1.THE
BOOK OF THE DEAD
By The Greats
of Kemet (Egypt, Africa) Translated by Many
2.THE
HOLY BIBLE
By the Prophets
Translated By Many
3.THE
GLORIUS QUR'AN
By
the Prophets Translated
By Many
4.
THE HOLY TABLETS
By Dr. Malachi
Z. York
5.OAHSPE
By Authors Unknow?
6.THE SACRED RECORDS OF NETER: AAFERTI-RE By Neter: Aaferti-Re
7.THE
URANTIA BOOK
By
Authors Unknow?
8.THE
APOCRYPHA
By the Prophets
9.THE
FORBIDDEN BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THE SUPPRESSED GOSPELS AND EPISTLES
By Archbishop Wake and other Learned divines
10.THE
GOSPEL OF BARNABAS FOREWORD
BY Iman Muhammad Armiya Nu'Man
11.THE
WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIELD SAVIORS OR CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
By Kersey Graves
12.SACRED
NIT-NEM THE DIVINE HYMNS OF THE DAILY PRAYERS
By the Sikhs By Harbans Singh Doabia
13.
THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY
By Albert Mackey
14.EXTRATERRESTRIALS
IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY
By G. Scope Schellhorn
15.THE
TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES THE SACRED SECRET OF THE MAYAS, EGYPTIANS AND FREEMANSONS
By Maurice Cotterell
16.BHAGAVAD-GITA
AS IT IS
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
17.THE SECRET BOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN GNOSTICS
BY Jean Doresse
The authors/submitters alone is responsible for
what is expressed
Hoteph My Beloved Brothers And Sisters:
May I preface this message by stating up front that I in no way am suggesting that the God of all creation is an anthropomorphous being, only the wise know that it is not. So indulge me as I enter into a duel conversation with the god within, as I engage on various level of consciousness. Osiris spoke unto God, the force who know the destiny of all that is created and said , the son of man (Caucasian)has a book that is call the Bible and claim that the contents in the book which is claimed to be sacred and holy is written by God. So tell me oh God whom I honor and respect, is such a claim true?
God spoke unto Osiris and said, what the son of man does is only for the benefit of the son of man and not God. God created all things by Its will (power) said unto osiris, all things that are contributed unto God is not of God. Osiris spoke unto God and said explain to me oh God what thou has just said and God said, the Bible is the property and creation of the son of man and it is liken unto a constitution which govern a City, State and Nation, it is no more than a set of rules and laws created by man for the benefit of man. Such rules and laws are referred to as being holy and sacred. God need not write rules and laws in order to demand or command the respect of that which God has created. God said unto Osiris, the Bible of the son of man, or all men is the purpose to have for the convenient to govern the religions of man. These books called the Bible, was written by the son of man based upon his opinion about that he is not certain of and his lack of knowledge about what he refer to as God. God said unto Osiris, the concept and idea about God arrived from the holy writing of your Ancient Afrikan Ancestors, Osiris. God spoke again unto Osiris and said, listen and learn. Be mindful of the fact that you learn truthfully as you master the technique of the ability to reason soundly and logic assuredly.
The son of man Bible is incomplete and full of contradiction, which cause confusion. God said let those who are able to understand become enlightened and wise. God spoke unto Osiris and said many of mankind have their own opinion about God and therein is the problem. To know God is to be able to conceive of God and such become required in order to understand what is God. What is written about God and is contributed to God as being the author is a lie. God need not write to that which it has created. God said unto Osiris, it is the unwritten universal Law which govern that which God has created and those laws rule all that God has created, as God become the very essence of all it has created. God said let those who truthfully seek after Knowledge find it and from such discovery may you become wise with understanding.
Complete
Love To The Afrikan Nation.
Osiris Akkebala
Chief Elder (p.a.i.'n)
AFRICAN
ORIGIN OF RELIGIONS
By NAIWU OSAHON
Ameer spiritual of the black race Hon. Khu Mkuu,
World Pan-African Movement Poet; Author of the magnum opus: 'The secrets
of the ages.'
One of the world's leading authors of children's books M.S,c (Salford),
Dip. M.S, G.I.P.M., Dip. Inst. M., G.Inst.M., G.I.W.M., A.M.N.I.M. Awarded:
Key to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Honourary Councilmanship, Memphis
City Council; Honourary Citizenship, County of Shelby;
Honourary Commissionership, County of Shelby, Tennessee.
Traditional African religion is the oldest religion in the world. Well,
this is obvious since Africans are the oldest human beings on earth. African
traditional religions led to the system of alchemy founded some fifteen
thousand years ago by the first human genius whom Africans described as
the "Thrice Greatest." The greatest of all philosophers, the greatest of
all priests, the greatest of all kings. His African names included, Thoth,
Tehuti and Theuth. The west knows him as Hermes Trismegistus.
He was the world's first "Adept" or "Master" and he created the science of alchemy for the spiritual development of humankind. He built the Great Pyramid of Gizeh in 11,824 BC. It was the very first Pyramid built in Egypt and it served as his shrine and academy. Wise men journeyed from all over the world to study at his feet.
He was considered a personification of wisdom with inexhaustible supply of knowledge, some of which were recorded in about 20,000 books. These were among the 400,000 invaluable African documents destroyed 13,000 years later under the Roman edict of Theodosius in the 4th cent. AD to force European hegamony on the world. A new book just out, titled: The Secrets of the Ages, corrects the European distortions of the authentic history of mankind. The book is considered the most important document ever published and it reveals God's true identity for the first time in human history.
Thoth was immortalised in African myth as the great Anu called Onian in Chapter XV of the Book of the Dead and in the texts of the Pyramids.
Around 5000 BC, Africans of the Nile Valley decided to bring their cultural, traditional, spiritual and other learning (acquired over thousands of years), together under one formal educational arrangement for the spiritual development of mankind. They called what they put together, the Mystery System, a secret order with membership gained only by initiation and pledge to secrecy.
The core doctrine of the system remained as in Thoth"s alchemy, which was the theory of salvation emphasising that the deification of man was the most important object. They believed that the soul of a man if liberated from its bodily fetters could enable him become godlike, see the Gods in this life, attain the beatific vision, and hold communion with the immortals.
African ancestors believed that whatever activity takes place in the world is a reflection of the divine law of ecclesiastical brain. That subtle energy links the physical body with the immortal spirit. That TuSoS was closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. That the physical and ethereal bodies are not far apart. Vibrational frequencies link them, which could be synchronised.
That there is no Messiah, no mediator to wash our spiritual ignorance away. Spiritual liberation is possible within every man.
The ancients insisted that every man has within him a seed of the infinite indestructible fire energy from which his organism hangs. That only a modicum of TuSoS is bestowed in living organism, the rest is hidden in nature.
This influenced the concept of the Son of the Almighty. Man's invisible spirit force is subject to incarnations, as is man. Our ancestors do not die, their spirits live on for ever.
The individual was trained to be god-like while on earth and at the same time to qualify for everlasting happiness.
Africa totally dominated the world, technically, politically, intellectually, economically, culturally and religiously for thirteen thousand years from the era of the Great Thoth (Hermes), until about 600 BC. African domination of the world reached its greatest height during the reign of Ausar (Osiris), around 4100 BC.
From the Osirian reign, Africans began to civilise the rest of the world in earnest by teaching farming, industrialisation, commerce, religion and how to organise cities and nation states. The first beneciciaries of African civilising missions abroad was Mesopotamia invaded by the Chaldeans who were a group of African Astronomer-priests from Egypt.
Susa in Iran or Elam was founded by Tithonus, king of Ethiopia, Memnon's father, about 4000 BC. Even Biblical account confirms African civilising mission and leadership of Mesopotamia. The Bible tells us the story of Nimrod (Nemrod) son of Kush, grandson of Ham, the ancestor of the blacks who is the symbol of worldly power. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Hence the saying, "Like Nemrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.' The beginning of his kingdom is Babylon, Arach and Akkad, all of them in the land of Sennar. From that region Assur went forth.' The Africans built a replica of the step Pyramids of Saqqara in Egypt, in the Kushite (meaning African) city of Bel. Verses of the Gilgamesh Epic, a Babylonian (Kushite) poem confirms African domination of their world at the time.
Father Enlid, Lord of the countries. Father Enlid, Lord of the true word, Father Enlid, Pastor of the Blacks..........
In this epic, Anu, the primitive god, father of Ishtar, has the same black name as Osiris the Onian: the goddess Ishtar took the floor and spoke to the god Anu, her father.......(verses 92-93).
Several African kings ruled ancient Elam (Iran), including King Kudur Nakunta around 2900 BC, who conquered Chaldea and Babylon and took back treasures to Susa, the capital of his empire, including the famous statue of the goddess of Nana.
The founders of Zoroastrianism, although it was not called by that name then, were the Egyptian (Chaldeans invaders who colonised the region from 4000 BC and used it as a colony of their priests. The colony continued to apply the knowledge of the stars which they brought with them from the homeland (Africa). That is why ' Chaldean' formed the root of the Greek word for astrologer. The tower of Babel, a step Pyramid similar to the tower of Saqqara in Egypt, also known as Birs-Nimroud and temple of Baal, was the astronomical observatory of the Chaldeans. The religion passed through several phases including Albigensianism as its last relic before resurfacing as Zoroastrianism about 2500 years ago.
Zarathustra, the Persian prophet lived at the beginning of the 6th cent. BC, during the religious revolution that swept the world after the Persian sack of Thebes, Egypt in 525 BC. The Greeks couldn't pronounce his name and so changed it to Zoroaster. He it was who purified the ancient Persian religion that now bears his name.
Hinduism began about 3200 BC and was founded by the Dravidians. Large populations of Ethiopians known now in India as the Dravidians invaded India between 3250 and 2750 BC and established a civilisation in the Indus Valley. In fact, the sacred river Ganges in India is named after an Ethiopian king called Emperor Ganges who conquered Asia as far as India. The Dravidians were polytheists who worshipped a number of nature-gods. Elements of their beliefs including the caste system, circumcision, magic, and witchcraft combined with the influence of the Osirian Mystery System of earlier epoch, produced Hinduism.
Prince Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha or the Enlightened One is considered a Dravidian (or African). He was born about 623 BC among the Sakya people probably at their capital Kapilavatthu, now Lumbini in the lowland of Terai in Nepal, dominated then by the Dravidian population. His features, including his thick lips confirm his Dravidian origin.
Unhappy about the corrupt practices in Hinduism and the problem of human suffering which even death could not terminate due to the cycle of life doctrine in Hinduism, Prince Gautama abandoned his privileged palace life, beloved wife and child to look for a spiritual solution to the human cycle of suffering and pains.
Sikhism is a rather recent religious movement founded by Guru Nanak (1469 - 1538 AD). Like Jainism and Buddhism earlier on, it tried to relax the rules in Hinduism and end the rivalry between Hinduism and Islam.
Master K'ung or 'K'ung - futzu (Latinised as Confucius), was black and he was born around 551 BC, in the feudal state of Lu in today's Shantung province of China. He was not too original in his ideas but he was practical, hoping to improve his people's way of life by reforming their feudal leadership. Confucius and Buddha were contemporaries and neither of them was metaphysical or pre-occupied with the notion of God or Gods. Confucius discouraged human sacrifice, a practice prevalent in China at the time.
Moses was the son of Bathia, daughter of Pharaoh Seti I and the Pharaoh himself. The myth about finding baby in a basket in water was quite common at the time, especially in honouring national heroes. The Moses' episode was concocted to allow his parents look after him in the palace as their son without incestuous stigma.
Pharaoh Akhnaton was the first to divert attention from TuSoS, the uncreated creator. Akhnaton marginalised the priests of Amon and installed himself as spiritual and political head of Egypt. This selfish, ill-informed action condemned the African race to the dust bin of history because it exposed Africa to incesant invasion by all and saundary. Without the spiritual energy that provided racial cohesion, comfort and even ensured triumph in earlier epoch the African race did not only become vulnerable, she was helpless to defend herself. Although Akhnaton thought he was introducing the One God concept, he was in reality installing an attribute of the One Source, as God. With Akhnaton's marginalisation of the spiritual strength of the race, it was easy for Moses to aggressively divert World's attention from Tu-SoS, The Ultimate (and or Universal) Source of Spiritual power, the One Source, to a usurper.
Tu-SoS is wisdom, cosmic consciousness or intelligence. Tu-SoS is Boundless and Limitless in time and space. Tu-SoS does not ask to be worshipped and is not worshipped by any one in the world. Every soul carries a tiny portion of Tu-SoS within by birthright. In other words, the germ is the Christo. It is left to the individual to let Tu-SoS occupy the individual fully by throughly cleansing his or her temple (body) of all dirt, spiritual or otherwise. The Jews call Tu-SoS, En-Sof who is the Ultimate Source of Universal Power. Africans call the One Source variously Chukwu, Osanobua or Olodumare. Africans do not worship Tu-SoS but the attributes or intermediaries in the guise of Sango, Ogun, Olokun, Amadioha because Tu-SoS is too colossal, too all embracing to define, image or approch directly.
Midianites were Africans from Ethiopia worshipping a God which the rest of the world called Lucifer on one of the eight Sanai mountains. It was a major cult and its chief priest was called Jethro. Jethro was considered the father of witchcraft and he initiated Moses into the cult when Moses was running away from home, Egypt, for committing murder. Moses became the spokesman of the Hebrews and the God of the Midianites promised to take them to a new land he would take from the Africans. The God of the Midianites whom the rest of the world knew as Lucifer became God of the Jews to help them escape from Egypt. The God introduced himself to Moses as YHWH which the Jews translated for ease of pronounciation as Yahweh.
Moses' kabbalism (or esoteric knowledge laced with witchcraft) which he first learnt as a Pharoah in trainning (or Prince of Egypt), was reinforced by the teachings of his father-in-law, Jethro, the renowned Ethiopian magician. Moses adopted his Ten Commandments from the ancient 147 Egyptian laws called the ' Negative Confessions,' and gave the Hebrews credit for African customs, some already quite ancient during his time. One classic example was the adoption of the rite of circumcision, an Egyptian custom, thousands of years old by Moses' day.
Other African customs borrowed by the Hebrews include, the transference of sins to a scapegoat, usually an animal; not eating pig, considering it unclean, but on the other hand using it in religious rites, implying some sanctity of the animal; the Passover Feast which was really an old African custom connected with the celebration of the Spring Equinox and passing over of the Sun from the South to North of the Equator. Libations or sacrificial drinking such as in the Sabbath Evening Service by the Rabbi which is a traditional African practice dating back thousands of years.
Christianity and Islam took their dogmas from the Old Testaments of the Jews. African human personification of God in the Trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus 4100 years before Christianity, with Osiris sitting in judgment over the dead, reinforced the human and masculine attributes of the Christian and islamic God (Yahweh), who created man in His image and likeness. Yahweh is Kether, one of Judaism's ten attributes of En-Sof just like the African Sango, Ogun or Olokun are attributes of Tu-SoS, the Supreme Source.
Islam adopted the Jewish, human God, Yahweh and called Him Allah, 500 years after Christianity. Yahweh was the popular reference point at the time but Islam had some doubts so they invested their version of Yahweh with some peculiar traits distinct from those of the Christian God.
Islam rejects the idea of a masculine God and that God could have a son. "Allah forbid that He Himself should beget a son....." Those who say: "The Lord of Mercy has begotten a son preach a monstrous falsehood....." (Koran 19: 29,88). Islam also does not accept the idea of God being a Trinity. "Allah is one and unique (Koran 5:70). But the Islamic God is an anthropomorphic deity who has ears, eyes, mouth, and hears, sees, speaks, knows things, and sits on the throne like the Jewish God Yahweh.
To test Abraham's faith, Yahweh asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son. Convinced of Abraham's faith, Yahweh allowed him to substitute a ram. Muslims commemorate this event yearly with the killing of rams.
Early Christian religion emphasised the African concept that the germ is the Christo planted in man according to his individual capacity to receive higher wisdom. Paul said so much too: "Know ye not your own selves, now that Jesus Christ is within you? This makes every man the "Son of Tu-SoS, from birth. We all have the Christ within yearning for personal growth. Christ was mythological, not historical. Church Fathers invented historical Jesus Christ some five hundred years after the advent of Christianity to install a Messiah.
During the early stages of Christianity reincarnation was accepted as revealed in Matthew 17: 10-12; 16;13; 11:14 and John 9: 2-3; Revelation 13: 10 and so on. Chruch Fathers condemned this as heresy, several centuries later and planted vicarious atonement in its place.
Africans gave the world the concept of Heaven and Hell, good and evil, truth and lie (deceit) and the feather of truth (i.e that truth is weightless and lie requires several layers of lies to sustain). That righteousness is superior to might and steel. That virtue will be rewarded in Empyrean-abode of blissful spiritual life after death and that our ancestors do not die.
A visitor to Thebes in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt can view the 'inferno' in details (in the tomb of Seti I of the nineteenth Dynasty). Osiris at the tribunal of the dead is indeed the Lord of revealed religions, sitting enthroned on Judgment Day. He is righteous, noble, beyond fault and his brother is god Set, evil personified, who would not obey his own laws, contesting realm of influence (human souls) with his elder brother Ausar.
With the banning of African mysteries in 4 AD and finally in 6 AD, Africans fought back by withdrawing totally into necromancy and witchcraft. As they got increasingly frustrated in their long painful unsuccessful efforts to liberate themselves, they began to turn the venom of their sorcery on each other.
Animism and witchcraft have remained stagnant in form and content since ancient times. Their archaic traditions are still seriously steeped in magic, incantations and bloody sacrifices performed largely in unwholesome surroundings. The methods are generally repulsive to say the least, particularly to the younger generations who out of helplessness and ignorance seek their redemption in their millions through foreign religions.
But can Africans become true Christians and Moslems? Isn't there something in their culture still that rebels against their conquerors imposed adopted traditions. Well, Africans strongly believe in reincarnation. They say that the dead come back or is born again and again. That the spirits of our ancestors live on for ever. And why not? If Tu-SoS is infinite, everything in nature must also be infinite.
Organised religions see re-incarnation in terms of renewed faith in God. They call this born again in Christianity but it is not physical or deeply spiritual. All organised religions accept the African concepts that there is a beginning to the universe and the beginning is Tu-SoS, misinterpreted by organised faiths as God; that although the universe appears infinite, its creator can also terminate it; that Tu-SoS gives, Tu-SoS takes away. Islam dropped the notion of future life and ancestor worship from their canon. Christianity dismissed the beliefs as mere superstition while practicing exorcism and declaring an endless number of apparitions of their Virgin Mary. Africans smell hypocrisy and hang on to their beliefs even as they proclaim themselves devoted Christians and Moslems.
Since Africans cannot fully realize themselves as Arabs or Caucasians however hard they try, and have completely lost their African essence and feeling of self-worth after centuries of slavery, colonial and neocolonial dehumanization and exploitation, they have gradually, in the last five hundred years, forgotten their illustrious pioneering history and stopped seeing themselves as equal to the other races.
With continuing cruching racism against them, despite their nominal status as Arabs and Caucasians through forced religious beliefs, they are confused and lost. Without a vibrant native religion or spiritual movement of their own and without a common tradition to bind, cushion and inspire them as a family, they are unable to mobilize, at least, their intellectual wherewithal for their collective development or make appropriate peculiar impact in the world of ideas. A race without a strong, active, lively spiritual (therefore philosophical) outlook of its own is not only voiceless in world affairs, it is as good as dead.
The potency of genuine African spirituality is not in doubt. There are many charlatans, of course, but our success rate is not low by any means. The mavens or wizards know their onions and can cause rain to fall in a desert out of season with the snap of the fingers; stop bullets in flight with bare hands; instigate still birth or difficult child birth with incantation; vanish into the thin air at the scene of a fracas or involvement in a motor accident; help politicians win elections; turn never-do-wells into overnight millionaires or help them gain promotions at work, but always at a great and painful personal cost to the benefactor.
By and large, ancient spirituality is used for evil and because Africa is the oldest most enduring scene of this, most of the evil spirits of the world seem to have found a permanent home in Africa. Every other race or continent, particularly through metaphysically inspired secret societies, have made some effort in the last two thousand years to adapt their spirituality to the development of the mind except Africa and this is partly responsible for Africa's current backwardness. Africa has not refined her spirituality to match, for instance, what kabalism is doing for the Jews in modern times and that is exactly where The Cradle Family comes in. The Cradle Family is the modern spirituality, the religion if you like, the canon of the black race and its chief priest is Naiwu Osahon, the Ameer spiritual of the black race.
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details on this article
' The African origin of religions'
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Written by Naiwu Osahon,
Leader, World Pan-African Movement
E-mail: obw@infoweb.abs.net
The
Bible and King James
http://www.themarcusgarveybbs.com/board/msgs/10554.html
by Adib Rashad (RashadM@aol.com)
The early Protestants, who were the heirs of the Reformation, exclusively used the Geneva Bible. The Calvinists, the Puritans, and the Pilgrims used this Bible until it went out of print in 1644.
The first Geneva Bible, both Old and New Testament, was published in English in 1560 in Geneva Switzerland. It was essentially a revision of William Tyndale's revised and corrected 1534 edition. The majority of the work was done by William Whittingham, the brother-in-law of John Calvin.
In 1560 a complete revised Bible was published, translated according to the Hebrew and Greek, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. After the death of Mary Tudor(Bloody Mary), a fanatical Catholic, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, and once again England moved toward Protestantism.
The Geneva Bible was an instant success; more than a 144 editions appeared between the years of 1560 and 1644. As a matter of fact, for forty years after the publication of the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible continued to be the Bible of choice. Interestingly, until King James had his own version named after him, he too, used the Geneva Bible. Afterwards, James tried to disclaim any knowledge of the Geneva Bible.
It is important to note that when James became king of England in 1603, there were only two translations of the Bible in use; the Geneva Bible, as stated, was the most popular, and the Bishops' Bible was used for church services. Gary DeMar, in his historical article titled, "The Geneva Bible: The Forgotten Translation," points out that King James disapproved of the Geneva Bible because of its Calvinistic leanings. He also frowned on what he considered to be seditious marginal notes on key political texts. A marginal note for Exodus 1:9 indicated that the Hebrew midwives were correct in disobeying the Egyptian King's orders, and a note for 2 Chronicles 15:16 said that King Asa should have had his mother executed and not merely deposed for the crime of worshipping an idol. The King James version of the Bible grew out of the king'sdistaste for these potent doctrinal commentaries. He considered the marginal notes to be a political threat to his kingdom.
At a conference at Hampton Court in 1604 with bishops and theologians, the king listened attentively to a suggestion by the Puritan scholar, John Reynolds, that a new translation of the Bible was greatly needed because of the king's distaste and dislike for the Geneva Bible. James was anxious for a new translation. He exclaimed, "I profess," "I could never yet see a Bible well translated in English; but I think that, of all, that Geneva is the worst."
In addition to being a threat to the king of England, the Geneva Bible was vociferously anti-Roman Catholic. One must bear in mind that Rome was still persecuting Protestants in the 16th century. Furthermore, one must bear in mind that the English translators, John Wycliff, and William Tyndale, Wycliff was the first to translate the entire Bible into English. Although he only had the Latin Vulgate to work with, one can, upon careful scrutiny, see his influence on Tyndale's translation and ultimately the King James Version.
John Rogers, Myles Coverdale, and the above were all exiles from a nation that was returning to the Catholic faith under a queen, Mary Tudor, who was burning Protestants at the stake (that is why she was/is called Bloody Mary. She burned 300 or more).
The anti-Roman sentiment is most evident in the Book of Revelation: "The beast that cometh out of the bottomless pit (Rev. 11:17) was represented by the Pope, which hath his power out of hell and cometh thence." It was not long before the Geneva Bible was replaced by the King James Version, but not before it helped to settle the United States and the Americas.
It safe to say without reservation that the King James Version of the Bible was a government publication. It was a government publication simply because James was a devout believer in the "divine right of kings." The "divine right of kings" dictum meant that since a king's power came from God, the king then had to answer to no one but God. This also meant that an evil king must not be challenged; the people should suffer in silence; contrastly, a benevolent king was therefore a blessing sent from God.
This is primarily why James disliked the Geneva Bible. On the other hand, the Geneva Bible, with its marginal notes, was popular with the common people. The Geneva Bible did not conform to the rights of king maxim. However, it must be said that the marginal notes in the Geneva Bible were placed there by leaders of the Reformation, John Knox and John Calvin.
A marginal note such as: "When tyrants cannot prevail by craft they burst forth into open rage," (Exodus 1:22) annoyed James immensely. The Reformation prospered in Geneva; many of those religious scholars who fled the reign of Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) started a congregation there. Their greatest effort and contribution was the first Geneva Bible. The marginal notes were added to later editions.
Religious wars engulfed Europe. The Spanish, because of the Protestant rebellion, waged a war to restore Roman Catholicism to Western Europe. The Dutch fought for the Reformation and religious freedom. The Dutch declared religious freedom for all; thus Amsterdam became an open city for liberal ideas. As a result, the 1599 Edition of the Geneva Bible was printed in Amsterdam and England in large quantities until the 17th century.
King James made it crystal clear before he became James I of England that he had no use for the "Dutch Rebels" who had rebelled against their Spanish King.
Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 and her cousin, James Stuart, son of Mary Stuart, who up until that time had been King James VI of Scotland ascended the throne and became known as King James I of England. He ascended the throne, as indicated earlier, with the "divine right of kings" maxim entrenched in his mind.
In 1603 James was declared king, he wasted no time in ordering a new edition of the Bible as a means of denying the common people the marginal notes they so cherished and quoted in the Geneva Bible. He was not going to allow those marginal notes to sway English citizens away from his commands.
Thus, on February 10, 1604, he ordained the following: That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant > as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek, and this to be set out and printed without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service.
James painstakingly set up rules that made it impossible for anyoneinvolved in the project to make an honest translation. Those rules are as follows:
1. The ordinary Bible read in church, commonly called the Bishops' Bible, to be followed and as little altered as the truth of the original will permit. Since the common people preferred the Geneva Bible to the existing government publication, it was advised that a superseding government publication be placed on their bookshelves.
2. The Ecclesiastical words to be kept, viz. The word "church" not to be translated "congregation." That is, if a word should be translated a particular way, it should be deliberately mistranslated to make the people think that God still belongs to the Anglican Church--exclusively.
3. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot without some circumlocution, sobriefly and fitly be expressed in the text. In essence, these rules and the translation became the King James Version of the Bible and the religious source of the Western world--particularly the third world and among the slaves in the United States.
Before I conclude, it is imperative that I briefly discuss the character of King James. A number of historians and religious scholars have argued that King James was a homosexual; his activities in that regard have been recorded in numerous books, public records; as well as articles. However, there are some historians, individuals that I refer to as King Jamesites, who vehemently deny that James was homosexual or effeminate, and they skillfully invert the words of James to accomplish their task.
Stephen A. Coston, author of "King James The VI of Scotland & I of England Unjustly Accused?" is one such individual who defends James's moral character to the utmost. Coston writes these words: "More often than not even when actual facts of King James VI & I are presented they are subjected to interpretative twists designed to give the reader the impression that the words and deeds of King James VI & I support the allegations commonly leveled against him.
Case in point, it is a known fact King James was handicapped from birth with weak limbs and injured himself many times. This caused him to have an unsteady gait. To compensate for this James often leaned on his most trusted councilors and friends which also happened to be members of his personal staff, individual critics freely term "favorites" giving the reader the impression King James did so not because of a physical handicap but because of sexual attraction to same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Further, it is also freely alleged that King James "passionately kissed" his "favorites" in public." Coston continues, "Critics of King James VI & I are fond of inferring from the above that King James engaged in the: French Kissing" of his "favorites." They then use this assumption as yet another "proof" to support their contention that King James was indeed truly a "homosexual."
For Coston, these critics of James had not presented any concrete proof that went beyond doubt to advance the belief that James was a homosexual. He goes on to say, "Most indeed who have written about King James VI & I have never actually sat down to read what he actually wrote. This environment has created a prime climate for the kind of slanders and libels King James has been subjected to." Coston strongly argues that these religious scholars and historians have merely toyed with conjecture and not facts regarding the sexual orientation of King James.
Contrarily, I would passionately urge Mr. Coston to read "King James & Letters of Homoerotic Desire" by David M. Bergerson. Mr. Bergerson not only presents facts of King James's effeminate, if not, homosexual tendencies, but of his erotic interests as well. Bergerson's exploration of letters between King James and three of his "favorites" reveals an intimate world of collaborative homoerotic and sexual desire. These primary source letters which were newly collected involve correspondence between James and George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, passionate, touching, amazing missives that will remove any doubt about James's sexual preferences. His other two "favorites" were Esme Stuart (Lennox) and Robert Carr (Somersett). Bergerson grounds his provocative study on an examination of the tradition of letter writing during the Renaissance and draws a connection between homosexual desire and letter writing that historical period. James's letters to his "favorites" were saturated with same sex innuendo and proposals of marriage--especially to Buckingham. The evidence clearly demonstrates that the king was most definitely homosexually inclined.
History also records with ample documentation that James was indeed a sadist as many royal personages were during that era. He enjoyed torturing people. When he was the King of Scotland in 1591, he personally supervised the torture of people allegedly involved in witchcraft. He would often suggest new tortures to the examiners.
One woman, named, Barbara Napier, was acquitted for practicing witchcraft. This acquittal so angered James that he wrote a personal letter to the court on May 10, 1551, ordering a sentence of death, and he had the jury called into custody. To make sure the jury understood his anger about the acquittal and the severity of the offense, he presided at the new hearing, and released them without punishment when they reversed their verdict.
History also records that James was cowardly; on January 7, 1591, he was in Edinburgh. An entourage followed that included the Duke of Lennox and Lord Hume. They had an argument with the laird of Logie and subsequently pulled their swords. James looked behind, saw the flashing steel, and fled into the nearest refuge which turned out to be a skinners booth. There to his shame, he "fouled his breeches in fear."
In conclusion, King James was a complex, enigmatic, dastardly individual. However, his major contribution to Christian history was his opposition to Roman authority (The Pope).
It was James's opinion that only the authority of a king, backed by the unified support of fellow Protestant princes, could realistically challenge the usurped authority of the Pope.
Therefore, his version of the Bible was, as stated above, a political document designed by way of revised translations > to ensure that the king's reign could not be challenged by Rome or the common people.
I implore the reader to study "Wide as the Waters The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired," by Benson Bobrick to get a complete understanding of how various verses in the King James Bible were changed or deleted from the original texts.
Another book of note worth about King James and the Bible is "In The Beginning The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed A Nation, A Language and A Culture," by Alister McGrath.
After reading and studying the aforementioned sources, if people still want and need to believe that the King James Version of the Bible is the "Word of God," then the history and research pertaining to this subject is moot at best and will subsequently go for naught.
Adib Rashad (RashadM@aol.com) is an education consultant, education program director, author, and historian. He has lived and taught in West Africa and South East Asia.
THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN GODS
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
ACCRA - W.E.B. DU BOIS CENTER - JULY 10, 1998
Professor Molefi Kete Asante
Temple University
I am pleased that you have come to hear my lecture tonight and I want to thank the organizers of this event for their diligence and generosity. In particular I would like to publicly thank Dr. Kofi Anyidiho, and Executive Director Moore, the staff and the Board of the DuBois Center for making this occasion possible. I give praise to Nyame, Asase Yaa, and the Nananom nsamanfo for whatever clarity I am able to share with you.
I shall begin my lecture with a conclusion: Until an African leader publicly acknowledges, honors and prays to an African God, we Africans will continue to be viewed as pathetic imitators of others, never having believed in ourselves.
So powerful is the concept of religion when we discuss it in connection with civilization that to deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization. Indeed to deny one's religion as valid is to suggest that the person is a pagan, a heathen, uncivilized, and beyond the sphere of humanity. So to talk about religion is to talk about our views of ourselves, our understanding of our ancestors, and our love of our culture.
To establish my argument that we have a crisis in civilization because we have a crisis in religion I will make several points dealing with the themes of tradition, history, religion, and human action
Traditions
There are no people without traditions and traditions are the lifeblood of a people. A people who refuse to express its love and appreciation for its ancestors will die because in traditions, if you are not expressing your own, you are participating in and expressing faith in someone else's ancestors. No person is devoid of an attachment to some cultural fountain. Whose water are we drinking
Our African history has been a recent orgy of forgetfulness. We have often lost our memories and accepted the gods of those who enslaved and colonized us. This is something the Chinese and the Indians have fought hard to keep at bay. While we have often embraced our enemies gods they have found those gods to be anathema to their interests. Show me the gods we Africans worship and I will show the extent of our moral and ethical decay
Those who speak to us of Christian or Islamic morals have often been the very ones who had defiled our ancestors' memories and called out sacred rites paganism. Malcolm X once said that the world pushes the African around because we give the impression that we are chumps, not champs, but chumps, weaklings, falling over ourselves to follow other people rather than our own traditions
The distribution of religion represents the distribution of power. African distribution is minimal and exists in a few places in the diaspora like Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica and the American South. The religion that people practice is based on the influences that have captured their imaginations. In the American South and the Caribbean and in South America one will often find the Yoruba religion. It is Africa's most powerful religious export to the Americas, but this is still a minimal influence when one considers the fact that others have imposed their religions on us and we have accepted the imposition often without a fight from our traditional leaders. Indeed our traditional religious leaders have often been hijacked by the material goods offered by the purveyors of these migrating gods
History
The great African pharaoh, Menes, united the two lands (TAWY) bringing 42 clans or nomes under one government around 3100 B.C. By this time already Africans had formulated the first human response to the unknown. If anything we knew God befor anyone else, not because we were wiser but because we were first to be civilized
If you take any of the scientific reports we know that the first hominids were from Africa. Australopithecus afarensis is 4,200,000 years old and Australopithecus ramidus, 3,800,000. When Richard Johnason discovered Dinqnesh, later called Lucy, by the Europeans, he claimed to have found the earliest example of a hominid in Ethiopia. Until 75,000 years ago all humans were black. Did they have an appreciation for the Almighty? Did they formulate a response to the unknown? Of course they did; they were human and human before anyone else
Our ancestors brought forth the first civilizations and gave the world the oldest organized cosmological explanations. Thus, Ra as Ptah, Atum, Amen, Khepera, Khnum - the many names of the one, the Supreme, created Shu and Tefnut, air and moisture, Geb and Nut, earth and sky. Then came Ausar, Auset, Nebhet, and Set. Ausar was killed by his brother Set and Auset put him back together with the assistance of her sister, Nebhet and her son, Heru, who avenged his father by killing Set. This is the story of good over evil. The purpose was to create Maat, balance, harmony, justice, righteousness, reciprocity, order. These are the key concepts in any ethical system and the fact that they emerged first in the Nile Valley of Africa suggests that other ideas, related to these ideas, found their way into the very practices and beliefs of our people throughout the continent. The deliberate attempt by the European to separate Africans from the classical civilizations of the Nile is one of the biggest falsifications in history. Only when we reclaim our history will we be able to see that the origins of many religious ideas are African. How is it that the parent has become the child
Thus, not only do we have the earliest emergence of God, we have the first ethnical principles, reinforced by proverbs, and refined in the oral and artistic traditions of our narratives
The ancient name of Egypt was Kemet and it was the culmination of classical Africa's achievements in science, art, architecture, medicine, astronomy, geometry, and religion. The Greeks honored the Africans as the originators of the science and art practiced by the Greeks themselves. It would be the Europeans of the 15th through 19th centuries that wouild try to divorce Europe from its African origin and deny Africa any role in civilizing the world
The early Greek historian, Herodotus claims that nearly all of the Greek gods came from Africa. We know that the Greeks worshipped Imhotep as Aesclepius, the God of Medicine, and that the name Athens, Athena, is from Aten.
When Constantine in 325 A.D. took ideas from African spirituality and created a control mechanism at Council of Nicea he was trying to organize a system for using African spiritual ideas. The early Christian church had to deal with the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, the son of God, eternal life, and the resurrection, in their religion. The sad fact is that since we have forgotten so much we do not know that we are the originators of religion.
The abandonment of our history, indeed the abandonment of our gods, the gods of our ancestors, have brought us deep into the quagmire of misdirection, mis-orientation and self pity. When the missionariesforbade our shrines and punished us in the Americas when we called the names of our gods and sounded our mighty drums they were looking for the Pavlovian reaction they finally got in millions of Africans: African is bad, it is inferior, it is pagan, it is heathen. We often hear others cursing our ancestors in ways the Chinese, the Lebanese and the British > would never allow. Why is this? Are we truly shamed by our military defeat? Can we no longer think about how right our ancestors were in exploring human nature and positing ways to combat the unknown? Cannot > we create new forms out of the old mold or must we throw away the mold?
