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Chapter Seven

Egypt - Zep Tepi - the First Time

(The Egyptians) traced their race back to a mythological period when the gods themselves walked the Earth and with their own power established the double empire of the Nile. The Egyptians did not dream that these divine progenitors were the Atlantean’s, who, forced to abandon their seven islands because of volcanic cataclysms, had immigrated into Egypt then an Atlantean colony, where they established a great philosophic and literary center of civilization which was later to influence profoundly the religions and science of unnumbered races and peoples. The Secret Teachings of All Ages p 410

The double empire refers to the kingdoms of upper and lower Egypt. These gods were the Neteru, the Shining Ones, the Watchers, the Nephilim, and the Anunnaki. They are all the same beings, our ancestors, or possibly even ourselves in earlier incarnations. The author of The Knights of the Holy Grail tells their story:
P 245 In ancient Egypt, the first initiates that are described in the Pyramid Texts are the Shemsa-Hor, the Followers of Horus. These were priestly initiates who transmitted an extraordinary body of knowledge from master to pupil down through the generations. The origin of this knowledge lay in the mysterious ‘time of the Neteru’, when the gods supposedly ruled Egypt immediately prior to the time of the earliest pharaohs. These initiates were not necessarily kings, but immensely powerful and enlightened individuals carefully selected by an elite academy that established itself at the sacred site of Heliopolis-Giza in the era of Egyptian prehistory. These initiates preserved the body of mystical knowledge, or gnosis that was the foundation of Jewish mysticism in biblical times that was later transmitted into Europe by the Rex Deus families.

He goes on to say that the Turin Papyrus lists the names of these gods and the later dynasties of the pharaoh’s. The papyrus shows incredibly long reigns of the Neter, followed by that of a mysterious priesthood known as the Shemsu Hor. Horus was the last Neter god. These were the divine dynasties. These priests were also known as the Akhu, which means the ‘Shining Ones’. The author wrote; “This mysterious race has also been linked to the fish deities who were said to have come from the sea. More specifically they were said to have come from a submerged land, which inevitably evokes tales of the lost continent of Atlantis.”

The author says that before they were in Egypt they had come from ancient Sumeria. The Shining Ones settled in other places around the globe. In India they were known as the Nagas. In Mesoamerica they were the Feathered Serpents and in China they were the Water Beings. These are all names for Serpents of Wisdom. The reference to the fish deities refers to the fact that they were spiritual initiates and lived part of the time in the spiritual world. Water was equated with spirit in the mystery teachings.
We learn more from the author of The Mysteries of the Bridechamber:
P 367 But in times beyond our direct recall – times we regard as mythic, possibly around 11,000 BCE, which the Egyptians called the First Time, the time of the elder Gods, thousands of years before the generally accepted genesis of civilization - this direct flow from the top downward began a process of devolution. The Horus kings were mortal, it is true; but hawk-headed Horus himself is credited with being one of the oldest gods of Egypt, older even than the Great Ennead, a Neolithic prince, the son of the great God Atum. Horus was identified with the sun god Re and regarded as the lord of this natural world even as his father Atum, was the Lord of the divine realm.

Horus’ rule was followed by a pantheon of five gods and four goddesses who were known as the Watchers, who were said to have brought the arts and civilization to Egypt. The lineage declined in status with time to a lesser ennead, then a line of demi-gods, then divine souls, the Shemsu-Hor, and then the mortal Horus kings circa 3100 B.C.

Our ancestors transplanted the Atlantean solar religion to Egypt. At the head of the ruler-ship stood the divine king and below him were the prophets who were the high initiates. They instructed the priests below them in the law and tenets of their religion. In Atlantis they were the Followers of the Law of One and were known at a later date in there as the Great White Brotherhood, and still later as the Therapeutae. In The Mysteries of the Bridechamber, the author Raphael Patai is quoted, and he refers to these priests as the “Heru Shemsu, the illustrious companions or initiates of Horus” and states that they were the originators of Jewish alchemy. He describes them as;
P 50 Exceptionally tall and high-skulled, and had come from the Karakorum settlements of central Asia, where they were known as the Sons of the Sun….In Egypt, the race of holy Watchers was an integral part of the great Osiris and Isis religious tradition and was worshipped as a source of blessing to the human race.

The authors Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cottrell wrote that according to Edgar Cayce, Egypt was a melting pot with a black native population who were invaded by the Atlantean’s from the West and “white skinned Aryans coming from the region of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.” Cayce stated that the leader of the Aryans was Osiris. Gilbert and Cottrell wrote; “If Moses, the purported author of Genesis, was born, raised and schooled in Egypt, it seems likely that it was the Egyptian version of the universal Flood legend he recorded. In Genesis it is said that Noah’s Ark settled on Mount Ararat and that he had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, the progenitors of three races. If we equate Noah with Osiris (according to Cayce an immigrant from the Mount Ararat region), then his Biblical ‘sons’ can be seen to be the three founding races of Egypt; the red-skinned Atlantean’s, the white Araratians and the black Egyptians. This accords well with the Cayce account, which records that Osiris ruled over a united, multi-racial kingdom.”

If you recall, I mentioned a high-skulled people in Atlantis. Victoria LePage says that the occult circles regard these high-skulled Sons of the Sun as advanced beings from the star Sirius. There are many reasons to believe that the following pictures depict what some of our ancestors looked like!



