| Love is accomplished unity. The true definitions of “Love” and “Unity” are far more expansive and inclusive than may be assumed. True Love and Unity are characteristics of our immortality. The application of these more expansive definitions is necessary before true progress can be made toward liberation, world leadership and co-ownership of the world’s resources for Black and non-white nations and communities. A brief explanation is appropriate. A universal truth, agreed to by all religions, philosophies and spiritual belief systems is that the Creator is eternal, infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent and all knowing. The names by which it has been known around the world; God, Allah, Jehovah, Brahma, Vishnu, Zeus, Osiris, Ahriman, Ormuzd, Nzambi, Tao, The Almighty, the Supreme Being, or the Most High, merely reveal the nation or society whose religion is being considered. Each name is an attempt by a culture of men and women to understand and describe our Creator and Sustainer based upon their observations of the world around them. It follows that God is everywhere and everything and that everything is God. Because God is perfect, God created everything as it should be, in composition and applicability. The circumstances, conjunctions and orientations of each point of creation are constantly evolving within the will of the Absolute. There is nothing beside, outside or separate from God or the Supreme Being. Logically, it follows that we are part of God. Which means that our destiny is to develop our godhood and goddesshood facilities. God did not create us weak, sinful or undesirable. All of God is perfect, including us. The Creator, in its infinite wisdom, chose to create and develop humankind over 4 million years ago in what we now call Africa. For over 90% of its history, civilization developed in Africa. Africans and their descendants must truly be the Chosen People of God. One law of physics states that the amount of physical matter in the universe is fixed. It has not changed since “the beginning”. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It only changes from one form or state to another. This is also true of energy. Physical matter is a relatively dense and gross form of creation when compared to energy, intelligence or spirit. If physical matter is eternal, how much more eternal must be life, intelligence, mind and spirit? Our souls must also have eternal lives. The appropriate question is not whether we are each immortal but rather, what is the appropriate path for our souls to follow during this and future lives. All religions promise a life after physical death. We can observe that after the dead of winter comes the new life of spring. When a plant or animal dies it’s “body” returns to the earth and new life springs forth from it. If we can see that all of creation is continuously renewing and eternal, shouldn’t we recognize this same quality in ourselves? We are immortal because we are spirit and mind, first and foremost. We may not know what or where our next life or incarnation will be but we should know that the quality of our life after death will be the direct consequence of how we live now. We should also know that our rights, powers, abilities and responsibilities are those of the children of God. We each speak directly to God every second of our existence, whether we know it or not. We each need guides and teachers to help us to grow and to find our proper path but we do not need an interpreter or savior to talk to God for us. We must not hide our lights under a bushel or become slaves to any man-made religion or philosophy. When we consciously acknowledge our cosmic nativity the Cosmic Light will cause us to accomplish love in our life, labor, learning, logic, leisure, laughter, loyalty and language toward each other and the world. The beliefs of a people concerning the will, characteristics and our relationship with God determine that people’s self image, their image of others and their ability to grow and progress. If that image promotes materialism, division, bigotry, lack of motivation or violence, as is the case with many modern, sectarian religions, the people cannot progress. They become the unconscious slaves of the religion and its clergy. If, on the contrary, the spiritual beliefs promote spiritual enlightenment, self-worth, the thirst for knowledge, unity, cooperation, understanding and appreciation between people, the people will grow in enlightenment, wisdom and wealth while they also benefit others. After centuries of devotion to the religious beliefs and systems of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, we are still not liberated and we do not control our destinies. We have not received the true knowledge of ourselves nor have we understood the rights, privileges and potential that our indigenous spiritual systems provided when Africa was the home of the worlds most advanced and dominant civilizations. In most cases, modern religions have helped us avoid becoming worse than we are but they have not enabled us to achieve our highest destinies. We must not let a religion that may contain some good keep us from reaching something better. Neither can we allow what is “better” keep us from attaining “the best”. If we honestly examine how we obtained our religious beliefs, we must admit that they are hereditary. We learned them from our families and the cultures in which we were born and raised. It is the rare person who can honestly state that he or she objectively examined most of the world’s various religious systems and selected the one most appropriate for him or herself. It is not unusual for a person to have failed to even read or understand the scripture he or she professes to follow. This is neither enlightenment nor liberation. It is now necessary that we learn and adopt the appropriate spiritual system, based upon critical and independent research that facilitates our rise to the station of leaders in this world and spiritual giants in the next. It is not necessary or desirable that we re-create the exact spiritual practices of our ancestors. Their practices were appropriate for another place, another time and different circumstances. All of the major scriptures were written for