In Pursuit of George G. M. James Study of African Origins in Western Civilization by Yosef A. A....

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In Pursuit of George G. M. James Study of African Origins in Western Civilization

Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan

In Pursuit of George G. M. James'

Study of African Origins in "Western Civilization"

By Dr. Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan

Prelude

Fellows, scholars, students and others assembled,

particularly all of us directly involved in the area of "Africana

Studies and Research," I have before me in this paper basic

evidence on Judaism, Greek Philosophy and European

civilization, etc. which was not available to the late African-

Guyanese linguist, Egyptologist, theologian, philosopher,

historian, scientist, mathematician, and professor - George

G. M. James, in whose honour I appear - when he wrote his

masterpiece - Stolen Legacy - in 1954 C.E. This material

ranges from an article in The New York Times, March 1, 1979, page A1 and A16 titled "Nubian

Monarchy Called Oldest," by Boyce Rensberger; one of the earliest pictures of a statue of the

most honoured of "Greek Philosophers," Sokrates, in the London Museum of Natural

History I extracted from a book - The History of Free Thought, London, 1887 (See a

picture of his bust to the right.); to another article in a photography magazine -

Camera 35, February, 1980, page 6 titled "Potpourri" - showing a picture of a late

African-European of historical fame - Alexander Dumas Pere, by the

nineteenth century C.E. French photographer Gaspard Felix Tournachon

[otherwise called "Nadar"]; and beyond these. Note that the picture of Dumas

was sold either on November 1 or 2, 1979 at the Sotheby Parke Berke Bernet

Gallery, New York City, New York for the respectable sum of sixteen thousand

($16,000) dollars. I wonder if the purchaser realized that he, or she, was

purchasing a picture of an African like anyone of us here tonight! Did this "lover of the arts"

know that there was hardly any difference between Sokrates and Dumas in terms of their "racial

origin"? (See a picture of Dumas to the left)

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The innocence, or ignorance, about the Africans major roles as creators of European civilization

is less here than it was when Professor James began the research for his basic work, Stolen

Legacy, which re-ignited in me the fervor to research further and present this paper today. Thus

I begin with a major contradiction of "Western Academia" about which nation of Africans - Egypt

or Nubia - preceded the other in history. The following revelation contradicts almost everything

we have been taught about the origin, development and zenith of the High-Culture of Egypt in

terms of historical arrival as a Nile Valley High-Culture. More so, all of the following was known

to many at the University of Chicago, Illinois; as they have always held pertinent information in

the artifacts of Nubia within their possession, and of which the general Academic Community

was kept almost totally ignorant such existed; thus:

If these reflections are not sufficient to begin this presentation, let me refresh your memory of

the fact that we were supposedly engaged in the celebration of "Black [which should have been

"African" at least] History Month" only this past February, 1980. Yet very little, if anything, of

what I have so far divulged in less than one page of this paper was mentioned during the entire

29 days African people in the United States of America were allotted to tell our own history, and

also glory in our own heritage - all of the millions of years of it - from Zenjanthropus boise 1.8

million years ago to the present 1980 C.E.

Of course I must laugh at the attempt to make us believe that the entire World's oldest people,

especially our existence universally, can be told in twenty-eight or twenty-nine [consecutive]

days of each year; whereas that of the world's youngest people requires three hundred and

sixty-five or three hundred and sixty-six [consecutive] days each year: "White Caucasian

History"!

This comment should in no way detract from the laudatory efforts of our late African American

scholar and fellow historian—Dr. Carter G. Woodson—for having established what was

previously called "Negro History Week" around the middle 1930's until the end of the 1950's

C.E. For even this preliminary effort was rejected by most "Negro Scholars" at that period of

little or no awareness of African History by them, and much less by their European American

counterparts. Thus what I am revealing now was equally suppressed by the same detractors

who scuffed and scorned Dr. Carter G. Woodson while a Professor of History at Howard

University, Washington, D.C. Yet it was the turmoil that brought about "Negro History Week"

which equally caused Professor George G. M. James to remind European American Academia

of their African Beginnings; and thus the onset of the challenge to the exclusively "European

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[white] civilization" [philosophy included] void of its African and Asian Roots and/or Orgins, etc. It

must be indelibly permanent in our minds that the concept of European "Judaism" and "Judaeo-

Christianity" was also challenged; that is providing we realize it is impossible to speak about any

type of European Philosophy in the absence of its African Beginnings along the entire Nile

Valley. Professor James, on page 182 of his Stolen Legacy, said it this way:

CHAPTER VII

The Curriculum of the Egyptian Mysteries

Through the curriculum of the Egyptian mysteries it is now know that the

African Continent has given the following Legacy to the civilization of the world.

It consists of the following culture patterns: —

1. Holy Catholic Orders, together with a priesthood divided into ranks

according to training.

2. Holy Catholic Worship, consisting of rituals, ceremonies including

processions and appropriate vestments of priests.

3. Greek Philosophy and the Arts and Sciences, including the Seven

Liberal Arts, that is , the Quadrivium and Trivium which were the

foundation training of Neophytes. These were included in the forty-two

Books of Hermes.

4. The applied Sciences which produced the pyramids, tombs, libraries,

obelisks, and Sphinxes, war chariots and ships, etc.

5. The social sciences, appropriate for the highest civilization in ancient

times. Read The Stromata of Clement of Alexandria, C. 6, p. 756, 758;

also Diodorus I, 80. Read also The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient

Egyptians by F. M. Barber; History of Mathematics by Florian Cajeri;

History of Mathematics by W. W. R. Ball.

CHAPTER VIII

The Memphite Theology

(1) Definition

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The Memphite Theology is an inscription on a stone containing the cosmology,

theology and philosophy of the Egyptians. Read Frankfort's Ancient Egyptian

Religion, C. 20 and 23; also Frankfort's Intellectual Adventure of Man. It is

located in the British Museum.

(2) Importance

Its importance lies in the fact that (a) it is an authoritative source of Egyptian

Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion (b) it is proof of the Egyptian origin of

Greek philosophy.