Nefertiti sister- wife of Akhenaten

Meritaten sister-wife of Akhenaten

The two labeled are carved stone busts of two of our relatives. Nefertiti and Meritaten were of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. Our ancestors were known then as the Amarna Kings. Meritaten is better known to us as Miriam, sister of Moses. King David was a descendant of Moses and Meritaten/Miriam. Their daughter Kita-tasherit married Rama of the line of Judah. In what I can only say is astounding, many very learned people believe that Moses was the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten is credited by many to have been the first monotheist, but he just re-instated the worship of the One began in Lemuria and brought monotheistic worship to all the people, not just the esotericist’s. In a later chapter we will see that Jeshua makes reference to us being pharaohs and priests in Egypt.
From The Edgar Cayce Readings we learn that;
P 158 The entity²⁵ then was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during the period when the princess Hatherpsut²⁶ (the entity’s mother) was in power; and the entity’s name was Sidiptu, hence a sister of that leader Moses, the lawgiver of Israel. During the reign of the mother, the entity was associated with those people later despised on account of the love that the mother found in association with a people’s.²⁷ And the entity was then pledged to one of the leaders of Israel, in the house of Levi; and being despoiled by an Egyptian, it was this one that the brother, Moses, slew, hence causing that disruption which brought at the latter period of the mother’s and the entity’s sojourn in the land - a new pharaoh to the ruling of the peoples.
Cayce goes on to say that Egypt was almost divided over this incident. The mother was Moses adoptive mother, the princess “Hatherpsut” who loved the Israelites and whose adopted son Moses was an Israelite. Cayce goes on to reveal; “While the entity may be said to have gained and lost,²⁸ through the experience, under the tutelage of those peoples with whom the brother was associated - as did the entity’s mother - much understanding was brought of the legends of a people that had been called for a particular service.” This fascinating information gives us insight into the reason why Moses killed the Egyptian. It was because the Egyptian despoiled i.e., raped Moses sister. It also tells us that Moses was the brother of the daughter of Pharaoh Hatshepsut who was a very powerful female pharaoh. The people despised by the Egyptians were the Israelites, known as the Habiru, who inhabited the fertile delta region of the Nile known as the Land of Goshen in the Bible. The above quote also shows that a daughter of Hatshepsut was engaged to be married to; “one of the leaders of Israel, in the House of Levi.” Those people called for a particular service - are us!
According to the book Sacred Symbols of Mu; “An Egyptian record says Moses was the son of an Egyptian princess who afterwards became the great queen Hatshepsut.” This is the correct spelling of the name of the female pharaoh mentioned above in Edgar Cayce’s reading. The author of Hidden Wisdom; Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition wrote that;
P 29 ...according to Freud, Moses was, in fact, a high official in the entourage of Akhenaten called Thuthmose, who chose the Hebrew tribe living at Goshen to be his followers and then led them out of Egypt. Freud’s theory was virulently refuted by many, mainly Jewish scholars, who chose as the focus of their attack not Freud, but Akhenaten and the religion he founded. They hoped that by debunking the religion of Atenism and slandering Akhenaten’s reputation with the mix of abuse and invective common to all theological disputes, Freud’s theories would be devalued and negated. This is truly ironic, for it has now become apparent that the most likely candidate for the role of Moses in history was not Thuthmose, but Akhenaten himself.
Mr. Wallace-Murphy goes on to say that in 1991, “a meticulous scholar named Ahmed Osman, published research proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the biblical figure of Moses was the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten himself. Akhenaten had tried to institute a monotheistic belief in Egypt that nearly provoked civil war; one that had within it, oddly enough, the concept of a Trinity. To refute the claim that Akhenaten was not the rightful heir to the twin thrones of Egypt, his followers called him the ‘Son’, that is the rightful heir to Amenhotep III. The Egyptian word for son is Mos.” The time period of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties is the most well-documented of all the Egyptian dynasties. They included Tutankhamun whose rich burial tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in the early 1900’s.
Bernhard W. Anderson, professor of Old Testament theology at Princeton Theological Seminary wrote in his book Understanding the Old Testament; “The Exodus is reckoned to be about 1290 B.C., it brings us back to approximately the time of the Hyksos invasion (1290+430=1720 B.C.).” He goes on to say that “the period of favor (of the Israelites) was correlate to the Hyksos Rule, which was during the fifteenth to seventeenth dynasties. He calls the eighteenth dynasty the “period of disfavor” and remarks that this was the time when the capital moved to Thebes. The period of the Exodus he puts at the nineteenth dynasty, and calls Rameses II, son of Seti I, the Pharaoh of the Exodus. He wrote; “Furthermore, according to Egyptian documents, these pharaohs used ‘Apiru’ in public projects.” I used this last quote to point out that there are historical documents other than the Bible, which document the Hebrew/Habiru/Apiru working on public projects in Egypt.
Laurence Gardner wrote about the priestly line from Moses’ brother Aaron and his wife Elisheba. He said that Elisheba; “was a daughter of Aminadab, son of Rama in descent from Judah and Tamar.” Judah is the patriarch of the Jews, and of the line of David. He then goes on to say that the name Aminadab denotes a ‘princely station’ and is a variant of the Egyptian pharaonic name ‘Amenhotep’, which was the original name of Akhenaten.
What Amenhotep/Akhenaten/Aminadab/Moses did was reinstate the original monotheism of our ancestors. In fact, he took the worship of the One out of the realm of the elite and gave it to everyone. The lower priests, as all the exoteric religions, had a pantheon of gods, while the esoteric side believed in one God represented by the sun. This move was disruptive to Egyptian society. Akhenaten didn’t help matters when he separated himself from the majority of the people by building a new royal city called Akhetaten. The Bible story relates that the Israelites left carrying the wealth of Egypt with them. This makes more sense when one realizes that it was the upper class royalty and their entourage of artists, scribes and craftsmen, i.e. the national elite, who left. The historical records say that Akhetaten, or Amarna, Akhenaten’s capital city, was deserted all at once. Archeologists found that meals were left uneaten on tables and children’s toys still lay on the floor where they had been playing with them.
More on the subject of Egyptian belief is found in the book Legend; the Genesis of Civilization;
PP 362/3 The Egyptians were both polytheists and monotheists, or rather syncretists at the same time. There is no doubt that they worshipped many gods - some very exotic in form and nature. But they also believed in the one great creator god who was both male and female. This bisexual monoplicity may seem rather confusing but is quite simple really. The single, all-encompassing creator goddess had many manifestations, each of which served to represent a different aspect of his her character. ...But remember that the Egyptians themselves constantly refer to God in the singular.

This is very important to remark on, the fact that the Egyptians saw their pantheon as different aspects of the one God, as all the other Gnostic religions would have believed this as well. As I stated before, these pantheons were meant to put human qualities on the face of God so that people could relate. The same author equates Asar Luhi of the Sumerians with the Assyrian god Ashur and makes the statement that the Bible identifies him as Ashur, son of Shem and grandson of Noah. Ashur was the founder of the Assyrian empire. The author believes that he also has an Egyptian identity. He wrote; p 427 “We know the great pharaonic god of agricultural fertility as Osiris after his Greek name, whereas the Egyptians simply knew him as Asar.”

The preceding is an example of the multiple identities of the same person that I have run up against repeatedly in my research. It also confirms the Egyptian tie-in with the family of the biblical patriarchs. We also see a tie-in with a son of Shem - Ashur, with a pagan Greek version (Osiris) of a name of an Egyptian god, Asar. We will see more of this and it doesn’t get any less confusing! From the ancient text the Testament of Levi, who was one of the twelve sons of Jacob-Israel, we see additional evidence of the patriarchs in Egypt. The Jochebed and Ambram mentioned in the following were the physical parents of Moses. Levi wrote;

And Jochebed was born in Egypt, in my sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned then in the midst of my brethren. And in the ninety-fourth year Ambram took Jochebed my daughter to him to wife, for they were born in one day, he and my daughter. Eight years old was I when I went into the land of Canaan, and eighteen years when I slew Shechem, and at nineteen years I became priest, and at twenty-eight years I took a wife, and at forty-eight I went into Egypt. And behold, my children, ye are a third generation. In my hundred and eighteenth year Joseph died.

