C. D. Ford
Clothed in Fire, Built on Sand
There is a temple in Luxor that has stood for three thousand four hundred years. Built for Amun-Ra, converted to a Coptic chapel, and given a mosque in its outer court — three religions, one foundation, one solar axis, never moved. That building is the argument of this book, made in stone before a word is written.
Clothed in Fire, Built on Sand traces a documented chain from the temples of Heliopolis through Alexandria, through the Council of Nicaea, into Ethiopia, and into the Rastafari movement — showing how Egypt's solar religion survived the Exodus by changing its address and its name, while keeping its structure and its axis. Built on Elder Shadrock Porter's foundational teaching on the double triangle, the book examines what was taken from the covenant people — the Sabbath, the feasts of Leviticus 23, the plain Word — and what replaced it.
The book is organised in four parts: the foundation in Egypt and its transmission through secret societies; what Alexandria exported into Ethiopia; the specific case against the Kebra Nagast and the Haile Selassie myth; and a direct call to the Jacobite diaspora to return to the plain covenant, the Sabbath, and the feasts as the God of Israel established them.