Iam a Caribbean writer I have written several books my latest offering is, Rastafari and its Shamanist Origins.
I lived and worked in the Netherlands I've lived in Rotterdam and Groningen. I attended the Hanze University in Groningen Gamma Faculty. I studied Social Case Work and Psychology.
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This is to certify that Soualiga Youth is now resident in Rotterdam. Out of Foundation Soualiga Youth foundation, Lalibela was formed by Bernardo Bailey and Ivan Richardson+. From now into the foreseeable future, I will highlight the work of Foundation Lalibela which is inextricably linked to Soualiga Youth since they are one and the same. Foundation Laliobela has done and is still doing, vital work here in Rotterdam for over 20 years. Foundation Lalibela
Bernardo Bailey aka Ras Enoch in Shashamane Ethiopia aka Ityoppia duringFoundation Lalibela’s pilgrimage to Lalibela Ethiopia.
An Ethiopian monk showing members of the Foundation Lalibela incense used in the church there in Lalibela Ethiopia.
Art work
Members of Foundation Lalibela with young men from the community in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, second from left Ivan Richardson middle Bernardo Bailey (founders of Lalibela Commonunity).
Foundation Lalibela has been supporting Ethiopians in Ethiopia since 2011 with financial assistance and the purchasing of medicine and dry goods to aid communities, families, and individuals there in Ethiopia. Recently the war in Tigray (northern Ethiopia), comprising ethno-regional militias, the Federal Government, and the Eritrean military has garnered the attention of foreign governments and NGO’ssince 2020. Foundation Lalibela – has been involved in the relief effort and I will – do several post’s about – that in the future. This is a new epoch and era in the life of this Blog, more posts will follow expounding on our work in Ethiopia and the Caribbean. Blessed love.
The crimes in the so-called “Themis’case played out in the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands (NL), Sint Maarten, and Curacao, bearing salient testimony to the international scope and operational capability of NLS. The Court of First Instance in Willemstad Curacao sentenced four persons, to prison for crimes committed on behalf of the No Limit Soldiers gang, from Koraalspecht Curacao. The gang’s prominent leaders are Urvin Wawoe aka “Nuto” and his brother Shurendy Quant aka “Tyson”.
The court sentenced 42-year-old Robere Lucas to 14 years in prison, for his criminal activity on behalf of NLS, he was convicted for masterminding an assassination attempt on Sint Maarten and for organizing, a cocaine shipment to France consisting of 210 kilos of Cocaine. Both Shurendy Quant and Urvin Wawoe have yet to be tried for crimes committed as NLS frontmen. The court convincingly proved that Lucas was a principal in the attempted murder of a male resident of French Quarter K.G. The attempted murder was in reprisal for the hit on Latoya Flanders, who was dispatched by a single gunshot to the head as she exited her vehicle in front of her home on November 5, 2015.
The photo above bears witness to the potent, extreme violence being carried out here on Sint Maarten, in the ongoing war between the Buena Vista City gang (BVC), and NLS. The photo is of Latoya Flanders the deceased lover of Urvin Wawoe. Flanders was murdered in retaliation for the killing of a BVC shot caller at the HATO airport in Curacao.
Above Flanders and her partner Wawoe, gesturing with a finger on her lips, the so-called HUSH-HUSH symbol, favored by NLS members when taking selfies .
Above is a breast shot taken by Flanders and posted on her FB page. TRU is another moniker for the NLS gang used by its members, the five stars tattooed on Flanders’upper breast signifies her position as a “made” member of the gang here on Sint Maarten.
The Court of First Instance in Curacao found it convincingly proven that Robere Lucas (NLS), masterminded the attempted murder of a man with the initials K.G. on French Sint Martin. Lucas paid the hit team 50000 US dollars and 25 pounds of marijuana. Lucas was the principal in the murder of two persons on Sint Maarten (Dutch Side), which was carried out by masked and heavily armed men on the night of March 14, 2017, a male and female were murdered at a car wash in the district of Sucker Garden.
The Court of First Instance in Curacao found it convincingly proven that Robere Lucas (NLS), masterminded the attempted murder of a man with the initials K.G. on French Sint Martin. Lucas paid the hit team 50000 US dollars and 25 pounds of marijuana. Lucas was the principal in the murder of two persons on Sint Maarten (Dutch Side), which was carried out by masked and heavily armed men on the night of March 14, 2017, a male and female were murdered at a car wash in the district of Sucker Garden.
Stephanie Phillips was sentenced to six years for membership in a criminal organization, involvement in illicit narcotics trafficking, and the attempted extortion of a businessman in 2016. Phillips is named in court documents as the lover of G.B. an NLS member, who was involved in the murder of the BVC shot caller Jais at the HATO Airport in Curacao. Phillips paid two shooters, on behalf of NLS in the successful assassination of a person involved in the murder of Latoya Flanders.
Charlton Lake is named in court documents as the Financial man of NLS. Lake a native of Sint Maarten (Dutch spelling)ng ), purchased real estate on behalf of NLS and managed money gained from illicit narcotics trafficking by NLS. Lake received an eight-year sentence for his many crime on behalf of NLS. A dispossession claim was read in court documents against Laake, A Chevy Tahoe, some diamonds, and Lakes home were all seized by the public prosecutor here on Sint Maarten.
Adrian Evalina was sentenced to 21 months, he is presently out of prison since pre-trial detention was equivalent to his sentence. Evalina was responsible for the financial maintenance of imprisoned NLS members, their families, and their friends.
This post is the latest in the ongoing saga of NLS.
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this post is excerpted from my book and was written several years ago.
Demetrius Flenory aka Big Meech.
The Black Mafia Family a.k.a. BMF, is a much storied urban street tale of mythological proportions. Demetrius Flenory above and his brother Terry Flenory from Detroit Michigan. The Flenory brothers began peddling crack vials filled with $50 dollars worth of crack on the streets of Detroit, in the eighties and grew to become a multi-kilo drug distribution ring that employed over 500 persons. Terms like making it rain (slang for tossing bills in the air at strippers), were copied by rappers directly from the lifestyle of Demetrius Flenory a.k.a. Big Meech, who was known to toss anywhere from twenty thousand to fifty thousand dollars in the air at strippers usually in varying denominations.
Here Big Meech is in the photo with the rapper Nelly draped in a Chinchilla coat. At right Meech and middle Anthony Wolf‖ Jones, the sometimes bodyguard (deceased), of P Diddy. each of the men in the photo are holding 600 hundred dollar bottles of Perrier Jouert, the lifestyle shown above was later popularized by rap artist‘s in their music videos. The Black Mafia Family was a cocaine smuggling crew, who lived the life that the rappers could only fantasize about. Young Jeezy, T.I., and a few other rappers from the Atlanta area have B.M.F. to thank for helping them raise their public profile. Jeezy particularly has been linked to B.M.F. publicly and made no secret of it as his earliest music video shows, the cars, and medallions in the videos were B.M.F‘s, while Jeezy constantly referenced the crew in his lyrics. The photo above at left shows Anthony Jones and Meech in happier times since Jones was murdered by either Meech or one of his associates outside the club Chaos in Atlanta. I will attempt to reconstruct some of the events surrounding BMF, from their debauched partying to the insane amounts of Champagne they consumed at a club, to their wild spending sprees and the trivial incidents that led to bruised egos and ended in death, for whomever they deemed offended them . Hip-Hop night at club Chaos, owner Brian Alt was quoted on Nov. 13, 2003, AJC article saying that due to hip-hop Mondays, the night had become his most profitable. We had celebrities come in almost every week. Chaos was not a mega club, at least not on the scale of mega-clubs such as Compound and Vision. Chaos had three separate spaces, each with its own bar: a lounge-like foyer, a dance floor behind it, and a long narrow room to the side. An article in the May 2006 issue of Vibe estimated that on the night Meech went to Chaos, his entourage numbered in the “dozens. On the night in question, Demetrius Flenory and Anthony Wolf‖ Jones would duel to the death over a former girlfriend of Jones‖, whose occupation was a stripper! An affidavit filed in Fulton County Superior Court by Atlanta Police Investigator Louis Torres states: “Inside the club, there was an altercation between … Jones and another group of men which included Meech.” In a Nov. 12, 2003, story about the Wolf incident, AllHipHop.com reported that witnesses told police that an argument over a woman may have sparked the shooting. The manager of Chaos claimed that an unidentified woman and her date entered the club around 1 a.m. and were met by the woman’s ex-boyfriend. The article states that Wolf “started harassing the couple, prompting security guards to ask him to leave.” An article published the following day in the AJC states, “Anthony ‘Wolf’ Jones confronted his long-time girlfriend because she had arrived with a group of men for ‘hip-hop night’ at Chaos.” Wolf “left peaceably at 1:30 a.m.” at Alt’s request, according to the story. According to the May 2006 Vibe article: “Wolf staggered through the BMF-heavy crowd inside the club and began chatting up an ex-girlfriend, a stripper who had been partying with Meech that night. When Wolf groped her in full view of the other clubgoers, Meech warned him to back off, and Wolf responded by choking her. “DVD magazines Smack and The Raw Report show Meech and his entourage with their own individual bottles of champagne. In the Smack DVD, Meech says, A lot of niggas don’t like to spend their money. We love to spend our money. When we go out at night, whatever we spend, $50,000, $100,000 in the (expletive) club, we can afford to do it.‖An Atlanta Police incident report described the weather that night as “cool.” The AllHipHop.com story states that “Police said the man waited outside of the club for three hours.” Alt was quoted the following day in the AJC as saying, “I guess he went to his car and sat there for three hours waiting for them to come out of the club.” According to the May 2006 Vibearticle, “Outside Chaos, the humiliated thug called for backup. Minutes later, Lamont Girdy, a boyhood friend from the Bronx, arrived at the scene.”
Above: An investigator’s schematic showing the BMF organizational hierarchy, showing the links between BMF recording artist Young Jeezy and famed New York jeweler, Jacob ―The Jeweller‖ Arabo.
According to a Nov. 11, 2003, Atlanta Police press release on the incident, “Multiple shots were fired.” On Nov. 12, 2003, the AJC quoted Atlanta Police Maj. J.P. Spillane as saying Jones and Girdy “were armed.” An affidavit filed in Fulton County Superior Court by Atlanta Police Investigator Torres states, “According to a witness, both Girdy and Jones were also shooting.” According to a Nov 12, 2003, All HipHop.com article,”police found at least 24 shell casings and bullet holes in nearby business establishments.” An AJC article published the same day states that club owner Alt “was cashing out the night’s receipts when he received a report of gunfire outside.” According to the article, “Alt found a bartender and an off-duty Atlanta police officer, who worked security at the club, giving the 38-year-old Jones CPR, while two other people, who identified themselves as an off-duty paramedic and a nurse, helped the shooting victim Lamont Girdy.” According to an Atlanta Police incident report, “Upon their arrival officers found the victim, later identified as Girdy, dead on the scene with a firearm next to him. The second victim was transported to Grady Hospital where he died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.” Meech’s attorney, Findling, told CL that Meech was not armed that night. “He never possessed, never used, never had a gun. And in fact, he was a victim.”
