'Let me be satisfied seeing You, Oh Living Aten!'
- adapted from the Hymn of Tutu, Chamberlain of the Two Lands
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