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The Kemet Christian Connection

Nile Valley religious tenets and traditions have been misinformed and misrepresented. However, Kemetic religious doctrines have informed the foundations of Christian belief and practice. In other words, Nile Valley religious text demonstrate that there is the Kemet Christian connection. The evolution of Christian theology and doctrine owes much to roots planted in the religion of Kemet.

“The Kemet Christian Connection”

Conceptions of God and the universe in both Nile Valley and Christian accounts are strikingly similar. In both a self-created God creates heaven and earth. He divides the waters, creates light, which is separated from darkness, and creates humankind. Researchers who were predominantly Christian weighted historical information to align with their particular convictions. They skewed information so as to portray African religion as Polytheistic, anthropomorphic, or idolatrous. However, Africans have viewed God as One from the conception of time. The Netchery were simply aspects or manifestations of that one God.

Kemites First Believers In Everlasting Life

The Kemet Christian connection may be observed in the fact that the people of Kemet were the first human beings to express belief in a doctrine of everlasting life. Their yet undiscovered process of embalming was developed to preserve the bodies of the dead. Prayers and litanies were placed with the entombed body to prepare the soul for safe passage to the next world. The so-called Book of the Dead was really the “coming forth by day”. These ancient Nile Valley texts were a reference to the rebirth or resurrection of the soul of those departed.

Source Material For Ten Commandments

Another aspect of the ancient texts of Kemet is its probable source for the ten commandments on which later Christianity is grounded. Consider that Moses, who is credited with giving the commandments, was educated in Egypt. The content of the of the 42 Declarations of Maat is mirrored in the commandments. Nevertheless, the Declarations were written at least 1500 years before the Ten Commandments. Kemetic tradition of placing focus on the Netcherw was severed by Pharaoh Akhenaton. He taught a singular personification of God worshipped as Aton. It is surmised that Moses was a disciple of Akhenaton from whom he obtained his concept of “One God”.

Moses Learns Commandments In Kemet
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Ancient African Symbols Relationship To Religion

Ancient African Symbols

Animals were usually used to depict the characteristics of a particular Netcher (manifestation of God) since the nature of an animal was distinctive and consistent. Therefore, ancient African symbols relationship to religion is demonstrated through those animal representations. The following examples are a list of some of the ancient African symbols which provide insight into the essence of specific Netchery.

The Ibis Symbol

Ibis, a sacred bird

Consider that the ibis is a bird that sleeps with its head folded beneath its wing, simulating the shape of a heart. In ancient African symbolism, the heart was considered the seat of the soul and true intelligence. The Netcher Djhuiti was pictured with an ibis head representing divine articulation of speech and intelligence. He was keeper of the sacred cubit and the creator of science, writing and medicine. Moreover, Djhuiti was known to the Greeks as Thoth and Hermes. However, to the Romans, he was identified as Mercury.

The scarab beetle

Resurrection and the scarab beetle

In African culture the scarab beetle symbolized the resurrection and immortality of God as represented by the sun. In this connection, the scarab lays its eggs in a ball of dung which it rolls around on the ground in the direction of the sun. Sunlight warms the eggs within the dung ball facilitating their metamorphosis and emergence into light as winged scarabs. The ball of dung symbolizes matter, the eggs spiritual potential and the winged scarabs represent spiritual rebirth. Kheprea is the Netcher imbibing these transformative powers and is viewed as a metaphor for resurrection.

Ancient African Symbols – The Falcon

Falcon flight toward the sun

Now we look at the falcon symbol which represents sun and light. A falcon can soar into the air where light abounds with rapid flight. Therefore, the falcon represents the Netcher Heru, and his right eye symbolizes the sun and the sun’s ability, like that of God, to see all things at all times. In addition, the eye perceives light, indicative of the process of spiritual awareness. Native Americans incorporated similar inferences into their culture, such as, hawk eye and eagle eye.

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Ancient African Symbols Relationship To Religion

Introduction of ancient African symbols relationship to religion

African symbols have served an essential role in the development of every facet of civilization. Writing, art, science, philosophy and many other areas of everyday life have been influenced by these symbols. Ancient African symbols were a language which communicated on various levels, informing the educated mind of abstract and practical means of thought. Ancient African symbols relationship to religion were no less important for communicating an understanding of the divine or knowledge of God.

