AFRICAN ORIGINS OF THE MAJOR "WESTERN RELIGIONS" - BY YOSEF BEN-JOCHANNAN | AUDIO BOOK

0:00 [Music] african origins of the major western religions by joseph a a ben yokannon copyright 1970 dedicated to the innocently recent born and those yet to be born african and african american infants who must one day take their place in mankind's world as the inheritors of the religions their forbearers created hoping that they may become the forces of chains to bring this world to its equilibrium once more

0:45 all faith is false all faith is true truth is the shattered mirrors strewn in myriad bits while each believes his little bit the whole [Music] as translated by sir richard f burton preface every time i had the good fortune to research into someone's religion i found god to be the image of the people to whom the religion belongs that is providing its philosophical concepts are indigenous not colonial the colonialism referred to as not essentially one of the conqueror nor is it one of the conquered in the

1:32 sense of troops and land but of slaves and masters in this case slaves who have seen the shackles which bound their bodies removed for over 100 years but not those of their mind because of their mental enslavement to judaism christianity and islam the africans and african-americans who have for one reason or another been forced to abandon their own indigenous religions need to know their role in either of these three as a person of african origin i feel that it is my obligation to enter this field where so many non-africans have before me entered to speak and write about me

2:19 in so doing i shall show that judaism christianity and islam are as much african as they are asian in origin and in no sense whatsoever european as the title western religions suggest that the terms semitic and hermetic as they are presently applied to the early founders of these religions are racist in character and intent the sole purpose is to deny the existence of that which most europeans and european americans call negro africans south of the sahara and bantu among other such nomenclatures of contempt

3:04 in the development of religion and thought in ancient north africa particularly science or egypt but the fact still remains with respect to the origin of religion that there would have been no egyptian civilization high culture had the africans the so-called negros of the upper nile valley and central africa not migrated north along the more than four thousand and one hundred miles long now river into saees equally there could be no judaism christianity or islam the daughter granddaughter and granddaughter of the african god raha and the mysteries all three

3:51 being outgrowths of the egyptian religion as shown in the coffin and pyramid text in the book of the dead and osiris the revelations in this work show that the reverend martin luther's revolt against papal roman christianity as well as judaism and islam remained stagnantly rhetoric until the reverend dr martin luther king jr no relationship to the above introduced it into the element of non-violence he copied from the hindu teacher philosopher lawyer and statesman mahatma mahandras karachaman gandhi and even though dr king tried to invoke the ancestral worship method of calling upon the spirit world

4:38 and christianity saints like his god jesus christ he was not to be heard by an irreligious nation of people whose gods appear to be machines of mass production the traditional religions of the indigenous african peoples and their descendants which are notoriously called paganism and fetishism by antagonists of the so-called western religions are in fact the forerunners of nile valley religions therefore they are the creators of the mysteries of science egypt cush ethiopia and nubia sudan this is shown in the text of this volume along with the fact that the mysteries

5:23 were developed from the ancient religious rites of the indigenous africans who once occupied the lands around the major great lakes of central africa and along the headwaters of the nile river that civilization in al qabulan africa traveled from south to north with the flow of the nile river and all its component parts with them they brought religion and philosophy all at which existed before the first nation in europe greece came into being the similarity between existing religious practices and parts of west central east and south africa with that

6:09 of the ancient indigenous africans of science egypt is not coincidental but instead is common to the heritage which began along the great lakes of central africa and the headwaters of the nile river as shown in this work there are people today around the world who have suffered similarly from european and european american imperialism aided and abetted by the leaders of judaism and christianity who also actively engaged in slavery by sanctioning its institution through twisted quotations from their own versions of that which is called the holy and sacred scriptures therefore information of the nature found in this work may be considered

6:55 of current importance but there was never a period in the history of mankind when they were of no importance it is shown that most europeans and european americans have consistently used the same information revealed in this work disguised as what they choose to call greek philosophy and western religions titles of direct caucasian oriented ethnic superiority the mere titles themselves suggest the exclusiveness of european and european american peoples only it is recognized however that this may not be sufficient reason to speak out against this type of academic dishonesty according to those who wish not to rock

7:41 the boat of the established order of things although knowing that truth is not being served but the main purpose of this work is to show that there is another phase to the greatness that is still mother africa the mother of mankind a sort of garden of eden also to provide another perspective in africa's major contribution to world civilization which may well assist in rearranging the present and future tenets of religious thought introduction no positive religion that has moved man has been able to start with a tabula rasa and express itself as if religion were beginning for the first time

8:28 in form if not in substance the new system must be in contact all along the line with the older ideas and practices which it finds in possession a new scheme of faith can find a hearing only by appealing to religious instincts and susceptibilities that already exist and it cannot reach these without taking account of the traditional forms in which all religious feeling is embodied and without speaking a language which men accustomed to these old forms can understand the above is the manner in which robertson smith began his classic study entitled religion of the semites but mr smith's words

9:14 could be extended to include that no major religion of today is exclusive of moral and philosophic concepts of any of the peoples with whom it had contact in its earliest development this would of course give credit to those african and asian predecessors who were the ones that really began the religions which are today called judaism or hebrewism christianity and islam formerly mahometism if what has been said so far could become common knowledge the general public would have no difficulty in recognizing that much of what they read in their torah jewish holy book

10:00 or five books of moses christian holy bible any version roman catholic or protestant and christian scientist and muslim koran or gowan would be conceited to be of african origin as well as asian and adopted later by europeans and european americans before they arrived in the americas the quote unquote new world but as long as racism remains the basis upon which these religions are taught rejection of the indigenous african and asian people's contribution to them shall continue to be camouflaged into the authorship of those who did least to start them but most to

