devotion to
spiritual development), is as much
valid as valid as Superman orany
other Super Hero they have
invented (the super-hero and the
“messiah” ideology is the same
thing). Rastafari culture cannot
expect to grow, advance, and
achieve great things, such as
accomplish the will of the Most
High and His Majesty Emperor
Haile Selassie,and the Ancestors,
without discarding of the bible and
the false beliefs that are associated
with them.
It is time to throw away ALL that is
Juedo-Christian and Islamic, and
find our Original ways of thinking,
our Original Cosmology and
Theology. Otherwise, Rastafari as a
culture and movement, will be
stuck and wither and die. The Rt
Hon King Emmanuel say 'The white
world couldn't teach me anything,
because they couldn't teach
themselves to save their Self.” King
Emmanuel's Self taughthis person
how to save himself, and how his
followers could do the same. After
studying the Metu Neter, Kamitic
spirituality, the competent student
can make theobservation that King
Emmanuel teachings are closer to
African/Kamitic knowledge, than
any other sect of Rastafari.
As I have said to many people,
Rastafari culture and livity has
much more in common with some
practices and spiritual systems of
the east such as Taoism, and those
traditional systems of Africa such
as Ifa in Yoruba, Vodou and Juju,
then they have in common with the
Christain, Jew and Muslim. You can
try to research the Daada peoples of
West Africa, and you find that they
are who have natty dreadlocks, live
ital, vegetarian, against
Westernisation, play music, teach
and practice Traditional African
Science (spirituality). They have
been there for hundreds of years,
before Rasta rose in Jamaica.
The case now, is that most Rasta
believe in the wrong and false ideas
and notionsthat the followers of the
3 major religions do. For example,
Rastas talk about “There is only one
life to live..” , where Africans and
Orientals KNOW that reincarnation
is a fact. So should every Rasta. As
it is known that Rastafari is about
Life, and that we don't believe in
'death', and thatwe bun death and
the world of the dead that we live
in. So every Ras should know that
Life is eternal, and so are we, and it
is about going and coming and then
going again to come again. Bobo
Shanty people should know this as
the Father King Emmanuel the 7 th
talked about re-incarnation (but Jah
couldn't spoonfeed everything to
you, Bobo, the Man is cryptic and
mystic, so many didn't watch and
learn, and many saw but
understood little, as the Man
himself say “Some have wisdom, or
knowledge, but they lack
understanding”, the Man is
thefullness of all 3, Holy Emmanuel
I Selassie I JAH Rastafari!).
Another example, is how they
believe that Man was created first,
or Adam camebefore Eve ( it is bad
enough that they believe in Adam
and Eve, and that theythink these
were real people), yet science
shows that every human being is
first female, and then they
differentiate into male.
This is another issue, which puts
livity and spirituality at stake, is
the issue of knowledge versus
belief, faith and information, and
opinions versus truth. A Real
African Man and Woman operates,
i.e. bases their thoughts feelings,
emotions, sayings and doings, on
TRUTH and not opinion or beliefs.
And truth is based uponfacts, that
can be proved.
Rastafari dont deal with opinions,
or faith, or even beliefs, Rastafari
deal with KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH.
King Emmanuel was one of the
Rastafari Leaders who spoke of
teachings that are closer to the
traditional and ancient African
understandings (although he also
stressed about the bible, yet he
showed many truths regarding it,
which is beyond the scope of this
article). One such teaching was
“Man is God and God is Man”,
another is “Man of Righteousness is
God in Flesh” and others included
thatwe Africans in Ancient Africa
always revered (some say 'worship'
which is is incorrect) a Divine King,
who was the embodiment of the
Supreme Being.
The knowledge that man is Divine,
is concealed within the name of the
movment, people, and culture/
livity, which is Rastafar-I, and the
divine Iyahric language (which is
actually an initiatory language to
initiate ones into knowing and
realising their Self.) Rastafari is
pronounced to imply that the
Rastaman and King Jah Rastafari/
The Creator were One and the
Same. In Iyahric, “I and I” means
one's person (InI means God in
man) (me and you is division and
clash of identity, and line of
thinking)(esoterially and on a more
profound level, althoughhidden, it
means the Self and the Person/Ego
is One), as well as implying thatthe
I in me is the same I in you and the
same I in the birds, fish, sea, and
sky. Jah Rassstafari!
