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| Atenist Bible? | |
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| Ankhemmaat | Mar 26 2016, 04:44 PM Post #31 |
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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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| Pharaoh | May 28 2016, 08:10 PM Post #32 |
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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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| Maaritaten | Oct 26 2016, 07:18 PM Post #33 |
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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... |
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'Let me be satisfied seeing You, Oh Living Aten!' - adapted from the Hymn of Tutu, Chamberlain of the Two Lands | |
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