10:46 continue them as their own exclusive domain to say at this time that moses of the hebrew or jewish religion and peoples was an indigenous african black or negro would create a catastrophic consternation among theological racists and bring down all sorts of anti-semitic charges by the same people who equally and strenuously would admit that moses was born in egypt at the same instance forgetting that egypt is in africa why because egypt and most european-american minds is some sort of a mythical place remote from any place near africa

11:32 this would not stop them from saying that quote moses was found floating down the nile river in a bulrush basket conveniently forgetting that the nile river source begins in uganda also that there are two niles the white and the blue and that the white nile is more than four thousand miles long flowing northwards through sudan and egypt and finally emptying into the mediterranean sea they seem to forget that the blue niles main source of water comes from the ethiopian highlands at lake tanai and that the other source of the nile

12:17 the thera river also starts in the ethiopian highlands and flows into sudan where it joins both the blue and white niles the ten commandments spoken of in each of the so-called western religions moral code of ethics are based upon extensions of philosophical developments by the indigenous africans the so-called negroes and bantu's of the nile valley civilizations from pre-recorded history the laws that say thou shalt not kill etc and thou shalt not steal etc were used in egypt science and ethiopia cush thousands of years before the birth of

13:03 moses of the hebrew jewish torah yet these two laws including all of the other 10 that make up the so-called western religions basic moral codes are still being taught as if the first time they ever came to the knowledge of mankind was when they were allegedly given to moses or mount sinai at least this is the manner in which they are presently taught in europe the americas and wherever european and european american religious and economic controls are in evidence it will be shown that the statements so far may hold true with regard to the almost successful attempts to make all philosophical concepts

13:49 in the major religions cited as beginning with the usually mentioned greek philosophy and greek philosophers in this sense the greeks are treated as if they were in no way whatsoever influenced or taught by the egyptians ethiopians and other indigenous africans along the nile valley whence the philosophical concepts now called greek philosophy were originated thousands of years before the creation of the greek nation in this regard professor george g m james in his book entitled stolen legacy states on the title page quote the greeks were not the authors of greek

14:34 philosophy but the people of north africa commonly called the egyptians strange as it may seem the ancient egyptians were being called caucasian by most european and the european american educators purposely ignoring herodotus description of them in his book the histories book two count constantine francois de volni who personally visited egypt in 1789 ce from his native france wrote in his book ruins of empires published in 1802 the following the earth

15:19 under these holy lands produces only thorns and briars man soweth in anguish and reapeth tears and cares war famine pestilence assail him by turns and yet are not these the children of the prophets the muslim man christian jew are they not the elect children of god loaded with favors and miracles why then do these privileged races no longer enjoy the same advantages why are these fields sanctified by the blood of martyrs deprived of the ancient fertility why have those blessings been vanished since

16:05 and transferred for so many ages to other nations in different climates count vulney's questions could be asked of the africans who are today being called negroes bantu's hide-and-tots bushmen pygmies and a host of other degrading titles whose ancestors were responsible for the development of the religions mentioned herein starting with the worship of the sun god ra then passing on to the gods jehovah jesus christ and allah the first question must be how much longer are we to remain outside of the

16:50 religions we originated in our mysteries in egypt and other high cultures along the nile the answer in this case would be simple at least the peoples of africa can still point to such religious works as recorded in the book of the dead translated from its original hieroglyph by sir e a wallace budge facing mount kenya by yomo kenyatta the edited works in jan hines john's muntu of course there are countless others that show the variety of depth in the philosophical concepts of african traditional religions judaism christianity and islam presently being

17:37 analyzed in the book of the dead the origin of heaven and hell are clearly seen to be nothing more than places poor ones at that of the indigenous africans of egypt's netherworld and mysteries developed along the nile valley all of which stemmed from civilizations that preceded the birth of the first harible hebrew of jew abraham avraham or abram centuries before the creation of the first hebrew nation palestine therefore in this work the god ra is shown to be the quote unquote jealous god who wants quote no other gods before me etc

18:23 this the hebrews copied in egypt and changed in the following manner thou shalt have no gods before me saith yahveh in the case of reverend plesside templates book bantu philosophy this roman catholic priest failed miserably to dispel the confusion in his own mind to prove that there are basic philosophical concepts in traditional african religions on an equal level of spiritual consciousness to judaism christianity or islam yet he continued to show how much better christianity his own religion is than any other so-called bantu religions and

19:09 bantu thoughts he examined jan heinz yan who claims no special religious affiliation or preference in his work attempted to show many basic philosophical elements in a few traditional african religions which are comparable to the three religions called western religions in his book moon 2 the new african culture pages 29 to 30 as translated by marjorie green grove press incorporated new york 1961 from its original work in german entitled muntus published by eugene dedrick's rolag dusseldorf germany 1958 mr yan

19:57 gives the following account on voodoo one old accounts of the cult voodoo word of dark vowels and heavily rolling consonants voodoo mysterious nocturnal sound of drums in the haitian mountains of abominations they have read about voodoo idolatry sorcery voodoo epitome of all impiety all depravity and terror which is sabbath of the infernal powers in irreducible heresy what is it all about some people have tried to derive the word from the dance of the golden calf view

20:45 dior and it has also been related to the heretical side of the valdezians vudua who were reputed to practice witchcraft in fact the whole practice of witchcraft in the middle ages was called voodoo isle the word is written in many different ways vardu vaidu vudu etc but it comes from the homie in west africa where it means genius protective spirit in the fond language it is vuda and in vudu the name of the cult like the cult itself is of west african origin

