(electric pulse) (air swooshing) (snake hissing) (fox screams) (wind howling) (didgeridoo sounds) (bullroarer sounds) (foxes howling) (fox screams) (water droplets) - Africa told the first story. and all of the stories that we’re experiencing up to date are all based on the original mythological story. - We know religion in Africa- no one knows it’s genesis. (enlightening music) As far back as we can go, 8,000 years, they’re already worshipping the myth of Osiris, they’re already ritualizing the myth of Osiris. - And myth, basically, is a story that’s developed that tells something as it relates to the society itself. - Myth is, again, we're these spirit beings. And we create tools in order to communicate the knowledge that is encoded in our spirit. And so mythology becomes one of those tools, because myth really is, in its fundamental essence, myth is a dramatization of consciousness. And so we create story to dramatize how we are aware of our awareness. - When you look at the fact that a myth is a scientific and culturally encoded container of a people’s culture, one of the things that becomes clear is that there are certain things that are so profound, so deep that they cannot be explained in every day language. (electricity buzzing) And so in order to pass on the knowledge of these things to the next generation, our ancestors began to put them in the form of stories because these were stories that could serve a person throughout their entire life. - The African community is steeply based in figurative language, which is what mythology, allegories, analogies are based on. When you’re dealing with these issues, what you do is you take a real life situation and you create a story around it. - Myths are ways of codifying profound truths such that they will withstand the test of time. larger than life lessons of historical personalities, or sometimes mythological personalities, or combinations of multiple personalities that identify specific traits that every person inherits. - Most people when they hear the term myth, and I know this was certainly true of me years ago as I was growing up, if I heard the term myth, I would think of it being a story that’s not true. But there’s a much, much deeper understanding that you have to have of the term myth if you’re gonna understand African spirituality. - All right? And so the myth becomes a way of speaking to that. And we create all these elegant, wonderful myths that people sometimes take literally. - Everybody has a story of how things became what it is, and it’s all considered to be mythology because it is based on a belief. - The Akan myth of coming down on a golden chain, well, that chain is not really what’s there, it is seeing the precious element linked together that is our genesis. So there’s a deeper meaning here. - So every civilization of note is rooted in mythology. (heavy drums) (distant flute) - It may speak of a hero that once lived. It may speak of an event that occurred. And so that out of this metaphor, out of this story comes a ceremony that reenacts it, and that’s the ritual. - And then we create rituals and rituals are really ways to perform, that reinforces the logic of the knowledge of the myth. - So - So myth and rituals are two of the most essential parts of any religion, if you say you have a religion, you can guarantee you have myth, you have ritual, and you have belief. - The story then goes into a ceremony that is constantly going to remind people of what occurred so that we never lose sight of the past. Because when you know the past, you can interpret the present. And when you interpret the present, you can predict the future. - Memory and imagination being these two pillars. Well, the memory grounds us in our origin and the imagination takes us into our future. They both go hand in hand, - I personally believe because we are the closest thing to the Most High. And I think because of our melanin, because of who we come from, we are literally the closest thing to God on this earth at least. (upbeat drums) - We are the practice when we walk in the world. when we walk in the world, we literally are a divine spirit radiating and resonating to other divine spirits, and sometimes we’ll create a practice that simply activates that, activates that divinity in us. - So it’s a cosmological drama being explained through mythology, being implemented into the consciousness through rituals and being carried on as custom, something that is repeated by a group of people over time to represent principles, concepts, and ideas. At this point, you’ve got religion. (fire crackles) (birds cawing) (African drum beat) (bird trilling) - What makes Nile Valley culture and civilization so important whenever we’re talking about the origins of the world’s major religions or our quest for spirituality is the fact that in the Nile Valley that’s where we have the most written documentation of our quest to understand our relationship to the Most High, our relationship to the divine, our relationship to the universe. - It’s in the Nile Valley where we have the first true expression, scientific and cultural expression, of human being’s attempt to understand divinity and their relationship to the cosmos. - So if we look at the spiritual system of Ancient Kemet, the oldest records of anybody understanding the science of this planet comes from Kemet. - Our ancestors in the Nile Valley, in Nubia, Kemet and Kush, they documented all of their scientific findings very, very thoroughly. - They show you that they are on the descent of lineage, that they had a council of esteemed ancestors that they kept in contact with. They had a council of esteemed elders, which help make decisions for the nesut. And then they had a divine rulership. And then they had divine elders and priests that carried this out. And then they had a protective system to be able to defend what they have. And we’re missing many of those things today. (enlightening music) - The significance is that you can find moments in that Nile Valley story that’s been uncontaminated as an African inspiration, I'm using inspiration rather than civilization, as an African inspiration because it inspired human beings to engage in their understanding of reality. Uncontaminated. (enlightening music) (bird trilling) (Baboons calling) - If we look at the Nile Valley, we find systems that are thousands of years old, thousands of years older than Judaism. That talked of ways that human beings could manifest, this God force, the Neteru - Each temple was organic. That’s why even today we have the seed stone or the cornerstone. They were treating the building as like an organic building they grew. So this was important. The columns were based upon the formula of pi, 3.14 We had pi and phi, which is showing the golden spiral. And so each temple has the formula of golden spiral in it. So that means when they made the column, it was imitating nature. - the principles of life and the universe so that they can build structures. Thousands of years ago, that human beings are incapable of building today. So that they could understand astronomical and cosmological phenomena that astronomers today are just now beginning to identify and are dumbfounded by the fact that there’s evidence today that Africans in the Nile Valley knew this information more than 10,000 years ago. - We knew the speed of light. We knew the circumference of the planet. So we had to understand the heavens. We understood the first star charts that we see come from Ancient Kemet. So we understood the heavens, we understood that, and we projected that energy on the planet. - Humans looking to stand up in the world, walking the world in ancient times and inspired a manifestation of anew and inspired the way to build buildings, inspired the way to have families and relationships inspired the way to contemplate and to look inside themselves and see God. - And so, for example, in Ancient Kemet, we have the 42 laws of Maat. They had 42 districts in Ancient Kemet to go along with the 42 laws of Maat. And which the Hammurabi codes and Judaism, the Ten Commandments all that comes out of that. And that was already ancient. Let me say this, that was already in the existence in Ancient Kush, before Kemet even came into existence. - In the African traditions, throughout- as we see these traditions emanate in Ancient Kemet, if you look at it in West Africa with the Ewe, who have a word which is vodu Gaza, it means the essence of man as god. And what they say in this tradition, in the Ewe people of Togo and of Ghana, they say that they migrated from the East, they said that they speak the language of Ancient Kemet. And so they said the tradition they practice is the ancient Kemetic tradition. And this is what they’re saying today. - Diop, Dr. Diop from Senegal said, we’re not serious