The Atlanta Police report on the incident states, “While on the scene, this investigator [J.K. Brown] was contacted by phone by an unknown person and gave the suspect information and other details of the crime.” At a Nov. 26, 2003, hearing in Fulton Superior Court, Brown testified that a call from the woman was transferred from 911 to him and that she said she saw “Meechie” fire more than a half-dozen shots. Brown told the court that the woman said she saw Meech “reach into the waistband of his pants and pull a pistol” and that she heard more shots as she fled the scene. Brown also said, “She was scared for her life and wouldn’t give her name. She said people involved had a lot of money and a lot of drugs, and I didn’t know what I was getting into.” According to an affidavit filed in Fulton County by Atlanta Police Investigator Torres, “A witness who knowsMeech stated that she saw him with a gun, running after Girdy and Jones and shooting at them. Both Girdy and Jones were also shooting.” Meech’s attorney, Findling, told CL that investigators on the scene “had immediately circled the area to preserve the integrity of the crime scene, not letting people in or out, securing names for interviews so as the testimony of the individuals would not be tainted. After they clearly established all of that, they then said somebody called, who was apparently not one of the people that were inside the tape. There was this unnamed person. There was never a name, no evidence that there was anybody accompanying her to corroborate her presence there. The whole thing was just comical. ―The Nov. 11, 2003, Atlanta Police press release states, “The Homicide Unit was notified that two additional suspects were involved in the shooting and were receiving medical treatment at North Fulton Hospital for non-life threatening gunshot wounds.” The Atlanta Police incident report indicates that Meech had suffered a “serious” gunshot wound to the buttocks. The affidavit filed in relation to the case by Atlanta Police Investigator Torres states, “A bystander, who had no involvement with either group, was shot in the foot.” The Atlanta Police press release states that Meech, “who had been transported to Atlanta Police headquarters from North Fulton Hospital, was identified by a witness and a warrant was secured for his arrest.” It then states that Meech “was charged with two counts of murder and transported to Fulton Co. jail”. The Atlanta Police report on the incident lists Meech’s arrest time as 7 p.m., Nov. 11, 2003, and the location as police headquarters. In an article in the summer 2005 issue of The Juice, Meech gives a different account of the arrest: “It is funny cause no one ever mentions the fact that I was arrested in the hospital.”
One book reviewer described the Flenorys in vivid and graphic fashion quoted in the following: In the early 1990s, Demetrius Big Meech‖ Flenory and his brother, Terry Southwest T‖ Flenory, rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history- the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean ―Diddy‖ Combs and did business with New York‘s King of Bling Jacob ―The Jeweller Arabo, and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabulous. Yet even as BMF attracted celebrity attention, its crew members engaged in fear tactics in cities across the nation. When the brothers began clashing in 2003, the flashy and beloved Big Meech risked it all on a shot of legitimacy in the music industry. At the same time, utilizing a high-stakes wiretap operation, the feds inched toward their goal of destroying the Flenory‘s empire and ending the reign of a crew suspected in the sale of thousands of kilos of cocaine and a half dozen unsolved murders. But their legacy lives on in Mara Shaloup‘s fascinating and intriguing story, which recounts the rise, fall, and everything in between.
The excess and hedonism expressed in the above photos speak to the debauchery of a morally bankrupt culture, the gangster-chic that the urban American hip hop culture has spawned is having a disastrous effect, on impoverished communities globally. From these photo‘s alone it is clear that the gangsta rap lifestyle is simply a caricature of the lives of actual drug dealers.
The drug crew BMF was at one point brazen enough to take out a billboard ad declaring the world was theirs, to add insult to injury, they even had their own magazine, shown above, called The Juice.
In this photo of Bleu DaVinci aka Barima McKnight (the sole ‗artist‖ on the BMF music label) and Drake, the buffoonish Drake it must be noted is no gangster. They are seen carrying bands of a hundred, one US dollar bills, which they tossed into the air at strippers, the amounts were $50,000 dollars and $25,000 dollars respectively. McKnight was sentenced, to five years in jail for handling cash and cocaine for BMF. Case 2:05-cr-80955-AC-RSW Document 1 filed 10/28/2005, is the legal case that the US government built against Terry Flenory et al or BMF the drug crew. Terry Flenory is the brother of Big Meech named Demetrius Flenory in
the indictment handed down by the US government against the brothers and their cohorts. The amounts of money seized by the DEA and other law enforcement agencies in the US from the BMF drug crew were huge sums, indicative of the fact that BMF had a Mexican cartel connection. I will list here some of the amounts seized in liquid assets as well as property and vehicles. On April 5th, 2005 Stanley Lackey jr possessed and transported $580,250 which was seized by police in Romulus Michigan. On January 11th, 2005 $576,000 in cash was seized by police from 16221 Elisa Place Sherman Oaks California. On June 16th, 2005, police seized $1,868,759 from 5550 Oso Woodland Hills California which was possessed by members of the Flenory drug organization. The cash amounts listed above are a minuscule rendering of the actual amounts in cash seized by the US government from BMF, which at its peak was worth $270,000,000. A 2005 Lincoln Limousine, a 2003 BMW 760 LI, and a 2004 Bently GT. Property was seized from the BMF organization, on Belair 6086 Belair Lake Road, Lithonia Georgia, 47080 Hidden River Circle Canton Michigan. Homes were also seized on 14445 Mulholland Drive and a Condominium on 40530 Deer Creek Michigan in Wayne county the unit number was given in the indictment as 42. The preceding information was given so that the reader can gain a perspective that the BMF drug crew was not a simple street organization, but a huge drug emporium consisting of over 500 persons, each with differing ranks in the hierarchy, this same organization, is being touted today by rappers, glorified and mythologized in their lyrics. The fact that a drug organization is being upheld to the youth of the world as a positive role model, for their behavior should be seen for what it is, genocidal collusion of corporate America with the worst elements in the urban community, to make a profit off the ignorance of gullible youth.
Image: The Euphrates in Syria. All of the places mentioned were in ancient times still joined to the continent of Alkebulan Africa. Mesopotamia, [Greek- between two rivers], so named because of its strategic location between the Tigres and the Euphrates rivers. The land of Assyria takes its name from one of their ancient kings called Asshur. Ge: 10:11: Out of that, land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Ge: 10:12: And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. Ge: 10:13: And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, Ge: 10:14: And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
Image: A map of Mesopotamia. The above map shows the Mesopotamian kingdom in green, the center lay in the uppermost portions.
Image: This relief is of Sargon II of Assyria, [722-705back], with one of his subjects. The Mesopotamian king Sargon c.a. [2384-2340] BCE expanded his empire to include Syria, Cilicia, Assyria, and Elam.
Image: This painting is of the imperial palace of Sargon II in the city of Nineveh. The city was at one time the capital of Assyria, situated on the east bank of the Tigris river, opposite Mosul in Iraq. Sargon II (722-705 B.C.) ruled for a period from Nineveh. Sennacherib 705-681 B.C. succeeded Sargon he also made Nineveh his royal city.
Sennacherib‘s youngest son and successor Esarhaddon 681-669 B.C. built a palace at Nineveh, in spite of his efforts at Nineveh Esarhaddon focused his energies on rebuilding Babylon. In 612 Nineveh was destroyed by the Babylonians and their Mede and Scythian allies. Zephaniah (2:13-15), Zep: 2:13: And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. Zep: 2:14: And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. Zep: 2:15: This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. And in Nahum in its entirety specifically, Na: 2:6: The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. The above scripture is an exact account of how Nineveh was destroyed. Na: 2:7: And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. Na: 2:8: But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. The land of Assyria takes its name from one of their ancient gods called Assur.
The Assyrian king Assoernasirpal II.
The oldest remains unearthed stem from the Third Millennium B.C. they were unearthed in the Ishtar temple. In ancient history, we will read that Ur of the Chaldea where Abraham came from was in fact the conquerors of the Assyrians who were a satellite of Ur. Let us examine Ur, one of the most important cities of ancient Mesopotamia located on the Western Bank of the lower falls of the Euphrates river. Some very illuminating finds were unearthed in (Tel Muqayyir) modern Iraq. From the data thus far gathered we can see a pattern of development since Ishtar was the deity worshipped by the Assyrians who were a satellite at many points in the history of the Babylonians who were as per their own records descendants of Nimrod. The same Nimrod of the Bible, whose mother Serimaris or Astarte was called the Queen of Heaven, or the mother of Heaven. Serimaris and Nimrod correlate to Isis and Horus of the Kemitians (Egyptians). Also according to archeological evidence, Babylon is one of the first ancient civilizations it is also the place, where the two rivers the Tigris and the Euphrates meet. The Babylonian king called Hammurabi wrote the Code of Hammurabi or Laws of Hammurabi.
Image: Hammurabi receives the Sacred Scrolls containing the laws from the Sun God Shamash. Right above; Shamash attacks the Chaos monster, with bolts of lightning. The Sun God Shamash had the same attributes as the Kemitian Sun god Rah. The Laws of Hammurabi correlated closely to the ―Medu Netcher‖ of the Kemitians also called Maat (moral laws) the Babylonians as was previously indicated were at certain points in their history conquered by the Egyptians, who in turn foisted their culture onto the conquered people hence the direct correlation of religious thought and development. One key factor of utmost importance is the development of Algebra by the Kemitians. The science of Algebra was introduced by the Kemitians to the rest of the world. With the knowledge of Algebra, massive mathematically accurate pyramids were constructed. The Babylonians were taught the science of Algebra, this teaching came about as a result of the Babylonians being conquered by the Kemitians. The Arabs as a result of the intermingling of ethnic groups and wars of conquest in later history became, as their Babylonian predecessors the custodians of the science of Algebra thanks to the Kemitians. the Greeks, whom Heroditus chronicled were also recipients of the wisdom of the Kemitians by way of the Phoenicians also a people subjugated in history by the Egyptians, and later the Europeans received their education, again through the conquest of the Greeks who passed on to them this ancient Egyptian science that we call Algebra today.
Gilgamesh the hunter.
Above Orion fighting the bull Taurus the hero-hunter aesthetic is found in most cultures again pointing to an original source for the epics and myths of certain ancient cultures.
The Ishtar Gate. Nebuchadnezzar built this gate in honor of the fertility goddess Ishtar, who was symbolic of the mother and wife of Nimrod or Tammuz. The earliest inhabitants of Iraq were descended from Tammuz or Dammuzi also pronounced Damu‖ which is an ancient Mesopotamian word meaning Son of the Blood. Interestingly
enough the word Damu is also Swahili for Blood denoting again a commonality in language and symbolism in the cultures of the continent. These religious cultures were all tantric which means that they hearkened on certain particular methods to gain contact with the particular deity or god‘s/goddesses that their culture revered. The premise of this work is that those so-called gods and goddesses were in fact demonic entities and we have already exhaustively examined literature from outside of the bible to bear up our points here, we will give accounts of certain Hieroglyphs of the examined cultures that will serve to illuminate our points.