What would be anymore pagan than the wanton willful destruction of millions of Africans, Jews, Native Americans, and Chinese by Christians Europeans? How could white men pray to a god on the second floor of a slave dungeon while on the first floor they held our ancestors, yours and mine, in horrible bondage? What kind of religion denied our humanity at the same time they were raping our women, brutalizing our children, and demanding our wealth and our souls?
It is true that the idea of Christian names or Muslim names promotes and > advances those cultures. Why must you change your name even if you chose to buy into a foreign religion? What is wrong with your name? Any religion that asks you to do what others do not have to do is asking you > to abandon your mother. The question is, why would you abandon your mother?
Religion in General
What is religion but the deification of ancestors, the making sacred of traditions within the context and history. How can we honor any god who was used against us? The only people who accept alien gods are defeated people all others honor and accept their own name for the Almighty. We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions. What is wrong with the African God?
What would we think of a Yoruba who accepted Chinese ancestors as his own? We would find it quite interesting and wonder how it came to be. But what of Africans' acceptance of others' gods? Is there no tradition with these alien gods? Of course there is tradition with these gods! To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god or the Hindu's god and so forth is to valorize those histories above your own. Indeed, it is to honor the names in those myths and stories higher than your own stories, it is to love the language, the places in their stories above your own. Why is Mecca, Rome, or Jerusalem more sacred that Bosumtwi? Quite simply, it is imperialism, not by force of arms, but by force of religion which sometimes comes armed.
Joel Kotkin's Tribes - a book about people ready for the 21st Century claims that only Jews, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and British are ready. These groups have some commonalities which include (1) strong sense of identity, (2) international network, and (3) a passion for technology.
He does not include any African community or ethnic group. In fact, he believes that the African people were best organized under the leadership of Marcus Garvey who believed that Africans were not only > capable of achieving without the whites; Africans had to achieve without whites in order to be seen as fully participating in the drama of history. Kwame Nkrumah believed in much the same idea.
Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations claims that there are six major civilizations: Chinese, Japanese, Orthodox, Hindu, Western, Islamic. He says each one has a nation that is vanguard, deeply committed to its religion and history. Africa has no such vanguard nation and furthermore Africa has yet to emerge from under the cloaks of its interventionists. Of 53 nations only one nation is more African in religion than either Christian or Muslim. That nation is small Benin.
Benin is 87% popular traditional African Religion. But it is a small nation with limited influence in a propaganda fashion. As such we do not expect African traditional religion to play a major part in the civilization of Africa for a long time to come, but we can begin to examine the questions, to raise the issues, and to interrogate our practices.
Let me explore African Religion with you to provide some common understanding.
African Religion
In the first place it is important that we call popular traditional African Religion everywhere by a common acronym, Ptare. This means that Akan, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu and Shona are the same religion with different branches. Just as Christians may be Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics, and just as Muslims may be Mourrides, Sunni, or Shiities. There is no difference in speaking of Ptare as one religion and speaking of Christianity or Islam as one religion. I believe that Popular Traditional African Religion everywhere (Ptare) is as old as civilization, indeed, it is much older than either Christianity or Islam. The major characteristics of Ptare are found in all of the traditions from East to West and from North to South. The fact that we have often misunderstood the legacy we have inherited is not the fault of those who left it; it is our fault for preferring the oppressors' legacy over that of our own ancestors. The characteristics of Ptare include: Creator God Domicile of Gods - Presence, Shrine Priest/Priestess of God; Devotee of God - medium (Noc??) Herbalist - Pharmacist Psychiatrist - mental harmonizer Diviner - scientist, Hunter's/explorers
All ritual in Ptare seek a return to Maat. Everything is one - we are a part of the whole and nothing is disconnected from the Almighty. That is why we recognize Mother Earth as well as Nyame. What Europe sees and teaches as limitations in Ptare are really advantages: No vast interpretative literary corpus to say what is and what is not - Ptare's interpretations are often dependent on a multitude of situations that demand attention. No concentration on the material manifestations of the God's house. All temples started as shrines and from the shrine place people build other edifices. Buildings should have some historical or religious significance.
Advantages of Ptare
The ethical principles are more conducive to community, not so geared toward individualism. Some religions demonstrate their power by showing what they can build but this is only a matter of financial not moral wealth. Are you more civilized because you can build a nuclear bomb? We must not be impressed by the things which can be created because we are human and have the same capacity and can create the same things out of our own minds. But our African gods do not advance destruction. They have never been gods of death, but of life.
The material manifestations of religion are not the wisest standard of how good god is unless your god is money. The new religions seem to bring schools and hospitals but we have always had those institutions without calling them by those names. Now it is time that the practitioners of Ptare explain the interrelationship of the traditions of ordinary life in the context of institutions. Our entire existence is religion. Our shrines are sacred places on sacred land given by the ancestors. Our health is interconnected to our spirituality.
We Africans have always believed in a supreme deity whether the name was Nyame, Oludumare, Abasi, Nkulunkulu, Woyengi, Chukwu, Mawu and Lisa. This is true although others have said we did not. They have confused a lot of us.
When the white missionaries translated the bible in our languages, they asked our ancestors for the name of the Almighty and they used the names our ancestors had always used for the Almighty and then told us that we did not have a belief in the Supreme.
But we now know that our priests were no less wise in their observations than the Greek sophists, the Hebrew prophets, the Arab ulema, or the Chinese literati.
Our ancestors believed in pluralism without hierarchy --- many expressions of God without saying mine is right, or the only one, and yours is bad, pagan, and heathen. Perhaps had we done that we would have stopped the alien religions at the shore, but we are the world's first humanists and we allowed others to come with their goods and their gods.
They came with a political ideology in the name of religion. It was imperialism. Imperialism brings destruction, obliteration. How could we fall for it for so long? The introduction of a book or a gun caused us to lose our footing, to stumble on our way, to denounce our fathers and mothers.
There are no other people on the earth who have had to denounce their ancestors in order to become better people. Is it because our ancestors are so strong that we are forced to denounce them before our conquerors? This is one thing you shall never find me doing because I know too much about my African contribution to history.
Contributions of Ptare
The first naming of the divine, netcher, god, or netcheru divinity from which some say the English word nature is ultimately derived. The first trinity: Ausar, Auset, Heru which has been repeated by Amen, Mut, Khonsu and then God, the father, God the son, God the holy pirit. The Christians took out the mother who represented Auset -and gave Christians a virgin Mary, but she was no god. Asase Yaa is Mother Earth, but no one can have a son without a mother. The first idea of a son of god or a daughter of God. Sa Ra or Sat Ra. The first black stone altars - long before the Kaaba was revealed at Mecca.
The first example of the resurrection from the dead Ausar. This is also where we find that the Neb Ankh - Lord of Life was not a sarcophagus, that is, not a flesh eater, but something that spoke of life. The name of god Amen now used by others in their prayers. The idea that your good should outweigh your evil, that your soul should be lighter than a feather, that perfection is not what is sought after, but overwhelming goodness. The complementarity of males and females, different roles but not subjugation, Mawu and Lisa, male and female - Auset and Ausar, complementarity. The first records of ancestors' wisdom. The books of Ptahhotep, Kagemni, Duauf The idea of heaven and earth, Nut , Geb, Auset is called, Lady of Heaven Here in Africa humans have prayed to God longer than on any other continent. When the pyramids were finished, Europe had given the world not one organized civilization, even Asia was just stirring. Just look at a broad chronology: 2500 B.C. - The African people along the river valleys of the eastern highlands floated stones down the Nile to help monuments to God. 2500 Hsia Dynasty rises in China 2200 BC. Harrapa and Mohenjo Daro were found in India 800 BC Homer is the first voice of the Greeks 500 Romans come to power in Europe. 639 A.D. Arabs are able to cross into Africa with force under General El As from Arabia-Yemen Africans made the idea of the beautiful and the good one world nfr - nefer Ptare gave the world its first ethical system: Maat - balance, harmony, justice, righteousness, reciprocity, order - Maat was the only major deity without priesthood since all were priests of Maat. The idea of eternal life - Ankh neheh was African The first libations, offerings and burning of incense as ritual forms The ten commandments were preceded by the 42 confessions in the Egyptian Book of the Dead or more accurately the Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth By Day. Ptare gave the idea of collective and communal salvation rather than a rampant individualism which says save me and the rest of the world go to hell.
The Future
All futures are made by human beings. But the begin with consciousness which precedes Afrocentricity. A few days ago I walked into a Kumasi restaurant and found that I could get Ghanaian food only by pre-arranged request. But western food was immediately available. Imported. Are African Gods only on request? We determine this by how we live. The Wolof and Senegal say wood may remain in water for ten years but it will not become a crocodile. We live Africa by living its tried and true values and customs this is a credit to our gods. Almost all of the disarray in Africa can be traced to the disruption of the traditional religion. In fact, one can go from country to country and find that the cause of the problems can be laid at the feet of alien civilizations. This is not a wild statement; it is based on deep reflection and study. I believe in the African gods and believe that just as we have exported our cultural forms in music, art and science, the world needs a more sane and sensible ethic.
What Must Be Done?
We must talk honestly to our elders --- those who have not abandoned the traditions - consult the priests, learn from them, and discover the source of our problems. Remove all images of a white Jesus. This is not correct even if one is Christian. The historical Jesus had be black in color despite the missionaries' attempt to paint him English and Swedish. We must believe that our names are as sacred as Arabic or European names. We must understand that when others extend their values, religion and institutions they are penetrating our traditions with the poison of alien power that teaches us to hate ourselves and to love our oppressors. Meanwhile, they never follow the prescriptions they leave for us. We must enhance the economic, political and military power of African states because a lack of such power creates self doubt, identity crisis, and a search for the material gods of the west who seem to produce these things. But spirit is greater if we use it and we can only use it if we practice. We need boldness from our leaders to accomplish this transformation. The British called Harry Lee the best Englishman east of the British Isles when he finished Oxford. He changed his name, converted to Confucianism and they wondered what happened to him. He learned Mandarin Chinese and became Lee Kuan Yew, a leader who rejected Western values. Asians are calling for Confucianism as they emphasize tradition. The Japanese are calling for Nihonjinron, Japanese values. Why must we be stuck with the attitudes and values of the European, so-called Christian values, particularly since they have shown themselves to be bankrupt on many fronts. We can achieve our aims not so much by modernizing African traditions as Africanizing modernity itself. We are the modern people. Our ecological values, relationships values, respect for others values are the keys to the future.
Conclusions
I recognize that humans cannot advance without answering some basic questions like, Who Am I? Why am I here? What is the purpose of existence? Who are we as humans, Africans, Ghanaians, Gas, Ewe, Guans, Akans, African Americans? Religion provides compelling answers and often small communities of others who believe like we do. African deities and the Almighty God of Africa do that for us. They give us identity and direction. We are the children of the Supreme God sustained by our ancestral connections, formed to glorify the best values of Maat, encouraged to assume responsibility for each other in a community of consciousness. Failure to do this is a deviation, an abomination and we can only re-connect through rites of ablution--- making, doing or sacrificing time, money, energy in the name and interest of Africa. The concept of the gift is the idea, not what we give. This may change given education, science, sensibility, scarcity, etc., but we need to sacrifice for Africa. But our God must not be one of exploitation, egocentrism, conservatism and westernization. If so, we shall go to hell. We must create our African personality and identity in art, dance, medicine, education, science, and religion and if we cannot do it here in the land of Okomfo Anokye, Nkrumah and Du Bois, then it cannot be done in Africa. If we do not do it here in the land of Yaa Asantewaa, then we can never be the hope of the hopeless. If Africa cannot find its way, then I fear the prospects of the world. But Africa will rise to throw off the vestiges of mental enslavement and there shall be rejoicing among the Nananom nsamanfo. The ancestors will say: Rejoice! Rejoice! Let the Gods of Africa Rejoice!
Note:
Molefi Kete Asante is the author of 42 books, more than 200 articles, the
father of Afrocentricity, and the creator of the first doctoral program in
African American Studies.
One can never be absolutely certain about the figures of religious membership such as those cited below, as the various religious groups have varying standards for counting membership, e.g. currently enrolled vs. enrolled some time in the past. However, I assume that the following is probably as good as any in giving rough approximations of relative growth rates and rankings with a bit of self-exaggeration per the reports that I have seen evaluated in the past:
Growth rates for religion (and no religion) in the U.S.
*Source: American Religious Identification Survey by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The current New Yorker (1/21/02) also has an article ("Lives of the > Saints") that cites some vastly different growth rates and overallnumbers apparently self-reported by the Mormons and Southern Baptists ("During the past thirty years, the number of its [Mormon] adherents in the United States has increased by nearly two hundred and twenty-five per cent to more than five million, (In the same period the ranks of Southern Baptists, the other fast-growing major denominations in the country, have swelled forty per cent, to sixteen million.")).
Whatever the true numbers, I am not exactly enthused about either of these groups. Each has a past history of racism, which it has cleaned up a bit officially, although such attitudes tend to linger on through subsequent generations. Each is anti-gay. Each tends to subordinate women in varying ways and degrees. Each is withholding in its disposition towards social services. The Mormons have their own internal welfare system and, thus, are prone to reject publicly funded and directed ones. Faith-based programs, needless to say, would seem to be right up their alleys. But probably "faith-based" allocations will remain a bone of contention, as such religious groups are intensely competitive and prone to attack each other's authenticity.
As one with theological training, I am a total skeptic about the general authenticity of both of these religions, which tend to make it up as they go along. For instance the present article in the New Yorker on the Latter Day Saints, while it has a number of snide things to say, does not point out that the religion, or at least the Book of Mormon, was apparently based on a relatively obscure penny dreadful novel from which its founder Joseph Smith presumably cribbed his story line. The Mormons, as I have personally encountered them, are generally no better nor worse than most people. They are clannish. And G-d forbid that a relative, as is the case with one of mine, is converted by them, as one then becomes the target for conversion -- in this life OR in the next. The Mormons believe in baptism after death and have carried out, according to the current article, some 200 million posthumous baptisms including such notables as Buddha, Shakespeare, Einstein, Elvis, and all the deceased popes. They are very tough on both their dissenters and women. The Southern Bapists are less centralized and a bit more diverse in disposition.
For those not familiar with American religious history, the US has been a fertile source of made up or made over religions. The traditional Protestant traditions were transplanted to this country, often with a great deal of intellectual sophistication built into their theologies. However, in the 19th century divisions within these traditions between the so-called "old lights" (intellectual) and "new lights" (highly emotional) versions opened up and were further exacerbated by the Civil War. "Born agains" are the product of the latter's emotivism and are free wheeling in their quick changes in doctrine, practice, and prejudices.
As the New Yorker article indicates the older and established churches are fading away for the most part -- hurried along by internal scandals and such that hit the media periodically. One could see when I was studying theology mid century that American religion was dying. The "death of G-d" theologians put the official lid on this decline. Most of those studying theology with me departed to other careers in public service or academic fields. There are some fundamental humanistic values left behind for most of us, I think. And I am accused on occasion of preaching -- guilty as charged. But institutional religion in America must now be held suspect for its financial scams and tendency to encourage the worst of human instincts and prejudices -- particularly the revenge impulse that has so discredited our criminal justice system and may be fueling our present disposition to 'punish' enemies out there -- real or imagined.
Be wary of religious fundamentalism -- and particularly those brands practiced by super powers. There are some good people who believe, but many more employ their religions as a shield for their prejudices -- or worse.
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BLACK AFRICANS OF ANCIENT EGYPT WROTE THE HOLY BIBLE-AND
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS HIDING AND SUPPRESSING THIS TRUTH.
African Man and Woman: "And Ye Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall
Make You Free." Holy Bible-John 8 : 32. According to a Ghanaian
writer and researcher based in the United States of America (USA), Nana
Banchie Darkwah, Ph.D., emphatically states this as fact in his book: 'The
Africans Who Wrote The Bible-Ancient Secrets Africa and Christianity Have
Never Told', Aduana Publishing Co., 2000, P.O. Box 2781, Russellville,
AR. 72802, USA. " However, the worst lie and sin of the Church was the
premeditated transformation of the racial and ethnic identities of Jesus
Christ, his mother and the entire people of the Bible from black people they
were to white people to satisfy emerging European racist sentiments against
black people"(Nana Banchie Darkwah, ibid. introduction, page i).
First of all, for one to understand the truth of the above statement and
accept it as a fact, that Black Africans of Ancient Egypt Wrote The Holy
Bible, thus, one must dispel the erroneous notion and fabricated lies that
Christian Europe, particularly the Catholic Church, have done in painting
the Ancient Egyptians as pagans, heathens and devils. Also, one
must understand that Christian Europe's and the Catholic Church's
motives for attacking Ancient Egypt in such a negative vein, is due to the
fact that Ancient Egyptian Priests were the Scribes who wrote what we have
come to know today as the Holy Bible. Moreover, Ancient Egypt from its
pre-dynastic period up to its Golden-Age of pyramid building was a an
unadulterated predominately Black race of people (3500-2100 B.C.E.).
The descendants of these Ancient Egyptians are living throughout Sub-Saharan
Africa, today, particularly in the nations of Ghana, Nigeria and Cote
d'Ivoire. The very first "Bible" or "Scroll" on record produced by man, with
regards to paying honour and divine respect to a "Creator of all Mankind"
was that of African people of the Nile Valley and Great Lakes regions of
Central, East and Northeast Africa. The Book was called by its
African Creators and developers..."The Book of The Coming Forth By Day and
Night." It was translated from its original hieroglyphic text
into the English language by several Europeans since the latter part of the
19th Century A.D. The easiest one to read is called.."The" (Egyptian)
"Book of the Dead." This work was translated by British Egyptologist Sir
Ernest A. Wallis Budge, London, 1895 A.D. This Original
Bible was produced by Black Africans approximately 3,400 years before the
Old Testament, and more than 4,200 years before the New Testament, and
countless Versions of it have been written and published (Dr. Ben Jochannan,
A Chronology of the Bible-Challenge To The Standard Version, USA.).
-NKWA(ANKH)-
"This Ancient Egyptian cross is the earliest and most ancient sacred symbol of religion. Egyptologist that believe they have successfully deciphered Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics say it is called the ANKH, meaning LIFE. The meaning is correct, however, that is not what the Ancient Egyptians called it. The original Ancient Egyptian word that Egyptologists tried to decipher was NKWA. The language from which this word originated is Akan and it actually means LIFE. This symbol was the Ancient Egyptian sacred religious symbol that reinforced the cross on which Jesus was crucified, as a sacred Christian symbol. How did this happen? The early Christian Church of Ancient Egypt adopted the NKWA symbol as the symbol of their Church and called it Crux Ansata. From here, it was taken to Rome, and there it became a Christian symbol with only a slight variation in design. The symbol of NWKA below was excavated from the tomb of the Akan King Tutu Ankoma, the boy king of Ancient Egypt whose name Europeans have corrupted to Tutankhamun. He ruled from 1336-1327 B.C." (Nana Banchie Darkwah, Ph.D.). Picture of The NKWA (ANKH-CROSS) -Picture of Akan King Tutu Ankoma-Boy King of Ancient Egypt(Name Europeanized to Tutankhamun)- -Ethnic (Tribal) Groups and Intelligentsia of Ancient Egypt- Nana Darkwah (The Africans Who Wrote The Bible) says that the intelligentsia of Ancient Egypt was headed by such ethnic groups as the Akan, Ewe, Ga-Andangbe, Hausa and Ibo. However, he asserts that the Akan was the main ruling class in Ancient Egypt since the majority of Ancient Egyptian kings had Akan names. He gives an example of the Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty who built the Great Pyramid was "Akuffu" and not "Khuffu". Also, Nana Darkwah gives the correct Akan name of the younger son of Akuffu as "Dade Afre" and not "Djedefra", and his elder son was"Okyere Afre" and not "Chephren". He goes on to cite the western scholars incorrect naming of the Ancient Egyptian city Memphis. He says Memphis was an ancient African city and it is still a modern African city called Mamfe. He says Mamfe is located today in the eastern region of Ghana of the Akuapem people. "These are the people of Ancient Egyptian kings Akuffu, Dade Afre, and Okyere Afre and others" " (Nana Darkwah, The Africans Who Wrote the Bible, page xii). -Ga-Adangme In Ancient Egypt & Israel-
The history of Ancient Egypt also has numerous Ga-Adangme names, confirming that the Ga people were in Ancient Israel (Kanaan) and Ancient Egypt. Also, one can find Ga names amongst today's so-called Jewish people. "The most popular of the Ga-Adangme names used by today 's so-called Jewish people is the name of the former Prime Minister of Israel, called Netanyahu. This name was derived from the two Ga-Adangme names "Natey" and "Nyaho"-Neteynyaho" (Nana Darkwah, The Africans Who Wrote The Bible, page 31). -Ewe People In Ancient Times- Around 2700 B.C.E., the Ewe people were among the African ethnic groups that lived in the region of modern day Syria, stretching down to the estuary of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. In the book Civilization Before Greece and Rome, H.W. F. Saggs stated that Egyptian documents mentioned a major international power in north Syria called Kheta, and the cuneiform inscriptions knew of a land of Hatti linked to Carchemish on the Euphrates in north Syria. Hatti and Kheta were evidently the same name .(1989, page 10). Incidentally, the ancient name Carchemish on the Euphrates River in north Syria reveals that the Ga ethnic group lived in this region. The name Carchemish derives from the Ga language. It is derived from the Ga words Kaa Kee Mi-meaning do not tell me. Note: "Mi" in the Ga language is the same semantically and phonologically as the English word "M" (Nana Darkwah, The Africans Who Wrote The Bible, page 123). Now, the Ewe ethnic group. The international power that was in the region of north Syria was the Ewe people.
This fact can be discerned because they left their language. The words and names Hatti and Khetta are from the Ewe language. These are names that are still used by Ewe people, today. Ancient Kheta was a geographical location of a place of the Ewe people in North Syria. Today, the Ewe people have established a city named Keta located in the Volta Region of Ghana. The Ewe people were later in Ancient Egypt where they were also Kings and Priests along side the Akan and Ga-Adangme. "They were linked to the El Amarna Letters found in 1887 in modern Egypt. These letters are believed to have been the correspondence between Amenofe III (an Ewe name) and his son Akenten from 1370-1349 B.C. The name Amenophis is the Greek corruption of the modern Ewe name Amenofe (ending pronounced with an aspirant p)." "The Ewe people were therefore not only established in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, they were also established in Ancient Egypt and their story was part of Ancient Egyptian history, literature, and folklore. It was from there that their story also became a part of the biblical story" (ibid. page 124).
"The early apostolic fathers of Christianity and the Church knew of many
things that they did not want Christian masses to know about the
background history, content and people of the Bible. As a result,
the very design of Christianity was based upon protecting the Bible from
the lay masses. Until the Reformation, therefore, the Bible was secretly
guarded and its content was known to only a few in the Church.
Because of the perceived need to protect the Bible from the masses, the
earliest design and practice of Christianity was based upon placing a
cadre of priests between the Bible and the people" (ibid. page i).
-Aryan-Whites Know Well of The Black African Origin of Judaism &
Christianity- The African origin of Christianity was common knowledge
among western scholars and early apostolic fathers of the Church long
before the European Renaissance. This was common knowledge known
by Aryan-Whites in the past and is still known, today.
There have been numerous European scholars who have known and written about the falsehoods, fabrications and false assumptions in the foundation of Christianity. One such European-American researcher and writer was Gerald Massey, Volume 1 of 'The Natural Genesis: A Book of the Beginnings (1883). Massey called the story and practice of Christianity the legendary lying lore. In 'The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas in Europe, Leon Poliakov revealed that knowledge of the people of the Bible as Black people was common in Europe and in early European scholarship. James Cowles Prichard, by far the most popular anthropologist of the first half of the 19th century, elaborated around 1810 implying that Adam and Eve were Blacks (1996, page 211 see also Histoire Naturelle, pages 146-7, 151). In 1836, a knighted and renowned British orientalist, Sir Godfrey Higggins wrote 'The Anaclypsis, or an inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions. He pointed out that the people of the Bible were Black and that in all the early Catholic Churches of Europe: "the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures to be black (peoples). The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white , is himself perfectly black" (1836 page 7, see also Was Jesus Christ A Negro and The African Origin of the Myths and Legends of the Garden of Eden, page 14). -More Proof of Black Jesus and His Mother Mary- In 1875, Kersey Graves wrote a book entitled 'The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors'. Graves pointed out from clear evidence in Europe, that Jesus was Black and the people of the Bible were originally Black people. He wrote the following below:
There is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man, or at least a dark man, as there is of his being the son of the Virgin Mary, or that he once lived And moved upon the earth. And that evidence is the testimony of his disciples, who had nearly as good an opportunity of knowing what his complexion was as the evangelists who omit to say anything about it..In the pictures and portraits of Christ by early Christians he is uniformly represented as being black (from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, cited in Was Jesus Christ A Negro.reprinted in 1987 by Curtis Alexander, ed.) Note: Jesus (Christ) said before his execution by the Romans that "Whatsoever Is Bound On Earth Is Bound In Heaven-And St Peters Has The Keys To Heaven." The statue of St. Peters inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy is a Black man. St. Peters was a Black man. Thus, Jesus' last words before his execution was that a Black man has the keys to Heaven. This statement implied that all humanity must come through the Black race to enter Heaven. A similar statement was said by the Muslim Prophet Mohamed. Mohamed saw the feet of Bilal enter Heaven before himself. In Islamic teachings, Bilal was a Black Ethiopian slave before being liberated and subsequently becoming one of the 'first' converts to the Islamic faith. . -European Hatred of Jews And Blacks-Deeply Rooted In Religious Jealousy- Historically, the aristocracy of Europe has always shown hatred against the so-called Jewish people, since it was well known in their socio-political and economic circles that these people were of a Black African origin, who migrated out of Ancient Egypt up into Europe.
Due to the negative anthropological ideas and theories of early European scholars against Black Africans, thus, the knowledge and reality that Judaeo-Christian foundations of Europe actually originated from African theosophy and philosophy, has surely been a major source of social-political embarrassment for Europeans. The racist and extremist Europeans had always seen the so-called Jewish people with suspicion and contempt vis-à-vis their same contempt and ill-feelings they had towards Sub-Saharan Africans. That is to say, historically, the Europeans had no genesis of religion to claim as their own, other than what came up 'out of Africa', Christianity, which was brought to them by the so-called Jews. This fact has left the European (Aryan-Whites) with bitterness, enmity and jealousy against the so-called Jewish peoples and Africans.
Also, this fomented ill feelings among Europeans that the so-called Jewish people had deliberately deceived them so that the Jews would dominate Europe. "This is also the reason no credible reason has been given for the most atrocious massacre of blacks and Jews in human history" (Nana Darkwah, ibid. page 23). Finally, one must know that Aryan-White (European and American) tradition, Apostolic fathers of the Church, theosophical teachings and writings, as well as the Arabs, have all laboured over the past 500 years, trying to disconnect Black Africans from Ancient Egypt, in order to hide the true identity of the original authors of the Bible and the origin from whence the Bible originated, which was Ancient Egypt. In essence, what the Aryan-White race has attempted to do by 'high-jacking' Ancient Egypt: The strategy has been to kill the "Messenger" (Black Ancient Egyptians), but save and embrace the "Message" of the messenger for themselves (the Holy Bible text). It is important to know that Western curiosity and interest in Ancient Egypt, wanting it to be recognized at its genesis as an Aryan-White or Asian Civilization, thus induced Western scholarship to create the discipline science called Egyptology.
The Aryan-White race's main objective in establishing Egyptolgy is to destroy the Black African genesis of Ancient Egypt, and give the world a counterfeit analysis of this Great Civilization as being a creation of the Aryan-White race. However, the late Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegalese), who was a Physicist-Scientist, Egyptologist, Palaeo-anthropologist and World Historian, eloquently sums up the essence of the Aryan-White race's futile attempts to 'white-wash' Ancient Egypt. Diop: "Mankind trying to destroy the Black African genesis of Ancient Egypt, is like trying to drown a fish in the vast ocean!" BY THE MASTER TEACHER H.M. MAULANA. The Easter Page -- Traditions, History, and Dates of Easter http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm
The Traditions of Easter
As with almost all "Christian" holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication.
Since its conception as a holy celebration in the second century, Easter has had its non-religious side. In fact, Easter was originally a pagan festival.
The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. They did so, however, in a clandestine manner.
It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed. To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner.
As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ. It made sense, therefore, to alter the festival itself, to make it a Christian celebration as converts were slowly won over. The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed to its modern spelling, Easter.
The Date of Easter
Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. However, a caveat must be introduced here. The "full moon" in the rule is the ecclesiastical full moon, which is defined as the fourteenth day of a tabular lunation, where day 1 corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon. It does not always occur on the same date as the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical "vernal equinox" is always on March 21. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25.
The Lenten Season
Lent is the forty-six day period just prior to Easter Sunday. It begins on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is a celebration, sometimes called "Carnival," practiced around the world, on the Tuesday prior to Ash Wednesday. It was designed as a way to "get it all out" before the sacrifices of Lent began. New Orleans is the focal point of Mardi Gras celebrations in the U.S. Read about the religious meanings of the Lenten Season.
The Cross
The Cross is the symbol of the Crucifixion, as opposed to the Resurrection. However, at the Council of Nicaea, in A.D. 325, Constantine decreed that the Cross was the official symbol of Christianity. The Cross is not only a symbol of Easter, but it is more widely used, especially by the Catholic Church, as a year-round symbol of their faith.
The Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is not a modern invention. The symbol originated with the pagan festival of Eastre. The goddess, Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the rabbit. The Germans brought the symbol of the Easter rabbit to America. It was widely ignored by other Christians until shortly after the Civil War. In fact, Easter itself was not widely celebrated in America until after that time.
The Easter Egg
As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.
From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf or, if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.
Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real Easter eggs -- those made of plastic or chocolate candy.
Copyright © 1998-2001 by Jerry Wilson. Get permission to reprint this article. Traditions, History, and Dates of Easter http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm
THE TRUTH OF GOD
While we are pointing fingers at religious intolerance & acts of war/murder in the name of God & religion let's not leave out the bloody past of the so-called Christians or the Jewish sanctioned persecution of Christians during Roman times, etc. The irony of the so-called Holy Crusades, Roman Catholic Spanish Inquisition, Quaker witch burnings, the war on Communism the Yellow Peril, the so-called holy but contrived & vindictive war on Afghanistan, etc... is that Christ taught us to Love... not kill. Now, while Christians are being persecuted worldwide... hypocritical sell out (imposters) to the Christian faith (Sadduces & Pharisees = Wealthy clergy/priests & Conservative bizness men - the deceived elect) are persecuting true Believers & practitioners of the faith right here in the good old USA... everyday. I care little for any so-called Orthodox organized religion. Whenever they get that big God just seems to right out the door.
The Holy Roman Catholic Church the most powerful & rich multinational corpo ration & real estate holder with magnificent cathedral branches in every town & hamlet throughout the world (yet older & more ruthless than the Mafia) sanctioned & profited from the enslavement of Blacks knowing that the Messiah was a Black Man yet conveniently classified us a only 3/5ths human in order to justify slavery. You can't talk about Eurocentric Jews corrupting the faith without discussing the pact they made with Satan in the guise of Roman occupation & the Satanic compromises of the Roman Catholic Church or its influences on the compilation & manufacture of the Holy Bible. Nor the ancient archives of secret evidence hidden away in their high security vaults. Around the world Muslims killing Christians, Christians & Jews killing Muslims, Catholics killing Protestants, etc...
You cannot truly Love, trust & believe in God without knowing that the corrupt among them all are going to burn in Hell. But that is not to say that no good works & nothing good has come out of these folks. For truly God uses imperfect vessels to His own ends. Everyone has a part to play in this chess game between Principalities. Noah was not perfect but God used him to save civilization, Moses was not perfect but God used him to free the Hebrew slaves, Paul was not perfect but God used him to compile the scriptures & establish the Christian church which since the death of Yeshua has never been perfect. The divinely inspired holy books/scriptures penned by Mary Magdelene one of Christ's most devout apostles that remained loyal to the actual teachings of Christ was intentionally left out of the Bible by male chavanist sell outs & the role of women in religion reduced to mere servants to men. No. i do not like religious labels for they all have been corrupted. Yeshua said that He made The Way so plain that even a fool can not err. God's Laws are very practical. Man's traditions & policies take away our God given natural right of choice. The true church is not made of wood or stone. It lies in the purity of one's heart. The Holy Spirit dwells within the temple of our minds. Hence, i am simply a humble but imperfect Believer in the God of Love.
The rose by any other name is still the rose. Prophecy is being fulfilled. The Truth of God will be revealed.
Be Blessed Crystal CARTIERX
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Jews grapple with skepticism about Exodus story
Some doubt that scholarship requires change in beliefs
By KRISTEN E. HOLMES / Philadelphia Inquirer
The liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt is a freedom story that resonates beyond the Bible and was remembered at countless seder tables Wednesday evening with the beginning of Passover. The renowned Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel calls the Exodus a moment so central to Judaism that the event defines the people for eternity. Yet Judaism has been openly grappling lately with an uncomfortable reality: Archaeologists and other experts are finding no solid evidence outside Scripture that the Exodus, and the slavery in Egypt, ever really happened. One of the greatest stories ever told, it seems, may be a fable built on sand.
"The story of the Exodus did not happen the way the Bible depicts it, if it happened at all," said Rabbi David Wolpe, senior rabbi at Los Angeles' Sinai Temple. Rabbi Wolpe kicked up a storm last year when he gave several sermons and classes at Passover focusing on research that casts doubt on the Exodus as a historical event. In doing so, he revealed information that many rabbis and scholars have known for years - and shoved the discussion from the libraries out to the pews. Reaction was swift. Traditionalist rabbis took out newspaper ads decrying his words. He received hundreds of e-mails, letters and calls.
Many were positive, some vitriolic. Most simply asked questions. As Rabbi Wolpe pointed out, nearly 100 years of excavations have yielded no conclusive evidence that the Israelites were ever slaves, lived in Egypt, or wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Nor is there proof that they conquered Canaan with Joshua as their leader. Many scholars now believe that Israel arose indigenously out of Canaan, land that today is Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan and the West Bank of Israel. Under the prevailing theory, these Canaanites took on a new identity as Israelites and might have been joined or led by a band of Semites from Egypt, perhaps explaining the Exodus story, scholars say.
"I thought that it was foolish to assume that rabbis could handle this information and our congregants couldn't," Rabbi Wolpe, author of a number of popular books on Jewish spirituality, said in a recent interview. "So we explored this together." More important than whether five or 5 million Jews may have come out of Egypt is the meaning of the text, he said. The story is about the quest for freedom and how serving God ultimately makes one free.
"Archaeology and biblical history have demonstrated that the Bible is not intended to be taken as literal history," Rabbi Wolpe said. "It is a spiritual history, and that is the way modern Jews ought to relate to the biblical text." The rabbi's comments are only one example of controversy over the literal accuracy of sacred texts during the past year. A new biblical commentary issued by the Conservative movement tracks some of the same issues raised in Rabbi Wolpe's sermons.
The Etz Hayim commentary replaces the venerable Hertz Bible, which has been in use since the 1930s. The translations of the Torah are little different from previous Jewish versions. The controversy is contained in commentaries in the back of the book. Some challenge the historical authenticity of the Exodus story; others suggest that the account of the flood may have been borrowed from the story of Gilgamesh. The commentaries have been condemned by Jews who believe the Orthodox tradition that the Torah was dictated to Moses by God, letter by letter. Other faiths have been tied up in similar controversies.
The International Bible Society, creator of the most popular modern Bible in America, announced it was issuing a new translation of the New Testament. The New International Version Bible, proposed successor to the New International Version, includes what the translators call "gender-accurate" translations of biblical passages. Critics say the new version twists the original texts. Some Muslims and the Los Angeles public school system tangled over a translation of the Quran. Three hundred versions of the English translation done in 1934 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali had been donated to the school system.
The books were pulled form the shelves after some parents complained that some passages seemed anti-Jewish. Critics of the popular Ali translation say that it is archaic and fails to put the passages in an appropriate historical context. But for many people, questioning the escape of enslaved Israelites who followed Moses through the parted waters of the Red Sea to freedom is like chopping down a pillar on which Judaism stands. "I am for the side that says it did happen," said the theologian and novelist Chaim Potok, author of best-selling books including The Chosen.