21:31 for the haitians for the most part come from there the reason why it was the religious conceptions of the homemade in particular that came to prevail in haiti is apparent from a london report of 1789 which tells us that ten to twelve thousand slaves were exported yearly from the kingdom of dahomey the english exported only seven to eight hundred of these the portuguese about three thousand and the french the remainder in other words more than six to eight thousand a year who was shipped to the french antilles above all the saint dominique as the principal french colony of haiti was then called the earliest indication

22:18 of the survival of african cults in haiti we owe to an anonymous french report which says the slaves are strictly forbidden to practice the dance which in suriname is called water mama and in our colonies the ma de agua water mother they therefore make a great secret of it and all we know is that it highly inflames their imaginations they make immense efforts to do evil things the leader of the plot falls into such transports that he loses consciousness monroe de saint-marie an enlightened scholar

23:03 lawyer and politician who was born in martinique and practiced law for nine years in haiti before playing an important part in the french revolution employed the leisure hours of the north american exile forced on him through his quarrel with rose pierre in describing in detail the geographical social and political conditions in haiti in his works of several volumes this relative of the empress josephine describes among other things a voodoo ceremony according to the erada negros voodoo means a great supernatural being a snake that knows the past and the present and through the medium of the high priestess and of the negros

23:49 foretells the future these two are called king and queen master and mistress or papa and mama the meeting takes place he says only secretly and at night far from profane eyes the initiated put on sandals and wrapped themselves in red clothes the king and queen wear girdles a chest through the boards of which one can see the snake serves as an altar the faithful present their wishes then the queen leaps upon the chest falls at once into a trance begins to prophesy and gives her commands sacrificial gifts are brought the king and queen receive them the

24:36 receipts are used to meet the expenses of the community and to assist needy members then follows an oath similar to that at the opening of the meeting and as fearful as the first an oath of secrecy and obedience yon's details of a voodoo ceremony on pages 42 and 43 of his book show very clearly the common relationship between traditional concepts in judaism christianity and islam and buddhism which most 20th century moderns do not know exists he continues on in the voodoo ceremony the first law to be invoked is legba he is the lord of

25:21 roads and streets the hermes of the voodoo olympus the protector of crossroads and doors the protector of the herd his wife isan is the goddess of the markets and the highest goddess of the erada olympus legba symbol his very is the cross a cross which has however only its form not its meaning in common with the christian cross the vertical board means the deep and the heights the street of the lowest the invisible ones the foot of this vertical world axis is rooted in the waters of the deep here on the island under the sea is

26:07 ganea the legendary home here the lowers have the permanent places from which they hasten straight upward to the living every vertical above all every stee and especially the potio matan in the hanford symbolizes the tree of the gods which unites the damp earth from which all things spring with heaven the horizontal bar of the cross signifies the earthly and the human world only at the crossroad where the human and divine axis meet does contact with divinities take place and this world is guarded by legba

26:54 in dahomey and nigeria he is the interpreter of the gods who translates the requests and prayers of men into their language in haiti he has the function of opening the barrier that separates men from the lowest he is invoked in the van velou rhythm and dance the music and song of the dance are very similar in purpose to that of the so-called storefront churches of harlem thus the following from yon's description above atibo

27:59 there are many more stanzas to this song however the reason for not showing the entire song is due to the fact that the main purpose of noting it was not to learn the entire song only to get an insight into the projection of man and his god as seen in the voodoo ceremonial dance and song on the island of cuba not too far from haiti voodooism becomes manicurismo a name which carries in the mind of most european americans the synonymous meanings of black magic satanism idolatry heathen superstition etc fernand ortiz one of the foremost writers on this subject

28:44 known to european americans disclaimed any religious origin whatsoever for manikismo in his book la africana de la musica folkloria de guba la bana 1950 ortiz called it a secret society a kind of freemasonry to which only the initiate who has sworn his allegiance may be long or these who is of roman catholic christian origin overlooked the fact that christianity is still a secret society in many lands today that it too was once so labeled everywhere it was and still is a religion to which only the initiates who have sworn their allegiance may be long but ortiz's position

29:31 is typically what happens when an exponent of one or no religion pretends to write an unbiased analysis of another person's religion if one is to take ortiz's premise as the criteria for what is a religion and what is a secret society then the baptism christening and confirmation rights of the christian initiations must be omitted equally circumcision of the jews and muslims also the exclusion of women from direct worship with their men in orthodox judaism in islam or are these not secret rights are they not special requirements in which only sworn members alone may rightfully adults the opinions and expressions already

30:18 shown are but a mere sampling of how religious personalities see each other's religion not only how they see each other in religious roles but how they also deny the existence of each other's god of course the indigenous africans the so-called negros [ __ ] etc and their descendants are not even entitled to have the respect of being capable of creating a religion with common philosophical idealism much less having a god which does not secure the endorsement of those european and european american judges who are in charge of the department of certification of fitness and qualification of religions and gods

31:04 since there are no african or african americans allowed on the board of god certifiers due to their inferior color and race their traditional african religions must then remain secret societies while the certifiers religions judaism christianity sometimes islam receive the good god and religious seal of approval all others are damned to the pagan depth of inferiority and only can they expect to see god if they abandon their pagan god and heathen religion for one of the approved religions preferably christianity the africans and their descendants black people everywhere need not defend their traditional religious philosophies

31:50 and philosophies upon the approval of european and european american standards neither shall this work even when they try to do so why because within the three most accepted religions in europe and the americas judaism christianity and islam often called western religions africans have been the founders of said religions and their teachings along with the agents hundreds of years in some cases thousands of years before they were known to the peoples of europe the fact that within the last three to four hundred years the role of the indigenous africans in these major religions has been carefully and purposely denied suppressed