The Enuma Elish. Center the complete Rosetta Stone (British Museum photo). A screenshot from National Geographic‘s hieroglyph translator shows what the glyphs look like. Above right is an example of Mesopotamian Hieroglyphs. The Kemitians Egyptians‖ were the originators of Hieroglyphic writing as a means of communication, through conquest they spread their culture to the surrounding regions. Some claim that the Sumer empire predated that of the Egyptians, if one is referring to the later interbreeding of the original inhabitants of Kemit with their conquered vassals and the later marauding Hyksos and Haribu peoples, then the Sumer empire predated them yes. Now if one were to examine the culture of the original Kemitians, based on unearthed archeological evidence. We would then see an unmixed group of pure Nubian i.e. (black men) stock, and it is these people who were the originators of the art of communication called Hieroglyphs. The art was developed in keeping with their belief of sacral kingship, the king was literally a representative of Rah or god.―Pharaoh‖ was a god on earth and gods cannot die, they only transition from the temporal, or earthly plane of existence in order to occupy the spiritual plane hereby becoming one with deity, and attaining the perfection 360 degrees of entirety, called universal consciousness or oneness. In creating an account of their words, and deeds through the Hieroglyphs or Medu Nechter they were deified for eternity as future generations would have an account of them preserved in stone. This is the teaching that Buddhism sprang from, as was already shown the Dravidians a people originating in the Delta region, were the people that introduced Tantricism into India, including the practice of the consumption of Cannabis Sativa as a form of spiritual enlightenment. From India Tantricism spread throughout the Fareast and the orient.
In Tibet, the pre-Buddhist cultural value system is referred to by anthropologists, the Tibetans themselves as well as a host of other disciplines and professions as a Shamanist culture. The Tibetan practitioners of Bon consider themselves to be Shamen. The Shamanism of Tibet is ancient, and it incorporates Black magic as well as so-called “white magic”. The Tibetans have written extensively about their spiritual value system a well-known work on Tibetan Shamanism is the: “Tibetan book of the Dead”. The Bonpo Shamen were and still many are members of a clan guild. The Bon Shaman like Shamen of every culture globally are visited and then possessed by an “ancestral spirit”, a god or a demon this is their own account, not mine. The possessed would then become “divinely mad”; temporarily retreating into the wilderness the Shaman lived primitive existences i.e., “like an animal” and saw visions of him/herself devoured by animals. After the possessed returned to their clan they were taught by elder Shamen how to use their powers and how to invoke spirits to do their bidding through the incantation of mantras.
Figure: above is of Mantras/Runes carved into the rock in Tibet. The word Rune means secret or mystery in early English and related languages.
The flag of Tibet is a culture wholly given over to Shamanic principles and has been thus for thousands of years. The sun symbol is easily recognized on this flag, the “yin yang” between the lions, the two Snow Lions (associated with the heavens); they represent the East, cheerfulness, a precise and clear mind free of doubt, and the earth element. The Snow Lion is one of the Four Dignities which are the Lion, Tiger, Garuda, and Dragon they four are symbolic of the confidence the leader must develop in order to rule with wisdom and compassion.
Image: an illustration depicting the Four Dignitaries the sun is again a central theme here.
Tibetan Shamanism existed and was practiced in Tibet hundreds, if not thousands of years before Buddhism came to Tibet, it is a distinct spiritual value system that today has incorporated Buddhism. A true study of Tibetan spirituality for example, the Tibetan book of the dead will expose the student to Buddhist thought already being explored in Tibetan Shamanism, any study and practice of Buddhism will not necessarily expose one to the multi layered and complexed nature of the Shamanic culture in Tibetan Shamanism also known as Bon, Bon-po ,or Bön. Bon religion is also incorporated into their spiritual practices by Satanists as well as Witches. Iam inferring here that Tibetan Shamanic practices, are a highly complexed set of magical rituals complete with spirit possession, that is of such sophistry, that secular scholars equate their spiritual manuals as historical and cultural but have no comprehension of them , or they choose to ignore the inherent “spirituality”, as practiced by the Tibetan Shamen. The present “living god”, of Tibetan Lamaism, is the Dalai Lama Tenzien Gyatso. The Dalai Lama is held to be a god in flesh, by his followers, and a reincarnation of Buddha. A quote here from Helena Blavatsky’s “Isis Unveiled Volume I”, will lay bare some of the essence of what is being said herein. “Lamas-Buddhist monks belonging to the Lamaic religion of Tibet, as for instance friars are to the popish or Roman catholic religion. Every lama is subject to the grand Taley-, the Buddhist pope of Tibet, who holds his residence at Lhasa and is a reincarnation of Buddha”.
The “Tibetan Shamanic Wheel of Life”, which predates Buddhism yet it, incorporates in its entirety Buddhist thought. The Samsara Wheel/The Wheel of Joy is the middle illustration in the painting. From the: Tibetan Book of the Dead.
The Gyankil Chakra above represents the Samsara wheel to the left of the page. As an example of the idea of Buddhist taught in a pre-Buddhist culture let us examine the Samsara Wheel. This Chakra is replete with Buddhist thought and it predates Buddhism, to call Tibetan Shamanism Buddhism is to miss the point entirely. Bon in its darkest manifestation is an ancient form of Sun god spirituality as such witchcraft and Satanists can and do incorporate and draw from this spirituality as it is authentic pristine sorcery. Many will be offended by the above statement their offense stems from their ignorance pertinent to spiritual matters. I will quote from the Tibetan Buddhist text entitled: “The Epitome of The Great Symbol”. “Whatever thoughts, or concepts, or obscuring [or disturbing] passions arise are neither to be abandoned nor allowed to control one; they are to be allowed to arise without one’s trying to direct [or shape] them. If one do no more than merely to recognize them as soon as they arise, and persists in so doing, they will come to be realized [or to dawn] in their true [or void] form through not being abandoned. By that method, all things which may seem to be obstacles to spiritual growth can be made use of as aids on the Path. And therefore, the method is called “The utilizing of obstacles as aids on the Path. “Though the text is called Tibetan Buddhism the thought processes expressed. were known to Tibetan Shamen and present in their literature. The quote is of the type that, “Left Hand Path”, practitioners i.e. Satanist’s”, delight in uttering hence their incorporation of Tibetan Shamanism, into their own practices.
Another example of a spiritual value system being used to sell everything, from cologne to soap is the line of Samsara products. Presently what people refer to as secular society, is not secular at all, since civilizations are built from the value systems of the people within them, and all “secular” states and governments still gather inspiration from the mythology, culture and spiritual values of their forebearers.
The flag of South Korea this flag is fully Shamanistic in its entirety. At left an original rendering of same.
The white background symbolizes the cleanliness/purity of the people, taeguks/trigrams represent the origins of all things universally, red represents the earth and blue heaven/sky. For those who may think that what I propose here is mere supposition, I refer you to the book Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley. In the editorial preface Liber 777 is called a cabbalistic dictionary of ceremonial magic, oriental mysticism, comparative religion, and symbology. Crowley on page 67 used the taeguks or trigrams below, in his Trigrams of the Yi King with their various attributes. The fact that the trigrams shown below, all correspond to an element namely wind, water, earth, fire all necessary for the practice of witchcraft is telling in the sense that, the Korean’s knowingly placed such symbols along with the, “Ying Yang”, on their flag thus signalling their spiritual values to the symbol literate. The Korean Sam-Taegeuk is to the right of the page. This flag begs the question why a secular government would incorporate Shamanism, in modernity into their national flag? The lessons that history and etymology has taught humanity, has largely gone unnoticed by the majority of people, yet these symbols that are representative of “spiritual value systems”, are being used throughout modern society globally, pointing to the very spiritual nature of human beings, even in the twenty first century . I will continue here with the explanation of the colors on the Korean flag, yellow is for the Korean people, blue is symbolic of the heavens, red is the earth. The symbolism on the sides, of both flags above are characters that have the same meaning; the meanings are as follows:
This symbol above on the right of both flags is a Korean character it is called gam.
The variant meanings of the above character are as follows moon, winter, north, intelligence, son, water, and wisdom.
This character is seen at the lower half at right of both flags above called in Korean gon it stands for, earth as in nature, summer, west, courtesy, mother, earth as in one of the four elements, vitality.
The final character ri is representative of the following and can be seen on the bottom left on both flags, sun, autumn, south, justice, daughter, fire, fruition. The Shamanist characteristic of South Korea is visible throughout the flag and its symbolism.
The Logo of the World Conference against Racism racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance a creation of the United Nations. Observe the logo an ancient Shamanic symbol used in many cultures as we have already shown throughout this book. Today it is showing up in the logo of a United Nations created “representative” body. It is indeed not surprising to me in the least as the UN is a known supporter of all things esoteric and occultic. Again, we see that organizations globally that claim to be “secular” are nothing but fronts for a spirituality that is expressly forbidden in scripture. The flag to the right of the page was once used by what is now communist North Korea supposedly two opposing ideologies both using the same symbolism as the symbols are representative of spirit and spirit is universal and all encompassing.
The present flag of North Korea. The blue, red and white are still present and have the same meanings as the South Korean flag. Ironically, the state is called The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, all this from a dictatorial, government.
The presidential seal of the President of Communist Korea two Phoenix birds on both sides, with the national flower the Hibiscus middle at bottom of the seal. The Phoenix bird is also a sunsymbol and a prominent feature in Shamanic, occultic and esoteric spirituality globally, its use on this seal is in keeping with that tradition.
The phoenix is known in the mythology of all cultures globally the mystical bird which self-combusts into flames and is miraculously reborn from its own ashes. The phoenix also corresponds and is shown directly in the book the Goetia or the Lesser Key of Solomon, as the demon Fennex a great Marquis of Hell and has twenty legions of demons under his command, he teaches all wonderful science, he is an excellent poet and is very obedient to the conjurer his color is purple as he claims royalty, other spellings of his name is Phoenix, Pheynix and Phoenix.
This map shows the close proximity of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China to the Indus River. I will like to examine here the language called Sanskrit the Indo-Iranian language also called an Indo-European language. This correlates to statements made in this work about a priestly class of Brahmin co- opting the Dravidian teachings and creating their own peculiar brand of paganism. The Brahmin are called Aryans, Aryans are a Caucasoid people, Europeans. Here is more proof of the Hindu Kush valley being a place where Baalism came to India from the Middle East via Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Indus is a river in South Asia. It has a 3000 km stream area the following names of countries and mountains that follow are ll, or are either in its direct path or the Indus circumnavigates or flows from either of them.