From the book Pharaohs and Kings a Biblical Quest p 202 we learn; “The Amarna Habiru do not simply bear a striking resemblance to David’s Hebrews - they are David’s Hebrews.” Tel El (city of) Amarna is a later name for Akhenaten’s city called Akhetaten. Habiru is, to me, obviously the Egyptian word for the Semitic word Hebrew. There are many references in the Old Testament of the Bible to Egyptian tie-ins with the Israelites. II Chronicles 8:11 says that King Solomon’s principle wife was pharaoh’s daughter.
The more familiar connection between the Israelites and Egypt comes in the story of Joseph, one of the twelve sons of Jacob-Israel, who was sold by his brothers to a passing caravan of merchants. Joseph was taken to Egypt and sold as a slave. In the Bible story, Joseph is able to interpret the dreams of the Pharaoh and warn him of an impending drought and famine. His interpretation of the Pharaoh’s dream came true, so Joseph was made Vizier, second only to Pharaoh, in the administration of the government of Egypt. It is written in the Bible that Joseph was “a father to pharaoh” but I don’t think Christians really think about what that means. Once in the royal family, doesn’t it make sense that one would continue to be in the royal family? The author of the book Custodians of Truth has this to say;
P 22 The Bible records that when Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers, he said; … ‘it was not you that sent me hither, but God; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout the land of Egypt.’ (Genesis 45:8). The phrasing of this passage enabled Osman to identify Joseph with Yuya, a powerful man whose tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Quibell and Weighall in 1905. ....The telling phrase, “a father to pharaoh,” recorded in the Old Testament (Genesis 45:87) is repeated exactly in Yuya’s book of the dead. His funeral regalia and citations also carry the title uniquely associated with Joseph in the Bible: The Holy Father of the Lord of the Two Lands - Father of the Pharaoh.

Following is a picture of Joseph/Yuya and his lovely wife Asenath/Tuya:

We should all look so good after three thousand years!

On the left; Queen Tiye/Jochebed, the birth mother of Akhenaten/Moses

On the right; Hatshepsut - his adoptive mother
From the Bible we learn that Joseph married the daughter of the Priest of Heliopolis or On, whose name was Asenath Tuya. Through her mother, Tuya is thought to have been the grand-daughter of Tuthmoses III, founder of the Great White Brotherhood of the Therapeutae, and through her father, she was descended from Igrath, daughter of Esau (brother of Jacob/Israel) and Mahalth. The pharaohs who descended from them are known as the Amarna Kings. They were Akhenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Aye, who ruled consecutively circa 1367-1348 BC. It was Pharaoh Tuthmosis IV who appointed Joseph/Yuya as vizier. The two stone busts of Nefertiti and Meritaten shown previously were both sister-wives of Akhenaten. Meritaten’s Hebrew and Biblical name was Miriam. Sigmund Freud claimed that the story of Moses humble origins in the Old Testament was a later fabrication to disguise the fact that Moses was a member of the Egyptian royal family. I will point out though that the Bible does call Moses an Egyptian and we are told of his adoption into the royal family. What has been hidden is his royal Egyptian ancestry. The priest kings were an important part of what would be considered our religion, because the Logos or son of God was said to have been incarnate in him, just as Jesus was said to be an incarnation of the son of God. Jesus was a priest-king too. After the rebellion of the lower priesthood, the lower priests revised the beliefs that were passed down to the Israelites which later came down to Christians. They removed references to the matriarchal beliefs of our ancestors and most royal and Egyptian references from the Old Testament.
Other historians who made the connection between Moses and Akhenaten were Manetho, an Egyptian historian and high priest from the 3rd century BC, the first century Jewish historian Josephus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria and Justin Martyr, an early father of the Christian Church who lived in the second century in Egypt. In Acts 7:22 of the Bible it reads; “Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.” This reference to his being educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians is proof, from the Bible, that he was an initiate of the Wisdom religion. In Judges 1:16 in the Bible, it states that Moses fled to the land of the Kenites after he killed the Egyptian. The people living in the new royal capital Akhetaten were known as Kenites. This is that Bible verse;
And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
Akhetaten was called the city of the palm trees. Seth’s first grandson by Enosh was named Kenan. One author said the Kenite name stemmed from Cain, but I believe it stemmed from Kenan, the grandson of Seth. Or, it stemmed from Akhenaten’s name.
From; www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11033.html
The Kenites were enumerated among the early peoples of Canaan, together with the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites (Gen. 15:19). Relations between the Israelites and the Kenites were good, but B. Stade and others argued for Kenite influence on Moses and the religion of Israel. This "Kenite hypothesis" (updated by Halpern and by van der Toorn) holds that YHWH was not originally the God of the Hebrews and was not even known to the Hebrews. He was originally a Kenite tribal god who became known to Moses through his Kenite father-in-law, Jethro. Moses then made YHWH known to the Hebrews, who accepted Him as their God. As observed by van der Toorn, the Kenite hypothesis nicely accounts for the absence of Yahweh from earlier pantheons, Yahweh's link with Edom (Deut. 33:2), the Kenite connection of Moses, and the Bible's positive attitude to Kenites.
In the Bible’s book of Hosea 12:9 it reads; "I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.” This very important verse tells us that the Israelites changed Gods at this time, so the previous writer from the jewishlibrary.org is most likely correct. I believe the change at that time was that the esoteric God was given to the exoteric Israelites, so that they were all worshipping the same God. I will go into more detail on this in a later chapter. Helena Blavatsky said that the Essenes were descendants of Benim Nabim, Kenites and Nazarites. I believe the title Benim Nabim translates as sons of the prophets. The Nazarites were none other than the Nazarenes. Akhenaten called himself “the prophet son of God, born from God’s body.”
The following are pictures of Akhenaten;

Note the serpentine eyes of Akhenaten and his birth mother Jochebed/Queen Tiye pictured previously.