32:36 and in most cases omitted would not stop the truth about their indigenous african origins from coming to the surface in light of all that has been so far stated further revelation of the general and specific role certain africans had in the founding of all three religions judaism christianity and islam is being retold all in the objective of setting the record straight or revealing the truth hopefully from this work knowledge about some of the major indigenous african contributors and their descendants in the founding and development of judaism christianity and extension of judaism and islam an extension of judeo-christianity

33:22 would spread to those who do not know that the religion they practice and the god they worship are as much african black as they are asian yellow and brown and or european white since christianity the european-american version of it is the major religion in the americas the caribbeans included it is the center of focus to which this work must mainly address itself moreover because the vast majority of african peoples and their descendants both in western hemisphere and africa are critically conditioned and or affected by it islam the major contender with european and european american-oriented christianity for the minds of the

34:09 african and african-american people will of necessity receive particular consideration with regards to its foundation which is so intensely african ethiopian in particular in structure judaism which today has very little or no real influence on any large segment of the african peoples anywhere due primarily to the inhuman pressures brought upon the indigenous hebrews of africa by christian and islamic missionaries in their converging crusades will nevertheless be carefully examined with regards to its previous control and influence on many indigenous african societies equally for its indigenous african origins will be highlighted as the clamor for

34:56 violent or non-violent action challenges the moral fiber of this anglo-saxon greek-centric oriented united states of america many noticed religious prophets within the major black communities asserted themselves as spiritual leaders all of whom believed they had received some sort of a calling from a caucasianized god the most noted of these are listed in the order in which they appeared on the national or international scene thus father peace divine rabbi wentworth matthews prophet sweet daddy grace prophet elijah muhammad and the reverend dr martin luther king

35:43 jr to these must be added the name of the honorable marcus mosiah garvey he was not a minister of the gospel yet it was he who brought a different dimension to african-american christianity which no other black man in this area of the world has ever attempted the men above all of african origin have produced an immeasurable impact on that which is labeled today judeo christian civilization and white power structure government names which are used synonymously with the united states of america in the case of father divine he gave jesus christ much more of a humanistic posture than any of his contemporaries

36:31 on the other hand the prophet elijah muhammad reportedly of a former baptist preacher background debunked european-american-style christianity and judaism as currently practiced not only has the prophet removed his followers from what he called quote the hypocrisy of the white devil's religion etc but he also modernized the muslim quran to suit the needs of the asiatic black peoples etc according to the message given to the quote unquote dead negroes his followers desire to save this is a basic tenet in the nation of islam the correct name for the so-called black muslims the honorable marcus garvey late

37:18 president general of the universal negro improvement association incorporated unia started a new christian philosophy and made jesus christ appear black for the people who worshiped him throughout the harlems of the western world garvey took his image from the jesus christ depicted in the ethiopian coptic church the oldest christian church and nation in existence this works ultimate goal is to show the definite links between juju voodoo and other exclusively indigenous traditional african religions with judaism christianity and islam among other

38:04 religions more commonly known to the european americans and of course to those of other ethnic groupings it will also show that when juju and voodoo as well as other traditionally african religions meet the conversion efforts of either three so-called western religions judaism christianity and islam the latter three must accommodate the first two by adopting many aspects of the basic tenets in order to keep the new converts for this reason and many others not being mentioned here it is virtually impossible to find an african convert in africa who has surrendered all of his or her traditional culture and religious practices especially

38:50 customs associated with ancestral worship and oracles for european style judaism and christianity or asian islam because of the same reason most african-american forms of judaism christianity and islam take on concepts and emotional outlets not common among the european american religious contemporaries of the three so-called western religions however no attempt whatsoever will be made to prove whether abraham moses jesus christ mohammed bilal or older mayor and any other gods and prophets were black white yellow brown red or technicolor

39:37 except in cases where they already have been made to appear caucasianized and in fact are known to be african aura of african origin this work shall not attempt to convey any special political cultural economic moral or religious message nor shall i refrain from any area heretofore considered to be controversial and anti-established by certain ethnic religious or political groupings if this work were to receive the endorsement of everyone then it is certain that it has said nothing meaningful by virtue of the subject matter alone african origins of the major religions adopted by the western world shall seek

40:24 out and report truth as it is discovered in the pages of recorded history also through personal knowledge and contact by the author this is all it is intended to accomplish scholarly excellence is the goal this work attempts to achieve thus it is written on a level somewhere between the college sophomore and the generally articulate reading public which is the primary academic prerequisite for this course of study for the reasons already stated there are very few footnotes on the pages of the text the major notes are given at the rear of the book in sections entitled notes for chapter number one etc

41:10 this method of documentation affords the reader a free flow of the information without having to be immediately distracted by footnotes of which the average reader may or may not be interested by the same token the necessary notes and documentations are still available to the much more inquiring student or general reader who may desire to become involved in further research or just to verify the author's sources of information and references at specific points in the work however it became necessary to insert in brackets certain documentary or related notes and evidence as part of the integral whole of the free-flowing information all of which dealt with

41:56 recorded events otherwise the quality and uniqueness of this work would not have been maintained lastly another major objective of this work is to make the past relate to the living present by means of the materials presented the old past should be relevant to the contemporary present in order that the new future could be approached and subsequently obtained if this be not the reason for works such as this but instead only its historic chronological findings then this would have been a waste of good time and academic research the role of the africans sometimes called negros bantu's pygmies