African priests observed the stars

Symbols from heaven

Ancient African astronomers/priests devoted themselves to the study of the heavens. They used symbols to catalog and codify their findings, subsequently submitting their reports to community officials. These astronomer/priest waxed well-versed in the secrets of the universe, discovering the movements of the stars and planets. Their increase in knowledge over generations enabled them to discern the relationships between phases of heavenly bodies and their influence on human beings, animals, vegetation and the earth itself.

Ancient African symbols

Relationship to religion

African astronomer/priest developed a specialized interest in religion as their knowledge began to increase. That knowledge empowered them to greater understand their relationship with the infinite power which was seen as God. Ancient Africans of the Nile River Valley viewed the universe as the ultimate expression of one superior being manifesting itself in all of the functions and principles of that universe. These features of the one supreme God were collectively referenced as Netcherw and individually as Netcher. Each manifestation of a Netcher was associated with a divine feature of God represented by a specific symbol. Animals were usually selected to represent qualities of a certain Netcher since the nature of animals were unique and tended to remain constant. The following examples illustrate some ancient African symbols relationship to religion.

Ancient African Symbols Relationship To Religion

Ancient symbol of truth

Our first example pointing out ancient African symbols relationship to religion is Maat. Maat is associated with the seven cardinal virtues, the keys to human perfectibility. They are: truth, justice, propriety, harmony, balance, reciprocity and order. The symbolic representation of Maat as a human figure with outstretched hands and wings is the prototype of the image of the angel found in the world’s major western religions. The ostrich feather and the balance are also symbols of Maat and the precepts she represents. The seven virtues and 42 admonitions of Maat were the guidelines of correct behavior and the standard against which the soul of the deceased would be judged. People who lived in accordance with the principles of Maat were guaranteed a just reward in the afterlife after the judgement of the soul. (Browder, Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization. 1992, p.82).

St. Michael painting inspired by African symbol

The divine attributes of Maat were the prime inspiration for the concept of the angel in Christian theology. The fifteenth-century painting of ” St Michael Weighing Souls ” portrays the winged image of a male weighing the soul of a man on the scale of judgement.

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A Remnant Of Egyptian Mysteries Survives

A Remnant Of Egyptian Mysteries Survives

Considering the pervasive efforts to destroy every fragment of African/Egyptian religion, still a remnant of Egyptian Mysteries survives. Many classical writers have tended to ignore or outright deny Egyptian contributions to culture and religion. Those who have sought to chronicle the region’s religion have found facts concerning the faith have been incomplete. Following the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798, there was a revival of interest in the culture with an eye for understanding and appreciating this most ancient of civilizations.

A Remnant Of Egyptian Mysteries Survives

The Ancient World Religion

Take into account that the Egyptian Mysteries had become the world religion, spreading throughout the Roman Empire as far as Asia Minor and Europe. The religious tenants of Egyptian Mysteries continued at length in Greece, Brittany and other parts of the world despite the Edict of Justinian. Ancient peoples, because of its abundant revelations and spiritual blessings, made their pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Egypt. However, the Mystery System was abolished according to this Edict along with the philosophical schools of Greece and other countries which had their foundation in the Egyptian Mysteries.

Egyptian Mysteries A World Religion

Rationale To Abolish Egyptian Mysteries

Upon its conquering and domination of the entire ancient world, the Roman government faced the problem of gaining control over the religious mind. Accomplishing this much needed aspect of life meant that another religion would have to take the place of Egyptian religion. This new religion would need be as powerful and universal as the previous world religion of Egyptian Mysteries. Therefore, every means necessary was used to promote the radical growth of Christianity.

Rise of Christianity

Vestiges From The Underground

Amid the invasions of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, the Egyptian diaspora fled to desert, mountain regions and neighboring lands of Africa, Asia Minor and Arabia. There they secretly developed and practiced the teachings which made up their Mystery System. Moors from North Africa (Mauritania), in the 8th century A.D., invaded Spain and took with them the Egyptian Mysteries which had survived. Knowkedge in the ancient times emanated from the parent or central system, known as the wisdom teachings of Egyptian Mysteries, later termed by the Greeks as Sophia. Moors efforts at inculcating this wisdom into foreign lands assured A Remnant Of Egyptian Mysteries Survives.

