African spirituality vs religion

Emperor Haile Selassie words still stand true today as it was then that

1. We must stop confusing religion and spirituality.
2. Spirituality does not come from religion it comes from our soul.

Religion is set of rules, regulation and rituals created by human which was supposed to help people grow spiritually. But due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle.

Spirituality is not theology or ideology it is simply a way of life pure and original as was given by the highest of Creation to our African Ancestors at the origins of creation.

If you think African spirituality is evil, you have been successfully indoctrinated by religion.

The path to the Creator is within self

1. If you believe the Creator, gave you his breath of life and his soul at birth, the energy and made you in his image.
2. Where else would search for God except within.
3. There is no need of following any religion which was forced into our ancestors that has caused so much death and destruction to our people in Africa.

God religion is your body and soul true.

1. God true religion is your own body and soul.
2. You go to church within you not outside.
3. The moment you go outside of self to find God then your soul is lost to the world of deception and manipulation by fake people who claim to know GOD yet they are just scumbags deceiving you from the real GOD inside of you.

Spirituality is a network linking us to the most high.

1. Spirituality is a network linking us to the most high, the universe and each other and those who have long gone our ancestors -spirits the power that linked us to the Creator.

That is why when the Whites arrived in Africa, they did not understand the African spirituality, the power linking us to the Creator. They ended up labelling the spirit mediums as evil spirits yet our ancestors from the beginning of creation knew God.

In Africa God the creator of the Universe is known by different names.

1. We have been foolish enough to abandon our rich heritage and adopt Christianity as a religion that was simply corrupt and created by the Pagan Emperor Constantine when the original Nicene Creed was first adopted at the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
2. It was amended to its present form and is used by many Christian church. The same Christianity was used as tool to suppress black Africans.

As Africans we abandoned our rich heritage and spiritual way of life . We are in bondage today because we approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors.

Until Africans people  trace the pathway back to the original African Spirituality  and its children will remain in perpetual suffering inflicted upon itself because of ignorance. It is time to abandon these man made religion and focus our selves to find the African spirit again.

First religious text was not the Bible- but the coffin text or the book of the dead text

Coffin Text or The Book of the Dead Text

1. According to the Africa Fact book Contrary to popular belief, the first religious text was not the Bible.
2. The oldest religious writings known to humanity are the collection of astro-religious literature known to Egyptologists as the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, elaborately chiselled on the interior walls of the 5th and 6th Dynasty pyramid complex and variously dated between 2700 and 2100 BC.
3. Of importance likewise are the collection of funerary inscriptions written on the coffins of the people who died during Ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (2040-1786 BC) and known as Coffin Texts and body of writings called by the Ancient Egyptians as Pert-Em-Hru often found in the coffins of the buried .the collection become known to the Local Arab grave diggers under the cynical name Kitab al Mayyitun meaning Book of the Dead.

The Arab grave diggers or grave robbers.

1. The collection of these writings and coffin texts by Arab grave diggers or robbers become known to the local Arab grave diggers under the cynical name KITAB AL MAYYITUN Meaning the Book of the Dead – because they were found and stolen from the graves.

Vedic text of Indian subcontinent.

1. Next came the Vedic texts of the Indian sub-continent.
2. The texts of the RigVeda were the first extensive composition in any Indo-European Language.
3. It partially adapted the Shaivism of the Dravidian cultures, who have since been positively confirmed by DNA as migrants from the African continent.

The Vedas of Hindu writing.

1. The Vedas of the Hindus were first committed to writing between 1200 and 900 BC.

The Hebrew teachings – known to Christians as Old Testament.

1. The vedas hindu writing  were followed in the Middle East by the variety of Hebrew teachings now known to Christianity as Old Testament texts, written down in fragments between 900 and 150 BC.

Religion indigenous to China – Taoism and Confucianism.

1. The two major religious systems indigenous to China are Taoism and Confucianism.
2. Buddhism was imported from India and happened to have flourished during the same era.

Although, they stem from much older traditions, Taoism’s sacred text is the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze and Confucianism’s primary work is The Analects of Confucius. The two were committed to writing mostly after the death of their respective founders in the 6th century BC.

Hebrew writing translated into Greek.

1. In the third and second century BC, the Hebrew writings were translated into Greek (known as Septuagint).
2. New material was joined to the collection, with versions of what became the canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament.
3. These were refined by the 4th century AD, when Christians received their first coherent, but not final, versions of the scriptures.