about African studies or the innerstanding of African people unless we connect ourselves to the Hapi Valley and Ancient Kemet and Kush. So I’ve taken that verbatim. (rhythmic percussion music) - The connection between Kush, because there’s a tribe in Ethiopia called the Zagwe, Z-A-G-W-E. Z-A-G-W-E. Those are the ancient Kushites. We say Kush, we could spell it C or K, but it’s still the same people. But as time went on, we started naming it differently. Like it’s all named different, but we were all from the same people. So when we talk about the Egyptians also, it wasn’t called Egypt; Egypt is a Greek word. So even the Ethiopians that were there, we migrated up into Egypt. - We already see, when we go back to the Narmer Palette, which is a stone with information about this king named Narmer who unites the north and the south of Egypt around 3,400 BC. And you already see Heru and other elements of the ancient religion. - The Qustul incense burner, an incense burner about 3 or 400 years older than Ancient Kemet. And the king was wearing the white crown. (rhythmic percussion music) Heru was already a symbol of royalty. They had the boat, they had Heru-em-Akhety, and they had the black lion, they had all of this in place. So Kemet started out full-blown. (rhythmic percussion music) - When they came into Kemet and they saw the majesty of the pyramids gracing the horizon, when they saw the majesty of the Heru-em-Akhet or what today people call The Sphinx. - Heru-em-Akhety is what people call The Sphinx. The Sphinx is a mythological creature that will kill you if you don’t know the riddle that has to do with Greek philosophy. Has nothing to do with Africa. So that lion’s body, now we believe that the whole body, at one time when it was done, was the black lion you see from Ancient Kush, which had a lion’s head. But as we move into this next golden age, they took the head of the high priest and put it, carved, and re-carved the lion out, put the head of the high priest on top of it. So Heru-em-Akhety is, this lion is protecting you from sunrise to sunset. - When they walked through the different temples, which is very interesting because one of the grandest of the temples, the Arabs call Luxor which means the palaces, but these were not the palaces of the king, these were temples where we studied the sacred sciences. Pythagoras, Socrates and others they studied in Kemet. So the knowledge of how great Kemet was had already made its way to Greece, it had already made its way throughout the ancient world. Everybody knew how amazing Ancient Kemet was much in the same way people desire to come to America today. Back in ancient times, Ancient Kemet was seen that way. - So they are talking about connecting to ancient culture, connecting back to the mineral domain, the plant domain the animal domain, and the human domain, and the netcher. (enlightening music) (falcons trilling) (rhythmic percussion music) - When I had an opportunity to travel to the continent of Africa and more specifically had the opportunity to be with the Maasai Tribe in Tanzania and travel to different cities all over, I realized that, in my eyes, the true religion was tribalism. - And indigenous people all around, this is not just indigenous to African people, this is indigenous people all around the planet had this early relationship. The Native Americans had totems. You belong to the Great Wolf crowd, the Great Bear clan, Running Buffalo. And they had a special connection with those animals. - And basically that tribalism is the same everywhere you go. Native Americans, African, Asian people. Like they basically believe that God was in everything and you had a healthy respect for everything. (snake hisses) (lion roars) (goose squawking) - When we look at the development of the mythology or the ritual, the ceremony, the story behind the traditions of the creator, the African, the original story, developed out of concepts that looked at a creator in many different aspects. Africans see the creator in all things. They see one creator, but the Creator is in all things. - So over the years, African people have been the subject of many just scandalous campaigns to make it appear that we’re something that we’re not. - They call it animism. They say we worship rocks and trees and animals. - That we are barbaric. (tense music) - I’m gonna take her back to the ship. - Better all get out of here before they think they cut us off from the beach. - I guess so. But tell ’em we’ll be back tomorrow to make friends. - To make it appear that we’re ungodly, polytheistic, all of these different types of things. - In the African system, the divinity is the totality of creation, and it is the only thing that exists and everything else is an expression of an aspect of the divine essence. That’s just the opposite of what the European thinks. (tense music) (people screaming) - The Western civilization has taken itself out of nature as opposed to the African who is in nature and sees the Creator in everything. - But our ancestors acknowledged that there was one creator, there was one god. - The Creator, the source, the one. (enlightening music) The being that we, in Western society, refer to as God. - Our ancestors knew that we couldn’t get to understand the creator with just one aspect or one component. - And so our ancestors came to their knowledge their understanding of one creator through their meticulous study of nature. (cerebral music) - The concept of nature, that the African tradition is that we are one with nature, we are nature. - You need to understand the mineral domain, then the plant domain, and then the animal domain. - The African’s position on the divinity is that no one could know God. Even in the Christian tradition, they said no one can know God. So the Africans says, no, no one could know God, but we can know some of God’s attributes and some of God’s qualities, and some of God’s personality. - And as a matter of fact, the word that is oftentimes translated as God coming from out of Ancient Kemet, or what people today call Ancient Egypt, is the word netcher from which we get the word nature. - They call them netchers. Neteru. - Aspects of nature. Neteru is the plural for neter. And these are concepts of nature. - So whereas they came across this term netcher, which means power or principle of nature, they translated it to mean gods. - And erroneously, a lot of people call these things gods. The Africans do not call Heru a god, or Hathor a god, or Nepthys a god, or Set a god. - That is an immediate red flag that make somebody say, hey, wait a minute, there’s only one God. All that other stuff, that must be pagan, that must be polytheistic. (fire crackles) (cow mooing) (rhythmic percussion music) - Netcher is a Kemetic word which means the principle or aspect of the divine. - Aspects of divinity’s personality. Aspects of the essence of the divinity’s personality. - And so they identified specific aspects of netcher that were associated with the land, with water, with air, with the sun, with plants, with animals, all animals. That’s birds, bees, ants, insects, fish all of them were here before human beings was on this planet. So now, if certain animals know how to survive in the desert, all I gotta do is study those animals and I get a clue. - So every single thing on this planet was understood by them to contain an aspect, a principle of the one. - Western society does it too, they call them angels. We know there’s no people with wings flying around anywhere, but they have these people with wings that represents, you have Gabriel, you have Michael, and you have other angels that do different things. They represent different powers of God in our lives. And we use archetypical anthropomorphic symbols and that’s what these symbols in Ancient Kemet are, with the different bird heads and animal symbols. - So in Ancient Kemet, they looked at this and they said, whoa, he has the keenest eye sight. The falcon is the only bird that can look directly at the sun. That’s like looking at the face of the creator, looking at the face of God. Supposedly you can’t do that. (enlightening music) Okay, so they looked at Heru, who must be some divine being. - We didn’t put the bird, Heru’s head, on a human body because we worship the falcon or the hawk. We put that on because we realized that the hawk, the falcon, the bird, has a special, special God-Creator gift. And that’s sight. - They studied the falcon. They realized it’s fastest creature, the fastest animal on the planet Earth. The peregrine falcon goes 200 miles per hour. Jet pilots and bombers are imitating the descent of a falcon as it tucks its wings and its arms come in. You can’t hide. I can spot you under a leaf two miles away, see those concepts. So the king, all the rulers were depicted as great falcons. In