"GOD" OF ETHIOPIA

"GOD" : CREATED IN ETHIOPIA We usually take God for granted. However, the concept of God, the ubiquity, fact of God is the greatest philosophical achievement of man. Before "God" life was. We have many fossilized remains of fish, plants, animals, insects, dating back eons, some billions of years. "God" is the epitome of existence as postulated by ancient Ethiopian sages, savants, geniuses, who all were men and women descendants of ancient ancestor-star watchers. They sought an explanation for life, for the rhythms of being, based on the concurrence of stars' behavior, above, allied with nature's behavior, below, especially of the Nile river, and allied life activities flowing from its annual gentle alluvial flooding. Working with astronomy, biology, the Ethiopians, and their colonists , Egyptians, conceived geometry, physics, engineering, mathematics and all of the arts and sciences that were bequeathed to mankind, including writing, navigation, agriculture, medicine and religion. But the link to it all was "God" who made man, stars, nature, Nile and placed them together in the land, where all could coexist in peace; so ancient Ethiopia conceived, and brought forth their conception of "God." Their religious rituals were copied by other civilizations; but they acknowledged the Ethiopian source or home of the Gods in their own histories, mythologies, nativity.

RIGHTEOUSNESS SURVIVES

THE 'RIGHTEOUS' HAVE SURVIVED LITERAL 'HELL' None but the righteous could have survived African "Maafa,"---capture, transshipment, lifelong slavery, new languages, no family to love or to be loved by, brutal living conditions, millions of deaths, pre-sun-up-to-past-sundown working hours, acculturation into "white" superiority, rape anytime, breeding farms, children/ spouses/parents/ siblings sold at will, treated and viewed as chattel; illiteracy and innumeracy--in the actual feral, literal, "HELL" of North America, where the righteous have wiggled, squirmed, nearly shaken themselves free of the wretched detritus of soulless, race-based, cretin, oppression and deprivations; but who, somehow, continue to love their tormentors as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, friends and strangers! No fiction, no myth, no allegory, no account in recorded human history has ever seen its like! Not Dante's "Inferno," not Milton's "Paradise Lost", not John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," not the Bible, not the Koran, not the Torah, not the Pyramid Texts nor Coffin Texts; not the sacred Hindu texts, not Chaldean prophets, not Asian mystics Buddha, Confucius, none but the righteous are made of such divine, sterner stuff to be able to demonstrate to all the rest of mankind, that through the sacrifice of his first people there is power to give, to take away, to enliven, to kill, to raise up anew from the dead, to gather together again, to scatter, asunder to reduce the former, to raise the latter, only God.

EGYPTIAN COLONIES. DIODORUS

"Now the Egyptians say that after these events a great number of colonies were spread from Egypt over all the inhabited world. To Babylon, for instance, colonists were led by Belus, who was held to be the son of Poseidon and Libya; and after establishing himself on the Euphrates River he appointed priests, called Chaldaeans by the Babylonians, who were exempt from taxation and free from every kind of service to the state, as are the priests of Egypt; and they also make observations of the stars , following the example of Egyptian priests, physicists and astrologers. They say also that those who set forth with Danaus, likewise from Egypt, settled what is practically the oldest city of Greece, Argos, and that the nation of Colchi in Pontus and that of the Jews, which lies between Arabia and Syria, were founded as colonies by certain emigrants from their country; and this is why it is a long established institution among these two peoples to circumcise their male children, the custom having been brought over from Egypt. Even the Athenians, they say, are colonies from Sais in Egypt, and they undertook to offer further proofs of such a relationship; for the Athenians are the only Greeks who call their city 'Asty', a name brought over from the city Asty in Egypt. Furthermore, their body politic had the same classification and division of the people as found in Egypt, where the citizens have divided into three orders: the first Athenian class consisted of the 'eupatrids', as they were called, being those who were such as had received the best education and were held worthy of the highest honor, as is the case with the priests of Egypt; the second was that of the 'geomoroi', who were expected to possess arms and to serve in defense of the state, like those in Egypt who are known as husbandmen and supply the warriors; and the last class was reckoned to be that of the 'demiurgoi,' who practice the mechanical arts and render only the most menial services to the state, this class among the Egyptians having a similar function. "Moreover, certain of the rulers of Athens were originally Egyptians, they say. Petes, for instance, the father of that Menestheus who took part in the expedition against Troy, having clearly been an Egyptian, later claimed citizenship at Athens and the kingship ... "29. In the same way Erechtheus also, who was by birth an Egyptian, became king of Athens, and in proof of this they offer the following considerations. Once when there was a great drought , as is generally agreed, which extended over practically all the inhabited earth except Egypt because of the peculiar character of that country, and there followed a destruction of crops and men in great numbers, Erechtheus, through his racial connection with Egypt, brought from there to Athens, a great supply of grain, and in return, those who had enjoyed this aid made their benefactor king. After he had secured the throne he instituted the initiatory rites of Demeter in Eleusis and established the mysteries, transferring the ritual from Egypt. And the tradition that had an advent of the goddess into Attica also took place at that time is reasonable, since it was then that the fruits which are named after her were brought to Athens , and this is why it is thought that the discovery of the seed had been made again, as though Demeter had bestowed the gift. And the Athenians on their part agree that it was in the reign of Erechtheus, when the lack of rain had wiped out the crops, that Demeter came to them with the gifts of grain. Furthermore, the initiatory rites and mysteries of the goddess was instituted in Eleusis at the time. And their sacrifices as well as their ancient ceremonies are observed by the Athenians in the same way as by the Egyptians; for Eupolidae were derived from the priests of Egypt and the Ceryces from the 'pastophoroi.' They are also the only Greeks who swear by Isis, and they closely resemble the Egyptians in both their appearance and manners. " P.91-97, Book I. LIBRARY OF HISTORY by Diodorus Siculus (1933, 1998)

