cDt

anything done without love is dangerous

                  REINCARNATION

  We make choices before birth, that determine the shape of our life to come (if we fulfil the purpose behind them is up to us); those decisions are moulded in the crucible of past lives. We are a living testament to what we have done before over many lifetimes – a soul testament, a spiritual lineage; the fact that I am writing this now and striving to bring cDt into being is because of my spiritual lineage.

As part of my spiritual evolution, I was made aware by my Guidance of a number of past lives – the purpose behind these revelations came much later; I know now my two Ancient Egyptian lives, my Trojan life and my twelfth century French life are intimately connected and part of a greater revelation and crucial in my understanding of my present role.

I have always demanded verification about the veracity of these episodes of anamnesis and have received it time and time again, the information I have been given tallying with historical facts of which I had no previous knowledge. I am always aware of Rudolf Steiner stricture that those who deal with hidden things must beware they are not swept away by the wings of fantasy. But when humanity finally begins to transition into Cosmohumanum, each person at a soul level will automatically know the threads of their past lives woven into their present one; this is why the psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke, the author of ‘Cosmic Consciousness and the Evolution of the Human Mind’, stated among the characteristics of such a higher state will be awareness of our immorality, a sense of eternal life.

  Remembering past lives, can explain so much about how one feels about things in a present existence, I know now why I love snow, I will watch a film because it has snow in it, why I prefer to wear white clothes, why I cherish ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the ‘Iliad’, why the tale of the Fisher King makes me feel strangely ‘at home’ warm and comforted.

Past life testimonies will help shape a true history of our species. Historians and archaeologists play an amazing role in our striving to understand ourselves. But often there is reluctance to change a point of view – no wonder, some careers have been ruined that way – even when evidence points to a different history. The largely discounted discovery of nicotine and cocaine (only found in South America) in a number of Ancient Egyptian mummies, including the priestess Henut Taui fl.ca. 1000 BC with the substances present in her hair follicles meaning she ingested them and discounts the possibility of contemporary external contamination.

My past lives memories have often contradicted the version of accepted history, in an Ancient Egyptian life spent during the unification of the Two Lands by Narmer (Menes), I saw Narmer standing in a chariot driven by dark chestnut animals which resembled sturdy horses of smaller stature than normal with flowing manes. I really couldn’t understand this vivid past life memory, for I knew the chariot and horse were first introduced into Egypt by the invading Hyksos (West Asian) people (although now it is considered to be a revolt by Hyksos living in Egypt) circa 1650BC and Narmer reigned circa 3100 or circa 3273 – 2987 BC.

The Hyksos (domestic and doubtless foreign compatriots) decisive use of war chariots in their victory was the catalyst that caused the Egyptians to adopt their use. But can one say they were never in use in Egypt before that time?

It’s clear the Ancient Egyptians knew of the military use of the chariot and horse before the era of the Hyksos ascendancy, in a tomb in a fourth dynasty circa 2613 – 2494 BC Ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a Princess Nefertiabet was found a clay model of a chariot carrying warriors and driven by stylized horses. Having ‘seen’ Narmer driving one, I think they were sporadically used long before the Hyksos, obtained from a foreign source for the horse is not a native Egyptian animal.  

Trying to gain a full picture from the physical remains of the past is always problematic, presently with the Hyksos invasion in doubt the scarcity of horse bones at the Avaris site has been commented upon, but then it may be because they were used for fuel (animal bones have been used for such a purpose since the Lower Paleolithic 40000 BC – 10000 era) – particularly as the horse possessed no religious significance, try using cat bones (if any could be found) for fuel in Egypt!

Definitely past life memories, causes one to engage in mental gymnastics, I will just mention one more matter that caused me a great deal of thought about an historical figure I had never considered before – namely Moses.

Remembering an eighteenth dynasty Egyptian life during the time of Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten I received the strong impression that when Moses and his followers departed (of their own free will) from Egypt, they had taken the body of Akhenaten with them into the Sinai; the Sinai I now realize has greater significance than I had imagined, in fact up to that point it had never crossed my mind.

Before I go further, I have to address the identification of the mummy in a sarcophagus in the tomb KV55 (I am positive it is Smenkhkare) as being that of Akhenaton. This identification is disputed, the pattern of fused and unfused epiphyses (caps at the ends of growing bones) of the skeletal remains indicates a much younger man, aged from 20 to 23 years (an assessment held since its discovery in 1907), than Akhenaton would have been at his death   

Many have written about Moses, from Sigmund Freud to Ahmed Osman and Graham Phillips among others, including many scholars and all have highlighted how the account in the Bible has been rewritten at some stage by priests. So, there is much that is hidden, obscured in the events chronicled.

Believing Moses was instrumental in removing Akhenaton’s body from Egypt I would agree with Freud, Moses or Osarseph (according to Manetho) was an Egyptian (he bears an Egyptian name), a royal high-priest at On (or Heliopolis) the centre of sun worship. One can imagine he was a fanatical follower of the new religion of the Aten. Through whatever circumstances, which may include marriage to an Egyptian Israelite woman or as Freud thought he may have been at one time the governor of the border province of Goshen where a number Semitic tribes had settled; he gathered around him a large group of Egyptian Israelite converts to the new religion. I feel there must have been Egyptians amongst the group, but I imagine for most Egyptians the religion they had grown up with, their beloved Osiris, Isis and Horus offering them eternal life and ensuring the continued state of Maat truth and justice in the land, aligned and in harmony with heavenly forces, had a powerful hold on their psyches and this is why the religion of the Aten attracted mainly non-Egyptians.

 Akhenaton’s mismanagement of religious and pharaonic affairs eventually doomed his new faith to failure, and during the chaos, occasioned by his lack of discernment of the forces arranged against him, he died.

By whatever means, during those days of upheaval, doubtless aided by his royal connections Moses, realizing the practise of his religion was no longer possible in Egypt, managed to gain possession of Akhenaton’s body. For Moses the body was holy indeed, for Akhenaten presented himself as the incarnation of Shu the first-born of the sun god who was androgynous, this is why representations of him had male and female attributes. Taking the body with them also saved it from mutilation at the hands of the Amun Priesthood; a mutilation the KV55 mummy was subjected to, with the express purpose of denying the deceased entry into eternal life.

It is generally accepted that Moses, who inspired a people to follow a new religion and seek a new life was betrayed, murdered during a power struggle amongst his Israelite followers; nevertheless, Egyptian monotheism became cemented in Israelite religious beliefs, surviving a later merging with the desert god of volcanos Yahweh.