Yeah, put the Bible in school but...

Christ, Domitila Rome Catacombs (Second Century AD)

 

     In Austin, Texas this past November, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new K-5 Bible-infused Christian curriculum across the state. Although it is not mandatory for Texas School Districts to use it, there is a financial incentive; they receive $60.00 per student if they do. The Houston Independent School District (HISD) alone has more than 189,000 students and this translates into more than 11.3 million dollars. The second largest state in the U.S., Texas is the most populous in its region and is home of the often-untold history of the Texas Rangers. According to NPR, "Eight of the 15 board members voted to approve Bluebonnet Learning, the elementary school curriculum proposed by the Texas Education Agency earlier this year. The curriculum will become available in the spring, with schools that choose to adopt the materials expected to begin using them at the start of the 2025-26 school year." The NPR article goes on to state, "The curriculum was designed with a cross-disciplinary approach that uses reading and language arts lessons to advance or cement concepts in other disciplines, such as history and social studies. Critics, which included religious studies scholars, say the curriculum's lessons allude to Christianity more than any other religion, which they say could lead to the bullying and isolation of non-Christian students, undermine church-state separation and grant the state far-reaching control over how children learn about religion. They also questioned the accuracy of some lessons. The curriculum’s defenders say that references to Christianity will provide students with a better understanding of the country’s history." While many Christian Nationalists see no problem with this, there are others criticizing this move as, "using Texas schoolchildren as 'experiments'." 

     Let me start by saying that I am a scientist of life. As a scientist of life, I study everything, including religions. While I do think that religion has served a great purpose for some people in the past, present, and will in the future, I do not personally subscribe to any one organized religion. This does not mean that I am an atheist, I simply do not advocate religious hierarchies, prejudice, indoctrination, and the historical tyranny and fanaticism that often comes along with belief systems. When you look at the history of humanity you will find that the most heinous acts and destructive events are rooted in religiosity. On the flip side, and from my studies, I have also found many great principles and values that people can learn from religion. Principles and values that fosters a greater sense of self, a better relationship with our human family, and cultivates respect for our planet Earth. Unfortunately, many overlook this. So, I say yeah, put the Bible in school but only under these conditions.

Whenever the mainstream society make decisions in the so-called best interest of children (or women, and others), those decisions are primarily for white men and everyone else is expected to go along with it. That is the way that this country was founded, and this is the White Androcentric status quo that many expect to maintain, even to their own detriment. Just look at how BiPOC people and women have historically been outliers on this country's legal landscape since its 1776 inception. This means that HOW rollouts are historically done, in every industry, is questionable, inequitable, and non-inclusive. Let's start there. Next, the rhetorical questions we need to ask are things like, how are BiPOC people and women going to be framed in this religious curriculum? Will they be centered and under what circumstances? Will there be mandatory cultural competence and anti-bias education training by experts for district administrators and teachers who choose to use this curriculum? From seeing the talking points of public officials like Houston Republican Will Hickman saying, "In my view, these [bible] stories are on the education side and are establishing cultural literacy" I know what kind of culture he is talking about, and it is not Eastern, African, or Indigenous. I think children should learn about the Bible, in order to better understand the origin of their own beliefs if they are Christian or the Christian beliefs of others if they are not. Many biblical stories are powerful learning tools, yet it should not be taught as a history book because it is not. There are many people, places, and things in the bible where there is no evidence that they ever existed. People simply believe that they did, which is fine, it just needs to be communicated that it is a belief and not actual facts. Along with these stories, children also need to learn about historical atrocities committed in the name of Christianity, such as Indigenous Genocide, the Spanish Inquisition, Slavery, Witch Hunts, the birth of the KKK and Christian Nationalism, and etc. Children also need to learn about Arius, the African (Libyan) Priest who was kicked out of the Council of Nicaea and excommunicated for disagreeing with the council changing the Biblical narrative. What about teaching how even though the Bible is an African text, and its stories took place in Africa (pre-invention of the Middle East), Europeans co-opted it, and made God, Jesus, the angels, and all of its characters white? It's a lot. Yet the value in learning this actual history is to show children that they have a great opportunity to be better than many of their Christian predecessors who failed, and are currently failing, to live up to Christian values and being Christ-like, in America.    

Next, we need to ask, what other religious texts are going to be equally included and represented in school districts? They need to be! It is unfair for people in a municipality to pay school taxes to support a religious curriculum that they 1.) may not believe in, 2.) they may be opposed to, or 3.) that excludes/underrepresents their own religious beliefs as other Christian denominations and non-Christians. If school children are expected to learn biblical stories like The Good Samaritan as a parable about loving everyone, including your enemies, as an example of what it means to follow the Golden Rule, they also need to learn the Golden Rule from an Islamic perspective when the Prophet Muhammad said, "None of you has faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." There are powerful stories in religious texts like the Quran, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Apocrypha, and others just like the Bible. I would also include the Satanic Bible, metaphysical and gnostic texts because they should be studied also. I was happy to see that in response to Christian Evangelical lobbyists pushing public officials to legislate biblical curriculums, groups such as the Satanists, Hebrew Israelites, Muslims and others are pushing back by developing their own religious text-based curriculum to introduce it into school districts. The same thing applies to prayer in school. If you are going to do that, have a different prayer every day in its original language, led by a member of that religion, that reflects their belief in a Deity or Deities. Also, have a day with no prayer to accommodate non-religious folks also.  