AMERICA

HOW WHY WHEREFORE AMERICA ? America's leading legal minds that convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 were brought there to repair the impoverished national government, whose taxes were few, voluntarily paid to it by the States, and whose powers were commensurate with its tax revenues or even less. This was the state of affairs that prompted the drafting of the Constitution and the concomitant scuttling of the too feeble "Articles of Confederation." Unfortunately, the nation's material income was derived from a slave labor base in the North by banking, shipping , insuring , supplying, and manufacturing. In the South it was raising cash crops: tobacco, rice , indigo, sugar , lumber, food, meat. The North and South were to each other as the head is to the body. As such, their new government documents came to reflect their social, economic, political, cultural, realities of "Enlightenment Era" white men with power to dictate the decisions, directions, future of their "new world" while competing with Europe, England, France, Spain, and, of course, the indigenous natives for the same opportunity of governing the vast wide acreage from purple mountains' majesty, amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea. The rights of slaves were not even considered, except to the extent that they could augment the power of white men who ruled over them. All of America's white competitors were slaveholders in 1787. For it was free black-slave labor's, low maintenance costs, durability, profitability, that produced economic marvels in the Caribbean , Central, South America, North America . At the same time that the economic juggernauts were rushing forward, so, too, was its philosophical and cultural correctives, known as the "Declaration of Independence" in the United States and the "Rights of Man" in France. Both seminal documents had been written by an English itinerant revolutionary, named Thomas Paine. His words, fervor, his vision, fueled the notions that all men "are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Paine's powerful poetic prose laved white slave-economics in theology. So while the white men were busily setting rules of spoliation among themselves, in 1787, during which , at best, they may have genuflected at Thomas Paine's stirring rhetoric that had imbued a spirit of national brotherhood, that was convening them, it was only an afterthought. There was too much money to be made. There was too much land to be confiscated, cultivated; platted, taxed, incorporated into the nation. Every law, feature, everything, was designed to secure the perpetual empowerment of the ruling white men for the good of the nation, and for the suppression of civil rights of black men to the same extent. The slaves, free blacks, were all the while carefully watching, listening, communicating, plotting, planning as well; especially so were former slaves organizing and preparing. The currents of economic power in America have always had to reckon with, contend with, underlying counter currents to its own national creed. Those who most upheld the national creed were the blacks who were most abused by its breach, by its violations in law courts, in banking, in business, in education, in social institutions, in all public accommodations. The wars waged by these competing oceans' currents resulted in a Civil War and a Civil Rights War; now a backlash! The problem with the "backlash" is that it had and it has no moral core, except the law of the wolf, vultures, skunk, rabid dogs, and wolf packs. The "backlash" lacks any intellectual rigor, being ethically and morally moribund. It is fortified by lies, about history, religion, science, sociology, and it is enforced by physical racial violence in its character, conception and especially in its execution. Except for the Confederate States of America's secession documents, the "Dred Scott" decision, it lack textual and doctrinal consistency. Dating back to the all-too-brief "Reconstruction", 1865-1873, with the fleecing of the Freedmen's Savings Bank by Wall Street and Congress, following closely behind was the "Betrayal of the Negro," the blacks, and of the American Constitution in the Hayes-Tilden Comprises of 1876-1877. It rolled into and through the Jim Crow Era, 1883-1954 (the 'Civil Rights Cases' to 'Brown v. Board'; through Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, "Watergate" (1968-1976); Ronald Reagan's "Revolution," tepid but well-intended Jimmy Carter; both Bushes' staying the course of white privilege with occasional gestures toward the blacks; through Barack Obama historical black but obstructed and too-timid toward blacks ruling philosophy, and now to Donald Trump's white supremacy ascendency, we blacks were and have been the ones who were true to the creed, the course the hallowed American current. We were true to it, because it is true to us philosophically, pragmatically. We yet wonder how those who claim one thing could do the opposite thing, consciously, remorselessly to fellow Americans? Maybe these few ideas may explain how, why, wherefore they still do!