"We can't know yes [that the Exodus happened], and we can't know no. So we speak about yes because a no means that's the end of it." Mr. Potok is a co-editor of Etz Hayim, a new Torah and commentary published by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents 1.5 million Conservative Jews. The book includes new commentaries that consider advances in archaeology, history and linguistics - several of which question the historical veracity of biblical events including the Exodus. "We think we have a book that is not only reflective of the theology but helps to challenge people," said Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. "I don't want to say to someone that the Exodus did or didn't happen. I want to raise questions for that individual." At the height of the controversy, some rabbis publicly disagreed with Rabbi Wolpe and privately told him they shared his views, said Rabbi Gerald Wolpe, David Wolpe's father and the rabbi emeritus of Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley.
"I guess it's being politically correct to do what they did. I thought it was somewhat hypocritical," said the elder rabbi, who is director of the Jewish Theological Seminary's bioethics center and a senior fellow at a similar center at the University of Pennsylvania. "In Judaism," he said, we "have something called midrash, which means you are allowed interpretation. This fundamentalism, that each word of the Bible must be accepted the way it is written, is unwarranted." David Wolpe said this month that he was not sure what he would discuss in this year's Passover sermons.
Though the controversy was at times hurtful, he said it has taught him to
watch what he says. Even so, he said he would change little about last
year's Passover sermons. "I remember what my wife said when the outcry first
took off," he said. "She said this is what happens when sunlight hits
people's eyes. But they'll adjust." Staff writer Jeffrey Weiss contributed
to this report.
Santeria: Religion of the Masses
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
The name by which the religion is now most commonly known, "Santeria," is
a pejorative term first applied by the Spanish to the religious practices of
the peasantry. It was used as a derogatory reference to the unusual amount
of devotion and attention paid to the Catholic Saints, often in preference
to Jesus Christ. This term was again used in Cuba to identify the "pagan"
religion. The Yoruba devotion to the Orishas, who were often referred to as
"Santos" ("saints") by both slave and slave-owners, was mistakenly seen as
the "fanatical" worship of demigods and the neglect of "God."
Therefore, the demeaning term "Santeria" was ascribed to the religious practices of the so-called "savages." Only in recent years, after having the label applied by outsiders for an extended period of time as the term began to be used by members of the religion.
Santeria or La Regla Lucumi originated in West Africa in what is now Nigeria and Benin. It is the traditional religion of the Yoruba peoples.
The European slave trade brought many of these people to the shores of Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, Trinidad and Puerto Rico, among others. But along with the bodies being brought over for sale into a life of misery, something else was being brought along, namely their souls and their religion.
The God Olorun interacts with the world and humankind through emissaries. These emissaries are called Orishas. The Orishas rule over every force of nature and every aspect of human life. They are approachable and can be counted on to come to the aid of their followers, guiding them to a better life, materially as well as spiritually.
Communication between Orishas and humankind is accomplished through ritual, prayer, divination and ebo or offerings (which include sacrifice). Songs, rhythms, and trance possessions are also means with which followers and believers interact with the Orishas and how they are able to affect their day to day lives so that they may lead deeper and fuller lives during their stay in this world.
In the New World, the Orishas and much of the religion was hidden behind a fa=E7ade of Catholicism with the Orishas themselves represented by various saints. The slave owners would then say: "look at how pious this slave is. She spends all of ter time worshipping Saint Barbara." Unbeknownst to them, the slave would actually be praying to Shango, the Lord of Lighting, fire and the dance, perhaps even praying for deliverance from that very slave owner.
This how the religion came to be known as Santeria. The memory of this period of Afrikan history is also why many in our religion regard the term Santeria as derogatory. The traditions of Santeria are fiercely preserved and full knowledge of the rites, songs, and language are prerequisites to any deep involvement in the religion. Initiates must follow a strict regimen and are answerable to Olorun and the Orishas for their actions. As a person passes through each initiation in the tradition, this knowledge deepens and their abilities and responsibilities grow accordingly. In fact, during the first year of their initiation into the priesthood, the initiate or Iyawo or 'bride' of the Orisha must dress in white for an entire year.
The Iyawo must not look into a mirror, touch anyone or allow to be touched, and they may not wear makeup, or go out at night for this year. Santeria is a syncretistic religion of Caribbean origin. It incorporates the worship of the Orisha (literally "head guardian") and beliefs of the Yoruba and Bantu people in Southern Nigeria, Senegal and Guinea Coast. These are combined with elements of worship from Roman Catholicism.
Its origins date back to the European slave trade when Yorubas were forcibly transported from Afrika to the Caribbean. They were typically baptized by the Roman Catholic Church upon arrival, and their native practices were suppressed. However, they developed a novel way of keeping their old beliefs alive by substituting each Orisha of their traditional Afrikan religions with a corresponding Euro-Christian Saint.
Many traditions within the religion recognize different equivalencies. One common example include: Babalz Ayi became St. Lazarus (patron of the sick)
Shangs became St. Barbara (controls thunder, lightning, fire.)
Eleggua or Elegba became St. Anthony (controls roads, gates, etc.)
Obatala became Our Lady of Las Merceds, and the Resurredted Christ
(father of creation; source of spirituality)
Oggzn became St. Peter (patron of war)
Oshzn became Our Lady of Charity (controls money, sensuality.)
Santeria is currently concentrated in:
Cuba and other Caribbean islands and the Hispanic population in Florida, New Jersey, New York City and Los Angeles in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, Venezuela, France, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico.
It had been actively suppressed in Cuba since the communist revolution - particularly during the 1960's. However, oppression has largely ended and the popularity and practice of Santeria exploded in Cuba during the 1990's.
Many Santerian beliefs are not freely discussed outside of the faith. In addition, there are many religious leaders whose beliefs and practices differ significantly.
The following is a general outline of what is known:
Deities: God is referred to as Olorun, or Olodumare, the "owner of heaven." He is the supreme deity, the creator of the universe, and of the lesser guardians, called Orisha. Each of the latter has an associated Christian Saint, a principle, important number, colour, food, dance posture and emblem. The Orishas need food in the form of animal sacrifice, and prepared dishes, as well as human praise in order to remain effective.
Ritual Sacrifices: These forms are an integral part of many Santerian religious rituals. The animal's blood is collected and offered to the Orisha. Chickens are the most common animal used. Their sacrifice is believed to please the Gods and to bring good luck, purification and forgiveness of sins.
Possession: Rhythmic sounds and feverish dancing during Santerian rituals are believed to lead to possession of the individual by the particular Orisha being invoked. The individual then speaks and acts as the Orisha. Veneration of Ancestors: One's ancestors, called Ara Orun ("People of Heaven") are refereed to for moral guidance and example. Their names are recited at family ceremonies.
The following Santerian practices are known:
Secrecy: Very little information about beliefs, rituals, symbolism, practice are released to the general public. One has to be initiated into the faith before information is freely released and shared.
Tradition: Santeria is not a religion of a book, like Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Like most Aboriginal religions, it is preserved by oral tradition.
Ritual: A ritual typically begins with the invocation of Olurun. Drums provide background Afrikan rhythms. The Oru or Rhythm changes to that associated with a specific Orisha, who is then invoked as well. Animals, most commonly chickens, are sacrificed during many rituals. Dancing is another main component of the ritual. Priesthood: Priests are called Santeros or Babalochas. Priestesses are called Santeras or Iyalochas. Olorisha can refer to a priest or a priestess. They are trained for many years in the oral tradition of the faith. This is followed by a period of solitude before being initiated. They learn dance, songs and healing methods.
Botanicas: These are stores that specialize in providing Santerian supplies. They sell charms, herbs, potions, musical instruments, and other materials used by the followers.
There are many national variations to this religion. This is particularly obvious in places like Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. where the Spanish speaking population has many national origins. Mexican Santeria, for example, emphasizes its Roman Catholic roots; it often includes nationally based icons, like the Virgin of Guadeloupe. Cuban Santeria tends to emphasize its Afrikan origins.
Many conflicts have arrived by the practices of Santeria. There has been considerable friction between Santerians and groups promoting the care and treatment of animals. The source of the conflict is the animal sacrifices, which form an integral part of some of their rituals. Chickens and other small animals are ritually sacrificed at times of serious sickness or misfortune and at times of initiation. Santerians defend their practices by pointing out that:
The animals are killed in a humane manner and later eaten, just as the many of millions of animals slaughtered daily in North American commercial establishments.
Ritual sacrifice of animals was a extensively practiced in ancient Israel and was only discontinued after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in the eighth decade A.D.
They feel that the sacrifices must continue because their Orisha need the food. Animal sacrifices have formed part of their religion for over one entire millennium.
They believe that although the people were yanked away from their homes involuntarily in Afrika and enslaved in the New World, Orisha, the religion and its power could never be chained down and the religion survives now -- not as an anachronism, but ever grown among Afrikan peoples in the Diaspora.
Santeria speaks to the spirituality of Afrikan peoples. It represents their direct connection and relationship with the spiritual God force. It emboldens the Alpha and Omega of Afrikan peoples. It symbolizes the power of the Afrikan despite his physical enslavement. But most importantly, Santeria is Afrikan in origin and its Gods are BLACK / AFRIKAN.
In the practice and belief system of Santeria, Afrikan peoples see themselves; become in-tuned with nature, the cosmos and the universe. They become in-tuned with the holistic nature of their life and being. They become God-like. This is the Afrikan way.
Shem Hotep Dr. Nantambu is an Associate Professor, Dept. of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, U.S.A. a Public Policy versus Human Needs.
The following article is one of a series of preludes to the very first book
of The Five Books of Emmanuel entitled The Mysterie"s of God--Sealed
In The Mysteries of The Atom." This very first book will be a
meta-physical study of Creation. Therefore, it is also important to
remember that, while physics is the study of the relationship between matter
and energy, meta-physics, in its highest form, is a study of the
relationship between thought energy and matter. With that in mind,
meta-physics, in its highest form, can also be described as the study of the
power on mind over matter, or the study of the power of the Pure and Perfect
Mind of God the Creator over matter.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 1)
To truly understand the creation of a mental neutron star and black-hole, we need to first develop some understanding of a physical neutron star and black-hole.
Therefore, for the sake of our readers who may not have read the things I wrote in the past concerning physical neutrons stars and black-holes, let us start with a review. When a fire star with a mass three times greater than the mass of the sun run out of hydrogen to fuse into helium, and helium to fuse into carbon, and so forth until nuclear fusion stops at iron, it collapses into the formation of a neutron star, If the original mass was more than three times greater than the mass of the sun, it ultimately collapses into the formation of a black-hole, wherein time does not pass and mass has no volume.
There anti-matter and the Black Light thereof are in their purest forms--a rebirth of the Original Light (or Original Intelligence) of Creation in its purest form, from which no color of light (or intelligence) can escape the judgment of its gravitational influence. To further understand the formation of a mental neutron star, we need to take a look at some of the components of a physical neutron star and how the relate to human behavior--as a result of the power of the Mind of God over matter. While a nuclear force of attraction expresses a fathering behavior in an atom, neutrons express a mothering behavior in atoms.
Protons can express either a son behavior, or brothering behavior, or a marriage behavior with an electron. Electrons can express a marriage behavior with a proton or a sistering behavior. A free-electron expresses the behavior of an unmarried sister.
The various behaviors of neutrons, protons, and electrons, within a fathering force of nuclear attraction, can be expressed as the electromagnetism that holds an atomic family together and allows it to attract other atomic families. Therefore, these very same sets of behavior are found in Adamic families, wherein the Spirit of Knowledge is the nuclear force of attraction--under which mental magnetism hold the Adamic family together and enables it to attract other Adamic families. Both electromagnetism and mental magnetism possess the power to process knowledge and radiate it as intelligence. In the physical arena, such radiation of intelligence is called electromagnetic radiation.
Therefore, let us take a look at three forms of electromagnetic radiation and how they related to John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth in "The Creation of Spiritual Evidence, Infinite Signs, and Living Proof of God's Existence." The first order of electromagnetic radiation is the Alpha particle, which is made up of two neutrons and two protons, expressing a dual mother and son behavior, of a dual expression of Madonna and Child.
Because of the power of the Pure and Perfect Mind of God over matter, two images of the Madonna and Child appeared on earth. The following excerpt is taken from page 220 of "The Gods of The Egyptians" by E.A. Wallis Budge. It is not being presented to open the door to any debates on whether Horus and/or Jesus were born through a process of partheno-genesis. but rather to shed some light on how what happened in the beginning of Creation cause two images of the Madonna and Child to appear on earth. appea"Among the various people by whom Isis is venerated most be mentioned those of Syria, who identified her with certain of their local goddesses, and it is clear that early Christians bestowed some of her attributes upon the Virgin Mary.
There is little doubt that in her character of the loving and protective mother she led strongly to the imagination of all Eastern people among whom her cult came, and that the pictures and sculptures wherein she is represented in the act of suckling her child Horus formed the foundation for Christian figures and paintings of the Madonna and Child. Several of the incidents of the wandering of the Virgin with the Child in Egypt as recorded in the Apocryphal Gospels reflect scenes in the life of Isis as described in the texts found on the Metternich Steele, and many of the attributes of Isis, the God-mother, the mother of Horus, and of Neith, the goddess of Sais, are identical with those of Mary the Mother of Christ.
The writers of the Apocryphal Gospels intended to pay additional honour to Mary the Virgin by ascribing to her the attributes which up to the time of the advent of Christianity they had regarded as the peculiar property of Isis and Neith and other great indigenous goddesses, and if the parallels between the mythological history of Isis and Horus and the history of Mary and the Child be considered, it is difficult to see how they could possibly avoid perceiving in the teaching of Christianity reflections of the best and most spiritual doctrines of the Egyptian religion. However, an Alpha particle cannot penetrate a thin sheet of paper.
Therefore, the dual image of the Madonna and Child could not radiate intelligence great enough to penetrate the conscious awareness of those in Palestine that worshipped the letter of the law, which they had written on paper.
The second order of electromagnetic radiation called a Beta particle had to be created before the Madonna's Child could radiate intelligence strong enough penetrate even brick walls.
Therein the Madonna's Child, a proton, expresses the mothering behavior of a neutron emitting a positron, which, when it come in contact with an electron, produces a gamma-ray. Gamma-rays are the three order of electromagnetic radiation, and they can indeed penetrate a brick wall. But the Beta particle had to come first, and that is where John the Baptist came in, and that is where I will continue Part 2.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 2)
The second order of electromagnetism is produced when a neutron becomes a proton emitting an electron called a Beta particle. Beta particles move at a speed near the speed of light. They can indeed penetrate paper. Therefore, the movement of John the Baptist was at lightning speed, and it did indeed penetrate the conscious awareness of those who worshipped the letter of the law that they had written on paper. But what does a neutron becoming proton emitting an electron called a Beta particle tells us about the nature of John the Baptist? As a mental neutron, like Jesus would become before emitting a positron, John the Baptist expressed a mothering behavior toward the Hebrews that could be associate with a mother's nurturing love for her children. Jesus expressed this mothering behavior in the following verse:
MATTHEW 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killeth the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
However, after possessing such mothering and nurturing love for the Hebrews, John the Baptist became a proton expressing brotherly love and establish a brotherhood among his disciples, some of who he would later share with his brother Jesus. And as a proton John the Baptist emitted the second order of electromagnetism called a Beta particle. Therefore, the creation of a Beta particle is at the root of how John the Baptist processed knowledge and radiated it as intelligence with enough strength to penetrate the conscious awareness of those who worshipped the letter of the law written on paper. At the point of being protons expressing brotherly love behavior, there wasn't much difference between John the Baptist and Jesus. They were indeed brothers of the order, as with Elijah and Elisha.
MATTHEW 11:13-14
"For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John."
"And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come"
However, while John the Baptists was a neutron before he became a proton, Jesus started out as a proton who had to learn to develop that same nurturing and mothering love that John the Baptist first has in starting out as a neutron. Once Jesus became a neutron, he emitted a positron, anti-matter, the product of pure and perfect thought and thought energy. Whenever the positron would come in contact with an electron representing the negative forces on impure and imperfect thought and thought energy, it would produce the third order of electromagnetic radiation called a gamma-ray. Gamma-rays had the power to pierce right through the conscious awareness of those who worshipped the letter of the law written on paper.
And such are "The Mysteries of God--Sealed In The Mysteries of The Atom" and also in the mysteries of Adam.
REVELATION 10:7
"But in the days of voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the Mysteries of God should be finish, as he declared to his servants the prophets."
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 3)
The entire Book of Revelation is about breathing the Spirit of Life from God into man's nostrils and creating man's soul (or at least the soul of one man) in the image of the Pure and Perfect and Mind of God the Creator himself. We define man's soul as being a divinely inspired sphere of knowledge, light (intelligence), life and energy retained in the mental, molecular, and motor activity of the human brain--until the transformation or of death of the brain. With the proper education and enlightenment, the soul can unleash its power to generate spirits (or energize thoughts) with energy levels above and beyond those produced by the biochemical conversions, exchanges, and releases that occur during thought processes not divinely inspired.
The generation of such high level thought energy levels can produce super-natural mental forces of attraction, such as necessary in the creation of a mental neutron star and black-hole. The foundation of such super-natural power is a biological fusion between the Seven Spirits of God (the seven eyes), and the Seven Senses of Man (the seven horns).
The place of such biological fusion is the seven vertebrae that make up the cervical spine, such is the Works of God. With all these things in mind, we will continue our meta-physical study of creating a mental neutron star and black-hole from the point of view of releasing the Seven Seals that were placed on the Seven Spirits of God and the Seven Senses of Man. Only harmony and unity exist between the Word of God and the Works of God. The Word of God is Truth, and Truth is from heaven, and heaven itself bears witness of the Truth, and the divine order the Creator placed in Creation says Amen.
Therefore, anything that expresses disharmony and separation between the Word of God and the Works of God should never dogmatically be declared or naively accepted as the Word of God. Maintaining pure and perfect harmony and unity between the Word of God and the Words of God is were the Book of Revelation excels above all others. It begins with establishing a relationship between the Seven Spirits of God, through which the Word of God comes, and the Seven Days of Creation, the Seven Senses of Man, and the Seven Churches, the Works of God into which the Word of God is received.
Though listed as the second church in Revelation 2:8-11, in the divine order of Creation, it is actually the first church. Its primary function is to give life to the other churches. As a Crown of Life for the other churches, it is associated with the Spirit of Knowledge, which was the dominant creative force in the very first day of Creation. Therefore, if is also associated with man's sense of thought, the first of man's two spiritual senses. It is through man's sense of thought that the Church of Smyrna receives knowledge of and from God that is processed into forming the intelligence through which it gives life to the other churches. In Revelation 6:1-2, the opening of the first seal is associated directly with the Church of Smyrna.
The sounding of the first in Revelation 8:7 is associated directly with this church. In Revelation 16:2, the first angel to pour out its vial is also associated with the Church of Smyrna. And everything that is associated with the Church of Smyrana is associated with the first of the Seven Spirits of God, the First Day of Creation, and the first of the Seven Senses of Man. This same harmony and unity between the Word of God and the Works of God applies to each of the other churches, which we will discuss in Part 4.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 4)
To further recognize the harmony and unity that exist between the First Day of Creation and the first church, the Church of Smyrna, let us take a closer look at the harmony and unity that exist between a nuclear force and the Spirit of Knowledge as a mental force of attraction. Remember that the thoughts of God were first radiated as Black Light, which laid the foundation for the creation of both matter and anti-matter. In the First Day of Creation, the thoughts of God, like the writings of Emmanuel Afraka, were scattered throughout the universe of darkness. That produced a need to create memory locations throughout the universe of darkness, wherein the scattered thoughts of God might be gathered together and stored in memory.
These memory locations became nuclear forces of attraction, wherein various atomic families (chemical elements and chemical compounds) would preserve that memory and use it to create heaven and earth at the Word of God. As the Crown of Life that is to give life to the other churches, the Church of Smyrna processes knowledge and radiates it as Black Intelligence, or Black Light, the Original Light of Creation.
Thereby the Spirit of Knowledge and the intelligence radiated from within creates a mental force of attraction. Like the atomic families that preserve and use the memory locations known as nuclear forces of attraction, the Adamic families drawn into the Seven Churches by this mental force of attraction are preservers and users of memory locations. The use of such memory locations will ultimately produce a mental neutron star and black-hole, wherein time does not pass, mass has no volume, and memory is stored in its purest form, anti-matter, which also represent the Holy People, who are in no way materialistic or animalistic in behavior (see Daniel 12:7). Remember that Black Light produced both matter and anti-matter, and the neutron was the first particle of matter to be formed in the Second Day of Creation, the day in which the Spirit of Love was the dominant creative force--working within nuclear forces of attraction, or the mental force of attraction known as the Spirit of Knowledge.
Therefore, like the Spirit of Love, the neutron is also associated with being the mother of all the forces that hold the physical and natural universe together in order that the Will of God, the Works of God, and the Word of God might all be fulfilled in Man. Thus the Spirit of Knowledge is the Father of our souls, and the Spirit of Love is the Mother of our souls. I once worked with a Rastafarian tabloid newspaper in Philadelphia called "International Hot Spice." In the words of some of the members of the Rastafarian group that published the paper, "The Law of God is Love, and Love means Love Or Vacate Earth." For mortals, to vacate earth would mean death.
Therefore, to this Rastafarian group the Law of God was love or die. By the way, this Rastafarian group didn't recognize Haile Sellassie as God or Christ. To this Rastafarian group, Jesus or Yahshua was Christ and Haile Sellassie was the greatest of the Ethiopian elders to go in the name of Christ's plan of salvation for Ethiopian people.
DEUTERONOMY 6:5
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
LEVITICUS 19:18
"Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord."
All of which brings us to the second church, the Church of Philadelphia, and its relationship with the Seven Spirits of God, the Seven Days of Creation, and the Seven Senses of Man.
The primary function of the Church of Philadelphia is to serve as the government of New Jerusalem, wherein the knowledge of the Laws of God, (or the Law of Love) is processed and radiated as intelligence and discipline. For true love (or love in its purest form) is not a feeling or an emotion, but rather an intelligence and a discipline.
The intelligence is that the Laws of God were given to us not to eternally bind us an endless propagation of news designed to reinforce the original Law of Love, but rather that the original might be fulfilled within our consciences and hearts. For once fulfilled, the Law of Love becomes our very nature, which sets us free to truly love God with all our heart, soul, and might, and to love of neighbor as ourselves.
Therefore, this intelligence reveals that fulfillment of the Law of Love is a prerequisite to becoming one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator himself, and one with the Creation of the Universe, which is Eternal Life. The discipline of the Law of Love is that, no matter what feelings or emotions our neighbors or enemies might arouse in us, the children of God must always honor their Mother, the Spirit of Love, and rise above feelings and emotions. For such is the way to establishing the kingdom of the Heavenly Father Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True Brotherhood of Man (and its government) being one and the same.
ISAIAH 9:6-7
"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
Speaking of justice, "Justice is the product of education" (Ras Iadonis). Such justice will be discussed later in relationship to the third church, the Church of Thyatira, whose primary duty is the administration of the new educational system of New Jerusalem.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 5)
As the first particle of matter to be produced by Black Light, the neutron also became the mother of all the forces that hold the universe together in order that the Will of God, the Works of God, and the Word of God might all be fulfilled in Man.
Thereby the neutron became the government of the universe. Therefore, the nature of the Church of Philadelphia reflects that same mothering behavior toward the citizens of New Jerusalem as a function of the government-always enforcing the Law of Love. Being the mother of all the active forces that hold the universe together as the life forces of the physical universe is concurrent to what is written in Genesis 3:20 concerning Eve being the mother of all living. In writing our Second Genesis, we the people of Black Intelligence must shed even greater Black Light on the harmony and unity that must exist between the Works of God and the Word of God. For we are now much more advanced in the spiritual evolution of man (or the divinely inspired mental evolution of man). With that in mind, we must also turn to the hieroglyphic writings of our ancestors, wherein Nu is concurrent to a nuclear force of attraction, and Nut is concurrent to a neutron. And quest who is at the proton level, the son or brother level, none other than Hehu himself (see page 133 of Volume I of "The Gods of The Egyptians" by E.A. Wallis Budge).
This revelation is for those who doubt that the original Hebrews were called He-hu-ba-ru, and that their faith was faith in establishing the kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True Brotherhood of man being one and the same. This revelation is also for those who doubt that both the original Messianic faith and original Hebrew faith were born out of the Gospel of Heru. In expressing the brothering behavior of a proton, Hehu represents the birth of the He-hu-ba-ru faith, the original Hebrew faith. In expressing the son behavior of a proton (the Madonna's Child), Hehu represented the Maashua, the Son of Heru who bring uprightness, righteousness, straightness, law, and order (see 296 of Volume I of "The Gods of The Egyptians" by E.A. Wallis Budge).
However, in later Hieroglyphic scripture, to make a distinction between the Messianic faith (the Maashua faith) and the Hebrew faith (He-hu-ba-ru faith), the son behavior of a proton expressed by Hehu became known as Shu, which we can see in the title Maashua, and on pages 298-303 of volume I of "The Gods of The Egyptian," wherein Shu and Tefnut are associated with Nu and Nut rather than Hehu and Hehut. As the watery abyss of Creation, Nu is concurrent to the black-hole wherein Black Light exist in its purest form.
Therefore, in writing our Second Genesis, the collapse of the mental neutron star will force us back into the watery abyss of Creation called Nu (as in being forced back in Abyssinian, Ethiopia) to produce Black Intelligence in its purest form, which sister Selamta Iyahna associates with the original United African State, as in state of being. If disharmony and separation exist between the Works of God and that which is thought to be the Word of God, then it is not the Word of God. It can only be a reflection of or a reference to the Word of God at best.
Therefore, in writing our Second Genesis, we must also be mindful not to make any such mistakes, and that no such mistakes made in the past be repeated by us. The Messiah (or the Maashua) doesn't come to be popular, but to be right, to correct error, and to set an example, and to die for the salvation of his people. Therefore, though the restoration of African divinity is the primary function of the Church of Ephesus, it is the duty of the Church of Philadelphia to govern such developments-to lead, to reign, to rule by example and not by force or might-always enforcing the Law of Love.
REVELATION 5:9-10
"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." "And hast made us unto our God kings and priest: and we shall reign on earth" [but not by force, or by might, but by the example of the Holy Spirit of the Messiah, and by the Law of Love].
But how will the mental neutron star become so large that it collapses under its own weight to form a mental black-hole? Remember that, in order to gather together his thoughts that had been scattered through out the universe of darkness, the Creator created memory locations through out that every same universe. Therefore, we must be mindful of the fact that many of those memory locations fell under the dominion of Red Light, Yellow Light, and White Light-representing the other three original races of men. Therefore, the red, yellow, and white Adamic families will produced isotopes of the black Adamic families within the Seven Churches; some may even join the churches. In the atomic families, isotopes are different forms of the most stable chemical element within a particular group-including the most stable form itself. They are all similar in behavior, but have different numbers of neutrons, and therefore different atomic weights. Hydrogen is known to exist in three isotopic form, hydrogen itself with its nucleus of only one proton and no neutron, deuterium with its one proton and one neutron, and tritium with its two protons and two neutrons. Tritium is therefore another expression of Madonna and Child. Deuterium is also called heavy water. Like the Madonna's Child reacting with John the Baptist, tritium reacts with heavy water in the nuclear fusion process. Therefore, with so many isotopes on the most stable Adamic families within the churches being form within and outside the churches, fusion is bound to occur between the memory locations that fell under the dominion of the four colors of light representing the original four races of men. Such fusion could only radiate more of the intelligence that would produce even more forces of mental attraction. Therefore, the mental neutron star would ultimately collapse into the formation of a black-hole, wherein Black Intelligence will produce it purest form, the restoration of African divinity.
However, because the mental neutron star that forms the black-hole involves the colors of Light that represents the original four races of men, and the colors of Light that represents the Intelligence of heaven and earth, the Law of Love must be extended to all the races of men and to the earth itself. For in the restoration of African divinity is the restoration of the divinity that was given to all four of the original races of men, who evolved on earth as a product of the intelligence heaven placed therein. One of my college professors, Dr. Cary Mills, once asked the class did any of us think that there was intelligent life in the universe. Son of the students replied that man proves that there is intelligent life in the universe. Dr. Mills replied, "Man is yet to prove that he represents intelligent life; for any organism that destroys its host cannot be intelligent life."
REVELATION 11:18
"And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 6)
No color of light can escape from the gravitational force of a physical black-hole. Therefore, no color of Intelligence will escape the judgment of the gravitational influence of a mental black-hole. With that in mind, let us take a look at the light (or intelligence) of a particular group who would doubt that the original Hebrews were called He-hu-ba-ru, and that their faith was faith in establishing the kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True Brotherhood of Man being one and the same. We focus on this group only because Christ himself focused on this group in his message to the Church of Smyrna and the Church of Philadelphia.
REVELATIONS 2:10
"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich), and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."
REVELATION 3:9
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie: behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." Understand that, in the Book of Revelation, the glorified soul of Christ was speaking from his throne in glory. This throne of glory (or Kingdom of Heaven), into which his brother John was carried away into the Spirit (or into a divinely inspired mentality), is also represented on earth. On earth it is represented by the 90% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that belongs to the spiritual universe (or the divinely inspired mental universe) of pure and perfect thought and thought energy-the dominion of Black Light. Therefore, the revelations of Jesus to his brother John were in the spiritual realm of Black Light and never fell into any white Jewish ethnic or genealogical realm.
Thus commonsense should tell us that Christ was not referring to the virtually all European and Indo-European ethnic and genealogical groups also called Jews. Though some of the members of those groups do indeed practice the religion of Judaism, many are atheists, and some are Christians, Buddhist, etc. Who Christ is referring to are those Europeans and Indo-Europeans who practice the religion of Judaism as in keeping the Spirit of the original Hebrew faith, and Hebrew Israelites, who make similar claims on the Old Testament and the linage of Abraham to suggest that their religion or way of life is also in keeping with the Spirit of the original Hebrew.
The claims of neither of these two groups are rooted in the truth. One group would suggest to us that God is a white racist and therefore all his chosen people were white. The other group would suggest to us that God is a black racist, and therefore all God chosen people were black. The truth is that, though it was born out of the Gospel of Heru, the original Hebrew faith, from its very conception, was the faith of two different races of people, Hamitic Ethiopians and East-Indians. Members of these two races of people came together in the common faith of establishing the kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True Brother of Man being one and the same. If these two groups, Jews that practice Judaism and Hebrew Israelites, are not keeping the original Hebrew faith, then what are they actually keeping? In their egotistical claims on the Old Testament, the linage of Abraham, and the Hebrew faith, they are actually keeping the lust of their own pride. Remember that, while the Devil manifests himself in human lust and greed, Satan manifests himself in the human ego and pride. Thus it is written that they are, or would be made the synagogue of Satan. Therefore, neither the impure and imperfect White Light of the Jews that practice Judaism, or the impure and imperfect Black Light of the Hebrew Israelites with escape the judgment of the pure and perfect Black Light that will form in the midst of the mental black-hole.
JOHN 8:39-40 and 44
"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham." "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
Does this mean that we disregard the Law of Love when dealing with our Jewish and Hebrew Israelite brothers and sisters, and condemn them? No, pure and perfect Black Light is not for condemnation, but rather for correction-Lord knows that we all need some-including me, or maybe especially me. For I too am a Hebrew by faith. Furthermore, a few white Jews have proven that there is a divine White Light among Jewish people that exist beneath the lust and greed that is commonly associated with the white Jews by so many. Albert Einstein was one such white Jew that proved that there is a divine White Light among Jewish people. Albert Einstein once said that every material possession was like a millstone tied around his neck.
Therefore, we know that he was free from the lust and greed in which the Devil manifests himself, the lust and greed so commonly associated with Jews by so many. His formula E = M x C^2 (Energy = Mass x the Speed of Light Squared) was a description of nature and not a prescription for a bomb. Einstein's whole approach to science was based on his belief that the more we understand Creation the more we understand the mind of our Creator. When confronted with the theory of quantum physics, he would always argue that God doesn't play dice. However, in being free from the ego and pride in which Satan manifests himself, Einstein was somewhat blind to the actual power of Satan, the power of darkness, wherein quantum physics is a reality. In honor of the legacy of a disciple of divine White Light, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein joined with a disciple of divine Red Light, Mohandas Gandhi, to present to the world (via the League of Nation) an anti-conscription Manifesto against obligatory military service-a white Jew that labor hard and long for peace on earth and goodwill toward all men.
There is also much hope that some of our Hebrew Israelite brothers and sisters might find the divine Black Light that exist among African people and become disciples thereof. The following is a copy of an email I received from a Miyka'el ben Yisra'el as spiritual evidence and a strong sign of such hope:
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 7)
Opening the third seal placed on the Seven Spirits of God and the Seven Senses of Man takes us to the third church, the Church of Thyatira. The primary function of this church is the administration of the new educational of New Jerusalem, which comes down out of the Kingdom of Heaven from God-God being Pure and Perfect Mind. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is represented on earth by the 90% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that belongs to the spiritual universe (or the divinely inspired mental universe) of pure and perfect thought and thought energy. It is within this 90% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that New Jerusalem will be seen coming down out of the clouds of the Kingdom of Heaven from God. Only the purer in heart will see God. Wherefore, these things will be hidden from the world in a mental black-hole from which no color of light can escape.
REVELATION 21:10
"And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." In the message to the Church of Thyatira, and in Revelation 22:16, the new educational system of New Jerusalem is called the Morning Star. The Morning Star will appear above the mental black-hole, where it will eternally remain under its gravitational influence-like the stars of the galaxies eternally remain under the influence of the black-holes that appear in their midst. Therefore, the world willing only see a sign of New Jerusalem having come down out of the Kingdom of Heaven from God, and the Morning Star is that very same sign.
MATTHEW 24:29-30
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light [meaning no color of light will be able to escape the gravitation influence of the mental black-hole], and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:" "And then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in heaven [in the form of the Morning Star], and then all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
REVELATION 2:26-28
"And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:" "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." "And I will give him the Morning Star [the New Educational System of New Jerusalem]"
REVELATION 14:14
"And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." Now we know that the clouds it is that the Son of Man must break through in order that he might he might come seated on a white cloud. The are the clouds within the human brain itself that exist between the 10% of the functions and dynamics of the brain that belong to the physical and natural universe of impure and imperfect though and thought energy and the 90% that belong to the spiritual universe of pure and perfect thought and thought energy.
Abraham gave 10% of his tithes to Melchisedec to maintain this 10% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain in relative peace, harmony, and unity toward the day when the rest of mankind might enter into the other 90% as Melchisedec had entered in. And what better way to break through the clouds that exist between the 10% of the functions and dynamics of the brain that belong to the physical and natural universe of impure and imperfect though and thought energy and the 90% that belong to the spiritual universe of pure and perfect thought and thought energy than a divine educational system. Understand that the Book of Zechariah is actually a prophecy of the economic, political, and religious battles and wars today's twelve tribes of Israel will encounter in their efforts to develop the new educational system of New Jerusalem.
Wherefore, Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, came as a Hebrew schoolmaster, who was killed between the altar and the temple-somewhere between the 10% of the functions and dynamics of the brain that belong to the physical and natural universe of impure and imperfect though and thought energy and the 90% that belong to the spiritual universe of pure and perfect thought and thought energy. Thus the blood of all the prophets from righteous Abel to Zechariah will be required of this generation (Matthew 23:35, KJV).
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 8)
Remember that the primary function of the Church of Thyatira, the third church, is to administer the new educational system of New Jerusalem. For those who doubt that the primary function of the third church will cause the blood of all the prophets from righteous Abel to Zechariah to be required of this generation, let us take a look at what happens when the third angel pours out his vial.
REVELATION 16:4-6
"And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of water; and they became blood." "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art Righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus." "For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, for they are worthy." Also remember that the Spirit of Faith was the dominant creative force in the Third Day of Creation. With that in mind, let us visit the Bible's most profound definition of faith.
