One God One People 

Knowing is better than just believing

There is a well known Rastafari axiom that says “One Jah, One Aim, One Destiny”, JAH of course meaning God in its Judeo or Hebraic sense as derived from the tetra gram JHVH which Christians presently vocalise as Jehovah. While many theoretical and even physical battles have been fought over such definitions, it is important to return to common sense and finally close the chapters of needless bloodshed, especially among Afrikan people who call themselves believers, since there’s been too many families split over improper use of religion. For far too long, ever-since being subjected to missionary zeal and many forms of book knowledge, we have continued to lose touch with the Divine within ourselves/each other and nature. The result of this scattering of the Black family have been on-going spiritual and mental violence. While it appears as if it would take too much effort to reverse the situation, to regain our senses and begin Living instead of merely surviving, it is in fact a far simpler task than most people can dare to imagine.

No one has to remind us that we are a highly gifted people, these gifts which we continue to waste in Basketball courts, churches, Advertising (subvertising) and marketing companies and many institutions that only serve to create more money that we quickly invest back to our oppressors through consumerist behaviour, can be put to better use.

We have tried many other religious, some of us have even crossed the floors among so called Abrahamic faiths – becoming Muslims, African-Hebrew Israelites and Christians, some of the more daring among us have even chosen far eastern ‘belief’ systems or ways of life – such as Hare Krishna, Buddhism and even embraced the cerebral-spiritual disciplines of Scientology and even atheism.

All this points to the fact that there is a hunger, a real need for Transformation within all of us, we see that the status quo is not landing us where we really deserve to be as individuals and as a people.

It is equally true that some of our families swear by Jesus Christ and they are able to live very comfortable and contented lives, some may even say that they have found the Joy that cannot be compared to any other. The real question though is, have they ever been exposed to this ‘Any other’, has anyone shown them that one can be justifiably successful and prosperous through observance of an Afrikan or Indigenous Knowledge System?

This is not written to agitate the pious souls who love Jesus, Muhammad, Krishna, Gautama or any of the modern day messiahs whose aims are all good and fair, as they are here to transform the people’s behaviour and conform it to what they see as God’s Plan.

But what people must really open their eyes to is the how much this spiritual migration costs Mother Africa, the one who has given so much of Her-self to the Life maintenance of Mankind. We are not asking that everyone should be a student of history, although this would help a lot, but simply asking for an alternative and proper view of the way of things. The truth is Africans are suffering badly in the world, especially in the land of mankind’s birth and to anyone who loves Justice and Truth, this should be a wake up call.

It is not enough to deposit Bibles, Quran’s, alms and food parcels in impoverished territories, there is nothing in that method that has worked yet, instead we see people competing and killing each other over simple resources and in churches many unconverted souls battling it out for positions. The handfuls of people who are doing Gods will are also in similar trouble, they are doing almost everything without questioning, challenging or attempting to turn an unjust system around.Instead of being like the Jeremiah’s, Daniels, Isaiah’s and Yehoshua’s  of this age, we find them opening political rallies, starting political parties, capitalist oriented businesses that compete with others within a vividly unjust system. This has to come to an end, and we cannot wait for Armageddon or  pray away the situation, all systems based on lies must confess, repent and Look to Africa for the solutions of African problems, problems which Afrika had very little part in creating in the first place.

But to be honest, we must first see what exactly it is that we did or did not do that brought us this far down. Consider this:

“There is no doubt that both, the Ancient Egyptians and Kushites, were the earliest Black African families; interlinked with them, today’s Oromos are the most conscious descendants of the most illustrious Khammitic nations. Among today’s Khammitic nations, one identifies the Berbers of Northern and Northwestern Africa (from the Northwestern confines of Egypt through Libya and Tunisia to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania), the Egyptians, the Arabic speaking Sudanese, the Kushitic nations of Eastern Africa (Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Kaffas, Shekachos, etc), the Somalis, and the Hausa and Fulani speaking peoples of Western and Central Africa. In respect to all cases of arabization (from Mauritania to Egypt and thence to Eritrea), one has to stress the point that the phenomenon was limited only at the linguistic level, as consequence of the gradual islamization of all these countries from the 7th until the 16th century; it has no ethnic and no cultural impact. To all those who may oppose the approach, based on considerations of the currently prevailing sociopolitical and cultural conditions, one has to remind that all this is result of Anglo-French colonialism, and has no historicity, no impact, and no value. It is the result of the diffusion of the perverse and disastrous theories of Pan-Arabism and Islamic Fundamentalism that were both systems produced by the colonialist Orientalist academia, and then projected among ignorant local students who thought opportune to continue with postgraduate and doctoral studies in French and English universities.

4. This is an important point; black as colour in general and black as skin colour was never considered as negative or inferior in the Antiquity. It all started with the rise of Christianity and the demonization of the black (either colour or skin colour). Islam rebuffed the concept, but this did not save the non-Muslim Africans from discriminatory attitude in Abbasid Baghdad. Within the context of the Ancient Egyptian religion, the black colour symbolized the all-inclusiveness and the supreme power. We have good reason to believe that these concepts were shared by the Kushitic – Meroitic Ethiopians, the ancestors of the modern Oromos. A comparative historico-religious examination of the fundamental concepts of Waaqeffannaa and those of the Ancient Egyptian religion would help tremendously in retracing the origin of the Oromo religion.

