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| The History of Locks: Rasta or Nazarite 1 of 2
6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: 6:3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. 6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. 6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. 6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. 6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. 6:16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: 6:17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. 6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven: 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine. 6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation. 6:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, 6:24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: 6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, andgive thee peace. 6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. The Quran [4:43] O you who believe, do not observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) while intoxicated, so that you know what you are saying. Nor after sexual orgasm without bathing, unless you are on the road, traveling; if you are ill or traveling, or you had urinary or fecal-related excretion (such as gas), or contacted the women (sexually), and you cannot find water, you shall observe Tayammum (dry ablution) by touching clean dry soil, then wiping your faces and hands therewith. GOD is Pardoner, Forgiver. [2:219] They ask you about intoxicants and gambling: say, "In them there is a gross sin, and some benefits for the people. But their sinfulness far outweighs their benefit." They also ask you what to give to charity: say, "The excess." GOD thus clarifies the revelations for you, that you may reflect, 2:220] upon this life and the Hereafter. And they ask you about the orphans: say, "Bringing them up as righteous persons is the best you can do for them. If you mix their property with yours, you shall treat them as family members." GOD knows the righteous and the wicked. Had GOD willed, He could have imposed harsher rules upon you. GOD is Almighty, Most Wise. [5:90] O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and the altars of idols, and the games of chance are abominations of the devil; you shall avoid them, that you may succeed. [5:91] The devil wants to provoke animosity and hatred among you through intoxicants and gambling, and to distract you from remembering GOD, and from observing the Contact Prayers (Salat). Will you then refrain? [4:44] Have you noted those who received a portion of the scripture, and how they choose to stray, and wish that you stray from the path? [5:92] You shall obey GOD, and you shall obey the messenger, and beware. If you turn away, then know that the sole duty of our messenger is to deliver the message efficiently. [5:93] Those who believe and lead a righteous life bear no guilt by eating any food, so long as they observe the commandments, believe and lead a righteous life, then maintain their piety and faith, and continue to observe piety and righteousness. GOD loves the righteous. [16:67] And from the fruits of date palms and grapes you produce intoxicants, as well as good provisions. This should be (sufficient) proof for people who understand. Intoxicants 2:219; 5:90-5:91; 16:67; 22:2; 47:15 Intoxication 4:43; 15:72; 22:2; 50:19 Peace be upon you ![]() DogonVillage. com Black News, African American Issues, DogonVillage.com The Ancient Kemetic Roots of Library and Information Science Itibari M. Zulu The Ancient Kemetic Roots of Library and Information Science African Cosmology By Grisso The Kamitic Story of Creation and its Purpose The Minoans (Thera, Crete, etc.) weren't Pelasgian (pre-Hellene Greeks). EgyptSearch Forums: Classic Greece and its population's origins Timeline Egypt Timeline Egypt REAL ISTORY: ANU MIGRATION FROM MTs OF MOON TO KMT REAL ISTORY: ANU MIGRATION FROM MTs OF MOON TO KMT? Ancient Egyptian roots of the Principia Hermetica ANCIENT EGYPT : The Ten Keys of Hermes Trismegistos Ancient Egyptian Lives (AEL) (AEL) Egyptian Gods & Religions The Ancient Wisdom in Africa Zulu Society Traced to Reign of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) The Ausar-Auset Society ![]() The Ancient Wisdom in Africa Zulu Society Traced to Reign of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) THE conception of God and the universe that is common within traditional Africa, notwithstanding the diversity of its peoples, is one of the matters addressed in a paper by Bowen (1969). The author of the paper, which is entitled "The Ancient Wisdom in Africa," is white South African, and his prejudices are apparent. He describes a Zulu wise man thusly: "Mankanyezi was a pure Zulu, of the royal blood... he was a thin, tall man, light chocolate in complexion, of a distinctly Jewish cast of countenance, without a trace of the