Moors civilize Europe

While occupying Spain, Moors greatly enhanced its civilization and culture through the establishment of famed schools of Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Saragossa, which achieved such notoriety that students across the western world clamored to attend them. The world-renowned African professors in medicine, surgery, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy distinguished themselves in Spain. All of the so-called works of Aristotle and notable Greeks in Metaphysics, moral philosophy, natural science, and musical notation were initiated and advanced by Africans who kept in contact with Mother Egypt. As an aside, we should note that the great religious leaders of antiquity, from Moses to Christ, were initiates of this remnant Egyptian Mysteries that survived.

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The Demise Of Egyptian Mysteries

Imitating Egypt

Following the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, the Greeks became attracted to and began to imitate Egyptian religion in its entirety. Egyptian religion became very popular; and during the Roman occupation, it spread not only to Italy, but throughout the Roman Empire. However, this attraction to the mysterious worship of the Nile-land proved to be a fatal one, leading to the demise of Egyptian Mysteries.

Monument to Egyptian religion

Combining the Ancient Gods

This demise of Egyptian Mysteries began in the 3rd c. BCE during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, who sought to unify the Egyptian and Greek populations. Characterized by a combining of the Gods of the Osirian Cycle and the Graco-Egyptian Serapis, this syncretization of Egyptian religion aimed at a close imitation of the Nile-land. Greeks, being in awe of the obelisks and sphinxes, linen vestments, priests and wonderful mysteries underlying the rituals, found Egyptian religion extremely alluring, yet, subsequently obstructive to the rise of Christianity.

The Demise Of Egyptian Mysteries

Failure Imitating Egyptian Religion

Conservatism of the Egyptian mysteries along with murky philosophical abstractions of Graco-Roman religion accounted for the advancement of Egyptian religion. A staunch faith accompanied by their mysterious forms of worship led to the ubiquitous conclusion among the ancients that Egypt was not only the Holy Land, but the holiest of lands and countries, the land where God dwells. Pilgrims who journeyed there and experienced its marvelous revelations and spiritual blessings, returned home convinced the Nile was the land of most profound religious knowledge.

The Greeks failed to imitate Egyptian conservatism not only in Egyptian cities with large Greek population, but in Europe as well. Egyptian divinities were corrupted with Greek and Asiatic names and mythologies, and reduced to vague pantheistic personalities, so that Isis and Osiris retained very little of their Egyptian origin. (Max Muller p. 241-243; Egyptian Mythology). Consequently, failing to advance Egyptian Philosophy, they also failed to advance Egyptian religion. This failure has led to the demise of Egyptian Mysteries.

Egyptian religion continued unabated and uninterrupted throughout the first four centuries of the Christian or common era; however, succeeding the Edict of Theodosius, ordering the close of Egyptian temples, Christianity began to spread more rapidly. Both the religion of Egypt and that of Greece began to die.

Survivors of Egyptian Religion

Final Edict Leads To Demise Of Egyptian Mysteries

Justinian issued a second edict in the sixth century A.D. which suppressed the remainder of Egyptian religious adherents, and propagated Christianity among the Nubians. With the death of the last priests who could read and interpret “the writings of the words of the Gods” (hieroglyphics), the Egyptian faith sank into oblivion. Only in popular magic did some practices linger on as faded footprints of a faith that had become a universal religion; the survival of a statue of Isis and Horus which were regarded as the Madonna and Child being one prime example.

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The Egyptian Mystery System

What is the Egyptian Mystery System and why do we need to understand its content? The earliest theory of salvation is the Egyptian theory. The Egyptian Mystery System had as its most important object, the deification of man, and taught that the soul of man if liberated from its bodily fetters, could enable him to become godlike and see the gods in this life and attain the beatific vision and hold communion with the immortals (Ancient Mysteries, C. H. Vail, p. 12).

Egyptian Mystery System

Liberation which the Mystery System offered was not only freedom of the soul from the body’s worldly burdens, but also from the cycle of reincarnation or rebirth. The Egyptian Mystery System involved a process of disciplines or purification both for the body and the soul. Because it proposed the salvation of the soul, it also placed great emphasis upon its immortality.

