It cannot be overstated that the Will of Akhnaten is the Will of Aten. If this was said a billion times, it would not cease to be relevant nor lessen in importance. Every Atenist should know this by heart.
The Will of the Akhnaten is the Will of Aten.
Just as your right arm does not perform independently from your will, so too, Akhnaten, being the Son of Aten, can never act independently from the God of Compassion. What He thinks is what Aten thinks. What He speaks about are Aten's words on any given matter. What He does are actions solely focused on the Will of Aten.
Bottom Line: If you want to know the Compassionate God's view on anything, you need look no further than Akhnaten. The Will of the Akhnaten is the Will of Aten.
When you are in harmony with the Will of Akhnaten, you are also in Harmony with the God of Compassion.
Any person who claimed to be of the Orthodox Atenist Family of Faith, who professed belief in Orthodox Atenism but then turns around and makes distinctions between the Will of Aten and the Will of Akhnaten, is not of the Holy Nation, they are not Orthodox Atenists. This understanding is central to all Atenists.
One of the great mistakes by western converts to any religion is the tendency to be puritanical about doctrines or writings, but overlook deeper truths. This can be seen in a wide array of world religions and in those communities that have a large percentage of western converts for example. Legalism to form but being non-receptive to experiential truths.
So a person could read all there is to find on Atenism, they could study its writings, practice its rites, and conduct themselves in the manner of the Orthodox Atenists. All this being said, if they did all of this but then a pronouncement came from Akhnaten that was new, something previously unknown to the community or in the writings or rites of the faith, while the Orthodox Assembly would be busy studying, meditating upon and acting upon this new information, our puritanical friend would be scouring writings and rites for precedent.
If they were to ask a true Atenist "How can Akhnaten say or do such a thing, when, from what I have read....."
That Atenist would need only one reply: "The Will of Akhnaten is the Will of Aten." And that Atenist would have no need to qualify, or explain and defend this central truth. It just simply...IS.
I don't mean to pick on any person, only to say that there are a great many points in Orthodox Atenism a person should know by heart. Knowing that the Will of Akhnaten is the Will of Aten made manifest, is one of these very important points.
In any other religion, a person could arbitrarily select to focus on one area of a faith: whether it be writings, rites, practices, meditation, selfless-service, etc., to the exclusion of or de-emphasis of other elements. In Orthodox Atenism there is a seamless flow between all elements.
When people sit at the lotus feet of Akhnaten, you sit at the lotus feet of the Ruler of the Stars, the King of the all sentient beings.
All of this is contained in one phrase: "The Will of the Akhnaten is the Will of Aten".
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