PART. ONE - AKHNATON
William Theaux's studies and interpretation of the Akhnaton case began in 1985 - when he was concurrently renovating the Ancient Art of Memory (see the setting of PLAN in Part Two). This is an abstract of his discovery :
It has always
been suspected that Moses was a High Priest in Egypt, if not a Ruler. The
Jewish tradition suggests it as well as Chirstianity until the Renaissance,
when it suggested that the Monotheist Pharaoh Trismegistus
was probably
Moses himself. However, in lack of a hard evidence, the collective knowledge
maintened a legend and a mystery (Traditionally, Moses'
identity is veiled, and the place or how he died also is
unknown).
When Egyptology
in 1900, discovered Akhnaton's life and disappearance and understood how
its memory had been deleted from Egyptian history. It was simply obvious
that there was possible evidence for the identification of Moses. History
shows that by 1912 Psychoanalysis was in charge with the responsability to
investigate this issue. Freud worked on it during the two Wold Wars and published
his interpretation (meaning that the name Moses was the memory of
murdered Akhnaton) a few days before the second World War began. For decades
after Freud, no one dared to continue this examination as if something
was too dangerously revelatory.
Yet danger continues lurking in this situation : the denial of evidence cannot be sustained for a long time, before a neurosis and eventually violence will break the repression or destroy the records. At the present time, the neurosis is reflected in the neglect of our environment and the identity of civilization may weaken. Perhaps certain information was indeed lacking for Freud, before Psychohistory could offer a complete and constructive interpretation of the origins of Monotheism. This possibility is strongly suggested by two indications:
Firstly, not
only Moses, but also Oedipus seem to have represented the vanished pharaoh;
the former in Israel, the latter in Greece. Plays by Sophocles as
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS indicate clearly that Akhnaton, in
exile, flew a second murder attempt (thus releasing the Jewish tribes from
a guilt burden)
Secondly, Egyptology
offers great details about Akhnaton's family. His mother and grand-father
are well-known, and prove not to be Egyptian but, in all appearance, Hebrew.
Therefore Akhenaton, Jewish by his mother, makes an historical evidence
entirely in accordance with all Sacred Scriptures. These two essential pieces
which were unknown in Freud's time, and allow nowadays for an invigorating
resource in our present time of civilization. With Akhnaton's lineage deciphered,
a series of logical consequences follow, as disclosed in
the thesis of Ahmed Osman.
However,
a third precaution needs to be taken at that point. The long endurance
of the repression of the memory has not only altered the Jewish collective
emotion, but also the Christian history.
The end of the
20th Century shows that - once it is possible to reconciliate the Hebrew
Tradition with a renovated and greater view of the past (Moses-Akhnaton,
and also Oedipus, humanized by Freud) - a threat persists which endangered
Christianity.
This is very
well represented by the excellent Egyptologist and Historian
Osman who has had the courage to gather and face the 20th Century data until
he reached the conclusion of non-historical evidence in the case of Jesus.
His interpretation about the last 'Hero' on the Bible is illustrated by
a graph which may be completed below, in a
more advanced version. This is the third precaution that William Theaux
took in charge. He showed that the duplicated series of pharaohs that Osman
depicted can be extended beyond Israel. By including Greece in this original
model of Civilization, Christianity also reconciliates with the critical
elements that Archeology brought to the 20th Century.
Pic.10 : Comparing with
Osman's this picture shows a memory structure
which includes Greek evidence,
Instead of Osman's identification of Jesus with Tut, this complete model
supports a true historicity for Christianity
which includes a Latence phase (Psychoanalysis) instead Osman's Critical
Gap.
For an exploration of Theaux' approach more in detailed - see the following pages
FREUD'S WORK ON AKHNATON
The first connection in the 20th Century, between Moses and Akhnaton, by
Freud (in 1938) - and how Freud
fell back after his discovery (logic of the Unconscious repression)
NOTION OF TIME IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY
The first connexion in the 20th Century, between Oedipus and Akhnaton - by
Velikovsky (in 1960) - and how he likewise
felf back in the repression, by subjection to the same psychological law
AKHNATON, THE TRUE IDENTITY OF MOSES AND
OEDIPUS
The Triple Identification of Moses, and Oedipus, as Akhnaton - by William
Theaux (in 1985) based on Freud and
Velikovsky
EGYPTOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF MOSES
The description of Moses and Akhnaton as being the same person, by Ahmed
Osman (in 1990), on an Archeological
and Egyptological basis
THE IDENTITY OF THE THRICE GREAT
The recognition of the Triple Hermes (Trismegistus) as being the memory of
Akhnaton during Middle-Ages and Renaissance, by Wiliam Theaux
(in 1992) based on the historian Frances
Yates.
Other pages :
Moses, Akhnaton from the Biblical data
Oedipus, Akhnaton from the Hellenic
data
S.Devi, an acknowledgement of Atonism
from India, in regard to the Asian spirituality
Western Civilization, a description of
the continuing effects in Europe of Akhnaton, Moses, Oedipus or Orpheus.
See also Dr William Theaux full bio catalogue
© William Theaux 1949-1999