(3) The source of Modern Scientific Knowledge

a. Atom the Egyptian Sun God who is the Logos of Heracleitus, the

Demiurge of Plato and the Unmoved Mover of Aristotle creates eight

other Gods by projecting them from His own body, thus producing nine

Gods or the Ennead. This is identical with the Nebular Hypothesis of

Laplace, in which the original Sun creates eight other planets, by

throwing off rings from itself, thus producing the nine major planets of

modern scientific belief.

b. It has been shown on pages 146 and 147 of this book, that the name of

Atom of Egyptian Sun God is the same name used for the atom of

science and also that the attributes of both are the same. Read

Frankfort's Intellectual Adventure of Man, p. 53; Frankfort's Kingship

and the Gods, p. 182; also Herodotus II, 112; Diodorus I, 29.

(4) It offers great possibilities for modern scientific research

What science knows about (a) the number of major planets (b) how these

major planets were created by the Sun and (c) the attributes of the atom has

been traced to the Cosmology of The Memphite Theology, which suggests that

(d) science knows only 1/5 of the secrets of creation and therefore 4/5 of such

secrets yet remains to by discovered (e) consequently The Memphite Theology

offers great possibilities for modern scientific research.

Of course attempts were also made earlier by Wilson Armistead in his book, A Tribute to the

Negro, pages 120–124, etc., published in 1848 A.D.! However, it was George G. M. James who

actually published the very first full-length scholarly work by an African educator challenging any

and all "European Scholarship" about so-called "Greek Philosophy."

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George G. M. James

Often-times called "the umbrella man," because he was seldom seen without one in his hand,

come rain or shine; "poppycock," because it was a common word he sometimes used when

disturbed by others mediocrity; still there should not have been a solitary one of us African,

African American and African Caribbean academicians who did not know of the late

philosopher, theologian, mathematician, scientist, professor, etc. George G. M. James and his

works. It is as criminal as not having heard or known of the person and works of Marcus Mosiah

Garvey, Paul Robeson, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Hatshepsut,

Malcolm-X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, and so many other African historical

giants of our HERITAGE which we should have enshrined during the "BLACK CULTURAL

REVOLUTION" of the era some still call "…The Glorious 1960's. …"

George G. M. James was born in the British Crown Colony of GUIANA, South America

[presently the "Republic of Guyana"] to the Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James

sometime in the latter half of the nineteenth century—the exact year and date being obscure to

my knowledge at this moment. He was nurtured into full boyhood, and completed his

normal/elementary and advanced/high school education in his native homeland. Following this

beginning he journeyed to England where he earned the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of

Theology degrees from Durham University. At London University he continued his studies in the

area of research, having many projects to his credit, including work towards the D. Litt degree.

He left and entered the United States of America where he worked on his Ph.D. degree. Added

to all of this were: a Teacher's Certificate to teach Greek, Latin and Mathematics in the State of

New York school system, the same being equally true for North Carolina and Florida; at the

latter also as an Administrator. His college career included two years as Professor of Logic and

Greek at Livingston College, Salisbury, North Carolina; ten years as Professor of Languages

and Philosophy at Johnson C. Smith, Charlotte, North Carolina; two years as Professor of

Mathematics and Dean of Men at Georgia State College, Industrial College, Georgia; one year

as Professor of Social Science at Alabama A. & M. College, Normal, Alabama; and five years as

Professor of Social Sciences Arkansas State College, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

In 1954 he published the long-awaited challenge to the Greeks having fathered "GREEK

PHILOSOPHY"; thus his book Stolen Legacy. This was, unfortunately, the same year he

mysteriously died after having left his job and friends at Pine Bluff, Arkansas for Nashville,

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Tennessee. This type of erratic behavior was never typical of the highly disciplined GEORGE G.

M. JAMES.

Organizations to which Professor James belonged were numerous; a few follow:

o American Association for the Advancement of Science,

o Association of University Professors,

o American Teachers Association, and the

o National Education Association

The most important of the organizations he worked towards projecting for African people was

the only one for which he made his deepest obligation; thus: ORDER OF [the Egyptian, or Nile

Valley indigenous people] MYSTERIES SYSTEM [O.M.S.], as High-Priest: Plumbed-Level-

Square 360° .

The publications of Professor James are numerous, the following being the most important of all

so far as I have rated them: thus:

PAMPHLETS

1. Health Week in New Castle

2. Intermarriage. Published in London, England

3. Black People Under Germany. Published in New York

4. The Need of a New Education for the Subject Peoples

of the World. Published in Arkansas, U.S.A

5. The Probable Causes of Religious Apathy in our

Institutions of Higher Learning and the Proposal of a

New Naturalism. Published in Arkansas, U.S.A.

ARTICLES

1. The Church and the New Mentality.

2. Religion is an Inductive and Progressive Science.

3. The Anti-Classical Wave.

4. The First Step in Negro Reconstruction.

5. Know Thyself. (A Series of 12 Articles) Published in

the New York Age and the Zion Quarterly.

6. The Influence of Mathematics Upon the Mentality and

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Character of Students. Published in the Georgia

Herald.

This is but a very short introduction to the "academic genius" who dared to challenge

EUROPEAN, BRITISH and EUROPEAN-AMERICAN [white] "SCHOLARSHIP" in the 1930's–

1950's C.E. when most of his fellow AFRICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN and AFRICA

CARIBBEAN [black] "EDUCATORS" were trying to secure their EUROPEAN AMERICAN

counterparts approval and endorsement as "SCHOLARS," George G. M. James equally

challenged the very foundation of "JUDAISM, JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY" and "WESTERN

CIVILIZATION" as being original and/or void of their "AFRICAN BEGINNINGS." In so doing he

had revealed too much of the "SECRETS" of even friends, particularly in terms of their

"SECRET SOCIETY'S TEACHINGS" they (i.e. Europeans) STOLE and PLAGIARIZED from the

TEACHINGS of the African/Egyptian MYSTERIES SYSTEM which was housed in the Grand

Lodge of Luxor in ancient times, and among very few today who still continue the objectives of

first Grand Master AMEN-RA. "Man [African] Know Yourself" were the "PASSWORDS" of

James' life, but not that of those who snuffed his light in order to maintain their control over

those he wanted to free—at least mentally.

