Page 35 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 27 Final
P. 35
Community
The Kamitic Tree of Life or of existence before creation is “motion”).] no vibration,
of an undifferentiated Potential no “things”, therefore no
Ra Un Nefer Amen has -- the primordial mist. There space, and no time. There
reclaimed for us some of are two dual principles which is also no light, since light
the core Kamitic spiritual characterize the Amen: One is a vibration, and there is
teachings and precepts. is the principle of Mind, the no motion.
The key teachings have other is the principle of Matter.
been diagrammed in what The principle of Mind is itself
has come down to us and is dualized into Consciousness and Mind/Matter Duality
known as the Tree of Life. Will. Consciousness represents Parenthetically, and
The Tree of Life is a the passive polarity, and Will somewhat paradoxically,
diagram of the process the active polarity, of the same the energy/matter
through which God creates essential quality. continuum (i.e. the
the world, Man, and Man’s Matter principle) properly
sojourn in the world. The The principle of Matter may includes Spirit. In the
Tree consists of eleven be seen as a continuum, which grand dichotomy between
spheres, numbered from may more properly be called Mind and Matter, Spirit
zero to 10. Sphere 0 is at Energy/Matter, because “matter” falls under the category
the top, and is depicted as in the strict sense is but one of Matter rather than
being “above” the tree. It extreme of that continuum, of Mind. Spirit is
depicts and corresponds being “energy-slowed-down.” fundamentally energy,
to the state of God and Implicit in that notion is the fact and the medium through
of existence before the known to Western science at which Mind expresses
creation of the thingly, least since Einstein, namely that itself. Since individuated
phenomenal world. In energy and matter are mutually spirits also are associated
the Kamitic tradition, transmutable. As reflected at with individuated Mind
this aspect of God was Sphere 0 above the Tree, the (Consciousness/Will),
known variously as Amen, essential quality of Mind is a loose usage of the term
Atum, Aten, Nu, and Nut. state of bliss, peace, hetep, the “spirit” sometimes, indeed
As it has come down Kamitic word for a state of usually, refers also to
to the Zulu through the unshakable inner peace. The Mind. Strictly speaking,
Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu, essential quality of Matter, at however, spirit is energy,
it corresponds to what they Sphere 0, in the state of Amen, and thus distinct from
call the Itongo as Bowen is that of pure Potential, which Consciousness/Will (hence
has told us. means there is as yet no motion, Mind) which may in
[Note: The Hindu word nirvana various senses manipulate
Amen, or The Source, or also characterizes the state of spirit. It follows from this
The Itongo Amen, and means, literally, “no schema, that the grand
The essential state of God motion” (nir = “no” + vana = dichotomy here called
ISSUE 27 | MAY 2024 35