HEBREWS 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." In this age of such highly advance science and technology, education has no doubt become the most universal exercise in faith known to modern man. Ras Iadonis declares that justice itself is the product of education. Truly education is indeed the substance of the justice hoped for, and the evidence of the justice not yet seen. Ras Iadonis' macro assessment of the true value education for his people as a whole is a valid as a micro assessment of the value of education, such as in the relationship between macroeconomics and microeconomics. The hope of nearly every father and mother on earth is that their children grow up to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, and productive members of the society in which they live. Our Heavenly Father and Mother, as divine representatives of the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit of Love, have the same hope for their children, the citizens of New Jerusalem. However, our Heavenly Father and Mother are the Father and Mother of our very souls. Therefore, the educational system has to be divine and founded upon Divine Science. For the hope is to build a new nation of self-sufficient, self-reliant, and self-governing people who are all productive members of a unified and divine whole. Thus divine education is the substance of one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. Every prophet, from righteous Abel to Zechariah, has labored to built such a nation. And as Abel was born out of the loins of Heru, the building of such a nation was born out of the Gospel of Heru as the great Messianic Plan, or the great Plan of Maashua. Therefore, it should be crystal clear my the primary function of the Church of Thyatira will cause the blood of all the prophets, from righteous Abel to Zechariah, to be required of this generation.
REVELATION 2:26-28
"And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations." "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father [Heru]" "And I will give him the morning star [the new educational system of New Jerusalem]."
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 9)
I start Part 9 by repeating a teaching of Ras Iadonis, "Justice is the product of education." If divine education is indeed the substance of one nation under God with liberty and justice for all its citizens, perhaps we should take a look at the Genesis and Revelation of the divine educational system of New Jerusalem from another perspective other than the Bible alone. Though they are not mentioned by name, this additional perspective also begins with Abel and his Father Heru.
This perspective will also give us a glimpse of the new initiate, through whom Christ and his Heavenly Father Heru will carry out the final step in their great Messianic Plan-the final step being the development of the divine educational system of New Jerusalem, the substance and evidence of a new nation truly under God with liberty and justice for all its citizens. The following excerpts are taken from pages 332-334 of "The Great Pyramid Decoded" by Peter Lemesurier: "In the foregoing chapters we have seen how the awareness of a Messianic World-plan-whether it derives from some ancient folk-memory or from actual precognition-permeates much of the Ancient World's mythology.
In particular we have observed its presence in the Hebrew, Egyptian, and Mayan traditions, and have discovered clear evidence that it lies at the very root of the design of the Great Pyramid. Indeed, the further back in time we explore, the clearer man's civilization was subsequently-or perhaps consequently-overwhelmed by some gigantic cataclysm wawareness of the Plan appears to been-for the Pyramid antedates by some millennia the available written records, and yet it is the Pyramid that the Plan's details are revealed most clearly and explicitly. This in itself would seem to contribute a measure of confirmatory evidence for the supposition that the Plan was once known in its entirety by a race of men who were unable or unwilling to measure up to its standards in practice, and whose which left few traces, apart from the knowledge enshrined in the Great Pyramid and a number of obscure folk-memories and esoteric traditions." Though no entire race of men have ever known the Messianic Plan in its entirety, it was indeed known by Heru and certain of his Hamitic Ethiopian descendants-among whom was his son Abel, as he is known in the Bible, or Horus, as he later became known by the Egyptians of the latter dynasties. It was written in some of the most ancient hieroglyphs that Heru's son, who was murdered by his brother, rose from the dead in accordance to the revelations of the resurrection in the Gospel of Heru.
The resurrection of Heru's son from the dead, marked the beginning of the original Messianic faith-the continuous rebirth and resurrection of the sons of Heru, continuously being reborn in the earth to teach men how to establish the kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God-according to where men were in man's spiritual evolution, or man's divinely inspired mental evolution. Certain of Heru's descendants are identified as the sons of God in Genesis 6:2. There it is evident that certain of Heru's descendants were either unwilling or unable to give up to the standards of the great Messianic Plan in practice. Yet among those the original Hebrew faith was born out of the Gospel of Heru. Thereby the original Messianic faith and the original Hebrew faith became two parallel faiths born out of the Gospel of Heru. Which is why Peter Lemesurier could observe the presence of the great Messianic Plan in both Hebrew and Egyptian traditions.
It presence in Mayan tradition has solely to do with the baptism of pure and perfect thought and thought energy poured upon Quetzalcoatl from a Pass-Over of the Star of Christ (Halley's Comet)-yet the very same baptism is at the root of its presence being observed in all three traditions. "But if knowledge of the Messianic Plan was so deeply-albeit subconsciously-in what we are pleased to call the Ancient World, it is no less securely rooted-even if often unrecognized-in the subconsciousness of man today.
Increasingly, thinking men are prepared to admit to their awareness that the world is set on a more and more downhill course-spiritually, morally, and physically-and that none steadily more attuned to that wavelength of receptivity which will eventually ensure maximum effect for thof the gods of modern man-whether politics, science, technology, wealth, comfort, security, or obsessive entertainment-can save him from destruction unless they are subordinated to some form of higher, spiritual authority which is conspicuously lacking in the contemporary worldŠ Consequently, he is increasingly prepared to turn to almost any 'savior' that presents itself [Matthew 24:11]-so that, subconsciously, his mind is becoming e expected Messianic return. Meanwhile, man's scientific advances is (whether he realizes it or not) ever more urgently preparing the ground for acceptance of the Messianic teachings. Steadily, scientific man is coming to realize that the observable physical world is in reality very different from what he has for so long assumedŠ Then stage, then is set for the Messianic initiate [through whom Christ and his Heavenly Father Heru will carry out their great Messianic Plan].
In the words of the ancient 'Hymn of the Robe of Glory' (from the Acts of Thomas) the king and queen of the east' (symbolic of the solar divinity) are about to dispatch their son to rescue from Egypt the pearl of great price guarded by the serpent. The sunrise of the new age will bring with it the Messianic figure, an emissary from the world of pure spirit [a world of pure and perfect thought and thought energy], who will rescue the precious jewel of man's soul from the terrestrial snakepit. Putting off his princely raiment, the redeemer will put on Egyptian clothes 'lest I should seem strange, as one that had come from without to recover the pearl, and lest the Egyptians should arouse the serpent against me.' We may interpret this sentence to mean that the Great Initiate will come as an ordinary man whose message will be expressed in terms acceptable from the point of view of contemporary science and knowledge. The story then concludes: 'And I caught away the pearl and turned back to bear it unto my fathers. And I stripped off the filthy garment and left it in their land, and directed my way forthwith to the light [Black Light] of my fatherland in the EastŠ" The Egyptians written of here would today would not be the ancient Egyptian slave master of the Old World, but rather the American slave masters of the New World. Therefore, though the new initiate is totally African in his earthly nature, and in his philosophical concept of a pure earthly identity, he puts on African-American clothes to avoid the American arousing the serpent against him.
This serpent is also written of on page 222 of Volume I of "The Gods of The Egyptians" by E.A. Wallis Budge. Therein the serpent is written of as a two-headed winged serpent monster, whose tail terminates in a human head, whereby it watches over its own image, which today would be the image of white supremacy, or Aryan superiority. The fatherland of the new initiate is Ethiopia. "Ultimately, however, what will eventually do more than anything else to make men's minds ripe for the Messianic initiative [Revelation 14:15] is scientific proof-proof produced by the fulfillment of predictive statements based on known and incontrovertible evidence. It is here that the Great Pyramid, in association with the surviving biblical texts, seems to have a vital role to play.
For if the Pyramid's predictions are borne out by historical fact in the years to come, then our interpretation of its symbolism will be validated and the truth of its message confirmed. And this in turn, in association with modern scientific knowledge will help to permit human acceptance necof the Great Initiate's teachings. Man's destiny will then be unmistakably revealed to him in all its breadth and splendor, and each human being will be faced with the ultimate choice of fulfilling or ignoring the conditions essary for its fulfillment [Revelation 20:12-15]" To be continued with the fourth church, the Church of Sardis, whose primary function is to develop Divine Science among today's twelve tribes of Israel as the foundation of the new educational system of New Jerusalem:
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 10)
In opening the Fourth Seal, we open up the relationships between the fourth church of the Seven Churches, the fourth of the Seven Spirits of God, which is the Spirit of Truth, the fourth day of the Seven Days of Creation, in which the Spirit of Truth was the dominant creative force, and the fourth sense of the Seven Senses of Man, which is the sense of sight.
JOHN 16:13-15
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into ALL TRUTH: for he shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear [through his inner sense of sight], that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." "He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you." "All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."
Truth is from heaven, and heaven itself bears witness of the truth, and the
divine order that the Creator placed in the Creation says, Amen. Therefore,
a divine meta-physical study of the Divine Science of Creation is the path
to ALL TRUTH. Thus the fourth church is the Church of Sardis, and its
primary function is to develop and/or organize Divine Science among today's
twelve tribes of Israel, to seal the servants of God in their foreheads with
the Seal of the Living God (Revelation 7:1-4).
In addition to or in connection with the fourth of things described in the
first paragraph, the number four holds some very valuable meanings to the
primary function of the Church of Sardis. Some of those meanings can be
found in the very first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, which is actually a
prophecy of the development of Divine Science among today's twelve tribes of
Israel. In the creation of a mental neutron star, fusion occurs between the
four colors Light that represent the cultures of the original four races of
men, like fusion between the intelligence of men from four different
cultures. Remember that electromagnetic radiation, Alpha particles, Beta
particles, and gamma rays, is a physical expression of knowledge being
processed and transmitted as intelligence in the form of radiation. Cosmic
radiation, X-rays, is a physical expression of matter being bombarded with
electrons until it is forced to reveal the intelligence hidden inside.
Together they represent the four fundamental forms of radiation. When
physical fusion occurs, the four fundamental form of radiation remain
around, and about, and within the area of fusion. Therefore, when mental
fusion occurs, the four fundamental form of radiation becomes a spiritual
expression of how the intelligence is radiated from the fusion and retained
around, and about, and within it. Therefore, these four fundamental forms of
radiation represent the spirits of the four living creatures, and give
testimony of why they had four faces (Ezekiel 1:12-21). Remember that a
proton decays from a neutron, but yet a proton can become a neutron emitting
a positron (an anti-electron), which, when it comes in contact with an
electron, produces a gamma ray. Wherefore, in Ezekiel 1:13-14, the four
living creatures ran (as a proton), and returned (as a neutron emitting a
positron), and then took on the appearance of a flash of lightning (a gamma
ray).
The Creation of a Mental
Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 11)
Now that we have taken a micro-cosmic look at the relationship between the
fourth church, the Church of Sardis, and the number four, let us now take a
macro-cosmic look at that very same relationship-also distinct from any
earthly concept of reality, but yet can be realized as the cause of certain
earthly events. Here the four living creatures in the First Chapter of
the Book of Ezekiel are translated into the four Aryan Beast in Revelation
5:7-8, who fell down before the Lamb when he took the book to release the
seals thereon. They are called Aryan beasts because they have dominion
over the European-American educational system that prevails on earth to
perpetuate and sustain the philosophy of white supremacy-whether by design
or default, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. They are indeed
the masters of White Light, European Intelligence. Yet throughout the Book
of Revelation, these four Aryan beasts have a dual nature-especially the one
representing the United States. For they are caught between the white
power structure that occupy the seats of power within their dominions and
their desire to produce good government, one nation under God with liberty
and justice for all. Wherefore, it is for that reason that the four
Aryan beats fall before the Lamb when he takes the book to release the
seals.
Both the living creatures in Ezekiel 1:18 and the four Aryan beasts in
Revelation 4:6-8 are full of eyes. The four Aryan beasts use their
eyes to spy on the developments of New Jerusalem and its new divine
educational system. Wherefore, in Revelation 6:1-8, each of the four
Aryan beasts use those eyes to take terms saying, "Come and see" what's
developing as the Lamb takes the book and releases the seals thereon.
However, in being caught between their dual nature, the four Aryan beasts
must assure the white power structure that sit in the seats of power in
their dominions, and others within and outside their dominions that the
developments within New Jerusalem offers no threat to their economic,
political, or religious power. For there is great fear within the
white power structure that such developments might indeed lead to the End of
the World as it is now known to the white power structure that currently
reigns on earth. Therefore, because the power of those in the white
structure, who sit in seats of power, is so great, such developments,
especially the Divine Science, could indeed lead to nuclear war, the war of
Armageddon. Therefore, when the fourth seal is opened in Revelation
7-8, the rider of the pale horse was called Death, and Hell followed with
him. Such radical change as New Jerusalem and its Divine Science and
new educational system just don't come easy.
Understand that these four Aryan beasts, the United States, Great Britain,
France, and Russia, all have nuclear weapons, and a war between any of them
promoted by the white power structure that occupy the seats of power within
their dominions can destroy all life on earth. Therefore, when the
angle ascends out of the East in Revelation 7:1-3 with the seal of the
Living God, he instructs these four Aryan beasts to hold back the four winds
of the earth until God's servants were sealed in their foreheads with the
seal of the Living God. But let us take a look at what happens after
today's twelve tribes of Israel are sealed, and then set up the Seven
Churches, and the fourth church pours out its vial.
REVELATION 16:8-9
"And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun, and power was given
unto him to scorch men with fire."
"And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give Him
glory."
The Divine Science of New Jerusalem is the source of the heat through which
men will be scorched. Yet they will not repent of their ungodly
approach to science to give God glory for revealing a divine approach to
science.
In the Eighth Chapter of the Book of Revelation, please note that the
sounding of the seven angels (the Seven Churches) stopped at the sounding of
the fourth church. That means that, once the primary functions of the
first four churches were fulfilled, the mental neutron star was complete,
and all the things that would follow would lead to the creation of the
mental black-hole-starting with a mental super nova expressing the primary
function of the fifth church, the Church of Pergamos.
The
Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 12)
We are about to open the Fifth Seal, which is also
associated with the fifth church, the Church of Pergamos. The primary
function of the Church of Pergamos is the administration of the foreign
affairs of New Jerusalem. But first let me reiterate that the
establishment of the first four churches to carry out their functions
completes the creation of the mental neutron star. The establishment
of the last three churches to carry out their function evolves the creation
of the mental black-hole-beginning with a mental supernova. Remember
that fusion stops at iron, and a neutron star has an iron core, such as in
the rod of iron through which the Man Child rules all nations (Revelation
11:12 and 19:15). In be an expression of the first four churches, the
four fusion layers (helium, carbon, oxygen, and silicon) were still burning
around the iron core, building it up, until it succumbed to gravity and
collapsed to form the neutron star. The outer layers now fall in and
bounces off the neutron core, which creates a shock wave that blows off the
outer layers in what is known as a supernova. Thus a black-hole
is formed. The neutron core becomes the point of singularity, as in
the point of oneness with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator
himself. Since the outer layers never escape the gravitational force
of the neutron core, they form event horizon, a place of foreign
relationships, such as in the primary function of the Church of Pergamos.
For all light that reaches the event horizon is bent back into the neutron
core, from which no light (or intelligence) can escape. Therefore, the
physical events that take place in the event horizon produced by a physical
supernova are concurrent to the foreign relations that take place in the
Church of Pergamos after a mental supernova occurs-all domestic and foreign
intelligence absorbed into Black Light (or Black Intelligence), where it can
never be loss are destroyed.
Let us now take a look at what appears when the outer layers of a mental
neutron star are blown out in a mental supernova to form a mental
black-hole.
REVELATIION 6:9-11
"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the Altar the souls of
them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they
held:"
"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
"And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto
them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
fellowservants and also their brethren, that should be killed as they were,
should be fulfilled."
The souls that appeared under the Altar after the mental supernova were men
and women like Haile Sellassie, Marcus Garvey, Carter G, Woodson, Sojourna
Truth, John Hendrix Clarke, Steven Biko, Drusilla Dunjee Houston, J. A.
Rogers, Harriet Tubman, Cheikh Anta Diop, George Washington Carver, Mary
McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, etc. These all
labored in the force fields around the Altar of Black Light towards the
salvation of the black race, but never quite entered into the Temple of
Black Light. Therefore, there was no center of gravity for the Pan
African experience. Had one of these elders actually entered into the
Temple of God, his or her works would have become the center of gravity for
the entire Pan African experience, the center of Pan African civilization
and the advancement of the arts, sciences, technologies, and educational
systems therein. When the children of White Light (European
Intelligence) stole the works of Christ, who had indeed entered into the
Temple of God, they same his identity from that of a son of Black Light to
that of a son of White Light, and his works thereby became the center of
gravity for western civilization-so much so the time itself was recorded in
terms of Before Christ (B.C.) and After the Death of Christ (A.D.).
Therefore, no center of gravity could be formed within the Pan African
experience as long as the false image of a fictitious mythological white
Jewish Jesus was still burning hot in the conscious awareness of Pan African
people as the fire star of White Light (European Intelligence). For
the true Jesus was neither white nor Jewish; he was indeed a Son of Black
Light. Therefore, to recapture the true identity of Jesus, a mental
neutron star had to be created that put out the flame of fire star of White
Light within the conscious awareness of Pan African people. Thereby
Christ, as the Son of Black Light, becomes the center of gravity within the
Pan African experience. And only after producing a mental supernova
could these Pan African elders be seen as those whose works are finally
being given a center of gravity as part of the event horizon of the mental
black-hole, wherein all light (or Intelligence) is bent back into the point
of singularity within the black-hole (Revelation 6:9-11). Therefore,
the event horizon of a black-hole is current to the primary function of the
Church of Pergamos being the administration of foreign relations. All
things had to follow the divine order that God the Creator himself placed in
the Creation. Wherefore, God is the power and glory forever.
But Revelation 6:11 tells us that the works of others shall be killed as the
works of these Pan African elders were also killed. In preparation of
the day when the works of the Pan African elders would be given a center of
gravity, many in the Pan African community still maintain their works until
this very day. However, by way of the four Aryan beasts and the ten
kings (who are black men and not white men), their works will also be
killed. The difference is that, when their works are killed, they will
have managed to have drawn all colors of Light (or Intelligence) into the
event horizon of the black-hole. This divine gathering together of all
colors of Light (or Intelligence) would include the works of elders like
Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Leo Tolstoy, Tomo Geshe, Mary Baker Eddy,
Quetzalcoatl, Baha'u'llah, etc. All their light (or Intelligence) with
be bent into the point of singularity within the black-hole, which is
concurrent to being one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator
himself. All these things are done in preparation for the primary
function of the sixth church, the Church of Ephesus. The primary
function of the Church of Ephesus is the restoration of African divinity.
Therefore, the primary function of the Church of Pergamos, which is the
administration of the foreign relations of New Jerusalem, is evidence that
the restoration of African divinity is actually the restoration of all the
divinity that has existed among all colors of Light (or Intelligence).
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 13)
In opening the Fifth Seal, we also open the seals on the relationships
between the fifth church, the Church of Pergamos, and the fifth of the Seven
Spirits of God, the Fifth Day of Creation, and the fifth of the Seven Senses
of Man. The Spirit of Wisdom is the fifth of the Seven Spirits of God,
which is the power to know how, when, and where to apply the powers of
knowledge and truth. Therefore, by definition, the Spirit of Wisdom is
a premium asset in the arena of foreign relations. The foreign
relationship between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba was built upon the
Spirit of Wisdom. Knowing how, when, and where to apply the powers of
knowledge and truth, in regards to the Queen of Sheba, enabled Solomon to
reopen many of the old trade routes between Judah and Africa.
Wherefore, as a master in the art of foreign relations, Solomon strengthen
Judah against the racist threats of separation made by the ten tribes of the
northern kingdom of Israel.
Note that I used the expression, racist threats of separation. Though
most Jewish and European historians (and other that were guided by what
Martin Bernal identifies as the Aryan model) have manage to cover up the
white racism that existed in Israel, we only have to use but a little
commonsense to uncover its presence. A little commonsense will enable
us to understand why this threat of separation came during the reign of a
black king of Judah that ruled all of Israel. This racist Aryan (or
Indo-European) spirit had taken root among the Israelites as far back as
Moses.
NUMBERS 12:1 and 10
"And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopia woman whom
he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman…"
"And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became
leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was
leprous."
EXODUS 4:6-8
"And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom:
and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow."
"And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand
into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was
turned again as his other flesh."
"And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of
the latter sign."
The first sign was a warning to the dark skinned Pharaoh that the day would
come when the dark complexion of the original people chosen to propagate the
Hebrew faith would be replaced with the complexion of Aryans (European and
Indo-Europeans). The people originally chosen to propagate the
original Hebrew faith were Hamitic Ethiopians and East-Indians (Dravidians).
The latter sign means that, in the latter days (which are the days in which
we are currently living), the dark complexion of the people originally
chosen to propagate the original Hebrew faith would return to lead the world
in the fulfillment of the faith. Meanwhile, white racism would
continuously raise its ugly leprous head among the Israelites from the time
of Miriam, and through the history of Israel and Jewish history until this
present day. Nevertheless, in preparation of the day when those chosen
to propagate and fulfill the original Hebrew faith would return to the
original complexion, and in preparation of the day when justice would become
the product of education, Haile Sellassie and many so-called Ethiopian Jews
became 20th Century beneficiaries of the wisdom of Solomon and his
mastery of foreign relations. That is the reason why Haile Sellassie
will become one of the two Pan African elders that will have the greatest
impact of the foreign relations of New Jerusalem. It is also what gave
Haile Sellassie the power to speak in the form of the elder in both
Revelation 5:5 and Revelation 7:13-17.
The other of the two Pan African elders that will have the greatest impact
on the foreign relations of New Jerusalem is Marcus Garvey. In the
message to the Church of Pergamos in Revelation 2:13, he is identified as
the faithful martyr Antipas. Understand that Marcus Garvey's 'Back to
Africa' movement didn't means that all Black African people living in the
United States should return to Africa. Instead it meant that foreign
relations should be maintained between those that left and those that
stayed. Wherefore, his movement was indeed economically, politically,
and religiously killed in Washington D.C., where Satan's seat is, the seat
of the Aryan ego and pride.
For past and future reference, please understand that I basically use the
Aryan to identify all European and Indo-European groups that have, in some
point in history, adopted the ungodly philosophy of white supremacy.
Therefore, my use of the term Aryan is often applied to Indo-Europeans that
lived in the Middle-East long before the actual ethnic groups of Aryan
people settled in present day Iraq and Iran form the north, from which they
invaded India and exalted that ungodly philosophy to an all time high.
But who today would be the Nicolaitanes written of in the message to the
Church of Pergamos in Revelation 2:15? The clue to understanding just
who the Nicolaitanes would be today is the name Nicolas, as in jolly old St.
Nicolas. We can see the development of the roots or their origin in
Revelation 11:10:
REVELATION 11:10
"And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and Make
Merry, and shall Sent Gifts To One Another; because
these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth."
These two prophets first appeared as John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.
The Roman Aryan beast ascending out of the bottomless pit of lies and
falsehoods and killed their Ethiopian Hebrew identities and changed them
into the identities of two white Jews. Thereafter, the Roman Popes
started the Great Christian Crusades, which later gave birth to Merry
Christmas, wherein they still Sent Gifts To One Another
in celebration of their victory over the Ethiopian Hebrew identities of John
the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth. Through power of mis-education,
none of the people who celebrate Merry Christmas are aware that they are
actually celebrating an Aryan victory over the Ethiopian Hebrew identities
of John and Jesus.
Let us look a little deeper into the Great Christian Crusades. To set
this picture up clearly, let me remind you that Satan manifests himself in
the human ego and pride. The Roman's victory over Carthage was sweet
revenge for having been once conquered by a Black African king of Carthage
called Hannibal. That victory became the ignition of the ungodly Aryan
philosophy of white supremacy that developed among the Romans. By the
way, that very same Roman Aryan ego and pride (Satan) was at the root of the
Italian invasion of Ethiopian ordered by Mussolini in 1935 to avenge Romans
of another Black African king called Haile Sellassie-for he dared to declare
that his linage was from Solomon, a black king of Israel. Despite
popular believe that World War II began in 1939 as a result of conflicts
between Nazi Germany and an Anglo-French coalition, World War II actually
began in 1935, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia.
REVELATION 20:1-2 and 7
"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his hand."
"And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years…"
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison."
The Gospel, miracles, and resurrection of the Ethiopian Hebrew Jesus form a
great chain that bound the Aryan ego and pride of the Romans for thousand
years. During that thousand-year period, they manage to seize control
of all the writings of Jesus himself, and everything that was written about
Jesus. So near the end of that thousand-year period they had managed
to completely change the Ethiopian Hebrew identities of Jesus and John the
Baptist into that of two white Jews. Therefore, once the thousand
years were up, the Aryan ego and pride of the Romans (Satan) was loose to
start the Great Christian Crusades, the first of which started exactly one
thousand year after the death as resurrection of Christ Jesus.
However, today we can rest assured that that old serpent will be bound
again, only this time to never again be let out of his prison.
Therefore, it is vitally important that those, who are responsible for the
administration of the foreign relation of New Jerusalem, make a clear and
unpromising distinction between Christ and European Christianity.
"Our victory is certain, but on one condition only-that when uttering the
truth we utter it all, without comprise, concessions, or modification…"
(by Leo Tolstoy, and man excommunicated and ostracized from the Catholic
Church and all European churches that believed that white people had the
right to reign on earth by the power of military might, the power of the
sword of men verses the power of the Sword of God, the Word of God).
REVELATION 2:16
"Repent; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will fight against them
wit the Sword of My Mouth [the Sword of God, the Word of God]."
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole
(Part 14)
Because some of our Pan African elders were not specifically biblical
scholars, or didn't directly associate their works with the Bible, some may
doubt that they are actually the ones written of in Revelation 6:9 as having
been slain for the Word of God and the testimony they held. To get a
clear picture of this revelation, we need only to use a little commonsense
and understand that the Word of God is truth, and salvation and freedom are
the products of truth. There is no doubt that all our Pan African
elders were working towards the salvation and freedom of the black race,
which is the product of truth, which is the Word of God. Yet we most
go back to the Bible in general and the Book of Revelation in particular to
validate their works as indeed being of the Word of God-and thus a part of
the salvation and freedom of the black race.
Remember that all our Pan African elders perished at the Altar of God, and
didn't enter into the Temple of God. Therefore, there was not center
of gravity to gather their works together as part of the sum total of the
true and complete salvation and freedom of the black race, which is actually
the foundation of true and complete freedom for all human kind.
Wherefore, the Temple of God is the center of gravity for all true works of
salvation and freedom. Therefore, among our Pan African elders, a Man
Child would have to come as the Son of Man, and enter into the Temple of God
and establish it as the center of gravity for the works of the elders.
However, there are clouds between the Altar of God and the Temple of
God-like the clouds in man's brain. Such clouds exist between the 10%
of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that belong to the physical
and natural universe of impure and imperfect thought and thought energy, and
the 90% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that belong to the
spiritual universe (or the divinely inspired mental universe) of pure and
perfect thought and thought energy. Therefore, the Son of Man must
break through those clouds in order that others might also enter into the
Temple of God as a part of the center of gravity for the works of the
elders-the center of gravity being concurrent to the point of singularity in
a black-hole, which is also the point of being one with the Pure and Perfect
Mind of God the Creator himself, and one with the Creation of the Universe.
REVEALTION 14:14
"And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like
unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a
sharp sickle."
Once the Son of Man breaks through the clouds in the human brain, Revelation
14:15-17 tells us that two other angles entered the Temple of God. One
came out of the temple and instructed the Son of Man to thrust his sharp
sickle into the earth. Another came out of the temple also having a
sharp sickle given to him by the Son of Man. Revelation 14:18 tells us
that another angel came out from the Altar of God having the power of fire.
At this present time, it appears that Carl Patton of Freedom Journal just
might be one of the two angels that came out of the temple. Because of
his grass-root connection with grass-root Pan African people both here in
the United States and Ethiopia, and because of his close association with
Haile Sellassie and Marcus Garvey, it appears the Ras Iadonis of the Lion of
Juda Mission just might be the angel that comes out from the altar having
the power of fire. These things I can't be completely sure of at the
present time. For there are still many things in the Book of
Revelation that I will not be able to see clearly until they are drawn near
their time of fulfillment. However, when this matter is drawn near its
time of fulfillment, there is one way we can know for sure. The saints
of God will be gathered together around these three angels. Then we
will began to smell and taste the victory. For the prayers of the
saints will be like the smoke of sweet odors that we can both smell and
taste (Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4, 15:8).
That is also concurrent with man's sense of smell evolving out of the Spirit
of Faith and his sense of taste evolving out of the Spirit of Wisdom.
Both man's sense of smell and sense of taste work very much like the
supernova that occurs when the outer layers of a neutron star fall inward
and bounce off the neutron core, and thereby produce the shock waves that
cause the supernova. When a flavor falls inwardly into the taste buds,
it creates shock waves that cause the mouth to exploded with the taste of
the favor as a part of the event horizon. Likewise, when an odor falls
inwardly into the olfactory bulb, it creates shock waves that explode the
nasal cavity with the smell of the odor.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and
Black-Hole (Part 15)
When we open the Sixth Seal, we find that all colors of Light (Intelligence)
is being purified and perfected under the powers of absorption in Black
Light, the Original Light of Creation. Thus we are entering into the
Paradise of God, which is around, and about, and within the point of
singularity in the midst of the mental black-hole, the center of gravity.
REVELATION 2:1 and 7
"Unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that
holdeth the seven stars in his right hand [as the center of gravity], who
walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks…"
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in
the midst of the Paradise of God."
The primary function of the sixth church, the Church of Ephesus, is the
restoration of African divinity by the sons and daughters of Black Light, or
Black Intelligence. Due to the power of absorption in Black Light, the
restoration of African divinity is actually the restoration of the divinity
that has existed among all colors of Light (or all colors of Intelligence).
Wherefore, the Pan African community is made up of all the complexions that
were born out of the four colors of Light that represent the original four
races of men-yet they are all considered black. For such is the divine
order the Creator himself placed in Creation, and all of Creation had to
follow his divine order. We cannot change Creation; we can fulfill the
purpose for which we were created-in the divine order established by our
Creator.
The sixth church is also associated with the sixth of the Seven Spirits of
God, the sixth of the Seven Senses of Man, and the Sixth Day of Creation,
the Day in which Man was created, and the Day in which the Spirit of
Understanding was the dominant creative force. The Spirit of
Understanding is the power to know how, why, and upon whom or what to apply
the powers of love and faith-and God chose Man as the whom, and started with
the Black Man. Man's sixth sense, the sense of hearing, also evolved
out of the Spirit of Understanding. Wherefore, the inner ear is often
associated with man's ability to learn, man's ability to understand.
When the inner ear can hear what the Spirit (or the Pure and Perfect Mind of
God) is saying to the Seven Churches, it becomes like the point of
singularity within the mental black-hole.
Let us take a look at some of the things that will happen when Pan African
people begin to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Seven Churches by way
of the Church of Ephesus:
REVELATION 6:12-13
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair [as in
dreadlocks], and the moon became as blood:"
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her
untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind."
The star of heaven falling to the earth is concurrent to those of great
academic intelligence and those of celebrity status being drawn into the
gravitational force of the mental black-hole at the event horizon.
The Creation of a Mental
Neutron Star and Black-Hole (Part 15)
When we open the Sixth Seal, we find that all colors of Light (Intelligence)
is being purified and perfected under the powers of absorption in Black
Light, the Original Light of Creation. Thus we are entering into the
Paradise of God, which is around, and about, and within the point of
singularity in the midst of the mental black-hole, the center of gravity.
REVELATION 2:1 and 7
"Unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that
holdeth the seven stars in his right hand [as the center of gravity], who
walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks…"
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in
the midst of the Paradise of God."
The primary function of the sixth church, the Church of Ephesus, is the
restoration of African divinity by the sons and daughters of Black Light, or
Black Intelligence. Due to the power of absorption in Black Light, the
restoration of African divinity is actually the restoration of the divinity
that has existed among all colors of Light (or all colors of Intelligence).
Wherefore, the Pan African community is made up of all the complexions that
were born out of the four colors of Light that represent the original four
races of men-yet they are all considered black. For such is the divine
order the Creator himself placed in Creation, and all of Creation had to
follow his divine order. We cannot change Creation; we can fulfill the
purpose for which we were created-in the divine order established by our
Creator.
The sixth church is also associated with the sixth of the Seven Spirits of
God, the sixth of the Seven Senses of Man, and the Sixth Day of Creation,
the Day in which Man was created, and the Day in which the Spirit of
Understanding was the dominant creative force. The Spirit of
Understanding is the power to know how, why, and upon whom or what to apply
the powers of love and faith-and God chose Man as the whom, and started with
the Black Man. Man's sixth sense, the sense of hearing, also evolved
out of the Spirit of Understanding. Wherefore, the inner ear is often
associated with man's ability to learn, man's ability to understand.
When the inner ear can hear what the Spirit (or the Pure and Perfect Mind of
God) is saying to the Seven Churches, it becomes like the point of
singularity within the mental black-hole.
Let us take a look at some of the things that will happen when Pan African
people begin to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Seven Churches by way
of the Church of Ephesus:
REVELATION 6:12-13
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair [as in
dreadlocks], and the moon became as blood:"
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her
untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind."
The star of heaven falling to the earth is concurrent to those of great
academic intelligence and those of celebrity status being drawn into the
gravitational force of the mental black-hole at the event horizon.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole
(Part 16)
The restoration of African divinity is also the restoration of the history
of God on earth. The history of God on earth can be restored
through the restoration of the original Hebrew (or He-hu-sa-ru) faith and
the original Messianic (or Maashua) faith from their origins in Africa to
their most glorious developments and evolution in Jerusalem (or Heru-sa-tem)
and Israel. Wherefore, what grew out of the roots of these two faiths
are described in Revelation 11:4 as two olive trees standing before the God
of the earth, and in Revelation 12:14 as the two wings of a great eagle.
For centuries much of the world has been deceived into believing that the
Hebrew were God chosen people above all other people who dedicated their
lives to fulfilling the Will of God and the Works of God, but were not
labeled Hebrews. The Hebrew were chosen to fulfill a particular
mission, and not as a people chosen above all the other people of God.
Since it was God's plan and not a plan consciously decided upon by any
Israelites, very few Israelites themselves have truly understood that
mission. The mission was to produce a classic and textbook example of
how God gets a people (or humanity) from where they are to where he wants
them to be. The Hebrew Scriptures became the textbook, and Jesus
became the perfect example of where God wants humanity to be. Where
God wants all humanity to be is one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God
the Creator himself, and one with the Creation of the Universe (which
metaphysically we might say one with the point of singularity in a
black-hole). To show you how void the general population of Israelites
were in understanding that mission, we have only to take a look at Christ
Jesus. Jesus came a fulfilled the culmination of the mission by
becoming one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God, and one with the
Creation of the Universe in the sight of men. Yet it was Hebrew and
Jewish Israelites that demanded that he be crucified. Therefore, it
should be crystal clear that must intelligence and understanding of the
mission for which the Hebrew were chosen got lost between its origin and
culmination. Among the many things that got lost is African divinity.
Therefore, to restore African divinity with nothing lost, another set of
books must be written that traces the history of God on earth from it roots
in Africa to its most glorious developments and evolution in Israel and
Jerusalem. Thus we have The Five Books of Emmanuel-not in
contradiction to the Bible, but rather in harmony and unity with the Bible,
as a part of the continuing evolution of the history and presence of God on
earth-for such is the spiritual evolution of man (or the divinely inspired
mental evolution of man).
Metaphysically speaking, all colors of Light (or Intelligence) are drawn
into the event horizon of a physical black-hole, where it is all purified
and perfected until the Black Light of anti-matter appears at the point of
singularity-anti-matter being the product of pure and perfect thought and
thought energy, and Black Light being the Original Light of Creation.
The Five Books of Emmanuel will be written in such a mental back-hole.
Therefore, there will be corrections of errors that entered into the Bible
through the power of the serpent-the serpent being the 33 vertebrae that
house the human nervous system, which makes it impossible for men to
completely resist all temptation and avoid all mis-interpretations when
writing scripture-even when it comes directly from the mouth of God, it is
still indirect because of the clouds in the human brain. Therefore, we
can be assured that God will call upon another generation (and another
Messianic figure) to correct the errors we make when restoring African
divinity and the divinity that has existed among all colors of Intelligence.
For such is the spiritual evolution of man. Wherefore, it is vitally
important that the 144,000 be free men and women-free from the burden of
having to defend a economic, political, or religious philosophy that would
cause them to deny obvious and indisputable truth. Thereby we
minimize, if not totally neutralize, the power of the serpent.
