The God Within: An Ancient Afrikan Concept

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Master Fard Muhammad and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad co-founded the Nation of Islam on July 4, 1930. The Nation of Islam is an Afrikan centered Black Islamic organization currently under the leadership the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. The very first lesson the membership in the Nation of Islam must learn is the following, “who is the original man.” The membership masters the lesson by answering the question saying, “the original man is the Asiatic Blackman; the maker; the owner; the cream of the planet earth-God of the Universe.” Clarence 13x founded the Nation of Gods and Earths in 1964, also known as the 5% Nation of Islam. The Nation of Gods and Earths is an Afrikan centered Black Islamic community-based organization. The lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earth centers on teaching Black people that the original man is the “Asiatic Black man-the Maker; the owner, the cream of the planet earth; the father of civilization; and God of the universe.” Now some people may not want to believe, follow, or respect these lessons taught by both the Nation of Islam and the Nation of Gods and Earths on the true knowledge of Black people. (In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was believed by some White scholars that the origins of humanity was in Asia, but not in Afrika. However, Master Fard Muhammad teachings argued that the Black man and Blackwoman are the originators of humanity found in Asia, Afrika, and all over the planet earth. Thus calling Black people the Asiatic Blackman and Black woman. However, “radical scholars” such as Charles Darwin and Gerald Massey will begin their arguments with their strong theories that Afrika is the birthplace of humanity at this time. However, Darwin’s and Massey’s ideas were dismissed by academia. But by the mid to the late 20th century, scientists such as Drs. Louis S.B. Leaky and Donald C. Johansen, will prove that Afrika is the birthplace of humanity with their discoveries of the world’s oldest human bones in Tanzania and Ethiopia in Afrika. Science now says that most likely humanity begins in Afrika and then spreads from Afrika to the entire planet earth). However, these lessons are actually rooted in the missing pages of Afrikan History and Afrikan culture, but are attributed to Europeans history due to White supremacy and the system of racism. In fact, many aspects of Afrikan History and Afrikan culture are intentionally whitened by racist historians to keep these actual facts hidden from the masses of humanity, particularly Black people. By intentionally perpetuating misinformation about Black people, and our history and our culture, racist historians continue on with myths White supremacy passes off to the world as facts. For example, in Kemet (Egypt), Afrikan people created a school system called the Mystery School System. The schools taught students how to concentrate their Afrikan intellectual abilities, and their Afrikan spiritual beliefs of monotheism, into mastering the arts and sciences to shape the world into your own reality. The late and great Afrikan centric educator, Dr Asa G. Hilliard writes in his book, The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization writes extensively on the power of the Kemetic (Egyptian) concepts in education. He writes, “the process of education was not seen primarily as a process of acquiring knowledge. It was seen as process of the transformation of the letter that progressed though successive stages of rebirth to become more god-like. Disciplined study under the guidance of a master teacher was the single path to becoming a new person. Kemetic educators were the first and foremost serious students of natural phenomena, especially in the native African dynasties. It was the long, painstaking study of everything in nature that led kamites and other Africans to the belief in the essential unity of all things in the universe, and to a belief in one supreme God. This belief was held in KMT from earliest times. According to the great Egyptologist, E. A. Wallis Budge, who studied all the ancient Kemetic literature, the study of that literature reveals that there was never a time when kamites did not believe in one Great God (monotheism). This God was nameless, incomprehensible, and self-created.” In today’s world, many people marvel at White folks ability to shape and bend the world into their reality. Many White people are looked on as being Gods on earth. But Whites received their knowledge a long time ago from the lessons of ancient Afrikan people in Kemet’s (Egypt’s) Mystery School System. When Ancient Afrikan people created schools called the Mystery School System, the students learned the ability to master spirituality and the arts and the sciences to became a God on earth before the domination of White people on the planet earth.

According to Afrikan History, and World history, Kemet was the dominate civilization in the world for over 3000 years. But Kemet, in it’s last days, grew weak. Kemet’s disunity open the door to being conquered.