and were applicable to circumstances that existed when they were written, by humans. Humans are created to be inspired by the Light of Supreme Intelligence each second. We are not meant to create idols, jujus or totems of ancient books and religious symbols that may enslave us to philosophies appropriate only for an ancient time. There are, however, universally applicable principals of the spirit that were understood by our African ancestors; which spread throughout Asia and the island nations, and which have been inculcated into all religions. It is the application and understanding of these universal principals, which will liberate us and enable us to assume our rightful and true destiny as spiritual leaders, custodians and equal beneficiaries of the abundance of this planet and its heavens. Our responsibilities under man-made or religion-based laws are important but secondary to and subject to our cosmic and eternal responsibilities and rights. We must obey the just laws of the jurisdictions in which we live. We must give Caesar his due while we reside in his nation. The fact that we are currently the citizens of a particular city, state, province, country or race; or are the member of a particular religion or political party, in no way limits nor negates our universal, cosmic and God citizenship. We cannot allow ourselves to be defined as anything less than God’s most perfect and beloved creation. Our quest for knowledge and education must be founded on the three fundamentals of wisdom and enlightenment. These are Self-knowledge, Creation-knowledge and Creator-knowledge. All branches of the academic and intellectual tree involve the pursuit of one or more of these. These are the fundamentals of spiritual knowledge, which are compatible with our ancient African beliefs and are completely applicable and necessary for our present and future labor to become co-leaders, co-owners, teachers and guides to the rest of the world. It will provide the basis for us to love, honor and respect ourselves and each other. We are trained and encouraged daily to focus on artificial differences such as color, class, status, income, religion, political affiliation, sex, age, nationality, language or philosophy. For over 1,000 years these divisions have permitted others to rob and pillage our people, land, resources, and our cultural, scientific and philosophical treasures without compensation, remorse or acknowledgement. Many of our people now stress the differences and divisions among and between African people who now reside on the various continents. This continues to be used as an excuse for the lack of cooperation and support between people of African heritage. We see Africans in the United States, Brazil, Haiti, Nigeria, The Philippines, Kenya and all of the other nations as separate and distinct people. The differences between African peoples around the world are no more significant than the differences between white Americans and whites from Spain, Russia or Germany. Similar differences exist between Asian people from India, China, Thailand and Japan. The truth is that Africans in these separate nations are much more similar to each other than they are to their fellow national citizens. If these other nations can cooperate and trade with each other, how much more should Africans who have a far more homogeneous historical experience? The artificial divisions between African people have prevented us from defending our God-given treasures. Indeed, many of us now believe that there never was anything to defend. Our consciousness is so damaged that other nations can attack us in various areas of the world and we do not recognize it as an attack on ourselves. In the past twenty years horrific crimes against humanity have been committed by Western nations against Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Ivory Coast (Cote D’ Ivoire), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi and many other of our nations. The descendents of Africa have been subjected to genocide, invasion and exploitation. These also happen to be the nations with the greatest wealth in natural resources. That is the reason the forces of international capitol and multinational corporations are exploiting them. It is the reason they work so hard to persuade us not to cooperate with each other. African Americans have seldom attempted to actively support or protect our cousins in these nations. Many Africans on the continent are unaware of the history or condition of the children of those who were kidnapped into slavery. African people are not alone in this war initiated by exploitive Western interests. Vietnam, Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Central America, Cuba, Iraq, the Pacific Island nations and Afghanistan have all been the victims of aggression by these same forces. Our current condition on this planet is the result of other people treating us as a homogenous group. These people, acted as groups that were willing to achieve their ends by use of force. Our individual self-image was never relevant to the forces now steering world events. The people of this planet operate as groups, nations and races to pursue, what they consider to be, their own self-interest. In order to stabilize, reverse and improve our circumstances we must begin to truly operate as a worldwide, multinational civilization with our own history, interests, purposes, agenda and governing structures. Having a unifying rather than a divisive spiritual foundation is imperative to build a unified civilization. It is also reqired as the basis for structuring our personal and collective individual lives, for regulating our commercial activities, and for intellectual and scientific progress, that benefit rather than exploit us. On a more practical level, we must learn from the mistakes of others. After more than a thousand years of dominance by the Judeo/Christian/Islamic religious tradition, African people, the world and our environment are now in a much worse condition than ever in history. History demonstrates that African, and most other indigenous people, lived in harmony with a limitless array of animals, plant life, geological formations and climates for hundreds of thousands of years without destroying