The Creation of a Mental Neutron Star and Black-Hole
(Part 17)
In opening the Seventh Seal, we open the seal of the seventh church, the
Church of Laodiceans, and its relationship with the seventh of the Seven
Spirits of God, the Seventh Day of Creation, and the seventh of the Seven
Senses of Man. The Spirit of Strength was the dominant creative force
in the Seventh Day of Creation. Wherefore, God was able to Rest
in the Strength of Knowing that, through the divine order He
had placed in Creation, the Will of God, the Word of God and the Works of
God would all be fulfilled in Man. So what does rest have to do with
the primary function of the Church of Laodiceans, which is to establish for
the 144,000 a new system of free trade and free enterprise that exist
between the evil extremes of colonial capitalism and Marxist communism?
Rest and peace are the products of the equal distribution of power, which
can only be acquired through the strength to live according to the truth,
and not according to the human lust and greed through which the Devil
manifests himself.
Let us take a look at how the heavens themselves bear witness to the
righteousness of the equal distribution of power from the point of few of
our mental black-hole. When a black-hole is formed, it contains the
exact same mass of the neutron star from which it was formed-only now the
mass has no volume. Therefore, the other stars that existed outside
the event horizon of the black-hole are not drawn into the black-hole.
The forces of gravity are equally distributed between the black-hole and all
the stars that surround it. Thus the point of singularity can
rest in the strength of knowing that there is peace in the heavens around.
The point of singularity and the event horizon all rest in the peace of
having fulfilled the Works of God and left only peace, and an equal
distribution of power. And though the point of singularity and the
event horizon rest in peace, they live forever and never die, as an
everlasting witness to the Original Light of Creation.
JOHN 14:27
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
JOHN 20:19 and 27
"Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the
doors [like the doors in the event horizon of a black-hole] were shut where
the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in
the midst [like the point of singularity in the midst of a black-hole], and
saith unto them Peace be unto you."
"Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands;
and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless,
but believing [for the hole, in this body of short-lived radio isotopes that
the soul of Jesus had temporarily taken on, were concurrent mass having no
volume at the point of singularity in a black-hole]"
REVELATION 14:12-13
"Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
"And I heard the voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may REST from their labors; and their works do follow them
[into the black-hole]"
If there has ever been any doubt about the resurrection of Jesus, today all
those doubts can be remove because now every detail of his resurrection can
be studied through both Divine Science and practical science (or applied
science). Three of The Five Books of Emmanuel will address such
scientific revelations. Please stay tune.
To develop some earthly sense of the new economic system that the Church of
Laodiceans must develop for the 144,000, we can examine a model established
by the greatest capitalist nation on earth. However, we must remember
that this is only an impure and imperfect model of the pure and perfect
model established by Jesus. The success of the impure and imperfect
model lies in the fact that the government has the power to force this model
on its citizens whether they like it or not. On the other hand, the
pure and perfect model established by Jesus is totally and of free will and
free choice-not by might, and not by force, but by the power of love and
righteousness. Therefore, Jesus' pure and perfect model is only for
the few (the 144,000), who can overcome the human lust and greed in which
the Devil manifests himself. Nevertheless, to maintain Peace
in the land, this greatest of all capitalist nations had to establish a
non-capitalistic system of free trade and free enterprise. It was
established in the form of things like Social Security, SSI, welfare, food
stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, student loans, tax
shelters for nonprofit organizations etc. The same types of
benefits where to be presence in the model established by Jesus, but as a
matter of free will and free choice, and not by the force and might of the
government. Yet the citizens of the greatest of all capitalist nations
complain about the shortcomings of this impure and imperfect model-as though
Christ never offered them pretty the same thing, without force and without
might. There will be no such complains among the 144,000. For it
will all be a matter of their own free will and free choice.
Man's seventh sense also evolved out of the Spirit of Strength, and like
man's sense of thought, it is also a spiritual sense, or mental sense.
However, it is a dual sense. It is man's sense of perception/precept.
It gives man the power to know something, or to be consciously aware of
something and determine whether it is true of false, good or evil, right or
wrong. It forms man's conscience and spiritual (or mental) heart.
When it is divinely inspired, it forms the conscience and heart of man's
very own eternal soul. Therefore, the purification and perfection of
the sense of perception/percept is vital to the success of the 144,000.
For thereby will they Rest in Peace, and yet live forever and never die; for
their works shall follow them.
THE GOSPEL OF HERU (Part 1)
Understand that the Gospel, works, and resurrection of Jesus were all
born out of the Gospel of Heru. Therefore, to restore the Gospel of
Heru as the Everlasting Gospel written of in Revelation 14:6, it would be
best to start with examining Jesus from a totally different perspective than
that which was propagated by Europeans. The European perspective of
Jesus is that of a white Jew, who came to fulfill the prophecies of just the
Hebrew prophets written of in the Old Testament. In our perspective,
Jesus is seen as an Ethiopian Hebrew descendant of the Hamitic Ethiopian
Heru. He is sent by Heru to not only to fulfill the prophecies of the Hebrew
prophets, but also the prophecies and works of all his Ethiopian ancestors,
whose prophecies and works were born out of the Gospel of Heru.
To develop an understanding Jesus' fulfillment of all faith in God, we will
start with the resurrection of Jesus, and perhaps work our way back to the
beginning of his Gospel. When we are finished, it should be clear why
Jesus would declare, in John 14:1-7, that there are many mansions in his
Father's house, and implied that whosoever believed in God also believed in
him--no matter what faith they came to him through.
Jesus was not the first son of Heru to be resurrected from the dead.
The first son of Heru to be resurrected from the dead was Heru-pa-khart, or
Horus the younger, and simply Horus when Heru's name was changed to Osiris
(Volume I, Gods of The Egyptians, Budge, page 467). He was murdered by
his brother Meru, which is the root of the stories Set kills Horus, and Cain
kills Abel. However, before his son's murder, Heru had already written
of, in his Gospel, the method of preparing the body for the transformation
and for the resurrection. Yet his son was raised from the dead in
another form was said to have entered into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whether the resurrection was caused by preparation of the body or the
harmony and unity that existed between the Gospel of Heru and the Works of
God I can't say. I do know that we can find the preparation of the
body for resurrection on pages 131-139 of Volume II of "The Gods of The
Egyptians" by Budge. All of which is no doubt a later Egyptian
distorted version of what actually happened in Ethiopia somewhere between
the Blue Nile and White Nile south of Meroe long before Heru's name was
changed to Osiris. The twelve divisions of the Tuat, which represent
the divine science in the Gospel of Heru, just might give us a better idea
of what actually caused the resurrection. Nevertheless, the
resurrection of Heru's son is the root of how Horus became known as the god
of the resurrection in Egypt, and Jesus coming to fulfill the resurrection
written of in the Gospel of Heru.
The legacy of Horus' (or Abel's) resurrection was also maintained in the
Hebrew Scriptures. We can get a vague glimpse of it in the Book of
Hebrews.
HEBREWS
11:4
"By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by
which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his
gifts: and
by he being dead yet speaketh."
Jesus was also a physician who worked miracles with medicine and divine
science. Let us take a lot at from where he learned such things.
During the Third Dynasty, Ptah brought the Gospel of Heru from Meroe or
Napata into the Memphis region in the original language of Heru. On
page 524 of Volume I of "The Gods of The Egyptians" by Budge, we
learn that the Gospel of Heru, in its original language, appeared in the
hands of Heru-tata-f. We are told that he was a very learned man and a
very skillful writer, whose speech was hard to understand. His speech
was hard to understand because he spoke in the original language of Heru,
and other descendants of Heru has already introduced his Gospel in the in
other Hamitic languages during the First and Second
Dynasties. Some believe that the original language of Heru is closely
associated with the Ge'ez of Ethiopia, but only was only written in
hieroglyph form instead of the syllabet form of Ge'ez. However,
I-em-hetep was there, and was skilled in the original language of Heru as
well as some of the other Hamitic languages through the Gospel of Heru had
previously been introduced into the region. Through the divine science
in the Gospel of Heru, I-em-hetep became the first master physician.
And it is from the works of I-em-hetep that Jesus also learned to become a
master physician, who could work miracles with medicine and divine science.
I-em-hetep also built the very first pyramid at Saqqarah around 2737-2717.
As the first master physician and master architect, I-em-hetep was deified
as a member of the Triad of gods at Memphis. In Memphis, the Gospel of
Heru according to I-em-hetep began the bases for build the Great Pyramid of
Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty.
I-em-hetep's knowledge of the original language of Heru and several of the
other languages, in which the Gospel of Heru reached the Memphis area, also
became the foundation of the very same Egyptian archives through which Moses
would learn to the sons of God (the sons of Heru) which he would later write
about in the 4th-6th Chapters of the Book of Genesis as descendants of Adam.
The various ministries of the descendants of Heru were recorded in places
like Ethiopia, Meroe, Napata, and Thebes before such records were brought
into Memphis by kings of the First, Second, and Third Dynasties.
In the Fifth Chapter of Genesis, Moses records (or interprets) the life
spans of these ministries as how long the ministers lived. When it was
detected that the Gospel of Heru, according to a particular minister, was
changed into another language, Moses recorded as the minister having sons
and daughters. Therefore, we find these ministers having children at
the age of two to three hundred years old. Commonsense should tell us
that Moses was not actually recording the biological life span of these
descendants of Adam, or that they were actually fathering children at such
advanced biological ages.
The ability to determine the exact time the Gospel of Heru began was not the
works of I-em-hetep of the Third Dynasty, but rather the works of Meni (or
Menes in Greek) of the very First Dynasty. It is through the works of
Meni that we are able to understand the prophecy of Christ coming 5500 years
after the conception of the Gospel of Heru to redeem is seed (The Forgotten
Books of Eden, The First Book of Adam and Eve, Chapter Three, verse six).
The First Dynasty no doubt began some where between 3500 B.C and 3000 B.C.
On page 76 of "Wonderful Ethiopians of The Ancient Cushite Empire"
Drusilla Dunjee Houston tells us that Menes dates back to 5500 B.C.
How could such a brilliant researcher have made such an error? It is
easy to understand if she doing her research from a copy of Menes on written
records, wherein he declares himself to be from the time in which the Gospel
of Heru was first conceived. Meni was the actual founder of Memphis,
and like the scribed Heru-tata-f, who would come after him, Meni no doubt
spoke the original language of Heru. Understand that, during those
times, there were no words or expressions like democracy, capitalism,
socialism, communism, "give me liberty or give be death," "we hold these
truths to be self evident," black power, "I have a dream," etc. to serve as
a rally cry that gathers men and women together to undertake various
endeavors. To accomplish great achievements, during this time in
history, men and women were gathered together by spiritual concept, or a
declaration of the Word of God. Declaring the Gospel of Heru to be the
Word of God, Meni succeeded in united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
Once unified, they became great builders of temples, and dams to harness the
power of the Nile, and developed many new cults around the Gospel of Heru,
with Memphis as their center. Yet many Egyptologists
might say that no king by the name Meni existed in the First Dynasty or any
other Dynasty because his name is not in the List of Kings.
Let us examine why the name Meni may have been omitted from the List of
Kings. In declaring himself to be from the time that the Gospel of
Heru was actually conceived, Meni set the precedence for what banner-name or
ka-name all the kings of the first four Dynasties would bear in their seals,
the royal titulary. Their ka-name became known as their Horus-name, a
Greek translation that replaces the Egyptian shorten version of
Heru-pa-khart. The name implies that all the kings of the first four
Dynasties were the resurrected son of Heru.
The oldest known part of the royal titulary is the Horus-name üˆöf§UPAC84 ,
the banner-name or ka-name. It represents the king as the
earthly embodiment of the god Horus, the divine prototype and patron of the
Egyptian kings.
The Nebti-name üˆöf§UPAC84 shows the king in a special relation
to two goddesses: the vulture-goddess Nekhbet of the Upper Egyptian cities
of Elkab and Hierakonpolis and the cobra-goddess Uto of the Lower Egyptian
city Buto. Both goddesses are the deified personification of Upper- and
Lower-Egypt respectively, and as such, the Nebti-name denotes the king as
"the one of Nekhbet (Upper-Egypt) and Uto (Lower-Egypt)", i.e. as the "one
belonging to Upper- and Lower-Egypt".
The meaning of the third part of the royal titulary, the "golden Horus name"
üˆöf§UPAC84 , is (even) more disputed. Both Kheops
(Khufu) of the 4th Dynasty and Merenre of the 6th Dynasty have the title
with two falcons over the "gold" sign. These two falcons are frequently used
as a symbolic representation of the reconciled gods Horus and Seth.
For future reference, please remember the meaning of two falcons in the
golden Horus-name of king Khufu. It will become very important in
understanding who actually designed and built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
The nomen is introduced by the epithet üˆöf§UPAC84 "son of Re".
It was added to the royal titulary in the beginning of the 4th Dynasty. It
was from that time on, that the royal titulary became established in the
form discussed here. The name in the cartouche was, as a rule, the king's
name of birth.
The problem with identifying Meni was that the oldest known sources that
mentioned a king only referred to him using his Horus-name, which, in the
case of the king that founded Memphis, was not Meni. However, his name
continued to ring out in the ancient world until a form of his name was
adopted in the Aramaic language spoken by Daniel.
DANIEL 5:25-26
"And this is the writing that was written, ME'NE, ME'NE, TE'KEL, UPHAR'SIN."
"This is the interpretation of the thing: ME'NE; God
hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it."
Remember that it was the works of Meni that made it possible to count the
number of years back that the Gospel of Heru was conceived, and the number
of years from the conception of the Gospel of Heru until the coming of
Christ.
THE GOSPEL OF HERU (Part 2)
To develop a clear picture of how the Gospel of
Heru reached Memphis as the Word of God, we must take a moment to employ the
divine metaphysical eye in a metaphysical study of the Divine Science of
Creation. Remember, if there is disharmony and separation between the
Works of God and that which is thought to be the Work of God, then that
which is thought to be the Word of God is not the Word of God at all.
There is always pure and perfect harmony and unity between the Word of God
and the Works of God. The Garden of Eden was located in the Land of
the Nuer tribe, which is located near the Sudd (the world's largest swamp)
where the White Nile is divided into four heads as it continues its flow to
the Delta (Genesis 2:10). Between the Garden of Eden and Memphis there
are six cataracts. These six cataracts are metaphysical expressions of
the six steps through which the Word of God came down from the Kingdom of
Heaven (or the Paradise of God) to be established on earth in Memphis.
Therefore, the Garden of Eden, the platform, would represent the Spirit of
Knowledge, the Sixth Cataract, the first step from the platform, would
represent the Spirit of Love, the Fifth Cataract the Spirit of Faith, the
Fourth Cataract the Spirit of Truth, the Third Cataract the Spirit Wisdom,
the Second Cataract the Spirit of Understanding, and the First Cataract the
Spirit of Strength. The Delta is metaphysically concurrent to the
Gospel of Heru being spread into all the earth as the Everlasting Gospel
written of in Revelation 14:6. Wherefore, there are six steps from the
ground to reach the platform at the top of the Step-Pyramid built by I-em-hetep
at Saqqara. Behold the pure and perfect harmony and unity that exist
between the Word of God and the Works of God. The Word of God was not
only made flesh; it was also made earth, and the earth itself bears witness
of the truth, and the pyramid at Saqqara says Amen.
Unfortunately, there are also seven energy steps (or seven quantum jumps)
that an electron in a hydrogen atom goes through to become a free electron.
That accounts for all negative misrepresentations of the Everlasting Gospel
of Heru that exist on earth. It starts with three quantum jumps (or
energy steps), one in the Lyman-series, one step in the Balmer-series, and
one step in the Paschen-series. It continues with the three steps in
the Brackett-series. Finally it concludes with the one step in the
Plund-series, and thus a free electron. Remember that quantum physics,
like these quantum jumps, is an expression of the power of darkness within
the science of physics itself. Therefore, all the negative
misrepresentations of the Everlasting Gospel of Heru labor under the power
of darkness. For it is only under the power of darkness that they can
exist.
All of that brings us back to Jesus, and what the Heavenly Father Heru sent
him into the earth to fulfill. He was sent not to condemn the world,
but rather to save the world from the power of darkness (such as the
darkness of quantum physics, a world of uncertainty, a world of rolling the
dice). The condemnation was that light had come into the world, and
men loved darkness more than light. For they were men of a very dark
world of uncertainty, wherein they would even roll the dice for his garments
after they had crucified him, and thereby caused themselves to me covered by
an even greater darkness. All of which was followed by the veil of the
temple being split in half from top to bottom (Matthew 27: 35, 45, and 51).
But what did the splitting of the temple have to do with what Jesus was sent
to fulfill. Two parallel faiths were born out of the Gospel of Heru,
the original Messianic (or Maashua) faith and the original Hebrew (or
He-hu-ba-ru) faith. The resurrection of Horus the Younger (or Abel, as
he his known in the Bible) marked the birth of the original Messianic
faith-the continuous rebirth, death, and resurrection of the sons of Heru to
establish their Father's kingdom on earth according to where men are in the
Spiritual Evolution of Man at a given time. Jesus came and reunified
these two faiths and fulfilled them both in the conscious awareness of a few
while the rest of the humankind continued to labor under the power of
darkness in a world of uncertainty. For like the free electron that is
produced by quantum jumps, they were free to choose darkness over light.
Therefore, to the rest of the world, the Messianic faith and the Hebrew
faith remained divided-despite the fact that Jesus had fulfilled both the
transformation and the resurrection. Wherefore, the temple was split
in half from top to bottom.
However, there was a third faith born out of the Gospel of Heru. It
was the Masonic faith of the Hamitic Ethiopian kings of the first four
Dynasties. As the Messianic faith and Hebrew faith moved along both
sides of the Nile, the Messianic faith became so deeply embedded in the
Masonic faith that its parallel travels with the Hebrew faith became
impossible to be seen by a world laboring under the power of darkness.
Therefore, this third faith to be born out of the Gospel of Heru must now be
fulfilled in order that the books might be opened and the time of the dead
to be judged (Revelation 20:11-15). For the fulfillment of the Masonic
faith involves reveling the Divine Science that make all these things
possible. Only then with all humankind be drawn into the light of
truth, and be compelled within their own consciences and hearts to
understand the Salvation, Liberation, and Self-realization that Christ
(Maashua) offers humankind. To see just where we presently are in the
Spiritual Evolution of Man, it would be wise if all the readers of this
excerpt from "The Spiritual Evolution of Man-Beginning With Heru"
would also read The Sign of The Messiah in
"The Great Pyramid Decoded" by Peter Lemesurier. Then examine the
prophecies of the Pyramid at the bottom of page 204 and the top of page 205.
Meanwhile, we haven't thus far discussed little about the birth of the
original Hebrew faith. While the original Messianic faith involved the
murder and resurrection of Horus (or Abel), the Hebrew faith involved the
punishment of Set (or Cain), or perhaps I should say the method by which he
was redeemed from his sin against his brother. As we have already read
in Part 1, the golden Horus-name of king Khufu contains two falcons, which
is a symbolic representation of the reconciled gods Horus and Seth.
Also note that, under the act of reconciliation, Set is refered to as Seth.
This is no doubt where Moses derived the name Seth to refer to the third son
of Adam (Heru). This will also shed some light on how the works of
Heru's third son in the Messianic faith became instrumental in the
reconciliation between Horus and Set. Again, keep all these things in
mind for future reference. For they will prove to be vitally important
in understanding just who it was that engineered and designed the
architectural structure of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Until then, let
us take a look at the method that was chosen to redeem Set (Cain) from his
sin against his brother.
GENESIS 4:11-15
"And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath open its mouth to
receive thy brother's blood from thy hand."
"When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its
strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."
"And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear."
"Behold, thou hast driven out this day from the face of the earth; and I
shall be a fugitive and vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass,
that every one that findeth me shall slay me."
"And the Lord said unto him, Therefore, whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance
shall be taken on him sevenfold."
What had Moses learned form the Memphis archives about Cain (Set) and his
descendants that led to these things being written in such a manner?
If God placed a mark on Cain to protect him from those who would have
killed, surely there was something than just punishment that God was after.
For God's whole idea of punishment is to guide man or to bring man back to
the right path. If a man and his descendants believe that the area of
the earth in which Abel (Horus) was murdered would not yield to them a
harvest, isn't likely that they would become ship builders, and seek their
harvest at sea? Would that indeed make them vagabonds in the earth?
Well, that is exactly what happened. The punishment also required that
the descendants of Cain would have to establish the kingdom of Heru among
other races of people other than their own. Therefore, they
would have to establish kingdom of Heru among foreign people as the Kingdom
of God and the Kingdom of the True Brotherhood of Man being one and the
same. This mission was accomplished by a descendant of Cain known in
the Bible as Enoch, but is mistakenly identified as a descendant of the
third son of Adam called Seth (who indeed would have been a form of Set
under the act of reconciliation). Moses should have been able to catch
his mistake when he had already identified the son of Cain as Enoch in
Genesis 4:17. But even great souls like Moses are not exempted from
making mistakes while still on earth in the flesh. Nevertheless, the
success of Enoch (Amen-Ra) marked the birth of the original Hebrew faith,
and not Abraham.
Such mistakes are what make the Book of Revelation so vitally important.
Little do most people know that John, the biological brother of Jesus, was
exiled to the Island of Patmos for observation because he appeared and
behaved so much like Jesus. There was fear that he might have indeed
been Jesus himself and the Romans had been deceived into crucifying the
wrong man. Nevertheless, the extremely close relationship between
Jesus and John would prove to be vital in producing a book that is virtually
error free, and yet managed, through the use of symbolism, to hide it
message until the time of fulfillment. For we learn in Matthew 24:36
that not even Jesus knew when the end would come while he was still on earth
in the flesh. Such things he would learn until he had totally entered
into the Kingdom of Heaven and seated with the Heavenly Father Heru in his
throne of glory. Therefore, in giving John the Book of Revelation
through a baptism of pure and perfect thought and thought energy poured out
from the Pass-Over of the Star of Christ (Halley's Comet), in which the
glorified soul of Jesus stood in the midst, it was like Jesus giving the
Book to himself while still on earth.
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A Glimpse into the substance of the third book of THE FIVE BOOKS OF EMMANUEL
"The Spiritual Evolution of Man-Beginning With Heru."
THE GOSPEL OF HERU (Part 3)
Remember that Enoch's fulfillment of the method by which Cain (Set) had to
be redeemed from his sin against his brother marked the beginning of the
Hebrew faith born out of the Gospel of Heru. To develop a divine
understanding of that phenomenon, which will be discussed in more details
later, we must once again turn to a metaphysical study of the Divine Science
of Creation. The original state of all Intelligence in Creation is
Black Light. In a world dominated by White Light, to recapture the
original state of all Intelligence in Creation requires a resurrection from
the effects of Creation back into the cause of Creation-back into Black
Light, the original state of all the Intelligence in Creation. White
Light (such as in European Intelligence) is the master in the study of the
effects of Creation, but it can never master the study of the cause of
Creation. That is why certain Greek disciples of White Light where so
astonished by Jesus' resurrection of Lazarus-surely they had discovered
something that no White Light could have mastered (John 12:17-23). And
for that cause was the resurrection associated only with the Black Light
that came into the world through the Gospel of Heru to give birth to the
Messianic faith, which was only maintained by black people throughout the
first four Dynasties. On the other hand, when Black Light forms an
eternal brotherhood with another color of Light (or Intelligence), a
transformation or a transfiguration occurs. That is what led to the
transformation of Enoch (Amen-Ra) when the Gospel of Heru gave birth to the
original Hebrew (or He-hu-ba-ru) as the faith of a unified group of Hamitic
Ethiopia and East-Indian (Dravidian) people. Wherefore, Jesus came and
fulfilled both the transformation and the resurrection.
Now that we have some divine understanding of how and why the original
Hebrew faith developed, let us take a look at some of the earthly events
that led to Enoch fulfilling the method through which Cain had to be
redeemed from his sin against his brother. We will start with what
possibly caused Moses to be confused and mistakenly identified both Cain and
Seth as having a descendant called Enoch. First of all, the city that
Enoch is said to have built in Genesis 4:17 was not built in Africa.
Neither was it built by a first generation descendant of Cain. It was
no doubt built by a fourth-sixth generation descendant of Cain. It was
built on the Island of Sri Lanka, where the Gospel of Heru, as the Gospel of
the true brotherhood of man, gained maximum acceptance among East-Indian
people. Wherefore, Enoch disappeared into the clouds on top of a
mountain in Sri Lanka called Adam's Peak, as a soul that was transformed as
a result of an eternal brotherhood formed between certain Hamitic Ethiopian
and East-Indian people. The news of Enoch's transformation was brought
back into Ethiopia by the priest of Enoch (or Amen-Ra). For the port
cities of Africa, by which these ancient sea voyagers travel back and forth
between Africa and India, were in Djibouti. Remember that part of the
prophecy concerning Cain was that the earth should not yield unto him its
strength, meaning it would yield unto him to harvest. Djibouti is
indeed a place where a tiller of the soil would receive no harvest.
Nothing grows in Djibouti but salt. It is also known as 'Hell on
Earth.' On page 17 of Volume II of "The Gods of The Egyptians"
by Wallis Budge, we see Amen-Ra being adorned by Heru-as-Atep. This is
done after the priest of Amen-Ra bring the good news of Amen-Ra's
transformation into Ethiopia. The king of Ethiopia adorns Amen-Ra at
the request of the priest of Heru, who see this good news as evidence of the
reconciliation between Horus and Set. However, when this good news was
recorded in Memphis it was no doubt recorded as reconciliation between Horus
and Seth instead of Horus and Set. That would certainly account for
Moses' confusion.
So how did Abraham adopt the Hebrew faith? To develop a clear
understanding of how Abraham entered the picture, we should first develop
some understanding of how Hamitic Ethiopian descendants of Heru arrived in
the Middle-East long before the First Dynasty. There were two
fundamental human natures among the twelve tribes of Heru, a sedentary
nature and a nomadic nature. Between these two natures would develop
the pioneering of those who built great cities as they traveled.
This pioneering nature was the nature of the kings of first four Dynasties
and those like Ptah and I-em-hetep. Those of the sedentary nature were
given the duty of maintaining the twelve schools of Divine Science that were
contained in the Gospel of Heru through the baptism of pure and perfect
thought and thought energy while in the Garden of Eden. These twelve
schools of Divine Science later became known as the twelve divisions of the
Tuat. Because these twelve schools of Divine Science were maintained
independent of the civilizations that grew out of them for so long, it
became associated with the divine knowledge of the 'Underworld,' wherein
Heru (Osiris) would judge the dead. In Genesis 3:24, Moses described
these protectors of the schools of Divine Science in the Gospel of Heru as
Cherubims and a flaming sword. On the other hand, those of the
nomadic nature traveled throughout must of Africa and the Middle-East long
before the First Dynasty-that also includes the nomadic travels of the
descendants of Cain (Set) into Yemen. Oman, India, Sri Lanka, and the Orient
(via the Bay of Bengal). Deuteronomy 3:11 tells us that a remnant of
the Hamitic Ethiopian descendants of Heru, in their purest giant Watussi
form, were still living in the Middle-East when Moses led the Israelites out
of Egypt. We can be sure that many other Ethiopian descendants of Heru
still living in the Middle-East at that time, but the giant Watussi
represent the purest form of the direct descendants of Heru. Though we
can be sure that they traveled further south in Africa than Rwanda, the
following excerpt take from "Here Is Africa" Ellen and Attillio Gatti is
clear evidence the they did indeed travel to Rwanda:
"History textbooks might snub this contention. But we derived it
from the direct observation of our friends the Giant Watussi of Rwanda.
And these tallest, handsomest, keenest of all Africans, undoubtedly are the
purest "Surviving Pharaohs" on earth.
When and why the far ancestors of the Watussi left Ancient Egypt still is
a matter of speculation. How they managed to reach Rwanda and there to
maintain intact all the essential traits of their race, is another of the
many questions marks presented by Central Africa."
At any rate, the incontrovertible
fact is that there the Giant Watussi are, in the middle of vast masses of
Bantu natives, like a small unique island of thoroughbred Hamites.
Their customs and traditions and religious beliefs are as purely and clearly
Ancient Egyptian as are the Sphinx and the Pyramids."
Nevertheless, among those that migrated to the Middle-East were those who
gave present Jerusalem its original name of Heru-sa-tem, and the most
immediate ancestors of Abram, who would become known as Abraham. As
the Spirit of God moving on the face of the earth would have, East-Indian
(Dravidians) were migrating into the Middle-East across present day Iran and
Iraq. This northern migration of Ethiopians and East-Indian led to the
marriage between Abram and Sara-Sara was Dravidian, but neither of them was
the Hebrew faith at that time. They probably never even heard of it.
Abram and Sara didn't become exposed to the Hebrew faith until their visit
to Egypt written of in the 12th Chapter of Genesis. However, that
account of their visit to Egypt is not completely accurate. The
inaccuracy of is hopefully not the error of Moses, but some other Israelite
writer who came along after Moses. Therefore, before examining the
12th Chapter of Genesis, there are a few other things that we should first
consider.
The following information was taken from the Encarta Encyclopedia; I
research several other encyclopedias and history books and that all
presented pretty much the same facts; I chose this one because it was easy
to copy and paste without doing a lot of typing only to say the same thing:
"Abraham or Abram, biblical patriarch, according to the Book of
Genesis (see 11:27-25:10), progenitor of the Hebrews, who probably lived in
the period between 2000 and 1500 BC. Abraham is regarded by Muslims, who
call him Ibrahim, as an ancestor of the Arabs through Ishmael. He was once
considered a contemporary of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia. Because the
biblical account of his life is based on traditions preserved by oral
transmission rather than by historical records, no biography in the present
sense can be written."
The following information is taken from the website,
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/2719/
"Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph; the Patriarchs of the Bible seem so
familiar to us, even though they are totally unknown, except from the Bible
and from other ancient time scripts. Nowhere else have archaeologists found
any allusion to persons or incidents in Genesis. This is definitely not
because no one has looked for them. Historians today have a pretty good
knowledge of the time where the Patriarchs traditionally are placed - the
first half of the second millennium BC. But they have found almost nothing
there. There is simply no space for the Biblical incidents.
There are three events which have been particularly searched for; namely:
· Chapter 14's mention of the kings from the east, who attacked
Sodom and the other cities in the Dead Sea Valley.
· The story about Joseph, who became the mightiest man in Egypt, next only
to Pharaoh.
· The seven lean years where the "whole world" went down to Egypt to buy
grain.
I will claim that the reason why nothing has ever been found is that the
Patriarchs commonly are wrongly placed in time. They are normally placed
into history in the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. But they belong at
the end of the 3rd millennium BC. "
Due to short comings of human nature and the inability to maintain an
accurate oral account of such details for hundreds of years, if Moses
account of Abram's visit to Egypt is the produce of generations of oral
transmissions only, then the story in the 12th Chapter of Genesis would have
to be inaccurate. In understanding that Moses became aware of Abraham
through the Egyptian archives, we know that the Egyptians would have never
placed any story in their archives wherein an Egyptian king was made to fear
the God of an outsider-remember they never placed a thing about Moses in
their archives. Therefore, the 12th Chapter of Genesis is obviously
not the works of Moses. It is mostly likely the works of some of the
Indo-European Israelites that indeed started to make their claims on
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob around the time that Hammurabi ruled Babylon.
It was their hope to gain the respect of Hammurabi by proving themselves to
be linked to Joseph, who played a major role in the Egyptian civilization of
the Fourth Dynasty. They were in somewhat a similar situation to what
we find ourselves in here in the United States. Many of us lay claim
the contributions our ancestors made to civilization to gain the respect of
the rest of humanity. Some of us make false claims and create myths
about our ancestors, and like the myths created by these Indo-European
Israelites, many of the myths created by our people will survive for many
generations as though it is true history. However, because the claims
of these Indo-European Israelites were surrounded by so many lies, they were
never able to lay claim to Joseph's greatest accomplishment in Egypt, and
what they received for their efforts was a place in bondage in Egypt.
Likewise, those of our people who create myths will never be able to claim
the greatest accomplishments of our people. Those lead into captivity will
go into captivity.
THE GOSPEL OF HERU (Part 4)
The following information is taken from the
website, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/2719/
"Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph; the Patriarchs of the Bible seem so
familiar to us, even though they are totally unknown, except from the Bible
and from other ancient time scripts. Nowhere else have archaeologists found
any allusion to persons or incidents in Genesis. This is definitely not
because no one has looked for them. Historians today have a pretty good
knowledge of the time where the Patriarchs traditionally are placed - the
first half of the second millennium BC. But they have found almost
nothing there. There is simply no space for the Biblical incidents.
There are three events which have been particularly searched for; namely:
· Chapter 14's mention of the kings from the east, who attacked
Sodom and the other cities in the Dead Sea Valley.
· The story about Joseph, who became the mightiest man in Egypt, next only
to Pharaoh.
· The seven lean years where the "whole world" went down to Egypt
to buy grain.
I will claim that the reason why nothing has ever been found is that the
Patriarchs commonly are wrongly placed in time. They are normally placed
into history in the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. But they belong at
the end of the 3rd millennium BC.
The author of this website comes very near to hitting the nail on the head.
In order to be may to see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as a part of real
history; they must be taking from being near the 2nd millennium and placed
nearer to the 3rd millennium. Then we can see that Abraham was
actually a contemporary of I-em-hetep, and not Hammurabi. After that
it can be make clear that Joseph's greatest accomplishment in Egypt was not
the building of some silos to store the grain that saved Egypt from seven
years of famine. Joseph's greatest accomplishment in Egypt was his
role in the architectural engineering and design of the Great Pyramid of
Egypt. Therefore, its was Moses knowledge of Joseph's accomplishments in
Egypt, and his knowledge of how the Egyptians had violated the Hebrew faith
that gave Moses power and victory over Pharaoh. We will discuss more
about that later. Meanwhile, let us examine this myth in the 12th
Chapter of Genesis.
Genesis 12:11-13 tells us that Abram had to lie that his wife Sara was his
sister because Pharaoh would kill him to have his fair wife. Here the
Indo-European Israelites suggest that the black kings of Egypt were more
than willing to commit murder to have a fair skinned East-Indian woman.
This sounds like something that would have been written by the Miriam of
Numbers 12:1-10, and not by Moses. Furthermore, Memphis was already
well populated with fair skinned East-Indian women that had entered the
region form Ethiopia as part of the original Hebrew family. Therefore,
there was no need for any king in Memphis to foam at the mouth in lust for
Abram's wife when plenty such women were already available. As a
matter of fact, this particular Memphis king may have already had an
East-Indian, and it could have been the bases for him teaching Abram of the
Hebrew faith, the one Heavenly Father of them all, and all the other
principles of monotheism. And after Abram returned to the Middle-East
and received the baptism of pure and perfect thought and thought energy from
the Star of Christ, he adopted the Hebrew faith and changed his name to
Abraham to honor his Hamitic Ethiopian heritage. However, he probably
never told the Hebrews of the Middle-East who the one Heavenly Father was,
which is no doubt why Jesus declared, in John 8:40, that Abraham didn't tell
the truth. All of this bring us to some more interesting observations.
Moses' expertise was in Northeast African history and the Hamitic languages
of Egypt, and not in Middle-East history or the Chaldee language that would
later become known as the Hebrew language. So how much of the Five
Books of Moses was actually written by Moses, and how much did he have to
entrust other to write? Was Aaron actually chosen to be Moses'
mouthpiece because Moses had a speech impediment, or because Moses didn't
speak the Chaldee language of Abraham? It is time that we sons and
daughters of Heru write our Second Genesis (the Book of Life) and eliminate
the possibility of all such errors, uncertainties, intentional and
unintentional mistranslations and misinterpretations, and confusion.
REVELATION 21:1
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away: and there was no more sea [between those of us who
know the truth in the United States, Africa, India, and the Orient]."
THE GOSPEL OF HERU (Part 5)
In preparation of writing our Second Genesis, the Book of Life, there are
a few things that we must remain vigilantly mindful of. The Book of
Life is actually the history of God on earth, and it all involves the family
tree of Heru. Therefore, it can also be identified as the Tree of
Life. Because there must be harmony and unity between the Word of God and
the Works of God, the history of God on earth has always produced spiritual
evidence, infinite signs and living proof of its existence-monuments built
by living human beings, such as the step pyramid at Saqqara and the Great
Pyramid at Giza, also count as living proof. Therefore, we need not
create any myths for which there is not spiritual evidence, or finite sign,
or living proof of. We need not repeat the same mistakes made by the
Europeans and Indo-Europeans that added such myths to the Bible, nor
Egyptians, who defiled and did likewise to the Gospel of Heru.