Waaqa and Ra

5. Waaqa seems to have in Oromo religion the same position as Atum in the Ancient Egyptian Heliopolitan system and Ra – Atum in the Ancient Egyptian Hermopolitan system. In other words, Waaqa seems to have retained the most original aspects of Khammitic / Kushitic monotheism. The rise of the Memphitic (around Ptah) and Theban (around Amun) polytheisms seems to have reduced the primordial Egyptian monotheism to great extent; however, there has always been a rivalry between monotheism and polytheism in Ancient Egypt, and the monotheistic current triggered in the middle of the 14th century BCE a radical ideology promoted and supported by several pharaohs before Akhenaten who simply institutionalized for the first time in the World History monotheism as state religion. Amenhotep III, Thutmoses IV, Amenhotep II, and Thutmoses III were all strong monotheists.

Only Christian European colonial racism and Jewish bias prevent modern scholars from saying publicly that the Solar Religion and Ideology of Akhenaten (also known as Atonism after the name of Akhenaten’s Unique God, Aten or Aton) was more complete and more explicit monotheism that the other two religious systems, and that entire verses of Ancient Egyptian hymns to Aten have been reproduced within the Psalms of Torah (Old Testament).

The polytheistic comeback plunged Egypt into strife and centuries long decay, but even after the departure of the Egyptian monotheists and the Hebrews under Moses, the Egyptian monotheism survived within temples and among priesthoods that resisted the expansion of the polytheism and the decomposition of the mythical semiotics.

The entire issue was transferred among the Kushitic Ethiopians in the South of Egypt, and later sources (mainly Greek) shed insightful into the religious divisions of Meroitic Ethiopia that may have been at the origin of the final collapse of Meroe. The priests and the court seem to have formed two opposite camps among the Meroitic Ethiopians, and following the defeat to the Axumite king Ezanas, the monotheistic part prevailed in exile.

6. The Oromo concept of Law and Order, set up by Waaqa and granted to the first men, reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat. To the Egyptian mind, Maat was the Law and Order that kept the entire universe in function. The concept was diffused among the Kushitic and Meroitic Ethiopians. The legislature stipulated by the Pharaoh in Egypt and the Qore (the title ‘King’ in Kushitic language) in Kush (Ethiopia) had to be a derivate and an emanation of the Maat Law and Order. Contradicting Maat would be viewed as a from of self-annihilation.”

This is not some superstitious mambo jumbo, it is not an attempt to diminish the good works done by the churches and mosques in spiritually grounding our people, it is not even aimed at causing a debate. My aim is to cause each reader/hearer of these words to ask themselves clear questions about the past-present and future of the Mother Land, keeping in mind how it relates the future of the entire universe, and with the answering of these questions, the One Aim, One JAH, One destiny so desired by the Movement of Haile Selassie I conscious people can be attained. But it is not just their destiny; it’s also Our Ancestors and our Creators too. We are three together as One, seen Iyah?

Here is the second offer, and this one will require individual effort which is more heroic and even much more disciplined. I am asking the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Oromo, Amhara, Sudanese, Khoi San, Shangaan, Himba, Luo, BaKhongo …each and every sort of Black man and woman to Re-learn as I am also striving to do, The Essence of their Divinity, Ubunkulunkulu bobuntu bethu via this method: I am simply asking any person who like I, claims to have faith in the One True God to consider these words carefully and make their own judgment. We are after all – People of The Word and the word that was manifest

 (made flesh) or became  Natural rather than invisible/spiritual:

“Hymn of Ra

Words of Neb-Er-Tcher [Lord of the World] which It spoken after coming into Being:

“I am that which came into Being [Kheper] in the form of Creator”

“I became the Creator [Khepera] of what came into Being [Kheperu]”

“After My coming into Being, Many were Things which came into Being”

“Coming Forth from my Mouth” “Embrace My Shadow and Released Seed”

“Not existed Heaven, Not existed Earth”

“Not had been Created Things of Earth,

“And Creeping Things in that Place”

“I raised them Out of NU, from the State of Inactivity”

“Not found I a place to Stand Wherein”

I radiated My Words of Power with my Will”

“I laid a Foundation in the Law, and I made All Attributes”

“I was Alone, for not had I spit out the form of Shu” “Not had I Emitted Tefnut”

“Not Existed None who Worked with Me”

“I made a Foundation by Means of my Will”

“And there Came into Being the Multitude of Things”

“I became from God One, Gods Three” “That is from Out of Myself” 

“My Name is Ausares”  ***

We have read that it was St John who wrote that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. It is now time for the ORIGINAL MAN to be known and to once again teach the world how to be civilised. If we don’t do it, no one else will and we shall forever remain slaves to things and to those who value things more than people and God. With these words, I say…AMEN!

 Menzi Maseko ---