The Philosophy of Maat and the Resurrection of Wosir

The Philosophy of Maat and

The Resurrection of Wosir

By

Iemhotep Men Nef er Sa Ra

6254 (2014) smsw S.M.

The Philosophy of Maat and

The Resurrection of Wosir

By

Iemhotep Men Nefer Sa Ra

Written and Edited by Iemhotep Men Nef er Sa Ra

Copyrighted by Iemhotep Men Nefer Sa Ra

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Iemhotep Men Nefer Sa Ra

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Song in Praise Of The Learned

Forward

The Premise

About the Title

About The Date on the Cover

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Psychosocial Dynamic

Chapter 2: Religion, It’s Aim And Purpose

Chapter 3: Sex, The Procreative Principle

Chapter 4: War A Cultural Legacy

Chapter 5: Education vs. Schooling

Chapter 6: Labor

Chapter 7: Law

Chapter 8: Economics

Chapter 9: Entertainment

Chapter 10: Politics

Conclusion

Dedication

To the Matriarch of my known family, Ms Margerette Norman. We have missed you Grandma! To my Mother, Ms. Phyllis Ware, who is the strongest woman I know. To my Sister Cheryl and my Brother Norman, I love you dearly. To their Children and Grandchildren. To my Daughters Shawanda and Ta'Imani and my Grandchildren, I think of y'all all the time. To my friend, Companion and Confidant, Renae, I love you.

I would also like to show a measure of gratitude to Sylvester Jones for starting me out on this Sacred Journey when we first met back in 6230 (1989): Asante Sana (thank you very much) ! Little did I know the purpose of your inquiries and for asking me to read a book called Noah's Flood. It was a strange little book of the esoteric kind that lit a spark that caused me to question everything that I believed in or thought I knew.

To all the Ancestors who faced the Waters of the Atlantic Ocean between the Shores of Africa, the West Indies, and America not so long ago - this is for you!

To the men and women of the Ausar Auset Societies and the Temples of Maat around the world.

Iemhotep Sa Ra

-March, 6254 smsw S.M.

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"As for those learned scribes of the time that came after the powers of heaven and who foretold the future, their names have become everlasting even though they have departed having completed the days of their lives. And all their relatives are forgotten. They made for themselves pyramids of metal with stelae of metal from heaven. They did not know to leave heirs, children that might repeat their names. Instead they made heirs out of books of instructions which they composed.

They took for themselves the scroll as teacher-priest and the writing board as a loving son. Books of instructions as their pyramids, the reed pen their child and the stone surface on which they wrote their wife. The great and small became their children. For the scribe became their leader. Man decays; his corpse becomes dust and all his relatives die. But a book causes him to be remembered through the mouths who quote it. Better is a book than a well-built house, than a tomb in the West. Indeed a book is better than a great house with a solid foundation or stelae in the temple".

Selections From The Husia,

-84:VI

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Foreword

Mr. Sa'Ra's first book is an intelligibly written ensemble of contemporary problematic issues, addressed in a manner suitable for the everyday layperson's comprehension; while the importance and possible means of change is introduced via ancient African spiritual insight.

Sa'Ra in his own way provides the reader with a practical understanding of ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) spiritual, psychological and philosophical concepts which lend light to the processes necessary for the proper acculturation of today’s African descendants in America and humanity as a whole.

In doing so, Mr. Sa'Ra expresses his outlook on ten intrinsic aspects of people activities ranging from politics, law and entertainment to education, religion and psychosociology, etc. in order to elucidate some perilous aspects that tend to lie just beneath the veil and remain unnoticed while simultaneously proving to be detrimental to the human psyche on a subconscious level.

One of the recurring thematic elements expressed in this work is the Philosophy of Maat. The author utilizes the Maatian concept as a true strengthening factor for the positive endurance of any and all aspects of people activity, civilization and the promotion of all things good and beneficent. The concept itself will prove to be one of Ancient Black Africa's most profound inventions, which can actually be considered as a discovery, for Maat is primordial in essence.

Another Ancient concept of utility which Mr. Sa'Ra offers is his reflective insight on the Resurrection of Wosir and the mytho scientific correlation to the African dispersement in America brought about by slavery which has some very important lessons in that of

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itself. One of them being that us as a people can and will rise again; as it is our destiny to reconstitute our memory and one-by-one intuit from within the knowledge that was lost and destroyed millennia ago in the most ancient of educational centers known to mankind.

Though the composition of Sa'Ra's discourse is multifaceted, the underlying issue of the importance is the devastating effects of racism, some of the ways in which it has prevailed and the nefarious effects it has upon the mind, spirit and consciousness of its victims. The victims in this case being the Black men, women and children who are the descendants of the Africans who lived and died in one of the most horrific criminal acts ever perpetrated against mankind. Unfortunately, the guilty parties were never held accountable for their inexplicable undertakings and though racism is often considered to be dead, it survives. Not only does it survive, but it has evolved into what can be considered a psychological science.

