EC: Yes. With the establishing of this rule, there began
the series of changes, and the intermingling of the peoples
who entered and the natives. While the native rulers were
submissive, especially as the [
1734] native ruler was
enamored with one of the incoming peoples. With Arart
[
165] as the king and Ra-Ta as the prophet or seer, there
began a period that may well be called a division of
interests of the peoples. Ra-Ta attempted to induce the
king to have only those natives that were tried and true in
their acceptance of those attempts that would bring the
closer relationship, according to those visions and
experiences of Ra-Ta in line with those being established as
customs, rules and regulations. These conditions naturally
made for some disturbance among the natives, that would be
called the upper class, or those that sought to be in power
themselves, or had ideas as to what should be done with the
abilities of the peoples as individuals, and the abilities
of the country as a country to supply those material
necessities for sustenance and for recreation of the peoples.
This eventually led to the pitting of the young leader [
900]
with the king's son [
341], and the change - or the accepting
by the king of this native leader that represented a GROUP
as well as himself, for he was [
900] among those who had been
native rulers and were deposed by the ruler [
1734] whom Arart
had found in office when settling there. This period of the
establishing of these conditions we will term, for
designation and understanding, as the political situation of
the land. A portion of Arart's life then was in association
with the political experience, as well as in establishing
those relationships of individuals with individuals, also
the religious or spiritual life, with preparation for setting
in motion the regulations or ceremonies that would be
accompanied, or signified or designated, by the developing
of those peoples who chose to give their lives, or were
chosen for their abilities in certain phases of the
conditions that arose.
With the political situation, then, the king [
341] - the
young king, then only thirty - gathered about him many that
were to act in the capacity of council, a portion the inner
council that ruled on the general circumstances of the
peoples as a whole, then the council that had supervision
over various parts of departments of the activities of the
peoples, as would be termed in one's present surroundings as
holding the various offices as a cabinet, the departments
being much in that day as they are in the present; for
remember, there is nothing in the present that hasn't existed
from the first. Only the FORM or the manner of its use being
changed, and many an element then used that the art of its
use has been lost, as we will see the reason why, and many
being rediscovered by those called scientists in the present
when in that day it was the common knowledge of the most
illiterate, as would be termed in the present.
With the appointing of such a body, to be sure there was much
work for Ra-Ta in council that there be kept the ideal or
purpose for which this band, this group, had chosen this
particular land for the development or manifestation of the
forces that were manifesting through the mental or the
spiritual man Ra-Ta.
With this giving in (we are speaking of the political phase
now) [of Arart] of the king, to pit or parallel activities
of the native with the abilities of the son, or heir, and
he himself - the king - acting AS a council then WITH Ra-Ta
to the inner council, there were the necessities of matching
the abilities of the king's council, or king's people, with
the facilities of the natives - as it were - in the various
phases of what would be termed in the present as progress.
Hence the opening by Araaraart [
341] of mines in Ophir, in
what was later known as Kadesh, or in the land now called
Persia. Also in the land now known as Abyssinia, and those
portions yet undiscovered or used in the upper lands of the
river Nile, there were those mines of the precious stones -
as onyx, beryl, sardis, diamond, amethyst, opal, and the
pearls that came from the sea near what is now called
Madagascar. In the northern (or then the southern) land of
Egypt, those mines that produced quantities - and quantities
- and quantities - of gold, silver, iron, lead, zinc, copper,
tin, and the like, that these might be matched with those in
the valleys of the upper Nile. Also there was the producing
of the stonecutters who began gathering materials for the
establishing of the residences of the incoming or the king's
peoples.
With the gatherings of these, also Ra-Ta began to gather his
own people and those that were pointed out to him through the
sources from which he received those various injunctions for
the establishing of the name forever in the land. Hence,
with these, there were the preparations for the temple where
there were to be the various forms of worship, as related to
the divisions of the penal or moral relationships of the
peoples, and what would be termed or called in the present
the religious or spiritual relationships.