"God Bless America" by Lee Greenwood

     What I've shared is just the start of a long windy road that I know these folks who are pushing this biblical agenda don't want to go down. They believe that America is a White Christian nation that we all need to be proud of and thankful for being here. I will tell you, I never felt patriotic about this country my entire life. I never looked at the American flag with tears welling up in my eyes with my hand over my heart while someone sang the national anthem. I never felt included, even as a kindergartener. I have never had an experience that has made me feel beyond a shadow of a doubt that when I hear the word "American" that this includes me. I am sure some of you, perhaps many of you, felt the same as I. This does not mean that I am anti-American or that I hate America. There are many great things about America like Black creations such as bean pies, Jazz music, Hip Hop, Maya Angelou, and countless inventions that I love. It just means that when I see political rallies and holiday celebrations and people put on Lee Greenwood's God Bless America, nothing about that song or the video (see above), moves me, at all. My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents felt the same way. Once you consider my ancestors who were enslaved and/or resisting and escaping America via the Underground Railroad, I would bet that they felt the same way also.

     In closing, I think at the heart of this campaign to put biblical curriculum in schools is the realization that there are many folks just like me who are not Christian Patriots. And some folks want to make sure that children are indoctrinated into a Christian Patriot belief system in our public schools as early as possible. A belief system that we will be paying for, in more ways than one. Have you ever seen a Bentley car commercial? I am sure you rarely have seen one, if ever. That is because Bentleys sell themselves and don't need to be advertised or rolled-out with some elaborate marketing agenda. Although some folks are trying to convince people otherwise, state sanctioned Bible-infused Christian curriculum is not a Bentley. Schools should only expose, reinforce, or redirect children to positive principles and values that they are, or may not be, learning at home and in their communities. State and Local governments undermine the First Amendment of the United States Constitution when they don't equally protect religious freedom in public schools and balance the rights of students with the principle of separation of church and state. What we are seeing and have been seeing since the founding of America is people in power doing whatever they want, when they want to, until they are stopped. Laws are only as strong as the science, sensibility, and fairness of those who have the backbone to uphold them. The way that this biblical curriculum agenda is being presented, minus all of my considerations, is leading this country down a familiar path of White Christian Fascism (Christofascism). It is what some people believe they want. With the support of uninformed Americans, this cabal has elected a commander-in-chief, a cabinet, supreme court justices, congressmembers, senators, and state legislators to do their bidding. What is my solution? Keep teaching our children, regardless to whom or what. Give them the resources and help them develop the critical thinking skills to figure things out for themselves, and support those of us who do. See: Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters

Peace,

Saladin

Lily Dale: The City of Light

   

   According to the history published by The Supernatural Fox Sisters, "In 1844, a Dr. Moran of Vermont was invited to give a series of talks on Mesmerism in Laona, NY. His talks inspired residents Jeremiah Carter and William Johnson to create experiments emulating Dr. Moran’s work. While in a mesmeric state, Jeremiah Carter became entranced and communicated as another entity called Dr. Hedges. After this event, interest grew in connecting with spirits in this manner, and in 1850 a society of Spiritualists and Liberals was organized."

   It goes on the say, "The camp was initially called Cassadaga Lake Free Association, but in 1903 it was renamed The City of Light after becoming the first community in the area to get electric lights. In 1906 the name was changed to the Lily Dale Assembly after the abundant water lilies found in the lake. In 1873, Willard Alden invited the group to picnic at what is now the Leolyn Hotel on the Lily Dale assembly grounds, with the intent of dedicating the grove for the use of Spiritualists. In 1875 the First Spiritualist Society of Laona was formed. The day-long conferences in Alden’s grove eventually developed into a longer summer gathering after Jeremiah Carter was moved by spirit voices telling him to start a camp there. In 1879, after Willard Alden passed into the spirit world, the Spiritualist Society purchased the 20 acres of land along Cassadaga Lake."

   Today people come from across the nation to visit Lily Dale; a gated community that has now expanded to 167 acres which includes a Fire Hall, many homes, a library, museum, cafes, a couple hotels, guesthouses, a beach, a campground and a couple gift shops. I had an opportunity to visit Lily Dale recently and below is an episode of Atlantis Build Talk Radio where I share my experience and a recording of a Chakra reading given to me by a woman who called herself a Chakra Intuitive. 

Peace,
Saladin 

That Priceless Look of Poverty
"Who Are the 10%?"

Regardless how well intended and proficient doctors may be, they are in the sick business. If they healed patients we would rarely need doctors so they "treat" them instead -and the pharmaceutical companies aren't mad about it. The same can be said about lawyers; they are in the crime, personal injury and family dysfunction business. If it weren't for drugs, violence, accidents, divorces and etc., we would rarely need them too. I'm sure my barber is glad indestructible haircuts don't exist yet because he would be out of business too. Whether we are mechanics, school teachers, dentists, politicians, pastors or etc., there's a certain degree of job security that comes along with fixing things or even striving to insure that things remain broke, as in "poor."