Professor George G.M. James loss to the AFRICAN COMMUNITIES everywhere can never be

equaled; yet countless AFRICANS will take heed of his clarion call in terms of their

enlightenment with respect to their AFRICAN HERITAGE he so devotedly brought to light.

If you ever dare to read the works of George G.M. James you will never again be the same as

before you did. He stands at the head of the line with AKHENATEN, RAMESIS II, MANETHO of

Sybenetos, St. AUGUSTINE OF Numidia, TERRENCE, of Nubia [before Rome], and so many

others who heeded the warning: "MAN [African] KNOW YOURSELF"; and knew himself.

James Revived

Count C.F. Volney, an eighteenth century C.E. French academician of the highest esteem in

European academic circles, wrote the following in his major work—Ruins of Empire, page xvii,

for all the racists who denied the indigenous African origin of the ancient Egyptians to read:

THERE A PEOPLE NOW FORGOTTEN DISCOVERED WHILE OTHER

WERE YET BARBARIANS, THE ELEMENTS OF THE ARTS AND

SCIENCES. A RACE OF MEN NOW REJECTED FOR THEIR BLACK SKIN

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and WOOLY HAIR FOUNDED ON THE STUDY OF THE LAWS OF NATURE

THOSE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS WHICH STILL GOVERN THE

UNIVERSE.

Isn't it rather interesting that today BLACK has become "SABLE," and WOOLLY turned

"FRIZZLED" in the quotation! BLACK and WOOLLY are stated in the original edition; whereas

Volney's successors found it necessary to change them in a later edition to "SABLE" and

"FRIZZLED," etc. This, unfortunately, has been too long typical of "Western Scholarship."

Previous to the publication of Volney's Ruins of Empire the following appeared in the Sixth

Century C.E. Balylonian Talmud through the effort of disorters of the original who called

themselves "JEWISH TALMUDIST SCHOLARS," etc.; thus:

Now I cannot beget the fourth son whose children I would have ordered to serve

you and your brothers! Therefore it must be Canaan, your first born, whom they

enslave. And since you have disabled me…doing ugly things in blackness of night,

Canaan's children shall be born ugly and black! Moreover, because you twisted

your head around to see my nakedness, your grandchildren's hair shall be twisted

into kinks, and their eyes red; again because your lips jested at my misfortune,

theirs shall swell; and because you neglected my nakedness, they shall go naked,

and their male members shall be shamefully elongated! Men of this race are called

Negroes, their forefather Canaan commanded them to love theft and fornication, to

be banded together in hatred of their master and never to tell the truth.

I know you cannot believe this was in you own HOLY BIBLE [Jewish and Christian]; but it still

appears in the Mormon and Calvinist VERSIONS today. This is best analyzed on pages 121–

122 of Raphael Patai's Hebrew Myths: The Story of Genesis, and in my own Black Man of the

Nile and His Family, pages 13–14.

Which of these two questions shall we, as AFRICAN PEOPLE, and especially "SCHOLARS"

and "STUDENTS," pursue in terms of our HISTORY and/or HERITAGE? I say the former,

particularly in view of the teachings left us by Professor George G.M. James. In this context he

reminded us in the "Introduction" of Stolen Legacy, page 1, of the following fact:

CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY

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The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no

such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had developed a very

complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first

system of salvation.

As such it regarded the human body as a prison house of the soul. Which

could be liberated from its bodily impediments, through the disciplines of

the Arts and Sciences, and advanced from the level of a mortal to that of a

God. This was the notion of the summum bonum or greatest good, to

which all men must aspire, and it also became the basis if all ethical

concepts. The Egyptian Mystery System was also a Secret Order, and

membership was gained by initiation and a pledge to secrecy. The

teaching was graded and delivered orally to the Neophyte; and under

these circumstances of secrecy, the Egyptians developed secret systems

of writing and teaching, and forbade their Initiates from writing what they

had learnt.

After nearly five thousand years of prohibition against the Greeks, they

were permitted to enter Egypt for the purpose of their education. First

through the Persian invasion and secondly through the invasion of

Alexander the Great. From the sixth century B.C. therefore to the death of

Aristotle (322 B.C.) the Greeks made the best of their chance to learn all

they could about Egyptian culture; most students received instructions

directly from the Egyptian Priests, but after the invasion by Alexander the

Great, the Royal temples and libraries were plundered and pillage, and

Aristotle's school converted the library at Alexandria into a research centre.

There is no wonder then, that the production of the unusually large number

of books ascribed to Aristotle has proved a physical impossibility, for any

single man within a life time.

James has arisen once more; not to save or heal in the same sense as this term is used by so-

called "Born Again Christians" like President Jimmy Carter of the United States of America,

Eldridge Cleaver, et al, but in light of the FREEDOM OF THE MINDS of the African, African

American and African Caribbean communities where they are. James' "rebirth," through his

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works, is for purpose of debunking the myth of a JUDAISM, JUDAEO-CHRISTIANITY and/or

GREEK PHILOSOPHY that originated and developed free of their AFRICAN ORIGINS.

There are quite a number of perplexing books, papers, dictionaries, etc. by "Western Scholars"

whose works have alleged some form of commonality in origin between "Western Civilization"

and both "Judaism" and "Judaeo-Christianity." Some have even attempted to make all three—

"Judaism, Judaeo-Christianity" and "Western Civilization"—EUROPEAN in every sense of this

word. Thus my reason for bringing before you highlights "In The Pursuit of George G.M. James'

Study of the African Origins in Western Civilization."

I will begin with the introduction of certain poignant points on so-called "Greek Philosophy" not

cited by Professor James in any of his works, but in context with the following he wrote on page

31 of Stolen Legacy about what…

We are told in the Timaeus of Plato, that aspirants for mystical wisdom visited Egypt for initiation

and were told by the priests of Sais, "that you Greeks are but children" in the Secret Doctrine,

but were admitted to information enabling them to promote their spiritual advancement. …

Of course, this is in direct contrast to the following by a fairly contemporary "Western Scholar,"

Dr. Edward Zeller, who wrote in Volume I, pages 49–50 of A History of Greek Philosophy, that:

We have no need, however, to seek for foreign antecedents: the philosophic science of the

Greeks is fully explained by the genius, resources, and state of civilization of the Hellenic tribes.