Revelation 11:8 tell us that our Lord was crucified in a city spiritually
called Sodom (of the Middle-East) and Egypt. We know that the Lord
Jesus was not crucified in neither of these two places. Therefore,
what has this to do with the crucifixion of our Lord? In the Dynasties
that followed the first four dynasties, which ultimately became Egypt
Dynasties, the transformation of Amen-Ra (Enoch) was gradually exalted over
the Gospel of Heru until the Egyptians and the Sodomites received power to
totally crucify the Gospel of Heru, and made Amen-Ra the chief God of Egypt.
They crucified the Father and made one of his sons greater than the Father
because Heru was obviously black. However, as spiritual evidence of
the history of God on earth, we can note that Jesus never exalted himself
over his Father-not even after he had totally entered into the Kingdom of
Heaven.
JOHN 14:28
"Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you, If
ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for
my Father is greater than I."
REVELATION 3:21
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I
also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."
Whosoever throne it was in the beginning is the same whose throne it is in
the end. Yet the Heavenly Father Heru committed all things in the
hands of Christ (Maashua), whom Jesus came as the ultimate expression
thereof. And that bring us to another place where we must be
vigilantly mindful when retracing the history of God on earth.
Understand that the Spiritual Evolution of Man began when the Pure and
Perfect Mind of God the Creator himself established a form of direct
communications with the soul of our Heavenly Father Heru. The Creator
accomplished that through a baptism of pure and perfect thought and thought
energy poured out from a Pass-Over of the Star of Christ (Halley's Comet).
Every since that time, the Spiritual Evolution of Man and the history of God
on earth has been governed through that very same baptism. Enoch
(Amen-Ra) receive it, Noah received, Ptah received it, I-em-hetep received,
Abraham received it, the Hebrew prophets received it, and even Jesus
received, and many more. There is only one God and one baptism.
Wherefore, Christ (Maashua) has been present throughout the entire Spiritual
Evolution of Man and the entire history of God on earth-even in the New
World before the coming of Columbus.
During the same time Jesus received the baptism from the Pass-Over of the
Star of Christ in 12 B.C., the same baptism, though with less impact, was
poured out upon a West Indian member of the Olmec people. Years later
a pyramid was built in his honor at Teotihuacan, Mexico called the Temple of
the Sun. Around 1066 A.D., just before the Roman Catholic Popes
started their first Christian Crusade, in 1095 A.D., Christ (Maashua)
appeared in the New World again through a baptism poured out from the Star
of Christ upon a West Indian known as Quetzalcoatl. His baptism would
mark the beginning of the Messianic tradition that would later become the
core of Mayan society. Wherefore, a pyramid was built in is honor at
Cholula outside Puebla, Mexico. Halley's Comet (the Star of Christ) is
retained in the motor-activity of the solar system in very much the same way
that man's soul is retained in the mental, molecular, and motor activity of
the human brain. Therefore, there should be little wonder why this
baptism can have such similar affects of people worlds apart-the Spirit of
God is forever moving upon the face of the earth to give it form that we
might all one day understand (Genesis 1:2). Yet some our people make
the false claims that these pyramids exist in the Americas because African
people traveled to the Americas before Columbus. That would be African
mythology. We need not make any claims on such mythology in our study
of the history of God on earth. For we can rest assured that, wherever
this baptism is poured out for the duration of man's spiritual evolution,
the gloried souls of Heru and Jesus will always appear in the midst.
All of that takes us to another place where we must be vigilantly mindful in
writing our Second Genesis. Through the works of Christ Jesus, the
family tree of Heru (the family tree of God) has transcended his biological
bloodline. Yet, because the twelve tribes of Heru are the spiritual
root and offspring of the twelve tribes of Israel in the Bible, the 144, 000
still identify themselves as the sons and daughters of Heru. However,
as the new spiritual offsprings of the twelve tribes of Israel of the Bible,
today's twelve tribes of Israel all free from having to be of the linage of
Abraham. Since the sedentary members were given the duty of
maintaining the twelve schools of Divine Science in the Gospel of Heru,
today's twelve tribes of Israel are assembled bases upon the specialized
fields of education, professions, and trades, and not by any linage to
Abraham. For the 144,000 represent the Cherubims and flaming sword
that were give the duty of keeping the way of the Tree of Life long before
Abraham.
The Tribe of Judah will be made up of engineers,
mathematicians, computer scientists, computer programmers, etc.
The Tribe of Reuben will be made up of farmers,
ranchers, food service workers, food distribution workers, food storage
workers, etc.
The Tribe of Gad will be made up of environmentalist,
oceanographer, conservationists, botanists, zoologists, biologists, etc.
The Tribe of Asher real estate agents, surveyors,
travel agents, tour guides, transportation workers, property managers, etc.
The Tribe of Napthali will be made up of educators,
lecturers, seminarians, etc.
The Tribe of Simeon athletics, theatrical workers and
entertainers, etc.
The Tribe of Levi will be made up of lawyers,
paralegals, corporate lawyers, legal secretaries, etc.
The Tribe of Issachar will be made up of doctors,
nurses, healthcare workers, medical researchers, etc.
The Tribe of Zebulum will be made up of writers,
journalists, publishers, proof-readers, poets, etc.
The Tribe of Benjamin
will be made up of musicians, singers, dancers, song writers, musical poets,
etc.
Note that the tribe of Dan was omitted from the list found in the 7th
Chapter of the Book of Revelation, and the tribe of Manasses (or Manasseh)
was listed instead. We all know that Manasseh was a son of Joseph and
not a son of Jacob. So what this mean? It means that we must
re-insert the tribe of Dan and make the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim two
subdivisions of the tribe of Levi--lets just say we have to keep everything
spiritually legal.
The Tribe of Dan will be made up of electricians, carpenters, plumbers,
masons, interior decorators, landscapers, gardeners, etc.
The Tribe of Manasseh will be made up of social scientists, psychologists,
social workers, anthroponomists, etc.
The Tribe of Ephraim will be made up of economists, accountants,
bookkeepers, money managers, etc.
Remember that the original Hebrew faith was faith in establishing the
kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True
Brotherhood of Man being one and the same. Also remember that it was
first developed among Hamitic Ethiopian and East-Indian people. When
Abraham came to Memphis, there was famine in Canaan. When Abraham left
Memphis, he left with all the provisions he needed. When Israel and
eleven of his sons came to Memphis, there was again famine in Canaan.
When Israel and his sons left Memphis, they left with all the provisions
they needed. For all the kings of the first four Dynasties honored
both the Messianic faith and the Hebrew faith. During the Pass-Over of the
Star of Christ (Halley's Comet) in 1910, there was wide spread famine in
India. Then came Mohandas Gandhi, but the so-called Hebrew descendants
of Abraham were nowhere to be found. During the Pass-Over of the Star
of Christ in 1986, there was wide spread famine in Ethiopia, and again the
so-called Hebrew descendants of Abraham were nowhere to be found.
Surely these two Pass-Overs were a sign that heaven was preparing a day of
judgment for those who claim to be Hebrew descendants of Abraham, but refuse
to keep the original Hebrew faith. Wherefore, today's twelve tribes of
Israel are made up of specialized educations fields, professions, and trades
that can eradicate the face of hunger, starvation, and homelessness from the
face of the earth, and justice the product of education.
The Awakening
Trapped?!!!
How can the omnipotent, unchangeable, indescribable… creator…creation…creative force…THE ALL, be locked or barred?
The relevance of such a question is contained in the fabrics and utter belief of what is truly reality, that which we perceive
This force… This energy… This presence… is contained in us ALL…HMMMMMMM, THE ALL…
WE carry this expression regardless of wants, desires, and likings… it is a necessity for living
This ancestral…esoteric…universal vibration has never been truly TRAPPED, as I questioned/stated above
It has just been ignored; it has been lying dormant for millenniums…forgotten, maybe? Feared, perhaps? Mis-used?
Now that I think for some divine reason this has to be the most logical explanation for our present state
But Mis-use is just that…A Missed-Usage that can always be corrected once divine intervention is established
For too long the Mis-beliefs that was and still are fabricated to Mis-guide this heavenly-totality…has been forefront in our notions of what can be… will be… and, should be…
The truth is {Just my out-look on this plane}, I think that the veil that has been placed on the openness of consciousness needs to be removed to allow the Etheric light of Righteousness to flow through our persona…our aura… our spiritual body… to gain that which WE have been Mis-directing—DIVINITY itself
This can be done only, by watering the seed of growth that exists within YOU
The invocation of such force starts and ends from the same source… YOU are the center of existence…reality…perception
Cleanse the polluted water that has flooded the temporal for ages, and begin you ascension as an entity of light…Godliness is you… walk like the past enlightened ones…walk as an element of creation
This is all the inspiration one needs… and should need
We are offspring of the creators that were created to…CREATE
Awaken the ELOH-body in you and shine your vibrancy to the Universe to feed off
Now Open Your Eyes…
Dwayne Sheppard
Aka
Venomous
THE LORD CRUCIFIED
IN EGYPT
REVELATION 11:8
"And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city [which today would the United States]
, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."
Page 121-122, Volume
I, "The Gods of The
Egyptians," Wallis
Budge
Because the
Egyptians added to
and took away from
the words to the
prophecies and
Gospel of Heru to
suit their own
views, God
ultimately added
unto them the
plagues written
therein.
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The more
Indo-Europeans (such
as those of Sodom)
poured into Egypt
the more the
Egyptians added to
and took away from
the original Gospel
of Heru to
accommodate the
pagan beliefs and
foreign gods of such
Indo-Europeans.
Thus that is the
crucifixion of the
Lord God that John
refers to in
Revelation 11:8.
Contrary to the
popular belief that
Abraham lived
between 2000 B.C.
and 1500, Abraham
was actually a
contemporary of
I-em-hetep
(2635-2595 B.C.).
Thus both I-em-hetep
and Abraham lived
during of the Third
Dynasty (between
2700 and 2575 B.C.).
Abraham was
originally known as
Abram. During
a visit to Egypt,
Abram adopted the
Hebrew (or
He-hu-ba-ru) faith,
which was maintained
there by
Hamitic
Ethiopians and their
Dravidian
(East-Indian)
counterparts.
Abram was a Cushite,
who was compelled by
the truth he learned
in Egypt to
recognize and
acknowledge his
Hamitic
roots. Thus
the name Abram was
changed to Abraham.
His wife Sara (the
red blood, Sa, of
Ra) was Dravidian
(also see Genesis
25:25, wherein Esau
inherited the red
genes of his
grandmother Sara).
Thus the Hebrew
faith, which is
based upon the
Kingdom of God and
the kingdom of the
true brotherhood of
man being one and
the same on earth,
provided them a
divine means of
dealing with the
racism that was
developing among the
Indo-Europeans in
the Middle-East as a
result of the
earlier Hamitic and
Cushite Ethiopian
domination of the
region. The
Hebrew faith also
provided them with a
means of teaching
their Indo-European
neighbors to abandon
their pagan
religions and idol
gods. For they
could only lead them
to exhibiting the
ungodly behavior
seen in Sodom and
Gomorrah.
However, Abram
obviously didn't
tell the
Indo-European
members of the
Hebrew family the
truth of why he
changed his name to
Abraham. For
in John 8:40, Jesus
tells us that he
came to tell them
the truth that
Abraham had not told
them.
Meanwhile, after the
end of the Fourth
Dynasty (the Dynasty
in which Abraham's
great grandson
Joseph lived), more
and more
Indo-Europeans (such
as those who had
escaped the
destruction of Sodom
and Gomarrah)
migrated into Egypt.
The more and more
they migrated the
more and more the
Gospel of Heru was
crucified. The
crucifixion
continued until
Heru, the Heavenly
Father of all
humankind, became
one of the most
obscure figures in
both Egyptian and
world history.
Thus all humankind
was held in darkness
concerning the only
direct link between
their souls and the
Pure and Perfect
Mind of God the
Creator himself.
Yet Jesus came as
one who could read
between the lines to
develop a clear
picture of the
Heavenly Father of
all humankind.
Thus he left us the
following Scripture:
REVELATION
12:25-27
"At
that time Jesus
answered and said, I
thank Thee, O
Father, Lord of
heaven and earth,
because Thou hast
hid these things
from the wise and
prudent, and hast
revealed them unto
babes."
"Even so, Father:
for so it seemed
good in Thy sight."
"All things are
delivered unto me of
my Father: and no
man knoweth the Son,
but the Father;
In
a message dated
2/26/2003 3:52:40 PM
Eastern Standard
Time,
enorman@bgcgw.org
writes:
A definitive answer will be given by Ausar (God) in his/her own space and place in time
.
My dearly beloved
brother Ezekiel, we
are current in the
space and time when
the Father will give
us definitive
answers to the
mysteries of God in
issues such as those
you raised.
REVELATION
10:7
"But
in the days of the
voice of the seventh
angel, when he shall
begin to sound,
The Mystery of God
Should Be Finished,
as He hath declared
to His servants the
prophets."
Understanding the
mysteries of God, in
issues such as they
you raised, require
something very few
human beings use or
know how to use when
studying such
things. The
thing that is
required is
commonsense.
Meta-physics is the
science of
commonsense.
Thanks to Jesus, we
now have a means of
applying Divine
Meta-physics (or
Divine Commonsense)
to the study of such
issues.
In a message dated
2/26/2003 3:52:40 PM
Eastern Standard
Time,
enorman@bgcgw.org
writes:
To be quite frank with you I do not know for certain how we got into this mess. What did we do to deserve this
Here Is Natural
Commonsense
In a message dated
2/15/2003 9:40:09 PM
Eastern Standard
Time, EMANSMYRNA
writes:
Millions of people already know and millions more are becoming to know that Jesus was an Ethiopian Hebrew (or Black man). How is it that we failed to recognize the most glorious Son of Africa since Heru as one of our own? Why was it so easy for the Europeans to change his identity and sell his spirituality back to us as a religion called Christianity? What have we lost that makes it so easy for others to walk over us and disregard us? I submit to you that we have failed to maintain the direct link that existed between us and God through our Heavenly Father Heru. Since his is the only direct link between God and all humanity and all humanity is therefore dependent upon it to have a true relationship with God, it is only natural that the rest of the world would put us down and reject us--seeing that we failed to maintain something that is vital to the salvation of all humankind.
In addition to that,
if members of our
race (such as a
Hamitic Ethiopian
faction) were found
quilty of promoting
a philosophy of
racial superiority,
not only would it be
natural other races
to put us down
whenever possible,
it would also be
natural for them to
write (or seal) upon
our entire race a
curse whenever they
came to power.
The true story of
Noah (which is quite
different from the
Biblical story of
Noah) was God's way
of identifying the
root cause of this
curse and pass pass
it on to future
generations towards
the day of judgment,
and for the purpose
of correction of
this flaw in human
behavior.
However, there is
little chance of
correcting this flaw
in human behavior
until the true story
of Noah replaces the
Biblical errors and
mis-interpretations.
In a message dated
2/26/2003 3:52:40 PM
Eastern Standard
Time,
enorman@bgcgw.org
writes:
In the Old Testament the races of mankind are classified as descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth (the sons of Noah). While it is accepted by all that Japheth corresponds to the European and Northern Asiatics, and Shem to the Semites.
My beloved
brother Ezekiel, it
is not accepted by
all that Japheth
correspond with the
European. I
say that that is a
lie and there is no
truth in it.
Let us take a look
at how easily the
truth unfolds when
we use just a little
commonsense:
Here Is Natural
Commonsense
It is written nowhere in the Bible (and perhaps nowhere else on earth) that Noah was married to three different races of three different races. What is the genetic possibility of a black man and black woman having one black child, one red child, and one white child? What is the genetic possibility of a white couple having one white child, one red child, and one black child. At best, the sons of Noah and his one wife could have been a combination of three races, and I submit to you that the white race was not one of them. Is this a black and white world? Are not most of the people on earth red and yellow instead of black and white? What is the reproductive possibility of only eight people, who lived around six thousand ago, yielding the earth's current population of six billion? And if none of those eight people were red and yellow, how did the red man and the yellow man come to represent the greater portion of the earth's population? So, what are we actually reading when we read the Biblical story of Noah? Is it a straight out lie or a symbolic depiction of a man who was born as a mixture of three races, the black, red, and yellow race? And the only one we can be absolutely sure of is the Hamitic black race. While Hamitic definitely correspond with Ham, Shem corresponding with Semetic and Japheth corresponding with European is only speculation. At best the Biblical story of Noah can only be symbolic. And like all symbolic depictions of history and places, it was rather easy for the Indo-Europeans change the symbolic representation of the people and relocate the Ark's mountain to any place on earth they wished to put it. Thus I submit to you that the true story of Noah took place along the Bay of Bengal, near the greatest elevation of earth, Mt. Everest. And the entire earth did not flood, but a year of usually heavy Monsoon rain did indeed flood the earth known to Noah along the Bay of Bengal. If the Hamites did indeed get their name from the Hamar tribe, the story of Noah might also explain why there is a Hamar people in India, whose language is a part of the Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Burman language groups. When the story of Noah (X) was brought to Ethiopia from the Bay of Bengal, the flood was associated with the annual flooding that occurs in the land of the Nuer and (X) was given the name Nu-A (the intelligence that came out of the watery mass of Creation called Nu). Thus Nu-A (or Noah) began the source of the Tem-Ra in Egyptian mythology.
Here Is Natural Divine Commonsense
Lets take a look at what happens when the true story of Noah is told:
REVELATION
6:13-14
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree caseth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind."
REVELATION 16:19-20
"And
the great city was
divided into three
parts, and the
cities of the
nations fell: and
great Babylon [who
moved the story of
Noah from the Bay of
Bengal to the
Middle-East] came in
remembrance before
God, to give unto
her the cup of the
wine of the
fierceness of His
wrath."
"And every island
fled away. and The
Mountains Were Not
Found [which also
means that Mt.
Ararat and
Hindu-Kush were no
longer found as part
of the true story of
Noah]."
Here Is Purely Divine Commonsense
Before Noah,
Abraham, and Moses I
AM. Noah,
Abraham, and Moses
died longing to see
the day of the
Father and Son of
the Glory of God in
Man, and did not see
it. Yet when
they saw it, in the
life that after
their death, they
rejoiced.
REVELATION 4:3
"And He that sat was to look upon like a
Jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald."
REVELATION 21:17-18
"And
he measured the wall
thereof, an hundred
and forty and four
cubits According
To The Measure of A
Man, That Is, of The
Angel [see the
measure of the last
giant Hamitic
Ethiopian to be
found in the
Middle-East in
Dueteronomy 3:11]."
"And the building of
the wall of it was
of
Jasper comes in many colors. So how are to know what color jasper is referred to in the Book of Revelation? The answer is rather simple. For the black and red jasper known as yahhfeh is the only color jasper to have a prominent place in Hebrew history (to see the Hebrew jasper, go to New Jerusalem Church of Smyrna, Inc. and select FIVE BOOKS in left frame menu, and click on Book 2, and scroll to third paragraph).
REVELATION
11:19
"And the Temple of God
[which is represented of earth by the 90% of the functions and dynamics of the human brain that belongs the spiritual universe, or the divinely inspired mental universe, of pure and perfect thought and thought energy] was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the Ark of his Testament [which is the Ark of the Covenant that Moses never fully understood]; and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail."
REVELATION 21:1
"And
I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for
the first heaven and
the first earth were
passed away; and
there was no more
sea."
IF IT IS NOT IN THE BIBLE
Hoteph My Beloved
Sisters And
Brothers:
Now I know I am
about to rough some
black feathers,
because with
Black Folks, be us
so call liberal or
conservative, to the
left or to the
right in our
thinking, what ever
that mean or be us
democrat or
republican, also it
does not matter
whether or not we
are Christian
or Muslim or Jew,
catholic or
indifferent, when it
all boil down to
our religion, the
conclusion we reach
and embrace is that,
if it is
not in the bible, it
is not the truth.
Now such thinking is
embedded in the mind
of Black Folks, well
may be I should say
the majority of us
carry such thoughts
about the
bible. Now such a
disease we carry,
become as a monkey
on our
back, holding us to
such belief and
total commitment to
such, in
most cases
irreversible faith.
This plague of the
white man bible and
all other religious
books that
are not from the
pen hand of our
Ancient African
Ancestors or
cotemporary Black
Theologians, showing
a different path
from the bible,
is a disease that
affect the best of
us.
From the proud
confessed Christian
to the so call
militant, claiming
to
be involved in the
fight for our
liberation and is a
confessed
revolutionary, but
when it all boil
down,
regardless of our
Scio-economic, civil
and political
involvement, which
persuade us to
become active in
pursuit of our
philosophical ideas
concerning the
Black life and what
we must do to change
our present life
condition.
The one commonality
we all have, is the
white man religion,
broken up into
various categories
of religious
persuasion, as it
serve
to be the Black
Nation Achilles
heel.
I am saying all of
this to make a
point, without the
intention to offend
any one, but I must
present to you the
lies that create our
Black life
situation and they
are serving as a
mill stone around
our Soul neck.
The pity and the
shame is, when
strong Black Women
And Men who
surface with the
power of thought
that reveal the
truth about our
Black
self and about God,
Universe And Being
and is wise enough
to allow
the wisdom of the
universe to reveal
to them how it all
correctly relate
and is connected,
absent of all of the
white man religious
dogma,
we Black so call
Africans,
immediately
challenge the truth
and validity
of the Black
African claim about
God, simply because
it contradict the
white man bible of
fairy tales and
dictatorial literary
demands.
When Black Folks
present a theology
to Black Folks,
absent of the
persuasion of the
white man bible,
Black Folks
immediately with
arrogance and pride
rejects it and
proceed to measure
the truthfulness
of it by using the
biggest lying
religious book
of all, as our
measuring
stick for Godly
Truth, not knowing
such an act only
highlight the
red pill
syndrome we are in,
as we travel the
matrix of life
illusion.
Such an attitude by
the Black African
Nation, only suggest
that God only
talk to the white
man and their
cronies ( if we want
to label God as a
talking God )
and not Black Folks,
who happen to have
the seed of truth
embedded within
their genes,
verified by the
ageless story we
have caused by our
life
experiences,
which verify a life
once lived in pure
harmony with all
that God did
create,
without conditions
or demands and most
certainly did not
command us to do
anything,
pertaining to our
life.
There was no need,
for we at one time
were God Like, using
the power that
come from having a
purity of thought
and a oneness of
mind that connected
to
the universe
itself.
One of the major
problems that infect
the Black Nation is
that we shun the
Truth,
we have no desire
to know the truth,
as we have submitted
to the lies and
ways
of the white man,
and his bible,
therefore we adopt
the ill and deformed
notion
that if it ain't in
the Bible it ain't
the truth, thus
become a clear
picture of the
problem the Black
Nation suffer with
glee.
What a pity and a
shame, of how far we
have fallen from the
knowledge of
God, Universe And
Being, as taught by
our most Ancient
Cosmic African
Ancestors. We talk
about the white man
attitude toward us
and we tireless
beg for some
semblance of respect
from them, trusting
in what they tell us
about ourselves but
when it come to our
Black Women And Men,
revealing
the thoughts and
vision as relayed by
our Ancient
Ancestors, we become
their greatest
doubters as we
irrationally and
illogically
call ourselves
critiquing the
knowledge and
wisdoms of the true
gods, by using the
devil
hand book, his
bible.
I told you that you
will not like what I
say because what I
am saying,
ain't in the Bible.
Complete Love To The
Black Nation
Hoteph And Black
Mental Power, NOW!!!
Osiris
Chief Elder
Sankofa Repatriation
Movement
The Pan - Afrikan
Inter'National
Movement
Author of the book,
Lies About God,
Please, those of you
who might want to
inquire about this
most controversial
book,
can do so by
contacting my
publisher,
Mr. Robert Miller,
Voice Of Truth
Publishing At,
hyke@Wctel.net
A Chronology of the
Bible
Challenge to the
Standard Version
By Yosef
ben-Jochannan (1973)
Dedicated to
Truth
yet always mindful
that
All faith is
FALSE, all faith is
TRUE
TRUTH is the
shattered mirrors
strewn
In myriad bits;
while each BELIEVES
his LITTLE BIT the
whole to own
(From: "The
Kasidah of Haji Abu
el-Yezdi"; as
translated by Sir
Richard F. Burton)
"...As we look back
into the history of
the Holy Bible,
or "HOLY SCRIPTURE
AS WRITTEN BY GOD
INSPIRED SCRIBES,"
we seem to forget
that all of the
BIBLES we use were
the works of various
writers, both men
and women; but
mostly men. And that
all of the WORKS or
BOOKS were compiled
into what is today
our various VERSIONS
of "HOLY BIBLES" or
"HOLY SCROLLS." We
have also failed to
realize that the
BIBLES we use today
are the result of a
period of hundreds
of REVISIONS and
TRANSLATIONS that
cover approximately
two thousand
four-hundred and
nintey-five
[2,495] years—from
ca. 700 B.C. [BCE]
to 1973 A.D. [CE].
Yet all in
this period was
preceded by much
more earlier
fundamentals created
and developed by
indigenous African
People
[among whom He,
Hehu, and Heru were
indeed names for
God, and the source
of the bibical YH,
Yehu, and YHWH].
These later on
became the basic
teachings of
Judaism, and
then Christianity.
For even
Moses, the father of
the OLD TESTAMENT,
was an African who
used much of the
ancient teachings of
his fellow Africans
of the Nile River
[BLUE and WHITE]
and Great Lakes
regions Mysteries
System of Northeast
and Central-East
Africa he allegedly
passed down to other
African Jews that
converted them into
what later became
the PENTATEUCH or
OLD TESTAMENT [Five
Books Of Moses or
Holy Torah].
The very first
"BIBLE" or "SCROLL"
on record produced
by man, with regards
to paying honour and
divine respect to a
"CREATOR OF ALL
MANKIND," was that
of the African
People of the Nile
Valley and Great
Lakes regions of
Central, East and
Northeast Africa
"
THE BOOK OF THE COMING FORTH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT."It was translated from its original Heiroglyphic Text
[wherein He, Hehu, and Heru are indeed names for God, and the source of the bibical YH, Yehu, and YHWH]. into the English language by many Europeans since the latter part of the 19th Century A.D. The easiest one to read is called...
Hamitic and Cushite
Cast Into The Fiery
Furance
"Chaldees
- or Chaldeans, the
inhabitants of the
country of which
Babylon was the
capital. They were
so called till the
time of the
Captivity (2 Kings
25; Isa. 13:19;
23:13), when,
particularly in the
Book of Daniel
(5:30; 9:1), the
name began to be
used with special
reference to a class
of learned men
ranked with the
magicians and
astronomers.
These men cultivated
the ancient Cushite
language of the
original inhabitants
of the land,
for they had a
"learning" and a
"tongue" (1:4) of
their own. The
common language of
the country at that
time had become
assimilated to the
Semitic dialect,
especially through
the influence of the
Assyrians, and was
the language that
was used for all
civil purposes. The
Chaldeans were the
learned class,
interesting
themselves in
science and
religion, which
consisted, like that
of the ancient
Arabians and
Syrians, in the
worship of the
heavenly bodies.
There are
representations of
this priestly class,
of magi and
diviners, on the
walls of the
Assyrian palaces."
http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/easton/east0760.htm
DANIEL 1:6-7
"Now
among these were of
the children of
Judah, Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah:"
"Unto whom the
prince of the
eunuchs gave names:
for he gave unto
Daniel the name
Bel-te-shaz-zar; and
to Hananiah, of
Shadrach: and to
Mishael, of
Me'shach: and to
Az-a-ri-ah, of
Abednego."
Thus the
first thing done by
the Indo-European
rulers of Babylon to
erase and alter the
Hamitic language and
Cushite Hebrew was
to change the names
of Daniel, Hananiah,
Azariah, and
Mishael. That
reminds me of the
slavery of African
people in the United
States—especially
the story in
“Roots,” wherein
Kunta Kinte was beat
by his overseer
until he said his
name was Toby
Reynolds. This
Babylonian pattern
has been the
prototype for every
Indo-European
conquering empire to
the conquering
European
empires—especially
when it came to
erasing or altering
African history or
the history of
people of African
descent.
As I stated in an
earlier article, El
was Elohim as Ru was
to Ra. As Ru
was a finite
expression of the
infinite Ra, El was
a finite expression
of the infinite
Elohim. Three
great faiths were
born out of the
Gospel of Heru, the
Masonic faith, the
Messianic faith, and
the Hebrew faith.
The people of the
Masonic and
Messianic faiths
traveled on the west
side of the Nile
from the Garden of
Eden in southwest
Sudan into Egypt.
The people of the
Hebrew faith
traveled the east
side of the Nile.
The Paleo Cushite
Hebrew alphabets
were introduced into
Nubia (the Land of
Cush) by the
East-Indian members
of the Hebrew faith,
as remnants of a
failed Dravidian
Indian attempt to
develop a written
language using such
letter. In
Nubia, the Hebrews
developed the
practice of using El
to replace Ru in
order to distinguish
the works of Hebrews
from those of the
Messianic faith.
Sometimes they
worked together and
the El was simply
added to the end of
Ru, such as in
Meru-el, also known
as Merul. Meru
was the son of Heru
who is also known as
Cain and Set.
Since they worked
together, Meru-el
signified a
reconciliation
between Meru and
Ab-ru or A-ba-ru,
who is also known as
Abel and Horus.
When Joseph came to
Egypt, he and the
priest of Imhotep
(or I-em-hetep) form
a collaboration,
wherein the
brotherhood between
Imhotep and Abraham
was remembered and
the dual history of
the Hebrews and the
Hamites/Chushites
was clearly
unfolded. The
reconciliation
between Meru and
Ab-ru or A-ba-ru was
made known to Khufu,
an Egypt king of the
Masonic faith, who
had shut down the
temples where other
faiths were being
honored. Thus
Khufu added a Golden
Horus name to his
Horus name in honor
of the
reconciliation.
When Joseph told him
that his father name
Jacob had been
changed to Is-ru-el
(now known as
Israel) to signify a
reunion of all three
faiths born out of
the Gospel of Heru,
Khufu authorized
Joseph and the
priest of Imhotep to
design and engineer
the Great Pyramid of
Egypt, as the
Revelation of Heru
in stone. The
Masonic faith was
faith in the science
of the resurrection.
Thus Is represented
the science of the
resurrection and
science in general.
Ru represented the
Messianic faith and
El the Hebrew faith.
Though such
knowledge was been
lost or ignored by
modern scholars, we
can be assured that
the Indo-Europeans
rulers of Babylon
were fully aware the
that names like
Daniel and Mishael
were of Cushite
origin. We can
also be sure that
they knew that the
names Hananiah and
Azariah were also of
that very same
origin. And
there was no place
for such names in an
empire that was to
be governed under a
philosophy of white
supremacy.
Such names were too
closely associated
with the
construction of a
building among
African people that
required the
greatest
intelligence on
earth—just to give
you some idea why no
one seems to know
who built the Great
Pyramid and the role
the Babylonian
played in making
sure no one would
ever know.
Once the names had
been changed, the
next step would be
to force those who
are about to be
robbed to abandon
the language in
which their history
is written or orally
transmitted from
generation to
generation, and
learn to speak and
write in the
language of those
who hold them in
captivity.
That reminds me of
the West-Indian
people (the
so-called Native
Americans), who
forced to abandon
their own language
and force to attend
the schools of the
white Americans that
held them in
captivity—to
learn speak, read,
and write their
language. That
Hananiah, Azariah,
and Mishael refused
to do. Thus
the remnants of
their Hamitic
language and their
Cushite Hebrew
language was cast
into the fiery
furnace. On
the other hand,
Daniel conceded to
doing his writing in
Chaldee Hebrew.
For in his wisdom,
Daniel understood
that his message
would never make it
to the future
generations if he
did otherwise.
Thus the Book of
Daniel is written in
Aramaic.
Again,
RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
also have been reading your website and emails. I don't agree with
everything you write, but I soak all of it in. I am eager to read and learn
all I can on spiritual matters. One main point I have a large problem with
is the idea of Satan. I personally do not believe in the Devil. I believe
that energy is merely of ignorance. Do not get me wrong, the ignorance of
separation from God is very insideous and dangerous, but I do think the
writings on the Devil are metaphors for wrong understanding and the
evolutionary process. Have you given any thought to the idea that God is
evolving with and through us? That all the ignorance we suffere and
struggles we encounter are also experienced by God. Interesting to think
of
.
FIRST INFANCY
21:1-21
"And
when he was twelve
years old, they
brought him to
Jerusalem to the
feast; and when the
feast was over, they
returned."
"But the Lord Jesus
continued behind in
the temple among the
doctors and elders,
and learned men of
Israel; to whom he
proposed several
questions of
learning, and also
gave them answers;"
"For he said to
them, Whose son is
the Messiah?
They answered, the
son of David:"
"Why then, said he,
does he in the
spirit call him
Lord? when he
saith, The Lord said
to my Lord, sit thou
at my right hand,
till I have made
thine enemies thy
footstool."
"Then a certain
principal Rabbi
asked him, Hast thou
read books?"
"Jesus answered, he
had read both books
and the things which
were contained in
books."
"And he explained to
them the books of
the law, and
precepts, and
statutes: and the
mysteries which are
contained in the
books of the
prophets; things
which the mind of no
creature could
reach."
"Then said that
Rabbi, I never yet
have seen or heard
of such knowledge!
What do you think
that boy will be?"
"When a certain
astronomer, who was
present, asked the
Lord Jesus, Whether
he had studied
astronomy?"
"The Lord Jesus
replied, and told
him the number of
spheres and heavenly
bodies, as also
their triangular,
square, and sextile
aspects; their
progressive and
retrograde motion;
their size and
several
prognostications;
and other things
which the reason of
man had never
discovered."
"There was also
among them a
philosopher well
skilled in physic
and natural
philosophy, who
asked the Lord
Jesus, Whether he
had studied physic?"
"He replied, and
explained to him
physics and
metaphysics."
"Also those things
which were above and
below the power of
nature;"
"The powers also of
the body, its
humours, and their
effects."
"Also the number of
its members, and
bones, veins,
arteries, nerves;"
"The several
constitutions of the
body, hot and dry,
cold and moist, and
the tendencies of
them;"
"How the soul
operate upon the
body;"
"What its various
sensations and
faculties were;"
"The faculty of
speaking anger and
desire;"
"And lastly the
manner of its
composition and
dissolution; and
other things, which
the understanding of
no creature had ever
reached."
"The that
philosopher arose,
and worshipped the
Lord Jesus, and
said, from
henceforth I will be
thy disciple and
servant."
Sincerely
Yours,
In The Spirit of
Eternal Love,
Emmanuel Afraka
From: AlmHai5
To: EMANSMYRNA
Amen Ra Hetep, "Gods Peace,"
Salaam, Kemey Aleki,
Dahandahmcee, - "Good evening,"
Selamat Hawae',
In your religious practices, philosophy, theology, belief system. What would be a brief
summary of the God concept?
Unyanly, mun gode don halita! - "Thank You, in the name of the ancestors!"
Ankh, Wdja, Seneb, - "I wish you life, Strength, and Health"
Di Anpu hetep em-k hru pu! - "May Anpu make an offering for you this day."
Di Anpu Er-k Hetep - "May Anpu Give You Peace"
Forward Ever; Backward Never!
Dahanwoal! - "Good Bye!"
Hawae' Baba AlAman @~)~)~~~
~
______________________________________
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_soul.html
Like DNA instructs
cells, the Akhu
instructs the Sahu
to fashion an
invisible atomic
body that will
ultimately become
one with the Pure
and Perfect Mind of
God the Creator
himself and one with
the Creation of the
Universe—based upon
the intellect thus
far acquired and the
pure and perfect
thought energy it
generated.
Therefore, the Sahu
forms the molecular
and motor dominion
of the soul.
Remember that the
soul is not only
retained in the
mental activity of
the brain, but also
in the molecular and
motor activities.
Therefore, when a
man is divinely
inspired to do good
works that require
molecular and motor
activity, he is
still producing pure
and perfect thought
energy that fashion
for him a glorious
Sahu—though his
works may not be the
result of any great
intellectual
development on his
behalf.
Sahu - The
incorruptible
spiritual body of
man that could dwell
in the heavens,
appearing from the
physical body after
the judgment of the
dead was passed (if
successful) with all
of the mental and
spiritual abilities
of a living body.
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_soul.html
Conclusion
That is the type of
Knowledge that Jesus
had to purify and
perfect in order to
become the Messiah
(or the Maashua),
the Savior of other
identities and
individualities.
The purification and
perfection of such
knowledge also gave
him power to appear
before those whom he
loved the most, as
one who was
resurrected from the
dead. He
sought this power
that they might
forever have faith
in the knowledge of
eternal life given
to humanity by our
African ancestors.