Here in New York, according to the 2014-2017 Community Health Assessment Niagara County Department of Health released in 2013, "23% of the people in our live below the poverty line and 44% of the population—almost one in two—is either in poverty or struggling financially and at risk." In the city of Niagara Falls, approximately 60% of our residents receive public assistance such as food stamps, welfare, unemployment insurance and Medicaid. According to 2009 data, 67% of the families in poverty are female headed households with no husband present, and 70% who are poor are unemployed. Another important statistic is that foreign-born residents are 94% above the poverty line.


When it comes to statistics, people can manipulate them to serve whatever political agenda they want. For example, in regards to 67% of the families in poverty being female headed households with no husband present, some people may simply say it's because they're not marriage material. Some people believe that the 70% who are poor, unemployed, are just lazy. The 94% foreign-born residents who are above the poverty line? Some may say they all work harder. Whatever statistics say there's always an angle of what can be said, which is oftentimes inaccurate or disingenuous.


One of the misconceptions people in my area tend to have about welfare [public assistance] is that their taxes pay for it. In part, they do. All of us who work allocate a certain portion of our taxes towards supporting our public assistance program. The reality is my county receives financial support from [New York] state and the federal government to fund our public assistance program. Because of the statistics related to poverty, and accompanying socioeconomic factors such as teenage pregnancy, poor education and etc., my city [Niagara Falls] receives a larger portion of that state and federal support. In other words, if the city were a person named Nia G. Falls, they would be living below the poverty line, receiving public assistance and parenting thousands of children.


Another misconception is that the face of welfare is "Lazy La'Shaniqua" who has 7 children by four baby daddies living in public housing. Actually, the largest portion of state and federal support any impoverished county and city receives for public assistance goes towards contracts, personnel, employee benefits and administrative services, not a welfare check. So the real face of welfare or those benefiting most from our city's poverty have more common names than La'Shaniqua. They are most likely home owners with a two income household that don't live in inner city zip codes. Do you get that picture?


Now you're probably wondering who we can blame for this. Well I'm not in the blame game business. We need more hands working, less finger pointing and the sober realization that fixing the things that are broke about our cities requires a multifaceted approach; collective work and responsibility. In the process, we also can't be naive to believe that there aren't people invested in things remaining broke [poor]. There are people like that, and they don't look like the broken.


Like with any family going through a financial hardship, we are not alone. On the other side of Canada lives Nia G. Falls’ poor cousin Dee Troit -who has also fallen on tough financial times. Maybe we, and cities like us, need to consider what strategies Dee is using to change their financial situation. That insight, may be priceless.


Peace,
Saladin

Ms. "Jordan" Ladd

Every "Jordan" Doesn't

Play Basketball

 

Since putting out my FULL PRESS RELEASE I've monitored the various local news sources to see how they'd cover the story. Not one of them have printed my press release in its entirety. All of them took only parts of it, put their own spin on it, and gave it back to the public the way they saw fit. While I do appreciate some of the publicity, there are other things I saw that were completely inaccurate. You can read my FULL PRESS RELEASE here: Saladin Q. Allah Official Press Release

Now, The Niagara Falls Reporter printed, and I quote, "Allah is a convert to Islam and changed his name as is customary for Muslims converts."

I am not sure where they got this from. I never spoke to anyone from The Niagara Falls Reporter about the weather let alone religion. I never said that, it's not in my press release, it's not in anything I've published online, and it is completely inaccurate. I am not Muslim nor was my name change for religious reasons. The Niagara Falls Reporter did accurately state, "Allah says his ancestor was Rev. Josiah Henson, who is said to be the inspiration for the fugitive slave in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'." Yet it's this very part of my ancestry that would have given them more insight about me, my family background, and my name change if they asked me. Since they didn't, I can tell you directly.

 

Article in the Niagara Gazette about my Grandmother Inez Frank (1986)

 When some of my ancestors were brought to America during the trans-atlantic slave trade, they were enslaved and forced to give up their cultural identity, regardless of their religious ideology. They no longer were allowed to speak their own language, use their own names, maintain the same diet, or even establish stable family units. This process continued, by law, for approximately nine generations or three hundred and ten years. So while some people of Italian descent can trace their last name to an actual village in modern day Italy, or others can trace their lineage to a Family Crest or Coat of Arms, tracing my lineage has consisted of looking at cargo logs for ships or doing DNA tracking to find out the geographic location of my ancestors. The trans-atlantic slave trade, and slavery, interrupted the cultural identity and arrested the development of an entire group people. It interrupted the cultural identity and arrested the development of the people enslaved and the slave holders.

In indigenous societies of the past and today, our birth names where a central part of our cultural identity and role we played within our societies. For example, when a child was born a name would be given to them, usually by our elders, to communicate a part of that child's purpose and destiny. This was sacred and ceremonial, not done without consideration. If the child's name meant "sincere counsel", that was an important role our elders knew our society needed to birth and cultivate. It's no different than people giving birth to a child and providing them with all the support and resources they need to become a productive member of society. Many of our ancestors wisely took it a step further by making sure this support was reinforced by a person's actual name. So instead of simply providing a child with the resources to become sincere counsel, we gave them that name to live up to as an attribute. During slavery this cultural tradition was interrupted. Slaves who were bred to produce children for labor no longer had the power to name them. These children were sold off to other plantations and given names to identify them as a master's property. So a slave named "Smith" was identified as Master Smith's slave. "Walking Henson" was known as Henson's slave who walked alot. Not only was this naming method used to track the slave masters property, but it was also used for insurance purposes. There are many wealthy companies and families today, that accumulated their wealth, from Slave Insurance.

