Research Note: Was Akhenaten a Sun Worshipper?

Medeea Greere, “EXPOSED: THE FORBIDDEN HEALING – MED BEDS, TESLA’S LIGHT & THE ULTRAVIOLET POWER THEY TRIED TO ERASE [VIDEO],” AMG News, June 1, 2026, at https://tinyurl.com/2mxuptfy.

King Akhenaten (r. 1353 – 1336 BCE), was the ‘heretic pharaoh’ who declared that there was only one God, the winged “Aten” sun disc. Carvings in stone depicted his royal family exposing their semi-nude bodies, and their food and beverages, to the sun. And descending rays held a symbol of the key to life directly in their eyes. After his death, Akhenaten’s sun worship teachings were suppressed by political authorities, but were still shared underground by ancient secret societies that remain today.

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Steve Beckow on June 1, 2026 4:45 pm

Akhenaten did not worship the outer Sun. He worshipped the Inner Sun or Aten (Atman, Self, or Christ). The outer Sun may have been a symbol of the Aten itself or of its light.

Akhenaten was an enlightened being who wanted his subjects to “see the Light,” as he had. But the contemporary equivalent of the organized resistance to his rule ridiculed him and erased his influence after his death.

Sun worship was known in the ancient world and would not have been a difference-making development. But worshipping the inner Sun or Atman was a big departure.

Much later, Shankara explained the matter:

“Here, within this body, in the pure mind, in the secret chamber of intelligence, in the infinite universe within the heart, the Atman [I, Self, Christ] shines in its captivating splendour, like a noonday sun.” (1)

The Upanishads do as well:

“The ancient, effulgent being, in-dwelling Spirit [Atman/Brahman or Christ/Father], [is] deep-hidden in the lotus of the heart.” (2)

I’ve actually been shown the Self, the Soul, the Atman in the bottom of the heart, the sat of the Soul. My experience was toned down so that I didn’t up and leave for the Himalayas to finish the job. (3)

What happens when, with sadhana or practice, the heart opens? Shankara says (and I can verify its accuracy): (4)

What happens in this seeing, … the opening begins to occur in your heart. It is similar to being flooded. So when you are being flooded, you do not simply say, ‘Oh, my goodness! My toe is wet!’ You look around, and the whole room is flooded.

So you may think of it as a monsoon of love. And everywhere you walk there will be love, and you will be able to see, because that is how powerful it will be. There will be no capacity for denial of this. (5)

This, I assert, is similar to what Akhenaten may have experienced and upon which he bases his statements, rather than on worship of an external light source. (6)

Footnotes

(1) Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 53.

(2) Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester, trans., The Upanishads. Breath of the Eternal. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1957; c1948, 17.

(3) Steve: The experience at Xenia, Mother, was that truncated?

Divine Mother: Slightly, yes.

Steve: I had the thought [it was]. … The Light I saw should have been brighter than a thousand suns. The fact that it wasn’t suggests to me that the experience was truncated. …

DM: It was not is brilliant as possible, let us put it that way.

Steve: Alright… And again, the reason is to keep me in sync with my readers?

DM: To keep you in sync with your readers. But let me be very clear…. If you had seen the light as it actually is – yes, a million, billion suns – you would have simply departed. …  We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us – for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)

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