 Principles of Death and Dying
Everything
born will die. Nothing lives forever. Even planets, suns, galaxies, and universes die. With humans the
question is how well, how just, how productively one lived. We all come into this life the same and go out the same;
the difference is what we do with our lives between birth and death.
From
the moment of birth, all things grow, develop, gain strength, reach maturity, but then grow old, run their natural course,
reach their limits decay, decompose, become moribund, stumble, fall and finally ceased to exist, thus giving way to higher.
In this sequence of stages and phases, the higher, more complex, yet nascent grow in the womb of the old, extract nourishment,
duplicate and sublate from the nucleus of heredity material and essentially supersede its ancestor to be.
This relative, temporal, transitory quality of matter/spirit (nnw) is universally evident in all
life from the smallest micro-organism to the largest universe if allowed to go through their complete life processes without
unnatural destruction. In short, as all things arise, they also must fall.
21
Billion Years
It is written that this part of the
cosmos that we know of, this universe, this galaxy, this solar system, and this sun structured itself over 21 billion years
ago. Billions and billions of years of jet blackness then came light and life. Twenty-one
billion years of matter and antimatter flowing down the majestic cosmic ladder from universes to super clusters, galaxy clusters,
galaxies, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, stars, solar systems, planets, other celestial bodies; to molecular complexes,
crystals, molecules, atoms, elementary nuclear particles, photons, force fields, quantum levels, to the sub-quantum. Twenty billion years to form the earth (which at one time existed in a condition that no organic life could
have survived on it) that is merely one fluid and ever-moving planet in a solar system housed in a galaxy with hundreds of
billions of solar systems and a universe which houses billions of galaxies---a small planet that is merely 4.6 billion years
old. Twenty one billion years to produce a sun, which is a the center of the solar system
that houses the earth, and is but one blazing celestial star in a teeming system of hundreds of billions of stars forming
this galaxy, and this galaxy itself is one of billions of galaxies in this met galaxy. The latter is the sum total of massive
stellar systems moving at colossal velocities throughout space within a vast intercosmic system known as the universe. Twenty one billion years that forged the earth's air, water and land, solidified first in Africa; the
organic process leading to the earth fitting itself for the emergence of organic life on earth over 3.7 billion years ago,
first began in Africa Twenty billion years and this emerging life begins to take the form
of simple DNA and RNA molecules as vehicles of heredity, complexes of protein molecules, single cells, multiple cells, tissue-based
complex organisms, organs, functional systems (neural, blood circulation, digestive, gas exchange, etc.), the organism as
a whole, families of organism, colonies, various populations the formation of from multicellular organisms that possessed
increasingly complex inherent capacities to adapt to changing earthly conditions; the transition to invertebrates, vertebrates,
reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and primates; and then the transition to human life over 5.5 million years ago, again in Africa,
this time on the equator---(species, biological communities, and the whole biosphere). Twenty
one billion years, and out of jet blackness life emerges, hundreds of thousands of female human eggs, and hundreds of millions
of male sperm cells shot into a hostile environment, forced to swim up stream (against the pull of gravity) quickly to attach
self to one egg as not to be exterminated by the acids and alkali naturally protecting the female's womb: Billion to one
odds to produce one single human being, a special being that through winning a life and death struggle before conception was
suppose to be here---a fact that is always overlooked. Think of the billions
of possibilities, think of the struggle for existence, how perfectly ordered things had to be for you to get here, how difficult
it has been for you to survive, to earn a chance at life, an opportunity to exist in this organic realm. Twenty billion years
to the emergence of human intelligence, and again this process began in Africa. Twenty
billion years to pave the way for human life in Africa to adapt first culturally and biologically to various climatic and
geological conditions on earth. This adaptation created the preconditions for the emergence of the first civilizations, again
in Africa. The Nile Valley River system, which runs through the heart of the African continent, is at the heart---the center---of
(1) the human species in all of its stages dating from 5,500,000 years ago; (2) the first settled human class societies, dating
from 10,000 years ago; (3) and the first ancient advanced civilizations, dating from 7000 years ago. KMT was an indigenous
African ethnic and cultural cluster of civilizations, geographically situated along the 4,144-mile Nile River, which flowed
from the interior of the African continent to the delta region of North Africa. Essentially, then, at the center of Africa's
ancient moral, cosmological, scientific, methodological, and theoretical being is KMT. Twenty
billion years for thinking African men and women to build the first civilization in world history: The sciences were
first developed by the indigenous ancient African KMTians (Egyptians). The foundations of the exact natural sciences
were first worked out by the Black Africans in KMT 2500 years before Greece, Rome, and later European and Arab metaphysicians
invaded the North African region, seized the torch of scientific extradition along with millions of square miles of land,
hundreds of millions of lives, and untold wealth in mineral resources, labor, and human intellectual thought matter stored
up in ancient temples and libraries. The initial analysis of the universe into its
individual parts; the embryonic mastery of astrophysics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology,
geology, mathematics; the grouping of the different natural processes and objects in definite classes; the study of the internal
anatomy of organized bodies in their manifold forms; the classification of populations of the world as were known; animal
husbandry, urban planning, civil engineering, astrology, advanced architecture, law, family organization, government, federal