Many present day African-Americans can trace the last names we currently have, whether it's English, French, or etc. directly to the slave masters who once owned our ancestors. Again, regardless of our ancestors religious views or how we chose to worship, this slavery system legally interrupted our cultural identity and arrested the development of us all.

 

Article in the Buffalo News and letter from African Ancestry Inc.
about my International Family Tree Project (2005)

The reason I legally changed my name was to reconnect to my ancestors cultural identity, and build upon this rich legacy that was almost entirely destroyed. In 2005 I received a grant for my L.I.F.E. Afterschool Program and partnered with the Washington DC based genetics company African Ancestry Inc. to create an International Family Tree Project. With this Project I was able to provide twenty DNA Kits, free of charge, to families in our Community, Pittsburgh, Missouri, and Canada who were interested in finding out where their maternal ancestry came from. I found out my maternal ancestors came from Cameroon and my tribal affiliation is the Tikar Tribe. Saladin, pronounced Sa-la-dean means "Honor or Righteousness of the faith". A great Muslim King popularized this Arabic name, yet the name is Arabic, not Muslim. Arabic does not equal Muslim and to assume that would be no different than assuming my nephew plays basketball just because he has the name "Jordan." My middle name Quanaah, pronounced Kwa-ni-ah means "fragrant". In honor of my indigenous american (native american) ancestry, I chose this name. It's Quahadi in origin and comes from the Last Comanche Chief Quanah Parker; who successfully made the transition from Chief to Statesman and was responsible for founding The Native American Church. My last name, Allah, is also Arabic which means "The God." Again, Arabic does not equal Muslim. There are many arabic speaking Christians and other Religions who refer to God as Allah, simply because they speak the arabic language. So my name, Saladin Quanaah Allah, means "The honorable faith and fragrance of the God." Since taking this step to change my name in 1999, I have since published a book entitled 'How To Change Your Name Without A Lawyer' and have assisted many others change their name for various reasons (cultural, religious, stage name, immigrants, and etc.)

In closing, I didn't appreciate the Niagara Falls Reporter for even citing what they believe my religion to be, making an assumption about what it is, and then printing misinformation without even asking me about my worldview or my reasoning for changing my name. That was poor reporting and prejudiced. I am a scientist of life and study all religions. I am just as much Muslim as our Commander and Chief, President Barack Hussein Obama. My perspective about any religion is that people should strive to have a personal relationship with who they worship. A relationship that's so personal, that they strive to live in such a way that others can see their creator within them.

Peace,
Saladin

 

LOSING OUR "RELIGION" WHILE

IN A STATE OF SLEEP

(or Rapid Eye Movement)

     In reading Saladin's Article "The Fossil Phrase Phenomenon", I couldn't help but notice, the cultural shadowing of Western culture playing its part in his Article. While he was speaking about Fossilized Phrases between the preceeding generation and the one which came next, I could cee how we are somewhat insulated by the fact that some of our proverbial wisdom is cemented into the definition of the Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet themselves. This coupled with the fact that there are still many who know that they cannot hold an intelligent conversation with the entire familly of Gods and Earths in every city without at least knowing One Hundred and Twenty Lessons (120), some sense of the Chronicle of Our Nation, along with that firm grasp one has on Supreme Mathematics-- sprinkled in with some knowledge of Supreme Alphabets, Twelve Jewels, The Chronicle of The Nation of Islam, Allah in the persons of Master Fard, and Allah in the person of the Father whom we know as Allah.

     The reason why we are somewhat insulated from Fossilizing a lot of our wisdom phrases is because as a Culture of I God, most of us subscribe to a life that consist of all of this wisdom in stylized phrases as our culture with Knowledge (of all this) being the foundation. This much is said about knowledge, every time one sings "The Enlightener." Yet there are some who believe that Supreme Mathematics is the only foundation!

     Yet this is just a microcosm of a macrocosm because the Blacks outside this culture (The NGE) are suffering far worst, because they have no cultural reference-- other than what American Culture provides for us: Culturally speaking, American slavery was like pushing "reset" on our cell phones where all previous cultural references were just about totally erased-- leaving most of us with a cultural void! We were tricked or lured into believing we would receive more gold for our labor which was more than we were earning in our own country (28/1-36). When we got to America, the trader disappeared and there was no one left to speak our language (30/1-36). They traded our babies as one would a litter of cats or pitbulls, so cultural retention became damn near impossible (24/1-36).

     This type of slavery, being taught as Christianity by the White man, made us blind, deaf and dumb to what our culture really is: The only thing we had to reference is how Whites culture was here living in America, because our heritage was separated, obliterated, and forbidden to be taught for fear of punishment of death! [6-8/1-36]. Resultant upon this, Blacks piecemeal-ed a culture-- partially for survival and partially to fill the cultural void. Either way, their ways are based upon an establishment of values and roles based upon those soles who manipulated a country from their motherland and enslaved the people who birthed the White man from them-- 30% dissatisfied Blacks, amongst the rest who were satisfied Black people.