The author of The Custodians of Truth wrote; “The Levitic hereditary priestly clan was created by extending the rank, rights, and privileges of the Atenist priesthood to their Levitic successors in exile who, as we shall see, continued the transmission of sacred wisdom among their number in the traditional manner.”
Aten was Akhenaten’s God. Akhenaten’s original name was Amenhotep, which signifies a relationship to the God Amen. When he changed his name to Akhenaten, he was signifying he now worshipped the God Aten who was the Sun God. The lower priests had hi-jacked the Egyptian religion and power from the priest-kings, but Akhenaten took it back.
Our ancestors had shining countenances. They literally glowed with light. One of their appellations was the Shining Ones. We saw earlier that Laurence Caruana said that the Elect shone. In the spiritual world, the more light the more spiritual. This light was known as Royal Farr in Persia. That’s how you could tell if your priest-king was on the right path in his spiritual life, if he didn’t shine, he wasn’t doing well. These were truly the periods of the divine dynasties, and in this case, I define divine as celestial, or perhaps other worldly! Civilizations would either thrive or die because of their leader. The ancient book of Jasher was written by Moses staff bearer. The book was so important to our ancestors, that it is mentioned in the Bible in the books of Joshua and Second Samuel. In his book, Jasher speaks about Moses parents Ambram/Amram and Jochebed and the birth of Moses;
Jochebed brought forth a son and the whole house was filled with a great light as of the light of the sun and moon at the time of their shining.
And from the Bible’s book of Hebrews 11:23 we read:
By faith Moses parents hid him for three months after he was born because they saw he was no ordinary child and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
He was not ordinary because he was an angel child. I am convinced that the stories in the Bible about births to barren women were actually examples of artificial insemination or even implanted embryos to re-infuse the bloodline with ‘divine’ dna. In his book Genesis of the Grail Kings, Laurence Gardner shows the Adam and Eve of the Bible being born from the sperm of Enki/Ea used to fertilize an egg of an Earth woman with Enki’s half-sister Ninhursag acting as the surrogate. The ancient clay texts from Mesopotamia say that Enki impregnated two Earth women named Dawn and Dusk. One bore Adapa/Adam and the other bore Titi/Eve. I don’t know who to believe on this.
In his book The Shadow of Solomon, p 199 Gardner equates Akhenaten with Moses and the pharaoh who followed him, Smenkhkare, as Moses brother Aaron. Another interesting find by Gardner is that a 1744 C.E. Masonic ritual of the Holy Royal Arch cites Moses as the first Biblical Grand Master of Masonry. Moses is considered a primary guardian of the Hermetic wisdom which came out of Egypt. I read where the Mysteries had all but died out, but Moses revived them, initiating some two thousand men. This time period in our family history is fascinating. It shows how far-reaching their influence was. Aaron’s daughter Scota married Niul who was a Black Sea prince of Scythia. As related by Gardner, according to a text titled The 17th century History of Ireland, Niul and Scota’s son Gaedheal (Gael) was born in Egypt when Moses began to act as a leader of the children of Israel. The descendants of Niul and Scota migrated across Europe to become the Scots-Gaels of Ireland and Scotland. From my own research, I know that at some point Gaedheal had appended to his name the word Glas. This morphed into the last name Glass which can be traced down the family line all the way to the Cherokee in Virginia and North Carolina. Chief Glass, known in the Cherokee language as Tagwadihi, also known as ‘The Glass’ was a leading chief of the Cherokee in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, eventually becoming the last principal chief of the Chickamauga Cherokee.
There is a familiar biblical Egyptian connection with Abraham and Sarah. Abraham’s original name Abram, was Egyptian, and meant ‘exalted father'. We also learn in Genesis 21:21 that Abraham’s son Ishmael took an Egyptian wife. The Bible makes it seem that David was no more than a poor shepherd boy who became king because he killed Goliath. In reality, he was the descendant of these Egyptian royal lines. Our ancestors considered earning the title Righteous Shepherd among the highest of honors. It could be that the association of David with shepherding has something to do with that.
The figurines below can be found in the British Museum. They were recovered from the Ubaid or Ugaritic civilization, the forerunners of the Sumerian and Akkadian people of Mesopotamia, the people of Abraham. Yes, they are reptilian looking! They also have the high skulls we looked at earlier. Yes, there is a definite difference in their faces and heads. I believe the previous photos represent a blend of human and reptilian dna which I attribute as the reason we are so plagued with auto immune disorders. There is no doubt as to the authenticity of these figures. That has to at least make you wonder; who were these modeled after? By the way, the picture of the mother nursing her baby, I believe, shows one of the earliest portrayals of the Madonna and Child representations also shown in the myths of Isis and Horus and the Virgin Mary and Jesus! The statuettes hair was made with asphalt.

In the apocryphal Nag Hammadi text titled The Gospel of Thomas, Jesus remarks; “When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest, how much will you have to bear!” Was he ever right! In an ancient text it says that the Watchers changed their image into that of humans after they were unsuccessful in mating with them.

From The Lost Teachings of Atlantis comes this warning;
P 78 Take heed of the ancient warnings and prophecies about the Belialians; “Lizard-like are they - not in apparent physical description, but in spirit form, in the heart-in the soul. Beware even now of your lizard kin, for they rule the world with greed and without compassion, while maintaining appearances of good and righteous. As men and women do these sons of Belial walk the Earth. Model citizens, successful leaders who are the envy of the uninitiated.
I decided not to say much about the conspiracy theories, but it is true that the bad side of our family is in charge of the Earth. The most alarming aspect of the situation is that many of the good side of the family think that they are dealing with the good side of the family too, but are in reality in bed with pure evil, unknowingly to most of them. The global elite possess more of the Earth’s resources than people can imagine. They control most of the world’s economies. They run the Federal Reserve which is not associated with the U.S. government at all, but is a private bank. They literally create money out of thin air, and then lend it to people and governments at interest! They own the broadcast media, publishing houses, drug industry, armament industries, chemical companies and on and on. They like to start wars as they profit from them and reduce the human population, two things they always feel is to their benefit. Take heart though, their end will be here soon.
In an article titled Skulls of the Mother Goddess by Vittorio Di Cesare and Adriano Forgione, the authors are commenting on the elongated skulls we saw earlier. They ask the question; “Could it be possible that, as in other cultures, successive populations tended to deform their infant's heads in order to make them similar to this race of ‘serpent priests’? In Malta, all this was practiced by a mysterious populace that erected gigantic temples to the Mother Goddess between 4100 and 2500 B.C.” This artificial skull lengthening can be seen in Africa and South and North America, and possibly other places. The authors go on to say that the skulls pictured previously were found on Malta and are dated to 2500 B.C. but may be even older.
The authors talk about a period of “historical darkness” and absence of population on Malta which lasted about three hundred years until the arrival of the Phoenicians, who erected temples to the Mother Goddess, calling her Astarte, the snake-faced Goddess. The authors wrote; “Again we find the representation of a Goddess who is associated with the snake and healing powers, almost as if the Phoenicians wanted to continue an interrupted tradition. But it's the date of 2500 B.C. that presents a fundamental key of interpretation for understanding who these long-headed individuals were and to use it we must move from Malta to nearby Egypt.”

The authors go on to talk about Professor Walter B. Emery, the famous Egyptologist and author of Archaic Egypt who excavated at Saqqara in the 1930's. Emery discovered the remains of individuals who lived in the pre-dynastic epoch who had a dolichocephalous skull, larger than that of the local ethnic group, fair hair and a taller, heavier build. Emery declared that this stock wasn't indigenous to Egypt, but had performed an important sacerdotal and governmental role in the country. He wrote that the race kept its distance from the common people, blending only with the aristocratic classes. He associated them with the Shemsu Hor, the disciples of Horus. The articles’ authors state that the Shemsu Hor; “Are recognized as the dominant sacerdotal caste in pre-dynastic Egypt until approximately 3000 B.C., being mentioned in the Turin papyrus and the list of the kings of Abydos.”

Professor Emery wrote:

Towards the end of the IV millennium B.C. the people known as the Disciples of Horus appear as a highly dominant aristocracy that governed entire Egypt. The theory of the existence of this race is supported by the discovery in the pre-dynastic tombs, in the northern part of Higher Egypt, of the anatomical remains of individuals with bigger skulls and builds than the native population, with so much difference to exclude any hypothetical common racial strain. The fusion of the two races must have come about in ages that concurred, more or less, with the unification of the two Egyptian kingdoms.

It is an interesting correlation that in Egypt, the Shemsu Hor guaranteed the respect of a solar religion and even today in Malta the sun is called ‘Shem-shi’. ‘Shem’ is a word of Akkadic origin, not Egyptian, deriving from the Babylonian term for the sun; that is ‘shamash’. This proves that the Shemsu Hor came from the fertile half-moon area.²⁹ An umpteenth correlation is the fact that this sacerdotal long-skulled caste disappeared in Egypt, as in Malta in the same period, which is between 3000 and 2500 B.C.