organization of states and cities (nomes), their stages of development---these are the fundamental conditions of the gigantic
strides that ancient KMT had made before the destructive invasions tore the heart of African civilization, culture, and intellect
from its initial centers along the Nile River. Twenty one billion years, and the
first scientifically verifiable calendar in the world were in use by 4236bc in ancient African KMT. It was a galactic
calendar which was synchronized with the 1460 periodical rising of Sirius "B" binary star system, which means that
ancient Africans in KMT had initiated this calendar by 5696bc along the Nile River in east-central Africa. Such a painstaking
scientific discovery organized time and organized indigenous African civilization along the Nile. For
2700 year, with spear, whip, axe, sword, gun, cannon, automatic rifle, and now nuclear rocket launcher whites, Jews, and Arabs
ripped apart Black civilization, interrupted its natural growth process, retarded its culture sending it backwards, dismembered
its institutions, plagiarized its great cultural and scientific legacy, crushed its will to fight, crippled its people, and
made orphans out of Black children. On our people they took turns, as century after century became theaters of genocidal tragedy
staged on ocean floors of our ancestor's bones, skulls, blood, mucus, and sinew. One method or another will enslave any
race that is enslavable. This is an immutable absolute truth verified by 300,000,000 torched Black souls. The determination,
the preparation, the nerve, the boldness, the murderous spirit, the real killer instincts, the sheer will of whites, jews
and arabs to make us slaves was stronger than our ability to close ranks and free ourselves. Degenerate Africans also helped
oppressors to enslave Africa. One has to fit oneself for freedom---even if one has to torch the very heart of the universe.
Weigh time and pressure; measure action and reaction; weigh the crime and the lack of response. The rage of the innocent had
to be relentless. It was not. Centuries of divesting exploitation passed. Battered, bruised, subjugated, implacably oppressed,
abandoned with no scientifically organized direction, injustice gained the upper hand. There are turning points in history.
Today we are remembering. Twenty one billion years, and those who continue to harm us (who
are but arrogant bloodstains on a majestic cosmic masterpiece, pale microscopic spots which pretend to stand up against the
heavens) thought that their infinitesimal 2700-year slave-rule over us would last forever. Lonely spirits appear to whisper
in the wind, crying silent songs of suffering that never meant to be, linked in billions of flesh chains of ours Innocent
Ancestors, blood-dripping from their jaws, Black Race prostrate and helpless, strange Black fruits hanging from burning trees,
gutted, castrated, mutilated, dismembered, heads impaled on stakes, pant leg down, sperm running from their loins, seeking
cover for the intimate wrongs they have done, creating their own gods and religions that justify their guilt and allow
them to forgive themselves of their murderous/many sins, never admitting wrong, never repenting, never repaying, never reparations,
Great Suffering and Great Wrong, hour glass empty, hoping to leave the scene without being seen, Black Unseen Eye maintains
record, rush to burn and bury, hoping to cover their tracks with white powdered pimps and crack rocks, their nazis seeking
a final solution sadistically written in our blood and guts. Darfur is their dream as was Namibia at the turn of 1900; only
the seasons, scope and sinister skill of the killers are different. The object is the same. For them, this
chapter is complete, their coming solutions are final. Our fate is sealed, they
say. They have done all of this dirt, this pillage, this invasion, this burning and looting, this decimation, this capture
ad kidnapping, this castration and breaking, this brute enslavement and breeding, this stealing of children and childhood,
this destruction of generations unborn---and get away with it untouched. That they could write their own bibles, korans,
and torahs and create a heaven that would accept even them after all the wrong they have done on earth to others. That
the sun had set on us because they said so. That we who were left for dead were actually
done, that injustice would always prevail, that truth would continue to be crushed to earth, that their lies would live forever,
that they could stop the Black redemption, resurrection and renaissance in this lifetime, that they would take advantage of
our softness (which was learned not inherited) forever---that our time would not come back around again, that we would not
learn from their mass slaughters of our people, that we would not be strengthened from being forced to cross oceans of our
own blood to be enslaved and worked to death building their civilizations to struggle, to survive, to grow, to gain strength,
to come from behind, to parry their genocidal tendencies. Can ships calm a stormy
sea? No. They are wrecked, tossed about like specks of dirt in a sand storm. Twenty
one billion years of time and pressure, of battles, of wars, of victories and loses, of possibilities and realities, of struggle
for existence, of survival of those who have made themselves fit to live, and yet here we stand, an in-extinguished blaze
infinitely linked to an immense cosmic principle of Maat. We came in like lambs we will leave life as lions. Give all the
gold in the world, it would not lighten our suffering souls; give all the precious jewels, we cannot be bought or sold for
something so priceless, something with such meaning that we today reach to the heavens for heaven. Twenty
Billion great turns, and only images survive. They told us that we were nothing, that we came from nothing, that we would
never be anything---nothing from nothing means nothing. They told us to lock away our sadness, to dream forever of the good
we never had, to accept our pitiful lot as one handed down by their gods, allahs, and jehovahs, but we did not listen, what
they say means nothing coming from their tongues which are forked, instead we gathered up our feelings and locked them all
inside, we respected only those who respected us, we care for those who cared about us, we believed in ourselves for ourselves. We
learned to never accept defeat, never lay down, never crawl again, never quit, never snitch, never, bend over, never
dishonor the works of great ancestors like Harriet Tubman-never giving up, never afraid of losing, never giving less than
our best, always searching every star, even when this life was over, never giving up the belief that we would win.
