Sesh Per Ankh

    The courts often consider the existence of important writings and keepers of knowledge in determining if a religion is legally valid.

legal standards

    “5. b. Important Writings: Most religions embrace seminal, elemental, fundamental, or sacred writings. These writing often include creeds, tenets, precepts, parables, commandments, prayers, scriptures, catechisms, chants, rites, or mantras.” —United States of America v David Meyers

    “5. d. Keepers of Knowledge: Most religions have clergy, ministers, priests, reverends, monks, shamans, teachers, or sages. By virtue of their enlightenment, experience, education, or training, these people are keepers and purveyors of religious knowledge.” —United States of America v David Meyers

    “an organization of ordained ministers,” —IRS definition of a church

    “ordained ministers selected after completing prescribed studies,” —IRS definition of a church

    “school for the preparation of its ministers.” —IRS definition of a church

    “a literature of its own,” —IRS definition of a church

Kemetic or ancient Egyptian religion

    The sesh per ankh were the learned priesthood (including mathematicians, doctors, and scientists).Sesh Per Ankh is ancient Egyptian for “scribe of the House of Life”. This can be translated into English as magician, shaman, witch doctor, witch, priest, doctor, scribe, or professor.

scribes

    The following passages are from the Middle Kingdom compilation Satire of the Trades, also called The Instruction of Dua-Kheti, written by Tjaru (also called Duau Khety) for his son Pepy sometime between 1950-1900 B.C.E. in early Dynasty 12. This work extolled the virtues of being a scribe and put down other occupations, especially manual labor, with biting satire. The book was used throughout the New Kingdom to train scribes, who copied the pages to learn to write.

    “I have seen many beatings …
    Set your heart on books!
    I watched those recruited for labor —
    There’s nothing better than books!
    It’s like a boat on the water.
    Read the end of the Kemit Book,
    You’ll find this saying there:
    ‘A scribe at whatever post in town,
    He will not suffer in it;
    As he fills another’s need,
    he will not lack rewards’.”

    “They gave themselves the scroll as lector-priest,
    The writing-board as loving son.
    Instructions are their tombs,
    The reed pen is their child,
    The stone surface their wife.
    People great and small
    Are given them as children,
    For the scribe, he is their leader.”

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