He had tried at first to infuse life into what was already there — but frustrated at every turn by a priesthood that had grown used to the easy and privileged life and was not about to give it up, he began to believe that the only way was to sweep all the old cults away — temples and everything — and start again. He even built a new city on virgin ground to be the centre for his revolutionary ideal. He chose to represent what he believed to be the great moving force behind existence, the ultimate and only one, the source of all things — by the image of the sun’s orb, its rays reaching out from the unimaginable centre of spiritual energy to give eternal life. Because he had seen what a corrupt and irresponsible priesthood could do, he chose to announce that he and only he was the channel th