42:43 bushmen [ __ ] and a host of other such degrading terminologies and their descendants in the field of religion as in all other areas of human endeavor is too often ignored and in too many cases completely denied because of this existing condition it is necessary if for no other reason to bring to the forefront once more a few of the african black personalities that preceded the reverend dr martin luther king jr in trying to put religion into religious congregations and institutions it is also necessary to show many of them as the people who are most responsible for the origination of the philosophical

43:28 concepts by which european americans and african americans are guided as moral codes all of which today is called western religion and western philosophy the events of the death of minister el hajj malik shabazz malcolm x and the reverend dr martin luther king jr caused certain delay in the completion of this work which was more than three years in preparation those who knew of this work in its earliest stages will notice that chapter 5 has been revised to meet the above events and by doing so the entire manuscript has had to be rewritten in many places this new dimension has

44:13 enhanced the current value of the material content however it will be noted that none of the personalities mentioned in this work is rated over any of the others if this were done the purpose for which this work is created would have suffered beyond repair in closing and with respect to the major contributions of all of the africans and people of african origin mentioned herein the following african saying is given an offspring without a spirit past is a being without an ancestral tie author unknown chapter one shango a source of african

45:00 religions paganism voodooism witchcraft fetishism black magic abya oled amare are all but a mere sample of the many names relegated to a few of the righteously sacred religions of solely traditional indigenous african origin according to most european and european american educators theologians and general missionaries who believe within themselves that they have been ordained by some god or the other to save mankind from themselves although this messianic obsession is in itself disgusting enough these labels have become more and more

45:47 extremely offensive to the peoples of african origin who cherish their ancient traditional religious heritage that has survived asian european and european american slavery and colonization as such this chapter hopefully endeavors to point out some of the fundamentally indigenous african moral spiritual and philosophical concepts in these religions which are unknown to most foreigners as well as to the vast majority of the sons and daughters of the true garden of eden alcubulan which the greeks and romans renamed africa along with other such nomenclatures subsequent to the dawn of zengentropus

46:34 boisei approximately 750 000 bce and possibly before this date the indigenous african peoples the so-called negroes bantu's bushmen hattentots and others bearing such labels of inferiority status placed upon them by their slave masters and colonizers from asia and europe have been honoring a superior force or being sometimes this force or being is expressed in its material sense or in its unseeable unison in the spirit netherworld equal to the christian hell and heaven muslim paradise

47:19 and jewish hereafter because of the concept of a spirit world and most of the traditionally indigenous african religions there are also good and bad or evil ancestors and or almonds these could be translated into good and bad angels and devils thus the christian devil his satanic majesty would be as much a god as would be jesus christ allah or yahweh however he would be a bad or fallen god bad not in the sense that the ancestor himself would have been obnoxious but in the order of his past is good or bad things

48:04 equivalent to the role of a bad satan the devil or fallen angel with respect to a good jesus christ jehovah or allah for the africans contention is if god alone can make all things and control all things including men then there must be at least one good god and one bad god or the one god is both good and bad in the same instance contrary to most european and european-american-style christian dogmatism which expounds the racist belief that black african negro bantu etc traditional religions are solely visualistic

48:50 and idolistic the fact is that most indigenous african traditional religions of pre-slavery and pre-colonial european and european american periods that survived are as fundamentally philosophical and spiritual as the so-called idealistic religions the natural objects used in said african traditional religious practices to which christian and muslim missionaries object serve only to remind the faithful of divine presence and they are no different in meaning than the exhibition of a mogan david around a jew's neck a crucifix hanging on a christian's chest or a ca'aba black stone from ethiopia

49:37 concealed on a muslims person all of which are natural materialistic objects to remind them of their gods citations of an example of the above remarks are to be found in the libations sacrificial drinking still being practiced by the indigenous africans of traditionally african religions the extent of this custom is seen in the fact that the greatest of the fathers of the christian church saint augustine and indigenous african the most noted of christendom's moralists commented on its usage and religious devotion quite favorably it is no less sacred augustine felt than the drinking of wine

50:24 during the christian's holy communion in memory of the last supper or a rabbi taking his sips of wine on the sabbath eve omar shabbat friday evening yet these fundamental mainstays and most traditional indigenous african religious teachings have been employed in the mystery systems of north east west south and central africa more than 3 000 years before the birth of the hebrew religion which is thousands of years before the african of egypt moses supposedly left his homeland on the nile riverbanks to resettle the african jews of egypt and canaan

51:11 strange as it may seem the liberation of canaan by the hebrews would be an act of imperialism and of genocide had it taken place in the 19th or 20th century nevertheless the mere fact that people have said that god jehovah ordered this colonization of one group of people he made by another seems to justify said barbarism in the minds of most even today if the egyptians should claim that god ordered them into the same area taken from the moabites hittites jebusites etc the same as he ordered the hebrew some time ago over three thousand years ago who will believe them

51:56 to say that the indigenous west africans involvement in the use of alcoholic beverages palm wine for libations religious invocations or secular toastings is the custom of pagans and the uncivilized which is too often said is to label equally all westerners who drink wine ceremoniously in hebrew or christian rituals of being guilty of the same then is it godly when a white man drinks wine in a church or synagogue but ungodly in the case of a black man in voodoo ceremonies libation marks the period when certain rituals begin and others end for example the libation ritual during the ceremony that precedes

52:44 the placing of sacrificial foods on the main altar bad guy holy of holies before the prayer of sacrifice also marks the entrance of the papaloa high priest this custom is as common among the african haitians as it is among the wydars of west africa in christian ceremonies especially during holy communion it is customary for the attendants mass boys priests etc to set the altar with bread host in preparation of the recital of a pagan ritual that demands take ye and eat this christ body etc for wine alcohol it is