These are the following names of mountains, countries, and even bodies of water they are as follows, Himalayas, West Tibet, Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, Karachi, The Arabic Sea, Sutlej, Sukkor, Karakoram, and Hindukush. In order to understand the living conditions of early man, their lifestyle and belief systems must be studied. A river in anciency was a source of wealth to those who were fortunate enough to be living in its immediate vicinity. Take for instance Egyptian high culture and the Nubian high culture. The development of high culture in the ancient world always occurred around the areas that were fertile this means that a vast river network would have been the contributing factor to the sustained development of high culture. Therefore given the evidence on our map we have conclusive proof of such a claim take note of the places on your map that the Indus river surrounds China, Tibet, India, Iran, Iraq, etc. all these countries in the ancient world were
known to have developed a very high culture and what is called a civilized way of living meaning they were exposed to education, they had an existing government some were ruled by kings others were ruled by a priestly class all these developments were made sustainable by direct access to water. Water and the irrigation of canals and viaducts for the betterment of crops and sustenance of cattle and other livestock made it possible for the continued preservation and development of their culture and the preservation of their various monarchies. We have today at our disposal maps that show that the river the Indus connects to all the countries indicated above this connection made it possible for men to travel by seafaring vessels, from one continent to the other today we do this by plane because of the advanced technology available.
Sometimes people traveled to other countries for purposes of war as in the case of the Dravidians being conquered by their lighter-skinned Aryan traducers. In other periods people traveled for purposes of trade or for educational purposes or simply to escape religious or political tyranny, it is within this inter-cultural travel that ideas and schools of thought were exchanged adapted, and abandoned by one group of people or from one culture to the next.
The fertility of the countries in the regions on the map previously mentioned, was a result, of their close proximity, to the Hindu Kush River. Now has it dawned on you the reader why this work can set forth empirically the assertion, that all these countries got their religious practices from the ancient Phoenicians and Babylonians which countries are today Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. True scholarship, has the ability to bear up its claims outside of the narrow scope of its core literature, my core literature being in this case the bible. I have ventured far outside the bible and yet my claims are borne up, by scripture not the other way around. My work cannot bear up scripture the bible is the direct words and laws of God my claim to this work is rooted in a biblical background, not in secularism. The readers who are well-read and are familiar with the works of Joseph Ben Jochannan and Cheik Anta Diop will be able to comprehend the factual evidence presented herein. The mission of this work, as was stated previously, is to introduce Jesus in a different light and at the same time, destroy falsehoods and fables, surrounding him and his ministry.
The Karakoram Mountain, is a glacial tributary of the Indus Kush River, as can be seen the Indus Kush, encompasses vast regions in Asia it is from these regions that the cult practices of Baalism found their way into India and from India, they were spread by the emissary of paganism Gautama Buddha.
Afghanistan along with Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq all belonged at one time either to the Babylonian kings or to the Phoenician kings. In scripture, Jezebel was described, as a Phoenician queen, the goddess of the Phoenicians was Diana/Ashtoreth.
The Khyber pass is above on the map, written in white.
Dravidian dark-skinned inhabitants of India, the languages that certain Dravidians speak, include Tamil, Telugu, and Kanarees. The script on the right of this page is Sanskrit, the most ancient form of writing known to these people . These people are some of the earliest inhabitants, of India, they are a matrilineal people, meaning inheritance is ascertained according to the line of the mother not unlike that practiced by many Africans throughout the continent.
Many of their deities are also of the female sex, it was these people who brought the tantric practices now famous in India, to India. The Chakra, The Wheel of Righteousness: in the Indian flag. The wheel of Ashoka) is a depiction of the Dharmachakra, (see Dharma Chakra), the Wheel of Dharma (Sanskrit: Chakra means wheel). The wheel has 24 spokes, which represent the 12 Laws of Dependent Origination and the 12 Laws of Dependent Termination. What is referred to as Hinduism came from them; they are distinct from the Indo-Aryan people, who now predominate in India. The painting above speaks volumes, it portrays Rama, (the blue color of Rama signifies he is an Avatar of Vishnu), Sita, Laksmana, and a demon Suruphnaka with her nose severed; here the demon looks like a Dalit. The Brahmin produced this painting, and the subjugation of all of the darker-skinned Indians began to be, institutionalized, within Hinduism. Through these types of portrayals the untouchables, almost exclusively look like the devil in the painting above.
Above are photos of people of the Cham civilization in Vietnam. The Cham exists today in Vietnam.
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A pre-modern Buddha statue in Vietnam, note its ‘negroid’, characteristics.
Above the head of another pre-modern Buddha in the same area.
The photos above are of early Buddhas in India, Nepal, and China. Some historians and archaeologists have found a pronounced Dravidian or Cham/Kham (The Cham are the indigenous inhabitants of Vietnam), presence in all of the earliest civilizations of the countries mentioned above. Their findings lend credence to the claims made in this book that the earliest religions of man all have a single origin.
Descendants of the black-skinned Dravidians in modern India, are as black as any African and darker than most descendants of Africans in the Diaspora. The photos to the left are of some young Dalit women in Orissa India. It is from these countries in ancient history from whence the Dravidians emerged bringing with them their cultic practices. The Aryans co-opted their religious practices after having conquered and subjugated them the Aryans developed Brahmanism out of this school of thought came Buddhism and later Hinduism.
Early Shiva statue from the Cham civilization in Vietnam.A map displaying the ancient Kham civilization.
Above a map of modern India showing Orissa the area densely populated by the Bondo people, a people who according to their own oral history came to India from Africa.
Above a Bondo woman in Orissa province.
The Dravidian descendants in India speak a number of languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannadigas, and a few not mentioned here. The revolutionary Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka are direct descendants of Dravidians. Bondo women, from the Orissa province in India, with their characteristically dark skin and broad noses.
The Indo-Aryans are all of the Brahmin (merchant class their religious language is still officially Sanskrit.
A map of the Indus Valley and its tributaries, and the Indus river.
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and India are clearly identifiable on the above-shown map. Also, the Hindu Kush glacial tributary of the Indus River can be seen. As I indicated earlier, in the region of Nepal Buddhism spread, through the efforts of Siddhartha Gautama (c.a. 560-480 b.c.e.). The earliest depictions of Buddha strongly resemble the Dravidian and Bondo people, again pointing to a non-Aryan people, as the original inhabitants of the Indian sub-continent.
Dalits in Nepal.
Above an early Thai Buddha from around 800 b.c., with the characteristic broad nose and thick lips, usually associated with the people shown above. The evidence points to a dark-skinned people having been the indigenous inhabitants of the eastern nations including China.
In Roman Catholicism, we can see traces of the worship of the sun god Rah of the Egyptians. Therefore, by dint of practicality Roman Catholicism is in fact ancient Egyptian sun god worship, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Christian Judaeo principle called monotheism. Catholicism is polytheism cloaked under a sophisticated Christian-sounding veneer, where the Egyptian gods are either called saints or some other convenient title to cloak their original identity.
Interestingly enough practitioners of the Santeria blood cult and Vaudon all worship and accept the saints of Roman Catholicism, they claim that the Catholic saints all correspond to their pantheon of deities, and they see no difference whatsoever between their demon gods and the so-called Roman Catholic saints. The Greek culture co-opted many of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, hence the polyglot of religious veneration that typifies Modern Greek culture. The Greeks were later conquered by the Romans, who adopted many forms of Greek culture, including many of their gods and goddesses alongside, those already venerated by the Romans.
Take note of the so-called Monstrance or sunburst in the Roman Catholic priest’s hands. This is the same symbol represented by the Egyptians, as their God the Roman Catholic institution is, worshipping the Egyptian sun god Rah and not Jesus of our bible.
Figure: Pope Johannes XXIII Note the crown on his head, it is a triple crown directly mimicking the description of the crown in revelations, where it is said on his (Jesus’) head, that he wore many crowns.
The Roman Catholic church purports to be a God-ordained government and is a body that wields massive political, as well as religious influence, globally. Since their practice of idolatry disqualifies them from God’s perspective from being true sons of God. They are a religious cult, and their dogma is false, these are the people that some claim are representatives of Jesus on earth this notion is erroneous, as the bible clearly defines a messianic community to be comprised firstly of Apostles, Pastors, Preachers, Teachers, Governments, Helps/Tongues. No mention is ever made of a Pope, a Madonna, or any icon as an object of worship and there is no mention made of a Cardinal or any of the designated roles that Roman Catholic leaders cloak themselves in.
This is the official flag of Vatican City. The City has an armed elite division. The Pope has special guards called Papal Guards. The Vatican has its own national anthem. The coat of arms to the right of this page is Pope Francis, the current Pope. The coat of arms was recently updated, the insignia of the order of Jesuits is present, as a heraldic ensign on this emblem, the five-pointed star of witchcraft was changed to an eight-point star, and the cluster of grapes was also modified. The ever-present sunburst or monstrance is also visible, which is the god of Roman Catholicism.
Above a papal guard at the entrance to Vatican City.
Map of Vatican City which sits on seven hills.
The Roman Catholic Institution is in fact a country a nation possessing its own constitution and leadership. The word Catholic means ecumenical all-embracing, worldwide, universal. The total population is 850 people of mainly Swedish and Italian backgrounds. The official languages are Latin and Italian. Vatican City is a sovereign state that is independent of the Italian state, since the 11th of February 1929. Only Cardinals younger than 80 years can vote. Their total income is 175, 5 million dollars per annum, the bulk of this income is said to come from the sale of souvenirs, stamps, and books. Out of this church came the ecumenical movement. At present Francis, the current pope has appointed and according to the Vatican news outlets as well as secular news outlets, “eight cardinals from all around to help him “govern” the church”, there you have their own words stating that they are a government and not simply a church. Under Roman Catholicism, many Africans in the Diaspora were forced to adopt what is in fact ancient Egyptian sun god or Ishtar worship cloaked under a Christian veneer. Some Spanish-speaking descendants, of enslaved Africans, call themselves, “Latinos”, the true Latin man is an Italian, and the Spaniards, the black descendants of slaves calling themselves Latino, are simply former slaves with no knowledge of their past. The ability of the European to divide and rule African descendants in the Western hemisphere is astounding and a cause for concern, since it even inhibits people from accepting the preached gospel of Jesus Christ.
Sir George in his letters to the Christians of Scotland had this to say (quoted from Bishop Alexander Hislop: The Two Babylons); “Romanism is a refined system of Christianized heathenism, and chiefly differs from its prototype in being more treacherous, crueler, more dangerous, and more intolerant.” Note the idol in the back of the pope of a dead man on a stake they claim that the image is Jesus. The image is a character created by the artist Michael Angelo for the Roman Catholic Institution, he was commissioned by the papacy to create such art. Note the Pope above praying to the goddess Isis (Virgin goddess), middle above in front of a huge painting of Isis and her son Horus, note the color of the woman and child (black), the last image is an enlarged picture of the woman. In Haiti she is called Erzili Danto (Isis), the scar on her identifies her, for in the Vaudon pantheon of deities that is how she is portrayed.
At the right of this page the Black Madonna and Pope John Paul with the halo around his head, he is now a Roman Catholic saint, not unlike the ancestors of other religions who become gods and goddesses and receive prayers. Here again, is more proof of the paganism in Roman Catholicism. Pope Benedict XV1 prays inside the Grotto of the Apparitions’ also called Grotto of Massabiele. September 13, 2008, in the Sanctuary of Lourdes. Pope Benedict made a pilgrimage to Lourdes to mark the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.