Negroid, with the exception of his snow-white hair which was frizzled" (Bowen: 114). Except for his frizzled hair, Mankanyezi is not Negro! We see later why he discounts the Negro in Mankanyezi, for Bowen is preoccupied in the paper with imputing non-African, or at least non-Negro, origins to the ancient wisdom of which he speaks. Bowen describes this encounter with Mankanyezi: In company with a famous Boer hunter named du Pont, I met Mankanyezi near the Limpopo river. (No precise year is given, but from remarks earlier made in the paper, this would have been early in this century.) "You go on a far journey," he said, after some preliminary remarks.We see from the foregoing the first point, namely that Mankanyezi belongs to a Society, whose members are the guardiams of the Wisdom which comes from of old, and moreover that the guardians of this wisdom may be found in every tribe and nation throughout Africa. However, there is more. "But," I asked in surprise, "how can you know this man, seeing you have often told me you have never travelled beyond the Zambezi?" "I know him because I have often seen him, though not in the flesh. Often we have spoken together. Do you think the mind of Man can travel only in the flesh? Do you think thought is limited by the power of the body? See this, and try to understand."From this we see a second point, namely that the guardians of this Wisdom-from-of-old claim mastery over powers of mind, in particular of telepathy, such that members of the Society, though never having met in the flesh, could have intimate knowledge of each other, as we see with Mankanyezi the Zulu, and his brother in the Society, a Masai. Crediting the truthfulness of this account, at least as to the facts rendered, the conclusion is clear that there are senses accessible to Man, beyond the five acknowledged by Western science, which allow, among other things, for thought to be transmitted, and received. Later in the paper, Bowen makes reference to his having become a pupil of yet another wise old man, one Mandhlalanga, who attempted to teach him some of this science, but "circumstances arose which led to [Bowen] abandoning [his] studies." Still, Bowen went on to recount from his "copious notes" some of what he managed to learn: [T]he Brotherhood to which Mankanyezi and the others belong is called "Bonaabakulu abasekhemu.Of course the root word khemu emphasized above, refers to km.t of the hieroglyphs, variously phoneticized as Khamit, Kamit, Kemet, etc., referring to what the ancient Greeks called Egypt.The implication is clear that the traditional religions (better, spiritual sciences) of Africa derive from ancient Kamit, and that this is a tradition that informs the spiritual traditions of the Zulu, as we see here. But as is also now well known, the spiritual sciences of Kamit also inform the religious systems notably of the Dogon, the Yoruba, the Wolof, the Akan, among many other African nations from the West and Central parts of Africa as well as the South. Diop (1981: 218) and Williams (1987) inform us of the waves of migration through which the Kamitic traditions were spread. Evidently there is a substantial gene-flow, not only the flow of ideas to which Bowen avers. The peoples already mentioned claim not only a cultural inheritance, but also genetic descent from the Kamau (The people of Kamit). Those of the Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu, are, as reported by Bowen, to be found in every tribe and nation throughout the great African continent, and indeed beyond. If the Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu brotherhood traces its origin to the reign of Cheops, it would predate the traceable lineage of every other religious tradition still extant, because it would go back to approximately 3900 BCE. The next closest tradition in terms of age would be Vedic tradition of India, which based on the Rig Veda, could be traced back to about 1500 BCE, and even the Vedic tradition would appear also to owe some of its spiritual science to Kamit. The earliest written parts of the Bible would have been written ca. 1000 BCE, based on a tradition dating back to Abraham, who would have lived one thousand years earlier, in about 2000 BCE. Moses lived about 1300 BCE. Chinese Taoist philosophy dates back only to about 500 BCE, as does Confucianism. Indeed, Kamit is the fountainhead, not only of the extant traditional religions and spiritual systems of Africa, but also (i) of the major religions of the East, namely Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism (the root word here, "Tao," betrays its origins in its phonetic correspondence to "Tehuti" (Kamitic) and "Thoth" (Greek version)) and (ii) Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As to the latter "Western" religions, ben-Jochannan (1970) has amply demonstrated the Kamitic/African antecedents. As to the "Eastern" religions, I would draw the reader's attention to the obvious