CAN SATAN REPENT

CAN SATAN REPENT? A 9-year old girl asked my friend, who is a lawyer and pastor, "Can Satan repent?" That simple inquiry is disarming in multiple respects. First that she was just 9; second that she inquired; third, that the question could ever arise; fourth, to whom the piercing philosophical, eschatological question was put . I would have replied that "God" who is a spirit, created Satan, who, like "God," is also a spirit, just like everything existing God created in the spirit, including imagination of mankind, instincts of nature and laws. Thus, God has absolutely no competition. Even Satan, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Osiris, Jah Shango, are subordinate to God, as is every man, woman, child, thing, element, idea, energy, light beam. Therefore, one can simply say "no" to a 9 year old girl and move on to something else. That would not, however, be true to the spirit of truth and integrity and morality and humility required of those of us who purport to have a relationship with God. Did not Jacob wrestle with the angel and subdue it by pulling the sinew by its thigh? Do not the scriptures say that God created good and evil and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust, the good and the bad? Can not God use a jackass to teach a lesson to men, a whale, lions' den? It so, God can use a 9-year old girl! Therefore although that little angel who asked that question does not know me, she has spoken through my friend, and her pastor, directly unto me! Therefore, the absolute truth is that the answer to her question "Can Satan repent," is can you repent? Can I repent? Can we? Yes, he can like us! That is because Satan is no worse nor better than mankind, than the "prodigal son," who wasted away his wealth on wine women and song, in strange lands, But who found himself eating in a hog trough, came to his senses, and repented of his waywardness, And returned home to his father's house, that he had left. His father who espied him afar off, welcomed him home! Father killed the fatted calf, put a golden ring on his finger, put a robe o his back, sandals on his feet, and called his entire household to come and rejoice with him that his son that was "lost had now been found." But, his brother who stayed home, was envious of the lavish attention given by the lord of the manor to his brother as a reward for his dissolute waywardness. Ad their father chided him for it later. I don't know if this reply will help the inquiring child but it certainly helped me, greatly even more after adding prodigal! "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Amen! Matthew 19:14 King James Version (KJV) 14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain

"REPULSIVE WHITE MEN"

"There must be something in the appearance of white men, frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for, on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans, if we met a child coming quietly and unsuspectingly towards us, the moment he raised his eyes, and saw the men in 'bags,' he would take to his heels in an agony of terror, such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum. Alarmed by the child's wild cries, the mother rushes out of her hut, but darts back again at the first glimpse of the same fearful apparition . Dogs turn tail, and scour off in dismay; hens, abandoning their chickens, fly screaming to the tops of the houses. The so lately peaceful village becomes a scene of confusion and hubbub, until calmed by the laughing assurance of our men, that white people do not eat black folks; a joke having often times greater influence in Africa than solemn assertion." P.152, "Chicova," NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI by David and Charles Livingstone (1865)

DILIGENT RECORD KEEPING

DILIGENT RECORD-KEEPING Record-keeping is a form of faithful stewarding, being self-rewarding . However mundane the nature or the subject matter of the records that are being systematically kept, their inherent value, their portable profitability as evidence, as a true reference is not always recognized. I kept records of push-ups done during summers before football . I kept records of my expenditures in summer jobs to calculate how much I must save and how little I could spend to buy my first car. Of course, I kept notes in school which helped me to learn the skills that were being taught, information disseminated, most importantly, in test review/take preparation time. Records are how key knowledge is passed on. They hold organizations together as minutes, laws, actions , expenditures, income, debts, and so forth. Records are found in and kept in books, are often the reason for various books, papyrus, stele, parchments, scrolls, other formats. Most record-keeping is now online. It is conceivable that what we now write may be retrievable by future generations of citizens, relatives, authorities, prospective employers. "Amanuensis" is one name for an exalted record keeper or scribe. Secretary ('secret'--ary) is another name for this very important office. We would all do well, do better, by becoming diligent record-keepers.