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95:4.3 This [[wise]] man of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile Nile] taught that "riches take themselves wings and fly away"—that all [[things]] earthly are [[evanescent]]. His great [[prayer]] was to be "saved from [[fear]]." He exhorted all to turn away from "the [[words]] of men" to "the [[acts]] of [[God]]." In substance he taught: Man proposes but God disposes. His teachings, [[translated]] into [[Hebrew]], determined the [[philosophy]] of the [[Old Testament]] [[Book of Proverbs]]. [[Translated]] into [[Greek]], they gave color to all subsequent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy Hellenic religious philosophy]. The later Alexandrian philosopher, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo], possessed a copy of the ''Book of Wisdom''.
 
95:4.3 This [[wise]] man of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile Nile] taught that "riches take themselves wings and fly away"—that all [[things]] earthly are [[evanescent]]. His great [[prayer]] was to be "saved from [[fear]]." He exhorted all to turn away from "the [[words]] of men" to "the [[acts]] of [[God]]." In substance he taught: Man proposes but God disposes. His teachings, [[translated]] into [[Hebrew]], determined the [[philosophy]] of the [[Old Testament]] [[Book of Proverbs]]. [[Translated]] into [[Greek]], they gave color to all subsequent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy Hellenic religious philosophy]. The later Alexandrian philosopher, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo], possessed a copy of the ''Book of Wisdom''.
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95:4.4 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope] functioned to [[conserve]] the [[ethics]] of [[evolution]] and the [[morals]] of [[revelation]] and in his [[writings]] passed them on both to the [[Hebrews]] and to the [[Greeks]]. He was not the greatest of the religious [[teachers]] of this age, but he was the most [[influential]] in that he colored the subsequent [[thought]] of two vital links in the growth of Occidental civilization—the Hebrews, among whom evolved the acme of Occidental religious faith, and the Greeks, who developed pure philosophic thought to its greatest European heights.
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95:4.4 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope] functioned to [[conserve]] the [[ethics]] of [[evolution]] and the [[morals]] of [[revelation]] and in his [[writings]] passed them on both to the [[Hebrews]] and to the [[Greeks]]. He was not the greatest of the religious [[teachers]] of this age, but he was the most [[influential]] in that he colored the subsequent [[thought]] of two vital links in the growth of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental civilization]—the [[Hebrews]], among whom evolved the [[acme]] of Occidental [[religious]] [[faith]], and the [[Greeks]], who developed [[pure]] philosophic [[thought]] to its greatest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European] heights.
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95:4.5 In the Book of Hebrew Proverbs, chapters fifteen, seventeen, twenty, and chapter twenty-two, verse seventeen, to chapter twenty-four, verse twenty-two, are taken almost verbatim from Amenemope's Book of Wisdom. The first psalm of the Hebrew Book of Psalms was written by Amenemope and is the heart of the teachings of Ikhnaton.
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95:4.5 In the [[Book of Proverbs|Book of Hebrew Proverbs], chapters [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Proverbs#Proverb_.15 fifteen], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Proverbs#Proverb_.17 seventeen], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Proverbs#Proverb_.20 twenty], and chapter twenty-two, verse seventeen, to chapter twenty-four, verse twenty-two, are taken almost verbatim from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope's Book of Wisdom]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_1 first psalm] of the [[Hebrew]] [[Book of Psalms]] was written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope] and is the [[heart]] of the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhnaton Ikhnaton].
    
==95:5. THE REMARKABLE IKHNATON==
 
==95:5. THE REMARKABLE IKHNATON==

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