Greetings,
I did a little research and found out that Joseph Nathaniel Hibbert was a Mason. He was one of the people who first spoke about Haile Selassie I in Jamaica at around the same time that Leonard P. Howell and Archibald Dunkley were speaking about Haile Selassie I.
Here is one of the things that I found concerning this.
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Another early preacher was Mr. Joseph Nathaniel Hibbert. Mr. Hibbert was born in Jamaica in 1894, but went with his adopted father to Costa Rica in 1911, returning to Jamaica in 1931. In Costa Rica Mr. Hibbert had leased 28 acres, which he put in bananas. In 1924 he had joined the Ancient Mystic Order of Ethiopia, a Masonic society the constitution of which was revised in 1888, and which became incorporated in 1928 in Panama. Mr. Hibbert became a Master Mason of this Order, and, returning to Jamaica, began to preach Haile Sellassie I as the King of Kings, the returned Messiah and the Redeemer of Israel. This was at Benoah District, St. Andrew, from whence he moved to Kingston to find Howell already preaching Ras Tafari as God at the Redemption Market.
http://ethiopianworldfed.org/Ras%20Tafari/history_movement.htm
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I man livity is RasTafarI. There are similarities between I way of life and many other ways of life in this world. But calling Iself something else just comes down to "isms" in the end. RasTafarI describes I livity in full, Mason doesn't describe it for I. RasTafarI deals with spiritual powers, and Mason deals with spiritual powers, but I am RasTafarI, not Mason.
When I say I am RasTafarI, I know and accept what RasTafarI is about, and I live this livity. If I learned what Mason's deal with in its fullness, then I would know if their way was the same as my way. But since I don't, then I Itinue as only RasTafarI.
With all these secrets in Masonry, a man doesn't know what the next secret deals with. It could be something that a man agrees with, or something that a man is totally against. Secrets leaves too many openings for manipulation, because a person can be pulled in with the greatness of the first secrets, then given a few misguiding secrets along the way, until the person is lead to a place where they don't want to be (hopefully by that time they still remember that they don't want to be there).
And I remember years ago when some RasTafarI people spoke to I about Masons. They showed I that Masons were strong spiritual beings, just as RasTafarI are strong spiritual beings. But they also showed I that Masons don't use this spiritual strength for good, but for wickedness.
As Za-Za already said, not all people of the Mason walk deals with wickedness. But how many secret levels does it take before enough is known to truly say that this or that Mason group deals with righteousness or wickedness? I would think that almost all Mason groups show their good side at the beginning, the secrets reveal the other side in time. And Foxe or any other person saying that Haile Selassie I made this order, doesn't mean that Haile Selassie I made this order. This can only be known if RasTafarI said it himself.
I acknowledge the possibility that a Mason group doesn't have another side. But the existance of so many secrets, along with the order and control that Mason's exercise, makes I trod very carefully. Order is good, but order can also be used to gain control over people. Militaries use extreme order to break down soldiers and train them to live according to the orders of the military. When the soldiers have been completely re-aligned, then they can be ordered with the military secrets. Following people with secrets requires too much trust in other men. Trusting that they are dealing with the same livity as you, with no way to know until all the secrets are revealed. I have been warned many times in the bible to not put I trust in man, but to only trust in the Most High Jah.
This is I feeling on the subject of Masons, but I still welcome more to be said about Masons, because the more I know about it, the less I don't know.
Mark 4
21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 5
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Ark I
RasTafarI
Haile Selassie I
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