3). The Ararats (remnant Atlanteans) had no love for the tribe of Zu (remnant Lemurians), so Arda was not welcomed, only tolerated. However, when her child was born and his beauty was perceived by the people of Ararat, she was tolerated a little better. The child grew in stature and wisdom, revealing a knowing that quickly identified him as a prophet, a seer. In one of the young boy’s pronouncements, he prophesied the entrance of this clan into the rich lands of Egypt and that they would build one of the grandest cultures on the planet. King Arart (pronounced aur-art), the elderly leader of the tribe, was moved by this prophecy and began to hold the boy in high esteem, giving comfort and support to him and to his mother. She had suffered much for her celestial conception, but now the fruit of her womb rewarded her. From this moment on, Arda was an honored woman; she and her offspring were fully adopted into the Ararat community.
Cayce described how her boy was of unusual coloring; his skin being lighter than his mother’s, his hair the color of the sun, and there was a radiant mystique about him. Because of these features, the people named him Ra-Ta, meaning something akin to “sunlight upon the land.”
Young Ra-Ta’s remarkable prophetic abilities naturally made him the priest of the tribe. At the age of twenty-one, he led King Arart and his whole clan down out of the mountain region, across the plains, and into the fertile lands of Egypt (see illustration 3 for a map). Egypt was then called the Black Land (Kemet, KMT). This was because of the rich black silt that the Nile had left behind as it receded from its flood stages. According to Cayce’s story, some nine hundred souls composed this invading horde. A small number today, but this was that biblical time when the planet had been cleansed of many earlier peoples by a karmic reaction to their evil (again, read Genesis 6). Now the planet was being repopulated for a new start. This was the beginning of the Second Creation.
Naturally, the sight of a horde of northern mountain people marching toward their land of ease and plenty was upsetting to the natives of the Black Land, especially to their upper class who enjoyed a life of luxury and leisure. However, the natives had once been invaders themselves, having entered this rich land from the southern mountains of Nubia. Though they were strong then, they had grown comfortable and satisfied for a very long time. Their newfound land required little labor and provided plenty of recreation and sunshine. Adding to the natives’ softness was the laid-back passivity of their leader, King Raai (pronounced Raa-ee). He had become old and weary of the demands of rulership and thus, surrendered much of his power to the people, wanting to be left alone with his personal pursuits. Even when petitioned by his people to build up the defenses of the country and create a defense plan against the northern mountain invaders, King Raai simply refused to do so. However, he did call for a meeting with the invading king to discuss terms for peaceful co-existence of the two populations. During a series of these meetings, King Raai became enamored with one of the more beautiful Ararat women, seeking her company and companionship rather than actively participating in detailed meetings about the country and co-rulership. King Arart, seeing this native king’s disinterest in power, might, and rulership, concluded that his clan could just march into the heart of the Black Land and take over. And that is just what he did, but not violently. Amazingly, the natives put up little to no resistance. That is until the new landlords set up laws and taxes.
In the telling of this story, Cayce sadly stated that King Raai “gave over the activities of the land for the beauty of a woman.” But paradoxically, Cayce found some good in King Raai, noting that he originally had “brought to that land the study of the relationships of man to the Creative Energy” and that his disposition against bloodshed and war was admirable. In this current situation, this led him to seek a peaceful solution, even though he got lost in the arms of the beautiful Ararat woman, leaving his people at the mercy of King Arart. Cayce even noted that this disposition of King Raai was not simply submission but was based in his principle of nonviolence and that this disposition “became the basis for the studies of the Prince of Peace.” Curiously, Raai’s peace principle so affected the invading Ararat people that they established schools in the land to help both tribes better understand one another.
This is not to say that all of the people of Ararat agreed with their king. Many were very upset about this, wanting instead to drive the natives back into the Nubian hills from whence they came. In an effort to temper these feelings, King Arart quickly arranged for special educators to go throughout his tribe explaining the ideal of peaceful co-existence and its benefits to the clan in this land of plenty for everyone. These educators were successful, except for a few pockets of discontent and violence.
There was roughly a three-year settling-in period that followed the initial invasion and terms of peace. During this time it was clear that the natives did not seek to establish order, laws, or governmental structure. They did not want to organize the labor force and talent of their people. They enjoyed the bounty of their land and its sunshine and fair weather. Conversely, the northern mountain people were intent on building a rich culture guided by high standards and driven by specific goals. The Ararats wanted to develop the resources of this land: its mountain minerals, gems, and gold, the energy of its great river as well as the power of the people’s labor and skill. King Arart began establishing laws, developing an infrastructure, creating schools and training centers, and organizing production teams. But he also used the ever-popular means by which a society builds and sustains itself: he raised taxes. Tensions rose between the two very different peoples.
Curiously, among the natives was a scribe-sage who explained to his people the aims of the Ararat rulers, encouraging his people to participate and invest themselves in a united effort. The young scribe-sage traveled around his people’s communities explaining the mental and spiritual ideas that drove the invaders to do what they were doing, describing their values and philosophies, and how they wanted cultural and artistic development as well as wealth building. The Ararat people were not a community of leisure and materialism, as the natives were.
News of this native scribe’s teachings reached the ear of King Arart and his councilors. They demanded regular briefings on the scribe’s teachings, concerned about his potential to become the natives’ missing leader, replacing distracted Raai. It quickly became obvious that this scribe-sage was articulate, clever, and growing in power and influence among his people. Thus, in another clever decision, King Arart appointed his young, bright, and energetic son to be acting king while Arart stepped into the background, retaining a powerful role on the Inner Council. In a move reminiscent of his father’s peaceful coexistence, the newly appointed young king selected the native scribe-sage to become councilor on the Ruling Council, raising him from scribe to high councilor. To further establish the scribe’s position in the ruling party, the young king changed the name of the scribe to Aarat (pronounce ah-rat), thus making him one of the overseeing Ararats.
With the blending of the two peoples through these wise moves with the influential native scribe-sage, the young king then appointed his father’s favorite seer Ra-Ta to the post of High Priest of all the land and peoples.
Some time after these moves, a migrating group of Atlanteans arrived directly from Poseidia, the last vestige of Atlantis to sink. The Inner Council of the Black Land decided to include some of these Atlanteans on the Governing Council. However, a few of these Atlanteans tried briefly to dominate the Council but were quickly moved off into lesser roles while more cooperative Atlanteans were appointed in their place. Now the land had three groups of people cooperating for the good of all. Eventually, others would come, even people from faraway Zu. The old Ararat king, the young king, and their Inner Council accepted leaders from each group that arrived to serve on the Governing Council, making early Egypt a most unusual nation. As the word of this cooperative governance spread around the renewing planet, many tribes sent emissaries to see and report on this strange and rare arrangement.
With the Governing Council established, the culture grew. This was not a huge population of millions as we are used to today. A few thousand people composed the entire community of budding Egypt. In fact, the entire planet’s