For the struggle that we are engaged in is a sacred cosmic battle that the very universe sanctions. We
know what we must do. For generations unborn are to be given proper life---such a wonder of life, such a rare quality
to be found, such a reason to be. Release the fear, face the day, stand from your knees, rejoice within, let your emotions
overflow, your passions soar for we could find forever if we allowed our hearts to rise again. In time, you'll be inspired
to reach higher and higher. In the end, all of their gods died too. Look at history.
WHoever had the biggest sword, gun, cannon, neuclear bomb had the bigest relligion and god. When they lost their religion
lost too. For 4000 years, ancient African Kmt religion and moral beliefs ruled north Africa; when they lost, their religions
and gods were wiped out. As all things arise, they also must fall. This is the single most absolutely immutable
law in the universe. Everything that is born dies. All that exists will perish: there is nothing eternal in universes,
galaxies, solar systems, stars, planets, terrestrial life, human life, societies, oppresive rule. We operate within
this flow of natural law.
It has befallen on us to live in an extraordinary
era, a great moment. Three thousand of years of devastation have passed. We lost. They won. With hundreds
of years of cultivated destructiveness, they were better suited at fighting to win; we were not prepared to stop them.
And so we were overwhelmed in an unprecedented way. Given our condition and theirs, this was inevitable. But a
new life is at the dawn. And those who are to be reborn must first shed their old selves. Nothing new can live
long within and beside the old, rotten, decaying shell. How to Live Life In life
as with any climb, you can follow two paths in the mountains. The first winds round it with many a twist, exploring; the slope
is gentle, the ascent easy, varied, amusing. This path avoids points of danger, is cautious, careful, probing, slow. It never attacks the peak and halts at shelters known to be safe. The other is steep, takes each phase of the climb without
detour, skirts precipices and reaches a summit that is only accessible to the brave who can face naked sunlight and danger.
The task is to use both the winding, and the quick/straight one. If you bring forth all that is good within you,
what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth all that is within you, what you do not bring forth will
surely destroy you. KMT concept of death and the
afterlife To begin to fathom the KMTic concept of death and the afterlife, one must first begin
with the prevailing thought characterizing each historic epoch. Given that KMT civilization lasted so long (several thousand
years)", conceptions of the cycle of life changed as the means of production evolved, thereby forcing development in
the way in which society was organized. Principles Fundamental to Death and the Afterlife
Several fundamental concepts lie at the heart of any discussion of the Ancient KMTians regarding death
and the afterlife. They are best summarized in the following propositions. - The fundamental forms of existence are
matter and energy/motion;
- The fundamental forms of existence are constantly moving in a particular direction;
- The
relationship between and among forms of existence includes sameness and opposites unity (duality);
- The processes of
existence are guided by the unity ,and struggle of opposites, which compel movement from one form of existence to another
(tower to higher);
- All phenomena experience a life cycle, wherein they are born, grow and develop, age and decay,
and undergo a process of death and transformation into a new quality;
- Humans are considered the most refined form
of animal existence with the potential to become Asr-like (perfect) in their lifetimes;
- Near perfection possible if
humans are guided throughout their lives by MAAT and other fundamental guiding principles;
Therefore if we live
accordingly, - death is understood to be a natural and necessary transition to complete 'the cycle of 'one's'
life;
- If one has lived righteously throughout the course of her/his life, there is nothing to fear by
death [she/he can confidently walk through the halls of justice];
- The concept of an afterlife is understood to be
a way of encouraging moral and righteous behavior, while discouraging immoral and unrighteous behavior during one's life.
