O living Aten, the beginning of all life,
though distant, your rays are upon the earth;
you are seen everywhere, yet your ways are unknown, How everything you created manifests, though you are hidden,
you who created and sustain everything, and all people on all lands.
You are alone, rising in your distant heaven,
your breath sustains all that you have created.
Oh sole God, like whom there is no other,
you yourself are life, and all live through you.
Excerpts from Akhenaten’s Hymn to Aten
I am Yhvy (Yahweh), thy Elohim. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, for I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God. Exodus, 20: 2-4
“I don’t understand.”Hydrogen and the rest were sitting outside the cave. Only distant stars pinpricked the evening darkness. When no one answered, Hydrogen continued. “What drives humans to such irrational insensitivity toward one another? Their bodies consist of all of our kinds. What is it that blinds but does not bind them?”
“They are complex networks of organic molecules, millions of us, and their size gives them complex unitary abilities. Whereas we seek each other’s cooperation, humans can do a lot on their own. Maybe their complexity makes the journey to the Source easier, but their awareness of their powers—they call it ego— blinds them. Like confused children abusing their powers, they often harm themselves or others. That’s what I meant by worthiness. Power in the hands of the unwise becomes a destructive dark force.”
A purple dawn rose above the mountainous horizon, signaling their next journey. The group eagerly awaited the rising sun and the Transportal’s accompanying flash of light.
Moments later, they were scanning their new surroundings. The grand hall’s magnificent flowershaped stone columns flanked the high walls and carried a plastered ceiling covered with carved motif designs, all painted in brilliant colors. polished alabaster slabs of dazzling geometrical arrangement, and the walls painted with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Large statues resembling godly super-humans dominated the hall, their perfect facial features, hairless heads and faces, large almond shaped eyes and bluehued skin otherworldly and surreal. They wore magnificent clothes, jewelry, and unusually large crowns. Some were in long flowing robes and held oddly shaped scepters, and others had wing-shaped capes. Gold pointed at one with a golden crown, adorned with the familiar symbols of a sun-disc and a protruding