As was seen, the housing of all the female of the whole clan
or tribe for the evenings was in the temple, while those of
the male that were outside those of the king's OWN household
- and this included the king's alone - not any favorite or
queen, or closer relationship, for all were in the same
building, for they were under State rules. These were in
tiers, as we would term today, beautifully laid out - with
their halls, that were three and four tiers. The rooms, as
would be sized as we would call, were 7 X 9 in their size,
with 8 to 10 feet in the height, with those accoutrements for
same - their rugs, their blankets, those that were wrought
with the hands that made for the couches, for the various
activities. Those that were born in same were immediately,
or after three months, taken from their own families and
raised in those groups which were confined in other buildings
for those purposes. The great chambers or halls that were
inter-between were of high tiers, that made for large halls,
with the various forms of recreation - as the dance, etc;
for, as given, the body was worshipped in this period as
sincerely as most of the physical or spiritual worship that
may be seen today, for the bodies were changing in their
forms as their developments or purifications were effective
in those temples, where the consecrations and changes were
taking place by the activities of the individuals in their
abilities to turn themselves towards (in the mental) the
SPIRITUAL things of an existence. They gradually lost, many
feathers from their legs. Many of them lost the hairs from
the body, that were gradually taken away. Many gradually
began to lose their tails, or their protuberances in their
various forms. Many of them gradually lost those forms of
the hand and foot, as they were changed from claws - or paws
- to those that might be more symmetrical with the body.
Hence the activities or the uses of the body, as they became
more erect and more active, more shaped to them in their
various activities. These were, to be sure, considered as
the body beautiful. Beauty as divine; for the divine has
brought - and does bring - those various beauties of form
or figure to the body, and should be CONSIDERED as it was
given so; for "the body is the temple of the living God."
True, then, that the various forms or attributes of the body
in its symmetry are of the divine inheritance, as was brought
about by this ill-forgotten Ra-Ta in this experience.
In the Temple Beautiful, then, we find here the altars where
various forms of desire were sacrificed, that brought to the
individuals, or persons, or bodies, in the gradual falling
away of those things that made for the ANIMAL activity in the
bodies of those that were attempting to so consecrate, so
consecrate themselves and consecrate their bodies, their
lives, their activities, in this service. Let's don't forget
the thesis, or the key for which all of this understanding
had come: That there might be a closer relationship of man
to the Creator, and of man to man.
Many were the altars, then, and so - as these changes came
about - there became the necessity of their attempt to induce
Ra-Ta, that there might be more of the activity that was
withdrawn, or drawn TO the bodies of those that were
purified, or clarified, in the Temple Beautiful, to draw
those to the activities that were to be changing for those
that had not reached that stage of the desire to become those
changes in the physical and in the mental attributes of that
which represented the forms in their activity in the period.
Hence the developing more of the PERSONALITY, as these were
injected more and more. This is where, as it were, the gods
laughed at the weakness of the individual, or the priest.
As these began then, with this favorite of the king - and the
better of the forms that had become near the body beautiful,
or beauty divine, those activities in the temple (not the
Temple Beautiful, but in the temple) brought these
individuals, as individuals, into closer relationships, and
the decree eventually came that the priest was to be, then,
the companion of this body that had been chosen to be the
channel through which those activities were to bring to those
peoples a body such as the priest had spoken of - and the
priest "fell for the whole proposition", to put it in common
parlance, or that of slang phrase in the present.
In this there were many others that were chosen also, by the
various ones, and there were the attempts that there be the
same associations with the priest in the various ones through
which this began, yet when there came - as it were - the
offspring with this association, then there became the cry
that there was the breaking of the very laws that had been
set by the priest, who was to make for the home and the
changing of the conditions for the peoples, and more and more
were the lines drawn as to the sides that were taken. Those
groups who had the desire for their own offspring, or their
associated or associations for the closer relationships with
the priest, and those that came into power in their various
forms or activities; for, as is seen, with desire - as the
cleansing came - there were those abilities of individuals
for various activities in various fields of endeavor.
Hence there became singers, workers in linen, workers in
embroidery, carders, weavers, workers in clay, those in
various forms of commercial industry, those in horticulture,
those in agriculture, and the various fields; for no
merchants then existed, as there was one common store for
all.
In their activities, then, each were in their various fields
of endeavor given free activity to that which it might
produce. Hence these brought about the many various
DIVISIONS that were between, as it may be called, the first
uprising between Church and State, and the lines being drawn
caused more tumult, until the period when there was the
eventual trial of this priest and the companion, and they
were banished into the land that lies to the south and east
of this land, or the Nubian land.
Here all became changed, with this tumult that arose with
the various priests that were in attendance in the various
offices, and advantage was taken of the situation by many
of those who in their various forms began to LEARN, as it
were, a form of war and defense, and there were the gathering
then of the young men, the old men, and sides were taken.
Still some remained faithful to the priests who remained in
the land, and troublesome times arose for many, many suns,
until at least nine seasons had passed before there was even
the SEMBLANCE of the beginning of a quieting, and that not
until there had been definite arrangements made that the
priest WOULD return and all would be submissive to his
mandates; and he became, then, as may be termed in the
present, a dictator - or a monarch in his own right.
The offspring, to be sure, was taken - as others - from this
relationship, and in their various forms and manners there
was the attempt to be brought about the proper conditions,
yet it wasted away - for while there were the abilities of
the priest in some directions, yet these had not clarified
or crystallized into that which came about in the latter part
of this experience for the entity.
In the land to which these were banished, not only were there
the two - but a NUMBER; some two hundred and thirty-one
souls.
We are through for the present.
BACKGROUND
7/26/32 EC gave
294-148, a continuation of Ck. Life Rdgs.
on his incarnation as Ra-Ta in Egypt.
REPORTS
7/28/32 EC continued his Ck. Life rdgs. on his incarnation
in Egypt as Ra-Ta - in
294-150.
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