The crown above
is used by female witches in their ceremonies, it is referred to as the goddess crown, the symbol on the front of the crown symbolizes the moon. The same symbolic moon can be observed on the head of the woman in this illustration, proving that this is a witchcraft piece of art and not Christian at all, yet the Roman Church has for centuries incorporated her into their institution’s iconography. In Haiti and in many cultures throughout the Caribbean the woman above is called Yemaya, “Mami Wata”, Yemaya is a Vaudon deity who possesses the attributes of the Roman Mary, the Vaudon claim that their Yemaya is associated with Isis.
Ancient painting depicting Artemis/Serimaris the Sun goddess and her son. Note the twelve stars above the head of the woman mimicking the twelve Apostles, this woman represents the modern EU or European Union with their flag, which has twelve stars. This is one of the deities that the Roman Catholic institution, has adopted and plagiarized as their version of Mary and Jesus. This painting is a Greek adaptation of the Egyptian Goddess Isis and her son Horus, which was later adopted by the Romans under Constantinople. This symbolic woman, the so-called “Queen of Heaven”, came to represent the mother of Jesus, they simply merged their pagan culture with Christianity, in order to create a government ruled by a Roman hierarchy yet the symbolism and the rituals remained Roman and Greek paganism. The early Catholics sacralized, Roman and Greek culture and passed their culture off to the world as holy. The Greeks called Isis Artemis.
Figure: The “Black Madonna and Child” of the Roman Catholic Institution, known to Anthropologists and researchers as Isis with her son Horus.
Figure: Another example of paganism and idolatry as practiced by the Roman Institution, indirect defiance of biblical precepts.
Aset and Heru/Isis Horus, original Madonna and child in the Vatican here is Pope Benedict XVI the former pope, and Francis the present Pope, praying to the ‘Black Madonna’. These “Black Madonna’s” can be found throughout Europe and are revered by all Roman Catholics. This work asserts that the bible clearly renounces the worship of idols as idolatry and paganism; it is in their adaptation of pagan worship that the Roman institution is in error. The error is a grave one indeed, as billions of souls are being deceived, by the idolatry practiced by the papacy.
Above statue of Ignatius Loyola.
Figure: The Roman Institution has created saints throughout its existence one of their more interesting “saints”, Ignatius Loyola the founder of the order of the Jesuits the Jesuits insignia can be seen above, the letters IHS surrounded by a sunburst/nimbus. His book Spiritual Exercises is visible above at the far right of this page. Through his practice of transcendental meditation Loyola would be seen levitating above the floor by his subordinates. He incorporated several disciplines into his doctrine of spirituality namely, Telepathy, (Parapsychology), Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and a host of others most of the disciplines he employed were either occultic or pseudo-scientific.
Figure: Isis and the child Horus with his side-lock, yes, a dreadlock on the side of his head, this statue shows the original Magma Mater, Queen of Heaven,
The European Roman Catholic interpretation of Isis and her son Horus.
The Chinese Shin Moo is the solar mother goddess of Chinese mythology.
The Green Tara goddess found all over the Orient and in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, she is also found in Tibet.Below is her Hindu equivalent , the nimbus or sunburst surrounds both their heads.
Here is an excerpt from Hislops book about depictions of Mary and Jesus. “When, therefore, it is known that the most famed pictures of the Virgin Mother in Italy represented her as of a fair complexion and with golden hair, and when overall Ireland the Virgin is almost invariably represented at this day in the very same manner, who can resist the conclusion that she must have been thus represented only because she had been copied from the same prototype as the pagan divinities. Nor is this agreement in complexion only, but also in features. Jewish features are everywhere marked and have a character peculiarly their own. But the original Madonna’s have nothing at all of Jewish form or feature; but are declared by those who have personally compared both, entirely to agree in this respect, as well as in complexion, with the Babylonian Madonna’s found by sir Robert Ker Porter among the ruins of Babylon.
There is yet another remarkable characteristic of these pictures worthy of notice and that is the nimbus or peculiar circle of light that frequently encompasses the head of the Roman Madonna. With this circle, the heads of the so-called figures of Christ are also frequently surrounded. Whence could such a device have originated? In the case of our Lord, if His head had been merely surrounded with rays, there might have been some pretense for saying that that was borrowed from the Evangelic narrative, where it is stated, that on the holy mount His face became resplendent with light. But where, in the whole compass of Scripture, do we ever read that His head was surrounded with a disk or a circle of light? But what will be searched for in vain in the Word of God, is found in the artistic representations of the great gods and goddesses of Babylon. The disk and particularly the circle were the well-known symbols of the Sun divinity, and figured largely in the symbolism of the East.
With the circle or the disk, the head of the Sun divinity was encompassed. The same was the case in Pagan Rome. Apollo, as the child of the Sun, was often thus represented. The goddesses that claimed kindred with the Sun were equally entitled to be adorned with the nimbus or luminous circle. From Pompeii, there is a representation of Circe, “the daughter of the Sun” with her head surrounded by a circle, in the very same way as the head of the Roman Madonna is at this day surrounded. Let anyone compare the nimbus around the head of Circe, with that around the head of the Popish Virgin, and he will see how exactly they correspond”. From Alexander Hislop: (The Two Babylons).
Figure: Chin Mu, Shing Moo the Chinese goddess of Heaven, surrounded by her ladies in waiting note the dragon armrests on either side of her throne in Chinese mythology the dragon is a sacred creature. Directly above Yashoda suckling her son Krishna the “blue boy”, the ever-present nimbus also used so prevalently by the Catholics, as an identifier of deities and holy personalities.
Shing Moo and Ma Tsoopo of China: The name of Shing Moo, applied by the Chinese to their “Holy Mother,” compared with another name of the same goddess in another province of China, strongly favors the conclusion that Shing Moo is just a synonym for one of the well-known names of the goddess-mother of Babylon. Gillespie (in his Land of Sinim) states that the Chinese goddess-mother, or “Queen of Heaven,” in the province of Fuh-Kien, is worshipped by seafaring people under the name of Ma Tsoopo. Now, “Ama Tzupah” signifies the “Gazing Mother”; and there is much reason to believe that Shing Moo signifies the same; for Mu was one of the forms in which Mut or Maut, the name of the great mother, appeared in Egypt (BUNSEN’S Vocabulary); and Shngh, in Chaldee, signifies “to look” or “gaze.” The Egyptian Mu or Maut was symbolized either by a vulture or an eye surrounded by a vulture’s wings (WILKINSON).
The symbolic meaning of the vulture may be learned from the Scriptural expression: “There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen” (Job 28:7). The vulture was noted for its sharp sight, and hence, the eye surrounded by the vulture’s wings showed that, for some reason or other, the great mother of the gods in Egypt had been known as “The gazer.” But the idea contained in the Egyptian symbol had evidently been borrowed from Chaldea; for Rheia, one of the most noted names of the Babylonian mother of the gods is just the Chaldee form of the Hebrew Rhaah, which signifies at once “a gazing woman” and a “vulture.” The Hebrew Rhaah itself is also, according to a dialectical variation, legitimately pronounced Rheah; and hence the name of the great goddess-mother of Assyria was sometimes Rhea, and sometimes Rheia. In Greece, the same idea was evidently attached to Athena or Minerva, whom we have seen to have been by some regarded as the Mother of the children of the sun.
For one of her distinguishing titles was Ophthalmitis (SMITH’S Classical Dictionary, “Athena”), thereby pointing her out as the goddess of “the eye.” It was no doubt to indicate the same thing that, as the Egyptian Maut wore a vulture on her head, so the Athenian Minerva was represented as wearing a helmet with two eyes, or eye-holes, in the front of the helmet. (VAUX’S Antiquities). Having thus traced the gazing mother over the earth, is it asked, what can have given origin to such a name as applied to the mother of the gods? A fragment of Sanchuniathon, in regard to the Phoenician mythology, furnishes us with a satisfactory reply. There it is said that Rheia conceived by Kronos, who was her own brother, and yet was known as the father of the gods, and in consequence brought forth a son who was called Muth, that is, as Philo-Byblius correctly interprets the word, “Death.”
As Sanchuniathon expressly distinguishes this “father of the gods” from “Hypsistos,” The Most High, we naturally recall what Hesiod says in regard to his Kronos, the father of the gods, who, for a certain wicked deed, was called Titan, and cast down to hell. (Theogonia).” From Alexander Hislop: (The Two Babylons).
Figure: The two images above are decidedly African in their physical characteristics, specifically the baby being held by the first woman above, the child is a rendering of Krishna a close inspection of his hair will reveal the thick coarse hair of the African.
The statue directly above is very African in its physical makeup. The physical attributes of the two figures above lend significant credence to the claims made in this book, and in many other scholarly works of a Dravidian i.e. African presence in pre-Aryan/Brahmin India. The most ancient names of Krishna and his mother are, Isi and Iswara, the following is from Alexander Hislop’s, The Two Babylons: “In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms; and even in Tibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her child as devoutly worshipped as in papal Rome itself ; Shing Moo the holy mother of China with a child in her arms, and a glory around her, exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set her up”. Osiris, as the child called most frequently Horus. BUNSEN. KENNEDY’S Hindu Mythology. Though Iswara is the husband of Isi, he is also represented as an infant at her breast. The very name, by which the Italians commonly designate the Virgin, is just the translation of one of the titles of the Babylonian goddess. As Baal or Belus was the name of the great male divinity of Babylon, so the female divinity was called Beltis. (HESYCHIUS, Lexicon) This name has been found in Nineveh applied to the “Mother of the gods” (VAUX’S Nineveh and Persepolis); and in a speech attributed to Nebuchadnezzar, preserved in EUSEBII Proeparatio Evangelii, both titles “Belus and Beltis” are conjoined as the titles of the great Babylonian god and goddess.
The Greek Belus, as representing the highest title of the Babylonian god, was undoubtedly Baal, “The Lord.” Beltis, therefore, as the title of the female divinity, was equivalent to “Baalti,” which, in English, is “My Lady,” in Latin, “Mea Domina,” and, in Italina, is corrupted into the well-known “Madonna.” In connection with this, it may be observed, that the name of Juno, the classical “Queen of Heaven,” which, in Greek, was Hera, also signified “The Lady”; and that the peculiar title of Cybele or Rhea at Rome, was Domina or “The Lady.” (OVID, Fasti) Further, there is strong reason to believe, that Athena, the well-known name of Minerva at Athens, had the very same meaning. The Hebrew Adon, “The Lord,” is, with the points, pronounced Athon. We have evidence that this name was known to the Asiatic Greeks, from whom idolatry, in a large measure, came into European Greece, as a name of God under the form of “Athan.” Eustathius, in a note on the Periergesis of Dionysius, speaking of local names in the district of Laodicea, says the “Athan is god.” The feminine of Athan, “The Lord,” is Athan, “The Lady,” which in the Attic dialect is Athena. No doubt, Minerva is commonly represented as a virgin; but, for all that, we learn from Strabo that at Hierapytna in Crete (the coins of which city, says Muller, Dorians have the Athenian symbols of Minerva upon them), she was said to be the mother of the Corybantes by Helius, or “The Sun.” It is certain that the Egyptian Minerva, who was the prototype of the Athenian goddess, was a mother, and was styled “Goddess Mother,” or “Mother of the Gods.” CRABB’S Mythology. Gutzlaff thought that Shing Moo must have been borrowed from a Popish source; and there can be no doubt, that in the individual case to which he refers, the Pagan and the Christian stories had been amalgamated. But Sir. J. F. Davis shows that the Chinese of Canton find such an analogy between their own Pagan goddess Kuanyin and the Popish Madonna, that, in conversing with Europeans, they frequently call either of them indifferently by the same title. (Davis’s China). The first Jesuit missionaries to China also wrote home to Europe, which they found mention in the Chinese sacred books unequivocally Pagan–of a mother and child, very similar to their own Madonna and child at home.
