The God

“…this makes it clear that Aton — the Solar Disk which is the same as the ‘Heat-and-Light-within-the-Disk’ — is none other than He-She-It — That — which is the Essence of all material and immaterial existence; the undefinable Essence both of Matter and of Energy — “matter to the coarser, and energy to the finer senses” — which is God. Not any God to be compared with the loving ‘heavenly Father’ of the Christians or with any personal God — least of all with the ill-tempered, narrow-minded and jealous tribal god Jehovah, created in the image of the Jews, — but the equivalent of the immanent, impersonal Tat — That — of the Chandogya Upanishad, no less than of das Gott (as opposed to ‘der Gott’) of the ancient Germans, and the one conception of Divinity that modern science, far from disproving, on the contrary, suggests. Such a God can neither ‘love,’ in the all-too-human, Christian sense of the word, nor hate; nor give ‘commandments’ and distribute rewards and punishments in the manner of a human king; nor perform ‘miracles’ if, by such, one means actions in real contradiction with the iron Laws of Nature, which are His Laws; nor be ‘the Maker’ of the world ‘out of nothingness,’ in the sense a craftsman is the maker of an object, external to himself, out of metal, stone or clay.”

-excerpted from Savitri Devi’s The Lightning and the Sun

Pharaoh Akhnaton was half-Aryan through his mother.  He postulated a solar monolatry placing the Solar Disk – Aton – as a “one behind the many” force of Egyptian (and global) polytheism. Rather than deny the gods of his fathers, Akhnaton yearned for their source. This yearning became a joyful obeisance to the one self-evident manifestation of that force – The Sun. Not an idol, but a reminder of the majesty of God.