He goes on to talk about a third nucleus of the Shemsu Hor who were present in the Euphrates zone or upper Mesopotamia, who became part of the Arian stock known as the Mithans or Mitanni, who the Egyptians called Naharin, those of the snake. (From nahash, snake). The Mithans, who occupied a part of the Kurdistan area, were Abraham's people. The authors writing about the skulls found in Malta, state that the serpent priest tradition originated in the Middle East and had its foremost center in Kurdistan which is in today’s northern Iraq. The authors wrote that at about 5000 B.C., the matriarchal culture of Jarmo represented the mother goddesses as divinities with faces of vipers and lengthened heads.

The authors wrote; “These divinities will successively be associated to the ‘fallen angels’ or Nephilim, that are most explicitly cited in the ‘Testament of Amran’³⁰ in the Qumran scrolls in which is written: ‘One of them was of terrifying aspect, like a snake and his mantle was multicolored and also his face was that of a viper and he wore all his eyes.’ The authors believe that these were not divinities in the strict sense but individuals in sacerdotal or shamanic expression, “belonging to a highly developed and profoundly wise culture that had relationships with lesser-organized societies of the period. Its members were considered as ‘half-gods’³¹ for the knowledge they possessed, just like in Egypt with the Shemsu Hor.”
According to the authors, viper-faced statues of mother goddesses were found in the land of the Nile dating back exactly from the archaic period of the Shemsu Hor. “It can be therefore concluded that these serpent-priests were the most ancient race that first occupied the fertile half-moon area (particularly Anatolia and Kurdistan) and Egypt (following migrations dating back 6000-4000 B.C.) until reaching Malta to disappear around 2500 B.C. but this culture survived in the Middle East and probably included one of the most famous and yet mysterious pharaohs of Egypt.” That mysterious pharaoh - was Akhenaten.

The articles authors go on to cite the craniums of the Amarnian dynasty statues as compared to the skulls found on Malta, as being “practically identical.” X-rays of Akhenaten’s son, Tutankhamen, also show a dolichocephalous cranium. The article concludes with the authors saying;

Substantially, the Maltese craniums are the relics, archeologically still not understood; of a sacerdotal race that, in Egypt and Malta, from archaic ages, survived till 2500 B.C. It's the group that created the religious and spiritual sub-strata that characterized the greatest civilizations of the Old World, from long ago (600 B.C. or even earlier). This group continued in the Middle East and somehow returned in Egypt around 1351 B.C. giving birth, through the heretic pharaoh Akhenaton, to a religious reform that aimed to restore the ancient order. (my emphasis) And if the hypothesis that this pharaoh was linked some way to the figure of Moses is accepted, then the rest is history.
As related in his book Magi p 346 the Mayan historian Jose Diaz Bolio told Adrian Gilbert that the heads of babies born into their tribes were intentionally deformed in infancy by using boards and wrappings to enable the child to be eligible for the priesthood when he came of age. This was common in the American Indian tribes too. The native people did this to achieve what they called a polcan, which is a long serpentine head in memory of Ahau Can, “the Great Lordly Serpent.” The Chanes tribe believed themselves to be descendants of Votan, who was a transplanted Atlantean. The author then talks about enormous elongated skulls found at various places in the Yucatan, particularly in Merida. He states that these ancient skulls showed elongation even without deformation - they were naturally elongated. He noted that the practice appeared to have been exclusive to the Chane priesthood. He makes the statement; “it really does imply that these walking serpents represented an ancestral line in which gigantism had been present. Curiously enough, Toltec myth speaks clearly of a race of giants known as the Quinames, Quinametin or Quinametl who ruled the country in its earliest days.” He explains that the giants abandoned themselves to vices and luxury and so were vanquished by the Olmec, who thereafter dominated the region.
The author then makes the statement that; “Amazingly enough, head deformation of exactly the same kind was practiced among the ruling elite of the Halaf and Ubaid peoples who occupied the Kurdish highlands and Fertile Plateau of Iraq from the sixth to the fourth millennia BC. There seems every reason to believe that in doing so they were attempting to re-create the serpentine features of the Watchers. This seems to have been in order that they could claim lineal descendancy from these individuals who they saw as serpent-like in appearance.”
Again, the Watchers were also known as the Nephilim and Anunnaki. The legends relate that the Watchers were tall, fair-haired and light skinned. An article written in the American Anthropologist magazine in 1933 by Henry Field discusses the findings of outsized skulls which the anthropologist referred to as “proto Semitic.” Mr. Field said that these people were the original founders of the pre-Sumerian city states which were later overrun by the indigenous culture circa 3000 B.C. To quote from that article;
Just who were these long-headed individuals? Might they have been the descendants of a culture who inhabited Egypt during its earliest stages of development? Might some remnant of this culture have been responsible for the foundation of Sumer, a role both Christian O’Brien and I had already assigned to the Watchers of Eden? The viper like faces recorded in connection with the fallen race would undoubtedly be seen by anthropologists as a classic feature of a long-headed individual, such as those found in the most ancient graves of both Egypt and Sumer. If the ancestors of the Watchers really were linked with the long-headed, aristocratic race of pre-dynastic Egypt, then what more was there to learn about this unknown culture? Could they really have been the Shemsu-Hor, the Companions of Horus, who had supposedly ruled Egypt for a staggering 13,420 years before the reign of its first Pharaoh?
And to that last question, I give a resounding yes! In his book Archaic Egypt, Walter Emery wrote; “the racial origin of these invaders is not known and the route they took in their penetration of Egypt is equally obscure.” That route is obscure because it’s at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean! Emery compares the unique architecture of this culture with that of ancient Iraq (Mesopotamia/Sumeria), believing both had common origins.

I have referred to our ancestors as the Serpents of Wisdom. I believe these were of the class of angels or celestial beings known as the Seraphim, the ‘fiery serpents’, and I believe that these are what have been pictured previously. Not exactly what one envisions when one thinks of angels! Mark Pinkham, the author of The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom p 241 tells us that wherever the Serpents of Wisdom have manifested on Earth, they have been worshipped as gods and goddesses and treated with the “utmost respect.” He writes that they served as “prophets, magicians, healers and ones who speak with the Gods as their equals.”

He says that some of the titles they have been known by are the People of the Serpent, the Solar Brotherhood and the Great White Brotherhood, which means that they are “those of immaculate spiritual purity.” Mark states that they work in tandem with their cousins the Cherubim. This is a good clue to the understanding that the Serpents of Wisdom are Seraphim angels. The Seraphim and Cherubim along with seventy other angelic orders are the ruling hierarchy for our realm of creation.
So just who are the class of angels, the Seraphim? According to the Encyclopedia Mythica.com: Seraphim by Micha F. Lindemans;

Divine creatures from the Old Testament associated with the Cherubim, and later taken to be angels. The root of Seraphim comes either from the Hebrew verb seraph 'to burn' or the Hebrew noun seraph ‘a fiery, flying serpent’. Because the term appears several times with reference to the serpents encountered in the wilderness (Num. 21.8, Deut. 8.15; Isa. 14.29; 30.6), it has often been understood to refer to ‘fiery serpents’. From this it has also often been proposed that the Seraphim were serpentine in form and in some sense ‘fiery’ creatures or associated with fire. …..In Isaiah's call-vision in the Temple, he sees Seraphim surrounding the throne of God, singing praise to God; the ‘Thrice Holy’ hymn (ch. 6). In this instance they are angelic beings but in the Book of Numbers, seraph-snakes are sent to punish the Israelites. Some of the Seraphim are Metatron (the prophet Enoch after being taken to Heaven), Kemuel, Nathanael, Gabriel, and Lucifer.