However, the
purification and
perfection of
Knowledge alone was
not enough to cause
Jesus to succeed
where others had
failed. The
key to his success
was the combined
purification and
perfection of both
knowledge and love.
SONG OF
SOLOMON
"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death
[actually stronger than death]; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame."
Concept of the Soul
The Hehu
Now that we've had a
look at the Akhu and
Sahu that make up
the soul, let us
take a look at the
Hehu, which links
the soul to the Pure
and Perfect Mind of
God and the Creation
of the Universe
until they all
become one and the
same. Remember
'He' means infinite,
unlimited, and 'Hu'
is a finite form of
the infinite 'He'.
The mental darkness
that surrounded the
Mind of God in the
beginning of
Creation was full of
spiritual (or
mental) ignorance
and death, which we
can call the Power
of Darkness.
Thus the Power of
Darkness posed a
threat to the
infinite potential
of the Mind and its
eternal life.
In order for the
Mind of God to live
forever and never
die, the Power of
Darkness had to be
conquered and
destroyed.
Creation was
therefore designed
to produce an arena
wherein the needed
victory over the
Power of Darkness
could be won.
Since each soul was
a component of the
Mind of God in the
beginning of
Creation, each soul
would be given the
responsibility of
conquering and
destroying the Power
of Darkness in its
own portion of the
darkness that
surrounded the Mind
of God in the
beginning of
Creation.
Therefore, when each
soul physically and
naturally takes on
its on portion of
that darkness, it
does so by taking on
a human body, which
is full of spiritual
ignorance and death
that makes it only a
finite expression of
the infinite 'He' at
best. Thus it
is 'Hu' (as in Human,
coincidentally) or
Kahu. Contrary
to the popular
belief concerning
the Egyptian use of
Ka, to the Hamitic
Ethiopians, Ka was
actually one human
body containing both
mental attributes
and physical and
natural attributes.
The
Ba,
which is also used
to mean soul in many
instances, feeds
the Hu with the
attributes of the He
(feeds the finite
with the attributes
of the infinite)
until the soul again
become one with the
Mind of God and the
Creation of the
Universe (one with
Ra and Nu), but now
with its own
identity and
individuality.
Ba - The
human headed bird
flitted around in
the tomb during the
day brining air and
food to the
deceased, but
traveled with Ra on
the Solar Barque
during the evenings.
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_soul.html
Thus the Hu is
associated with the
since of taste (page
300, The Gods of The
Egyptians, Volume 2,
Wallis Budge).
The link (or the
divinity) between
the Mind of God and
the Soul is
therefore the
Hehu.
A soul that are
consciously aware
that it is linked to
the Mind of God is a
He-hu-ba-ru.
The Heru
Ra is mistakenly
identified as the
Sun-god. Ra
actually means Pure
and Perfect Mind, as
in the purifying
rays of the sun,
which are infinite.
Thus the hieroglyph
for sun, is used to
imply Pure and
Perfect Mind.
The circle also
means infinite, and
without beginning
and without end.
Note that there is a
dot within the
circle. The
dot implies that the
finite is contained
within the infinite.
Therefore, finite
was given a human
face that would be
the Father of all
the He-hu-ba-ru
linked to the
infinite Ra by the
Hehu. Thus
this human face was
known as He-ru
(Heru), an angel
standing in the sun
(Revelation 19:17).
The Maashua (The
Messiah)
When the soul takes
of a human body to
conquer and destroy
the spirit ignorance
and death in the
Power of Darkness,
the soul is actually
in a fallen state of
being. It
cannot link itself
back to the Mind of
God without divine
intervention.
Therefore, a
conscience and heart
developed in the
Mind of God the
Creator himself to
deal with this
situation.
That conscience and
heart was known as
the
Maashua (the
Messiah). Maa,
as related to Maat,
gives the fallen
state of the soul
the Laws of God that
empowers the soul to
be upright,
righteous, just, and
orderly, thereby
establish a link (or
Hehu) between the
soul and the Mind of
God. After the
law is given, Shua
(who also became
known as Shu, who
fills the space or
the air between
heaven and earth)
redeems the soul
from this fallen
state (or earthly
state), and places
it in the Kingdom of
Heaven.
Remember that
Kingdom of Heaven is
represented on earth
by the 90% of the
functions and
dynamics of the
human brain that
belongs to the
spiritual universe
(or the divinely
inspired mental
universe) of pure
and perfect thought
and thought energy.
Hamitic and Cushite Cast Into The Fiery Furance
"And
I will give power
unto my two
witnesses, and they
shall prophesy a
thosand two hundred
and threescore days,
clothed in
sackcloth."
"These are the two
olive trees, and the
two candlesticks
standing before the
God of the earth."
REVELATION
11:7
"And
when they shall have
finished their
testimony, the beast
that ascended out of
the bottomless pit
shall make war
against them, and
shall overcome them,
and kill them."
Thus today's
fulfillment of the
beast ascending out
of the bottomless
pit to kill these to
witnesses is
actually a replay of
the Roman/Jewish
beast ascending out
of a bottomless pit
of lies and
falsehoods to kill
John the Baptist and
Jesus in the hope of
destroying the
connection they had
established between
African history and
the Hebrew
scriptures.
This they did and
will do again in the
order of Babylon.
REVELATION
11:10
"And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth."
REVELATION
11:11
"And
after three days and
an half the Spirit
of life from God
entered into them,
and they stood upon
their feet; and
great fear fell upon
them which saw
them."
To ascend
out of the
bottomless pit of
lies and falsehoods
to make war against
and kill the two
witnesses of the
African origin of
the Hebrew and
Messianic faiths,
the Roman/Jewish
beast used Yiddish
translations,
transliterations,
and interpretations
of the Hebrew
scriptures.
That is what the
beast is doing today
in the order of
Babylon.
Therefore, the only
way these two
witnesses can stand
on their own feet
today is through
restoring much
Cushite Hebrew in
direct relationship
to the Hamitic
Ethiopian language
it derived from, the
actual language of
Heru.
In a message dated
6/26/2003 3:58:46 AM
Eastern Standard
Time, EMANSMYRNA
writes:
Once the names had been changed, the next step would be to force those who are about to be robbed to abandon the language in which their history is written or orally transmitted from generation to generation, and learn to speak and write in the language of those who hold them in captivity. That reminds me of the West-Indian people (the so-called Native Americans), who forced to abandon their own language and force to attend the schools of the white Americans that held them in captivity—to learn speak, read, and write their language. That Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael refused to do. Thus the remnants of their Hamitic language and their Cushite Hebrew language was cast into the fiery furnace
When Joseph came to Egypt, he and the priest of Imhotep (or I-em-hetep) form a collaboration, wherein the brotherhood between Imhotep and Abraham was remembered and the dual history of the Hebrews and the Hamites/Chushites was clearly unfolded. The reconciliation between Meru and Ab-ru or A-ba-ru was made known to Khufu, an Egypt king of the Masonic faith, who had shut down the temples where other faiths were being honored. Thus Khufu added a Golden Horus name to his Horus name in honor of the reconciliation. When Joseph told him that his father name Jacob had been changed to Is-ru-el (now known as Israel) to signify a reunion of all three faiths born out of the Gospel of Heru, Khufu authorized Joseph and the priest of Imhotep to design and engineer the Great Pyramid of Egypt, as the Revelation of Heru in stone. The Masonic faith was faith in the science of the resurrection. Thus Is represented the science of the resurrection and science in general. Ru represented the Messianic faith and El the Hebrew faith
.
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JESUS/PROPHETS/APOSTLES)
In the name of
Almighty God, Master
of the universe,
Ruler of the earth.
Peace be unto you,
Brethren we seldom
come with a message
that condemns and
warns evildoers in
an explicit and
straight forward
manner. However this
is an exception. We
are
grieved by the
callous way in which
a Satanic movie
called "The Passion
of
Christ "is being
promoted. We are
also grieved but not
surprised that many
so-called Church
leaders including
the Devil in the
flesh the Pope are
supporting
this gross insult to
God and to God's
people.
But what are the
circumstances that
will allow so many
things that have
nothing to do with
God to invade the
Church and be hailed
among people that
claim
to know God.
So we ask the
following questions:
1. What, Why,
When, Where and Who?
2. What led
the Roman Emperors
to defile the Church
noted by Jesus
Christ
and the Apostles?
3. Why did
they have their
Pagan artists paint
pictures of Christ
and adorn
Catholic Churches
with a vast
assortment of Pagan
images?
4. When did
this all happen? Was
it when the Emperor
Constantine
bastardized
Christianity?
5. Where did
the degenerate
attitude among the
Catholic Priesthood
come
from? Was it a
carryover from the
Pagan fertility
rituals among the
early Pagan
Christians?
6. Who are the
people that insist
on creating the
White and European
image
of a Church born and
established in the
Middle East?
Brethren we live in
a wretched society
that is on Hell's
Expressway. For
example the media in
general has gone to
the Dogs and wallows
with Hogs. Here the
Gay life-style, sex
without marriage and
living together is
depicted as the
norm. Also couples
having children
without being
married is also
depicted as
normal behavior.
Furthermore almost
every vice and thing
immoral that rests
under and beneath
the sun is shown on
the Big Screen and
television.
Meanwhile the
political
arena argue and
debate over whether
are not two men and
two women can marry
same
as the God
ordained union of
man and woman. In
cases where the
threat of Gay
activists intimidate
the sane Gay Unions
are permitted that
will allow
benefits parallel to
those of unions
between a man and a
woman.
The Last Days are
upon us. However the
end is drawing near.
Those with sense
and the righteous
stay prayed up for
you need God more
today than
yesterday.
Rest assured that
the truly righteous
will be attacked
like the Prophets
and
Apostles and the
Messiah of the Old
and New Testaments.
This is already
happening in that
Satan and his army
are trying to tear
down any and all
Christian
values. Meanwhile
the conservative
right instead of
standing with God
have in
most cases bowed to
Satan and supported
the White Supremacy
notion of a White
Jesus/Prophets/Apostles.
It is written that
God is not a
respecter of
persons. Therefore
God is not a
racist God. Brethren
we know that many of
our European
brothers and sisters
have all their lives
like many in the
Black community have
always seen images
of
Jesus etc. as White.
However as you grow
in Spirit and Truth
you should know
that this is not of
God. All images
should be removed
regardless of color,
Black or White.
Again we advise you
to think just why do
the Muslims reject
images of God and
those that are Holy?
Do they know more
about Godliness than
most so-called
Christians? If
so-called Christians
and Muslims and Jews
would stop so much
HATE
they could see God.
The people that will
flock to see this
Pagan movie are
hatemongers, but
sadly many don't
even realize it.
Therefore Mel Gibson
and his hosts of
Devils will pay a
serious price for
this Pagan spectacle
that is called a
movie. Beware of
those that believe
that
this movie is in any
way Godly.
Peace and Love,
Carl Patton a
willing servant of
Almighty God writing
for the
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the year of our Lord
and Savior the
Messiah, Christ
Jesus.
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INTRODUCTION The term ‘ethics’ can be used to include normative ethics--thought about the basis and justification of moral rules and principles; meta-ethics--the meaning of moral terms; applied ethics--the nature, content and application of specific moral guidelines; and, descriptive ethics--accounts of how people actually behave in situations requiring moral action. Contemporary thinking on ethics in African philosophy is primarily concerned with normative and descriptive ethics. In fact, much of contemporary scholarship on ethics from an African point of view is preoccupied with the question of whether moral rules and principles arise out of religion (in which case, they are valid because the gods command them), or whether these rules arise out of reason (in which case they derive their validity from some non-religious base). Because these scholars also make claims about the nature of the principles implicit within traditional African societies, much of their work is also on descriptive ethics. My topic is not this well-worn issue of the basis and justification of moral rules and principles. In fact, I have very little to say about them. My primary concern is with applied ethics. I will examine the question ‘what should I do?’ against the background of spirituality in the practice of medicine in contemporary Yorùbá society. I will argue that the issues of applied ethics that arise in Yorùbá culture (traditional and contemporary) are by far more complex than anything ventured by most contemporary African philosophers. The crux of the matter has to do with the nature of ethics itself. In contemporary Western conceptions of ethics, ethical and moral issues arise within the context of interactions and contact amongst natural beings. That is, issues of ethics come into discussion when we consider the implications of human and/or animal actions vis-à-vis other humans and animals. Let us describe this Westernized conception of ethics as the "this-worldly" approach to ethics.[1] I will argue that in Yorùbá culture (both traditional and contemporary), ethics is a three-way relationship among: (i) natural beings and other natural beings; (ii) natural beings and spiritual beings; and (iii) spiritual beings and other spiritual beings. MORALITY AND RELIGION The question of the relationship between morality and religion has preoccupied philosophers since the inception of philosophy. Plato puts this question well: ‘Do the gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it?’ Put in this manner, the question becomes a variant of the age-old ‘is-ought’ problem. For this Socratic question is really interested in the logical connections between what the gods’ will is, and what we ought morally to do. Is there a logically persuasive connection between what the divine will is, and what we as humans ought to do? Does this divine will derive its moral force of appeal from the simple fact that it is willed by the gods? Or is there a logical gap between the is and the ought such that we can derive the moral force of the ought independently of the gods’ will? The question of the role of religion and ethics in African society has been addressed by people with two opposing points of view: those like John Mbiti and Moses Makinde who maintain that morality derives its validity from religion, and those like Segun Gbadegesin, Kwasi Wiredu and Polycarp Ikuenobe who maintain that it does not.[2] Despite the irreconcilable differences between proponents of these two views, implicit in their work is the assumption that (just as in mainstream contemporary Western philosophy) ethics in Africa is about those action-guiding principles on the basis of which individuals within a community (and, of course, the community as a whole in relation to individuals, or in relation to other communities) regulate their conduct with other humans beings (and, of course, with other communities). Morality is primarily a this-worldly affair in which we focus on issues of co-operation, actions, attitudes, emotions, character, etc., vis-à-vis relationships with other sentient human beings and animals. While I do not deny that ethics is and should be a this-worldly affair, my contention is that, from the Yorùbá perspective, this is a very limited view of ethics. Ethics, in traditional and contemporary Yorùbá society is not just about the nature and quality of interactions between sentient natural beings. In Yorùbá culture, ethics has a supernaturalistic dimension in the sense that moral issues also have to do with the relationship between spiritual beings and humans, and indeed, it also has to do with the relationship amongst spiritual beings. It is important to be clear on the contrast I want to draw between my views and those of most contemporary African philosophers. My claim is not that philosophers such as Makinde, Gbadegesin, and Ikuenobe accord no role whatsoever to the supernatural world in ethics and morality. In fact, that which distinguishes African ethics from Western ethics is the role of religion in African thought. My claim is that implicit in the work of these African philosophers is the (contemporary) Western conception of ethics as a field in which the primal focus of attention is the relationship amongst natural beings. Morality and ethics are primarily about human conduct within human communities. Ethical questions are raised about those human conducts that affect other humans and other natural beings. In the philosophies of these African philosophers, religion and the spiritual realm are outside of the moral equation in the sense that questions about the proper role of religion in ethics are pertinent only in issues of the source, origin, bases or ultimate justification of moral rules and principles. For these African philosophers, the role of religion and spirituality in African ethics can be encapsulated by the following questions: From whence does ethics derive its moral force of appeal? From God and the gods, or, from the force of reason? A more precise way of putting these questions is to say that much of contemporary African philosophizing on the relationship between ethics and religion is squarely within the domains of normative and descriptive ethics. My position on the role of religion in the justification of moral rules and principles in Africa can be stated very easily because I do not always accept the law of excluded middle. I do not accept that the question: "do African moral rules and principles derive their validity from the gods, or do the gods command these rules because they are valid?" is exhaustive of all the possible options. When it comes to logic, I am an intuitionist, and, hence, on the issues of the basis of African moral rules and principles, my answer would be: we should not assert the truth of statements of the "P or Q" form when there is no specific justification for P, nor any specific justification for Q. Consequently, within some specified contexts, religion merely supplies prudential and pragmatic justifications for moral conduct. In its prudential or pragmatic functions, religion merely serves as the motivation for moral conduct, thereby encouraging or discouraging conduct. However, in Yorùbá culture, morality does not exist outside of religion in its this-and-other-worldly view of ethics. This is due to the fact that the spiritual and natural planes of existence form the same continuum in Yorùbá culture. In this intuitionist view of the relationship between morality and religion, the middle ground excluded by standard "either ... or" logic is not excluded. THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL IN THE YORÙBÁ COSMOS As with most religions, Yorùbá religion divides the cosmos into two realms of existence: the spiritual world and the natural world.[3] The spiritual world is the abode of supernatural forces such as Olódùmarè (the Yorùbá High God), the Òrìsà (all the Yorùbá divinities), the Ajogun (anti-gods or the malevolent supernatural powers), the Àjë (who are translated inadequately into English as "witches"), and the ancestors. The natural world is composed of humans, animals and plants. Spiritual beings visit the natural world regularly. And through divination, sacrifice and spirit possession, natural beings can also partake in the spiritual world occasionally. The spiritual and natural worlds are, therefore, interdependent. At first, the Yorùbá cosmos might appear to be like that of Christianity and Islam. Õrun is somewhat equivalent to heaven, and aye is somewhat equivalent to this world. What is more, Yorùbá theology also has a place in the supernatural world comparable to hell, namely, Õrun-Àpáàdì. Indeed a host of scholars of Yorùbá theology have compared and re-interpreted Yorùbá theological accounts of the cosmos and its inhabitants in such a way that Yorùbá theology is not distinguishable from that of Christianity. Consider, for instance, the following claims of Bolaji Idowu, one of the most cited scholars on Yorùbá theology:
It would seem that when the world began, everyone could travel to heaven and back as he wished and that all could have immediate, direct contact with Olódùmarè. The oral traditions say that heaven was very near to the earth, so near that one could stretch up one’s hand and touch it. ... There was a kind of Golden Age, or a Garden-of-Eden period. Then something happened, and a giddy, frustrating, extensive space occurred between heaven and earth. The story of what happened is variously told. One story is that a greedy person helped himself to too much food from the heaven; another that a woman with a dirty hand touched the unsoiled face of heaven. The motif is all one--man sinned against the Lord of Heaven and there was immediately raised a barrier which cut him off from the unrestricted bliss of heaven. The privilege of free intercourse, of man taking the bounty of heaven as he liked, disappeared. (Idowu, 1966, p.22.) Idowu claims to be describing Yorùbá theology as presented in the Ifá Literary Corpus, the sacred text of Yorùbá religion. Indeed, he quotes extensively from the Ifá Corpus. But unfortunately, to any Ifá priest, Idowu’s translations and re-interpretations would be representative of anything but Yorùbá theology.[5] Consider for instance the first quotation above from Idowu. In a footnote reference to his claims that in Yorùbá theology the Deity created the world in four days, Idowu refers us to page 112 of his book, were we read the following: It appears that, originally, the sacred day of each divinity came round every fifth day, and it is possible that the same sacred day was observed for them all. This would be based on the belief that the creation of the earth was completed in four days. There is a saying that Ifá l’ó l’òni Ifá l’ó l’õla, Ifá l’ó l’õtúnla, Ifá l’ó ni ‘jö mërin Òrìÿà dá’lé aiyé-- "To Ifá belongs today, to Ifá belongs tomorrow, to Ifá belongs the day after tomorrow, to Ifá belongs the four days in which the Òrìÿà created the earth". This so-called saying of Idowu is actually an excerpt from a poem contained within Ògúndá Méjì, which is the ninth book the Ifá Literary Corpus. As some of the theological ideas contained in this poem will become important later on in this paper, I include the full text of the poem.
The first thing to note about this poem is that it makes no reference whatsoever to creation of the earth, much less to of days of creation. The only reference to creation here is the number of days within the Yorùbá week. Hence the poem is of very limited relevance to the Yorùbá creation story. The Yorùbá creation stories are contained in other books of the Ifá Literary Corpus, the most important of which are: Ogbèyêku, Òtúrúpõönwönífá, and Èjì Çlëmçrç (also known as Ìrçtê Méjì). The phrase: "Ifá l’ó ni ‘jö mërin Òrìÿà dá’lé aiyé" which Idowu has translated as: "To Ifá belongs the four days in which the Òrìsà created the earth", has nothing to do with creation. Rather the phrase means something like: "To Ifá belongs the four days established here on earth by the Òrìÿà".[12] But Idowu is not alone in the Christianization of Yorùbá theology. In discussing Olódùmarè (also known as Ôlörun), the Yorùbá High God, and Ôbàtálá (one of the major divinities of Yorùbá religion), Benjamin Ray also claims that: Yorùbá myths say that Ôlörun (whose name means "Lord or Owner of the Sky") delegated the task of creating the world to one of his sons, Ôbàtálá. (Ray, 1976, p.53.) There are many flaws within this one sentence. First, the source of Ray’s assertion that Olódùmarè is male is a complete mystery. In all Ifá poems (and other traditional Yorùbá genre such as Ijala and Iwi Egungun), Olódùmarè is gender neutral. The fact of the matter is that, taken all together, Ifá poems suggest that Olódùmarè is, in essence, a spiritual entity; as such, describing Olódùmarè as male (or female) is inappropriate. Since Olódùmarè lacks gender and corporeality, Olódùmarè is better described as an "It." Second and most importantly, although Ray is quite correct in claiming that the task of creating this world was assigned to Ôbàtálá, he is in error to refer to Ôbàtálá as Olódùmarè’s son. Although Ôbàtálá, just as the other gods, is lesser than Olódùmarè, it is quite clear from Ifá poems that three divinities have always co-existed with Olódùmarè. These are Ôbàtálá, Ifá, and Èÿù. This also means that power relations in the Yorùbá supernatural world are completely different from those in Christian theology. The best way to understand power in the Yorùbá supernatural world is to distinguish between existential and functional hierarchies. In the existential hierarchy, we can identify four levels of chronological/existential superiority: Level 1: Olódùmarè, Ôbàtálá, Ifá and Èÿù. Level 2: The other divinities; the Ajogun (i.e., evil supernatural forces--we can call them anti-gods); the Àjë (often improperly translated as ‘witches‘). Level 3: Humans; plants and animals. Level 4: The ancestors.[13] In the functional hierarchy, Olódùmarè is undoubtedly supreme as the chief executive. Olódùmarè is the final arbiter in all functional issues in the Yorùbá cosmos. Nonetheless, one should not say of Olódùmarè that: "He is creator" "He is king", "He is Omnipotent", "He is All-wise, All-knowing, All-seeing" (Idowu, 1966, pp.39-41), thereby equating Olódùmarè’s role with that of the Christian God. Olódùmarè in Yorùbá theology cannot be all-knowing because Olódùmarè frequently consults Ifá (i.e., the god of wisdom) for knowledge and advice through divination! Olódùmarè cannot be the creator if by this we mean to suggest that Olódùmarè alone created everything else. As we have seen, Olódùmarè did not create Ôbàtálá, Èÿù and Ifá as these three have always co-existed with Olódùmarè. Moreover, when it comes to the creation of humans and the world, it is quite clear from Ifá poems that there was a division of labor among Olódùmarè, two other divinities, and a third spiritual entity who is not regarded as a divinity. It was Ògún who fashioned skeletons, Ôbàtálá molded forms and shapes, and Olódùmarè imparted the breath of life. We also have Ajàlá, an entity who is not regarded as a divinity, but who molds the Orí (i.e., "inner-heads") of humans. Orí is the principle of "destiny" in the sense that it embodies each individual’s potentialities for success and/or failure on earth.[14] Moreover, when it comes to day-to-day administration of aye (the natural world) and Õrun (the supernatural world), Olódùmarè has delegated responsibility to the divinities. This is precisely why the Yorùbá do not often pray to Olódùmarè. They do not worship, offer sacrifices, nor build temples for Olódùmarè. Indeed, in terms of the day-to-day administration of the cosmos, Èÿù, who functions as the universal policeman, is the most important divinity. Scholars such as Bolaji Idowu and Benjamin Ray also give the impression that the Õrun of Yorùbá theology is somewhat equivalent to the heaven of Christian theology. This is not quite so. First of all, Õrun, (often improperly translated as heaven) is divided into two parts: Õrun Òkè (i.e., Õrun above) and Õrun Odò (Õrun below). Only three supernatural entities reside at Õrun Òkè: these are Olódùmarè (the Yorùbá High God), Õranñfê, and, ßàngó (the god of thunder and lightning). Õrun Òkè as the name suggests is located above in the skies, while Õrun Odò is located inside the earth’s crust. All the other supernatural entities (ancestors, the other divinities, the Ajogun, etc., including Olódùmarè, who resides in Õrun above) reside at Õrun Odò. But the differences do not end here. There are also many differences between the Christian and Yorùbá conceptions of evil. All evil in Anglo-Christian theology ultimately derives from one source, Satan. All evil acts, deeds, etc., ultimately result from the fact that Satan has a supernatural ability to overcome, persuade or entice humans into improper conduct. But in Yorùbá religion, evil does not emanate from one source.[15] Evil emanates from the evil supernatural forces called the Ajogun. There are two hundred plus one of these forces in the cosmos.[16] These forces are all separate and distinct entitles, and as such they are individually responsible for a specific type of evil. The Ajogun have eight warlords: Ikú (death); Àrùn (Disease); Òfò (Loss); Êgbà (Paralysis); Õràn (Big-trouble); Èpè (Curse); Êwõn (Imprisonment); Èÿe (Afflictions). Hence, one can engage in some linguistic license and claim that, while Christian theology has a mono-demonic conception of evil, Yorùbá religion has a poly-demonic conception of evil.[17] One final point to note about the Yorùbá cosmos is that the Yorùbá do not regard the spiritual world as a place that is so far removed from the natural world that humans can gain access to it only after death. These two realms of existence are interdependent in the sense that there is constant communication between the two worlds. It is because of the constant inter-relationship between these two realms that the Yorùbá poly-demonic conception of evil has much bearing on ethics. HEALING AND APPLIED ETHICS IN YORÙBÁ CULTURE What has all this got to do with applied ethics? The answer lies in the fact that, because contemporary African philosophy assumes mistaken accounts of Yorùbá religion like those of Idowu and Ray, the import of the spirituality on day-to-day living is overlooked. This inevitably leads to a situation in which African philosophy has little or no relevance to African societies. One clear-cut example of this is in the field of medicine. Medicine, whether implicitly or explicitly, assumes a conception of a person. The Yorùbá conception of personhood divides a person into two parts: the body, and the soul. But it further subdivides the soul into three parts: Orí (a personal divinity which functions as the principle of earthly success or failure for each individual); êmí (which is the breath of life); and çsê (which is the principle of freedom, and which functions as the "will to success"). Despite the fact that many African philosophers have examined the Yorùbá conception of personhood, and despite the fact that the most widely used method of medicine in Yorùbá society today relies upon this conception of personhood, the ethical issues generated by this view are never fully explored. I will examine ethical issues in traditional medicine by looking at the role of the god called ßõnpõnnö, and the role of the malevolent force called Àrùn (Disease), in the practice of traditional Yorùbá medicine. As we shall see, ßõnpõnnö and Àrùn do not merely play important roles in the conception of illnesses, they also raise important moral issues vis-à-vis the treatment of illnesses and the control of epidemics. It is customary in contemporary Western cultures to distinguish between traditional and alternative medicine. Contemporary Yorùbá culture also has a comparative distinction, except that the meanings of the two terms are reversed in Yorùbá culture. In the West, traditional medicine nowadays refers to orthodox medicine, which is medicine as practiced by a doctor who has undergone training in a medical school that is approved by the Medical Association. Alternative medicine is a generic term used to describe any other approach that employs principles and methods that are different from those of orthodox medicine. Chinese acupuncture, Indian ayurveda, and the healing aspects of Sufism are all regarded as alternative medicines in the West. In contemporary Yorùbá society, traditional medicine refers to the age-old holistic, non-Western, approach to medicine. By default, what is called traditional medicine in the Western world (i.e., orthodox medicine) becomes alternative medicine in Yorùbá society.[18] What is significant is the stark contrast between the principles and methods of traditional (Yorùbá) medicine and those of orthodox (Western) medicine. The best way of introducing these differences is to start with a characterization of the differences between orthodox medicine and alternative medicine in Western thought. Orthodox medicine is, by and large, allopathic in the sense that its methodology for the treatment of diseases is based on what may be called the contrary principle: it attempts to treat diseases with chemical agents that produce effects that are contrary, or in opposition, to those of the disease being treated. Moreover, allopathic medicine is also concerned primarily with the elimination of symptoms. Homeopathic medicine, on the other hand, treats like with like: it employs herbal remedies, which, if given in minute doses, would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the sick person. Moreover, while allopathic medicine is preoccupied with getting rid of symptoms, homeopathic medicine is also very much concerned with identifying the causes of illness and disease in an effort to restore holistic balance in the biological system. Yorùbá traditional medicine is homeopathic vis-à-vis the two main points above: it is interested in getting rid of symptoms, and it is also interested in identifying and removing the causes of illness. But there is also a spiritual dimension to the treatment offered by the Yorùbá herbalist (called onísègùn).[19] So, in their efforts to restore holistic balance in the patient, the onísègùn will also be interested in finding the spiritual causes of illness (if there are any), just as much as s/he will be interested in restoring spiritual balance in the patient (if necessary). Restoring spiritual balance is important for two main reasons. First, as already hinted in my earlier discussion of the creation of human beings, in Yorùbá thought the human being is made up of four main components: (i) ara, the body, i.e., the skeleton created by Ògún, and the form molded by Ôbàtálá; (ii) êmí, that aspect of the soul which is imparted by Olódùmarè. (Since the word êmí is also the Yorùbá word for breath, it is quite obvious that the aspect of the soul derived from Olódùmarè is the breath of life.); Orí, the principle of material actualization; and (iv) çsê, which introduces the principle of individual effort, strife or struggle before the potentialities encapsulated in one’s Orí can be actualized. Çsê, in short, represents the idea that, ultimately, success is up to the individual. Note that êmí, çsê and Orí are all spiritual. Strictly speaking, one should say that the person has two parts: ara (the body) and the soul complex (êmí, Orí and çsê). Divination is one important means of diagnosis employed by the medical practitioner. In the divination process, the priest establishes a link among the client, the clients Orí, and the god of wisdom, in a series of steps. So as to protect the integrity of the divination act, the priest is not told this complaint until after the divination.[20] After a series of invocations, the priest divines so as to determine the book of the Ifá Literary Corpus to select a poem from. The priest then proceeds to explain and interpret the message of the poem. Although there might be variations in the depth of knowledge the priest brings to bear on his or her interpretation of a poem, every specific poem has a specific message.[21] If after having divined, the oníÿègùn determines that the source of disease, illness or affliction is spiritual, then in addition to herbs and medications designed to treat and repair the body, the oníÿègùn will also prescribe something for spiritual repair. Sacrifice is compulsory after every divination. But the oníÿègùn’s prescription may include incantations and/or Ifá (Ifá here meaning special herbal talismans, the recipes of which are contained in Ifá poems). Indeed it is precisely because of this that we have the Yorùbá saying: "çbô gíngín, òògun gíngín níí gba aláìkú là." That is, "it is a little bit of sacrifice and a little bit of medications that saves the patient who is not going to die." Moreover, because it is only through divination that a bad or defective Orí can be repaired, one of the praise names of Õrúnmìlà (the god of wisdom) is: "Baba mi õmõn tíí to Orí elémèrè kéri elémèrè ö má ba à ÿe fö." That is, "my father, the molder who prevents the shattering of the inner-head of the (bad) spirit child by re-molding such heads." But it is the role of the Ajogun called Àrùn that is most significant for our current discussion. Àrùn has at least three layers meaning in the Yorùbá cosmos. First it refers to an anti-god, (i.e., one of the Ajogun’s warlords). In Yorùbá theology, the Ajogun are completely evil and as such they have no redeeming virtues whatsoever. The avowed aim of all the Ajogun, including Àrùn, is the complete ruination of mankind. Only sacrifice and special pleading to Èÿù by one’s individual Orí can save one from the powers of the Ajogun. The divinities, including Õrúnmìlà himself, can be afflicted by the Ajogun. It is precisely because of this that I have given the full version of the Ifá poem above. In this poem, Õrúnmìlà himself was the subject of the Ajogun’s attack, and was saved only by sacrifice. The poem tells us that the principal warlords of the ajogun-- Ikú (Death), Àrùn (Disease), Òfò (Loss), Êgbà (Paralysis), Èse (Afflictions), and the other Ajogun--were covertly visiting Õrúnmìlà’s household. This suggests that these anti-gods were attacking Õrúnmìlà’s household in such a way that these calamities, to all intents and purposes, appeared natural. It was only through divination that Õrúnmìlà was able to diagnose the problems befalling his household as supernatural. He succeeded in restoring balance only after he had performed some sacrifice. It should be noted also that this poem contains some Ifá (i.e., incantations). The last 16 lines of the poem contain incantations, which in conjunction with amulets and talismans function as remedies against evil spirits. In addition to Àrùn (Disease) as an evil supernatural force, the word "àrùn" also means illness or disease. Àrùn as a biological defect in a human being can be caused by natural causes, or by Àrùn (the malevolent supernatural force). This explains why divination and sacrifice are important in Yorùbá medicine. Just as in the Ifá poem quoted above, it is only through divination that a medical practitioner can determine whether the cause of an illness is natural or supernatural. Illnesses caused by natural causes require herbal and pharmacological remedies. But illnesses caused by supernatural forces require the offering of sacrifice, the use of talismans and amulets, or the recitation of incantations. The practice of medicine in Yorùbá society is, therefore, not merely homeopathic in the sense that it relies only on physical wholeness, it is also interested in spiritual balance. I will now turn to another clear-cut illustration of this view in practice. This example has to do with ßõnpõnnö in Yorùbá culture. As with the word Ifá and àrùn in Yorùbá culture, ßõnpõnnö has various levels of meaning. At one level, ßõnpõnnö is one of the divinities within the Yorùbá pantheon of 400+1 gods. ßõnpõnnö is the god that brings smallpox, and as such smallpox also goes by the same name in Yorùbá. In Yorùbá culture the illness called ßõnpõnnö actually includes less serious illnesses such as chicken-pox. So, ÿõnpõnnö as an illness in Yorùbá culture is better defined as a family of related illnesses all of which are connected by three factors: the god ßõnpõnnö, the wind, and what is called "hot earth". Since ßõnpõnnö is the name of the god as well as the name of the illness, people are reluctant to call the god by the name ßõnpõnnö because calling him by that name might be an invitation of both god and illness. So the god is more frequently referred to by the name Ôbalúayé (‘lord of the world’). For similar reasons, the illness ÿõnpõnnö is also known as illêëgbóná or êgbóná (‘hot earth’). The Ifá priest and oníÿègùn Babalôlá Fátóògùn of the town of Ìlobùú in Nigeria explains these connections as follows: Whenever ßõnpõnnö comes into the world, he is accompanied by êbùrú (spirits) otherwise known as wõrõkö. These are the things that cause bad wind (atëgùn búburú). When this wind blows on to anyone this will become Ègbóná (smallpox), the person will become hot and ßõnpõnnö will be coming out of his body. ßõnpõnnö uses a type of arrow known as ôfà ßõnpõnnö. Wherever he shoots his arrow (ôfà) into the air, smallpox will affect the person, or tree, or animal, wherever the wind from the arrow touches. Wõrõkö comes out of the arrow in the form of wind. This is why old men pray that ‘evil wind may not beat us’ (afëfë burúkú kò ní fë lù wá o). Another way ßõnpõnnö affects someone is through the witches (Ìyààmi Àjë). Witches borrow the wind of ßõnpõnnö and fight anyone they want to fight with it. It is as if a man goes to borrow a cutlass (àdá) from another man that the witches borrow the wind from ßõnpõnnö. This is why, if ßõnpõnnö affects anyone and they consult Ifá about it, Ifá may tell them that it is the witches who are fighting against them. Another way ßõnpõnnö affects someone is that there are some men who know about medicine, who can prepare a medicine that they can put in the house of a person they want to fight, so that ßõnpõnnö can affect the person. ßõnpõnnö always visits the world during the months of the dry season. Then he will visit the world (ayé) and also the heaven (Õrun) and he will affect both plants and human beings, so that the plants will shrivel up (ro). (Quoted in Buckley, 1997, pp.100-101.) Fátóògùn is making some very important connections. First he gives a clear-cut analysis of the spiritual and natural dimensions of the disease called smallpox. In the spiritual dimension, the illness can be caused when the god ßõnpõnnö pays a visit to the world. ßõnpõnnö himself may cause smallpox by firing his arrow. It is also the case that wherever he goes some terrible spirits called wõrõkö accompany him, and cause the ill wind of smallpox. The witches also can cause smallpox, and, indeed, Fátóògùn mentions that smallpox can be caused by biological warfare. But the question can be asked: why does ßõnpõnnö sometimes seek to infect people with smallpox? There is one myth recounted by A. B. Ellis that attempts to account for this: Shan-kpanna [ßõnpõnnö] is old and lame, and is depicted as limping along with the aid of a stick. According to a myth he has a withered leg. One day, when the gods were all assembled at the place of Ôbàtálá, and were dancing and making merry, Shan-kpanna endeavoured to join in the dance, but, owing to his deformity, stumbled, and fell. All the gods and goddesses thereupon burst out laughing, and Shan-kpanna, in revenge, strove to infect them with smallpox, but Ôbàtálá came to the rescue and seizing his spear, drove Shan-kpanna away. From that day Shan-kpanna was forbidden to associate with the other gods, and he became an outcast who has since lived in desolate and uninhabited tracts of country. (Quoted in Buckley, 1997, p.105.) With this myth, the relationship between ßõnpõnnö and morality becomes clear. Moral conduct in Yorùbá culture is intimately connected with Ìwàpêlë (good or gentle character).