I am Keph-a-Ra, born in 994 B.C. to parents of substantial means. In life I served under the High Priest Perri-seneb-Ra as Scribe-Priest to Queen Hatshepsut (known in the Church as Mak-a-Ra) and her younger brother Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt (known in the Church as Menk-e-Ra).

Being most fortunate in the accident of my birth, I was given to Ra early in life and educated in the highest arts of a scribe rather than in the myriad rituals and dogmas of the Egyptian priesthood. When still a comparatively young man I was in close attendance upon both ruling factions of my civilization, Queen-Pharaoh and Church. I also had the opportunity to travel widely in the performance of my duties.

This book is not intended to convey the story of my life, but represents the fourth part of a series started by the cosmic Lord, Loliad-R-Khan. It covers the period from 6000 B.C. to about 700 B.C., placing greater emphasis on some periods than others.

In my time my role was a unique one. I was the first priest to be trained from childhood to be chief scribe to the ruling family, while at the same time serving as their private priest. I was answerable only to the Church, as personified by its hierarchy, while at the same time being an integral part of that hierarchy.

My purpose in communicating is the hope that I can help clarify controversial historical events, causing proper cognizance to be given to present day signs and warnings. A proper understanding of the past should arouse greater humility and gratitude in the hearts of modern men. Though the reader may doubt some of my statements in the following chapters, he may rest assured that I have foreknowledge that each statement will be proven true by future discoveries.

To transcribe this story it has again been necessary to enlist the aid of one who is wholly dedicated to the Master's service, and so to the cause of human welfare. She will be unaware of the content until this work has been completed, having done no research of the type which one of lesser faith might consider essential.

I realize that the fact of my passing over nearly 3000 years ago adds little strength to my words. Part of this story is actually a re-writing, for I first wrote it during my physical lifetime, though much has now been lost. But there have been more recent scribes who have mentioned my work and these records may still exist.

These pages are dedicated to those who seek wisdom from the past for greater enlightenment when dealing with the future, and particularly to those who serve in the Master's work.

Loliad has presented the experiences of Khe and Atlantis for your benefit. That corruption has flourished despite the technical advancement of civilization indicates grave errors in educational methods. We seek to change this.

In Egypt we lived in darkness, contributing nothing to the spiritual well-being of mankind. We helped produce some of your twentieth century confusion by the smug security of our teachings. We deliberately sacrificed the spiritual for the spectacular, ignoring those things which we ought to have done, turning a blind eye to those things which should not have been done.

My justification for writing is to give a lesson in comparisons, which is the object of history. It should be a major subject in all educational systems. The greater part of the Loliad story covers the history which he and Zadius were required to study most diligently, not only to understand how their nation had advanced but to gain foresight into possible pitfalls ahead.

History is knowledge -- part of the sum total of all knowledge used by the preconscious mind in its evaluation of any situation. This same knowledge should become available to all.

Since books are a major source of learning in your dimension, a concentrated effort should be made to ensure that every human being is made literate. Illiteracy confines men to a world of darkness and suppression. It is starvation of the preconscious mind and contributes much to regressive racial tendencies. Most people in my generation lived in such darkness; ignorance, fear, superstition and slavery went hand in hand.

Humanity's progress to its present state results largely from the acquired ability to form thoughts into words. To this was added the art of making graphics to convey words, and through them thoughts, to others, that great numbers might benefit from transferred communication. A grave responsibility rests upon writers, though this sense appears sadly lacking in the vast bulk of literature aimed at modern youth. The young mind is educated by the items it is led to read. The very act of reading stimulates thought in a given direction, for it is nature's way of increasing the strength and power of that which is well exercised. The power of thought analysis is no exception to this rule.

In the year 6000 B.C., world geography was unrecognizable in comparison to maps of the present day. All land masses which are now separated were at that time concentrated into one vast continent. Since those days the earth's crust has undergone a number of changes with both major and minor consequences.

In this book I plan to confine my comments to those regions most familiar to me, while making occasional references to other areas for clarification purposes.

As my story begins, an Atlantean catastrophe had already destroyed much of Khe, namely the portion from the Atlantic to a line roughly between Greece and Benghazi. The Jordan River flowed south to empty into the Indian Ocean. There was no Red Sea -- only the Jordan and its tributaries, one of which had its headwaters in the Cyprus region. The main flow of the Jordan originated in the western slopes of the same mountain range from which sprang both the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The Nile flowed in a north-westerly direction. It had once passed through Khe to flow into the Atlantic Ocean, but now emptied into the Mediterranean Sea.

Khe, flat prairie country with only one major city, has been previously described. Egypt bordered this country though there were no marked boundaries. The Egyptian population was chiefly concentrated in that region now designated as the Upper Nile, with outlying groups extending east as far as the eastern shores of the present Persian Gulf, which at the time was no more than a broad river.

Between the Egyptians and Khe'ans lived numerous small tribes of people who were indirectly influenced by, but not dominated by, the two bordering cultures.

The city of Atlantis lay 150 miles to the west of Gibraltar. It was situated on a peninsula roughly 2500 miles long and 2000 miles wide, known then as the continent of Atlantis. It is now that continent known as Antarctica. In earlier times Atlantean culture had spread widely to the east and west of its geographical boundaries.

Changes in earth's polarity occurred not less than five times within recorded history. Had it not been for Mars, earth would have been utterly destroyed by Venus, leaving Mars to become the home of a more advanced civilization than that of present-day earthlings.

Recognition of these facts provides the answer to light and dark skins among races; it supplies the reason why blue-eyed blondes originate in the northern hemisphere. It explains the many puzzling incidents pertaining to the Exodus and Egyptian history in general.

The facts point a finger of blame for thousands of years of retrogression, from a time of peace and goodwill among mankind to conflict and insecurity. The fault lies solely in the worship of that idol egoism, as manifested in materialism. Until mankind returns to simple truths there can be no peace.

Over the centuries, untruths spoken by powerful groups of manipulators have come to be regarded as truth by the masses. Let me therefore reassure the reader that I fully understand the necessity to know Truth before speaking.

~ W.G.B.