their environments. The Western nations have managed to seriously damage the world ecology in less than 500 years. The entire world is suffering from the lack of a powerful contribution of cultural, philosophical and spiritual leadership of the African people. Fortunately, there is an immediate answer. Enlightenment can elevate the children of God faster than the imagination can conceive. A spiritual ideology, described as Conscious Cosmic Citizenship or Conscious Immortality, satisfies all of these needs. It is the aboriginal wisdom behind ancient and traditional African religions. It does not discriminate or prohibit acknowledgement of or reverence for any God, Goddess, savior, saint, prophet, guru, angel or ancestor. All are acknowledged as blessings to the earth, sent by the Most High. All are children of the Ever-present God. There is no mandate or sanction to worship any of these individual spirits over and above the One True Creator of All. All religions and philosophies are included within this wisdom because they are all God-inspired efforts by humans to pursue Self-knowledge, Creation-knowledge and Creator-knowledge. Conscious Immortality recognizes that where religions have faltered is when they substitute their limited ideologies for the true will of God. This error can result in the belief that humans must help God enforce God’s will on earth. No one should doubt that God is supremely capable of executing its will, regardless of the efforts of man. All of the citizens of this city, this state, this nation, this race, this world, this solar system, this galaxy or this universe are also Cosmic Citizens. Application and enlightenment in this system is the fastest cure for divisions or “Willie Lynchism” among and between Black people around the world; and between the descendants of Africa and other people. No longer do we need to argue over whether there is mutual destiny, respect and love, on the one hand, or mutual distrust, disrespect or hatred, on the other, between Africans in Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. We Africans in the Diaspora (as well as many other nations of people) are impoverished due to centuries of kidnapping, enslavement, genocide, cultural and economic subjugation and the theft of our labor and identity. Africans in Africa have been impoverished by war, famine colonialism, the theft and exploitation of their land and resources and the destruction of civilizations, cultures and religions. The perpetrators of these crimes are the same in both instances. The descendents of the former enslavers now desire to maintain and continue this system. The present conditions and needs of Africans around the world are similar everywhere. Self-deluding exercises in dividing and discriminating against each other only increase the harm already done. In evaluating our respective conditions we will find infinite numbers of insignificant distinctions without any real differences, in substance. Therefore, we must be conscious that the solutions and remedies to these conditions will be equally effective and beneficial for us all. In our worship practices, let us reflect, re-enforce and magnify our god-hood and goddess- hood status. Rather than prostrating ourselves, groveling and begging a foreign god for forgiveness of our wretched sinfulness, let us pray standing with our arms up-raised to our Cosmic Supreme Mother-Father because we are its immortal children. Rather than artificially changing our names to Arabic, Persian, European or Chinese and using their languages to express our love for God, let us begin a program to document our places of origin in Africa. We will then have the option, if we choose, begin to learn the languages and names of our true homeland. This will give us a connection with our history and provide a unifying characteristic applicable to Black people around the world. Let us treasure, cherish and claim our history and achievements. But, let us no longer write or sing songs about our weakness and sinfulness. Let’s begin to write and sing songs that reinforce our belief that God created each of us perfectly and that our destinies are exalted, our possibilities limitless and our power unimaginable because God made us that way. Let us articulate that the ancient African empires of Ethiopia, Kush, Egypt, the Dravidians, the Moors, Ghana, Songhay, Zimbabwe and many others were among the most powerful, advanced and glorious civilizations on earth; equal to or greater than those of Europe or Asia. Let us acknowledge that these other civilizations imitated and adapted the religions, science and technology of Africa to achieve their greatness. Let us acknowledge that our ancestors generously developed the civilizations of other people. Let us incorporate meditation, yoga and life-giving habits and diets in our daily lives. Let us build and enhance the body-temples God has given each of us. When we pray, let us describe the glorious future we are destined to create, with the blessings of the Ever- present. Let our prayers be of this quality: “O, Everywhere Present Supreme Intelligence; All Powerful Creator God. I seek the Cosmic Light of Infinite and complete Intelligence, Power, Wisdom and Love. Please guide me, and my people, to accomplish your will. I decree that all oppressed, exploited and disposed souls in the heavens and on the earth, are now and henceforth, liberated and resurrected to our proper stature as leaders and co-owners of all that is in this world and its heavens. I decree that all that I do and all I say will result in harmony, security, progress, prosperity and success for my people. I will be an uplifting blessing to everyone and everything. All destructive, disruptive, oppressive and chaotic beings, forces and conditions in my environment are now rendered positive, harmonious and beautiful. I call upon the administering Spirits of Light, who implement God’s will to arrest, remove and render impotent, all beings, forces or conditions that do not enhance our liberation and upliftment. Allow me to be conscious of your presence in all that I do, O’ Ever-present Cosmic Supreme Intelligence. Thy light eternally prevails.” As we decree, so shall we be. |
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