     In the chronicles of man, there has been several people of all groups who has been stripped of a lot of things and enslaved-- BUT ONLY BLACK PEOPLE HAD EVERYTHING STRIPPED INCLUDING THEIR LANGUAGE. This allowed us to take on a lot of their ways, simply because we had nothing to compare it to (minus our conscience). While our conscience might work in some areas, without a set of customs to compare them to our own (because we did not know our own because "the button had been reset") you wind up caving into the social pressure and eventually agreeing. Before you know it, it begins to seem like you originated that feeling...

     A Nation without its past history is like a tree without roots. Those who do not know that chronology are doomed to re-live it in order to regain the understanding. In a civilized society, it is the responsibility of any civilized parent to extract the understanding or underlined significance of their travels and experiences as parents and pass them on (a.k.a. the understanding) to their children to benefit by the foresight. One of the bad behaviors Blacks have picked up from the Devil's civilization is this constant challenging of parent's values when one reaches adolescence. Anyone who has watched Whites with their children in department stores or adolescent Whites hanging out at the mall, know exactly what I am talking about. The Kool-aid colored hair is part of the rebellious stage.
     I am not saying that you should not challenge previous notions (every true Scientist does). I am just saying to know what you are challenging. NO, WE DON'T BELIEVE IN RELIGION, NOR TAKING THINGS ON FACE VALUE, BUT A RITUAL IS SOMETHING YOU DO REPEATINGLY BECAUSE IT BRINGS ABOUT THE PROPER RESULT WHEN YOU DO IT--LIKE STUDYING BEFORE YOU TAKE A TEST-- for example. You just don't get rid of a phrase because your parents or an older God/ Earth used it or you think it is "Old School" because it came from the past: Know what it means and if you don't think it's true, then put it and your own theories to the test-- but be real with yourself: If you cannot produce better results, why change it? And if you don't like the effects, then don't produce the cause. Meaning: cut out that behavior. Earthquakes is caused by the son of man experimenting with high explosives. In fact all that above is caused by the Son of Man [caused by what you do] (8/1-40).

     For those who were socialized as teenagers in the 1970's and 1980's, along with those who came before in this culture of I God/The NGE-- phrases within the nation were evolved by consensus. Meaning, you didn't learn about The NGE and get your lessons by proxy: someone directly taught you. And you knew whether or not you had it right because at some point it was required for you to go to Mecca in Now Why and build on the day's degree in front of the World's Best Knowers as your audience. When you walked the streets and claimed you were God/Earth, how you see today's degree was sure to follow-- a.k.a. you are being examined for how well you know your lessons and how thorough your understanding was concerning Supreme Math and Alphabets! You couldn't walk away from that question, you had to answer it! That's how we were socialized as The NGE. And you definitely did not walk out of a cipher! If your understanding was booty, you got bombed by consensus (... so they have agreed that the only God that exist is the Son of Man. So they lost no time searching... [10/1-40]). If you got bombed enough, you took your positive education and modified your answer to one that could be agreed to as right. Let that be a lesson to those who think that Supreme Mathematics is the foundation (without even the Alphabets, Jewels, the Chronicle of The NGE or the Chronicle of Self embedded in 120 Lessons)! We were socialized to know our lessons. Your development was judged according to the lessons you were dealing with. You couldn't successfully step off and form your own "Pseudo Group" in those days, you still had to acknowledge the majority. It is not Allahs, it is Allah.

     Now I'm not saying just because things survived from our past that makes it tried, just and true: That just means a lot of people were doing it. Each circumstance must be weighed and judged on its' own merits... So the phrases that survive through our antiquity are phrases which have been examined, questioned and modified until we come to a consensus-- whereas we generally agree to its' proverbial wisdom. These are time tested phrases, socially approved. Because then, as a way of life, we were critical in our thinking and wouldn't hesitate to make that knowledge born. So over time, the weak phrases were being eliminated through our constructive criticism within group gatherings, writings, ciphers and etc. In this respect, a phrase could no more stand alone and claim to be true or wise, no more than a man or woman could claim God/ Earth without examination by all who proclaim it.

