KNOW YOURSELF AND BE YOURSELF

KNOW AND BE YOURSELF Watching as viral devastation is being wrought globally by the novel coronavirus, Covid19 , I earnestly labor for analogies: In Nature. Astronomy. History . Philosophy. Mathematics. Physics. Agriculture. Hunting. Fishing. I labor for analogies to explain not only Covid19, but the viral process by which my people became marooned forever from Africa, groomed as slaves, entombed, to be known as African Americans. I draw blanks, consistently, in seeking analogies for 2020’s Covid19 epiphany & seeking analogies for the great falling away, great falling down from the renown ancient greatness of Africans themselves . Their fall, our fall—for, in truth, they are we and we are they—took four thousands of years to reach nadir. It began in very ancient times, as allegorized in the Bible’s Old Testament . We are on the stinging end of a brutal bullwhip’s crack . Our bloody whipping began over four thousands of years, if we count back from the Fourth Dynasty downward to 2020. The Fourth Kemetic Dynasty that built the Great Pyramid at Giza that still stupefy, still bedazzle modern men of all nations, was built by Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) in the Fourth Kemet Dynasty. It was planned and executed by highly educated astronomical mathematical wizards, geniuses, scribes, priests, skilled quarry men, ferry men, Stone finishers, laborers , artists , commissary workers , cooks, butchers, physicians , architects, over a 20-year public works process during annual inundations of the Nile. Fourth Dynasty was the apical mathematical, philosophical, technical, theological , magical, literary apex of ancient world civilizations . So imply Plato, Homer,Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Aristotle, all of whom lived hundreds of years after the last dynasty . Unfortunately “Africans” did not have much to say about their now allegorical “fall”, about our penultimate fall, exceptions notwithstanding, except as being occasionally quoted commentators to the catastrophes, involving the demise of African civilization. This may be because the term “African” was alien, to natal indigenes. It was imposed by Rome on a northern province along the Mediterranean Sea, now denominating the rest. As I meditate on these things in 2020 during the Covid19 ionization of Earth, I can but marvel that we remain intact. For millions have perished as victims of the earlier ionizing: invasions, transgressions, colonizations, expropriations, befalling our tribal forbears in processes of homogenization which they were unwittingly complicit in , due to the loss of acuity! loss of ingenuity; loss of sapient adaptability back to the Fourth Kemet Dynasty, which ended 2500 (BC) years before the birth of Jesus, The Christ, posthumously sainted, an African philosopher-priest. Jesus Christ’s ethnic identity was “hidden” from the rest of us by certain Renaissance artists who were paid to paint him like themselves, as white. None can blame them . Each artist needs pay; dogs wag its own tail. “African” artists had and have a duty to depict their Savior as themselves as well! But, far more malevolently, less forgivably, Kemet, itself, was painted white! Kemet—the black land—was renamed “Egypt” by Greeks. Kemet’s celebrated sciences were all plagiarized. Kemet’s savants were whitened; its holy obelisks removed to Rome, to Washington, to Paris, London, Berlin. Kemet’s art, relics and sacred papyri were hoarded away in European and Asian museums. “Egyptologists” even today, as done since the early 1800’s under Napoleon, continue to dig into tombs, temples, move monuments in the name of science; dam the Nile, staunching her helical sediments-flooding periods, that birthed time, that birthed earth-breadbasket Nile Delta. Doggedly pillaging, claiming, finds exhumed in Kemet and Lower Nubia as parts of the mythical “Great White Race” written in high school history, literature books, featured in fake movies. They wrest away our divine legacy, stolen from us, treacherously. Fortunately our images are left in stone, in indelible inks; pigments attest to our jurisdiction over Kemet. Of course, we are now literally marooned, from Africa, like Joseph in Genesis. We are the slave-descended Africans, most of whose memories have been wiped clean of any knowledge of the truth, about themselves, kin or collaterals: ancient, medieval, present. Much like computer hard drives, our conscious minds have been wiped clean of all prior data for reprogramming. Many African Americans do not even want to know their antecedent African history, nor of antecedent theological truths, claimed by later Jews, Christians, Muslims, Masons, Gnostics, Neoplatonists , etc. So traumatized have we been, indeed, so alienated, isolated, ashamed of ourselves are we, that too many of us live timid, disordered lives. We pretend not to be frightful, blighted, disassociated in life. Yet all of the while disjointedly our daily lives are atomized, assailed, deracinated, by ream after ream of baleful, detrimental, programming. Our “trained” minds subsist on television, videos, movies. Fortunately, soul music, whose beats and lyrics do speak subliminally to our contrite, weary spirits spiritually, secularly, albeit separately. Yes some don’t want to know. True knowledge burdens “like a heavy load.” In truth, one need not be of necessity an African history scholar. But one must know something; one must know enough to defend one’s integrity and to equip one’s dependents with awareness. For truthfully “many roads lead to Rome.” Thus it would be sufficient, surely far better, however, if one were natural, not unnatural in the lifestyles, ideas, actions, thoughts, feelings, relationships to God, to oneself, family, community. Being natural is how God made us for such a strange time as this, when the earth is being reordered all at once naturally. Nature is hardwired in human sensibilities. Be you!