With the above mentioned, the author has developed some interesting ideas that may be viewed as possible solutions to some of the issues discussed here. Upon reading the proposed solutions and methods advised, they may appear somewhat farfetched for acceptance in today’s society. However, there was a time when people lived in peace and practiced being all around good, caring and respectful beings (to put it lightly) in all walks of life thousands of years before contact with foreigners such as the Greeks, Romans, etc. who at the same time remained uncivilized and barbaric by nature in part to their climatic milieu. Which in the opinion of some (including myself and Mr. Sa' Ra) lead to their indiscriminate imperialistic destructive mentality.

The world as we know it from an occidental perspective is nowhere near ready to incorporate the methods of the ancient African civilizations into Western practices, other than the already known barrowings and cultural assimilations written about and forever prevalent under such quises as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Yoga, etc.

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The evolution of the agrarian mind is the parental apparatus that became fecund in the divine belly of Mother Africa before anywhere else with the correct tools to give rise to and properly mold a utopian civilization.

To reiterate, Mr. Sa'Ra's so-called farfetched solutions encompasses the reader with a nostalgic form of remedial plans to uplift the spirits of our generation in hopes to inform them of their past accomplishments which in turn will make their current state of affairs appear miniscule at best and provoke the reformation of today's Black youth's mentalities by giving them something to be proud of and a sense of belonging.

Sa'Ra stresses that if our youth had the knowledge of the incomparable marvels our Ancestors devoted their duality of existence to producing, then perhaps we as a people, especially the impressionable generations, would exhibit much more self-esteem, ambition and overall drive to carry on into the future in the fashion of the miraculous intricacies of the past.

I am honored to know Mr. Sa'Ra personally. I observe him from day to day practicing the Laws of Maat, by extending kindness and truth to all who cross his path. He enjoys sharing literature in abundance and holding enlightening conversations with everyone who has ears to hear.

Sa'Ra could very well transcend the scope of this book and enter the realm of spiritual science and ontological affirmations among other vast disciplines. However, his first book should be thought of as a spark producer for those beginning their path to enlightenment and a supplement for those already scintillating in universal symmetry.

Apuat En Ra

-Kerwin E. Harris April, 6254 smsw S.M.

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The Premise

The proposal that I intend to introduce is based on the positions taken by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Mr. Neely Fuller. Dr. Welsing's book, The Isis Papers, and Mr. Fuller's book, The United Compensatory Code/ System/Concept: A Textbook For Thought, Speech and/or Actions For Victims of Racism (White Supremacy) are recommended readings and should be used as supplements to these papers for African (Black) people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) as we march into the 21 century. It is within these manuscripts that we can find causations and understand the effects and correctly define them and, thereby, find the solutions and a comprehensible understanding of what racism and/or White supremacy is and what it is not. In fact, these books are a must read especially as we embark upon this new era of reverse racism (if there is such a thing).

My primary goals are to be crystal clear concerning what racism and/or White supremacy is and what it is not. In other words, what institutional racism looks like today without the hooded sheets. More specifically, how it operates as a universal and unconscious and conscious system that many Africans around the world interact with and, in some cases, perpetuate. According to Dr. Welsing, racism (White supremacy) is:

"the total and global system structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined; this system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, sex and war). The ultimate purpose of the system is to prevent white genetic annihilation on Earth - a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as non-white (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people. All of the non-

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white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetically recessive white-skinned people."

She further states:

when this definition of racism as a strategy for white genetic survival is mastered, one can understand precisely not only the present global power formations (i.e. , U.S./U.S.S.R. linkage and European unification) , but also all present urban (non-white) center epidemics. I am speaking of the concurrent urban crises of drug use, drug addiction, drug related murder, teenage pregnancy, infant mortality, Black academic under-achievement, Black teenage unemployment, Black male incarceration, single parent (female-headed) households, chronic welfare dependency, poverty, AIDS and homelessness.

Mr. Fuller tells us that:

Racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/ or institutional practice; it is a universally operating system of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participates.

And that:

"Most white people hate Black people. The reason that most white people hate Black people is because whites are not Black people. If you know this about white people, you need know little else. If you do not know this about white people, virtually all else that

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you know about them will only confuse you." It is, therefore, from this place that we begin.

References

Welsing, Frances C. Seminar and Workshop Presented at Howard University, Washington, DC: March, 2013.