If ever there was a people capable of creating its own science, the Greeks were the people. In

most ancient records of their culture, the Homeric Poems, we already meet with that freedom

and clearness of spirit, that sobriety and moderation, that feeling for the beautiful and

harmonious, which place these poems so distinctly above the heroic legends of all other nations

without exception.

To this we need add Dr. Heinrich Ritter's comment on page 145, Volume I, of The History of

Ancient Philosophy:

Upon reviewing these elements of Greek intellectual culture, which were favourable to the

development of philosophy, no doubt can be entertained that they were sufficient to impart and

to sustain a philosophical impulse. When a people has arrived at the degree of civilisation at

which the Greek people stood in the time of Thales, an expectation naturally arises that it will

soon form for itself a philosophy, unless other unfavorable circumstances should occur to

impede its opening career. We might, without hesitation, assert that the Greeks took in no need

of instruction in this department of mind, and without any foreign teachers they were able to

advance to philosophical thought.

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The GREEKS WERE NOT THE AUTHORS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, BUT THE PEOPLE OF

NORTH AFRICA COMMONLY CALLED EGYPTIANS.

This is the profound manner in which the late professor George G. M. James began his major

thesis—Stolen Legacy. Professor James, by so saying, challenged the entire foundation of so-

called "Western Civilization"—from the ancient European of pre-Christian Greece and Rome to

the contemporary European Americans of North, Central, and South America. But moreso,

Professor James equally challenged within this context the foundations of both "Judaism" and

"Judaeo-Christianity" as he stated the following on pages 177–178 of Stolen Legacy:

(5) The statue of the Egyptian Goddess Isis with Her Child Horus in Her Arms

This was the first Madonna and Child of human history. It was a Black

Madonna and Child. Read Max Muller's Mythology of Egypt, c. 13, p. 241–

245; also Sandford's Mediterranean World, p. 551–568. Remember that the

name Egyptian is a Greek word Aiguptos which means Black, and that

primitive man visualized God in terms of his own attributes and this included

colour.

(6) All the great religious leaders from Moses to Christ were Initiates of the

Egyptians Mysteries

This is an inference from the nature of the Egyptian Mysteries and prevailing

custom.

a. The Egyptian Mystery System was the One Holy Catholic Religion of

the remotest antiquity.

b. It was the one and only Masonic Order of Antiquity, and as such,

c. It built the Grand Lodge of Luxor in Egypt and encompassed the

ancient world with its branch lodges.

d. It was the first University of history and it made knowledge a secret, so

that all who desired to become Priests and Teachers had to obtain

their training from the Mystery System, either locally at a branch lodge

of by traveling to Egypt.

We know that Moses became an Egyptian Priest, a Hierogrammat, and that

Christ after attending the lodge at Mt. Carmel went to Egypt for Final Initiation,

which took place in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Other religious leaders

obtained their preparation from lodges most convenient to them.

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e. This explains why all religions, seemingly different, have a common

nucleus of similarity; belief in a God; belief in immorality and a code of

ethics. Read Ancient Mysteries by C.H. Vail, p. 61; Mystical Life of

Jesus by H. Spencer Lewis; Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant, p.

107, 128–129; Philo: also read note (2) Chapter III for branch lodges of

the ancient world.

There should be no misunderstanding amongst you relative to "Judaism" and/or "Judaeo-

Christianity" being integral parts of "Western Civilization." This is true, even though neither of

the latter two had anything to do with "Europe" in terms of their origin. The first, "Judaism,"

predated the original European High-Culture/Civilization called "Pyrrus" or "Helladas" in ca.

1000 B.C.; it being related to the transformation of the first Hebrew of Jewish Prophet named

Abraham or Avrm. A man said to have been born in ca. 1775 B.C.; his transformation, or new

birth to "Judaism," having taken place in ca. 1675 B.C. in the City of Ur, Chaldea, the same

place in which he was born while a colony of Africans called "Elamites" from the Nile Valley.

These dates and events equally deny any validity to the claim by Dr. Ritter mentioned above.

At this juncture it would appear that Professor James should have remained mute, and equally

myself as his student and protégé of very long standing. This is providing there was no evidence

to the contrary of what we have been conditioned to believe about "Western Civilization."

For example, PLATO'S Timaeus is fraught with inconsistencies and outright dishonesty,

particularly the extent of his comment on Egypt and other Nile Valley high-culture from which

Greece drew its fundamentals in philosophic ideology. Thus it is that Professor Kathleen

Freeman felt obliged to write the following on pages 73–74 of her work—Pre-Socratic

Philosophers.

That Pythagoras himself left no writings was widely believed in antiquity. Further, it was believed

that one of the rules imposed on his disciples was that of secrecy, the betrayal of any of his

doctrines being punished by excommunication. According to some, this secrecy was observed

with marvelous strictness, and no account of Pythagorean doctrine was available till the time of

Plato, when Philolaus the Pythagorean, owing to pressure of poverty, wrote an account of three

books, which were bought from him at Plato's instigation by Dion of Syracuse…

Was this disciplinary conduct executed by Pythagoras not part of his African schooling in Egypt

and Nubia! And, did Plato not plagiarized much of it under his own name!

We need not become perplexed by Ritter, Zeller, and all of the other early and contemporary

European distorters of the teachings from the African MYSTERIES SYSTEM of the Grand

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Lodge of Luxor. For the evidence in the DIAGRAM OF THE LAW OF OPPOSITES before you

(see the discussion of this in the next section) further personifies what Gerald Massey, on pages

13–14 of The Natural Genesis, had to say about the Greeks and their "MYSTERIES SYSTEM"

they developed from their African teachers' creation. The Greeks, who even sacked the Great

Library of the Grand Lodge of Luxor!