53:29 drink ye this christ blood etc the priest or minister's first drink libation before he dips the host christ's body into the wine christ's blood and calls upon god christ father which is similar to invoking the spirit of the you robbers of west africa's god ola de mary and his origins minor gods this is clearly stated in the take ye this my blood and drink in my memory etc a typically paganistic and cannibalistic ceremony if performed by africans or african americans in voodoo in this ceremony not similar to the ancient custom when

54:17 the druids of northern europe allegedly drank their enemies blood and ate their brains to capture their spiritual and physical strength is there any major difference between the practice when the papaloa high priest who was similar and ranked to a roman catholic bishop protestant archbishop jewish chief rabbi or muslim grand iman is aided by his subordinate priest and mambo priestess at the beginning of the eating of the mantis sacrificial food as the badgian acolyte or assistant to the high priest shakes the assan rattle made from a hollowed gourd with dried corn kernel inside

55:04 three times while the members of his congregation respond by bowing their heads and when a roman catholic bishop in his ceremony during the holy communion or when a priest acts as the bishop's acolyte and shakes the chimer incense holder and the chimes signal the congregation to bow their heads in prayer while in the pursuing moments that follow the choir softly and solemnly sings as his wine libation is carefully poured for him by his acolyte bajian is the burning of sweet incense and voodoo rituals ungodly but godly in jewish christian and islamic ceremonies

55:49 if this is true then western religions incense is the right way and maybe the choir in their religious ceremonies with its organ and or piano background music is also the only one to be rated godly if western religions choirs are the only ones approved by the authorized gods it is only natural that the voodoo choirs with their background organ triangular instruments beaten by sticks and tambours series of drums must be rendered ungodly why because a group of powerful men european and european americans who dominate and control religious propaganda ordained it so

56:36 god or vodom jehovah olidar may jesus christ allah and babaloa neither one is lest the divinity that enters and seizes the righteous in a pentecostal baptist or voodoo ceremony because he or she is called by either one of these names mentioned in any of the fundamentally so-called save soul churches of african-american and european-american sponsorship one can easily note that voodoo and juju have been co-opted in many of their forms into the judeo-christian setting that is common to christians and jews in

57:21 the united states of america with this phenomenal development the so-called negro spiritual is the most common and acceptable paganistic incantation to european american jews and christians why because they see such african incantations negro spirituals as religious entertainment by truly black-faced minstrels [ __ ] etc are the negro spirituals in any way a developmental outgrowth of european-american-style christianity or are they not an extension of indigenous african traditional religious chants that underwent european

58:08 and european-american-style jewish and christian influences the latter is definitely the case of course this conclusion will be very heatedly denied by those who wish not to be labeled among other things pagans savages uncivilized cannibals etc but the fact still remains that juju voodoo witchcraft and magic all basic elements within the so-called western religions have been emphasized in the african-american black owned and controlled synagogues churches and mosques the history of the african african-americans belated entrance into european-american style

58:53 christian protestantism and roman catholicism is in itself evidence that the africans who were at the time shadow slaves of european and european american jewish and christian slave masters were not wanted by the in-groups the slave masters could it have been possible that those africans who were not aware of the fact that their fellow indigenous africans such as moses saint augustine bilal and others primarily made judaism christianity and islam the mass organizations they are would have adopted the existing forms of religious worship their slave masters were using to enslave them in total not at all so

59:41 the mere fact that they were forcibly excluded from all forms of jewish christian and islamic western religions religious worship and that they were even persecuted and prosecuted for any attempt at practicing either on their own is further prima facie evidence that there is a distinctly different judaism christianity and islam developed by the african americans that is not attributable and or applicable to and by european americans the uniqueness of their common eating habits represents no major differences between the two groups for example the african-american was forced to develop an appetite for

1:00:27 turtling ham hock pig's ears tails and feet why because all other parts of the pig like all other edible animals were reserved for the european and european american slave masters christian and jewish in and out of religion in the case of the so-called western religions the africans were even denied the right to read any book whatsoever that is including the jewish or christian holy scripture much less the muslims which was not tolerated among the colonists even after they became independent as the united states of america one must remember that the africans although crushed in their every attempt

1:01:14 to participate within the culture of the beastial environment of slavery did communicate with each other in the cotton fields and other places where they labored through voodoo juju and other richly spiritual and religious devotions they developed in their indigenous homeland the continent of al qaedulon africa the bestiality of the slave masters further made them learn each other's religious songs and chants this conglomerate of religious exaltation therefore became the background for the latter development which is today erroneously called negro spirituals instead of african incantations or

1:01:59 voodoo tents it is to be remembered that the slaves were africans not negroes negroes were originated by the european slave masters so was negro land see black man of the nile by joseph ben yo cannon there was nothing negro about the development of the spirituals they were developed by millions of africans not one of whom was a free man not one a citizen not one a human being under the laws of great britain up until 1776 ce neither were they so considered after the american war of independence from great britain

1:02:45 nor after their federal constitution was written and from thence through the 14th amendment of said document in 1885 ce and to a very great extent not even today in 1970 more than 350 years after the first group of africans were brought to the united states of america as indentured and shadow slaves further proof lies in the fact that africans on the european and european american slave farms plantations or in the businesses and big houses sang their african spirituals and chanted their other voodoo and juju praises to africa's gods long before they could

1:03:31 even understand what the gods of the european and european american captors and slave masters were all about this european-style christian god jesus christ was different to the jesus christ presented to them in ethiopia before he was introduced to the romans in rome fare d well fair d well etc maybe to most black and white peoples in the united states of america today some sort of poetically broken english yes certainly poetic and definitely broken in its english yet it came from a negro spiritual that had its origin in the savagery of the jewishness