fact, they’re called Shemsu-Heru, Followers of Heru. Not because they wanna be a bird, because they want to accent these dynamic characteristics. Now that happens with all of the animals. - And so you see that back in Ancient Kemet with the pharaohs being the embodiment of God. - The netcher of the sky was called Nut. The netcher of the Nile, of the waters was called Hapi. The netcher of the sun was called Ra. - And so, for example, Ausar, Auset, and Heru, those are examples of netcher. We have Maat, we have Djehuty. - Djehuty, the bird with the long beak. There’s a bird called the ibis bird that lives in Egypt and it forages for worms in the shore of the ocean and the waters, and it looks like it’s writing, it looks like it’s scripting, doing cursive writing. And so when they wanted to show people an example of what someone who is a writer, a recorder is, they use that bird as that symbol and then people get it. - The ibis-crane, showing stillness, meditation, patience, intellect. So we use Djehuty as the ibis-crane. - They use the jackal, Anubis, that has a dog head. And so you see, oh, they’re worshiping a dog, no. The culture in Ancient Egypt, the jackal was a dog that would bury its meat when it killed it. because the meat is too tough for the body to digest, like a deer or an antelope. So it buried it in the sand and let the heat of the desert virtually cook it. But before the meat got rotten or poisonous, it would dig it up and eat it and ingest it. And so that is the symbol of good judgment. So when you’re talking about Anubis being the judge of the soul, of the departed person, you use the jackal. - So in nature, if you look at Inpu, he’s the guard dog, the dog is the guard, he protects your domain, and guess what, jackals are not black in general. They’re brown and reddish brown and things like that. When a black jackal is in a pride, he’s the leader. See, so by studying nature, they kind of understood symptomatically what jackal we want there. We don’t want the red, the brown jackal, we want the black jackal, okay? And he understands transformation. Transformation from one rites or passage to another. - And so when you look at their theology, their theology is that God is the totality of creation and everything else is an expression of an aspect of that totality’s existence. Thus, our purpose is to become God in fact. And so the word vodu gazi is man manifest as God. (code falling) - When Kemet first came into existence, Upper and Lower Kemet, Khnum was the great netcher. That’s the molder, created everybody on his potter’s wheel. Then as we move into the first golden age, after we get past the- we have the war between Shemsu-Heru and Shemsu-Set. And when Shemsu-Heru won out in that war, then we go into the so-called third dynasty and now we go into the dynasty where Ra is coming into, we built the pyramids towards Ra. - If we think of for a second about the basic nature of man is sustenance: food, clothing, and shelter. So you had to prepare the earth, you had to plant your seed, you had to hope for continuous rain so your crops can grow. - The seasons, the planting of seeds and the soil and the sunshine and the rain, and the magic of us being able to produce crops every year, the rising and the ebb and the flow of the tides of the Nile River, they noticed the annual flooding of the Nile. - You harvest the crops and preserve that food so that you can sustain yourself, sustain your community, sustain your kingdom for specific periods of time, when you can start the process all over again. through their meticulous observation of nature, they noticed certain patterns, principles, and processes in nature. So they noticed the sun rises in the east and it sets in the west. - The rising, the transiting, and the setting of the sun. - And then the Book of Aten, Akhenaten, in the third golden age, tried to revise. he didn’t create something new. Now, the worship of the Aten was already in existence from the very first dynasty. - So symbolically, metaphorically, the sun was a ball of light that Khepre, this invisible scarab, moved across the sky from east to west, as above so below. - When the sun rose in the east, that was the sun being born. When it was around noontime, when it’s shining its brightest. You have the sun at high noon, which represented the creator on high, that creator was referred to as Ra. - And so again, when you’re dealing with the Ancient Greek, transliterations of the ancient text, the Book of the Dead, et cetera, they will talk about the rays of the sun as an example of Amen and Amen-Ra. And Ra being the sun. - Which symbolized this omnipotent force, this creative life force at its highest, embodying everything on the planet and every body on the planet with this life force. And then as the sun continued to move across the sky, the sky gradually began to darken, and then it set in the west. And the setting of the sun in the west was known as Amen, which meant concealed or hidden. - So now, Ra has replaced Ptah, Ptah has replaced Khnum, and then when Mentuhotep and the people from Waset come into power in the second golden age, they bring in Amen, because Amen was the local netcher, the unseen creative force of the universe. And then they were really classy, they combined Amen and Ra, the unseen and the seen, and you have Amen-Ra. When they combined them, they were all still talking about just the one creative energy of the universe. - And so even when they end prayers in your customary, contemporary religious orders or dogmas, they will end their prayers with Amen, but they will not tell the people its origin is Amen-Ra because they don’t want the people to know that it’s actually the study of the transits of the sun. - The sun on high is when it’s living. And then when the sun sets that, in a sense, was a form of death. - When the sun disappeared below the horizon, then they realized that the sun had to make a journey into the unseen world. And that unseen world to them was a world of danger. The West Bank of the Nile, where the sun set, where Amen set died, disappeared from view, became the place where they would bury their dead. Why, because they wanted the souls of the deceased to go with Amen into the beautiful west, where they will be born again, where they would come forth by day, like Khepre, and be born again into another life. - So when it rises the next morning, that is a rebirth. So they created these stories of how the sun had to be protected against the forces of evil so that it could be reborn in the east as Khepre. And that cycle would start all over again. - And that’s the story, that is the myth that became the ceremony or the ritual for the glory of the rays of the sun that brings life on to our planet. (dark music) (footsteps approaching) (lively drums and percussion) - Well, in my studies, I think that we have the Holy Trinity wrong. As I dive deeper into my history, I find that the Holy Trinity was not God, Son, and the Holy Ghost; it was actually God, woman, and man. - One of the original dramas that comes to us that much of the Greek drama and the Roman theater would come from, and even Western civilization, come out of this Ausarian Drama. - The Ausarian Drama is a story of the first trinity which came out of Ancient Africa. It’s a mythological story about the first king of Kemet named Ausar. (heavy drum beat) - There was a person named Horus, there was a person named Osiris or Ausar, there’s a person named Auset. So there’s the myth of this family. - The divine king, Ausar. In the Greek, he’s referred to as Osiris. You have his divine complement, Auset. And in the Greek, Auset is referred to as Isis, And they have a son, Heru, which in the Greek is Horus. - Where the father gets killed, the wife brings him back to life. But while he’s still dead, she gets impregnated and produces a child called Horus. - Auset was impregnated by the spirit of her husband. Auset gave birth to a son, Heru, who was born to avenge the murder of his father, and ultimately restored his father’s kingdom. - Now, that’s a myth, the story. How do I explain this myth? That’s where the rituals come in, where we began to practice this, what they call Ausarian Drama. - But in the essence of this story, the kernel of the story, the Ausarian Drama, is gonna tell the story of this system of cosmic life. (enlightening music) (thunder rumbles) - It is the story about the redemption of the human spirit. In the story, Osiris, which represents the living element of earth, he’s always painted green because he’s symbolic of all of the vegetation growing out of the earth. - It is gonna depict Ausar, who is the male entity of the story. Sometimes as green and sometimes as black. When Ausar is green, they’re talking about the botanical world. When Ausar is black, they’re talking about the melanated