Tom Kenyon is a channeler and sound healer who has a website at www.tomkenyon.com. On his site he has a record of messages he has received from a people called the Hathors. The Hathors are benefactors of humankind and have been helping with human evolution for eons. They were here in the earliest period of Earth history in Lemuria. They were also in Egypt during Zep Tepi. This was the real, but yet fabled age of Horus, Isis, and the rest of the Egyptian pantheon. There are remains of a temple still standing in Dendera Egypt called the Hathor temple.
This is what the Hathors look like, as seen from the temple carvings;

The author of The Message of the Sphinx p 211 comments on Egyptian civilization. He remarks that every aspect of the sciences, artistic and architectural techniques, and their hieroglyphic system of writing show virtually no signs of a period of development. He wrote that; “many of the achievements of the earliest dynasties were never surpassed or even equaled later on.” He asks the question; “How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being?” He answers by stating that the answer is obvious, but because “it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom seriously considered.” He states that Egyptian civilization was “not a development, it was a legacy.”

He goes on to say;
Might not the preservers of that legacy, who eventually bequeathed it to the Pharaohs at the beginning of the Dynastic Period, have been those revered and secretive individuals - the ‘Followers of Horus,’ the Sages, the Senior Ones - whose memory haunts the most archaic traditions of Egypt like a persistent ghost?

And to that last question, I again say yes! Alice Linsley is an internet blogger who, for over thirty years, has researched the anthropology of the Bible using genetics, archeology, linguistics, and other methods to better know the people in the book of Genesis. Her website is www.jandyongenesis.blogspot.com. According to Alice, the genealogies listed in Genesis indicate that the patriarch Abraham’s ancestors migrated from ancient Kush in Africa to Mesopotamia. From researching our family history, I can tell you that there was constant movement of our people between Mesopotamia and Egypt. At one time Mesopotamia was ruled by Egypt. Ancient Mesopotamia, also known as the Fertile Crescent, encompassed a vast area starting on the plains of what is today northern Iraq and extended southward to the Nile delta. Kush is in the area of modern Chad. Kush was also a man who was descended from the biblical Cain. To quote Alice Linsley:

The Horite priesthood of Abraham's ancestors was dedicated to a Divine Triad which included the Creator God and his uniquely begotten son by a chosen woman. Abraham's people believed in a supreme creator God with lesser assisting semi-divine powers in a hierarchical ranking, like a pyramid. This is called henotheism. The biblical priesthood originates here among the devotees of Horus.

Alice goes on to say that the priests who served in the temples were called Hapiru. She says that in their language, the letters p and b have the same sound. She observes that this could be the derivation of the word Hebrew. Alice says that the origins of the faith of Christ came to Abraham as a tradition received from his ancestors. According to Alice, these are the characteristics of this faith;

All-male ruler-priests were mediators between God and the defiled.

A binary³² (versus dualistic) worldview.

Blood sacrifice at altars whereby sin was propitiated.

Expectation of the appearing of the Son of God in the flesh.

God's will on Earth as in heaven - interpreted by morehs (prophets).

Belief in an eternal and undivided Kingdom delivered by the Father to the Son.

Alice wrote that Abraham and his ancestors lived in expectation of the Son of God. She states that their priestly lines inter-married exclusively in expectation that the Seed of the Woman, which I take to mean the Messiah, would come from their priestly lines. Alice says that this expectation started in Eden and, “was a central belief of the Horite family-tribal tradition.” That tradition held that the son would be born of a chosen woman, that he would be killed by his own brother, and that he would live again. What Alice is describing here is the teaching of the Serpents of Wisdom. She makes comments about the son being born of a virgin and the solar imagery, but believes that the archetype exists so that Abraham’s descendants would recognize the Messiah. She is not aware of the tie-in with the Serpents of Wisdom.

For millennia, our ancestors, who were the prophetic Horite caste, kept a strict pattern of marriage. This pattern is considered pretty creepy today! Marriage to half-sisters was expected for the first marriage. Marriages to cousins or uncles or aunts or nieces or nephews, was expected in the second. Third and fourth or even more marriages were commonplace. They married their sisters or half-sisters because kingship came down through the women. The man became the king or pharaoh because he married the woman with the right to the throne. Our ancestors believed that the Logos, the Son of God, incarnated into their king.

Alice says that the Biblical names Seth and Noah are equivalent to the Egyptian names Set and Nu. She says that Jesus’ ancestors were; “Afro-Asiatics who spoke Afro-Asiatic languages. These languages included Akkadian, Amharic, Egyptian, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, Babylonian, Berber, Chadic, Ethiopic, Hahm, Hausa, Hebrew, Kushite, Meroitic, Omotic, Phoenician and Ugaritic.” Alice points out that twelve of these language groups are spoken in Africa as confirmation of the patriarchs sojourn there. The Afro-Asiatics were descendants of Noah’s sons Ham and Shem. Ham’s family was given Africa as their dominion, but Ham’s grandson Canaan moved into Shem’s lands. From then on the families were either killing each other or inter-marrying. According to Alice:
The oldest known language; Chadic is one of the best researched branches of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. According to the book of Genesis, the first rulers Kain, Seth and Enoch are associated with the region where Chadic is spoken. This includes Chad, Northern Cameroon, Northern Nigeria, and Southeastern Niger in an area around Lake Chad. The area is called Bor'No, which means ‘Land of Noah.’

Alice says that this is the only region on Earth that has place names reflecting the patriarchs of the fourth and fifth chapters of Genesis. She wrote; “The antiquity of Chadic River Genesis tells the story of how Kain left his home and went eastward to a place where he married the daughter of a Chadic chief named Nok (Enoch) and built a city named after his firstborn son Enoch.” Alice has discovered a naming pattern of our ancestors whereby the firstborn son is named after the mother’s father. In our family, inheritance was maternal, meaning the firstborn son would inherit the throne of his maternal grandfather. Alice places Kain and Enoch in the region of northern Nigeria where there are places called Kano and Nok. She notes that after battle or the shedding of another’s blood, the Kushites had to undergo purity rituals and make atonement for the shedding of blood. She notes that this was repeated in the Levites and Essenes.