Outside of their own mysteries the Greeks stood altogether outside of the subject. They, as their

writer's alleged, had inherited their mythology, and the names of their divinities, without knowing

their origins or meaning. They supplied their own free versions to stories of which they never

possessed the key. Whenever they met with anything they did not understand, they turned the

more effectively to their own account. All that came to hand was matter for metaphysics, poetry,

statue and picture. They sought to delight and charm the word with these old elements of

instruction, and with happy audacity supplied the place of the lost nature of mystic meaning with

the abounding grace and beauty of their art. Nothing, however, could be more fatal than to try to

read the thoughts of the remoter past through their eyes, or to accept the embellishments of

these beautifiers for interpretations of the ancient topology.

The human mind has long suffered an eclipse and been darkened and dwarfed in the shadow of

ideas, the real meaning of which has been lost to the modern. Myths and allegories whose

significance was once unfolded to initiates in the mysteries have been adopted in ignorance and

reissued as real truths directly and divinely vouchsafed to mankind for the first and only time.

The earlier religions had their myths interpreted. We have ours misinterpreted. …

The Greek and still more modern misinterpretations of ancient topology have made it the most

terrible tyranny in the mental domain.

Homer's Iliad and Odessy are Prima facie evidence of Massey's observation, and that of many

other scholars; also that "…the gods Zeus and Apollo are from Ethiopia [Afric]. …

What I have just quoted for you has an anti-climax, the writing of Zeller on page 27n of A History

of Greek Philosophy; thus:

We find nothing in Herodotus as to any Egyptian origin of Greek philosophy. In regard to

religion, on the other hand, he not only maintains that certain Greek cults and doctrines

[especially the worship of Dionysus and the doctrine of Transmigration ii. 49, 123] were

imported from Egypt to Greece, … and Diodorus asserts, the Egyptian priests related that

Orpheus, Masaeus, Lycurgus, Solon had come to them; and moreover, Plato, Pythagoras and

Eudoxus, Democritus and Oenopides from Chios, and that relics of these men were still in

Egypt. These philosophers had borrowed from the Egyptians the doctrines, arts and institution

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which they transmitted to the Helenes; Pythagotas, for example, his geometry, his theory of

numbers, and transmigration; Democritus, his astronomical knowledge; Lycurgus, Plato and

Solon, their laws.

Zeller, like many other 'Western Scholars," cannot accept Herodotus' personal primary

evidence. Why! Because it would mean that the entire basis of their claim of a "GREEK

PHILOSOPHY" is baseless. Carried to its ultimate conclusion, this is also true for "JUDAISM"

and "CHRISTIANITY."

We have plainly seen that "Western Scholars" have failed to understand that

departmentalization, or in fact fragmentation, of educational discipline is "European"; not

"African." For this reason, and many others of course, they cannot see or admit PHILOSOPHY

in the religion, mathematics, science, law, engineering, etc. of Africa that produced the

DIAGRAM OF THE LAW OF OPPOSITES I now place before you for you own examination of

the philosophy complexities it contains. Yet in the case of Aristotle's attempt at being sarcastic

about the philosophical foundation of the SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION therein, he knew from first-

hand knowledge he had plagiarized the original

PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT PROCESS

This is … Aristotle's "Four Humors" [or Plagiarized Nightmare]

If I leave you with this "DIAGRAM" without any further comment, you will probably act as if it is

genuine. Yet this is as authentic as the man for whom it is ascribed—ARISTOTLE, who

masterminded the sacking of the LIBRARY OF THE MYSTERIES SYSTEM of the Grand Lodge

of Luxor, Egypt, Northeast Africa. It is his "FOUR HUMORS," this being the work of a "GREEK

PHILOSOPHER" of the type that, allegedly, became such without any AFRICAN

PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT PROCESS in his training! It is the so-called "DIAGRAM OF

OPPOSITES" you will find in many of the works on "GREEK PHILOSOPHY" by "Western

Academicians" over the past two hundred Years.

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Aristotle was not amusing in his attempt at belittling the Africans' DIAGRAM OF THE

PRINCIPLE OF THE LAW OF OPPOSITES; neither those who attributed his distorted version

of the original you can see below. In fact, Aristotle's embryo wasn't formed when this

PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLE became common knowledge to all of the "THIRD STAGE"

[and/or "CREATORS"/"SONS OF LIGHT"] students who became a part of the "SPIRITUAL

CONSCIOUSNESS" in the Mysteries System of the Grand Lodge of Luxor; the Nile Valley

Africans SYSTEM OF EDUCATION that included the teaching of "PHILOSOPHY" from before

ca. 4100 B.C.E. to this very moment we are assembled here tonight. Professor James made

this point very clear when he wrote the following on page 81 of Stolen Legacy; thus:

The history of the following ancient theory of "The Four Qualities and Four

Elements," provides the world with the evidence of the Egyptian origin of

the doctrines of (a) Opposites or Contraries, (b) Change or Transmutation

and (c) the life and function of the universe is due to either of four

elements: fire, or water, or earth, or air.

DIAGRAM OF THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITES

[8 was the highest number at this period of antiquity. Only along the Nile River Civilizations]

The Four Elements: AIR, FIRE; WATER, EARTH.

The Four Qualities: HOT, DRY; WET, COLD.

The 8 EQUAL D POLE STARS

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Fuller, on page 19 of his HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, articulated the very same point I

have highlighted: thus he wrote:

Aristotle surmised that philosophy first arose in Egypt because the priesthood

there had leisure. With the geographical correctness of this statement we are

not concerned, but Aristotle's reasons for making it are significant. In the first

place he lays down one of the conditions necessary to philosophic

specification. The Egyptian priesthood, he tells us, had leisure. Philosophy

requires time—time to wonder and meditate and make our guess about the

inner constitution of the world.

The issue here is that the GREEKS themselves confirmed the origin of their own

PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT PROCESS as having come from their African teachers along the

Nile Valley High-Cultures—Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, etc. Aristotle

knew first-hand .

Strangely enough Zeller, unknowingly, concurred with Fuller when he wrote on pages 46–47 of

a History of Greek Philosophy the following:

Aristotle knew nothing of any philosophical inquiry pursued in Egypt. He

contends that knowledge is on a higher level when it is pursued only for

the end of knowing, than when it serves the purposes of practical

necessity, and observes, in connection with this, that purely theoretical

sciences therefore first arose in places where people were sufficiently free

from anxiety about the necessities of life to be able to devote themselves

to such sciences.