However, as with the bible, for
every statement that implies that
Man is a Divine Being, there is also
another statement, within the
culture that refutes that and implies
that man is a human being.
My experience with this was
realised when I saw an “Elder” who
claimed to be aRasta and an Elder
Ras at that too, speak about fasting
to the youths in the hills who were
not able to maintain the fast. In
response to them breaking the
fastearly because they were
“hungry” (meaning were not
skilled, adept enough toresist the
urges of the flesh/ego/person/lower
being), he excused them by saying
that it is ok because, “The spirit is
willing but the flesh is weak!”.
Another false adage that finds its
source in the bible. You find, after
properly studying the Kamitic
teachings, that this is due to an
inactive or a weak will, and that the
brother appealed to their lower
part of their being, and assosciated
his and their identity with the
lower part of their being. That is, if
the spirit was truly “willing” it
would overpower the urges and
cravings of the flesh, as that is the
crux of “mindover matter”. Yet
many of us are ignorant of this, as
we are ignorant of the Original
African spiritual teachings. I
complained about this incident to a
Bobo Shanti priest and he said that
it is true. I remember feeling so
much dismay and disappointment,
and realised that the spiritual
standard is not as high as Ithought
it to be or as it proclaimed to be,
some Rastas put their Self and their
livity so low that it is on par with
the weak religious doctrines of
Westernreligions. I don't think any
Taoist Priest or even real Kamitic/
African priest wouldsay the “the
spirit is willing but the flesh is
weak”! Foolishness, man! There are
also many other foolish and
completely untrue statements in
the bible, like "Woman cannot
teach”, “It is evil to braid and plait
hair, only pagans do that.”, and
many others, which one realises
after careful study that these are
African traditions that they are
condemning. The Rastafari Elders
are Ancient Canaanites, and
Ancient Kamites, Ancient Ghanians
and Ancient Kushites, who
returned in 'this dispensation', this
age in the late 19th century, in the
slave plantation designations of
Jamaica, with the rememberance of
the ancient teachings on self-
knowledge and our ancient African
identity. The rememberance is in
the livity, more than it is in the
bible doctrines. These are man who
learnt these spiritual truths from
within, and have much in common
with Ancient Kamit, Africa and
Asia, even Ancient America. (By
the way, not all black people in the
carribean were brought there
forcefully through slavery, Ivan Van
Sertima and many scholars have
brought forth evidence, sincethe
'70s that Blacks sailed there in
ancient times and were there even
before the Arawak and Native
Americans of North and South, of
whom many actually intermarried
with the blacks there when they
reached there from Asia).
As a result of not returning
completely to our African spiritual
culture and heritage, we find that
we are approaching Life, God, and
everything in the wrong manner,
and worse in a foreign manner. So
you are not really being your Self!
Thus, there is an identity crisis
going on, or worse, you are a victim
of asubliminal programming (mind
control) and you are unaware of it.
The idea that we should worship
Haile Selassie, by giving praises to
him in achurch or other building,
like you are singing and
worhsipping Jeezus is wrong, and it
is not truly African. It is not
African, neither is it true, to
depend of someone to 'save' you.
Rastas should know (and not
BELIEVE) that no one oranything,
or any being, can save you.
Slavation, Blessings, and
Punishments, are delegated to you
to be responsible for. Yes, you are
responsible for blessing or cursing
yourself. Of course, the Most High
blesses you daily, and has ever
done and shall ever do so, even
without you doing anything. Yet,
God does not punishor reward
anyone, you reward and punish
yourself. As King Emmanuel say “It
is a self-save judgment, i.e. that I
didn't come to save you, but to
show you to save your Self.” .....
Link: The African Perspective on
Rastafari
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