If we do not live righteously... The Ancients' understanding of the world stemmed
from their continued study of their environments and whatever records were bequeathed them-from prior generations. That the
Ancients were materialist in orientation, we know through their works. They studied their environments exhaustively. They
documented their observations over time and recorded advanced understandings-doctrine, philosophy, theory, methods, and practices-on
virtually everything that could be carved, painted on or otherwise built. Through the domestication of various plants,
the Ancient KMTians gained an appreciation of the life cycle-a seed grows and develops in a proper environment and a certain
point dies; however in the process of dying new seeds are produced, which lay the foundation for the continuation of the plant's
life. Their varied experiences led the KMTians to continue observing, studying, understanding, and learning their environment
which in turn gave rise to their attempts to both adapt to and change elements of their environment. The concept of
death and the afterlife naturally stems from an understanding of and appreciation for life and" the cycle it undergoes:
as something is born, so it dies; as it is created, it is destroyed; as it comes into being, it goes out of existence. Although
KMT was destroyed and so much of what KMTians built no longer exists, we can extract elements of how they viewed death and
the afterlife through what little remains. Many of the writings and drawings that remain on the walls tell stories that reflect
their understanding of life and death, such as the story of creation and the Asr/Ast legend. In the following paragraphs,
the KMTic concept of death and the afterlife is further explored. Propositions One and Two: Fundamentals
Forms of Existence and their Motion The first two propositions articulated above are important in
a discussion of the KMTic concept of death and the afterlife. For one they point to how the Ancients considered the environment
in which they lived, as well as their place within it. After having exhaustively studied the universe, environment, and life
contained within, they drew out the elements inherent in all phenomena, which were matter, energy, and-motion, with specific
temporal and spatial parameters. Furthermore, they understood matter to be primary and from which all else emerges; spirit,
consciousness, etc. Matter, energy/motion, and direction are represented in KMTic cosmology as Nwn (matter and energy)
and a Creator (direction). Nwn represents the primordial sea of chaos, within which the potential for the existence of all
phenomena resides. It contains matter and potentiality (energy) in unity and pure form, without intelligence (direction).
There is in Nwn no order, no organization, or no patterns which guide matter and its potential. It is only when the Creator-represented
as Atum, Ptah, or Amun-brings order to Nwn that matter and energy become organized and put into motion. The application
of intelligence (direction) to Nwn by Atum (Ptah or Amun) initiated a process of development that moves from lower to higher
forms, and gave rise to all phenomena and their continuous cycles of birth, becoming, death, and birth as a higher level.
Once set into motion, what was initially a single act of creation out of destruction- e.g., the creation of order out of the
destruction of chaos-became a universal principle inherent in all phenomena. In this story, the interrelatedness of
matter and energy, as well as their interdependence upon one another are revealed; one does not exist without the other. Matter
is primary in that is must exist first, however its existence relies upon the presence of energy. In a similar manner, energy
presupposes the existence of matter in order for it to be realized. Based upon the understanding (though primitive,
indeed) of KMTic cosmology one can deduce that: - Matter is primary;
- Matter and energy/movement constitute
a unity of opposites and the existence of one relies upon the existence of the other-there can be neither matter without energy
nor energy without matter;
- Matter, energy, and direction are fundamental to the existence of ail phenomena;
- Each
form of energy/movement is inalienably bound up with a given form of matter;
- Energy/movement is not accidental, rather
it is an external attribute, an existential form of the unity of matter;
- Energy is absolute-it is neither destructible
nor able to be created;
- Energy is relative-it is transitory, temporal and passes over into other processes; and
- Everything
in the universe is in motion and in a particular direction.
