How Ancient African Wisdom Shaped The Modern World

The indigenous African theosophy known as Karaism (in Greek, Hermeticism) was taught throughout the ages by the African sage, Lord Khem (in Greek, Thoth-Hermes). This sage was also the scribe and messenger of the great Kara Brotherhood (such as the ancient ones of Khem or Hakaptah in Egypt). This great council of the gods comprised Charaoh (the Greek Apollo), symbolised by the sun (Ra) in the centre of the zodiac and the twelve ancient gods symbolised by the twelve divisions of heaven or signs of the zodiac.

Indigenous African wisdom began to filter through to the West during the times of Moses as Aswad (the Black Moses), Solomon, Pythagoras and Plato who studied Karaism in ancient Hakaptah or Egypt. The west inherited African wisdom through conquest, particularly from the time of the Graeco-Macedonian Empire.

After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, the Graeco-Roman world gained full access to Karaism. Alexander was succeeded by an Afro-Greek known as Setepre ben meri-amun (in Greek, Maryam), popularly known as Ptolemy Soteri I. Ptolemy commissioned Manetho, an African high priest and scribe of the great Kara Brotherhood, to translate Karaite literature into Greek, and encouraged Greek and other settlers in the African city of Rakote (now Alexandria) to study the Karaite literature.

Ptolemy found the Egyptian wisdom so superior that he ordered his soldiers to collect books from the African Universities of Annu (Heliopolis) and Edfu and Tape (Thebes) and bring them to the temples of the African gods Usar-apa (Serapis) and Usasi (Isis), which already had thousands of books. Ptolemy assembled books from all over Egypt and Ethiopia and called these libraries the Serapeum and Iseum which became the University of Rakote (Alexandria).

When Manetho finished his translations of African literature into Greek, he wrote to Ptolemy, informing him that his translations were based on the books of the African sage, Lord Khem, from whom both Pythagoras and Platoon had derived their knowledge. Henceforth, these indigenous African works came to be known as Greek sciences and philosophy because the books were written in Greek and African sages taught in Greek.

After the wars which brought Alexander the Great into power, Jewish, Persian, Arab and Roman mercenaries settled in Egypt and married amongst themselves and with the African population, thus producing a hybrid society.

The diversity of cultures in Alexandria forced Ptolemy to seek a unifying religion for the empire. He asked Manetho to assist him. Manetho took advantage of the fact that the African religion of Usara (Serapis), Usasi (Isis) and Hara (Horus) was also known in the Graeco-Macedonian world. He proposed the introduction of this African trinity as the gods of the empire.

The Ptolemy rulers popularised the religion of the Son of God who suffered, died, was resurrected and ascended to heaven as the Meshu (Messiah).

In the Greek language, however, Hara became Horus. Thus the Greeks worshipped a triune god comprising God The Father (Serapis), the Mother or Holy Spirit (Isis) and the Son (Horus). The Mother and the Son became the Black Madonna suckling a black Son of God. Together, Serapis, Isis and Horus formed a trinity of gods suitable for acceptance by the peoples of both Greece and Rome.

Throughout the period preceding the Roman Christianisation of Egypt and the Roman destruction of the great library of ancient African wisdom at Alexandria, African priests travelled through the Graeco-Roman world teaching Karaism. The extent of the influence of the African missionaries may be seen in the widespread worship of indigenous African gods beyond the borders of the African continent. A temple to the African Goddess Usasi, known as the Iseum, was erected in Pompeii in 105BCE. The Roman philosopher Cicero was initiated into the African mysteries after his studies in the Iseum. Cicero was so fulfilled by these mystery teachings that he declared: “These mysteries have brought us from rustic savagery to a cultivated and refined civilisation; the rites of the mystery schools are called initiations and in truth we have learned from them the first principles of life. We have gained the understanding not only to live a happily but also to die with better hope.”

In the year 92CE, the Emperor Domitian rebuilt and enlarged a temple dedicated to the Goddess Usasi. This goddess was considered the principal goddess of Rome in the first century CE.

The worship of Usasi extended throughout Europe and North-East Africa. To date, evidence has been discovered in Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Britain. In Britain the altars of Isis were built by the soldiers of the sixth legion, stationed in York. In Alexandria, the African mystery teachings were used to develop the Jewish Kabbala, Islamic Sufism and Roman Catholicism.

After studying the Enneads of the Karaite sage Plotinus (204-270 CE), the leading Romania Catholic theologian, St Augustine (385 CE) conceded that Christianity existed from the beginning of time. Indeed Roman Catholicism borrowed the name Christ from the African mystery god Pythonchrestos. The worship of this god had spread to the Oracle of Delphi in Greece as early as the 5th century BCE. Jesse (or Joshua), the god of Roman catholicism, was formerly known as Joshua ben meri-amun (or Maryam). As a descendant of the Afro-Greek Ptolemaic dynasties, he took their surname Maryam. This surname is also found in Ethiopia, such as Mengistu Haile Maryam. Jesse (in Greek, Jesus) was also the name of Moses’ successor who conquered and occupied Palestine. Jesse was named after the father of King David.

Jesse was a disciple of the African god Usara, also known as Nazara. Thus Jesse came to be known as Jesus the Nazarene (follower of the God Nazara). Ceremonies to mark the death of Nazara’s father, Osiris, we're held at the Autumn Equinox, Easter or harvest period. Hence, he was called the harvest god. His son, Hara (Horus) was born at the summer solstice (June 25) and the feast of his mother was held at the time of the spring Equinox (September).

When Constantine the Great (325 CE) proclaimed Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Roman Empire, the earlier African or Nazarean Christianity (popularly known as Gnosticism) was suppressed. However, Roman Catholicism transferred the attributes of the Virgin Mother (Isis) to Mary and those of the divine son (Horus) to Jesus. Thus the black Madonna and Son became white gods.

The death of the African harvest god Usar-apa or Nazara became Easter festivals, the birthday of Hara at the winter solstice (December 25) became Christmas and the feast of Mary, Mother of Jesus. Jesse ben meri-amun became Jesus Christ and supplanted Usar-apa or Nazara.

In 330 CE, the Romans removed the African twin tower obelisks (Benben Stones) to Rome to transfer the centre of spirituality to the West. The American twin towers were modelled on the African obelisks.

We can now see that Western mystery teachings and religions were modelled on the indigenous African spirituality that was destroyed by colonisation, the slave trade and imported religions. But African spirituality still lives in many varied forms and is crying out for liberation for the salvation of rapidly degenerating human societies.

We contend that no single indigenous African needs conversion to any other imported religion. Africans must rediscover, reclaim and propagate the primal Karaite religion. Africa is the mother of religion, of which she cannot and should not be a convert.

All information gathered from talks by Dr Mathole Motshekga. To find out more, visit this website.

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