IMAGINATION AND EMERGENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN

Capitalist civilization itself is running out of steam as its founding premises...money and security, are not adequate to support ongoing creative growth and spiritual purpose. Now that the central theme of capitalization is bankrupt, we have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves and what it means to be human. The story of culture itself runs dry when there is nothing left to capitalize on, when resources are gone, when there is no viable work worthy of effort and the state runs out of tax money to maintain its structures and the majority of the country's GNP goes into militarization. The collapse of civilization occurs through a failure of the imagination. For all along the honorable and higher alternatives are possible. Endeavors that give us a reason to live beyond mere survival. Globally we have reached such a time, when the return to the good, the true and the beautiful is essential in order to resuscitate and rectify the human condition.

The choice to show up is made when we get an intuition for the ultimate prize and become determined above all else to find a way back to our Self. The challenge we are faced with is to develop our sovereignty and be true to nature...then with bio-ethics and navi-gation restored, we can come together in celebration of our deep humanity. The processes of decay are so great that we are once again discovering the innate drive towards wholeness as our governing principle. But only when we love enough to know that all other roads are futile, and have the zenith perspective to no longer be distracted by or sacrificed to the dethroning machinations of the presovereign culture in which we find ourselves.

We can only come together beyond utilitarianism through sovereignty via the resonance of Spirit. This longing for self-creation of the inner androgynous sovereign and the consequent Self-possession and inner knowing that results from metamorphic unification was why the traditionalist Amun (hidden or secret one) priesthood tried to obliterate Akhenaten (Effective spirit of Aten) from history - for the power inherent in actually showing up in our full humanity is too threatening to those who seek power over others and wealth accumulation regardless of the consequences.

The creation story as the basis to religion had always involved three principle gods, mother (Isis), father (Osiris) and child (Horus), to describe the sexual reproduction of cosmogenesis. Akhenaten and his father began to offer the idea of the sun as a hermaphaditic god whom procreates himself unaided through the union of divine masculine and feminine forces within. The Aten (sun) who could annually re-father himself is described on an Amarna boundary stelae as “the Aten is he who fashions himself with his own two hands.” This new idea of self-creation back during Akhenaten’s reign (1353 BC-1336 BC) was the beginnings of New Thought, New Age, self-help, manifest destiny, self-determination and sovereignty. Aten was the symbol and the deity of the inner alchemy of the sacred marriage…reflecting self-parthenogenesis through the union of mind (man) and body-matter (women). This “dangerous idea” was an intuition of the inner alchemy towards the synergistic play of opposites to magnify wholeness in order to incarnate more Spirit.

Incarnation of Spirit becomes an end in itself, as Presence and unity consciousness, where man and God become one, is the ultimate drive, passion and goal. This alignment of man and God is sovereignty…the perfect love of cosmic union and primordial wholeness to which we are compelled by the forces of creation of the Universe itself and the evolutionary drive of cosmic unfolding. Akhenaten raised the stature of the sun to a god, giving Aten the solar deity a status above mere gods (of the traditions, priests, nobles). The sun also gives birth to the Pharaoh and he becomes the Aten’s principle spokesperson. This was not simply a political drive for supremacy, as some of the mystical devotion behind the development of these ideas can be seen in Akhenaten’s Great Hymn to the Aten. Through the genuine “Passion of the Pharaoh” we see the metamorphic intuition of the actualization of the divine individual. In the beginnings, thousands of years ago, this played out on the world stage through a ruler of nations…but this intuition for the inner alchemy of self-creation is equally inherent in us all. Such that we are indeed all born of the sun, as an androgynous magical being that performs the work of the lord Aten to bring about the noble ideal manifestation.

The blowback from Akhenaten’s audacity to show up as his Self resulted in the agents of cultural status quo attempting to obliterate the King and his heretical idea of self-resurrection, earthly divine incarnation and solar declaration. The realization of Spirit displayed in the love, Presence and awareness of the Amarna period was all but exterminated by the Borg-like power consortiums of the priests, nobles and military. As with many times throughout history the human spirit and cultural evolution was set back and undermined with the crushing of the intuitive drive towards personal empowerment…thus we all became utilitarian slaves to the almighty God of materialism…having learnt that it is dangerous indeed to show up as the son of the sun and a child of the cosmos prior to the machinations of Man.

The story of Akhenaten and his family reads like the perfect parable for the initial emergence of the eternal movement towards individuation and personal sovereignty. The choice to birth to our Self is made when we get an intuition for the ultimate prize and become determined to find a way back to our Self for the first time, discovering once again the innate drive towards wholeness as our governing principle above all else. If you look at the colossus statues of Akhenaten you can see that they stand out as the first image of the arrival of the individuated noble human in the artistic heritage of humanity. I went to the King Tut exhibition in Denver and saw the exact Akhenaten statue that I have been in love with, drawn and painted since my twenties. If you want to read an outstanding book on the beloved royal family I highly recommend "Act of God: Moses, Tutankhamun and The Myth of Atlantis" by Graham Phillips.

Self-determinancy through wholeness
Undivided will
Universal Law
Cosmic power