human world. (rhythmic drums) - He is said to have unified the two lands of Upper and Lower Kemet. He is said to have introduced agriculture, the ability of a people to feed themselves, the ability of a nation to feed itself. He is said to have introduced writing, Medu Neter. And he established a system by which a ruler could govern a nation and secure the livelihood of his subjects, of his people. - Ausar had a beautiful wife by the name of Auset. He loved her deeply, respected her. Treated her as his equal, and even allowed her to rule his kingdom whenever he would have to travel. (melodic piano music) - Ausar married a sister by the name of Auset, who was his co-regent. Ausar decided to travel to other parts of Africa to bring this knowledge to his brothers and sisters on the continent to lift them out of darkness so that they can become a part of this great and mighty walk of humanity. (ancestral music) And in his absence, he left his wife to run their nation left his wife, not because she was his inferior, but because she was his equal, that he knew that he could not do this thing by himself so he selected as a mate, his counterpart, his equal. - One of the challenges that arises with the divine kingship of Ausar is that his kingship is challenged by his brother, his wicked brother who was jealous of his kingship, and his name is Set. (ominous music) - Ausar had an evil brother named Set, who was very jealous of him. He was jealous because of the power that he had. He was also jealous that he allowed his wife to take on many roles in politics. - It shows a conflict where the brother becomes envious and jealous of the other brother, Set becomes envious and jealous of Osiris, because Osiris is in harmony. Set represents the tendency of disharmony. It’s the concept we call cause and effect. - Now, according to the story, this myth, this act of allowing Auset to run this nation, angered Ausar's brother, Set, who symbolically represents the forces of isfet, confusion, anger, evil, if you will. It’s from the word Auset, that we have derived the word Set or Setan, the forces of darkness, the forces of evil. - Expansion and contraction. So Osiris represents the expansion of the world, and his brother Set represents the contraction of the world. That is a constant conflict in nature. - And so Set tricks Ausar and he murders Ausar. (ominous music) (rumbles) - Set plotted and eventually murdered his brother Ausar. Depending on which version of the story you read, his body was cut into multiple pieces and scattered throughout the land. - Set cut Ausar’s body into 14 different pieces and scattered them all throughout Egypt. (Fox screams) And so when Auset learned about the murder of her husband, as you can imagine, she was deeply strucken with grief. - Auset is distressed by what has happened to her husband. And now, not only has he been murdered, his body has been dismembered. And I want you to remember this word dismembered, dismembered means to cut apart. So now, not only does she have to find out where her husband is, she has to recover all of the different pieces and parts of her husband. - And so she went on a journey to find the missing pieces of her husband. - And in doing so, she has to recover the body that has been dismembered and remember it. - Auset found 13 of the parts of Ausar’s body. - Auset and went and she was able to recover the parts of Ausar. - She found each body parts, she washed it, and literally remembered him. - The pieces of Ausar’s body that Auset did find, she gathered them, laid them out on the table, anointed them with oil. - She anointed it with the oils. She laid them out on the table and remembered them and wrapped the entire body in bandages. - Wrapped them in bandages, creating the very first mummy in human history. - Thus creating Sahu. - It took her 70 days to prepare him for burial. So 70 days within the Nile Valley, became the timeframe for the process of mummification for over 3,000 years. And as Auset was about to bury her husband, she grieved, as any wife would grieve because she was about to bury the man that she loved, she was still a virgin, they had never consummated their marriage. She grieved because she would not bear children by the man that she loved. - Going through a lot of emotion, dealing with the death of her husband, not to mention that she was a virgin. And so with her being a virgin, that would mean that there’s no heir to the throne. And so she prayed to the spirit of her husband, Ausar, she prayed to God to help her get through this very difficult time. And according to the story, the spirit of Ausar heard Auset’s prayers. And so he came to her in the middle of the night and impregnated her. - Now, as the story goes, she was visited by the spirit of Ausar. And as a result of being visited by the spirit of Ausar, she was impregnated. - Osiris represents the masculine phenomenon in nature, the reproductive, the reproducing, the regenerative energy of man. - The spirit of Ausar impregnated his virgin wife Auset. And that nine months later, their son, Heru was born on the same birth date as his father, that birth date corresponds to December 25th. - The feminine phenomena in nature comes and reconstitutes and regenerates the dead masculine phenomena and allows it to replicate itself and reproduce even though it had been killed. And so the son, Heru, is produced out of that fusion. - And that’s how she gave birth to Heru, their son. - And it is Auset, the feminine principle, the mother of God that makes it possible for all of these things to happen, she protects Ausar and she nurtures Heru she is what is the balance of all things in the cosmic universe. - To produce that regenerative force which saves the world. - This is the world’s first story of a virgin birth, okay? And Heru rises up now to avenge the death of his father. (enlightening flute music) (heavy drum beat) - When Set learned about the birth of Heru, he sought out the kill every firstborn son. And so Auset knew that in order to save herself and save the life of her son, that she would have to flee. And so she did just that. Fled to the wilderness and raised Heru, taught him all about his father and the many things that he had done, and ultimately prepared him for the day in which he would do battle against his evil uncle Set. (enlightening music) - and this story of Auset searching for the missing pieces of her husband, Auset being impregnated by the spirit of her husband, Auset giving birth to her son among the bulrushes, and then preparing her son for his life’s work. (flute and percussion drums) - And in rising up to avenge the death of his father, he then has to fight Set. Set later becomes the archetype for what we now call Satan or Setan. - And so he comes to earth and the first thing he does is to take on evil, which is symbolized by his uncle Set. And he fights against this darkness. And he is symbolized by light. And Set is symbolized by darkness. (drums and flute music) And this child has come forth as the savior of the world. The very word hero comes from the word Heru, you see? - And so you’ve got this battle between Heru and Set, good and evil. And in the process of this battle between the two, Heru has to receive guidance from Djehuty. Djehuty, sometimes called Tehuti, is the messenger of the neters, the messengers of the powers and principles the heavenly host, who begins to instruct him on how to defeat Set. (rhythmic percussion drums) - So in another temple in Kemet, the Temple of Edfu, we find that story laid out on the walls where Heru confronts his uncle Set, does battle with him, spears him in every part of his body that corresponds to that part of his father’s body that was dismembered. - In the heat of the battle, Heru’s eye is knocked out, okay? And what this represents is the fact that he lost his spiritual vision in the heat of the battle. And so what Heru has to do is he has to reclaim his eye or what has come to be called the third eye, the eye of all seeing enlightenment, that’s the Eye of Heru, that we must have the, that allows us to see beyond the physical dimensions into the mental and spiritual dimensions. (flutes echo) (rhythmic drums) - And then Heru, after he defeated Set, reclaimed his father’s throne. And as the myth goes, Heru was transformed into a falcon, flew into heaven and met with his father. - When Heru defeated his uncle, he took the form of a falcon and flew to heaven. To tell his father of his victory. And so at that time, Heru became the king of the physical world of Kemet and Ausar became the lord of judgment. - When Heru defeated Set, his father Ausar was resurrected from the dead and took his place in the throne of judgment. Heru became the king of Kemet. So father and son ruled the physical world and the metaphysical world. They became