The Quran Muslim religion.

1.  The books of the Quran or Koran were first put to writing in the 7th century AD.

In terms of age the sacred texts used by the three major religions today – Judaism, Christianity and Islam are babies in front of the African sacred texts used in Ancient Egypt 2700 years before Jesus was said to be born.

1. According to the African fact file book – In fact, God borrowed the womb of Egypt, the womb of the Black people of Egypt, to give birth to the Israelite nation.
2. And as the mother, the Egyptian nation naturally passed on her DNA to her daughter Israel.
3. This is why everything the Hebrews/Jews knew at the time of their exodus from Egypt had been passed on by Egypt or learned from Egypt.

All Religions are imbued with ” Ancestral Worship “

1. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all imbued with “ancestral worship”. Judaism and Christianity, for example, put high premium on the Israelite patriarchs, especially Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the long line of their other “ancestors” who came before and after Abraham.
2. In the case of Islam, the ancestor Mohammed is supreme, followed by his lesser lights.

Sadly because of ignorance the vocabulary devised to discuss African religious thought was established as superstition, animism, ancestor worship, polytheism, fetishism and idolatry.

Be that as it may, it is now firmly established that humanity’s cultural journey began in the Rift Valley regions of East Africa. To date, Ethiopia, in particular, continues to furnish the world with the earliest specimens of skeletal evidence of man’s uninterrupted habitation on earth.

A serious study of the archaeological material of prehistoric African cultures suffices to inform us that human experience in the Rift Valley area impacted heavily on subsequent social developments in the more fertile Nile regions.

Inner Africa the birthplace of religious thought, Egypt was merely the transmitter

According to Dr John Hendrik Clarke

1. The American Egyptologist, James Breasted, recognised Hebrew derivations of Egyptian religious thought as the medium and not the source, the 19th century Englishman Gerald Massey also affirmed that “it is to inner Africa we must look in order to understand that which became majestic in Egypt”.
2. He was right. “Inner Africa was the birthplace” while Egypt was merely the transmitter, or in Massey’s words, “the mouthpiece”.
3. To see how much the Israelites borrowed from the Egyptian source, we only have to go to the Genesis account of the Creation of the World in the Bible.

Genesis account of creation of the world in the Bible.

1. Having introduced the divine architect in the first verse of Genesis, Moses, the author of Genesis, had the formless earth given form in the second verse, when, “the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:2).
2. Like earth, the heavenly realm was undifferentiated by the waters. The “alchemy” of creation followed a ritualistic path in which the divine architect commanded a firmament “and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament” (Genesis 1:7).
3. This is how land, according to the Biblical account, emerged from the elemental waters, effected by a commanding utterance by God. “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear” (Genesis 1:9).
4. So also did animals emerge from “the waters”. “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that has life and foul…” (Genesis 1:20).
5. The authors of the Koran were equally emphatic: “We made from water every living thing (Sura XXI: 30), says Allah: “It is he who created man from water”, (Sura XXV: 54).

According to African Fact File book

1. The authors of the Biblical and Koranic texts conveniently reworked a cosmogony that had already become universal, the earliest of which was known to be the standard in Yunu (Heliopolis), not least for its employment of the aquatic theme.
2. Heliopolitan cosmogony derives the Creator God Atum from Nu(n), the inert waters of later faiths, as does the Memphite theology.
3. The Nebertcher narratives of the Late Period of Egypt convey similar images as follows: “I am he who evolved himself … no heaven existed and no earth, and no terrestrial animal or reptiles had come into being. I formed them out of the inert mass of watery matter, found no place whereon to stand … [I] was alone … none other worked with me. I laid the foundation of all things by my will, and all things evolved themselves there from … I united myself to my shadows and I sent forth Shu and Tefnut out of myself; thus, from being one God I became three, and Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Nut and Geb … and their children multiplied upon this earth” (see Wallis Budge’s The Egyptian Book of the Dead)

Pouring libations – text of ani

1. Pouring libations Nevertheless, it is the ritualistic function of the watery substance that is key to its cultural genesis. Passages from the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom period reads like a formula that one might expect in contemporary African cultures.
2. The Text of Ani exalts the subject: “Pour libations for your father and mother who rest in the valley of the dead… Do not forget to do this even when you are away from home… For, as you do for your parents, your children would do for you.”