Figure: Yashoda and baby Krishna as a suckling child, the statue below is a depiction of the same goddess and her son, also known as Isa and Ishwara, the Kemitian/Egyptian equivalent being Isis/Aset and Horus/Heru.
Image: Some Caribbean islands including the lesser and Greater Antilles. Martinique,
Guadeloupe and French Sint Martin were called the French Antilles, with Sint Maarten, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatia comprising the Dutch Antilles. Frantz Fanon the Martiniquan Doctor, revolutionary, author, Marxist and Antillean. Carlos Cooks was an Antillean. Maurice Bishop though a Grenadian by parentage was born in Aruba and attended school for a period of time there. Athyli Rogers author of the Rastafari bible, the Holy Piby, was an Anguillan, though Anguilla is not an Antillean island, Anguillans and Sint Maarteners are related by blood ties and share a common heritage. Edward Wilmot Blyden the man whose world-renowned protégé Marcus Garvey, is heralded by most Pan-Africanists as the father of their ideology, is a virtual unknown in so-called black studies‖ literature. Most writers writing about the Pan-Caribbean Pan-African experience tend to focus on Jamaicans and Africans conveniently omitting the fact that the actual Pan-Caribbean, Pan-Africanist movement started in the smaller islands and not in Jamaica. The movement was begun by people like Edward Blyden and others even before him. George Padmore and C.L.R James are rarely ever written about but they are in fact intrinsic to any honest analysis of the Pan-Caribbean and Pan-Africanist movement in the world today. This book though not a Pan African nor a Pan Caribbean work yet gives due credence to the greats in the aforementioned since, without their efforts, a work such as this would indeed be lacking substance in certain areas.
In her book, The First Rasta Helen Lee claims, that Marcus Garvey was agitating for integration, how a supposedly informed individual could make such a claim, can mean only one thing, Lee who is obviously enamored with Howell; was pandering to certain sentiments and sensibilities of the type of readership that she caters to. After his release from prison on trumped-up charges Marcus Garvey was deported to Jamaica in 1928, where he resumed his activities on behalf of Africans everywhere. He was politically active in Jamaica where he ran for a seat on the city council while he was in prison, and he won by an overwhelming margin.
Lee’s attempt at diminishing the impact and influence of Marcus Garvey on the development of African civilization in the Diaspora is exposed in this work for what it is, a specious attempt at misinformation. The historical records clearly show that Garvey was deported back to Jamaica he later left for England, where he died in 1940. Creating the false notion that Garvey never returned to Jamaica but was somehow sent to England, is a deliberate and malicious attempt, by this white journalist, claiming to identify so greatly with the Rastafari, that even within the obvious suicidal behavior of Athlyi (―Roger Athlyi‖ writer of the Holy Piby i.e. the Rastafari bible). Lee attempted to make Athlyi some sort of hero. Athlyi killed himself plain and simple; no amount of misplaced pandering to misdirected sensibilities can change that. The likes of Athlyi were not and have never been a great influence on black people globally Athlyi‘ marginal influence is limited to the few followers he had in his heyday, likewise Leonard Howell. Marcus Mosiah Garvey on the other hand influenced black intellectuals globally and he still does so today from politicians and preachers to university students to street hustlers Garveyism has had an enduring impact on the world that no human being can diminish nor deny.
The ideology that Garvey espoused, led to many African leaders, such as Kwame Nkrumah, and Jomo Kenyatta just to mention two very famous leaders, who openly called themselves Pan-Africanists after the ideology developed by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The ideology called Garveyism led to these men formulating the methods and means that they would later utilize to bring about the independence of their respective countries. That they failed to follow in the Pan-African tradition after having achieved independence is no reflection on Garveyism at all, but rather it is a reflection on the men as human beings.
Today both the JLP and the PNP of Jamaica are vying for the right to call themselves the ideological successors of Marcus Garvey; fortunately for Garvey history will show that he was not a socialist. Garvey believed firmly in the democratic ideal, and capitalism, in fact, was his preferred economic model. Both the JLP and PNP are socialistic in their rhetoric, in practice, they are decidedly autocratic, and absolutist in their governing styles bordering on oligarchies. The very fact that these parties are now vying for the right to call Marcus Garvey, the father of their political ideology, points to his universal acceptance that has in fact forced the political hierarchy in his homeland, to want to adopt him as the father of their various movements.
Pan-Africanists, the Rastafari, and students of the enlightened variety both white and black have long accepted and understood the universal truths espoused by Marcus Garvey; however, his separatist rhetoric has been and rightly should be avoided by most. The applicability of his political program, as pertains to the betterment, of the condition of the Africans in the Diaspora, should be championed by any truly enlightened Caribbean leader. Caribbean people, do not need journalists, or academicians to define their reality; they can define their own reality.
On the point of the church’s role in the Caribbean; Lee attempts to portray the role of women, as substituting for the lack of men in said institutions. The Jesus image, as created by Roman Catholicism is portrayed by Lee, as a psychological prop; upon which black Caribbean Christian women, project all of their pent-up sexual emotions. Lee in her attempt to describe the church services of some people, who may or may not be Christian, lumped Christianity with Pocomania, and other religious sects, like Obeah and Shango. In the spiritist practices above the adherents are said to become possessed by one of their many deities, demon spirits, who cause them to manifest a wide assortment of behavior, while persons who experience the real indwelling of the Holy Ghost are experiencing what was spoken of in Acts 2:38. Moreover, the chief spirit of most of the cults mentioned corresponds to the divine androgyne, of ancient paganism, which has been identified as a symbol of Satan. For instance Obatala the chief deity of the Yoruba is a spirit manifesting both male and female characteristics, not unlike many of the other so-called gods of the ancient and modern pagans examined in this book. The Pentecostal movement is a fact worldwide; many people around the world grew up in the Pentecostal movement.
Lee erroneously claimed that speaking in tongues is akin to the possession, of the cults. Speaking in tongues‖ has been observed all over the globe even among Europeans and Caucasians in America and Canada, accounts of such are to be found in newspaper articles and on video footage throughout the western hemisphere. The attempt by some white writers to portray speaking in tongues as a black phenomena‖, limited to the uneducated and the ignorant is an example of their use of the mastery of the written word to portray events in favor of the worldview that they espouse. This is the case of writers like Helen Lee and Timothy White is a decidedly pro-Rastafari worldview (of the Bob Marleyite variety).
While these writers can champion whatever worldview they want to, their attempts at lumping the very real experience of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, in true Christians‖ with demon or spirit possession akin to the possession at a Voodoo ceremony, will be challenged in this work, as it is mere fantasy and conjecture on the part of two journalist‘s attempting to explain away something that is experienced by people globally regardless of color or creed on a daily basis, as a purely black phenomenon limited to a few backward peasants and women with a limited education nothing could be farther from the truth.
Since true Christianity is diametrically opposed to occultism, those of us who truly know what the Full Body Ministry, stands for can appreciate the paradox in the matter. For one the truly Christian woman would consider such thoughts sacrilegious, and the so-called white Jesus image, even in Jamaican society is not revered by all, not in the early 20th century nor today. There have been and still are in the region churches that emphatically teach an anti-Eurocentric doctrine, there are many church institutions regionally that do not encourage the veneration of any imagery period taken from Roman Catholicism, even the pagan Christmas is not venerated nor celebrated by Apostolic people in the Caribbean nor around the globe. The weak attempt of a white woman to define the experience of the African in the Diaspora failed, as all such attempts must fail, by dint of the fact that; the African in the Diaspora is far more complicated, and sophisticated than anyone from outside said group, presuming to be able to precisely analyze an entire group of people will ever be able to fathom.
Leonard Howell one of the earliest Rastafari leaders/ prophets‖ was an ardent admirer of Hinduism, and Indian culture and philosophy in general. The original Howellites could be heard chanting to Krishna the Hindu god. Howell began in the early thirties encouraging his followers to revere Haile Sellassie as a messiah, during this time there were many Rastafari mendicants. Some well-known leaders were Joseph Hinds, Archibald Dunkley, and Nathaniel Hibberts, though there were many leaders, these were some of the earliest and chief leaders, of some of the better known Rastafari sects. All the other more contemporary leaders rose to prominence in the nineteen sixties.
Haile Sellassie received certain Rastafari leaders during his Jamaican visit, some of whom were honored with imperial medals by the emperor. Mention also must be made here of Prince Emmanuel the founder of the Emmanualites so-called Bobo Shanties‖. Vernon Carrington founder of the twelve tribes of Israel is a well-known Rastafari leader; both these men rose to prominence in the sixties. Haile Selassie himself denounced the idea that he was divine; stating that he was a Christian, and worshipped Jesus, the Rastafari saw his denial as a sign of humility. The idea of Haile Sellassie as a god later gained global prominence through the medium of Reggae music. Robert Nesta Marley, the half-caste from Kingston is its most ardent seed planter.
The philosophical packaging and ideology of Rastafari are similar in many aspects, to Hinduism, right down to their Vegan diet, anyone can discover this for themselves by studying the original theology of Rastafari, the person wishing to know the truth must first understand who Howell was, and why his doctrine appealed to the disenfranchised, and downtrodden of society. The first
Rastafari unlike today, were largely poor, and uneducated young black men and women the eldership consisted of war veterans, some former Garveyites, and many young unwed mothers. Although Howell was not the only black Jamaican at that time teaching about a black messiah, he was one of them who succeeded where many failed in establishing a commune where his people could live and work largely undisturbed by outsiders. The belief in a universal black messiah was widespread amongst African descendants in the Western hemisphere, even amongst African Americans, as they had their Wallace Fard and Elijah Poole aka Elijah Muhammad, (These men also claimed to be messiahs or Mahdi=Arabic for messiah).
