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Obaluaye to help establish firm and enduring
foundations. At the same time, since nothing To the mind of a Christian reading these
lasts forever in the thingly world, Sekert and words, it’s easy to think what has been said
Obaluaye are also identified with cycles, or shared goes against the Christian doctrine
and since no new cycle begins unless an of the Tree of Life. And it’s ok to go against
old one has died, Sekert and Obaluaye are it, even though it does not. I believe there are
also identified as much with death as with lots of mysteries hidden in the Bible about
creation. But this is not as morbid as it many concepts that have been unveiled in
may seem to the Western mind, for within African spirituality. Or if you want to put
the African cosmology, death is not seen it in another way, those who “rewrote” or
as final, rather as transition. At any rate, canonized the Bible might have intentionally
Sekert and Obaluaye preside over funerals used the “edit” to veil the teachings of
and cemeteries, and the skull is one of their African spirituality. But for what purpose? So
totems. that you don’t see.
Divine Law/Truth, Harmony, The Take for instance the concept of Amen,
Interdependence Of All Things. according to this article, Amen is “The
Sphere 4 of the Tree of Life represents that essential state of God or of existence before
aspect of the Creator corresponding to the creation is of an undifferentiated Potential
laws of existence for the things of creation. -- the primordial mist. There are two dual
This is Divine Law. In the Kamitic tradition, principles which characterize the Amen:
the deity represented by this Sphere is known One is the principle of Mind, the other is
as Maat (Ubuntu). In the Yoruba pantheon the principle of Matter...” But according to
she is known as Aje Chagullia. The laws for the Bible, Amen is the “Beginning of the
which Maat is the expression govern both creation of God”. Revelation 3:14. That is,
aspects of mind (Consciousness/Will), as the revealing of “Mind” and the “Matter”
well as aspects of matter (Energy/Matter). state of God or Existence. That is the first
Thus Maat governs the principles of Divine physical or seen reality of the Unseen. This is
Truth, Love, Justice, Balance, Harmony, why the first things which were created were
Inter-dependence of all things, etc., as well “The Word” and the “Light”. And both are
as the laws of physics and of all energy/ one and the same.
matter phenomena, which latter includes the Is it possible that African spirituality in its
laws governing spiritual phenomena. It is true pure state, might just be the practical
the feather of Maat that is used to weigh the side of the teachings of the Bible?
heart at Judgement day.
Note from Samuel Phillips
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