The contribution of propositions one (fundamental
forms of existence) and two (matter is in constant motion in a particular direction) to the understanding of KMTic concepts
of death and the afterlife is they reveal that the Ancients understood all phenomena-from the smallest to the largest; from
the insignificant to the significant-to undergo processes of creation, becoming, destruction, and re-creation at a higher
level. This understanding permits us to proceed to propositions three and four. Propositions Three,
Four, and Five: Unity, Struggle and the Cycle of Life The work-texts, carving, and statues-bequeathed
to us by the Ancients reflects their understanding of duality, or opposites in unity and in struggle. Because KMTic cosmology
reveals so much about what the Ancients understood, it will be elaborated here for purposes of explicating opposites in unity
and struggle. In all phenomena reside polar opposites, each of whose existence relies upon that of the other. The Nwn,
for example is form and formlessness, chaos and order, matter and energy-all at the same time because it represents a unity
within which polar opposite elements reside. Yet, even as these opposites rely upon one another's existence, each aspect
simultaneously struggles to maintain its place in that unity; in other words, each must constantly assert itself so as not
to be taken over, and therefore destroyed by its opposite. The principle of direction, represented by Atum (Ptah or
Amun) at a certain point introduces order and direction to Nwn, In other words, as the relationship (unity and struggle) between
opposites quantitatively intensifies, at a certain point, they take on a qualitatively new form, Atum. Atum, in addition to
introducing direction to matter and energy (which can be considered a new unity of matter and energy on a higher level), simultaneously
destroys Nwn. Therefore, one can argue that Atum reflects a higher ordering of the relationship between matter and energy,
which itself embodies both destructive and creative internal aspects. Atum is destructive in that it eliminated the old, the
mundane, the obsolete; while simultaneously being creative in that it gave birth to a qualitatively new form of existence. In
the story of creation, Atum then proceeds to create earth, air, fire, and water. The elemental principles- Shu/Tefnut, Geb/Nut,
Osiris/lsis, and Horus/Nepthys-themselves opposites in both unity and struggle, existed initially as potentialities, but came
into being through the realization of internal struggles within Atum. The potentialities once realized (and who themselves
have undergone a qualitative transformation from non-existence to existence, from potential to real) represent advancements
on Atum. In other words, each possessed abilities and capabilities in refined form that previously were present in Atum as
potentialities, in crude or unrefined forms. Important to note in KMTic cosmology is what it reveals about the KMTic
concept of dualism and the role of opposites in life, which include - all phenomena are guided by cycles of creation,
becoming, destruction, and rebirth on a higher level;
- development proceeds from the lower to the higher, the crude
to the refined, the unborn to the born, etc; and
- all phenomena are interconnected;
KMTic conceptions of
opposites in unity and struggle are also present in the images painted and carved on all that remains in what was once KMT,
as well as the few statues still standing. That these images are everywhere throughout KMT indicates how fundamental this
concept was to the Ancients. Propositions Six and Seven: Becoming ASRian Via MAAT Although the legend of Asr took different forms (depending on the moment in history, the person telling it, etc.), the
principle represented in this figure remained relatively unchanged, Asr represented the' ideal; what people could become
if they lived right during their lives. From the translations of what have been called the Pyramid Texts, specifically The
Book of Coming Forth by Day', the' deceased person who has lived righteously, morally, and justly carries the title
of "Asr" in the afterlife (while proceeding through the initial stages of afterlife-ism) and travels through the
House of Asr on her/his way to judgment. During judgment, the heart of the deceased is placed on one side of a balance,
while a feather is placed on the other. The deceased must then confess her/his innocence of wrong-doing throughout the course
of her/his life. If the heart is pure (meaning that the person lived righteously, according to MAAT), the person can proceed
to the West (the afterlife) and becomes Asr; if the person has not lived according to MAAT, her/his soul is devoured by Ammit. The
emphasis in this story is on living righteously throughout the course of one's life; MAAT embodies a comprehensive moral
system that, if adhered to, puts one on the path toward perfection (Asr). Life was important in KMT. The tremendous
lengths they went through to discuss the afterlife was (among other things) rooted in their continued commitment to improve,
become better, innovate, become more refined, more perfect. The Concept of the Afterlife Because death is a natural and necessary stage in the cycle of life, the Ancient, KMTians knew that it was during the
course of their lives that their work must be done. The concept of the afterlife reflects the understanding of cycles and
transformations from lower to higher forms of existence, as well as establishes the ideal person/characteristics (Asr) that
all members of society should strive to be/embody. 'Furthermore, the afterlife concept reveals the process by which an
individual can become Asr-iike; the process by which individuals become ASRian is MAAT, who embodies truth, justice, propriety,
honesty, reciprocity, and correct living. Guiding Principles Governing Life Transition Ceremonies.
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We have the moral and historical obligation to professionally organize our misery,
our suffering, our enslavement, and our exploitation, not merely to end this miserable condition but to give new meaning
to this life, to make dreams come true, to give new hope, to love and live again without the pain, to feel life beyond the
storms, to feed our hungry, clothes those naked, to shelter the homeless, educate the ignorant, to create wings that fly,
to make wrongs right, to pick up those who fall, to lift those who lost their reach, to strengthen those who are weak, to
lend voice to those unable to speak, eyes to those who cannot see, legs to those who cannot walk, and heart to those who are
in fear. Our obligation is to carry this out scientifically in accordance with the ancient moral principles of Maat.
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Preparing and Caring for the Deceased The body remaining after the soul has
gone needs to be prepared for cremation. Death is viewed as a natural stage in the cycle of life. Where death is premature,
the same level of care during preparation must take place. - Clean the body
- Prepare the body with oils and
spices
- Dress the body with KMTic transitional clothing made of linen
- Cremate body
- Sprinkle ashes in
a river or ocean (a place in motion)
The Transition Ceremony The purpose
of the transition ceremony is to honor the life led by the deceased, as well as commit to improving the quality of life for
those living. The ceremony is to be short, yet of a high quality. During the ceremony, the following are to take place. - A
summary of the life as a whole led by the deceased, if possible;
- A summary of the lessons that the living can learn
from the deceased person's life;
- An oath taken by all to learn from the lessons of the person's life;
Wisdoms of Kmt
Great things are ahead, worth living and dying for. Ancient Kmt left us
these words of wisdom for living life. Nature - The best and the shortest route to truth
is nature.
