Up until a decade ago (when Keph-A-Ra was originally written, -- which now makes me realize why there was so long a delay in getting it published), serious geologists would have scorned the early chapters in this book as being pure fantasy. But in the last ten years new discoveries have revolutionized man's understanding of the earth's crust, ideas comparable to the discovery of the atom and the theory of evolution in their effect. Geology textbooks are being rewritten, and the teachings are being totally revised, for now scientists believe that continents are like giant rafts, constantly in motion.

In the book Loliad-R-Kahn, it is explained how at one time the Earth was in one solid lump, bounded by the north and south seas. One of the first men to speculate on the similarity of the shorelines of the continents of Africa and South America was Sir Francis Bacon, who thought the pattern could be hardly coincidental. That was around 1620. Shortly thereafter a French scientist, Francois Placet, theorized that the continents had been split apart by the great flood at the time when Noah built his ark.

All through the 1800's geologists were finding stange matches between fossils in widely separated parts of the world, and wondering how this could be. Then, in 1915 Alfred Wegener, in his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans, suggested, "The continents must have shifted. South America must have laid alongside Africa." Conservative geologists soon started the crucifixion cry. "Utter damned rot," was the retort of the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society. The ideas were generally greeted with contempt and derision. This controversy raged for many years until, during the 1950's, oceanographers discovered that a continuous mountain range, some 40,000 miles long, ran through all the ocean basins. Along the crest of the undersea mountains is a narrow valley floored with hot rock where lava from the interior of the earth wells out into the valleys. The ocean floor moves steadily outward from these cracks. To offset this constant creation of new surface, other regions of the ocean floor sink down into earth's crust along deep sea trenches.

These facts are established by scientists who go out with drilling rigs and take core samples of the ocean floor. By dating the skeletons of microscopic sea creatures, paleontologists can ascertain the age of the sea floor. To date their studies have shown that one part of the Pacific is twenty-two million years old, while other sea beds can be as much as two hundred million years old.

Quite recently a new science came into being, paleomagnetics, which is a system of studying the lines of earth's magnetic force as it influences molten lava when it cools into rock. In effect it measures the direction of magnetic poles at the time of the rock formation. When studying samples on different continents, however, scientists found that rocks of the same age seemed to have poles which pointed in different directions. The only logical answer was that the continents themselves had moved en masse after their original formation. In addition there were sharp reversals in magnetism sometimes running in parallel stripes. In fact, paleo-magnetic studies indicated that the earth's magnetic field was reversed no less than 171 times in the past seventy-six million years.

In 1960, a team of British scientists under the direction of Sir Edward Buller, used a computer to demonstrate how South America and Africa could fit into each other like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle. They avoided comparison of today's coastline and instead measured the 3,000-foot depth line along the continental slopes where they fall away into the deep ocean basins. Then geologists from the Massachuetts Institute of Technology and the University of Sao Paulo went one step further. Using radioactive isotope dating techniques they compared rock strata on the west shoulder of Africa and the east coast of South America. The rock layers and ages matched precisely, even to bands of iron ore, tin and gold!

It should, however, be pointed out that Keph-A-Ra disagrees with the present geological conclusion that gradual drift accounts for the separation of land masses. What scientists say happened gradually over millions of years we claim happened spontaneously in the great world upheavals, and for this reason the carefully estimated time schedules worked out by geologists in no way coincide with Keph-A-Ra's version.

Also during the last decade reams have been written about the finding of evidence of Atlantis around the Greek islands, whereas Loliad has always claimed the final resting place of the Atlantean continent was in Antarctica. It was remnants of Khe which formed the Greek islands.

Loliad also promised that his word would be proven in my lifetime, but that since the upheaval was so devastating, piecing the evidence together would be difficult. The first pieces of this evidence have now come to light. In 1967 and again in 1969 the National Science Foundation reported the discovery of "one of the truly great fossil finds of all time." Explorers in Antarctica from rock out-crops in the ice-locked Transarctic Mountains, brought home fossil fragments of land creatures from the age of the dinosaurs. Among these was a reptile about the size of a sheep known as Lystrosaurus. It was identical to those known to have lived in Africa, India and China, and could not have crossed the water.

Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, a renowned paleontologist, said this discovery "indicates that Antarctica and southern Africa were joined along a broad front. The same is true of peninsular India, making of them essentially a single land."

Amenhotep was regarded as the most paradoxical of all the Pharaohs. His mother, a very strong-minded foreign Princess named Tii, had also been befriended and influenced by Hapshesut. Together they planned to reform the church in the most bloodless way possible. Once Amenhotep was established as the ruler, he spent five years proving his wisdom and strength before openly turning his allegiance to a new god, whom he called Atonu -- the "invincible disk." A few of his close associates had already become converted of their own accord when they understood the new concept. But the general population, trained to believe completely in the ancient ways and to fear the wrath of many gods, needed a little more explanation.

Custom had long since decrede that each great city had a special presiding diety who concerned itself with the welfare and punishment of the residents of that one city. Thebes, the capital, had long since been the domain of Amon, Amenhotep's namesake, so the Pharaoh decided to go elsewhere to begin establishing Atonu and all the new concepts he represented.

He selected a broad plain on the right bank of the Nile named Hermopolitan. It was occupied by only a few obscure villages with no specific reigning diety. Taking his whole court to this new location, Amenhotep, in the fifth year of his reign, began to open up mines in this area to build Atonu's temple.

The temple grounds, surrounded by a thick wall, covered an immense area which was flanked by brick storehouses. Gardens were planted with rare shrubs and sycamores, reminiscent of the gardens of Hapshepsut (who, was very much involved in the whole proceedings even though she and I had long since departed from the cocoon of flesh to fulfil a happier destiny).

The temple itself was built of white limestone approached by a colossal gateway. Unlike other temples it was comparatively devoid of ornamentation, being covered mostly with a cream-coloured whitewash of a bright and cheerful tone, occasionally decorated with pracing animals, an entirely new art form depicting freedom and flexibility. Birds flew in painted shrubs, animals grazed peacefully among fruit and flower patterns. Even the arrangement of the rooms was original, different from the former styles of architecture.

Workmen soon began to flock to the new city, Khuitatonu. It was built with straight roads, and open spaces interspersed with orchards and gardens.

Prior to the reign of Amenhotep, his immediate predecessors, also zealots in religion but fighting to preserve and strengthen the ancient ways, had spent their energy in securing pre-eminence for Amon over all his rivals. One-tenth of the booty collected by Thutmose III, both in Syria and Ethiopia, went to the church (as described in earlier chapters). In addition all the people had heavy tributes levied on their property. Increasing the power of Amon had been used to justify a systematic plundering of the surrounding country.

The patrimony of the priesthood rose to even new heights under this system, until at last the priests came to the conclusion that Amon had a right to the allegiance of the Lords of Heaven, and that he was the Supreme Being, in comparison to whom the others were of little account. The priests used Thutmose III's victories to prove their point and daily they became more dominant and vicious in their rule.

Thus, when Amenhotep came along with a loving god, Atonu, he invited the hostility of the priests of Amon, who once again decided to play a waiting game.

Atonu, the sun disk, was defined as "the god who rejoices in truth, the lord of the solar courses, the lord of the disk, the lord of heaven, the lord of earth, the living disk which lights up the two worlds, the eternal infuser of life." He was not only the god of Egypt but also the god of foreigners; he loved everyone equally. Atonu was represented by a solar disk with rays prolonged towards the earth ready to distribute the crux ansata to mortals. (From this symbol we were able to convey to Julian the design for the PSI-man.)

Amenhotep taught that Atonu had respect for Ra and Horus, but he was strongly opposed to the teachings given in the name of Amon. He taught that Atonu was the chief rather than the destroyer of Ra -- or in your terms that the sun was only part of the universe -- subject to the higher law of Spirit. The Pharaoh also made it quite clear that sanctuaries built to Atonu contained only the reflection of his divine shadow -- not himself -- for he is everywhere.

The worship of Atonu contained none of the gloomy and cruel aspects which had now crept into the worship of Amon. The temple rang with music, songs and hymns accompanied by the harp and flute. The offerings associated with Atonu's rites were the fruits of the earth: flowers, bread, cakes, vegetables, fruit -- never the blood sacrifices which prevailed in the temples dedicated to Amon, in which, so the priests taught, Amon took his obeisance.

In renoucing the old ways, Amenhotep insisted on changing the names of those whose appellation, like his own, annouced a devotion to other gods. His own title meant "he to whom Amon is united." He changed it to Khuniatonu -- "the glory of the disk." He formed a school to propogate his new ideas and preached them constantly to all his courtiers.

Khuniatonu's family life was particularly rewarding. He married Nofrititi, of whom he was passionately fond. When he set out to visit the temple, she always followed to join him in prayer; she stood beside him in court to help distribute favours. She ministered to him tenderly in public as well as in private. Their union was so tender that there are even extant carvings on your earth today showing her sitting on his lap in a playful attitude -- a truly unique representation among all the monuments of ancient Egypt.

This good and deeply affectionate couple had six daughters whom they raised in an intimate family manner unheard of in previous generations. They took the girls with them everywhere, even letting them play around the throne while their parents were about the duties of office.

The gentleness and gaiety of Khuniatonu is reflected in every historical evidence of his reign. His subjects adored him. All the scenes which history has left consist entirely of processions, cavalcades, banquets, enterainments and worship. The people danced around him with joy, chanting and waving great fans.

He vigorously chastised any who went on raids against neighbouring states. His relationships with foreign princes were warm and friendly.

Sometimes, when numbers of other states were preparing to go to war against each other, they all appealed to Khuniatonu to take their side in the matter. Scores of dispatches were sent him, but he refused to give his support to anyone, except in a few rare cases, where indifference would have resulted in the innocent slaughter of people.

Khuniatonu died young in about the eighteeth year of his reign. He chose to be buried without splender in the depths of a ravine on a mountain side to the east of the city of Khuitatonu. His tomb remained unknown for centuries. He made no elaborate preparations for his burial, save that of having the artists inscribe one fresco. It depicts the radiant disk, hovering over and darting its rays over every object, presenting the crux ansata to the nostrils of every member of his family. Its rays, many of which are depicted with little hands on the end, caress Nofrititi and her daughters who, in turn, are shown making offerings of cake and sweetmeats.

Yes, my Princess, of course it looks familiar -- it is the same ancient symbol of our mentor, Loliad-R-Kahn, which you have seen so often worn as a medallion around his neck in his earliest visits -- a disc with seven rays descending from heaven, depicted clearly in the first portraits drawn of him by your husband, Ernest. Did he not say then, that he would explain it to you someday? Farewell, my Princess, but before I depart would you mind once again playing the tape of Loliad's Prayer, that I may hear it through your ears and your emotions -- and once again rejoice with you that the time is at hand. Do you know that because of your dedication, Earth has had the opportunity to acquire spiritual knowledge which might have taken 5,000 years to gain if lost to your ears on this earth ... Farewell. Sah-Solah