There were many periods or days required for the building up
of the body, as represented by the group that acted in the
capacity of the active individuals about the building of
these edifices or temples that were to represent then the
recreation halls; for the physical attributes were worshipped
much more in many ways in this period than the religious are
in the present period, and rightly so - though there were the
preparations for the spiritual worship that comprised not
only the sacrificial altars, which were not as for the
offering of sacrifice in the slaying of animal or bird, or
beast, or reptile, or man; rather that upon which individuals
put their faults and blotted them out with the fires of those
forces that were set in motion by Ra-Ta, in the ability to
give to each that for which his or her activity were best
adapted in the developing of themselves, when they had chosen
to give themselves in service in that particular position in
which their activity was necessary. See the difference?
There were also established storehouses, that would be called
banks in the present, or places of exchange, that there might
be the communications with individuals in varied lands; for
even in this period (though much had been lost even by these
peoples) was there the exchange of ideas with other lands,
as of the Poseidian and Og, as well as the Pyrenean and
Sicilian, and those that would now be known as Norway, China,
India, Peru and American. These were not their names in that
particular period, but from whence there were being gathered
a portion of the recreations of the peoples; for the
understandings were of one tongue! There had not been as yet
the divisions of tongues in THIS particular land. This was
yet only in the Atlantean or Poseidian land.
With the gathering of these people and places, there began
the erecting of the edifices that were to house not only the
peoples, but the temple of sacrifice, the temple of beauty
- that GLORIFIED the activities of individuals, groups or
masses, who had CLEANSED themselves for service. Also the
storehouses for the commodities of exchange, as well as that
gathered by the peoples to match - as it were, still - one
against the other. Hence we find the activities of the
priest, or seer, as really a busy life - yet much time was
given in keeping self in communion with those that brought
the knowledge of that progress made in the spiritual sense
in other lands, especially so from Poseida and Og.
In these visitations that were caused, or that necessitated
the absenting of the priest from these places, there arose
more and more a dissension with those peoples that there was
being builded much that was being left to subordinates, as
considered by some of the native councillors - and a few also
of those that allowed avarice to arise in their own make-up.
This brought questioning more and more, and there began to
be the use of those things that gradually turned the minds
of those associated in the offices that had been set aside
by the priest in their activity, in the use of, in the
brewing and concocting of drinks that set against the body,
set the mind, set the whole fires of physical body against
that as had been cleansed by the fires on the altars, as were
in the sacrificial temples.
In the third series, or - as they were set aside as periods
of ten years, most of those buildings were completed, and
when there was the return of Ra-Ta from one of these visits
to the mount - where there had been some activities on the
part of those that were delving into what was termed the
archaeological conditions of those that had lived in the
lands in the periods before - and there was found in the
temple of sacrifice the aggrandizing of the lusts of the
body, rather than those activities that were to be carried
on by the sacrificial priests - there arose a mighty turmoil,
and with these conditions arising there became greater and
greater stress laid upon Ra-Ta, and there were sought
various ways and manners in which there might be fault found
with the activities of those conditions that surrounded the
body, and there arose at that time the first - as may be said
- of that saying, "When the devil can't get a man any other
way, he sends a woman for him."
Among those, then, of the priests' daughters, was one of the
king's favorites - that made for the entertaining of the king
and his council, and his visitors - who was more beautiful
than the rest, and she [
538] was induced to gain the favor of
the priest through activities of herself in body, and in the
manners that would induce some fault to be found. This was
not by her own volition, but rather by the counsel of those
that made for the persecutions of her own peoples that were
being protected by the activities of the body, and divisions
arose that were even unknown then to Ra-Ta, for he being
among those that trusted all, believed all, and - as it were
- for the time the gods laughed at his weakness!
We are through for the present.
BACKGROUND
7/19/32 He obtained the first in a series of Ck. Life
Rdgs. on his incarnation as Ra-Ta in Egypt -
294-147.
REPORTS
7/27/32 EC continued the description of his incarnation
in Egypt, as Ra-Ta, under
294-149.
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