points of correspondence between the tradition just sketched by Bowen, and what is popularly known of the Eastern religions: "Ukwazikwesithabango is "that science which depends on the power of thought" ... and "the only true science there is" (see earlier) -- as articulated by Mandhlalanga and reported by Bowen. Those who have read Chopra (1993) or heard him speak of "focused intention" would appreciate the fact that here is shared a core precept in common between the teachings of the Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu and those of Eastern religion. But in addition, Bowen reports the following other key point of correspondence -- the doctrine of reincarnation: Man is on a journey, the goal of which is union with the source of his being--the Itongo. To reach that goal he must first pass through all experiences the Cosmos affords, and must shake off all accretions accumulated on his descent from individualised Spiritual Mind into grossest Matter. To do this, he is born and born again (emphasis mine), for his physical body dies, as do his lower mental principles; only his higher mental principles which are akin with the Itongo survive individuality bestowed upon them at its opening.While Kamit would thus appear to be the antecedent if not the source of all the major world religions, Christianity and Islam appear to depart from core Kamitic precepts. For certain, where mere belief in one or other doctrine is offered as the sine qua non of "salvation," it departs from the Kamitic precepts, which emphasized the divine attributes with which God endowed Man, and the need for those attributes to be awakened through spiritual cultivation. [Note: To be divine, is not the same thing as to be God. The analogy that is often given in African spiritual science to explain this point is that of the relation between a drop of water in the ocean, and the ocean itself: the drop of water may contain all of the essential qualities of the ocean, but is of vastly lesser scale.] The "savior" lies within; it is not an external Christ-figure, mere belief in whom (emulation would be a different matter) is the necessary and sufficient condition of salvation. Likewise, the Kamitic concept of the devil is not essentially of an external entity with apparently God-like powers in eternal struggle with the Almighty, but rather that part of Man's being that is in opposition to her Divine Nature, because not yet identified with the Higher, Divine, Self. This failure to identify with the Higher Self leads Man, in the exercise of God-given free will, to make choices that are not in accordance with Divine Law and God's Will -- thus causing pain and suffering for the violator and those she affects, as Divine forces ultimately act to bring the violator back into alignment with Divine Law. Prophets and holy men and women from time immemorial have attempted to teach us how to transcend the lower, animal, part of the self, and attain to the divinity that is our essential nature, and the state to which we are on a journey of return. It is also what those of the Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu teach. I would not at all be surprised if the one born Yeshua ben Yosef (later to be known as Jesus Christ), a member of the Essenes, were not also a member of the aforementioned Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu brotherhood! That however is speculation. What is not speculation is that adepts exist on the African continent, and elsewhere, who, like Christ, perform what to the uninitiated could only be described as "miracles." It is my proposition that in reclaiming our African spiritual heritage, we may also find a way to come closer to that which Yeshua promised. Did he not say "... you too can do as I do."? EgyptSearch.com EgyptSearch Forums: European nations established only from Medieval times - whites are very new to Europe Below is the pictorial evidence of the Olmec and Maya. It is clear that the Maya were native Americans but the Olmecs were Africans. ![]() EgyptSearch Forums: European nations established only from Medieval times - whites are very new to Europe Gnosticism: Sethian to Valentinian Aaron Leitch (Khephera) Gnosticism: History and Mythology Gnosticism: Sethian to Valentinian THE MESSAGE The Message XVIIIth Dynasty 1534 - 1292 [I]( Thebes ) XVIIIth Dynasty !*Free Mumia News (10/19/99) Demos/Info/Support BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL! DEDICATED TO SAVING BLACKNESS WORLDWIDE Lactose Intolerance Gene Discovered New Page 1 Ancient Egypt Ancient Civilization - Page 2 - OccultCorpus “ANCIENT EGYPT:CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATION”BY WALTER MOORE AT GEOCITIES.COM/WALLY_MO/ “ANCIENT EGYPT:CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATION”BY WALTER MOORE AT GEOCITIES.COM/WALLY_MO/ BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL! 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