     You ever heard of the group R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Movement --during sleep)? They had a song called "Losing My Religion" wherein the singer talked about losing all he was accustomed to. I AM NOT REFERRING TO THIS SONG BECAUSE OF THE WORD RELIGION, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT ONE IS ACCUSTOMED TO; THE TRADITIONS; THE ANCIENT WISDOM. I say this, because our Black youth are repeating the Culture degree in the one to fourteen as though they are the Devils-- simply because they don't know any better! They have eliminated enough phrases and taken out words like Devil in their language and conceptualization, modifying our culture-- dooming themselves to see why the phrase was used to begin with. And this behavior goes on inside and outside of The NGE!! How so? Why did Musa have a hard time civilizing the Devil in the year 2,000 B.C.? (2/1-14)? You know-- "Because he was a savage. A savage means a person who has lost the knowledge of himself and is living a beast life." So when Musa came to teach them how to live a respectful life, they rebelled (4/1-14). Why? Because they didn't want anything to do with what we civilized Black people teach. Why? Because they were birth from a stock of our people who were dissatisfied with the rest of our people. They entertained inner devils of jealousy, envy, lust and hate. They did uncivilized things such as causing trouble amongst the righteous, telling lies, stealing and trying to master the original man. They were exiled by the satisfied and therefore they did not want anything to do with our ways. Your culture degree within the one to fourteen goes into great elaborations concerning this. That same degree tells you when we found out who was causing all the trouble we rounded them up, took everything from them except their language and marched them across the hot Arabian desert (by a tow line). It was 2,200 miles. He went savage and lived in the caves of West Asia as they now call it 'Europe'. Eu means hillsides and Rope means the rope (tow line) to bind him in (sometimes when you teach uncivilized people how to be civilized they act as though you are binding them rather than benefitting them-- an example is that scene in Lord of the Ring: Return Of The King, when Samwise and Frodo put the rope on Smeagol). The European resented his connection with Original man. Even today, he reluctantly acknowledges that Black people in Central Asia are his ancestors! He straight rejected us and our culture, so we sent a half original man like Musa to teach them and he only accepted it when Musa reminded them of their purpose. When they were marched into Europe, the Original man took everything except their language. When the European enslaved his Black ancestors, he took everything INCLUDING their language and brought Blacks to slave for him within his culture on the worst part of the planet earth (North Americas). The slavery process made the enslaved Original man, blind, deaf and dumb-- totally devoid of his culture-- adapting the ways of his slavemasters as a means of survival in the Whiteman's world. Some of us adapted and maintained many, many of their ways... So Knowledge of Self came to the Blackman in the wilderness from Allah, in the form of a civilized Blackman who taught civilization. Allah in the persons of Fard taught the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who then taught The NOI; Allah in the form of the Father (and Justice) taught the first born, who taught The NGE. Musa and Muhammad taught the Devil how to be civilized.

     These above acts emphasizes tradition and passing on of what came before. Just like 17th degree in the One to Forty states: "The meaning of Civilization is one having knowledge, wisdom, understanding, culture, refinement and is not a savage in the pursuit of happiness"-- One of the most obvious traits of the Devil's civilization in the wilderness of North America is to be trendy. What that trendy means is to be dissatisfied with what happened before you and to start something new. The problem with this is if you get rid of all of the old traditional stuff, for your new, time-untested stuff, you will eventually become wild, savage, unruly and uncivilized! Sure, we Blacks are not dyeing our hair with kool-aid like them yet-- but give it some time.

     The seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth degree within the knowledge of your culture cipher suggest the passing on of tradition-- not the replacement of Fossil Phrase with Catchy Phrase-ism, which has not even been examined thoroughly by a consensus from members of The NGE. That's no different than some of these He cipher Monkey ciphers, girl on girl phenomenas going on in the mainstream of society today. In time, they will see what alternatives do to the state-- but by then it will be to late! We have always emphasized showing and proving. This teaches us to hold on to things which are proven, not to jump to something on face value. What is traditional is proven, for good or bad. You can see it because you have numerous examples of it. Message to the so-called "New School": It is alright to test, but not to experiment with your life as the experiment. Do be a fool and  use the dynamite on you (8/1-40)-- that's how you fall a victim!

Peace
Allah Universal: Lord Life Justice Shabazz

The Seen and Unseen

Peace Family!