1:04:17 and christianless slave masters sadistic cruelty and genocide upon their helpless and defenseless african slaves fair d well fair d well that the blows from the masters bullwhip with its metal pellets would not maim another african slave if he or she was not lucky enough to die from the blows instead this is what these words that were composed during the world's worst era of genocide by one group of mankinds in humanity toward the other european and european american physical and mental enslavement of the african peoples in africa the caribbean islands and continental americas were saying

1:05:03 go down moses way down in egypt's land tell o pharaoh let my people go etc may in itself suggest jewish hebrew origin yet in fact it was the poetic expression which was so common in the african rebellion of their disgust and contempt for their christian and jewish slave masters that were being exalted but why did the slaves use the name of a fellow indigenous african moses a haruba in their appeal for freedom and could not see the justice and their other fellow african pharaoh king ramses the second reason for exiling his fellow indigenous africans

1:05:48 of the hebrew religion jews because of many reasons most common of which are a they did not know that moses was an indigenous african as they were b biblical egypt had always been taught in churches and synagogues as a mythical place where africans whom the slave masters renamed negros did not exist see they were brainwashed into believing that the enslavement of the african jews by their fellow african worshipers of the god ra was an act against their god jehovah of the jews and jesus christ of the christians but their own slavery on the other hand was the will of god d and that their own

1:06:37 enslavement was for their own benefit since slavery saved them from being eaten by their much more cannibalistic uncivilized pagan fellow africans who were not as fortunate as they were to hear the message of god jesus christ the hatred implanted into the preceding words with regard to moses and his troubles with his fellow african pharaoh ramses ii is still sung with greater passion in african-american churches than songs of their own enslavement such as old man river and lift every voice and sing and most of the sophisticated so-called middle class-minded negro churches

1:07:22 such as the negro presbyterians anglicans roman catholics lutherans moravians etc these songs seem to be banned by a kind of gentleman's agreement to hopefully bury their historic past memories of chattel slavery in this manner the beneficiaries of slavery their slave masters descendants can easily forget the fact that the slaves labor which created said wealth go still unpaid lift every voice and sing etcetera begins the once famous negro national anthem that was composed by the late african-american james weldon johnson however

1:08:09 it is still being sung among the less sophisticated african-americans blacks who find no solace in its continued exclusion in european america but today it too has become a part of the voodoo and juju african-american spiritual of the cultural revolution it too has been relegated to be sung only upon occasions when the african-american is overshadowed by some white cloud of misery such as the cold-blooded murders of the minister malcolm x el-haj malik shabazz and the reverend dr martin luther king but it must also give way to the much more popular when i die i'm gonna walk all over god's

1:08:55 heaven heaven heaven etc when the fallen brother or sister african-american is a close and personal friend or blood relative why because the latter song preaches resignation and satisfaction with slavery whereas the former slightly suggests a bit of protest on the part of a people who are still in their state of mental slavery yet conscious enough to muster a bit of protest in their struggle for self-esteem voodoo and juju chants and testimonials can be heard in the preaching of the last sermon on the mount that echoed free at last free at last great god almighty i'm free at last

1:09:42 i've been up to the mountaintop and i've seen the promised land etc but with a crashing booming bang from an assassin's weapon of violence the life of the man on the mountain a byproduct of voodoo and juju along with european and european european-americanized judeo-christianity the reverend dr martin luther king jr was free at last this man where melodiously mastered his african chants found only in the african-american so-called negro baptist church and other testimonial sharing and soul-releasing african forms of christian experience

1:10:27 around the entire world had also revived voodooism and jujuism even to the point of provoking the love of the god olu dumeri and his origins minor gods this analysis may not find many believers and its proclamations but the fact remains that dr king was typical in his approach as any voodoo preacher of today when voodoo priests take a rooster in their divine incantation and begin their dance to the god dambala o edo one can hear the same in the spiritual crescendo of the tambourine and piano playing that accompany the

1:11:12 religious dancing within the african-american testimonial that dr king preached particularly when the albia and voodoo spirits take hold of their worshipers to the extent that they floatingly move into the ecstasy of religious treads this form of voodoolistic involvement has been adopted by thousands of european americans of varied branches of christianity which are today called sex by their much more sophisticated brethren who prefer to maintain their emotionless dried up middle class analytical teachings of self-proclaimed theologians and philosophers who teach beyond and

1:11:59 above the understanding of their parishioners mainly to show their academic skills rather than deal with their followers earthly needs soul this overplayed and maligned exotic word has been removed from its voodoo origin into an old black magic and witchcraft nightclubbing atmosphere and from there to the more popular and contemporary but most contemptible meaning of black comedy yet seoul was the original expression used in the religious ceremonial dance that once entered in a debased form the european american entertainment

1:12:44 world from the caribbean as the limbo dance the limbo a religious ceremonial dance performed by the priest of the arbiorites in preparation for the adoration ceremonies adulating masculinity before the initiation proceedings of the young boy to be circumcised and start his role into manhood is as sacred as a jewish bar mitzvah or a christian first communion in this ceremonial exhibition it is said that man displays his greatest sense of power and his ability to coordinate in perfect unison his mind and body and graciously rhythmic movements and as such reach

1:13:31 perfect meditation with his god through the intervention of ancestral spirits from the spirit world but why did the overlords and slave masters from europe and britain bend the limbo in africa and the caribbean islands because they feared its paganistic immorality and the black magic it was supposed to emit they saw it as a form of heathenism of course with a bit of cannibalism thrown in for good measure this reaction being typical of the so-called christian missionaries that afflicted africa and the indigenous african peoples and their descendants for over the past 476 years