Based on historical accounts then we can safely say that Leonard Howell was not a novelty in the early thirties when this type of teaching was widespread amongst black people globally. What was novel about Howell though, was his ability to galvanize his followers few before him or after him have been able to do what he did, and it is for that reason that I have chosen to focus on him, he influenced present-day Rastafari thinking and living more so than any of the other leaders. Even after Howell’s camp (Pinnacle) was broken up, many of his followers were able to galvanize large segments of the poorer classes behind their ideology. Poverty lack of education and financial resources conditioned the masses of young people at that time to seek a way out of their situation. When Howell came on the scene preaching black pride and hailing Haile Selassie as a god, offering a refuge from the ghetto that they inhabited Howell’s practice of Marijuana use offered a temporary escape from the bleak landscape at that time. Howell became an instant savior to those people at that time he became their leader a voice for the voiceless and a father to the fatherless. Howell renounced his British citizenship claiming Ethiopia as the Promised Land for blacks and Haile Selassie as their long-awaited king who would deliver them from European colonial tyranny and oppression. Howell lived in an Indian-styled hilltop commune, called Pinnacle he called himself Gangunguru Marajh, he even had a harem in the manner of the Hindu kings that he so admired.
Howell was well-read and had traveled extensively when he lived in the city of New York; he ran a tea shop,‖he more than likely sold Marijuana in his tea shop. Howell himself functioned as a healer; years later in Jamaica, he would use his knowledge to heal people, he took them to a hot springs bath that relaxed their minds and bodies healing them of many ailments in their physical bodies. Howell was not simply talking hope he was bringing about results many of the women he attracted were young uneducated single mothers looking for a way out of poverty. The situation today has not changed much the Village Ram mentality; of some in the Caribbean, has spawned a generation of young single-parent households headed by mostly, poor, young, uneducated women. This situation has led to an increasingly alarming number of single, young women, turning to, drug lords for their financial sustenance. While criminal enterprise has proven to be very lucrative. The truly wealthy criminals hold a monopoly position. The young men and women that the dons employ are largely their pawns and are usually expendable when they no longer cooperate or are either incarcerated or incapacitated.
Howell was what the poor saw as a way of escape at that time he knew what they wanted him for and he wanted power and lordship thusly both parties were served they fed his illusions of grandeur and he literally fed them. In this scenario, each party corrupted the other, yet they both got what they wanted. Howell was genuine in his beliefs he was willing to die for his beliefs and his followers this is what endears a man to anyone. , If a man is willing to die for his word, that stance will inadvertently bring about a certain measure of respect from others even one’s enemies. Howell was a bonafide channeler he was an adept in elemental magic; (elemental magic is rituals where various elemental spirits are conjured in order to aid the adepts, there are earthbound spirits, fire spirits, water spirits, and air spirits), his son Blade in the book The First Rasta by Helen Lee corroborated this. Howell was adept at spirit channeling people felt a definite presence when he entered a room, that was his hallmark his bearing and presence.
Bob Marley would later emulate this man calling himself Tough Gong, meaning I am tougher than Gong. The original Gong was Leonard Howell, a Gong is a hallowed cymbal-like instrument used by almost all oriental religious systems of worship, to announce the proceeding or ending of a session, this instrument was also used to honor a particular deity‘s presence. Howell was meticulous in his choice of names and euphemism‘s Bob Marley‘s use of the name was mostly braggadocios, and also a respectful acquiescence of the preeminence of Howell. Howell used Cannabis as a means of gaining contact with the spirit world. Howell understood that the average youth, of a western persuasion, would never easily grasp the intricacies involved in spirit contact through meditation, and tantricism, the smoking of Cannabis was an easier simpler method so this was employed. In the late sixties, Howell and his followers were nominally wealthy people, because of, Cannabis cultivation. Rastafari culture holds as a core tenet that, Cannabis Sativa is a sacred i.e.(Holy) plant.
Cannabis was, introduced into the Caribbean, by Indian Sadhu‘s, and smoked sacramentally by Sadhu‘s. The Sadhus were brought to Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana in the 17th century by Europeans, primarily as indentured servants, for the purpose of cane cultivation. They brought with them their religious beliefs and myriad gods; (Some accounts claim that the Spaniards introduced Cannabis into the Caribbean as early, as the 15th century, the Cannabis originated in both historical accounts in India). These people some of whom were called Sadhu‘s, or holy men brought Cannabis Sativa to Jamaica their worship of their gods sometimes entailed the smoking of Cannabis, at certain points an elixir would also be drunk this potion contained a mixture of honey and Cannabis,(Behang/Bhang). Hemp was grown in the Caribbean region as early as the 15th century and was done chiefly by the British in an attempt to break the Russian monopoly on the production of Hemp as an industrial product. The Hemp plant was used chiefly as an industrial product, the plant is indigenous to West and Central Asia.
The Sadhu smoking his sacrament to kali‖, Shiva is the chief demon prince worshipped by Sadhus.
The painting above the Sadhu is of Shiva and his consort Parvati. On the right, a Shiva devotee in Nepal is covered in the white/gray ash characteristic of Shiva.
Figure: This map indicates a portion of Western Asia Ur of the Chaldea is shown. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers respectively are visible as two blue parallel lines flowing into the Persian Gulf.
The complexed relationships evinced between these regions cannot be handled in this work as this will take the work in an unintended direction suffice it to say that this work is a synopsis of a much broader work. Western Asia denotes a number of geographic regions chiefly Iran, Turkey, Syria, and a number of other regions Iraq is in South Western Asia. As recently as 1979, Iran was known as Persia. The term Central Asia denotes portions of or the entire region of Turkistan, Turkistan is the historical term for a region in Central Asia comprised of Kazakhstan, portions of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the autonomous Chinese border territory of Xinxiang Uygur in the past it was called East Turkistan or Chinese Turkistan. Authors note, The last piece of historical data shows why there is a Chinese Muslim population in China, this occurred as a result of conquest by the Turks during the expansion of their Ottoman empire. If you are a news junky you will recall that the Xinxiang province in China is a hotbed of Uyghur Muslim ―extremist activity‖, later in this work I will examine the aforementioned in-depth. As I have shown, taking into account the information given about the civilizations shown above. They were all highly developed cultures in the past, and had frequent contact amongst themselves. It should come as no surprise to anyone that a common religion, was shared by the people, in the regions shown above. Hemp is also grown as an industrial product in Russia, Poland, Japan, Hungary, and China.
Hemp is refined and developed into soap, it is used in paint, and the Hemp products Marijuana and Hashish are used as drugs. Based on the above information we have learned that Cannabis served a variety of uses, in the past as well as today. In modern society in most countries of the world, Cannabis is used, as a recreational drug, but its usefulness as medicine has rarely been examined or taken seriously by the medical community. Many persons clamor for its legalization as a means of furthering their own subversive agendas.
The aim here is not to promote the smoking of any substance recreationally, or for self-medication. The intent here is to honestly, deal with the multi-functional role that Hemp products have played as a natural product, that has been developed and exploited by man, it is in man‘s abuse and misuse of the plant that has created the addictive behavior, evinced today, among many people, in all sectors of society. I will now resume my examination of the Pinnacle settlement and the lifestyle of its leader and his followers. The Pinnacle settlement was associated with Indian plantation workers with locked hair; this was before any African descendants in Jamaica ever grew locks.
Certain Rastafari elders called locks Zagavi; the etymology of the word, Zagavi is in the Hindi language. Many Rastafari cite Bible passages in order to support their way of life, the bible does not condone the smoking of any substance as a means of spiritual upliftment, or enlightenment. The word of God clearly condemns the use of any substance excessively, and it clearly makes a distinction between the clean and the unclean. The Holy Ghost makes it possible for a child of God to touch God’s throne through the means of prayer praise and worship. Sadhu‘s socialized with Jamaicans of African descent therefore, the Rastafari assertion that locks came to their movement because of seeing pictures of Ethiopian warriors with locked hair is not completely accurate.
Image:Jomo Kenyatta with a dreadlocked Mau Mau warrior. This photo is erroneously cited by some historians as an impetus for certain Jamican Rastafari to have grown locks; such an assertion is false since Rastafari in Jamaica wore dreadlocks before the 1950‘s when this photo began making the rounds in western media publications. Leonard Howell was impressed with Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolence within social protest.
Howell later co-opted the nonviolent strategy, which was not always successful, some of Howell’s followers were in constant conflict with the police some of the conflicts were because of Marijuana cultivation, Howell‘s rhetoric was anti-establishment this also brought mass exposure to his movement and its ideology.
Pinnacle; or the remnants of the settlement of Howell and his people. Pinnacle was purchased by Howell and his wife Tynneth Howell from a mister Chang a businessman of Chinese extraction, for the sum of 1200 pounds. Today the Pinnacle site is one of controversy as the Rastafari people of Jamaica and the Howell family, are taking legal action, to have the Pinnacle settlement, declared a Rastafari cultural heritage site, recognized as such under international laws. Howell died in 1981 ―peacefully‖, in a hotel room in Kingston according to the account given by Helen Lee.
Above is a faded photo of Leonard and Tyneth Howell.
Flyer and Photos of Leonard Percival Howell a.k.a The Founder and Father of the Rastafari Movement.
As I indicated previously in this book the Rastafari movement does not have one central founder, Rastafari came about as a result of a Caribbean wide mass acceptance of Ethiopianism, Garveyism, et al, the movement had various forerunners‖ in its formative years Howell happens to be one of the more famous of them. All Rastafari believe in the divinity of Haile Selassie the Kebra Nagast is the main source used, in proving that Haile Selassie is a direct descendant of the house of David through the union of King Solomon and the queen of Sheba.
I will like to introduce here some excerpts from the book written by Karl Philpot‘s Naphtali in his book ,The Testimony of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie Defender of the Faith. Karl Philpot‘s is a Rastafari who adheres to the doctrines taught by Vernon Carrington better -known as Prophet Gad. On page 109 we read that Vernon Carrington prophet of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, stated according to Philpot‘s Naphtali that there is no name whereby mankind can be saved but by the name Jesus . In his book Philpot‘s acknowledges Jesus as the savior of mankind through the process of atonement, brought to fruition through the death burial and resurrection of Jesus.
Philpot‘s throughout his book openly stated that Haile Sellassie was only an anointed man, as per the Solomonic order that he inherited through his ancestral lineage to the Davidic throne he also mentioned the Davidic Covenant, and stated that Christians should teach the Davidic Covenant and the gospel of The Kingdom. From the words of Karl Philpot‘s I realize that he is very much in line with Apostolic teaching for it is in the Apostolic or fivefold ministry wherein it is taught that the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth now the Davidic Covenant is also taught within Apostolic doctrine.
Thusly we can see from the writings of one Karl Philpot‘s Naphtali a declared Rastafari that he is a believer in the divinity of Jesus or Yeshua Ha Masshiach and he acknowledges him as the one who will return in a second advent to rid the world of all corruption and injustice.