- The seed includes all possibilities of the tree, but will develop these possibilities only if it receives
corresponding energies from the sky.
- The seed doesn't reveal the tree it contains; become slowly and silently
like black blended in the night.
- The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.
- All
seeds answer light, but the color is different. The plant reveals what is in the seed.
- There grows no wheat
where there is no grain.
- Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.
The
Inner Self - If the heart rules, conscience takes the lace of the rod.
- The inner light grows in
silence, concentration, passion, and will
- To know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source;
your beginning will disclose your end.
- Listen to your conviction and follow your heart when in doubt about facts-even
if it appears absurd to your reason.
- All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds
with it in nature.
- Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project
your illusion.
- You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without
letting things worry you. This is the way of Maat
- Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of
the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity and direction of the inner urge.
On Judgment - Never
believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness.
- Sound skepticism is a
necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error
- Judge by cause, not by effect.
- Have
the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick up the future.
- Qualities of a moral order are
measured by deeds
Learning and Teaching - All cognition comes from inside but the master
teacher gives the keys.
- What is done does not matter as much as what was learned from doing it. In every
vital activity is the path that matters.
- It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than to fake
and later be exposed and disgraced.
- Pupils show by their own efforts how much they deserve to learn from their teacher.
- Not
the greatest teacher can go even one step for the disciple; in self one must experience each stage of consciousness and stand
on one's own two feet.
- To teach, one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.
- An answer
is profitable in proportion to the quality and intensity of the question.
- We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry,
knowledge with superstitious ignorance.
Law - Organization is impossible unless those
who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation.
- A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of complementary.
If you want something look for the complement that will elicit it, its ka.
- Knowledge is consciousness of reality.
Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.
- Everyone must act in the
rhythm of their time, such is their moment in time, such are the opposites.
- Two tendencies govern human choice and
effort, the search after quantity and the search after quality. Some follow Maat, others seek the way of animal instinct.
- In
all good or bad there is a price to be paid. It all comes back around again; accounts are settled and debts are paid
in full by some generation.
- If you would build something solid, don't work with wind: always look for a fixed
point, something you know that is stable, yourself.
- If one navigates unknown waters blindly one risks shipwreck.
Therefore, leave the one in error who loves her/his own error.
- To know means to memorize the known; but to understand
means to blend with the thing, to assimilate it, to become it.
- The only active force that arises out of possession
is fear of losing the object of possession.
- If you defy an enemy by doubting his or her courage you double it.
- Envious
greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.
- A house has the character of those who live in it.
- Routine
and prejudice distort vision. Each man and woman thinks her/his own horizon is the limit of the world.
- Everything
one does will have its consequences.
- By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction, when you know,
dare to do.
A Life of Meaning; the Meaning of Life We may be
long dead before we turn the corner and get on the path---if drastic changes are not made in our attitudes and resulting behaviors.
The past is a good beginning to start talking about the present. In sum, a people who were the prototype human
being originating in Africa millions of years ago, having a vast continent to call home, having settled and created advanced
indigenous civilizations while others were still living in caves, communalistic, unprepared militarily, soften culturally
by mild adaptation to an abundant environment, naive, cosmopolitan, lacking internal cohesion and social toughness, infiltrated,
invaded, pitched battles lost, defeated in trench war, retreating to the interior of the Africa continent, trapped, cut off,
ocean trade completely monopolized by the invading interlopers, broken, beaten, civilizations crushed, population displacement,
anarchy, societies devastated and forced to regress, populations raped, children orphaned, moral systems destroyed, families
torn apart, buildings torched, nations pillaged, territory occupied, will broken conquered, taking on the names/religions/clothing/beliefs/likes-dislikes/everything
of the invaders, seized, captured, millions mass transported, murderously enslaved, worked to death building white/semetic/arab
societies around the world, slavery to colonialism to settler occupation to neocolonialism, wandering without purpose/mission/or
meaning, carrying the mark of slavery, divided, trying to live out this life building their civilizations, justifying it---and
now we look out at a mess that others created, that we inherited, that we are responsible for improving, half way through
our lives, working at their jobs and ultimately building their civilizations at the expense of our own, and yet in our hearts
seeking to build a ship that this time will sail for all seasons---but alone doing it. Clearly those who were
most committed, whether for a good or a bad cause in history have always won in the end. Our race is unsuccessful at ending
this terrible condition because we have not been willing to endure all sacrifices until complete victory. We live and die
building white, arab, and jewish civilizations. At some point we must start to give our lives reason/purpose, beyond
living and dying for them and then trying to get to some heaven that they defined. What of building our own African civilization
