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Messenger: Nefertiti Sent: 11/28/2005 9:30:50 AM
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Blessed Love Rasta far I, Haile I Selassie I

I found this passage from Kahil Gibrahn to speak INI about how one should live this way or that way this precept or that precept. InI in all ways site that LOVE IS THE ONLY LAW TO OBEY. There seems to be so much confliction about how ones and ones should make thier movements......It comes to knowing self, that is the essence of LIFE of Livity, knowing that ones actions or non actions have certain affects. HOTEP is the Egyptian word for balance. It is good to be aware of others and knowing to live along all of I-ration, accepting ones essential place or action in all of life. Accepting with gratitude for life itself and to seriously with JOY do the right thing. Often there is not joy in the thing that one is called to do, HOWEVER the joy is in doing the RIGHTEOUS thing. nothing is too big mor too small, those are men's judgements. BE CHRIST, BE JAH, Rasta......that not looking to others for validation or acceptance, but move forward in courage to be PURE RIGHT AND I-VINE.


"And a man said, speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered, saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul."
Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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Then said a teacher, Speak to us of Teaching.
And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may speak to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its winds to another man.
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and his understanding of the earth.


Give thanks and prasies to the most High Rasta far I


Messenger: Nefertiti Sent: 11/28/2005 9:37:08 AM
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Here are soundings from Ras Marcus Garvey

Marcus - Have Faith In Self
Thursday, October 27, 1927

Today I made myself in life anew,
By going to that royal fount of truth,
And searching for the secret of the few
Whose goal in life and aim is joy forsooth.
I found at last the friend and counsellor
That taught me all that I in life should know;
It is the soul, the sovereign chancellor,
The guide and keeper of the good you sow.

I am advised-"Go ye, have faith in self,
And seek once more the guide that lives in you"
Much better than the world of sordid pelf,
Alas! I found the counsel to be true.

Aha! I know right now that I shall see
The good in life, and be a better man;
I will by thought and deed pull all to me,
In saving others, yea, every one.

Go down and search yourself awhile in part,
And tell me all of what you see and hear;
Isn't there something pulling at your heart?
Tell me the truth and have ye then no fear!
There is a voice that speaks to man, within,
It is the Soul that longs for you to know
There is no need for you to grope in sin,
For you in truth and light may ever grow.

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Marcus - Find Yourself
Wednesday, October 26, 1927

All men have troubles of their own,
And burdens great to bear each day,
So keep your tales of woe, and frown
At all the ills that come your way:
You need not harbor sorry pain,
And make the world a living hell;
For there is naught in this to gain;
The wisdom of the age will tell.

The other fellow does not care
A bit, what ails and worries you;
In life he has to pay his fare
In living right as you should do:
He bears his burdens like a man,
And smiles with every wind;
There is a reason why he can
Thus master right his soul and mind.

To conscience go in quiet mood.
And find yourself each morn anew;
Feed thou upon the psychic food
That makes the gods in mortal hue:
This is the way that men are great-
All those who smile with Nature's laws-
So then, why brood and curse your fate?
Brace up and strike against your flaws!

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Marcus - God In Man
Friday, August 26, 1927

0 weary son of sorrow great!
How apt art thou to bow and grieve,
And count all things thy solemn fate,
As if thou canst not self retrieve!

May I not tell the story true
Of that Eternal Force that is-
The Force that makes the world and you;
The Force that rules and ever lives?

Thou art the living force in part,
The Spirit of the Mighty I;
The God of Heaven and your heart
Is Spirit that can never die.

You're what you are in heart and mind,
Because you will it so to be;
The man who tries himself to find,
Is light to all, and great is he.

In each and every one is God,
In everything atomic life;
There is no death beneath the sod,
This fact, not knowing, brings the strife.

Blessed love
Haile I Selassie I
Rasta Far I


Messenger: Dread Lion Sent: 11/28/2005 11:45:41 AM
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I Sistren Nefertiti,

Iman am new to this site. As Iman browse thru InI see many of the I's reasonings. I write to big the I up, Love and Respect from a Rastaman. All that the I posts shows a Pure Heart and Mind searching for Truth thru Rastafari and InI know Jah will bless the I for it.

ONE LOVE IN KING ALPHA/QUEEN OMEGA InI OWN IVINE MAJESTIES HAILE SELASSIE I/EMPRESS MENEN I JAH RASTAFARI


Messenger: Nefertiti Sent: 11/29/2005 8:40:58 AM
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Blessed Love Give thanks and praises to the most high Haile I Selassie I.

May the words of i mouth and the i-ditation of i heart be acceptable in INI site, oh rasta far i/

bless


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