I highly recommend his book to all interested in the Rastafari organization the Twelve Tribes of Israel they are in fact the only Rastafari who can clearly and concisely lay down their beliefs in a biblically accurate manner. His book was endorsed by long time Rastafari stalwart Mortimer Plano (now deceased). The Twelve Tribes clearly propagate and spread a doctrine of the messiah ship of Jesus and they actively proselytize in line with that thought. It is my opinion, that Christian teachers preachers of the gospel of the kingdom, should be active in the advancement of the gospel, in a more proactive way in reaching out to organizations like the twelve tribes of Israel and forming some sort of consensus or at the very least an exchange of information. This type of informational exchange or discourse will serve to block the teachings of extremist organizations within all denominations of Rastafari and Christianity. These extremist teachers are only negative and
divisive elements in the region and are increasingly appealing to Christian youth in the region; this development should be alarming to most so-called leaders in the churches regionally as it points to their seeming inability to appeal to the young men in their congregation. The only Christians in the West who truly reflect the fullness of the gospel are those that live out the principles given to the apostles they wield the scepter of kingship, and the globe signifying universal conquest or rightful ruler ship . The mandate of the sevenfold ministry is to take back dominion in the earth. Through the preaching of the gospel of Jesus, the Messiah unto salvation and then the end of all things will come.
An Ethiopian Orthodox Church, in Lalibela with Ethiopian artistic renderings of biblical scenes. The scene of Saint George slaying the dragon was plagiarized by Neville Garrick, the Tuff Gong art director as cover art for the confrontation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers; again, we have an example of Marley openly identifying with Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
Lalibela is internationally known for its rock-hewn churches, which are also called the eighth wonder of the world. Hewn out of the rock on which they stand, these towering edifices are architectural marvels local legend has it that angels built them. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been accepted by certain Rastafari who have been baptized in it, as members of said organization. Whether such persons see themselves as Rastafari or Christian is as yet unclear, as they do not articulate their position sufficiently. Let me state here for everyone‘s benefit that not all people with dreadlocks are Rastafari and not all Rastafari wear dreadlocks. Rastafari is a spiritual doctrine first and foremost that holds Haile Sellassie was a god in flesh, many in Rastafari do not smoke Cannabis Sativa.
Some are strict legalist‘s who adhere to biblical precepts in light of all that their error is in their deification of man,(I must state here that the twelve tribes of Israel believe that Haile Sellassie is not messiah, they teach that Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Mashiach is messiah).
Bob Marley himself was a Twelve Tribes member, the album art for the Confrontation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers was taken from the Christian‖ allegory painted on the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church shown above of Saint George killing Satan represented as a dragon,(shown at far left of the photo of the church next to angel with sword). The fact that Ethiopian culture has been literally shaped by Christian Judaeo culture is unassailable , the overwhelming historical, archaeological and cultural evidence all point to a pronounced Christian-Judaeo culture as the dominant culture in Ethiopia. The attempt by some in the Caribbean to divorce Haile Sellassie from said culture is an exercise in futility. The honest search of many in Rastafari have led to error‘s in their doctrine yet many remain faithful and are sincere in their beliefs given time and a solid explanation of true Christianity it is my belief that many will understand and leave the Cannabis out of their practice and deal with the pure practice of God ordained priesthood. True Rastafari are lovers of purity and they love to show heart love. This love is the agape love loving people even when they hate you.
Sadly many people seek to malign and discredit Rastafari I have not done so in this work. I have shown from research gathered that the roots of Rastafari are Shamanistic meaning esoteric this in direct contrast to the God ordained priesthood many will attempt to dispute the claims as set forth herein an honest study of my evidence will soon satisfy the honest seeker. The origins of Rastafari are not to be found in Judaism or in Christianity. Many Rastafari were formerly Christians including the wife of Bob Marley Rita Marley a good book to read on the subject is the book written by Hettie Jones as narrated by Rita Marley.
The story is always the same no one was teaching black people to love themselves but Rastafari. In most churches in the Caribbean, many do not know that Jesus spoke a language called Aramaic, which is similar in tone and makeup to Amharic the language of Ethiopia. The Rastafari know this fact that is why they will always win the youth, they make youth aware of their heritage and they teach them to love themselves. This is one of the reasons Rita Marley, was attracted to Rastafari, she states in her autobiography that her peers called her Blackie Tootus meaning black and shiny with very white teeth.
This form of self-degradation is evinced throughout the Caribbean, and wherever Black people live self-hatred is a deep-seated cancer in many in our communities. The Rastafari have attempted to challenge the status quo. They have erred in their creation of another slavery, the introduction of Cannabis use into our Caribbean culture. Though the intention of some might be good, the general corruption and filth associated with the traffic in Cannabis regionally can never be a good thing for our youth. I will never promote the use of Cannabis in any form, other than as a purely industrial product or in certain rare instances the preparation of Cannabis Sativa as a tea drink has been proven to cure migraine headaches, glaucoma and other diseases. Where in former times drugs as prescribed by physicians were few and far between, it might have served to alleviate the ills of some. In light of the previously stated, I must clarify my position I know personally that Cannabis can heal migraines and a variety of ailments does this entail abuse? no medicinal application is one thing, while the smoking of a plant for religious or social purposes are vastly differing reasons even in their application.
Countless other products have been, and can be developed for the use of man from the Cannabis plant. Criminal interests and governmental authorities have seized upon Cannabis as a means of power manipulation in the region. Government have criminalized the Cannabis plant; the criminalization of the plant has only aided the corrupt government lackeys worldwide, in lining their pockets from the graft money, that criminal elements must pay them in order to be able to successfully run their enterprise. Should the Cannabis plant be used as a taxable industrial product, in the manufacture of rope, and other non-edible, or non-smokable products, the criminals who run the trade will in this way be dealt a blow where it hurts namely their pocketbooks. Governments previously eschewed and condemned Rastafari as a criminal element; they now promote Bob Marley as a national Jamaican hero for commercial gain. In his life, he was an outcast and was branded as a potential national and regional security threat, in death the authorities have benefited from his potential, as a huge tourist attraction the paradox in the matter is food for thought. I am a lover of Black History I know that it cannot save my soul it is a tool of empowerment, and it can free one from the disease of the inferiority complex cast upon Africans in the Diaspora by Europeans. Ultimately only Jesus the Messiah can truly save our lives.
A very important issue that has never been dealt with by most Christian Theologians is the so-called curse on Ham; it is because of the fallacious policy of some white theologians to depict the black man as a descendant of a so-called cursed son of Noah, that many are confused. It says in scripture cursed be Canaan not Ham, Ham was the father of Canaan, Ham was not cursed his son Canaan was cursed. The curse came to fruition when Canaan was seized by the Hebrews under the leadership of Joshua. Caribbean people are largely descended from Africans who are descended from Cush son of Ham.
The location of Canaan is Palestine not Africa, from this geographical evidence we can conclude that for African people the curse of Ham does not apply. In light of the above, I will like to expose the biblical historical facts, why Ethiopians are people who have in their history a written account of every Old Testament biblical act, from the creation to the Davidic and the Solomonic dynasties. I will use the bible to bear up my points I will also use history and evidence from secular sources to prove the points. The first man Adam was an African man that is my first point. A Midianite priest a black man gave Moses the order for governance of the tribes of Israel. African people travelled with the ancient Hebrews. These are my two points that I will prove historically, biblically and linguistically. In Genesis, it is stated that he (Adam) was created from dirt the name Adam means red or ruddy. Firstly, the man Adam was in fact not a red colored man the word red in effect speaks of the color of the inner core of the dirt or earth. The location of the Garden of Eden was given as being on the African continent closer to present day Egypt than Ethiopia. The dirt in that region of earth is a brown reddish color not unlike the color of the Ethiopians.
These biblical facts proven by history and geography destroy the racist lies and myth‘s created by European academicians and others to perpetuate their superiority over others. Secondly, in Exodus 18:1 we read that Jethro was Moses‘ father in law. Jethro was also a Midianite, Midianites were men descended from Abraham who took Keturah as a concubine after the death of Sarah, and the word Sarah (means queen his wife. Keturah bore Abraham six sons one of which was Midian father of the Midianites, of whom Jethro was descended. This means that Jethro was a black man, an African Genesis 5:1 ―Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah, and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Median, Ishbak and Shua. Midian was the fourth son the father of the Midianites here in chapter 25 of Genesis we have biblical proof that support my claims made in my second point. Now it is stated that Jethro who was a Midian was the father of Zipporah the wife of Moses. If one is familiar with the bible we will know that Moses sister had a problem with his choice of a wife because she was an Ethiopian, Ethiopian denotes skin color in this instance and not nationality.
Verse six of genesis 25 illustrates what became of the sons of Keturah Abraham gave them gifts and sent them away from Isaac. In verse 14 of Exodus 18 we see Jethro questioned Moses on his pattern of governance of the people of Israel. In verse 19-24 it is shown that Moses was given the first God ordained tribunal of 12 judges by a black man who was a priest unto YHVH the god of all mankind. YHVH was already dealing with Jethro he chose the Hebrew people to bring forth a redeemer out of their midst Jesus/ Yeshua God also chose black men to guide the Hebrews in many important decisions that they themselves were not aware of. In verse 12 of the same chapter (18) we read ―And Jethro Moses father in law took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses father in law before God. How could a Midianite know about burnt offerings seeing that he was never amongst the Hebrews yet here in verse twelve it states that Jethro took a burnt offering unto God in the presence of the children of Israel? The act of eating after a sacrifice is an act of covenant the covenant that Jethro cut with the children of Israel would stand forever. That is the first recorded sacrifice ever carried out since the time of Abraham and Noah; this sacrifice was conducted by an African priest from the land of Midian that is a revelation to break the chain of inferiority and ignorance created by white academicians. There are many more evidences in scripture of the African people being in covenant with YHVH independently of any Hebrew influence whatsoever I will in this work reveal only a few .
What has been uttered here is not racism this is the operation of the full body ministry Iam exercising my right to banish Satanic strongholds and dominions on the earth from the minds of peoples of all colors. I will now show from the bible where the children of Israel traveled with Africans. In numbers 10 we read that Moses asked Hobab the son of Jethro to travel with them. Hobab was an elder a leader of his people in verse 31 we read that Moses told Hobab they could scout for the Israelites.
In verse 32 it states that whatever goodness comes upon Israel will also come upon the Midianites thisis calledcovenant. In numbers there is two accounts of African people in covenant with the Jews, the Midianites were related to the Hebrews through their father Abraham. There are many more examples of Israel making covenants with Africans. This is the reason today the descendants of African people namely Ethiopians have a written account of their history and the history of the house of Israel; they were there when Moses asked Hobab to travel and scout for the Hebrew people. The Midianites were a nomadic people who are the predecessors of the modern Ethiopians and Nubian peoples.
No other ethnic group of people on earth have a written documented account of the history of the Jewish people outside of Israel but the Ethiopian people. The fact that Ethiopians like Haile Selassie, can claim lineage from King Solomon, should not come as a surprise since the Ethiopians did freely cohabitate with The Hebrews. The Ethiopic account of the visit of the queen of Sheba is contained in their Kebra Nagast, an account written in Geez the religious writing of this account tells of the sexual relation between Solomon and the queen of Sheba that birthed Menyelek or Byna Lekhem the son of Solomon and Sheba founder of the Solomonic kingdom, whom Haile Selassie claims lineage from, through the loins of his grandfather Menellek the second. The claim of Haile Selassie being descended from Judahite kings in no way qualifies him as a modern day messiah; these facts were already given in the beginning of this work and will not be rehashed here.
Soualiga Youth 