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95:3.4 In the [[soil]] of these evolving [[ethical]] [[ideas]] and [[moral]] [[ideals]] the surviving [[doctrines]] of the [[Salem]] religion flourished. The [[concepts]] of [[good]] and [[evil]] found ready [[response]] in the hearts of a people who believed that "Life is given to the peaceful and death to the [[guilty]]." "The peaceful is he who does what is loved; the guilty is he who does what is hated." For centuries the [[inhabitants]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] had lived by these emerging [[ethical]] and [[social]] [[standards]] before they ever [[entertained]] the later [[concepts]] of right and wrong—good and bad.

95:3.4 In the [[soil]] of these evolving [[ethical]] [[ideas]] and [[moral]] [[ideals]] the surviving [[doctrines]] of the [[Salem]] religion flourished. The [[concepts]] of [[good]] and [[evil]] found ready [[response]] in the hearts of a people who believed that "Life is given to the peaceful and death to the [[guilty]]." "The peaceful is he who does what is loved; the guilty is he who does what is hated." For centuries the [[inhabitants]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] had lived by these emerging [[ethical]] and [[social]] [[standards]] before they ever [[entertained]] the later [[concepts]] of right and wrong—good and bad.

95:3.5 Egypt was [[intellectual]] and [[moral]] but not overly [[spiritual]]. In six thousand years only four great [[prophets]] arose among the Egyptians. [http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/amen_em_apt.htm Amenemope] they followed for a [[season]]; ''Okhban'' they murdered; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhnaton Ikhnaton] they accepted but halfheartedly for one short [[generation]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] they rejected. Again was it [[political]] rather than [[religious]] circumstances that made it easy for [[Abraham]] and, later on, for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Joseph] to exert great [[influence]] throughout Egypt in behalf of the [[Salem]] teachings of one God. But when the [[Salem]] missionaries first entered Egypt, they encountered this highly [[ethical]] [[culture]] of [[evolution]] blended with the [[modified]] [[moral]] [[standards]] of Mesopotamian immigrants. These early Nile valley [[teachers]] were the first to proclaim [[conscience]] as the [[mandate]] of [[God]], the [[voice]] of [[Deity]].

95:3.5 Egypt was [[intellectual]] and [[moral]] but not overly [[spiritual]]. In six thousand years only four great [[prophets]] arose among the Egyptians. [http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/amen_em_apt.htm Amenemope] they followed for a [[season]]; ''Okhban'' they murdered; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhnaton Ikhnaton] they accepted but halfheartedly for one short [[generation]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] they rejected. Again was it [[political]] rather than [[religious]] circumstances that made it easy for [[Abraham]] and, later on, for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_(son_of_Jacob) Joseph] to exert great [[influence]] throughout Egypt in behalf of the [[Salem]] teachings of one God. But when the [[Salem]] missionaries first entered Egypt, they encountered this highly [[ethical]] [[culture]] of [[evolution]] blended with the [[modified]] [[moral]] [[standards]] of Mesopotamian immigrants. These early Nile valley [[teachers]] were the first to proclaim [[conscience]] as the [[mandate]] of [[God]], the [[voice]] of [[Deity]].

==95:4. THE TEACHINGS OF AMENEMOPE==     

==95:4. THE TEACHINGS OF AMENEMOPE==