the model for all human beings in Kemet. They became the pathway for life and the afterlife. - You see that when a pharaoh died, he’s wrapped in the falcon wings of Heru, who is the resurrected savior. And in our ancient tradition, we have a child born of immaculate conception, Heru, being born to Auset, that child becomes the savior child that would go on to save the world. And each of our great leaders embodies that personality of that divinity. - There are several different pieces of that story that are in direct correlation to the story of Jesus. And it’s amazing that most Christians don’t know that the story of Jesus was told 12 times throughout history but the name is changed and the face is changed. And what most people don’t know is that that story originated with the story of Heru. - What you’re seeing is the family as the image of God. Because there is a father, Ausar, so the family as the image of God. Why? because only the male/female can recreate and create, nothing else can create. And only God can create. And so the symbol of God is the force and the element of the female forces of nature, the male forces of nature coming together creating themselves, and themselves, in that creation, is the child, the embodiment of that male and that female is that child. So they didn’t deposit themselves in the child; they deposited themselves as the child. So the child now is symbolic of the whole family and symbolic of the divinity itself. - So for me, I think it’s very important to once again show people that most of the things that are valuable on this earth can be traced back to an African. - This story, this African story of an African Trinity is over 6,000 years old. - And we began to celebrate certain occasions, like the Ethiopian on the 11th of September, that’s their New Year. It’s considered the oldest New Year in the world. But it’s a celebration of the myth of Osiris, Auset, and Heru. And they celebrate the resurrection of Osiris on that day and they celebrate the impregnation of Auset. It’s a week-long celebration. But the rituals they do, the food they eat, the dances they do, the libations they pour, the prayers and everything those are the rituals, but those rituals are trying to interpret the people, the myth of the Ausarian Drama. - So I think the story of Heru is very important. As a matter of fact, there’s not too many stories that are more important as it pertains to our history, especially since the story of Jesus has such an amazing effect on Africans, to find out that that story was based on a person that looks just like us. I think that’s the first step to setting our people free. (lively drums) - Well, imagine my amazement growing up as a Christian and being a Christian minister and things of that nature when I began to discover for myself these stories and concepts of death and resurrection in the Ausarian Drama that predate the biblical narratives by over a thousand years. - We have concepts of before life and afterlife. There is only eternal life, a life that can neither be created nor destroyed. - So if you can’t be destroyed, only transformed from one state to another. But we understand that this thing we call death, the body decays and returns back to earth, from dust to dust, from ashes to ashes, so the body returns, but you’re not your body you are your consciousness. You are the spiritual energy that still exists. - So they saw life not simply as having a beginning and the end, but part of a continuous cycle of beginnings and endings, that went on forever. (serene music) - When we are conceived, it is like being in the temple and you’re at a doorway. When you walk through the doorway after conception, you go through 10 months of gestation in our mother’s womb and you get to another doorway. That doorway is birth. - See, when you were born, that’s just a different awareness. I need you to understand, that’s an awareness of a consciousness that already existed. He’s now becoming, it is now becoming aware and is still gaining knowledge. - You then go into that room of the eternal temple and you live out your life. (lively percussion drums) - When you are a child, you go into adolescence, that’s a rite of passage. You go from there into puberty, that’s a rite of passage. You go from puberty into young adulthood, that’s a rite of passage. You go from the young adulthood to leadership, that’s a rite of passage. And then from leadership into eldership. - And then you get to another door. That door is death. You walk through that door and now you’re in the next phase of this eternal life that each and every one of us has. To us, there is no concept of death. - And so we understood life to be a constant and consistent process of life, death, and resurrection. And that with each stage of consciousness that we would evolve into, it required a death to the previous stage of consciousness so that you could rise up into another level of manifestation. - The people of Kemet did not believe in death in the traditional sense of the word. They believed in the process that they referred to as the Wehem Mesut, the Repetition the Birth. There is no death, there is only a continual rebirth. So if we look at the story of Ausar and Heru, from that perspective, then what we really understand is that Heru was the reincarnation of Ausar. He came back in order to continue his life's work. - Also, there’s a very popular symbol, most people know of it as the obelisk, but the tekhen. And it also represents that missing piece of Ausar’s body that was never found, his phallus, but the tekhen represents the resurrection of Ausar. (dramatic music) Most people don’t know that that’s an ancient African symbol that’s over 3,000 years old and it represents the resurrection of Ausar. And so like Ausar, our ancestors wanted to be resurrected. Like Heru, our ancestors wanted to become a hero, they wanted to be like Heru who understood what his life’s purpose was. - And by embodying the mythology, the spirit of Heru, you could become the hero. You could find the hero within. Fulfill your life’s purpose. - Heru is the child, so that when you go to the mass, the Christian mass, and you’re at the altar, the altar actually is the reenacting of the sarcophagus and the words and the prayers that are said over the altar, that is going to rise up and change that host. - Important part of that story was after Auset found the missing pieces of Ausar’s body, as she found his body part, she washed them, she anointed them with oils. - They would take the organs because you’re not gonna Need these organs anymore, they take the organs out that would also decay, so we take all those out, they Sahu them. - And she literally remembered her husband, wrapped his body in bandages, created the first Sahu. - And the word is not mummify, it’s Sahu, okay? It’s one of the main words. There’s a couple words, but Sahu was one. And it’s to prepare the body for eternity. So we wrap it, we care it. We condition it. When I put it in the karast. That’s to protect it on it's journey of eternity. - According to the story, Ausar was resurrected after his son Heru defeated Set, he was resurrected into a specific region of the sky. And that region of the sky we know today as the constellation Orion. In ancient times, it was known as Sahu. - The Sahu was the constellation in the sky, what they call Orion. The original name of that is Sahu. - The same name that identified the so-called mummified body of Ausar. - So if you’re preparing your body to be Sahu, that’s immortal, you’re preparing the body for eternity. - So that is a region of the heavens where Ausar was resurrected, and we know that it was the first star in the belt of Sahu that was a specific region of the sky where all the souls who died would follow the path of Ausar towards resurrection. (enlightening music) - So that the Ausarian Drama is in fact the Christian mass, the Ausarian Drama is the Greek drama, in fact the sarcophagus is the coffin for Ausar but it is the cradle for Heru. - If I can say this, the karast is like a time capsule. The soul lives forever. And they believe if the soul want to come back, it would have a familiar body that it can come to. - So that which old is born in is what ushers in the new that nurtures and sustains the Heru child to resurrect his father’s life, to resurrect the life of his family. - So today’s coffin is an imitation of a karast. The Christ is the anointed one is one who’s evolved, where the soul has evolved, and you become one with the netcher, you become netcher-like because you are living in Ma’at. (rhythmic percussion music) - But actually the transformation of the human into this higher level creator force that exists. - And Christ in the Christian tradition and Heru in the Ancient African Kemetic tradition represent that coming into being