King Akhenaton was most famous for reestablishing monotheism in Egypt, in a civilization that was at the time of his reign, very polytheistic. It was really King Akhenaton’s mother, an Egyptian Salemite physician, who taught her son the great teachings of "Melchizadek" which he adopted.
No one since Abraham had such a clear understanding of these teachings. Historians speak of him as one of the most remarkable persons in human history. He kept alive the doctrine on a vast scale of the doctrine of "El Elyon", the Most High God. He was the first king of any nation on Earth to try and move its entire country in this fashion.
King Akhenaton, in many ways was a man ahead of his time. Interestingly enough, according to the Tibetan Foundation and channels of Vywamus through Janet McLure, the same soul who was King Akhenaton was also Zoroaster, and later St. Peter, the disciple of Christ. He is incarnated again in this present period as a man by the name of Brian Grattan, who wrote a book called, "The Rider on the White Horse" and a two other books called "Mahatma" and "Mahatma II". According to these channelings, Peter was the first incarnated on Earth to anchor into the physical, the Mahatma energy, also known as the "Avatar of Synthesis". According to his book, in this life he has ascended.
From these incarnations one can see that this incarnated soul has had a great influence on the evolution of the planet Earth. Just as King Akhenaton was following in the footsteps of Melchizadek in his lifetime as King Akhenaton. He followed in these same footsteps again as St. Peter.
The people, at the time he served, were not that advanced. The way he established monotheism was to have his people worship the sun God, Ra. All the other polytheistic Gods were absorbed into this one sun God. Outwardly to his people he worshipped the sun God, Ra, however, inwardly and to his more advanced closer associates he worshipped the one God the Creator of Aton. He actually wrote a book called "The One God". This book was destroyed after his death when the more egotistically inclined priests attempted to regain power. In Brian Grattan’s book, "Rider on a White Horse", he has a section on his life as King Akhenaton and says that he also wrote 137 hymns, and twelve of these were preserved in the Old Testament, book of Psalms, which have since been credited to Hebrew authorship.
King Akhenaton expounded a philosophy that God created, not only Egypt, but the entire world and universe including all people, animals, and created things. This was a very advanced concept for the egotistically and little educated people of his time. His concept of Deity was even more advanced than the later Hebrew religion, which also spoke of the one God.
King Akhenaton weakness was that his political skills in providing material security and prosperity for his people was not as advanced as his spiritual development. This would prove to be his Achilles heel. Upon his death the materialistic priests went back to convincing the nation to worshipping the old Gods.
The concept and ideal of the one God persisted in the minds of his people, however. Some historians say that, because of this conversion after his death ,that he failed in his work and mission. I think a more appropriate historical perspective would be to say that he was quite successful in planting a great many seeds which sprouted in Egypt and had repercussions later in Palestine and Greece.
The mass consciousness was ripened for later developments that were to come. The "Cambridge History Book", volume II, says of King Akhenaton, "The modern world has yet to value this man who, in an era so remote and under conditions so adverse, became the world’s first prophet of internationalism, the most remarkable figure in the ancient world."
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