In these last paragraphs, we learned that the lines of Cain and Seth merged very early, with Cain marrying a daughter of Enoch, who was the son of Seth. I believe it is for this reason that the genealogies of Cain and Seth are almost identical in the Bible’s book of Genesis, something that has always puzzled scholars. Alice describes the Kushite migration and says that about ten thousand years ago, the Kushites spread across the Levant and Mesopotamia going as far as Central Asia. In addition, some of them spread further west in Africa. She remarks that biblical Kush included southern Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and the western and eastern coastal areas of the Red Sea. I read somewhere that the term Ethiopian is an anachronism for Kushite. The Book of Amos in the Bible says that the Israelites were at one time in Ethiopia or Cush. Amos 9:7 says; “Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?” saith the Lord. “Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?”
Later, in the time of Sargon the Great, the Kushites controlled commerce on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Kushite rulers maintained control of the water sources such as oases and wells. Alice says that the authors of ancient Indian literature claimed that the Kushites ruled the world for seven thousand years! According to the ancient historian Epiphanies, the age of the Kushites extended from the Flood to the age of Terah, the father of the prophet Abraham.
This helps us understand how the descendants of the Atlantean’s, the Kushites, ended up in such far-flung places. The final sinking of the portion of Atlantis called Poseidia occurred circa 10,000 B.C., making it quite possible to find the biblical patriarchs in Africa circa 10,000 B.C., and in Mesopotamia (relatively) shortly thereafter.
Alice notes how the marriage patterns the Horites followed encouraged expansion. Since inheritance was along strict guidelines, all non-inheriting sons were sent away with gifts but had to leave the territory of their brother who had inherited the kingdom. She also noted dna studies that show the male haplo-group R1’s African origin of the Kushites. My father’s dna haplogroup is R1b - a direct successor of that line.
In February of 2011, there was a television program on the Discovery Channel where it was stated that they were going to announce the results of a dna study done on the mummies of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. This is the well-known family of Akhenaten, who may have been Moses. In the program, Zawi Hawass, the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, sat at a desk and reported that the study didn’t have much to show as the results weren’t very good. However, on a computer screen next to him, were the results of at least one test. Camera technicians were able to zoom in on the screen and found that these Egyptian pharaohs were in the R1 dna haplo-group. In dna research, the R haplo-group is called ‘Western-European’. So that makes the Egyptian pharaoh a western European! In reality, these, our people, ended up right back where they started, the areas around the Atlantic Ocean. In the meantime, they had been as far east as they could go.
Alice formulated the following Egyptian dynastic periods in relation to the biblical patriarchs. She believes that Noah lived approximately 2490-2415 B.C., when the Sahara experienced a wet period. This is the period of the Old Kingdom, a time of great cultural and technological achievement in Egypt. These dates don’t jive with the theory of Noah being a displaced resident of Atlantis circa 10,000 B.C. One author found that there were over five hundred flood stories found around the world. Another author believed Noah’s flood was a flood in the Baltic and Black Sea area. Another proposed that the flood of Noah could have been one that was concentrated in lower Mesopotamia. Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was an archeologist who uncovered deeply buried evidence of a flood in what is now lower Iraq that left an eight foot layer of pure silt. There was evidence of human activity below and above the layer. He believed that particular flood covered an area of approximately four hundred by one hundred miles, so to the people at the time, that flood would have seemed immense. It’s next to impossible to know the truth on this subject.
First Intermediate Period

2475-2445 BC: 7th - 8th Dynasties Noah, Shem, Ham, Japhet and Kush

2445–2160 BC: 9th -10th Dynasties Nimrod, Arpachshad, Salah,

Eber, Peleg and Joktan

Middle Kingdom
2160-2000 BC: 11th Dynasty Nahor, Terah and Abraham
2000-1788 BC: 12th Dynasty Jacob, Esau, Joseph
So how did we come to be so disconnected from our Egyptian heritage? The author of the book Magi; the Quest for a Secret Tradition p 259 says that knowledge of Christianity’s close links with the non-Jewish religions was stamped-out in Egypt during the persecutions of the pagans that took place in 390 C.E. He remarks; “Thereafter religious orthodoxy became the overwhelmingly dominant force throughout the empire and people with gnostic ideas had to keep these a closely guarded secret if they wanted to avoid persecution for heresy. ...Yet, in spite of persecution an undercurrent of ideas, long dead in the west, which connected the work of Jesus Christ with both the Hermetic tradition of Egypt and the Zoroastrian revelation of Persia, continued to survive.” The author remarks that it was understood in the ancient world that the Egyptian pharaohs embodied the Solar Logos and, “as such the pharaoh was a living god whose responsibility it was to uphold civilization on Earth.”
I believe another possible reason for our disconnection from our Egyptian heritage is because King James of England, the person responsible for the King James version of the Bible, was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was a Catholic. Mary hated her rival and cousin Queen Elizabeth the 1^st who was a protestant. Elizabeth practiced the alchemical arts of our ancestors. She had a court scryer, John Dee. King James was adamantly against these practices, and I believe it is possible that he removed references to Egypt and Egyptian practices from the Bible.
The sun, or the archangel Michael who is the soul of the sun, is also known as the Solar Logos. Michael is the archangel over Israel. When I was still trying to come to terms with the fact that our ancestors, the descendants of Jesus and his family, practiced pagan beliefs, for instance, being followers of Mithraism as was the Merovingian King Clovis, I couldn’t help but think, we do worship on Sundays, do we not? When I was a child in a Southern Baptist church, our missionary group for children was called Sunbeams.
There is a central sun in our universe that sends God’s power to our galaxy’s sun which then flows to the planets in our solar system, and finally to humans who contain a central sun within them in their third chakra, the solar plexus. If not for these suns, there would be no life. The Essenes rose before dawn to go outside and face the rising sun to pray and meditate. To them, the sun represented God. They weren’t worshipping the sun, but the God behind it.
After the Romans conquered Egypt, they took the title of Horus Kings and claimed they were the embodiment of the Solar Logos and therefore were gods. However, as they were not the real embodiment of the Solar Logos as some of the pharaohs had been, all they did was sully the position. The author of Magi; Quest for a Secret Tradition has some very important insights regarding the role of Jesus as a Sun king;
PP 260/1 The insignia of the pharaoh were the crook and flail. The first showing that he was the good shepherd to his flock, the second that he was a scourge to his enemies. Jesus, in his ministry, discarded the flail and taught the message that one must love one’s enemies. He did this because, owing to what happened at his baptism, the Christ Spirit united with him, his claimed authority was even higher than that of the Solar Logos.

The Solar Logos is a lower reflection or emanation of the Logos. One of his titles is the outer Yahweh. Christ was an Aeon. I believe the Aeons were the next created after the Mother and Son. The Solar Logos wasn’t created until the creation we are in now was created. The author remarks that the special role of John the Baptist was that as the last in the line of Old Testament prophets, he represented the Elijah tradition. And as an Orion figure, he symbolized the starry heaven beyond the solar system, “a place beyond the reach of the Solar Logos to which the pharaohs dreamed of going after death.” He says that John the Baptist’s baptism of Jesus represented, “the very pinnacle of initiation into the mysteries beyond which, it seems, no one had yet gone.” The author states that the Spirit of God is the Primary Logos and stands above sun and stars and describes the Logos as pure and unconditioned love which lies beyond all created worlds. He makes the remark regarding Jesus that; “If he was born in the stable with the rights and privileges of a pharaoh, he now transcended his fate by fulfilling a greater destiny embraced not by the falcon but the dove.”

