Chapter 16 Ammon and Moses
With Ra unmoved and the other gods indifferent, a new doctrine swept through almost the entire underbelly of Memphis.
Even many noble children began to believe in this doctrine known as the "Putta" school.
More and more people gathered under the tutelage of "Putta" to enrich and perfect this theory.
Seeing this, Araha naturally did not object.
As this doctrine spread, the faint light within his ignorant and chaotic half-divine realm began to gradually brighten.
In the depths of his being, Aroha understood that once the ignorance and chaos within were fully illuminated, he could directly become the supreme god.
The hallmark of a supreme god is the correspondence between divine power and authority, forming unique laws and giving birth to its own divine realm.
Divine power is something one is born with; it is the first gift of divine power.
The authority comes from the divine office, or one can say it is the practice of the divine path by oneself, which belongs to the second divine gift.
Aroha is somewhat similar to Horus, the guardian of the pharaohs. During Horus's growth, he constantly encountered various hardships and sought revenge against Set, all of which were practices of the path to becoming a king among mortals. The two divine gifts almost simultaneously strengthened his divine power.
Arakha's "preaching," the spread of his new doctrines, and the continuous reflections on the "Ptah" school he founded are all forms of spiritual practice.
Although it is not performing a divine function, it is closer to his divine path.
Since he had determined that "preaching" would indeed be of great use to him, Araha naturally became even more attentive to it.
Although this doctrine, known to the world as the "Ptah" school, is simply Arah's translation of the "Tao" of his previous life into a language that this world can understand.
Even Arhat himself couldn't fully explain what the "Tao" truly is, because what could be explained clearly wouldn't be the real "Tao."
He only provided the initial theory, leaving the world to ponder it.
It's perfectly normal for people to have different experiences and different thoughts.
Therefore, within the "Puta" school, those who followed Araha were divided into several factions.
The leaders of these factions were all Arah's most favored "disciples".
Of course, Arahu did not take disciples; he only referred to them as fellow travelers or companions on the same path.
However, these people often refer to Arakha as "teacher".
It must be said that Aroha discovered that among his companions, there were quite a few "geniuses".
For example, a person who abandons his former name and calls himself "desperate" may be of humble origin who has lost faith in a world "full of violence" and "plundering everywhere" and attempts suicide.
After listening to Arakha's "sermon," he seemed to be enlightened, as if his own soul was advising him that existence after death was uncertain and that he should entrust everything to the world and enjoy the happiness of life.
He also wrote a book called "The Desperate Man's Dialogue with His Soul".
Unlike most people who yearn for a better afterlife, he uses his book to remind people to value this life and enjoy it.
This book is very popular in Memphis and has spread to other places.
There was another boy named Amon, who, despite being the youngest among the "disciples" at only a teenager, became the leader of a faction and led a group of people to explore mysterious powers.
Arakha expressed his full support for the explorations of Amon and others.
Despite the belief that they would fail, the attempt to gain the power to confront the priesthood or even the gods was still worth encouraging.
"Don't give up. The gods are just like us, created by the Pota. They are just more powerful. We must believe that since the Pota have allowed the existence of humans, they must also allow humans to obtain godlike power."
Aroh, accompanied by a newly joined disciple, stood in the forest where Amon and his group were researching mysterious powers. They heard Amon's voice encouraging them despite yet another failure and the deaths of many.
He smiled slightly, feeling that he didn't need to appear, and turned to go to another place.
"Desperate one, you should understand that the essence of the world that Buta speaks of can also be considered as God, who should not be completely without consciousness. God loves the world and cannot bear to see people suffer. All the hardships are because people have sins in their bodies, and they need to be cleansed through hardship."
"When sins are washed away, you will be welcomed into the eternally happy kingdom of heaven."
When Araha heard this, he didn't know what to say.
Moses practically treated his own place as a place for him to preach to the God of the Hebrews.
While seemingly referring to "Buda," the words actually contain revelations from another god, a completely different kind of "usurpation."
That's right, the man who spoke was named Moses.
Even if one hadn't read much of the so-called Bible, it's impossible for Aroha to be unfamiliar with this name.
Shortly after his birth, according to the oracle of the sun god Ra, no more Hebrew men were permitted to appear on the land of Egypt.
His parents placed him in a cradle, which flowed along a tributary of the Nile.
The child was very lucky; he was found by a pharaoh's princess, taken to live and grow up in the palace, and named Moses.
However, under the arrangement of the Hebrew God, Moses' biological mother became a maid in the palace, which enabled him to establish his own faith from the very beginning, and to keep it hidden in his heart from childhood, unknown to anyone.
At the same time, he received the best education in the Egyptian court and learned a great deal.
When he heard that a sage named "Putta" was spreading new doctrines in the distant city of Memphis, he traveled a great distance to study there.
It was only after Araha discovered that Moses had been circumcised that he confirmed that this Moses was the famous Moses from Exodus.
After all, Egyptians did not practice circumcision before another group of people with almost the same faith as Moses ruled Egypt.
Regardless of Moses' origins, Arahu did not refuse him permission to study and discuss here.
Aroha also wanted to see if his new doctrine would change Moses's deep-rooted and unwavering faith in the Hebrew God.
It would be interesting if Moses ultimately abandoned the mission that the Hebrew God had prepared for him.
Nevertheless, Aroha did not personally engage in debate with Moses, but instead listened to the man who had abandoned his original name and called himself "Despair" speaking against Moses.
"Moses, what nonsense are you talking about? The essence of the world is that it has no consciousness and no feelings. It is not God, but simply watches the universe indifferently."
"Our suffering is our own misfortune, but our continued enthusiasm for life is a choice we make from the bottom of our hearts. It has nothing to do with the nature of the world or with any deity."
The desperate man argued with Moses, and some of the disciples sided with Moses, while others sided with the desperate man.
At the same time, there are also some who feel that both sides have some merit and stand in the middle.
"Dionysus, who do you think makes more sense?"
Aroh remained silent as they continued their debate. The truth becomes clearer through debate, and Aroh didn't care who won or lost.
Of course, he was more inclined to support the ideas of the Desperate One, who considered himself the "first disciple" of the Potal school.
However, instead of directly stating his own thoughts, Aroha inquired about the newcomer