The problem here is that Aten claimed he did not grant the first, and moreover, you have been defending that claim of Aten's in these comments.
As soon as you admit that Aten did indeed grant the one permission, it's not much of a stretch to conclude that he also granted the second permission. It would be very odd, I think, to distrust Aten in the one case yet stubbornly take him at his word in the second.
Again, if even one other person in the entire world could reproduce Aten's alleged experience...