The next author is talking about our enemies, the black magicians who usurped the priesthood in Egypt and made the pharaohs puppet rulers. I believe it quite possible that the black magicians were the same followers of Belial from Atlantis and that there was an ancient rivalry that continued in Egypt. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages we learn about magic;
PP 306-8 Ceremonial magic is the ancient art of invoking and controlling spirits by a scientific application of certain formula. A magician, enveloped in sanctified vestments and carrying a wand inscribed with hieroglyphic figures, could by the power vested in certain words and symbols control the invisible inhabitants of the elements and of the astral world. While the elaborate ceremonial magic of antiquity was not necessarily evil, there arose from its perversion several false schools of sorcery, or black magic. Egypt, a great center of learning and the birthplace of many arts and sciences, furnished an ideal environment for transcendental experimentation. Here the black magicians of Atlantis continued to exercise their superhuman powers until they had completely undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive Mysteries. By establishing a sacerdotal caste they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reins of spiritual government.

Thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralyzed the intellectual and spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priest craft. The Pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the Scarlet Council – a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood. These sorcerers then began the systematic destruction of all keys to the ancient wisdom, so that none might have access to the knowledge necessary to reach adept ship without first becoming one of their order. They mutilated the rituals of the Mysteries while professing to preserve them, so that even though the neophyte passed through the degrees he could not secure the knowledge to which he was entitled.

Idolatry was introduced by encouraging the worship of the images which in the beginning the wise had erected solely as symbols for study and meditation. False interpretations were given to the emblems and figures of the Mysteries, and elaborate theologies were created to confuse the minds of their devotees. The masses, deprived of their birthright of understanding and groveling in ignorance, eventually became the abject slaves of the spiritual impostors. Superstition universally prevailed and the black magicians completely dominated national affairs, with the result that humanity still suffers from the sophistries of the priest crafts of Atlantis and Egypt.

Fully convinced that their Scriptures sanctioned it, numerous medieval Qabalist’s devoted their lives to the practice of ceremonial magic. The transcendentalism of the Qabalist’s is founded upon the ancient and magical formula of King Solomon, who has long been considered by the Jews as the prince of ceremonial magicians. Among the Qabalist’s of the Middle Ages were a great number of black magicians who strayed from the noble concepts of the Sepher Yetzirah and became enmeshed in demonism and witchcraft. They sought to substitute magic mirrors, consecrated daggers, and circles spread around posts of coffin nails, for the living of that virtuous life which, without the assistance of complicated rituals or sub mundane creatures, unfailingly brings man to the state of true individual completion. Those who sought to control elemental spirits through ceremonial magic did so largely with the hope of securing from the invisible worlds either rare knowledge or supernatural power.

The little red demon of Napoleon Bonaparte and the infamous oracular heads of de Medici are examples of the disastrous results of permitting elemental beings to dictate the course of human procedure. While the learned and godlike demon of Socrates seems to have been an exception, this really proves that the intellectual and moral status of the magician has much to do with the type of elemental he is capable of invoking. But even the demon of Socrates deserted the philosopher when the sentence of death was passed. Transcendentalism and all forms of phenomenalistic magic are but blind alleys – outgrowths of Atlantean sorcery; and those who forsake the straight path of philosophy to wander therein almost invariably fall victims to their imprudence.

Man, incapable of controlling his own appetites, is not equal to the task of governing the fiery and tempestuous elemental spirits. Many a magician has lost his life as the result of opening a way whereby sub-mundane creatures could become active participants in his affairs. When Eliphas Levi invoked the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana, what did he hope to accomplish? Is the gratification of curiosity a motive sufficient to warrant the devotion of an entire lifetime to a dangerous and unprofitable pursuit?

If the living Apollonius refused to divulge his secrets to the profane, is there any probability that after death he would disclose them to the curious-minded? Levi himself did not dare to assert that the specter which appeared to him was actually the great philosopher, for Levi realized only too well the proclivity of elementals to impersonate those who have passed on. The majority of modern mediumistic apparitions are but elemental creatures masquerading through bodies composed of thought substance supplied by the very persons desiring to behold these wraiths of discarnate beings.

Some understanding of the intricate theory and practice of ceremonial magic may be derived from a brief consideration of its underlying premises. First; the visible universe has an invisible counterpart, the higher planes of which are peopled by good and beautiful spirits; the lower planes, dark and foreboding, are the habitation of evil spirits and demons under the leadership of the Fallen Angel and his ten Princes. Second. By means of the secret processes of ceremonial magic it is possible to contact these invisible creatures and gain their help in some human undertaking. Good spirits willingly lend their assistance to any worthy enterprise, but the evil spirits serve only those who live to pervert and destroy.

Third, it is possible to make contracts with spirits whereby the magician becomes for a stipulated time the master of an elemental being. Fourth; True black magic is performed with the aid of a demoniacal spirit, who serves the sorcerer for the length of his earthly life, with the understanding that after death the magician shall become the servant of his own demon. For this reason a black magician will go to inconceivable ends to prolong his physical life, since there is nothing for him beyond the grave. The most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal desire. It’s less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. A man will barter his eternal soul for temporal power, and down through the ages a mysterious process has been evolved which actually enables him to make this exchange. In its various branches the black art includes nearly all forms of ceremonial magic, necromancy, witchcraft, sorcery, and vampirism. Under the same general heading are also included mesmerism and hypnotism, except when used solely for medical purposes, and even then there is an element of risk for all concerned.

There is another side to magic, the white side. I’m discussing this topic because you will find the words magic and occult throughout our family story, and it has been very troubling to me, hence the need for a deeper understanding of the subject. Richard Smoley in his book Hidden Wisdom; a Guide to the Western Inner Traditions writes;

P 101 Today it may seem strange that a pope (Urban) should have turned to occult means for help, but in fact many in the Renaissance agreed with the magus Cornelius Agrippa who asserted that ‘a magician doth not among learned men signify a sorcerer, or one that is superstitious, or devilish, but a wise man, a priest, a prophet and that magic ‘was accounted by all ancient philosophers the chiefest science.’

P 52 Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down to Earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants. Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God.

The author of The Edgar Cayce Primer p 200 tells of the understanding Edgar Cayce had regarding magic. He wrote that just as Christians today worry about Satanic influences and occultism, the Edgar Cayce readings were also concerned about them. The readings give a great deal of information that help to clarify these important spiritual questions and problems. He states that the readings; “point out differences in the mystical, the occult, and the psychic. The mystical experience is the awareness of Oneness.³³ The occult is defined in the readings as the use of the mind’s powers without respect to purposes. The psychic is, according to the readings, of the soul, and the preferred terminology regarding the Spirit working through the individual and manifesting its gifts.” He goes on to say that what differentiates between the occult and the spiritual is “not the form, nor the organization, nor the dogma, but rather the individual’s ideals and purposes.”