1:14:18 1503 to 1970 ce footnote 1503 or 1506 ce or christian era was the year the right reverend bishop bartol de las casas of the roman catholic church had the king and queen of spain and the pope in rome institute the infamous slave trade the first victims being morse who had refused to become christians after they were toppled by the christians the first number to be sent to las casas was four thousand the original slave port was located on the island of haita haiti which the spaniards had already

1:15:06 renamed hispaniola end a footnote in general that which is presently called limbo dance came down to contemporary african americans by way of african christianity which was adopted after christianity was infused with jujuism and voodooism in west africa and the caribbean islands before its arrival in the united states of america is it not strange that in save soul or sanctify dancing the dancers knees are never crossed yes but only to those who do not know that crossing the knees in a voodoo dance is as much sacrilegious as one trying to do a good

1:15:53 step during a jewish or christian religious procession before the ark of the covenant or the altar of communion the history of this most sacred religious tradition came down to the african-american and the african caribbean from generations succeeding generations through action even though not a single word was permitted to be written down all of which was inspired by god the african god vudum one sees the same corollary in the jewish christian and muslim traditional religious dances or movements of the priests rabbis ministers and imams

1:16:40 this tradition the limbo dance is as much the order of a god of africa through his inspired holy prophets that were called upon by his angels as the gods of europe and asia who called upon abraham moses jesus christ and muhammad or is it that god too is guilty of racism and that he she or it could never call upon an african to be one of the prophets maybe it is that oluda the god of the yoruba and millions more of west africa is not the equal of jehovah jesus christ or allah if the european and

1:17:27 european-american can see beyond his or her own narrow belief that he alone is perfect and that mankind did not have to call upon him to save humanity for any god whatsoever then and only then is it possible for him to see the influence juju voodoo magic abya witchcraft and most other forms of other people's religion and god that preceded the creation of judaism christianity and islam had on them in their own beginning and now in his book bantu philosophy the late roman catholic priest placide temples wrote in search of a bantu

1:18:12 philosophy one life and death determine human behavior it has been often remarked that a european who has given up during his life all practices of the christian religion quickly returns to a christian viewpoint when suffering or pain raised the problem of the preservation and survival or the loss and destruction of his being many skeptics turn in their last moments to seek in the ancient christian teaching of the west the practical answer to the problem of redemption or destruction suffering and death are ever the two great apostles who lead many wanderers in europe at their last moments to our traditional christian wisdom

1:19:00 in the same way among our bantu we see the evil you the civilized even the christians return to their former ways of behavior whenever they are overtaken by moral latitude danger or suffering they do so because their ancestors left them their practical solution of the great problem of humanity the problem of life and death of salvation or destruction the bantu only converted or civilized superficially returned at the instance of determining force to the behavior activistically dictated to them among the bantu and indeed among all primitive peoples life and death are the great apostles of

1:19:45 fidelity to a magical view of life and of recourse to traditional magical practices one evil you i preserve this term untranslated for lack of a suitable english equivalent it signifies those who have passed out of the traditional ways of life and thought of their own ethnic group and have taken over those of the west herein lies the basic problem in which so many european and european american european-american-style christian and asian muslim missionaries and their african converts also jewish educators find themselves hopelessly enthralled reverend templars also try to be impartial he said

1:20:33 his claim being the same as all others who professed judaism christianity or islam and at the same instance pretend that their own prejudices can be scholarly subdued sufficiently to make impartial analysis of africa's traditional religions this premise is without a doubt ridiculously preposterous and it is seen in its ugliest pretext by most africans and african americans who are most affected by it how can a person believe in one god and be impartial in his praises of another god of a different philosophy than his own

1:21:21 the possessiveness of reverend father placidi templas is best seen in his claim that in the same way among our bantu we see the evil you the quote-unquote civilized etc our band too was not even given the usually dishonest treatment of the quotation marks which would have to some extent concealed the reverend's personal bias and obvious and apparent racism concerning the word civilized reverend tepless opened up his work on the very first page second paragraph exhibiting what appears to be the same type of gross racism and religious bigotry his work was

1:22:08 supposedly correcting the title of chapter one in search of a bantu philosophy is itself at least provocative if not openly insulting to the overwhelming majority of the peoples of africa the indigenous population here is a professed man of god who allegedly came to africa to civilize and christianize the heathen africans yet he had to look for a bantu philosophy one can understand the semantic problem because the name bantu in itself is the creation of the racist colonial slave masters who like himself came originally from europe and later on the united states of america

1:22:56 this type of arrogance caused mass genocide to be committed against the indigenous africans the slavers and colonizers renamed bantu's along with other names such as hot and tots hammites pygmies negros etc but reverend placide temples was very well aware of this part of history with respect to his fellow colonialist administrators and european style christian missionaries with whom he served and those that preceded him all of them knowing too well the correct names the indigenous africans called themselves when they first arrived in africa nevertheless they forced the africans to

1:23:42 adopt what they chose to call christian names such as james george phillip and other such names used by british and european kings who were some of the worst characters in world history any group of people with a concept that created a god which they have not seen spoken to or met must have begun from a philosophical premise this is seen in the mysteries the jews hebrews copied from their fellow africans of egypt science to produce their first torah which the christians subsequently copied from the jews to create their holy bible all versions and the torah

1:24:28 and bible the muslims later adopted from the christians and jews to produce their quran at least the philosophy father templars could not find in his bantu god or gods is uniquely original to any of the so-called western religions it was developed along with other traditions and experiences the indigenous africans had rather than upon european and european-american-style christian doctrines which had nothing in common with west south or central african civilizations before the european white man arrived at these areas of africa al qaeda on the other hand jack mendelsohn a

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