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About the Title

The choice for the title of this book, this small contribution from my years of study, was no easy task. One day I was doing some research for an inquiry that came to me while preparing for an educational program concerning African history. Suddenly, I noticed that I had as many as fifteen books in front of me trying to piece a satisfactory answer together. Then it came to me: African (Black) people's history has been surgically dis membered, fragmented, falsified, and buried alive like Wosir (Ausar, the Greek Osiris). The Story of Wosir comes to us from the High Culture of ancient Kemet. It is a narrative that conveys several notions dealing with betrayal, devotion, love and life. More importantly, it articulates one of the most profound expressions concerning a Teacher of Righteousness (a Teacher of Maat) whom was resurrected from the dead and became the Savior of humanity the first in human history. As a student of truth, I thought of the classical principle of Maat and the Story of Wosir, the Resurrected Savior of ancient Kemet, and said to myself this would be an excellent title. Then I went about developing content and subject matter.

What is Maat? Maat (pronounced Mah-Aut) is an ethical philosophy that was a way of life (wat en ankh) for the ancient Kemites (the Black people of the land of ancient Egypt). The principle of Maat was expressed and practiced in the Hapi (Nile) Valley in a homogeneous fashion that produced, in a sense, a utopian society that lasted for over 3000 years. It was during this time that many of the architectural wonders of the world were built and the human sciences were developed and flourished. Can you imagine that? Can you see as many as three million Black folks working in unison? Maat fundamentally means the Right, the Good, and the Beneficial. She was the guiding light for the ancients of Kemet and can be for us today as we re claim our fame. As Seba and Dr. Maulana Karenga puts it:

The central category here by which Maat is understood is the right" with its expansive range of meaning indicated in its various forms: rights, rightness, rightful, rightfulness, righteous, upright and uprightness. This field of meaning of Maat as the right includes; in accordance with the fitting and appropriate, i.e., propriety; and in accordance with the virtuous and

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and valuable, i.e., the Good, etc. Thus, the idea of the right in its expansive field of meaning a significant part the polysomic concept of Maat is relevant and required in the interrelated realms of the Divine, the natural and social... Given this, in its essential meaning, Maat is rightness in the spiritual and moral sense in the three realms: the Divine, the natural and the social. In the expansive sense, Maat is an interrelated order of rightness which requires and is the result of right relations with and right relations towards the Divine, nature and other humans. As a moral thought and practice, Maat is the very way of rightness defined especially by the practice of the Seven Cardinal Virtues of truth, justice, balance, propriety, harmony, reciprocity and order. Finally, as a foundation and framework for the moral ideal and its practices, Maat is the constantly achieved condition of and requirement for the ideal world, society and person, i.e., the Maatian world, the Maatian society, and the Maatian person". (2006)

Moreover, one of the main reasons why we don't know anything about Maat today is because of the various edicts to shut down (destroy) all Kemetic Temples beginning with Constantine in 333 A.C.E. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, in Egypt Revisited: Revised and Expanded Edition, states that:

Maat suffered from the fact ... that its last centuries coincided with the first centuries of the Christian religion which not only supplanted it but at times systematically attacked it. It was actually outlawed by Theodosius in the fourth century and again by Justinian in the sixth. Egyptian symbolic use of animals in religious expression was not understood by European invaders and seen by them as zoolatry without any serious attempt on their part to understand the theology and ethics which embraced and explained it. (2006, 1989)

In ancient Kemet (ancient Egypt), Wosir was known as The Lord of the Perfect Black. He is the archetype for many of world's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. He is one of the oldest neters (or neteru, which are power and principle forces of the Absolute) that existed before the founding of Dynastic Kemet in

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human history. For example, Wosir has been remarkably disguised and codified in the Christian narrative as both Jesus and the Christ who was tested and sent through trials, was crucified and raised from the dead and, who, eventually, ascended to heaven to sit next to the Mighty one who sits on the Throne. However, many of us do not know that the throne is a symbol for the feminine aspect of the Transcendent in the guise of Aset pronounced (Ah-set). Aset's crown is a symbol of the throne. Aset becomes Mary and the Modonna in the Christian tradition, and heaven is called the Dat (Duat or Tuat) or in some cases Amenta in the Kemetic tradition. Therefore, Wosir was then and is now the ultimate Judge of the Seeker of Vindication as the Father in heaven with the Mighty one, Ra.

Everyone thought that Wosir was a mystical figure until his tomb was discovered at Abydos (Aabdju or Abdu) by Abbe Emilie Amelineau in the 19th century (Diop, 1974; Chandler, 1989). However, the only part of Wosir that Dr. Amelineau found was his head in a canopic jar. With this find Wosir was taken out of the realm of myth into being a real historical figure as a type of Deified Man. Furthermore, when we delve into the Legend, this type of deified man can represent in Kemetic soul science an attribute that lies dormant (asleep) within all of us. It has been said also that the other 13 pieces of the Lord Wosir was spread throughout the other major administrative capitals along the Hapi (Nile) river.

The symbolism behind Wosir and his resurrection was then and is now the goal of every student of the spiritual sciences often referred to as the Mysteries. This mystery is contained within the metaphysical and psychospiritual curriculum concerning The Knowledge of Self that was taught at the Per Ankhs (Houses of Life). Therefore, Wosir can be viewed