it Gizeh). They came to understand that their expulsion would not be forever. And sure enough, events were not going well in Egypt during their exile. Two rebellions had shaken the once harmonious nation: one among the natives against the Ararats and another led by the young king’s own brother against the kingdom! Furthermore, except for a very few priests (one of whom we will read about later), the temple leaders were not as spiritually aware or as mystically powerful as Ra-Ta. Without Ra-Ta’s control, some of the priests were actually using techniques and potions to arouse earthly energies and urges rather than celestial, spiritual ones. Adding fire to these activities, the Atlanteans had imported their sex queen and set her up in one of the major centers where she now conducted orgies and the first of the renown fleshpots of Egypt.
All of these events caused the population to cry for the return of the high priest. Even pharaoh began to believe that he had acted too harshly and was fast becoming convinced that the country needed the high priest to return. The king sent messengers to the little band of exiles in the Nubian mountains asking Ra-Ta and his followers to return—all was forgiven.
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A GREAT ATLANTEAN BECOMES A GREATER EGYPTIAN
An ancient Egyptian myth tells of a creative essence appearing out of the infinite, dark nothingness—willing itself into being. This essence evolved into a creator called Atum (also known as Tem and Atem; illustration 9). This name means the “Complete One.” Within the Complete One was his shadow, which was the infinite womb of mother Iusaaset (pronounced e-oo-sa–ah-set; meaning “mother of the first gods” and “grandmother of the subsequent gods”; illustration 10). The two of them—the self-created Atum and the unseen Iusaaset—conceived breath and moisture. These two offspring became lost in the infinite, dark nothingness; hence Atum sent his eye, the Eye of Light that penetrates the darkness, to find the primordial children. The Eye of Light was Ra (illustration 71). Upon finding the children, Atum named breathe life and moisture order. Atum bound them together, and with these two united, he made air (the Egyptian god Shu) and mist (Tefnut). He then kissed his daughter, mist, and created the first mound (firmament), which as we’ve learned was the Ben-ben Mound. This mound was also known as Iunu (ee-oo-nu). The Ben-ben Mound rose from the vast expanse of the motionless sea of the primordial depths (the goddess Nun). The Complete One (Atum) rested on the mound, while life-air (Shu) and order-mist (Tefnut) mated to create earth (the god Geb) and sky (the goddess Nut, pronounced noot, rhymes with toot). (See illustrations 9 through 15 for images of these Egyptian gods and goddesses, especially illustration 13.)
Earth (Geb) and sky (Nut) then conceived five more godlings: Osiris, god of fertility, resurrection, and judge of the heart of every soul; Isis, goddess of magic, motherhood, and “Mother of the Universe”; Set, god of chaos, confusion, storms, wind, the desert, and foreign lands; Nephthys, “Mistress of the House,” “Friend of the Dead,” and goddess of divine help and protection; and Horus the Elder, god of light, whose left eye was the sun and right eye, the moon. (See illustrations 16 through 18 for images of these Egyptian gods.)
The Complete One (Atum) then prophesies to Osiris that he, Atum, will eventually submerge all of the creation back into the depths of the primordial waters—symbolic of the infinite womb from which creation emerged. Until then, Atum will guide the sun through the night and the darkness of the underworld, and Ra-Atum will bring the sun forth every morning to light the passage through day. (See illustration 19 for the image of Osiris and Ra-Atum.)
Aspects of this myth of life’s origin have often been compared with the shadowy waters of the biblical Genesis: “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” (Genesis 1:2-3)
It helps if we think of these gods and goddesses less as “beings” and more as levels or zones of consciousness and specialized energetics within the whole or the Complete One. They also have their individualized motivations and missions as well as unique characteristics that eventually permeate souls who harmonize with these zones and energetics. Thus, the Egyptians would call like-minded souls “the Daughters of Isis” or “the Sons of Ra,” and so on. Ra and Isis represent the consciousness and vibrations that the individual souls expressed or harmonized with.
Edgar Cayce’s narrative of ancient Egypt includes the story of a soul who became a great Atlantean and then an even greater Egyptian. It is the account of one named Hept-supht (pronounced hep-t–sup-t, silent “h” and no “ph” f-sound), from the city of Alta in the region of Poseidia on the continent of Atlantis. Hept-supht eventually moved to the Giza Plateau. Hept-supht worked closely with the Egyptian high priest Ra-Ta. The first Cayce readings for Hept-supht were most helpful in getting a sense of life in the ancient world. I have edited these for clarity and readability.
“In Atlantis we find the entity [Hept-supht] during those periods before the final destruction of Atlantis, when there were continually waged what may be termed war or evangelistic campaigns.”
Cayce would later explained that these were not military wars but political, religious campaigns for people’s hearts and minds. He continued:
“This was being waged between the followers of the patriarchs of old; of Alta, of Quoauda and those that led a counter campaign against the sons of Baalilal.” This may be another name for Belial in the Bible, (Deuteronomy 13:13); or Beelzebub, which is derived from the god Baal, and is considered “the prince of demons.” (Matthew 12:24)
Alta and Quoauda (pronounced quo-aud-a) were initially god-like beings who later had cities named after them. In a following paragraph we read that the mythological gods Zeus and Zephyrus traveled with Alta and others. This was the nature of the ancient world from Cayce’s and mythology’s perspectives—gods and humans intermingled, until the legendary Great Flood wiped most everything away and life started over with just humans—though some humans retained their innate godliness while others became animalistic, both mentally and physically.
“The entity [Hept-supht] was among those that were active in the exchange of associations with those in Poseidia, in the city of Alta. And the priest Ra-Ta journeyed from the land of Egypt to Poseidia that there might be gained more of an understanding of the law of One, or God, that there might be the interpretations and the records of same carried to the Egyptian land. Soon after the priest returned to Egypt, the entity [Hept-supht] journeyed from Atlantis to Egypt.”
Several readings talk about how much travel there was in these ancient times, and much of the travel was by air ships! We’ll learn more about this is in a later chapter. In the readings about the Egyptian high priest Ra-Ta, it was revealed that he traveled often to various locations around the world, meeting with others to discuss the world situation and how to improve people’s lives spiritually. On this occasion, he came to Alta and met Hept-supht, who had become unhappy with the political and religious unrest in Atlantis. Hept-supht also had
