"If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar system. How much Akhenaten understood, we cannot say, but he certainly bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a position which we cannot logically improve upon at the present day. Not a rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging to this new worship evolved out of the old Aton of Heliopolis, the sole Lord of the universe."
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Sir Flinders Petrie, A History of Egypt (1899), Vol. II, p. 214.
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Atenism or Atonism was a short-lived religion in ancient Egypt, founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC.
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