   I come in the name of Allah as the Universal One, Lord Life Justice Shabazz. We have had Knowledge of Self for Understanding Equality years. My persons Enlighteners were Ahad Knowledge Born Metu Tegghet Allah with I Freedom Born Allah (who represents a large way in which I carry this awareness). I was made aware because we are a said person of that ability and resurrected from a state of ignorance and unawareness. I taught one who at one point claimed the Blackman is God and that God is the living manifestation of Allah's full will on Earth in human form. During this time of his certainty he taught Saladin Quanaah Allah -whom in my view had to "separate the wheat from the chaff" in order to get this right. Quite a few years have passed since this Solar transmission had made it's way down the line, like the sun transmits light transmissions to reach the earth traveling at that terrific speed of 186,000 miles per second or the instructional code (DNA) being re-packaged different sperm cells to continue the code of the family line. Mine has seen some changes, though forever (since Allah and the Will is eternal)-- not always for better; yet like the sperm which tail propels it, the light wave continues until it reaches the earth in 8.33 minutes some 93,000,000 miles away. This is to say that this idea is determined; nor more or no less determined than the birth of the Big Head Scientist or God making Devil (21-30/1-40). As all Allah's plans are such, but man (and woman) can be other than Self and concoct ideas that defy Allah's will.
   As many of you know, Knowledge is the Foundation and this is symbolic to the Sun, which formed its way through triple stage darkness to become the light; which is as Allah made Himself known as a living God by metamorphoses through man. We Gods within NGE proclaim that Knowledge, the Sun, Supreme Consciousness, and Allah is one and the same. Allah is omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), and omnipresent (all presence or present everywhere). Amongst the major religions, there is no argument concerning this. There is no mediator, minister, or middle man in this, for the Self known as the Father-- completed the promise to return on His eighty seventh earth-day (incarnate day for Allah has no birth record 9/1-10).
   The Father left the temple when His purpose became clear. Something about the ideas present in the NOI at the time, made it necessary to leave. Like all determine ideas, they are like plan-ets, something grown or made from the beginning; like Holy is something that has not been mixed diluted or tampered with in any form (9/1-14). Like a seed that is sprouting at the roots and searching for light (or the sperm during its gestation period), I didn't understand why the First Born with this was so emphatically tenuous with their relationship with the Nation Of Islam. After a few years of "butting heads" with "registered" Muslims, I began to take on a posture that was similar to our First Born, but without the full understanding or same position but I was gaining this awareness. As they say, "Seek and ye shall find." Some Understanding Equality years later, "the worms have hatched out" (the decaying issue has now been consumed). My Self, in the form of the First Born in the Five Percent Nation (The NGE), was during the Chronicles of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, then Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam under Master Fard's teachings (given by Alfonso Muhammad-- his father). Minister and National Representative for the NOI, then Malcolm X, was the one who requested that the Father be expelled from the NOI for teaching "His Self-styled Wisdom" (1962). Master Fard and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's teachings, along with the Bible and the Koran (Qu' ran) formed the basis of what the First Resurrected of the Nation of Islam taught, which was distinctly different than any other form of Muslim teachings (besides a similarity to Sufism). The First Born wanted to make sure that no one mistook our ideas as being the same. Allah had returned on His eighty-seventh earth day in the form of Lieutenant Abdullah changed his name to Allah, informed The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of his purpose, left Temple #7 and formed the Five Percent Nation or NGE (1964).
   The Nation of Islam has no birth record, yet THERE IS a birth record for the current group claiming this title under Minister Louis Farrakhan. It happened when his person was near death in the hospital. He became befriended by his Caucasian well-wishers and after making the 360 degrees of perfected knowledge into a fossil, headed in a direction different than Master Fard and Elijah Muhammad. The Minister like all ministers of his day had to claim that he was a minister for the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In those days, they all said that Allah came in the persons of Master Fard Muhammad. My Enlightener I Freedom Born were around during that time in our chronology and have tapes and other paraphernalia to this effect. I gather Farrakhan no longer approaches his speeches the same way.
   Now some Understanding Equality years later, some Muslims of the so-called Nation of Islam, under Minister Farrakhan instead of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, wants to stake claim for our prosperity as NGE. What arrogance! First of all, you who are under the teachings of Minister Farrakhan, ARE NOT directly advocating the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad-- teaching given by Allah in the persons of Master Fard Muhammad. Therefore you who do such things are not our kin. Master Fard did not teach Dianetics or Christian Science! That's what being a follower will do to you... Get you to go against better judgment! How can the Messenger be right and exact one minute and tucked away the next, because of the times? What are you doing? Back peddling? If you know and truly believed something, how could a leader which came afterwards change your heart-- without an ounce of protest? You who do this claim that you are Nation Of Islam but you cannot claim the same foundation as Silas Muhammad or any of the first resurrection because you don't maintain the same heritage. This Nation is strictly under Farrakhan's ideology: The same principle Malcolm wanted the Father expelled for (his Self-Styled Wisdom), and part of what Malcolm himself was labeled a traitor for by Louis Farrakhan and others (ministers that is). We do not have any of the same foundational teachings as the basis of our curriculum; which means the group of related courses or fields of study are not even similar. We bear more in common with the real Nation Of Islam or First Resurrection than with you. Muslims (Believers) under Minister Farrakhan have buried that light long ago. This also means our ideology is not the same. Ideology is a body of ideas reflecting the aspirations of a group or culture. It could mean a set of doctrines or beliefs but we are not a religion, we are a science. And of those who belong to Farrakhan's group and know these lessons, I'm sure problems would arise in how you prioritize the concepts. For example, one of their brothers tried to explain that the God that made himself out of triple stage darkness was a Muslim. He needs merely to refer to the 37/1-40: Tell us why the Devil teaches the 85% that God is a righteous and unseen being that exist everywhere? Allah is god in the earth and the heavens above, he is just and true and there is no unrighteousness in him; but he is not unseen, he is is seen and heard everywhere for he is the all I seeing. The problem in his statement was the word "Muslim" and a view that the two are separate.