again? If there are greener hills and a higher ground, destiny will have us all back in Africa through our children's
children, building daily the wonderful world that many of us dream of. This will be a good thing because it will bring
us full circle, thus righting a great wrong unmatched in human history. When facing death, does one wither
up and disappear or make the best of her/his time left? This is a question with which the one is confronted
as the condition of their health deteriorates. When one faces the inevitability of death at the end of a relatively
rapid deterioration of bodily functions, one must make sense out of life and leave life work and lessons to those who need
it. Such a person has a choice on how to deal with rapidly changing reality-give in emotionally to the disease and submit
to death early, or make the best of the situation and value the life that remained. Choose to not just die. Choose to
finish strong, making the most of what is left. There are times when the weight of a situation is
supremely greater than our ability to survive it. Under such circumstances, while we may not have the ability to defeat the
enemy (internal or external), we can choose what life can be; we can choose what we will leave for others. This is what
is meant by making the best of the time left. Death to Rebirth In Two Thousand
Seasons (by Ayi Kwei Armah), a man was dying on the ship and made the decision on his way out to take out one of
the enemies. He gave his life new meaning in his process of dying. • Do
not be ashamed of dying or living Once the process of dying has taken hold-once the conditions have become
so formidable that winning is not possible (in that time and place)-there is nothing to be ashamed of; why be shameful of
things that are out of one's hands? Under such a reality, value the life and time left and leave others lessons
and wisdoms. • Dying is not synonymous with useless As long as we
have breath in our bodies, we have an opportunity to win struggles that lay foundations for others to stand on. No matter
where we are in the process of the cycle of life, our actions can have meaning. • What
a waste to have people saying things about a person when she/he is not around to hear The significance
in this statement lay in the importance of letting people know that they are valued, that their lives matter while they are
alive. It means nothing to talk about a person's life without ever having told her/him. People have to know
that their lives meant something. • Accept what you are able to do and what
you are not able to do Rather than accept what you can and cannot do, understand the conditions of a situation
and know what can be done within it. The use of the term ‘acceptance' implies complicity with a situation
rather than fighting until the very end. • Accept the past as the past without denying
or discarding it Honesty with oneself about history is important to forward movement. A critical minds'
eye and honest, humble heart can reveal mistakes made in history and generate solutions. Key to moving forward means
not only not denying history, but studying it in its totality, not discarding any piece of it.
Yet that word
‘acceptance' is problematic for me in that it represents complicity to a certain extent. There are aspects
of the past that we do not accept because it was wrong, for example, that so many of our innocent people were brutalized and
slaughtered. To us ‘acceptance' closes the door to change; denies the possibility to fundamentally change
the direction set in motion as a result of past treacheries.
With regard to one's personal history, it is
important to honestly, humbly, and critically look at its form, content, and direction. And in a way that parallels
a broader historical analysis, assess mistakes made, while developing solutions for them, as well as identify and develop
lessons that can guide future movement. • Forge ahead with lessons imprinted on the heart We
do not say seek or grant forgiveness, rather soberly learn from mistakes and move forward in life. Our ancient Kmt did not
get anything from statements of forgiveness; they represent cowardly acceptance of abuse and brutality by others. People
who ask for forgiveness cowardly seek acceptance for wrong-doing, while those who forgive accept mistreatment. •
Give self time to cry or be angry, but don't wallow in it; move on In overwhelming circumstances
emotions may flow; let them. Let tears flow, anger be felt, joy and happiness be expressed and then move on. Understand
why such emotions are felt, permit self to feel them fully and carry on. It is important to not be trapped by any emotion-they
are to be experienced in moments, not serve as a basis for defining reality. • Dying
is the last great journey Death completes the cycle of life of a particular quality. The person is then
reborn as a new quality in the hearts and minds of those who carry her/his memory and life's lessons. •
This slave culture has nothing that makes people feel good about themselves; be strong enough to break from
it. There are two notable aspects of this statement; the first involves understanding a situation and the second
involves changing it. With regard to our race history, in honestly assessing and understanding it, we then realize that
our entire existence within slave worlds means continuous death. In knowing that death is certain, in knowing
that we can never have life where we are not in control of our lives, then we must be courageous enough to change. We
can't on any level be anything of our own choosing here...not as individuals, not as families, not as workers, not as
a race. • Love wins; love always wins When we love, truly, we will
go to the ends of the universe to make that which we love happen. • Many people
walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they are doing things they think are
important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way to get meaning into your life is to devote yourself
to loving others, devote self to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose
and meaning. Black people caught in a rat race; we're the rats in a race that the oppressors of our people
have set up to advance their civilization. In the white and arab worlds, black lives have meaning to the degree that
they fulfill specific, chosen tasks to advance those worlds. Therefore, our lives have no meaning in any
civilization but our own; our lives have no meaning unless we reject the ways of the enemies and define and embrace those