as human, all of the elements, the qualities and attributes, of the divine itself. But in the African's, you exist as a duplicate of the divinity and your potential is to become again like the divinity. - A high vibration energy. So Ancient Kemet was about raising your energy. The karast, the anointed one was about, his job was to raise people’s energy. The karast that protects the body was about protecting this entity so that if that energy want to come back, it could. - And so the Africans always saw - and the ritual is trying to tell the story that each human being is nothing more than an expression of an aspect of the divine essence having the human experience. In other words, we are spirit manifesting ourselves as human. - But now, the key for you knowing that is to make sure that you understand that you are a divine being and so that you become a person of character. (heart beating) (crocodile growl) (heavy drum beat) - The scene, the Papyrus of Ani, which is called the Judgment Scene, is such a unique document that our ancestors have left for us to study. What is called the Judgment Scene in "The Book of Coming Forth By Day" Or the Papyrus of Ani. And what you have is a man and he’s standing on one side of a scale. And in the middle of the scale is a woman figure called Ma’at. - So Ma’at was the center figure of the whole governance of Ancient Kemet. - Ma’at: truth, justice, righteouness, harmony, balance, reciprocity, and order. - The structure of the universe being represented as Ma’at. - Galaxies, stars, the universe, this African feminine principle known as Ma’at. - And Ma’at meaning truth, justice, righteouness, reciprocity, balance, order and harmony. - And so even the feminine principle, which is the center of Kemet, is Ma’at, and it’s depicted as a woman. - Ma’at was pictured as an African woman with wings. - But when you look at the genesis, it’s that nutrient, it’s that nurturing, it is that mother. - Ma’at is your mother. Ma’at is a set of virtues. The most we talk about them is that Ma’at is a set of virtues, and most of all we recite. - It’s telling how you arrive at this order through these other behaviors. - But those are simply our way of codifying that which is, again, the inspiration for life. It is the utterance of your coming into being. - It is that which gives birth to whatever essence is going to have the experience that would build towards Ma’at. - I’m rising to the high priest. So the high priest level is that I’m responsible for all my actions and I’m knowledgeable of it. It’s not I don’t have any faith; I have wisdom. And now this intellect of my wisdom is going to elevate me and my people. - Now, this is the world’s first representation of what would later show up in Christianity as a heavenly host such as an angel, okay? So we’ve always had this concept of the divine feminine. - With the ostrich feather, and the ostrich feather because the ostrich bird, each of his wing, each of his feathers are in perfect symmetry, okay? If you ball it up into knot, it’ll spring back, coming back. That’s why you have people say truth pressed to the earth will rise again, because the truth cannot be hidden forever, it will come back. So that’s the way they looked at Ma’at. So this feminine energy. - And all we’ve done is give some rules, some regulations saying, this is what it looks like in practice. - This is all about good character. Good character. Why do you have the oracles of Ma’at? To develop good character. People who have good character, make your nation flourish. So that means that the words you speak have to be powerful, the things you do have to be powerful, and the things that you represent have to be powerful. - What governs the living, and that’s what would become important for us to have a set of virtues, or values that says, this is what you look like when you walk in the world as this divine being. - So that’s how we judge a person’s character, not by what you say, but by what you do. - A mythological story came out of the existence of Ma’at, and out of this there's gonna become a ritual which is gonna be the Judgment Scene. - So the Judgment Scene now is depicting what happens when you follow Ma’at. It says the reward for Ma’at is to receive Ma’at. So not the pie in the sky. You give Ma’at, you receive Ma’at. The Judgment Scene is showing you how you have to be accountable to everything in your life. - The soul of the deceased would have to stand before Ausar on Judgment Day and they would have to confess these admonitions - So Inpu leads you to the scales. He’s the guardian. That’s the only way you can get in. So Inpu guides you into the house of, the double halls of Ma’at. - One must walk into the hall of Ma’at, the double Ma’at. - In that Judgment Scene, the next most important thing that’s sitting in front of you is the scales. (scale creaking) And the scale on one side has your heart, which means I have a collection of all your deeds, your intents, your nature (scale creaking) and then I have the feather of an ostrich which is perfect symmetry. - And one’s ab, one’s heart is placed on one side of the scale opposite the feather of Ma’at. - And what has to occur here, in order for him to proceed into the kingdom of the divine, his heart, his deeds on earth must be so righteous that they are lighter than the feather. - You look at someone who stands on truth, you look at somebody who understands reciprocity, look at somebody who believes in the idea of our oneness. - So you got perfect symmetry and harmony, and then you got the heart which is judging all of the things that you’ve done, and then you got judges on top. - And then above the head is the 12, there’s 12 persons who the man is pleaing to to tell them I’m worthy, and you have 12 judges like the 12 disciples, and you have God and you have a priest symbolizing the institution of religion or theology. - And it is at this moment, this critical moment in one’s life, where one had to declare your innocence to say that you have not stolen, you have not robbed, you have not committed murder. - And the judges ask you questions Have you stolen? I have not stolen. Have you killed anyone? I have not killed anyone. Have you taken the possessions of the temple? I have not. Have you done ill to any woman? I have not. So you’re saying these things that I have not done, and I will not do them. - I have not eavesdropped. I have not turned my ear against the truth. - I have not killed. I have not wasted water. I have not defiled the temples. And so therefore, Ma’at represents as a feminine principle, the very nature upon which you, your heart, is gonna be judged. (tense music) (baboon sounds) - The law of reciprocity, that doesn’t mean you’ve never done anything wrong. It means that if I’ve done something wrong, I have done something correct to balance that. See, in Judaism and in Christianity, you can do a whole bunch of bad stuff and say, I repent, and then you still think that you’re going to heaven. That means 60 years of bad stuff, one day of repent and now you’re going to heaven. That doesn't make any sense. That’s no law of reciprocity, that’s not balance. So reciprocity means not only if I corrected what was wrong, but I compensated that which was bad, which I did bad, for when I was doing something wrong. That’s reciprocity. - On the other side of the scale is a man with a pen, the ibis bird, keeping the record and recording this measurement, but also having the record of the life of that man so that he can see if his life actions warrants him going into what, in the west, we call heaven. - And it was her husband, Djehuty, the ibis bird, that would be the wisdom and knowledge. - But Djehuty has the record of your whole consciousness down. Djehuty is your higher consciousness. So to have you have your balance doesn’t mean you never did anything wrong, it means those things that you have done wrong you showed good character by correcting it. See, because, let me say this here, even the road to Ma’at means that you have done a lot of things wrong to correct it. (rhythmic drum music) - If your heart is heavier than the feather, it’s going to come down as the feather goes up. And there is an entity, the devourer of evil hearts known as Ammit, who is a combination of hippopotamus and crocodile and lion, waiting to eat your heart to be able to take in your injustice. - Now you know, each one of them is terrorizing. You don’t wanna deal with the lion. You definitely don’t wanna deal with a crocodile. And hippo kills more people than any other animal on the African continent. But you’ve never seen a picture of somebody’s foot hanging out Ammit's mouth because it's spiritual. So he devours your soul because only your soul is going. You’re not going. Your soul is going and being judged. - Manipulating the scale is the symbol