   The word "Muslim" implies that one has God could have a different agenda and has to surrender to Allah's agenda (as the word submit means to surrender to another). The 37th lesson teaches that Allah is one. It teaches that Allah is omni-present or present in all I see. There is no two agendas or beings when Allah made God. It is Allah's will or want that Allah should come into creation as one of those forms of creation. This way Allah lives in creation as the living God. There is no two beings here, Allah is one in the earth and heavens above, so the God would not have to be Muslim and submit to Allah because God Allah are liken to a two sided coin: Though it may have two sides it is merely one coin. All is created from Allah. The issue here is whether or not one is being Self. Lessons 3 to 12 in the one to thirty six makes that clear. The 38th lesson within the one to forty asks Why did God create Devil? Most importantly to show forth and prove his powers. So this indicates the choice to be one Self or not to be while in human form. Now lessons 13-14/1-36 depends on whether you see yourself as consciousness dwelling in physical form or as your soul, the condition reflexes of the persona and the soil which surrounds it. Our flesh, the soul, and our conditions have to be made to submit and by definition are Muslim. We are usually striving to master our composition, but the source of the consciousness (the true Self) is Allah. We are sentient which means conscious and able to be Self Aware. The true Self is Allah. But "the wrong foods" spoke about in the one to thirty-six is how religion was taught to you and your gullibility to go with what the Devil has said:  12th degree in the 1/40 -Why does the Devil teach that?; 7th degree in the 1/36 -Why does he like the Devil?; 8th degree in the 1/36 -Because the Devil planted fear...; 10th degree in the 1/36 -Because the devil taught him how to eat the wrong foods. To us, organized religion is the wrong foods; Knowing and not believing is most proper. In ideology there are concepts, these are ours and if you were the author then they would be yours. We see adversity as that which helps us to know about where the omnipotent or power is based. We study life as a science which leads back to the omniscient that we are in essence. We are getting to know about the knowledge present in everything (omnipresent) as a vehicle to get to know the Self. We do not submit to Self, we become ourselves because we are looking for the proper order, which is the definition of right and righteous-- because that is our true identity. But since Farrakhan's Muslims don't know who's teachings they are going to go by and how much of the organized religion of Islam they are going to follow, they don't see the same intricacies because their view is obstructed by what the Devil has taught and the trader interprets. Why even the Bible states: "From the Dust ye came to the dust ye shall return, but the spirit will go back to that which gave it." Wouldn't you say that consciousness resides in the soul? So which one are you, the soil or the sentient being inside the soul? See, these followers are not sure who to follow and will even give up on the truth of the lessons which makes them unique-- if Farrakhan says so So how can they stake claim for our heritage when they don't even reason things out on their own or respects what Allah, in the persons of Master Fard provided? When Allah came in the persons of Lieutenant Abdullah, we were taught to research it ourselves: "Study to show thyself approval," the Bible states See this is what happens when your leader doesn't advocate to think for yourself, just follow the ritual... No wonder the First Born stayed away from any real affiliation with the NOI: look how confused their perspective is now. Even their first resurrected doesn't affiliate with them. Farrakhan's Muslims can't stake claim for our system, because they don't grasp our major concepts and don't know which system they want to be under or how to properly define the term "God" they loosely use interchangeably with Muslim (as though they mean the same). I guess they had to accept that, given the state of unawareness they were in when they were taught and who's guidance they are and will be under.
    Knowledge is the Foundation and this is symbolic to the Sun, from the darkness came the light. This process of going through darkness to experience and understand the light is for Allah as God to grow into His magnificence (while savoring the experience). The metamorphosis or adaptation God uses is discovering what is right within his own conscious realm. Maybe on an grasping level one might use the words, you have to surrender or Muslim but from a God Awareness level, it is reasonable the only thing that would work appropriately-- that's a "no brainer" (it takes no effort to figure that out unless you are stuck in the flesh). What we need to know is who we really are, the awareness of what is right, and that's what we came here to experience, from Nigger to man, from man to God and God to Allah. Allah and God are one just in different worlds that operate in different ways but the laws which governs it was made by Allah-- God was made so Allah could experience the law in its magnificence. God is a project of understanding culture (rules which govern things, laws principles etc.) and growth, so one could get to know Self.
   If a person wants to look at things from the view of his earthly form, then I guess he would be the same as his body to him and therefore would proclaim Muslim. If he sees himself as the consciousness on a quest to experience knowledge then he would see himself as God (the growth vehicle) then Allah (the source of the growth). It is hard Farrakhan's Muslims to grasp this because they are mixing too many formulas whose concepts are conflicting. They have the words in the degrees they put down, trying to be like other Muslims, but the concepts are not grasped because they don't primarily live by them. They use the term "God" now, but they have not properly explored what that means. When consciousness came into physical form, part of the attention was split and God/man became subject to time. That too is growth and focus. All things in life are dual, so as said before, it depends on your focus. We choose the purpose and reason for coming into form in the first place, as our identity, but Farrakhan's Muslims wouldn't know this because they are trying too hard to just be Muslim. They have separated the creator from the creation when Allah made all creation from Self. Allah is all knowing, the source of all power, and present as all I see (or present everywhere), yet is one. All the major religions agree. Farrakhan's Muslims are too busy changing along with Farrakhan personal journey, while putting down what Allah, in the persons of Master Fard, gave to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
  The NOI introduction after Student Enrollment or Lost Found Lesson Number One and English C Lesson Number One uses the words Muslim very frequently, but once you advance in your classes and see the Lost Found Lesson Number Two, it only appears in the 16th degree for those who are still going under that study as laborers along with the Muslim's sons who are on the right track. The rest is strictly about God and Devil and what each teaches and why these parameters were constructed. Father Allah took the written dialog between Allah and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (a proven document to Allah's satisfaction) and made it our corner stone-- but each man, to be God, must weigh and judge it on his own. We don't use a trader or minister to make an interpretation. Allah came back on his eighty-seventh earth day but you didn't accept him and forsake what the Honorable one gave you.

Peace,
Universal