Freedom to think to Egypt and other Nile Valley nations had the climate of peace which Greece

seldom experienced by virtue of the wars the Greeks engaged in during the period of so-called

Greek Philosophy. Greek life was nothing but TRAGIC from Thales to Aristotle: the

"philosopher."

At this point it is necessary to note that the first "Greek Philosopher," Thales [ca. 600 B.C.],

existence is questionable. We need not labor on the proof, as all of the Greek and other

European chroniclers of antiquity have agreed his origin, as existence, is doubtful; so as most of

the others that preceded Sokrates. Throughout Professor James' Stolen Legacy this is clearly

stated and documented. Of course, I must assume that so critical a scholarly work will be read

by all of us! We must, if we are to understand "African Roots of Western Civilization"!

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Certainly my following remarks relative to Isis' IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, at least 4100

years before Mary's [which was less than 1981 years ago], deals with a very deep philosophical

and theosophical concept in teachings that originated in the Grand Lodge of Luxor's

MYSTERIES SYSTEM. The text reads that after Osiris' CRUCIFIXION, DEATH and BURIAL he

"AROSE ON The THIRD DAY" and "BECAME THE RULER OF THE DEAD" [Godfrey Higgins'

ANACALYPSIS, Vol. II, p. 122]. During this period Isis, the mother of Horus, and her sister

Nephthys, guarded the body of Osiris [Veronica Ions' EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY, p. 133]. The

philosophical dimension in this episode comes as Isis began to restore Osiris back to life by the

powers given her by Thoth [J. Gwyn Griffith's The Origins of Osiris, p. 4], the moment of the

"CONCEPTION OF HORUS"; AND THUS The Holy of Sacred Scripture from the OSIRIAN

DRAMA where Osiris states:

Your sister comes to you, joyous through her love for you. You have her

placed upon your phallus. Your sperm enters her, so that she is like Sothis. It

is Horus-Sopd who comes out of you as Horus who is also Sothis. You have

become a glorious spirit through him in his name Djenderowbarque. He saves

you in his name of Horus-the-son-who-saves-his father.

You have noted the source of the FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST/SPIRIT basic

philosophical concept adopted in the theology of the Judaeo-Christian Religion for the god

JESUS-the Christ. But you will also notice, I have applied 20th Century common/Christian Era

English form in my translation from the original HIEROGLYPH to ENGLISH; thus no "THY" and

"THOU," etc.

Further assessments on the Judaeo-Christian philosophical and theosophical teachings about

the "IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY" and the "VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS," or any of

the other "FIFTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIOURS" [Kersey Braves' The Sixteen Crucified Saviors],

are of no major advantage here; as the continuation will only renew our prognostication about

"RESURRECTION, IMMORTALITY" and "DEIFICATION," etc, already solved in the BOOK OF

THE COMING FORTH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT [Book Of The Dead and Papyrus of Ani] of the

African Mysteries System.

A rapid departure from philosophy to music might otherwise indicate an attempt at detouring

somewhat from the critical point in question. But you must remember that neither can be

extricated from the other in context of its African/Egyptian point of reference; thus the

philosophical development of medicine as an art-form with magico-religious functions. This

concept is best understood if you should become familiar with the evolution of medicine and the

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medical art in the ancient southern Nile Valley High-Culture from central Africa [UGANDA,

KENYA, TANGANYKA, and SOMALIA. Etc.] all the way down to Egypt ca. 4100 miles away due

north. For here, once again, we have the GOD OF PHILOSOPHY," Thoth equally being the

"GOD OF MEDICINE." And we also find him as "THOTH THE MEASURER," before her status

as "GODDESS"; thus her title" "PATRONESS OF THE MAGICIANS." Horus, too, is in

MEDICINE," and even called a "PHYSICIAN"; thus" CHIEF PHYSICIAN IN THE HOUSE OF RÉ

AT LETOPOLIS." Do not exclude Imhotep, also called I-em-hotep, the most celebrated "GOD

OF MEDICINE," the Greeks later renamed "Aescalapiou"; the man who was equally great in

"MAGIC," also called the "protector of the soul of both the dead and living from all physical and

spiritual enemies" [Y. ben-Jochannan's Black Man of the Nile and His Family, pp. 185–190, etc.]

The philosophical concept of medicine can be best seen in eight different papyri which are most

familiar to "Western Academicians"; they are as follows according to their numerical

chronological order:

[1] Kahum, [2] Edwin C. Smith, [3] Ebers, [4] Hearst,

[5] Erman, [6] London, [7] Berlin, [8] Chester Beatty.

Obviously, these names are as hypocritical as the term "GREEK PHILOSOPHY" and /or

"GREEK PHILOSOPHER." All bear the names or titles of "Westerners" who had nothing

whatsover to do with either except as the illegal possessor of the booty caused by the colonial

ravaging of Egypt and other Nile Valley Africans' High-Cultures from the time of the

Hyksos/Sheperd Kings of Beduina invasion and conquest of Egypt's Delta Region in cs. 1675

B.C. to the present in 1980 A.D. by the descendants of Arab who did the same in ca. 640 A.D.

under the banner of their extension of Judaism and Judaeo-Christianity, called "Islam," and their

later deity Al'lah in 622.

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PHILOSOPHY AS HEALING ART

Hippocratic Oath I SWEAR by Apollo the physician, and

Æsculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods

and goddesses, that according to my ability and

judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation—to

reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as

my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve

his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in

the same footing as my own brothers, and to reach them

this art, if they shall wish to hear it, without fee or

stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other

mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own

sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a

stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none

others. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my

ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and

abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no

deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel;

and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce

abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and

practice my Art. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but

will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work.

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Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the

sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and

corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of

freemen and slaves. Whatever, in connection with my professional

practice or not, in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men,

which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as

reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to

keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and

the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should

I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!

Isolating each papyrus in terms of its preposterous nomenclature we have the following:

(all times in BCE)

1700 [1] Kahum Medical Papyrus—a compendium of information

about women's diseases and pregnancies.