The Egyptian Mystery System, like the modern university, was the center of organized culture; and candidates entered it as the leading source of ancient culture. The System had three grades of students. (1) Mortals or probationers who were being instructed, but who had not experienced the inner vision. (2) Intelligences or those who had attained the inner vision, and had received mind or nous. (3) Creators or Sons Of Light who had become identified with or united with the Light (i.e. true spiritual consciousness.

Mystery System Unfolded

The three grades of the Egyptian Mystery System have been described as the equivalents of Initiation, Illumination and Perfection. Students underwent years of disciplinary intellectual exercises and bodily asceticism with intervals of tests and ordeals to determine their fitness to proceed to the more serious, solemn, and awful process of actual initiation. it was the Egyptian Mystery System theory of salvation which became the basis and purpose of Greek Philosophy.

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Is The Trinity Taught In The Bible

Trinity, a concept thought by many in the church to be essential for Christian belief, has for centuries been accepted as basic doctrine. However, is the trinity taught in the bible? The simple and short answer is no; the trinity is not taught in the bible. How, then, has this doctrine become so engrained within the Christian life and experience?

Persons Of Trinity

The term Trinity, the belief that one God exists in three distinct but equal persons, does not appear anywhere in the bible. It was first used by Tertullian near the culmination of the 2nd century. However, it only came into conventional and familiar use during the fourth and fifth centuries. From these two pieces of information, we can clearly see that the trinity is not taught in the bible.

Furthermore, we must note that the formal doctrine of the trinity was the result of several insufficient attempts to explain who and what the Christian God truly is. In an effort to address this problem, the Church Fathers met in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicaea to set out an orthodox biblical definition concerning the divine identity. Moreover, it was not until A.D. 381, at the Council of Constantinople, that the divinity of the spirit was affirmed. Therefore, we can conclude that the doctrine of the trinity was not formalized until after the bible was completed and all the apostles had been long dead.

Trinity Triangle Symbol

Understanding the aforementioned historical developments, we must conclude the bible does not teach the doctrine of the trinity. Neither the word ‘trinity’ nor such language as ‘one in three,’ ‘three in one,’ one ‘essence’ (or ‘substance’ ), and three ‘persons,’ is biblical language. The language of the doctrine is the language of classical Greek philosophy (Christian Doctrine, 1994, pp. 76-77). That philosophy, by the way, is not truly Greek, but derived from ancient African mystery teachings. Such considerations aside, the fact remains, trinity is not taught in the bible.

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Ancient Gods: Origins Of The Trinity

Chief gods of Egypt

You may be astonished to learn that the origin of the trinity of gods long predated the beginnings of Christianity. However, evidence has been abundantly documented illustrating that nearly nation of antiquity possessed a doctrine of triads or trinity. St. Jerome stated, ” All the ancient nations believed in the Trinity. “

Ancient gods of Egypt were referred to as “All gods are three: Amun, Re, and Ptah, and there is no second to them.” A statement of trinity is evident in that the god’s name is Amon, he is Re in face, and his body is Ptah.

A Sumerian Trinity

In Sumeria “The universe was divided into three regions each of which became the domain of a god. Anu’s share was the sky. The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods” ( The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, 1994, pp. 54-55)

The ancient Babylonians recognised the doctrine of the trinity, or three persons in one god – as appears from a composite god with three heads forming part of their mythology, and the use of the equilateral triangle , also, as an emblem of such trinity in unity” (Thomas Dennis Rock, The Mystical Woman and the Cities of the Nations, 1867, pp. 22-23 ).

Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

In India, in the Puranas, one of the Hindu Bibles of more than 3000 years ago, a devotee expressing concern about the three Lords, is told, ” what to you appears such ( three gods ) is only the semblance. The single being appears under three forms by the acts of creation, preservation, and destruction, but he is one.”

All of the so-called pagan nations observed ancient gods demonstrating the triad principles which became the origins of the trinity. Christians can no longer deny the origins of this doctrine which which only came to be adopted by the church 300 years after the death of Christ at the Council of Nicaea.