In these early times, repopulating the earth after the major disasters that ended the First Creation had almost wiped away the entire population of the planet. Baby making was among the highest priorities; there was an active baby-making process going on in sections of the temples. Not only did they need to grow the population, but they also wanted to create the most ideal bodies and thereby draw the most enlightened souls into those bodies. In illustration 7 there is an Egyptian scene showing a woman holding a “ba,” a soul from out of heaven’s crowded soul communities—revealing how active the birthing activities were. The baby-making operation in the temples carefully selected males and females for their genetic qualities and their spiritual ideals. The high priest had established a long and careful procedure that everyone was to go through before being coupled with one another to copulate and conceive. Among the ideal females in the main temple was one named Isris (pronounced ice-ris). Her mind and body were as perfect as any in all the land. Additionally, one of her skills was dancing—not sensual dancing but movement to music that would uplift observers’ hearts and minds as well as her own. The new young king who had taken over for his father was very fond of Is-ris and her dancing. He also considered her to be among the most ideal birthing partners, capable of producing excellent offspring if mated with the right male—and surely the young pharaoh would be on any short list of ideal mates for Is-ris.
The temple priests knew of the king’s admiration for Is-ris so if they could pit the young king against the high priest, the high priest would lose, despite his elite status. This was because there would be no changing of the bloodline of the kings, so the Zu-born high priest would be the one to go.
The conniving priests first threatened Is-ris and her family into cooperating with the seduction of the high priest; then they convinced Ra-Ta that he was the most ideal of all men, and since the purpose was to seek the most ideal offspring, he was the best mate for Is-ris, this most perfect female.
Stumbling over a long-developing sense of his own power as well as the resulting vanity, Ra-Ta did not go through the established procedures for such an important mating and broke his own rule about the number of wives a priest could have. He took Is-ris and conceived a child with her. The fruit of their love was concealed for a time in the temple, but when the king finally heard about it, he was furious. A beautiful and wise flower had been abruptly taken from the kingdom without going through the necessary steps to ensure the highest good, and this by a priest who was already wed. This was a terrible injustice that could not be undone. And though Ra-Ta thought that he was above the rules, the council and the king did not. The king reacted swiftly and severely. Since the child was illegal, the king removed her from the temple and put her under the control of palace authorities and a caretaker. Then the king and his army banished Ra-Ta, Is-ris, and 231 of their supporters from the land of Egypt—forever!
Disgraced, confused, and despairing, Ra-Ta and his little band of loyal supporters left Egypt. Initially they entered the lands of Lybia, where the priest drew a lot of attention, gaining converts to his teachings and practices. Subsequently, he and his entourage journeyed to the high mountains of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) and later into the mountains of Nubia (the area today that is Upper Egypt, Aswan, and the Lake Nasser region). Here they set up their community. (See illustration 8 for a map of ancient Egypt.)
Cayce’s discourses tell how Is-ris and Ra-Ta did not waste their time in these mountains but set about to make the best of a bad situation. Ra-Ta, sobered by his disastrous mistake, was determine to gain higher consciousness and oneness with the Infinite, Eternal Creator. He and his troop regularly entered deep meditation, making passage through dimensions of higher consciousness. They practiced moving from individualness to universalness, from finiteness to infinite oneness with the cosmos and the universal consciousness. Cayce stated that Ra-Ta “awakened to the Ra within him” and Is-ris “awakened to the Isis with her.” Cayce also described how they gained conscious awareness of the cosmos and earth’s relationship to the universe and the universal forces. They even received knowledge of the ideal location to build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza—they even received instructions on how to build it! Of course, they asked the universal consciousness how would this be possible since they were living under a lifetime banishment from Giza (Cayce’s readings spelled 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: