A'MON means "the hidden master workmanship or builder." It was the (female) entity in control of Thebes who rose to the position of "king of the gods of the world" under the (male) name Amon-Ra and whose high priest became head of all the Egyptian priesthood.
The office of the high priests became hereditary, exercising even greater power than the pharaohs. Whatever the High Priest wished legally to effect were determined by the oracle of A'mon at any time. All wills and property conveyances of members of the High Priest's family were oracles of A'mon, and civil documents thus became divine decrees.
It today's religious world we have the some distribution of power in which the priesthood rest in the hands of one human being and the rest revolve around it.
A'mon (the female entity) is represented by an image of a man wearing a crown surmounted by two tall parallel plumes, holding the crux ansata, the "sign of life in the world." A'mon in her human personification was a male figure with a female wife named Mut and Khonsu the son of both, made up the Theban triad.
The many gifts collected by this entity, and the large part of the Egypt's spoils of war that found its way into the treasure room of his dominion, made this entity very powerful. The High Priest and his office devoted to the service of this deity, therefore, became very powerful and wealthy as well.
They were the ones who encouraged wars since they benefited from it. Many of the Egyptian raids in Syria and Nubia were made for the purpose of supplying funds for the maintenance of the temples, and services, and for the glory and prestige of Egypt. The slavish homage which the Thothmes kings, and the Amon-heteps, and the Ramessids paid to this entity for her rendered services, and their lavish gifts sent to the sanctuaries give us prove that it was the High Priest and his office the makers of war and peace.
In our today's world nothing is being changed, we continue with the same template and it will be as long as the world exists until the power of this ancient evil cease to exist.
In the same way that a number of adversities came to Thebes and her god, razing the place to the ground and stripping her of all her wealth, it will be repeated in the end of times.
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