PERFECTION BEGETS

PERFECTION BEGETS REPARATIONS June 22, 2019, the same day that I received in the mail MODERN AFRICA: A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY (1994) by Basil Davidson, was also the same day that I had read a revealing passage in ex-St. Louis Cardinals center fielder, Curt Flood's stimulating autobiography, THE WAY IT IS (1970). Flood's statement was: "Absolute perfection was required ." P. 117. Instantly, I wrote on Facebook the following quip: "Perfection is essential if we are ever to attain, are ever to regain, the mastery of our ancient days on the Nile River." The "we" refers to the children of "Ham:" Cush, Mizraim, Phut, Libya (Nimrod). These are the allegorical ancestors of the descendants of the Africans who were captured, sold, transshiped to the Americas where they were, first indentured servants, later slaves for life , from 1619 at Jamestown , Virginia, until they attained their self-realization on June 19, 2019, with the Reparations Hearing on Capital Hill in the House of Representatives. African Americans are they to whom the Old Testament in the Bible refers in ordinal prophesy : Genesis 15:12-15 New International Version (NIV) "12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age." I have long been of the conviction that Matthew 5:48: "Be you therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect," as it was declared by Jesus Christ, is our key to redemption: personal and corporate. That admonition is applicable to each of us, presently as formerly. The loss of our beloved commitment to the principle of divine perfection, as exemplified in our ancient forbears' pyramids, temples, monuments, art, crafts , numbers, letters, ships, literature, sciences , geometry, ethics; all as celebrated by Homer, Herodotus , Hesiod, Pythagoras, Aesop , Euclid and many many more has become the difference. As embodied in Egypt (Kemet) and Ethiopia (Cush) these divine perfection principles were studied, copied, and lived by Greeks, Romans, others to become as the African gods of whom they wrote, themselves ! It was therefore the principle of perfection's diminution among Africans as a philosophical, cosmological, paradigm that is and that was an element of destruction. The loss has enabled the less-than-perfect non-Africans to catch up with, to neutralize , to conquer, plunder, enslave, brainwash them and us (by extension) for centuries. The Aesop parable of "the tortoise and the hare" neatly approximates, neatly apostrophes, this historical turnaround about us and others. Our souls have been insinuated with the surreptitious lie that we are inferior; worse that perfection is impossible , even by our preachers, teachers, so-called leaders have voiced such self-calumnies! If we could not be perfect , how else could Jesus Christ have said "greater works than these shall you do for I go unto my Father," Jn 14:10. Why would Jesus have said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Jn 8:32. John 14:12 King James Version (KJV) 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain John 8:32 New King James Version (NKJV) 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” New King James Version (NKJV) Many Western European Enlightenment" era lies, that were paid for and promulgated to rationalize and to justify our ritual enslavement and to maintain our ignorance of self, do yet insinuate themselves into our hearts , souls, heads , hands, societies, values. These have already contributed greatly to our 400 years conquest. "Conquest" and its alleviation is where Basil Davidson 's book comes in. I have not yet read this book, having found a reference to o it in another book. But I intuit that Africans' and African Americans' "reabsorption" may be enfolding, may be embracing, enveloping and imminent as their/our primal-natal philosophy, cosmology of divine perfection becomes known and applied in group and individual life.