Chapter 8: IT’S ALL OVER, AMEN
Why does Christian orthodoxy refrain on one hand from ascribing a name to the Creator God, while on the other hand, at the end of its prayers, invoking the ancient name of AMUN, in the form of ‘Amen’? The Hebrew religion itself uses several names to express the Great Spirit, such as YAHWEH, EL and JEHOVAH. But the name AMEN (aka AMUN, AMMON) was that of the prime pagan god of the Egyptians, the enemies and oppressors of the Israelites. Are we looking at an ancient plot which was hatched with the intent to forevermore subvert the integrity of Judeo-Christian worship and prayer? If so, then for countless generations we have all been spiritually hindered by this deception...
As JESUS preached The Lord’s Prayer on the mountainside, did he also verbally invoke the word-name ‘Amen’ at the end of his prayers? If not, then this tradition was introduced later by the Amunist Romans, possibly in the pre-Catholic church days, shortly after 300 AD. Modern Hebrews have no sacred context for the word ‘amen’, they have simply assumed through all these years that the Christians invoked it simply because it sounds a little like their own word emuna or emanu , meaning ‘belief ’. If ‘Amen’ was being ritually invoked at the first time of The Christ, JESUS, then it must have become established religious practice in earlier Judaic history. Modern Christian priests have simply, and rather blindly, accepted that the word 'amen' means: “Let it be”, when clearly it means no such thing in any language whatever. But this is what they are taught, and what they in turn teach to we who know nothing. What the word-name really means, in Ancient Egyptian, is ‘The Hidden One’.
The word-name ‘Amen’ is first mentioned in The Bible by the prophet ISAIAH (circa 700 BC), who urges the Israelites to worship “the Amen...the god of truth”. ISAIAH appears to advocate the worship of a pagan god when thus mentioning ‘the Amen’ in the Old Testament, which was prohibited in the Covenant of MOSES. AMUN, whom I believe ISAIAH was referring to, was not in any objective sense a 'god of truth', he was a god of war, of dominion over other peoples, being equivalent to Aries (Greek) and Mars (Roman). The name of the pagan god of war stems from the Ancient Egyptian "imn", which is expressed variously as Amun, Amon, Ammon, Oumon, and Amen, plus, of course, the derivative Biblical name of Mammon
Today’s Hebrew scholars casually believe that the Christian usage of the word ‘amen’ derives from their own word ‘emanu / emuna’ (‘belief’), however this assumption is based purely on the similarity of sound (ie. it is a transliteration), not on any intellectual, theological, or thematic consistency. Would we not expect at least a smattering of tradition to surround the word that has for so long been taught to us as the appropriate way to end all of our prayers? And why, after all this time, have Hebrew scholars not tried to explain the praising of the Egyptian god within the pages of The Bible?...
It has long been thought that the ancient Hebrew religion was somehow meddled with in antiquity, its integrity quietly and effectively distorted from the central truth. Further changes were also made when the Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts were translated for religious bodies in the 1st Millennium BC. Could the word ‘amen’ at some time have been employed as a magical seal, set upon prayers to divert the intent of all those who sought to worship YHWH, the One God of the Hebrews? Is it, moreover, a coincidence that the holy name given to Jerusalem, the mount of Sion, should be spelled with the initial letters of the four principle gods of the Egyptians? These were SET, ISIS, OSIRIS and NEBTHET - SION. This sacred tetrad of divinities lies at the core of inherited religious, mythic, astrological and esoteric belief.
The variant names AMUN, AMEN and AMMON all refer to the deity who was called ‘The Hidden One’, or ‘The Secret One’. His hidden characteristic likens AMUN to the enigmatic ATUM, the Egyptian name reserved for the Sun-deity during the event of the evening sunset. AMUN’s name was used to revere the solar deity after sunset, during the dark hours of the night, as AMEN-RE. The Egyptians were sure that the Sun was still out there in the night sky, even though they could not see it. The priests performed rituals and chanted praises to AMUN’s golden image throughout the night hours, worshipping him in his hidden sanctuary at Karnak, to encourage the Sun to rise up again in the morning, whereupon it would then be exalted anew as RE. The golden statue of AMUN identifies him as a deity with strong solar significance, along with his representing the first Zodiac sign (Aries) of the new solar year, a fire sign...
In astrological terms, AMUN equates to the Ram of the Greek god ARIES (and the Roman MARS), the Initiator of the Spring season. ARIES is also the god of war, perhaps because Spring has always been the perfect time to launch offensives on one’s enemies, with the whole Summer season yet to follow. The god of war inspired his worshippers to conquer others and to build empires on the bloody ground of their conquests. Whether as ARIES, MARS or AMUN, the worship of the Ram-headed god inspired men to many wars. This sign is associated with fire, the transmuting element of alchemy, for all that survives the test of fire is thus hardened. It was against the Amunist priests whom MOSES struggled in Egypt, circa 1465 BC, and then again in the Exodus period, when he opposed a pharaoh whose name (I believ) was AMEN-HOTEP ('Amun is satisfied'), to whom MOSES appealed for the freedom of his people. A later proponent of monotheism, Pharaoh AKHENATEN of Egypt, also conflicted with the Amunist priesthood around 1350 BC, ultimately failing to end completely the stranglehold which AMUN held over all in the land. Much later, circa 700 BC, King MANNASSEH of Israel (whose son he named AMON) ordered his men to kill all the priests of Jerusalem, because they had resisted his introduction of pagan gods into the holy city. The Amunist Romans, circa 300 AD, re-wrote many of the New Testament texts, providing ample opportunity then to edit in any required changes. Although it remains a mystery as to who it was that introduced the tradition of this invocation, when they did so, it is surely almost beyond question that something here is out of its proper place. When you say your prayers, please do be careful who you send them to...
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