of judgment. Anubis, who’s making sure that the scale is not tampered with, that the balance is correct. - And the feather of Ma’at, righteousness and justice, is gonna be placed on the other. And if your heart is lighter than the feather. - And you are found true of voice, then Heru is next. - Then he’s escorted by Heru, the son of god, into the kingdom before his father. - Heru takes you to meet his father, who is seated on the throne of judgment. (heavy drum beat) - Then you will sit with Ausar, the god of all. - And Heru is the son of Ausar, and that’s why in Christianity they say, the only way to my Father is through the Son. - And so in our western tradition, it says, you cannot enter the kingdom before the Father except by the Son. - None comes through the Father except through me. - And that’s done there. The Son of God, once your deeds proved you worthy of going into kingdom, escorts you into the kingdom before the Father. - Heru takes that person and leads him to his father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. - Who then makes the final desposition as to where your soul goes and where your next life begins. - And then you see the wings above that as the person is ascending to heaven to become one of the revered ancestors. So this is extremely important. - And while in that celestial realm, they would evaluate their life, they would look at their successes and their failures, and then prepare to be born again, to come back as an ancestor in a new body and work toward the fulfillment of their soul’s evolution. - And so you have all of the elements of all of the western religions, Islam, Judaism, or Christianity, embodied in this one document. - So in Kemet, we have the oldest expression of a creator, of a resurrected creator, of a soul of the process for the salvation of the soul. - And it’s a beautiful story when you look at it, because it’s a universal story. It’s the story of the universe. It’s the story of cosmology. It’s the story of creation. It’s the story of recreation or what we call resurrection. - To prove that one has led a righteous life of principles of Ma’at, principles to live up to, all of this was a part of the African cosmos, the African consciousness expressed in their understanding of the relationship between heaven and earth, in the human beings who move between these two dimensions of reality. - How do I build good character? How do I become a divine being within my body while I’m still alive? How do I transcend and take on the knowledge that my ancestors left behind? How do I tap into all of these premonitions that I’ve had? How do I use them? How do I make sense to it? How do I better the condition that I’m in and the atmosphere that I’m in? And so therefore, each person had an obligation to make life better than the one they previously had. (faint voices whispering) (ominous choir music) (thunder claps) - The European concept of God is God as a man that resides somewhere in the sky. You can’t know Him, they said. You can’t see Him. You just have to believe. And the European concept is based solely on believing. - When Africans traveled into the northern climate and got caught in the Ice Age, above the 51st parallel north, they were experiencing this great freeze. Their environment was harsh. Environment was jealous and it was envious. It was destructive. (thunder claps) And out of that concept, there came their creator. (ominous music) - What we see in the Old Testament are these stories of a vengeful God. (woman screams) A God, a creative being, that would deny you knowledge. (ominous choir music) This is a profound distortion of an African spiritual reality. - And their creator became angry and jealous. It was very sparse. It made that individual that lived that life become angry and jealous and covetous over his neighbor’s things. And out of this came the Ice Age mentality. - And historically, wherever they have been, they take their religion and used that to dominate the people upon which they conquer. (people shrieking) - Most of these conventional religions that we believe in, we don’t believe in them because they were spiritually the right thing to do. Those were the people that conquered that land. (people shrieking) - I think it’s also important to look at the words, the terms that they use to describe their God. For example, the Hebrew word Yahweh. Many people don’t know that Yahweh was the god of war. (choir music) - So that when foreigners began to come into Kemet and marveled at the technological advances, the engineering advances, the architectural, philosophical and spiritual advances, they could not truly grasp these philosophical constructs that were related to astronomical events, astronomical activities. - There was never any slavery in Ancient Kemet. was no slavery in ancient- Ma’at is the center of the nation. - They came into Kemet not as slaves, not as these great seers and scientists and philosophers who came into the aid of the king. No, they came in as beggars. (thunder claps) And they were accepted as human beings. They were allowed to experience certain information that they were capable of internalizing. (ominous choir) - When Judaism is born, it is born after the invasion into Africa by the Hyksos. Northern of Kemet is conquered by these foreign Asiatic, Euro-Asian people. A lot of our people are trapped under their dominance and control. - They came out of Canaan, okay, which at the time were ruled by black folks. So these are Asiatics, who’ve migrated from the foothills and the mountains of the Caucasus Mountains and deep in the interior, have migrated down. They’re disgruntled and against the government of the Canaanites, and so they rebel and they migrate out. - Came into Kemet because they were starving in their homeland. - When the Africans come back up from the south, out of the Sudan, and retake Kemet from them, an element of our people who had been acculturated under the culture of the enemy engaged in a civil war against the Africans who have come to restore African tradition. - So if the Nswt Bty is sworn to uphold Ma’at, you can understand why slavery and all that type of stuff could not exist. That’s the anti-Ma’at, where in your Judaic-Christian books and all of that they actually sanction slavery. (enlightening music) Okay, not in any Kemetic book, okay? So I need to say that. Slavery would be anti-Ma’at. - And Hebrew is a corruption of the word ibri. And Ibri is those ancient Canaanites, Moabites, and Hittites that crossed the great river. Those who crossed over are referred to the Ibri, which means they are those who crossed over the river. It’s not a people, it’s a history and an action. - So they take fragments of the tradition that they can remember and formulate their own system and then they flee because they don’t wanna come back into the African tradition because they’ve become a part of the foreign invader’s interpretation of the African tradition. - They took these stories literally. Never understanding that what they actually represented was earth’s relationship with celestial bodies, earth’s relationship with the electromagnetic energy that allow for specific things to take place on the planet. And then they went back home with concepts which they used to lift themselves up out of a state of a barbarian. - And so they go into a land called Canaan and conquer and massacre many people there to set up a kingdom of their own. (ominous music) - And this is where semantics and connotative presentment creates confusion, because it’s an assumption that Hebrew is an identity. And as long as you keep presenting it as an identity, the confusion continues. And of course, that creates division, doesn’t it? And then people use it against people by telling them that it’s a religion, which is another falsehood. So you can see how semantic and connotative linguistics has destroyed the people, made them divided against each other and don’t know the difference between pedigree, action, and lineage. (deep brass and choir) - Abraham. Abraham is an allegory. Joseph coming in. That story was all borrowed. We have something called the Wdj of Jbw, which they call the Famine Text. And in the Famine text, the story of Joseph is right there. You get the whole story of Joseph coming in, the seven-day famine, all of that is written right there on a wedge of a giant rock, like that. Moses, that whole myth comes from an Asiatic story, from the Babylonians. - Judaism emerges, even in their own metaphor, out of Egypt. They said Moses has learned, and all of the wisdom of the Egyptians. So Moses, who’s learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, gives his knowledge Of the wisdom of the Ancient Kemetian people we call the Egyptians to designing what we know as the Hebrew-Israelite-Judaic tradition. - If you know the