African origin of monotheism the Worship of one God –Akhenaton.

1. According to African fact file book Prior to Akhenaton, the systems in existence allowed for a communalism of faith within the framework of Ma’at, (ie, moral and spiritual equilibrium).
2. With Akhenaton, came massive state intervention in religious matters. Intermediary deities were rendered unemployed, as the path of communication with God became direct to all subjects.
3. Again, the previous order allowed for localised and reciprocal participation in faith, in Akhenaton’s era faith became a uniform preoccupation.
4. All religious reality was reduced to a singular focus. As there was one God, he could only manifest in a single way. The idea of plural manifestation became alien, spiritual diversity evaporated.
5. God became omnipotent but not in multiple forms. Aten’s disk was the “proper” form that symbolised God’s presence.

Akhenaton influence on both Jewish and Christian traditions

1. Akhenaton’s influence on both Jewish and Christian traditions has been a subject of immense investigation from diverse sources.
2. Based on his research into the problem, the influential 20th century Jewish scholar, Sigmund Freud, insisted on Moses’s Egyptian identity and asserted the obviousness of Akhenaton’s influence on Moses’ doctrines (see Frued’’s Moses and Monotheism, 1939).
3. In his early studies of the subject, the English Egyptologist, Arthur Weigall, similarly saw Akhenaton as having founded a “religion so pure that we must compare it to Christianity”. (See Hornung’s Akhenaton and the Religion of Light, 1999). Indeed, other parallels exist aside from the concept of “monotheism”.
4. But one cannot fail to see the obvious link between Akhenaton’s Great Hymn to Aten and the Bible’s Psalm 104 (whose writer is said to be anonymous).

Religion was conceived from Africa from the beginning of time.

1. As early as the 5th century AD, the Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine, had conceded this much: “What we call the Christian cult has existed among the ancients and was not absent from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh from which time the true religion which existed already began to be called Christianity” (Retract 1, 13).
2. St Augustine remained the most influential Christian theologian for no less than a thousand years and was the most famous of the Roman church fathers.
3. The Romans had taken over and ruled Ancient Egypt from 30 BC until 324 AD.
4. In 323 AD, the Roman emperor, Constantine, created Rome’s first state religion when he melded aspects of Christianity with other existing pagan beliefs.

It is from that 323 AD edict which was tied to Sol Invictus – the Unconquerable Sun (remember Akhenaton’s Sun-God, the Aten) where we get modern Christianity’s Sunday worship, Christmas Day, and Easter Holiday among other observances and rites.

More importantly, in 325 AD, the Roman Empire called a conference in Nicea (today’s Iznik, Turkey) and formalised the first Christian State. Chronologically speaking, the old policy of persecuting “unruly” Christian cults had become impractical by the fourth century and soon gave way to two key conferences in 312 AD and 319 AD that ultimately culminated in the Conference of Nicea in 325 AD.

However, the new doctrine formulated at Nicea had to build on the old. And as the link between the “revealed” religions and their so-called “pagan” predecessors were still new, denials of derivations would have been a sterile endeavour during that phase of theological development.

There are over 200 parallels between Ancient Egypt Doctrines and Christian Doctrines

Although modern Christianity, Judaism and Islam find it difficult to acknowledge what their ancestors borrowed from African religion, the evidence is there for all to see, especially if they have the will to see it.

As mentioned earlier, there are over 200 parallels between Ancient Egyptian doctrines and Christian doctrines.

The Crook or the Shephard staff

Two hundred! Some of the most visible ideas/items borrowed from African religion by Christianity include the Ancient Egyptian staff of office (the crook or the shepherd’s staff) which is widely used today by the Catholic and Anglican hierarchy, including the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ancient Egyptian divine headgear worn by ancient priest – become the mitre borrowed by Catholic and Anglican churches

Also, the Ancient Egyptian divine headgear/hat worn by the ancient priests became the mitre borrowed by both the top hierarchy of the Catholic and Anglican churches, worn by the Pope (Catholic) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican).

Ankh -the symbol of life become the Christian Cross

Another Ancient Egyptian symbol of office, the Ankh (the symbol of life) which used to be worn as a neck chain exclusively by the priests became the Christian Cross. Early Christians also appropriated Akhenaton’s sun worship rites. In summary, it is fair and correct to state that modern Christianity, Judaism, and Islam rest firmly on African foundations