1600 [2] Edwin C. Smith Papyrus—a comparative surgical text, and

anatomical inquiry. It especially deals with the spinal

column.

1550 [3] Ebers Medical Papyrus—the most extensive of all, and

most collective of different authors and sources dealing with

internal medicine pregnancy, etc.

1550 [4] Hearst Medical Papyrus—Hearst Medical Papyrus—an

XVIIIth Dynasty masterpiece of specialized medical

practices and practitioners in rural areas.

1550 [5] Erman Medical Papyrus—medicine mostly related to

childbirth and pediatrics.

1350 [6] London Medical Papyrus—an XVIIIth Dynasty theoretical

document mixing medicine, magic and religion, etc. with

special references to philosophical ideas, etc. Prayers are

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common sources of power.

1350 [7] Berlin Medical Papyrus—an XIXth Dynasty reflection of

most of the teachings presented in the Hearst and Ebers

papyrus; particularly adopted to pregnancy determination

and possibility of fertility, etc.

1350 [8] Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus—deals with the medical

writings of Tet, or Neter-hotep, the Chief Physician of his

era, diagnostic medicine.

The outstanding work by Paul Ghalioungyi, THE HOUSE OF LIFE: MAGIC AND MEDICAL

SCIENCE IN ANCIENT EGYPT, and Chauncy D. Leake, THE OLD EGYPTIAN MEDICAL

PAPYRI, although quite contemporary and of "Western Academia," can be used to further

support my findings. Richard Caton's work, I-Em-Hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine, equally

deserves mention in this light.

Back-tracking somewhat to Professor James' Stolen Legacy, pages 177–178, we find him

saying the following about Moses of the Hebrew Religion, and Jesus-the Christ of the Christian

Religion:

(6) All the great religious leaders from Moses to Christ were

Initiates of the Egyptian Mysteries

This is an inference from the nature of the Egyptian Mysteries

and prevailing custom.

a. The Egyptian Mystery System was the One Holy Catholic

Religion of the remotest antiquity.

b. It was the one and only Masonic Order of Antiquity, and

as such,

c. It built the grand Lodge of Luxor in Egypt and

encompassed the ancient world with its branch lodges.

d. It was the first university of history and it made

knowledge a secret, so that all who desired to become

Priests and Teachers had to obtain their training from the

Mystery System, either locally at a branch lodge or by

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traveling to Egypt.

We know that Moses became an Egyptian Priest, a

Hierogrammat, and that Christ after attending the lodge

at Mt. Carmel went to Egypt for Final Initiation, which

took place in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Other

religious leaders obtained their preparation from lodges

most convenient to them.

e. This explains why all religions, seemingly different, have

a common nucleus of similarity; belief in a God; belief in

immortality and a code of ethics. Read Ancients

Mysteries by C. H. Vail, p. 61; Mystical Life of Jesus by

H. Spencer Lewis; Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant,

p. 107, 129–129; Philo; also read note (2) Chapter III for

branch lodges of the ancient world.

PHILOSOPHY AS RELIGION

This point has been cited because of the philosophical concept that's fundamental to the

beginning of JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN-ISLAMIC THEOSOPHY and GRAECO-ROMANO

["Western"] CIVILIZATION, all of which can be underscored as being from the teachings of

Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of the XVIIth Dynasty, ca. 1370–1353 B.C.E., who is otherwise more

popularly known as Akhenaten. In this regards the following from an "ARMANA PAPYRUS,"

attributed to Pharaoh Akhenaten, states:

When you set in the Western horizon of heaven

The world is in darkness like the dead

Every lion comes forward from his den

The serpents all sting, and darkness reigns.

Light falls over the earth when you rise in the horizon

The two lands are in daily festival

Then all over the world they do toil.

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How fruitful are your works!

They are hidden from our presence.

Oh my only God, whose powers no other has.

You alone created the earth as you desired, and alone:

All that are upon the earth.

We now see the plagiarism and distortion of this African's teaching in the following from what

has been labeled "PSALM 104" in the Hebrew HOLY TORAH or OLD TESTAMENT, which has

no existence before 700 B.C.E. when its FIRST BOOK/GENESIS, was published. Of course, I

am copying the Old English usage of which most of us are familiar; thus:

Thou makest darkness and it is night,

Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth;

The young lions roar after their prey; they seek their

meat from God...

The sun ariseth, they get them away

And lay them down in their dens.

Man goeth forth unto his work

And to his labour until the evening...

Oh Lord, how manifold are thy works!

In wisdom has thou made them all;

The earth is full of creatures.

I suggest an examination of Barbara Mertz' Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: The Story of

Egyptology, page 237, for an exciting evaluation of what is implied here between these two

quotes. Mertz could only conclude that the Hebrew writers plagiarization of the Africans' work

came from a "... literary tradition which flourished throughout the Near East..." that covered an

extensive period of time. Of course the term "Near East," by itself, is nebulous actually citing not

a solitary piece of specific geography. Yet this is typical of "Western Scholarship" in reference to

contemporary African scholars, and more so those of antiquity.

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What I have just read for you came from the contents of a series of papyri, one such named

"THE HYMN OF ATON," etc.

Let me cite two more parallels in the same context supportive of the forgone. One of the basic

tenets of Judaism's doctrines is found in the FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, which is equally called

GENESIS. Thus from Chapter I, Verses 26–27 the following:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ... So God created man

in his own image, in the image of God created he him.

Continuing the "creation of man" episode GENESIS, Chapter V, Verse 1 recites:

In the day God created man; in the likeness of God made he him. ...

GENESIS, Chapter 9, Verse 6, and CORINTHIAN, Chapter 11, Verse 7, etc., both deals with

this "CREATION STORY" dating back to a work from the Xth Dynasty, ca. 3249 B.C.E., or OLD

KINGDOM PERIOD, which was more than 1,574 years before the birth of the first Hebrew or

Jew—ABRAHAM—in ca. 1775 B.C.E. For it is GOD RÉ, commonly referred by "Western

Academicians" as the so-called "SUN GOD RÉ," whom the Nile Valley "MYSTERIES SYSTEM"

taught first described "MAN" in said type of "CREATION"; thus:

They [meaning mankind] are his likeness who have come forth from his [RÉ] body.