In 332 B.C.E.(Before the Christian Era), the Greeks conquered Kemet (Egypt). Then came the Roman conquerors in 30 B.C.E.. Then came the Arabs conquerors in 640 A.D.. Unfortunately, many more non-Black people (i.e. Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Hebrews, Christians, Muslims, etc) invaded ancient Kemet (Egypt). After the invasion of Kemet (Egypt), the invaders began a campaign of stealing from her libraries, copying her monotheistic spiritual ideology, and all her cultural treasures. The invaders discovered Kemet’s (Egypt’s) Mystery School System. They became students of the Kemetic (Egyptian) Mystery School System. Unfortunately, instead of giving credit to Afrikan intellectual greatness, the invaders claimed the knowledge of the Kemetic (Egyptian) Mystery School’s curriculum on spirituality, philosophy, mathematics, the arts and sciences for themselves. Some of these people mastered the lessons of the Kemetic people (Egyptians), they became gods on earth known as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Pythagorus.

Some people may have issues with this phrase God on earth. Some people may want to call it mastering knowledge. And that’s fine. But whatever folks call it, some people, mainly some very elite White people, tapped into this knowledge of Afrikan culture, to help empower themselves, and created a western (White) world that empowers them to bend it in their direction.

This is why we as Black people must revisit our Afrikan history and Afrikan culture. This is where we will develop the God within ourselves to bend the world in our direction for Black liberation.

Please read Professor George G. M. James’ classic book called Stolen Legacy. Professor James argues that Greek Philosophy is stolen Kemetic (Egyptian) philosophy from Afrikan schools called the Mystery Schools. Within the Mystery Schools, one learns how to master the arts and sciences, with the belief in the monotheistic supreme Creator, and spirituality, to become God in person on earth. Outside the entrances of the Mystery Schools, Kemetic (Egyptian) people wrote, “man, know thyself.”

In the book’s introduction, Professor James writes, “The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had developed a very complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first system of salvation. As such, it regarded the human body as a prison house of the soul, which could be liberated from its bodily impediments, through the disciplines of the Arts and Sciences, and advanced from the level of a mortal to that of a God. This was the notion of the summum bonum or greatest good, to which all men must aspire, and it also became the basis of all ethical concepts. The Egyptian Mystery System was also a Secret Order, and membership was gained by initiation and a pledge to secrecy. The teaching was graded and delivered orally to the Neophyte; and under these circumstances of secrecy, the Egyptians developed secret systems of writing and teaching, and forbade their Initiates from writing what they had learnt. After nearly five thousand years of prohibition against the Greeks, they were permitted to enter Egypt for the purpose of their education. First through the Persian invasion and secondly through the invasion of Alexander the Great. From the sixth century B.C. therefore to the death of Aristotle (322 B.C.) the Greeks made the best of their chance to learn all they could about Egyptian culture; most students received instructions directly from the Egyptian Priests, but after the invasion by Alexander the Great, the Royal temples and libraries were plundered and pillaged, and Aristotle's school converted the library at Alexandria into a research centre. There is no wonder then, that the production of the unusually large number of books ascribed to Aristotle has proved a physical impossibility, for any single man within a life time.”

In conclusion, when we acquire factual knowledge of Afrikan History and Afrikan culture, we will deeply understand ourselves and humanity. Most importantly, we as a people of Afrikan descent will know why the true purpose of a real education is Black empowerment.

Hotep!!! (Peace)!!!

-Bashir Muhammad Akinyele is a History Teacher, Black Studies Teacher, Community Actvist, Chairperson of Weequahic High School's Black History Month Committee in Newark, NJ, commentary writer, and Co-Producer and Co-Host of the All Politics Are Local, the number #1 political Hip Hip radio show in America. I can be reached at (bashir.akinyele@gmail.com).

Note: Spelling Afrika with a k is not a typo. Using the k in Afrika is the Kiswahili way of writing Africa. Kiswahili is a Pan -Afrikan language. It is spoken in many countries in Afrika. Kiswahili is the language used in Kwanzaa. The holiday of Kwanzaa is celebrated from December 26 to January
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