Medu Neter, mos comes from the word ms. Ms means to be born of or to give birth. So you can’t have a name just born of. So you have Iahms, one who is born of the energy of the moon. You have Djehutyms. My first name is Jhutyms, one who is born in the energy and the spirit of Djehuty. So nobody, you can’t find no record of Moses because there’s nobody named Moses that have existed there. - You’ll find the prototype for the Ten Commandments In the scenes of the weighing of the soul. You’ll find the tablets of Moses from the stela that are found in temple after temple after temple after temple in Kemet. - And then you have a set of writings which is called the admonitions of Ma’at, the laws. - There were 42 admonitions of Ma’at. And these principles were used to guide our ancestors through their daily life. They taught us how we needed to interact with each other, with the environment. - Centuries later, a man by the name of Moses will distill these 42 declarations of innocence into Ten Commandments. - They are gonna be the 42 admonitions of Ma’at, where the Ten Commandments came from, that are going to say I have not. - Except, in these laws, one does not say thou should not do this. In these laws, the man is professing I have not done this, I have not broken this rule. I have not committed this crime, I have not done this inequity. - And when you look at the admonitions of Ma’at and when you look at the Ten Commandments, you can see structurally what happened as it relates to the religion. - In the Bible, we know about the Ten Commandments. Thou shall not kill or thou shall not do this or that. What is the difference? - The profound difference between a commandment and a declaration of innocence is that with a declaration of innocence you are raised in a society where you know right from wrong so that you can declare your innocence on the day of judgment. In a society where these systems, this knowledge was not known, then you have to commanded what not to do. - In the Ten Commandments, you have to commanded to not do specific things as if they didn’t know you have to be commanded to do something. - Which is an implicit realization of the fact that you did not know right from wrong. Someone had to gather laws and command you what to do and what not to do. - So what was once a conversation about I have not disrespected my elders, I have not killed, what you now have in the Ten Commandments that are drawn out of the 42 admonitions is thou shall not. So they changed the structure of the language from being a person presenting himself to the creator having his heart weighed to someone outside telling somebody else what you better not be doing. - The Hebrews coming into Egypt have no religion. When they go out of Egypt, they have a religion they call Judaism. (enlightening music) And all of the tenets of that religion Are based on the elements of the religions of Kemet. - Scholars know this, why do they allow people to keep thinking it’s a religion, unless they have an untoward agenda. And it’s very clear that they’ve created a lot of confusion, a lot of divide and conquer. And so a lot of these people in the Western Hemisphere who’ve been conquered are arguing whether they’re Hebrews when they’re all the same people. - And they created mythologies about a supreme being who created the heaven and the earth, who created the animals and the vegetation. They created stories, myths that serve as a way of legitimizing their presence in their nation among their people. - And we find out that much of Aten’s writings, Akhenaten, was co-opted by the spiritual, by the religious Christianity, Judaism, and Christianity. They just took it almost word-for-word in some examples. Just co-opted that wholeheartedly. It’s all written by Akhenaten. - And as a result of that, and that quest for greed and domination, it led to many mistranslations of the ancient texts. - So when one studies the spiritual traditions of Ancient Kemet, one will find the foundational mythologies that were later reformulated into the Jewish traditions. (enlightening music) The Christian traditions. And the Islamic traditions. - But let me say this. When Aten was in the existence, there was no Judaism, there was no Christianity, there was no Buddhism, there was no Hinduism, there was no Taoism, and we can go down the line of other isms, had not come into existence yet. - Which is the reason why if you go to Kemet today, you will find all the architectural elements of Solomon’s Temple in every temple in Kemet. - Solomon’s Temple, all of that is just a fig- see, this is what happens when you have symbolic thought. I don’t have to prove anything, I just tell you something, because most of that stuff was made up. When I take you to Kemet, the Temple of Waset is still there. (enlightening music) The Temple of Amun is still there. Hwt-Ka-Ptah is still there. Right, Khnum is still there. This is 3 to 5,000 years before religious came, and that stuff was there, but the religious stuff ain’t there. Now, I’m gonna let you put weight out on the scale. I can find all the stuff in Ancient Kemet, but I can’t find none of this stuff in these other religions. - They lack the ability to fully comprehend Kemetic spiritual traditions and these other cultures did the best they could at that time to piece together stories that lifted them out of darkness and gave them a way to walk on the stage of human history. (heavy drums and choir) - We are looking at the universal principles of life that we have lost. There is the Ma’at, the path of Ma’at, and there’s the path of Isfet. Ma’at is the righteous path. Isfet is the path you’re on when you’re not righteous. - But in the religions that have been offered to us today we find that the people, who were created by a vengeful God, the people who were born in sin had been the people responsible for creating some of the greatest tragedies this planet has seen. (somber music) - From a tribal perspective, we never were the type of people to treat the earth, the animals and other people that way. Even if you look at the races of people all around the world, Africans got along just about every race of people for thousands and thousands of years. - We had it under control. We had the world under control. There were no problems so to speak until Eurasian came back down from the Ice Age with that Ice Age mentality. - Most of the spiritual traditions of people of color around the world talk about a story of these people having a continuous relationship with their creator. They were never separated from their creator. - When we look at Western civilization, that story was a little bit too rich for them. They had to think in terms of being outside of nature. - One might ask why is it that Europeans seem to be a war-like people? Everywhere they go, they start wars, they bring chaos and evil. And I think that that is a reflection of a certain type of consciousness. - With European concepts of independence, of individuality, of domination. - Wars, slavery, unspeakable violence committed against other human beings in the name of God. - A fearful God, that’s not us, this idea of being afraid of the divine, being afraid of God is not us because how can I be afraid of myself? And so it tells me that this God idea is separate from me, these are infections in my opinion. - That’s not an African concept, that’s a foreign concept. That’s a distorted perception of spirituality, a distorted perception of reality. - For us to continue to grasp hold of a lie, I believe, is a direct, in my personal opinion, is being directly disrespectful to the Most High. - Truth was revealed long before the biblical scriptures came into existence. Truth was revealed before any of the characters of the Bible ever came into existence. Truth was revealed thousands of years before there was any religious tradition called Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism any of these types of things. - So all these books, now, in Kemet, because it’s a spiritual system, there is no religious book. There was no one book that everybody had to read because we live this life every day. Remember, I said learn the mineral domain, learn the plant domain, learn the animal domain, then learn the human domain, and human is supposed to be in respect and in harmony with the other domains so that now you can permeate to the spiritual domain on its highest level. - We have to go back to the fork in the road where we started on Isfet. We have to go back to the road of Ma’at and understand that everything we need is laid out for us, and that we need to take the universal principles that are good for all time and space and place them in a future world that will be able to develop what it is that we are trying to do for our people and for our children and for the future. (rhythmic drum music)