In the XXVth Dynasty, cs. 729 B.C.E., the Ethiopian Period, other writings related to this were

commonplace. As such Pharaoh Taharqa's sister, Shepenwepet, is described as being:

... the image of God Ré. ...

At this juncture the GOD of Egypt is also of the rest of the entire Nile Valley—from Uganda or

Punt in the far south of Central Africa/Alkebu-lan all the way north to the Great Sea / Sea of Sais

of Mediterranean that washes the northern coast of Egypt's boundary of North Africa, etc.

Included between these two extreme points, of at least 4100 statue miles, were Itiopi or

Ethiopia, Old Meröe or Meröwe, and Ta-Nehisi of Sudan, etc.

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In my research, down through the past four [4] decades, I have only encountered one term for

the philosophical and theosophical concept of the "DEITY" or "GOD" among the Nile Valley

Africans of antiquity; that is:

THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF THE PEOPLE.

I have also noted that the Haribu, or Jews, adopted this from their African teachers and

attributed it to their DEITY or GOD they called "YWH" of "JEHOVAH," which we find in their

BOOK OF ISAIAH, Chapter 31, Verse 11. I will quote from each according to its chronological

order stated in my presentation; thus:

"He [God or Jehovah] shall feed his flock like a shepherd; "Hear the word of the Lord...

He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock' "For thus

sayeth the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a

shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I

seek out my sheep. ..."

Note that as far back into the FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, otherwise the XIth–XIVth

Dynasties, or ca. 2152–1675 B.C.E., the DEITY/GOD was addressed by the ancient Nile Valley

Africans of Egypt and elsewhere as a "SHEPHERD." Thus it is we find the great scribe and

most venerable sage, IPUWER, saying the following about God RÉ or AMEN-RÉ:

He is the Shepherd of everyone, in whose mind there is no evil. His herds are

diminished, yet he has certainly spent the day caring for them.

We must remember that the entire human family is often said to be "THE NOBLE FLOCK." This

is obvious in the following from the BOOK OF THE COMING FORTH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT.

Men, the noble flock of God [Ré of Amen-Ré] are well taken care of.

Even Barbera Mertz conceded this fact when she referred to the SUN HYMN OF RE as having

the spoken words of RÉ; thus the ...

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good shepherd who is tireless, capable and loving. ...

I am citing page 189 of her book, Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: The story of Egyptology.

The extent of the cooptation and plagiarization of the Nile Valley Africans theosophical,

theological and philosophical hypotheses by the ancient Haribu/Jews, and later the Greeks, et

al, is best realized in reviewing the so-called "PROVERBS" attributed to certain jewish scribes,

priests, kings, and others. Yet, we find most of them in the major works of an African genius

named AMEN-EM-EOPE, which dates back to centuries before the authorship of the very first

so-called "HEBREW PROVERBS" in the Holy Torah or Old Testament with its origin no earlier

than ca. 700 B.C.E. Although I have already cited some of these comparative works in The

Black Man of the Nile and his Family, pages 312भ?, and in many of my other publications. I

need just cite two such comparisons here; thus from PROVERBS, Chapter XXII, Verse 4:

Do not toil to become rich;

Cease from your plundering!

Do you eyes light upon it?

It is gone!

For riches make themselves wings,

Like an eagle in which flies to the sky.

The original in THE WISDOM OF AMEN-EM-EOPE recites the following:

Do not exert yourself to seek gain,

That your needs may be secure for you:

If riches are bought to you by robbery,

They will not spend the night with you;

At daybreak they are not in your house;

Their places can be seen, but they are not there!

They have made themselves wings like geese

And have flown towards the shy.

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The Hebrews turned the "GEESE" into an "EAGLE"; another miracle by the Hebrew Deity Ywh!

Quoting from another PROVERB, Chapter XXII, VERSE 24, we have:

Do not be friendly with a hot-tempered man

Nor go with a passionate man,

Lest you learn his ways,

And get a snare for yourself!

We find the original in THE WISDOM OF AMEN-EM-EOPE written thus:

Do not fraternize with the passionate man,

Nor go too near him for conversation...

Do not make him cast his speech to lasso you,

Nor be too free with your answer.

The Hebrews turned a "LASSO" into a "SNARE"; both having the same quality of entrapment.

If I may take leave of your patience for just one more example; this time from the BOOK OF

PSALMS of the Hebrews, and specifically Chapter 104, Verse 20, which states;

Thou appointest darkness, that it may be night,

In which all the beasts of the forest prowl;

The young lions roaring for their prey,

To seek their food from God.

Lest us ignore the fact that the Hebrew PSALMIST who wrote this one did not realize that "ALL

THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST" do not "PROWL" at night. But, let us examine how the original

source was distorted from a HYMN OF AKHENATEN; thus:

When you do set in the western horizon,

The earth is in darkness, liken to death.

Man sleep in a bed-chamber, their heads covered,

One eye unable to see the other.

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Were all their goods beneath their heads stolen,

They would be unaware of it.

Every lion has come forth from his lair;

All the reptiles sting.

Darkness prevails, and the earth is in silence,

Since he who created them rests in his horizon.

Colleagues, fellow faculty members of African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University,

there could be no wiser manner to end this PAPER I have completed in honour of one of the

Masters of our family, and a "giant" or "genius" in African History, Professor GEORGE G. M.

James, but with the following from PSALMS, Chapter 104, Verse 24; thus:

How manifold are thy works, O Ywh!

All of them thou hast made by wisdom,

The earth is full of thy creations.

In the original text by AKHENATEN [in praise of his God] I found a "HYMN TO ATEN" which

was often quoted by Professor James; thus the following:

How numerous is that which you have created

and hidden from view!

You, only God, there is no other like you.

You did create the earth according to your

own will, being alone.

The "ONLY GOD" to which Akhenaten referred, ATEN, he mentioned as such even before the

birth of the Hebrew Prophet MOSES in ca. 1346 B.C.E.; Akhenaten having been dead from ca.

1352 B.C.E. All of this In Pursuit of George G. M. James' Study of African Origins in "Western

Civilization."

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