Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
RECONCILING MAAT AND MAMMON
CAN AMERICA'S DYNAMIC MAAT-MAMMON MELODRAMA BE RECONCILED
Clashing ideals are found in Maat, energy, and in Mammon, matter, seemingly.
"Maat" is Justice , Truth, Order, Balance, Law, Beauty, Harmony.
"Mammon" is injustice, untruth, disorder, imbalance, outlaw, scofflaw, ugliness , disharmony.
The ideal of Maat, or energy, of a female goddess, was epitomized in ancient Egypt (Kemet) and Nubia.
The ideal of Mammon, a male god, or matter, now found, is idealized in the United States of America, being derived from Rome's Constantine.
The presence of some Africans in America has been epochal, for the Africans are archetypal ideals of Maat, transplanted in America.
Europeans, Africans' enslavers, are the modern archetypal ideals of Mammon, also epochal being here, trapping African energy in matter.
African imports built America by their energetic slave labor, as they have saved her by their valor, the structures of United States of America are African built but were designed, ruled by past colonists.
In due course, an American ideal was secretly designed, brokered, financed, declared, by a group of white wealthy merchants, bankers, planters who thought it not robbery to join the European fight for rights to sole sovereignty over colonial homes, land, trade, slave property.
Here, in America, these seemingly disparate ideals of energy and matter, of Maat and Mammon, seek reconciliation by an ersatz blend of each other's substance politically, phenotypically, philosophically.
Carried forward precariously from 1776-1865, in which warring sides of white Americans fought against each other, Europeans, Mexicans, Indians, aided by Africans, warring for their own right to determine the ideals of America, especially to decide disposition of its resources.
America is always in flux, due to the always energizing ideals of Maat's Africans, being pitted against the stalwart materialistic ideals of Mammon. Irresistible forces immovable objects is the American dilemma, that is now the year 2018 with Donald Trump's Mammon personified, as leader !
How this melodrama between Maat and Mammon, between American energy and matter, will play itself out is yet to be known. But, nature restores itself after storms, heals itself after traumas of all kinds; so there will be some reconciliation in time and space, between energy and matter, in America, as neither, standing alone, is pure but alloyed.