[22] Ìwàpêlë is a conglomeration of principles of moral conduct. These principles are explained in various Ifá poems. The most important of these principles include: ìtçríba (respect), inú rere (having good mind to other), and otítö (truth). Good character is often simply referred to as iwa (character). The root meaning of the word ìwà is ‘to exist’. Hence Yorùbá culture recognizes the point that questions of moral behavior and conduct arise vis-à-vis issues of co-existence amongst beings. But, as already mentioned, the spiritual world, just as the natural world, is very much part of day-to-day existence in Yorùbá culture. Hence ìwà as the state of existence of spiritual beings engenders ìwà as moral character. In the myth recounted by Ellis, some of the gods and goddesses failed to exhibit ìwàpêlë in their conduct. They did not show respect to the old and lame man who also wanted to participate in the merriment. In response to their bad ìwà, ßõnpõnnö himself exhibited an even worse ìwà by threatening to inflict all with smallpox. It was as a result of this bad character that ßõnpõnnö withdrew into the forest, and has since then disliked festivals and merriment of any kind. Because it is common knowledge in Yorùbá society that ßõnpõnnö dislikes merriment, games, festivals, drumming and dancing are forbidden during outbreaks of smallpox. The Yorùbá generally bury the dead in their extended family compounds. The burial of victims of ßõnpõnnö has, however, always been one of the few exceptions to this. Buckley quotes an oníÿègùn, Awótúndé, on this very point: When ßõnpõnnö kills a person, no one should rejoice. For if there are any (funeral) celebrations he will be annoyed that despite the evil he has done to these people, they are still happy. He will then affect many other people. God has given ßõnpõnnö such a power that if he kills in anyone’s family they must not be angry but must instead be thanking ßõnpõnnö or else he will be angry that people are not aware of the evil that he has done. This is why people usually call ßõnpõnnö "Alápadúpë’ (‘the owner of kill and thank’). Anyone that ßõnpõnnö kills, we should not say that he died, but rather ‘ó yõ lô’ (‘he rejoiced and went’), because if it is said that the person died, (ó kú) ßõnpõnnö will be annoyed that people are calling him a murderer. (Buckley, 1997, p.104.) ßõnpõnnö’s (i.e., the god’s) role in smallpox must therefore be examined against the background of an ongoing cycle of revenge, punishment and vengeance against the descendants of the other gods.[23] This chain of events was started by other spiritual entities when they exhibited ìwà búburú (bad character) by laughing the old man who was trying to make merry. This cycle of spiritual and natural events has many practical consequences for the treatment and control of smallpox in Yorùbáland. As already mentioned, merriment, dancing, and games are prohibited during outbreaks of smallpox. Sacrifices will be offered to the god in an effort to appease him. Also, the broom called ôwõ is that which is normally used for sweeping the floor in Yorùbá society. This broom, which is made from the mid-ribs of the palm-tree, is also one of the symbols of the god ßõnpõnnö.[24] The use of ôwõ is banned during outbreaks of smallpox. The foregoing has various sorts of implications for the practice of traditional medicine. Consider, for instance, the health professional/patient relationship. What sorts of duties, responsibilities and rights attach to the roles of the oníÿègùn and the client? Is the oníÿègùn ethically bound to tell the whole truth to the patient even if this might be inimical to a speedy recovery? The Hippocratic oath, which has traditionally been the basis for Western medical ethics, is silent on the issue of truth. In fact, with this oath doctors merely pledge to "apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to [the doctors’] ability and judgment." (Arras, 1995, p.54.) Above all, doctors promise to protect their patients from "harm and injustice". (Arras, 1995, p.54.) Based upon the Hippocratic oath in which protection against harm is paramount, the traditional model of responsibility that emerged within the practice of Western medicine was that of paternalism in which the physician’s duty to tell the truth was subordinate to that of not harming the patient. In contrast to paternalism, many have argued that patient autonomy should be the basis of physician-patient relationship. Neither of these models suits the oníÿègùn-client relationship because even the oníÿègùn is an interpreter who is decoding or attempting to decipher the message of Ifá. Consider also the problem of euthanasia. If, after having divined, the message of Ifá is that there is no remedy for the illness (there are, indeed, a handful of poems with this message), and the patient chooses to die, should an oníÿègùn help the patient commit suicide? If the message of Ifá is clear, isn’t the oníÿègùn morally bound to help alleviate the suffering of the patient? At one level, the answer to this problem seems to be clear, the oníÿègùn might divine to enquire about what to do. But the oníÿègùn might also realize that, according to Yorùbá theology, if an individual dies before his or her pre-chosen time here on earth, that person will be sent back at the gates of Õrun. So considering euthanasia requires a consideration of its moral implications on the soul of the patient. The point then is this: if one does not pay adequate attention to the role of the spiritual realm in the practice of medicine in Yorùbá society, we will not fully understand aspects of medical ethics such as the priest-patient relationship, attitudes to euthanasia, health care policies, etc. Moreover, as already mentioned the spiritual dimensions of divination also have profound methodological implications. For unlike in the Western methods of inquiry, in which secrecy is inimical to the pursuit of truth, secrecy is in fact that which eliminates bias within the divination process.[25] This is precisely why the patient never starts by disclosing the subject of her concern to the diviner. ANOTHER LEVEL I began this paper with a brief characterization of the standard philosophical classification of the branches of ethics. As is often the case when one moves too closely with pre-set conceptions, the precise thrust of my arguments about the role of spirituality in Yorùbá culture might be lost (this is especially so if one has been reading this paper with the trained eye of the academic philosopher). Therefore, I will attempt here a re-explanation of the points from a different perspective. Morality is made up of judgmental claims of value vis-à-vis human (and non-human) conduct: it is about what one ought or ought not do in relation to human (and spiritual) conduct. A moral theory, however, is a systematic account of one’s morality. One may have a morality without having a moral theory. For instance, one may guide one’s conduct by rules and principles such as: "stealing is wrong", "adultery is immoral", "murder is inimical to society", etc., without having a moral theory (i.e., a systematic theoretical framework for explaining why these rules and principles are wrong). Applied ethics is the bridge between morality and moral theory, and it is concerned with the application of a systematic moral theory to human conduct. It is the connection between theory and practice. The main thrust of my assertions in this paper is that contemporary African philosophy is seriously defective because it fails to provide a critical assessment of the application of traditional African moral theories. Much of contemporary African philosophy is impoverished because it fails to assess the conduct of institutions and individuals on the basis of the moral theories upheld by individuals in contemporary African societies. My claim is that there is a "group theory of ethics" that is prevalent in contemporary Yorùbá society.[26] This theory of ethics departs radically from much of standard, Western-style philosophy because it is a spiritualist theory of ethics in which moral conduct encompasses spirits within the equation of moral conduct itself. Spiritual beings in this moral theory therefore are somewhat like the lawmakers of most democratic societies: the moral codes which apply to the general populace (in this case the Yorùbá human) also applies to the lawmakers (in this case the divinities). Of course, the question can be asked: can there be a coherent and consistent group theory of ethics? While answering this question in the affirmative might be problematic for some societies, this is not the case in Yorùbá society, primarily because of the role of the Ifá Literary Corpus in Yorùbá culture. The body of knowledge on the basis of which the spiritual account of morality is based is somewhat fixed in the sense that it arises out of a sacred oral text. At the same time, people do not adopt a close-minded attitude to these texts. The poems of Ifá are not regarded as an inflexible dogmatic creed. Indeed, the whole point of the Ifá ‘text’ is hermeneutic: it is meant to serve as the basis on which various sorts of advice and counsel that is germane to day-to-day life can be identified. Hence, while parts of the text are fixed, they are at the same time open. This point requires more explanation. Each poem has eight parts, four of which are compulsory, four of which are non-compulsory. The compulsory parts are compulsory in the sense that when chanted (anywhere in the world), they are chanted in exactly the same way.[27] The non-compulsory parts are non-compulsory in the sense that: (i) a priest might decide not to chant them at all; (ii) a priest might decide to tell these parts in prose; (iii) or, a priest might decide just to give the gist of these parts to the client. But Ifá is also open in yet another sense: it is up to the priest and the client to decide what hermeneutic stance to adopt in relation to the content of the poems. A priest, for example, might adopt a literal interpretation of the poem, in which case s/he might believe that there was in fact a time when the spiritual forces that attacked Õrúnmìlà in the poem recounted above attacked him. The client might decide to adopt a figural interpretation in which the characters in the poem are not regarded as real-life entities, but rather much like the characters of a play. Whatever interpretation is adopted, the centrality of sacrifice remains constant. As already mentioned, within the Yorùbá cosmos, there are two groups of supernatural forces, the Òrìÿà (i.e., gods) and the malevolent supernatural forces (of which the Ajogun are the most important). These two supernatural forces are locked in an unending cycle of enmity--an antagonism in-between which humans are caught. This is where sacrifice comes in. For it is only those who offer sacrifice to Èÿù (the god who is regarded as the "universal policeman" because of his role as the impartial adjudicator between these two opposing supernatural forces of nature), that will succeed in overcoming the evil of the anti-gods. Sacrifice is, therefore, a strategy for overcoming evil. It is important to re-iterate a point already made. Evil in Yorùbá theology (and, in traditional and contemporary Yorùbá societies) is concrete in the sense that the anti-gods can manifest themselves as tangible, real, or natural effects. This is precisely why the most important warlords of the Ajogun are Ikú (death); Àrùn (Disease); Òfò (Loss); Êgbà (Paralysis); Õràn (Big-trouble); Èpè (Curse); Êwõn (Imprisonment); Èÿe (Afflictions). The consequence of this is that although the Yorùbá distinguish between natural and moral evil, both types of evil can be the handiwork of natural and supernatural beings. Sacrifice is also the means by which the Yorùbá repent from moral evil. The person who has sinned or committed an anti-social act can only fully indemnify himself by first, changing his ways, and then offering sacrifices to the appropriate god. For example, because the god called ßàngó is responsible for punishing thieves and crooks, a thief who has changed her ways can only fully indemnify herself by offering sacrifices to ßàngó. It should be noted that sacrifice is not merely meant for the gods and the anti-gods. Sacrifice in Yorùbá culture is also a social act. This explains why when someone is asked to offer a sacrifice to either a god, an anti-god, or, as redemption for sin, will invite friends and neighbors to a feast. The person will explain the reason why he or she is offering the sacrifice, and his invitees will offer prayers and blessings for that person. In the case of sacrifice as redemption for moral evil, someone who has not truly changed his or her ways is unlikely to receive prayers and blessings from friends and neighbors. The point then is that in both natural and moral evil, sacrifice performs a similar role: it is a strategy for indemnity, compensation, or salvation. A person who is afflicted by the evil supernatural force called Àrùn (Disease) will only succeed in indemnifying herself by offering sacrifices to Èÿù. A person who has changed his evil ways also concludes his redemption with a sacrifice to Èÿù. In both types of sacrifices, Èÿù will then present the offering to the appropriate supernatural force. The role of sacrifice in Yorùbá culture, therefore, becomes crystal clear: it is the application of a spiritualist theory of good and evil to particular problems of day-to-day living, namely, those requiring of indemnity from supernatural and moral evil. CONCLUSIONS: WHICH WAY FORWARD? While I do not wish to denigrate the importance of normative ethics, meta-ethics, or any other division of ethics, I think applied ethics provides one in-road to making philosophy more relevant to contemporary African societies. Applied ethics has to do with the systematic application of a moral theory to issues of life, death, and day-to-day living. In contemporary Yorùbá culture, there is one such systematic theory prevalent within the practice of medicine. This theory is based on the sacred text of traditional Yorùbá religion, namely the Ifá Literary Corpus. And in this paper, I have provided a preliminary exploration of how this systematic theory can be used to explain and assess one class of human conduct, namely those of health and wholeness. More work needs to be done, not only on ethical issues of traditional medicine, but also on many other problems of death and living in general, e.g., the moral implications of ancestor worship on ethnicity and warfare; the role of new religions in the now increasing phenomena of "witchcraft" in Africa; and, indeed, the moral implications of institutions of sacred kingship on the existence of two-tier systems of government and power in all African societies.[28] Until we move moral discourse from the level of ‘justifications’, ‘foundations’ and ‘theorizing’ to the level of mundane, day-to-day living, academic Western-style philosophy will be of little relevance to Africa.
ENDNOTES
1. Actually, this is not entirely accurate. There is a very long tradition of scholarship on the role of spirituality in Western ethics as well! One important scholar of recent times within this tradition is Norbert Rigali (1969, 1975, 1981, 1986). The catch however is that this tradition of excellent scholarship is now generally classified as "Catholic moral theology". [Back]
2. There are many possible variations within each point of view. Any one of the following claims could be upheld: (i) morality and religion are identical, and as such each is logically derivable from each other; (ii) morality and religion are not identical but, via a process of non-deductive reasoning, one can argue from religion to morality; (iii) religion is derivable from morality, but not vice versa; (iv) morality is derivable from religion, but not vice versa, (v) morality and religion are in fact incompatible with each other. These options, of course, do not exhaust all possible options. While I know of no one who maintains option (v), it is sometimes unclear from the discussion what position is been upheld and criticized by these philosophers. As will become apparent later on, based upon an intuitionist view of logic, my own position is (ii). [Back]
3. I will be employing Anglo-Christian theology as a comparative frame of reference in my discussion of Yorùbá theology. This is purely for exegetical purposes. [Back]
4. This sentence alone shows that Idowu’s analysis is not based upon the Yorùbá conceptual scheme. Traditional Yorùbá society operated on a four day week, and as such there is no fifth day that is "set apart for the worship of the Deity". Idowu’s view might be based on the fact that priests and priestesses of Yorùbá religion say that they worship their divinities lörôôrún, i.e., "every fifth day". But "every fifth day" in Yorùbá numerology is actually "every fourth day" in Western numerology! This is because Yorùbá society operates on an inclusive counting system while the Western system is exclusive. For instance, if today is a Monday and we have scheduled a meeting for next Monday, then, from the Western conceptual scheme, one would say our next meeting is in seven days time. But from the Yorùbá conceptual scheme, next Monday is in eight days time because we count the current day as well. So although the traditional Yorùbá priest would say that s/he worships the divinities at least "every fifth day", there is actually no fifth day in the Yorùbá week. [Back]
5. Ifá priests are the custodians of the Ifá Literary Corpus, the sacred text of Yorùbá religion. The Corpus is made up of 256 books called Odù, each having in number from 400 to 600 poems (called çsç. Although a small number of these poems have been written down, most have not. When written down, the length of each poem ranges from 8 lines to about 20 pages. An Ifá priest has to know about five poems from each of the 256 books. The training of an Ifá priest takes about 15 years of full-time study, and up to 35 years of part-time study. There are thousands of Ifá priests currently practicing in Nigeria. Outside of Nigeria, Ifá priests are found in significant numbers in Cuba, Benin Republic, Togo, Puerto Rico, and the USA. As we shall see below, Ifá priests are also practitioners of traditional medicine in the parts of the world in which they live. [Back]
6. These are the lines Idowu interprets as the four days of creation. These are actually praise names of Õrúnmìlà, the Yorùbá god of wisdom. Every Ifá poem has an eight-part structure (see W. Abíðbölá, 1976, pp. 43-63). The first part of each poem states the name (or names) of the Ifá priest (or priests--this is because there might be more than one priest involved) who first chanted this poem during a divination. These names are either praise names of Õrúnmìlà himself, or praise names of priests he trained in the art of divination. Note that these names are meant to be ‘secret’ names. The real names of these priests are never mentioned in Ifá poems. (See Abíðbölá & Hallen (1993), and Abiodun (2000), for further explanation of the role of secrecy in Yorùbá culture.) So even when it is Õrúnmìlà himself who was engaged in the past divination, his praise names are those given in the first part of the poem. Line 12 of the poem suggests that it was Õrúnmìlà who divined for himself on this occasion. Hence these four lines are better regarded as praise names of Õrúnmìlà himself. [Back]
7. Each individual has his/her own personal divinity called Orí. Divination in Yorùbá culture is an attempt to make a connection with the spiritual world through one’s Orí. Each person’s Orí is unique and personal, and it is also one part of the ‘soul-complex’ in Yorùbá thought. That is, although the Yorùbá divide the person into the body and soul, the soul is made up of various attributes such as: Orí, êmí, and çsê. I explain the Yorùbá conception of personhood in detail below. [Back]
8. Ògúndá Méjì is one of the 256 books (Odù) of the Ifá Literary Corpus. Hence this phrase means something like this: divination directed him to analyze the situation with a poem from this book of the Yorùbá Holy scriptures. [Back]
9. Lines 22 and 23 are playing on the meaning of the word Ifá. In line 22, Ifá, the god of wisdom is singing the praises of his Ifá priests. But in line 23, Ifá’s Ifá priests are singing the praises of the divination process! The word "Ifá" has 6 layers of meanings: (i) the god of wisdom; (ii) the divination process; (iii) the entire body of knowledge called the Ifá Literary Corpus; (iv) any one specific poem from the Corpus; (v) a special herbal mixture or talisman prepared for medicinal purposes--the recipes for these are explicitly stated in some Ifá poems; and (vi) there are some special Ifá poems that function as incantations or powerful words. When uttered, these words reveal truth in the sense that whatever they state will come to pass. These Ifá incantations are used mainly for medicinal purposes--for example, reciting one such poem in the appropriate manner "calls out" the venom of certain types of snakes from the human body. These multi-layered meanings for the same word might appear strange and confusing to someone who is not familiar with the Yorùbá conceptual scheme. [Back]
10. Ewé means "leaf" (and/or "leaves"), and þlá means "big". Oori (also known as êkô) is corn-starch pudding, a very popular meal in Yorùbáland. This pudding is usually wrapped with leaves such as those of the banana, cocoa, iyá, or iran trees. Because the leaves of these trees are wide or broad, and, as such, can be used to wrap-up the pudding into individual potions, Ifá adopts the generic name "big leaves" from them. [Back]
11. Ètípön-ôlá is a shrub that grows on the ground just as grass does. This shrub spreads-out and covers the ground copiously such that the soil is almost invisible to the eye. [Back]
12. Even this translation follows Idowu’s mis-interpretation too closely. A better translation of this phrase is: "Ifá is the master of all the four days (of the week) established here on earth by the divinities". This is a better translation because (bearing in mind that traditional Yorùbá society operated on a four-day week) the Ifá priest is regarded as having access to a hidden knowledge on the basis of which day-to-day life in Yorùbá culture is regulated. The divination process attached to the Ifá Literary Corpus accesses this hidden knowledge. This part of the poem is therefore a statement of the overall importance of Ifá in the regulation of day-to-day life. It is also important to note the following curious point: Yorùbá is a language that allows for the contraction two separate words into one. For example, from the two words "ilé" (house) and "ìwé"(book), a new word "iléèwé" can be coined for "school". These contractions can result in different meanings being attributed to words. But this is usually only a problem when a phrase or word is taken out of its original context. This sort of out of context mis-interpretation is at the heart of Idowu’s translation. The phrase in question, as rendered by Idowu is "...Òrìÿà dá’lé aiyé [also spelt ayé]", which he interprets as "... the Òrìÿà created the earth." Here Idowu has used "dá’lé ayé" which, if taken out of context could be "dá ilé ayé" ("create the earth") instead of "dá silé ayé" ("establish here on earth"). When Ifá priests chant the poem in question (see line 4 of the poem quoted above), the full version of this phrase is often given as: "...Òrìÿà dá silé ayé " (and I have translated this to be "... the Òrìÿà establish here on earth"). Because Idowu has given us the contracted version, "da’le", even a competent Yorùbá speaker who is not given the full context of the phrase (i.e., the Ifá poem from which it is taken) could be misled into thinking the phrase is indeed about the creation of the world! [Back]
13. The ancestors come after humans because one condition for becoming an ancestor in the Yorùbá cosmos is to have lived a morally worthy life here on earth. Hence one must have lived life as a human before becoming an ancestor. But, if one does not pay careful attention to the details of Yorùbá theology, it is easy to misunderstand the status of the ancestors. This is because within the functional hierarch, the ancestors are above humans (but are placed below the divinities). [Back]
14. The role of Orí in the Yorùbá conception of personhood is often mis-understood. Having been weaned on the staple Western diet of freewill and determinism, many contemporary philosophers of African thought have spilled much unnecessary ink on the question of how the Yorùbá can maintain free will, punishment and reward alongside the conception of ‘inner head’. The fact of the matter is that this is all much ado about nothing. Ifá poems make a very clear-cut distinction among Orí (the principle of actualization and earthly success or failure), çsê (the principle of individual strife and struggle), and Ìwà (good character). Most of these philosophers quote various Ifá poems from W. Abíðbölá (1968, 1969, 1973). Despite the fact that the poems themselves (and Wande Abíðbölá’s own expositions) discuss Orí within the context of earthly success and failure, and despite the fact that there is a concept of Ìwà in which freewill is made crystal clear, because Western Anglo-American philosophy makes no distinction between determinism vis-à-vis earthly success and determinism vis-à-vis moral character, Western conceptual schemes are transmitted wholesale into Yorùbá thought! Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, there is an Ifá poem from Èjì Ogbè, the very first book of the Ifá Literary Corpus, in which the distinction between Orí and Ìwà is stated concisely. Unless one can point to situations in which Yorùbá culture punishes people for lack of earthly success and achievement, discussing Orí in relation to moral responsibility and autonomy is misplaced. [Back]
15. Actually, a distinction should be made between moral and natural evil. The status of natural evil in Christianity often is not fully explicated. Does natural evil emanate from Satan? In Yorùbá theology, this issue does not arise because evil supernatural forces are associated with both natural and moral evil. Thus, while Ikú (the supernatural force called death), might be responsible for a car accident, another evil force called Omìmì is responsible for earthquakes and earth tremors. [Back]
16. Note that 200+1evil supernatural forces is not the same as 201 supernatural forces! The extra 1 is actually the set of all those evil forces that did not originally descend from the supernatural world at the time the natural world was created. In short, the Yorùbá conception of evil contains what we may call a principle of elasticity that allows it to incorporate any new force of evil into its pantheon. The principle of elasticity also applies to the divinities who are 400+1 in number. [Back]
17. The full import of the Yorùbá poly-demonic conception of evil is often not appreciated. Elsewhere (K. Abíðbölá, 1994) I have relied upon this conception in a discussion of the problem of evil. The focus of my analysis was not the standard problem of evil in relation to the existence of God. Rather I posed an epistemological question about the rationality of the belief in God given that moral and natural evil exists in the world. The answer implicit in Yorùbá theology seems to be following. We ought to distinguish between concepts and instantiations. The concept of good makes no sense independently of a concept of evil to contrast good with. In fact, Yorùbá theology suggests that there can be no such thing as a perfectly good world unless we understand the meaning of evil. But a concept need not have instantiations. In the Yorùbá cosmos, instantiations of evil are the handiwork of natural beings (such as humans) and supernatural beings (such as the anti-gods, Ajogun, who attacked Õrúnmìlà in the Ifá poem above). Contemporary Yorùbá society operates on this poly-demonic conception of evil and responsibility. As we shall see below, in Yorùbá culture, the malevolent supernatural being called Àrùn (Disease) can be held responsible for disease, just as a human being can be held responsible for an evil act that was up to that person (and not up to a malevolent force). The question, of course then is this: how do we determine when a malevolent force is responsible for an evil act? The answer supplied by Yorùbá theology is: divination. This is precisely why, up till today, all Yorùbá medical practitioners are also diviners. [Back]
18. Since the focus of this paper is Yorùbá culture, I will use the dichotomies employed in Yorùbá society. Hence, unless otherwise stated, I will use traditional medicine to refer to holistic medicine, and I will use alternative (or orthodox) medicine to refer to medicine as currently practiced by the Western doctor in a standard hospital or clinic. [Back]
19. It is important to note that traditional oníÿègùn are also Ifá priests and diviners. There are two main interrelated methods of divination in Yorùbá culture: divination with the Ifá Literary Corpus in which there are 256 books, and hundreds of poems within each book; and, the Çërìndínlógún (sixteen cowries) divination system, a system which condenses the 256 books of the Ifá Literary Corpus into sixteen. The traditional oníÿègùn will be competent in at least one of these two divination systems. I should also point out that there are other traditional methods of divination (for example, kola-nut divination). Also, in contemporary Yorùbá society, there are now many healers whose methods are not based on traditional Yorùbá medicine. These would include: Christian healers who eschew almost all forms of medication and concentrate on the power of prayers and the holy water; and Islamic healers who make use of the power of words derived from the Qur’an. Islamic healers also depend heavily on talismans and amulets. My assertions in this paper apply only to the healing techniques of those healers who derive their methods from traditional Yorùbá conceptions. I should also add, however, that there are some traditional Yorùbá healers who do not divine at all. They are, however, not called oníÿègùn, they are called adáhunÿe (a term which means something like "s/he who does it alone"). [Back]
20. Even this is not mandatory. It is not uncommon for clients to choose not to reveal the precise nature of their problems to the diviner. The client might, therefore, decide to listen to the priests chants, and interpretations of the poems chanted, and then ask that the appropriate sacrifice for a particular poem be performed. [Back]
21. See W. Abíðbölá 1976 for details of the divination process. [Back]
22. See W. Abíðbölá (1975). [Back]
23. According to various Ifá poems, the cradle of humanity is a town called Ilé-Ifê, in the South-Western part of Nigeria. According to Yorùbá theology, this was the first settlement established by the 400 plus 1 divinities that created the earth. (In Yorùbá thought, the "plus 1" functions as a principle of elasticity which allows for the addition of new divinities into the Yorùbá pantheon. Hence, this 1 is better regarded as the set of new divinities.) Although not all humans are regarded as descendants of the divinities, individuals can be re-born into the extended family of any divinity. This is one way of interpreting the initiation rites undergone by those who are initiated into the cult of any divinity. Indeed, the Yorùbá name for those who have been initiated into the cult of any divinity is ômô-Òòÿà, i.e., "child of the divinity". [Back]
24. Note, however, that when the broom is used as an icon of the god ßõnpõnnö, it is called safara as opposed to ôwõ which is its usual name. [Back]
25. See W. Abíðbölá and B. Hallen (1993) for further explanation of the role of secrecy in divination. [Back]
26. What does it mean to say that a spiritual theory of ethics is prevalent in contemporary Yorùbá society? I have explained this point in some details elsewhere, K. Abíðbölá (forthcoming). Re-hashing this explanation would take us too far afield, so a very brief summary will suffice. What I call the psychology of belief is at the heart of the matter. Specifically, I think we need to make a distinction between implicit and explicit beliefs. Someone’s explicit beliefs are those claims s/he would profess to uphold, while implicit beliefs are those beliefs which we, as onlookers, can decipher from a person’s practical conduct. Someone’s implicit and explicit beliefs may cohere: that is, the beliefs that a person claims and pro-claims to adopt could be those which are consistent with that person’s conduct. But often, implicit and explicit beliefs diverge. Before my claims about the prevalence of the Yorùbá spiritualist theory of morality can be valid, one needs to include those whose implicit beliefs are consistent with that theory. The practical effects of this claim of mine can be very easily illustrated. My uncle, Chief Abíðbölá Ìrókò, is a practicing oníÿègùn in the town of Õyö in Nigeria. His clinic is part of our extended family compound, and whenever I am at home in Õyö, I usually spend a lot of time with him. His days begin around 5am when he and his assistant mix and brew various medical herbs. The first patients begin to arrive around 6am and by about 10am when the morning rush diminishes, he might have attended to over 30 patients who have various medical requirements. A substantial part of his diagnoses requires physical examinations and divination with sixteen cowries, and his clientele include many who openly profess to be Christians and Muslims, just as it includes many who claim to be traditionalist. On many occasions when he did not deem it necessary to diagnose with sixteen cowries, many of his clients would specifically request a divination. About 100 meters from our family compound is a Western-style private hospital in which only allopathic medicine is practiced. By 10am when my uncle would have attended to about 30 patients, this private hospital (on a good day) might only have attended to 10 patients. This pattern is the same all over Yorùbáland in Nigeria. Indeed it seems to be the case that in Yorùbá society, most people use the Western-Style hospital only in cases of trauma. This explains why the homeopathic (plus spiritual) approach to the treatment of illnesses is regarded as traditional in most African societies. Orthodox Western-style medicine is the alternative reserved for cases requiring urgent treatment. The point of all this should be clear: the Yorùbá person who explicitly claims to be a Christian, a Muslim, or an atheist, but who consults the oníÿègùn for medical treatment (and who uses/takes the herbal prescriptions in conjunction with the spiritual prescriptions) is implicitly subscribing to the Yorùbá spiritualist view of the world. [Back]
27. William Bascom, who has collected various Ifá poems from priests in Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Cuba observed in surprise that priests in Cuba, who had never had any direct contact with Africa, chanted Ifá poems exactly as they were chanted in Africa. In some parts of the New World, especially in Cuba, the whole extensive structure of the Ifá Literary Corpus (with its 256 books and numerous poems within each book) survived through slavery and into contemporary times. [Back]
28. This is a Pandora's box that is best left unopened. But open it, at least in a footnote, we must. About two years ago, Nigeria was once again returned to civil democratic rule. But the age-old traditional political institutions of government and power (i.e., sacred kingship) remain firmly in place. The new Nigerian constitution still does not mesh very well with these traditional institutions. Whilst I do not wish to suggest that contemporary African philosophers are not providing critical assessments of political conduct and institutions (Gbadegesin, 1991, is one good example of critical reflection on contemporary concerns), I think it is fair to say that most philosophers do not view the problem of politics and government as a problem of spirituality and applied ethics. Hence, often, we end up with the same potpourri of irrelevant ideas: socialism; African socialism; negritude; consciencism, etc. A discussion of the moral implications of the existence of these inconsistent institutions on day-to-day living is often left out. [Back]
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Hoteph My Dear
Beloved Sisters And
Brothers:
It is no wonder my
beloved, why it is
that the Afrikan
Family is in such
disaray, grounded in
confusion about what
is required of us as
Afrikan people,
required by no one
other than
ourselves, yet we
have chosen to
impose a doctrine of
belief that has no
approval from God,
yet we make claim
that we do.
Is not God beyond
all that it has
created and involve
not its existence in
the carnal wishes
and desires of that
which it has
created?
All method of
practice in the name
of God is that of
those whose
imagination so
require of such
action and not God
requirement.
The most primeval of
our Ancient
Ancestors, erected
shrines and
performed acts of
Honor and obedience
to the Ultimate and
immeasurable Eternal
and Infinite power,
we now call God,not
that they claimed
God had commanded
from them such
expression but it
was action the
Ancestors chose to
display to show
their respect and
knowledge of such an
entity that was in
no need to be
honored or
worshipped, all is
to appease the Mind
self and reveal the
knowledge of and
about such awesome,
yet mysterious
power, which is
without limit and
ending.
God by any other
Name is God, IT
change not, nor is
it flexible in its
action.
God remain constant
and is of no respect
to any particular
person, yet there
are particular
persons that is of
respect to God and
in so being should
be particular about
God, the one and
only constant in the
Universe and beyond.
All of the Rituals
we so choose to
perform, is of no
effect on God, but
is design to be of
effect to the Mind
of those who
participate in such
Rituals.
God neither Command
nor Demand, it is
what it is and all
that IT has created
choose by choice to
honor that Eternal
and Infinite
Power,which created
all there is in the
Universe and put it
in its place of
orbit, independent
of each other but
all connected to
each other.
It is a frail Mind
that is not able to
conceive the
Naturalness Of God
and move to reduce
God to the Status of
an anthropomorphous
Being, giving it the
senses and act of
flaws, of a mortal
Being, which God
created flawless and
now our carnal
action work to
contradict such a
perfect creation and
in doing so we end
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have a quick question about the heavenly Father
Heru...When the prophets like Isaiah in chapter 6:1-5
speak of seeing the Lord (YHWH) are they speaking of
the Heavenly Father and God (Power) of the earth,
Heru?
Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord (Heavenly Father Heru?) sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled
the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had Six
Wings: with two he covered his face, with two he
covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried
to another and said:"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of
hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!" And the
posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who
cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I
said:"Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man
of unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord (Heavenly
Father Heru?) of hosts."
Also Ezekiel chapter 1:26-28 And above the firmament
over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in
appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of
the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man
(Heavenly Father Heru?) high above it. Also from the
appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were,
the color of amber with the appearance of fire all
around within it; and from the appearance of His waist
and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire
with brightness all around. Like the appearance of a
rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the
appearance of the brightness all around it. This was
the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the
Lord (Heavenly Father Heru?).
Thanks for any help/correction that is needed!
peace,
jahchannah
Hello, I don't see where you can get writings from the years 7,500, when we have not reached the 6,000 year mark yet, and when we do, the Rapture takes place. Remember on the sixth day, Adam and Eve were Created to rule over the works of God's Hands, and they fell into sin. But we are approaching that sixth day God had in mind all along, and when we do, Christ as the last and second Adam, and His Bride from the Gentiles will be that Scripture fulfilled They cannot fall into sin, as they are now Glorified with Eternal Life, and Eternal Power.
"The Hindu Paranas speak of the Cushites Going To India Before They Went To Egypt, proving Hindu civilization coeval with that of Chaldea and the country of the Nile. These ancients record that the Egyptians were a colony drawn out from Cusha-Dwipa and that the Palli, another colony that made the Phoenicians followed them from the land of Cush. In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceded it by many ages; that was called Meru. Lenormant spoke of the first men of the ancient world as "Men of Meru." Sanskrit writers called Indra, chief of Meru. He was deified and became the chief representative of the supreme being. Thus was primitive India settled by colonists from Ethiopia. Early writers said there was very little difference in the color or features of the people of the two countries."Page 29, "Wonderful Ethiopians of The Ancient Cushite Empire," Drusilla Huston
"Modern research is leading us to the belief that culture was spread in Egypt from the south, especially from Meroe. The country was first ruled over by contemporary kings, who were at war with each other. At last the common difficulties in harnessing the Nile united them under Menes 5,500 years B.C. For a thousand years the capital remained at Memphis."Page 76, "Wonderful Ethiopians of The Ancient Cushite Empire," Drusilla Huston
Jesus Was Born In The Summer
Sadly, most modern day Christians think that Jesus was born on December 25, a date established by Pope Clement VII (1478-1534 A.D.), a Roman Emperor. He became Pope in November of 1523-1534. With that, it became believable that Jesus was born on December 25, a winter month. But the mere fact that the shepherds were outdoors in the fields tending their flocks, which they only did in the summer months, Jesus son of Mary was in fact, based on the scriptures of Luke 2:8 born in the summer. In Jerusalem during the month of December, it is very cold, and there is no way this child could be born in the cold.During the high point of the summer solstice between June 23 through the highest point being June 26, when the sheep would be brazing in the field, is when Jesus son of Mary was born.Luke 2:8 “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.”Luke 2:12 “And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”Luke 2:15 “And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.”So, this quote refers to Jesus as a babe and the Greek word being used here in the Bible is brephos for newborn or infant. So, as you just read, this proves that the baby Jesus was born during the summer, in the year 7 A.D. based on the death of Herod.Excerpted from Mary, The Blessed Mother Of Jesus Christ (Pamphlet No. 7) by Rabi Malachi Zodok York