of our own; our lives have no meaning unless our individual purpose is set within the context of the collective purpose and
both are rooted in R3. •We have time and reason We have every
reason to use the time we have in this world to live purposefully and meaningfully. • Death
is the great equalizer An important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in. Reciprocity
is central to this statement; reciprocity in quality. • Its horrible to watch
body wither away to nothing but its wonderful because of all the time you have to say goodbye Where something
is bad for one, it is good for another. Deterioration and decay are aspects of the cycle of life that are part of the inevitable
quantitative movement toward a qualitative leap. They present opportunities to understand the particular phenomena (being,
quality); they make way for new things to come into being; they permit opportunities to draw out the process for further study. • Sometimes you cannot believe what you see You have to believe what you
feel; listen to your heart. • Things to Have Done Ahead of Time If you are going
to have people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too, even when you're in the dark. Know yourself first,
trust yourself first, then you can know and trust others. Get in the habit of standing back and looking at our
lives and asking, is this all? Is this all I want" is something missing? When you know your going to die, and be
prepared at any time; that way you can actually be more involved in your life while you are living. Ask yourself, am I doing
all that I need to do? Am I being the person I need to be to fulfill my life's purpose? Once you learn how to die, you
learn how to live. The things we spend so much time on-work-might not seem as important. - if you hold back
on the emotions, if you don't allow self to go all the way through them, you can never get to being detached, you are
too busy being afraid; afraid of the pain, afraid of the grief; afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails
- wash
self with emotion; it wont hurt; see it for what it is and move on
- as you grow, you learn more; aging is growth, not
just decay
- about people who long to be younger-reflection of unsatisfied lives, unfulfilled lives; lives that haven't
found meaning because if you found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back, you want to move forward, you want
to see more, do more
- people so hungry for love that they accepted substitutes; embracing material things and expecting
a huge hug back
- if trying to show off for people, forget it, they will look down on you anyway
- status gets
us nowhere
- Cherish the time to get it right; get things right
- You live on in the hearts of everyone
you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
- Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation
as you are about your own.
Lessons on Spirituality The spirit in a person and the
body of the person enter into a union with one another to produce a qualitatively new, higher level form of existence-a human
being. A person's upbringing, environment, experiences, and internal disposition shape the nature of the spirit.
Ideally there will be a relationship between the spirit and the body such that the spirit guides and directs the body throughout
life-to ensure that higher purpose and meaning are fulfilled.
The body has instincts, which are designed to ensure
that there is a body to encase the spirit. An extreme on one side or the other leads to a person either completely being driven
by base needs (which precludes higher forms of moral, mental, and martial development) or forgoing all food and relationships
to attain higher consciousness (which does not in and of itself promote the persistence of the species). Seek balance.
Can matter and spirit exist independently from one another after they have together produced a living being? - A
paradigm that places greater emphasis on the afterlife than the current one works against our race. Why? By investing time
and energy in preparing for a reality that is speculative at best allocates time and energy that can and should be better
spent on finding a solution to our problems. This approach contributes to our softness because a people more concerned about
what happens after they die than while they are still living handles situations inappropriately because of a belief that things
will get better in the afterlife.
- Our history is replete with pleas to gods and spirit figures for help to change
our conditions. Yet what assistance has been received over time for our race? None.
- Death is one part of the life
process. Phenomena, including humans, come into being, grow and develop throughout the lifecycle, and die. This is an objective
fact, independent of the will of humans.
- Questions central to one's existence and life on earth must be raised,
particularly as we consider how to change the tide of history. What is a solution to our problem (How can I, you, we correct
it)? What change can we affect? What long term and short term goals must be set to ensure that continued progress is made?
- All
things have their antithesis: anger can be both destructive and constructive.
- Study people's intention through
their actions. A lot of value is assigned to the things that people say and less to what gets done. At the shrine, for example,
there is not a system of checks and balances to ensure that what people say they are doing or will do actually gets done.
Things get forgotten over time and we then relegate the fact that things don't get done to the belief that it wasn't
time to happen or the person wasn't really ready, or whatever other excuse that seems appropriate.
- Animals possess
certain characteristics and traits that can be useful in clarifying certain concepts or processes.
Meaning is
in life's flow, its moments, its transitions, its cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. Translated secret hieroglyphics
texts left by KMT scribes millennia ago allow us to now appreciate how Africa's multimillennial history unfolds as one
continuous stream producing the KMTic African society that invented everything in antiquity and end up with nothing today,
but in who's death and rebirth carry seeds to ending the lethal slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization
iposed on us by races of brutes, and regenerating our best and brightest within this lifetime.
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