From Invisibility to Visibility.

Man so dazed by the splendor of the creative force of nature that he fails to see the splendor and the creative force within his own mind. Everything that is currently visible to our eyes was once an invisible idea in the mind of a man. And everything that is currently invisible to our eyes is already visible to the imaginative mind of a man. In other words, if you can imagine it, you can create it. Electronic communication was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative power of a man’s mind. Spaceship was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative force of a man’s mind – to name but a few. Even "God" was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative power of a man's mind - man created God in his own image and infuse into God his personal characteristics and traits.

The African collective have found it very difficult to create in the middle age of the past and the new age of today because they have filled their imaginative and creative mind with superstitions and religion. If not, why else would a people preoccupy their minds with afterlife when their current lives are in shambles? Why else would they pray to a deity that has failed to choose their kind? Why else would they seek salvation from a deity that doesn’t look like them? Why else would they occupy the richest land on the planet, and yet the poorest living on it? Why else would they produce nothing and yet consume everything? Why else would they attempt to plug their glorious history into the fiction and fallacies of religious texts (i.e., Nimrod is Lamurudu, Ifa is Jesus, and several other misnomers); even though, these texts are obvious adulteration of their own primitive mythologies? 

It’s tempting to say that the African type has lost his/her mind, but it’s erroneous to conclude that somehow he lacks intelligence because we see him excel in flying colors when he’s plucked from the environment of superstition and religion to one of reasoning. The best environment for the development of people’s mind is that which exposes the mind to minimum superstition and religion. While the rest of the world are busy learning about planar catoms, matter and anti-matter, molecular rearrangement, and certainty and uncertainty principles; here we are, busy trying to make the Africa type reason away from afterlife, but about life and survival – something that even a common beast understands on its own.

I shall conclude with this short quote: "Now we see why we are told that Angels ASPIRE to become men...for they know man possesses the Master Key, but does not know it... while the Angels are not privileged to have access to the Key in their Heavenly state, MAN who has the Master Key Itself heavily relies on mortal beings like himself for salvation...being totally ignorant of his own Divinity and unlimited inner potential” ( Kelechi Ekezie, 2008).

The Master Key

This essay is concerned with the force that resides within each and everyone of us; the force that many people think is without them, but is actually within them. I shall begin by quoting a friend of mine, "Now we see why we are told that Angels ASPIRE to become men...for they know man possesses the Master Key, but does not know it... while the Angels are not privileged to have access to the Key in their Heavenly state, MAN who has the Master Key Itself heavily relies on  mortal beings like himself for salvation...being totally ignorant of his own Divinity and unlimited inner potential” ( Kelechi Ekezie, 2008).

For thousands of years, humans in their infinite quest to search for the master key continue to look everywhere else, but within. They looked at the sun and they erroneously concluded that, since the sun is the center of the universe and since the sun is needed to sustain life, the sun must be God (i.e., Ra). Years later, humans found out that water covered 70 percent of the world and 60-75 percent of adult human body. Thus since water is vital to all known forms of life, humans erroneously concluded, water must be God.  Humans relentlessly travelled to every nook and cranny of the world in search of the master key. From the East to the West and from the North to the South, humans noticed the same blue sky. Since the sky is omnipresent, they concluded, the sky must be God.

One glorious day, a child was born in a peculiar Roman colony - a child who would later become a great teacher. This child’s birth had all the hallmarks of a great being.The Roman Empire was the kingdom of God on earth during this time. No nation or man dared to stand up in the way of the Roman Empire. Having grown up, the young child passionately preached about the master key and more courageously against the Roman rule. He stood up for justice, fairness, and respect, and paid dearly with his life. At his death, he became more celebrated. His teachings and the story of his life spread like wildfire to every corner of the globe. People acknowledged his courage, for standing up to the almighty Roman Empire and for being defiant even in the face of death, and concluded that he must be divine (Please note that this is based on the scripture, but not on any historical facts).

Followership grew galore, first, in the North Eastern shore of Africa. Orthodox Christianity was established in Alexandria, Egypt and Christian empires were established in Lalibela and Axum, both in Ethiopia.  When the aftershock of evangelism tsunami finally reached Rome, the almighty Roman Empire was being held in a religious quagmire and the implosion between the believers and the non-believers was clearly visible at close range.  Roman elders, under Constantine, felt threatened under the invasion of a foreign philosophy. They came up with a clever line – “blessed are those who labor here and seek rewards on the other side...sin, you may, on the beloved son.” The peasants, in their impotence and glaring ignorance, fell for the unholy lies. At the council of Nicaea, Constantine and the Bishops cleverly bundled God into an unholy Trinity – the father, the son and the Holy Spirit. The dissenters were silenced for being heretic. Again, the son was magically transformed from cosmic Trinity (i.e., Orisha nla) to God. The son, like the sun, became a synonymous principle with God. The Catholic Church was forever born - "In Hoc Signo, Vinces" (i.e., in this sign you will conquer).

While some men look every where else, but within, to search for the master key, some men clearly understand that the master key is within.  Men that continuously search for the master key often distance themselves from personal responsibilities. When they succeed they praise “Mr. Good” (God), but when they fail they blame “Mr. Evil (Satan).” However, men who realize that the master key is within understand that humans are the embodiments of good and evil. When they succeed or fail, they blame nobody but themselves. They are totally responsible for their actions.

I have always asked myself if the elusiveness of the master key, in some people, is intrinsically linked to the fear of death. Let’s look at it this way “almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important…..No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's agent” (Steve Jobs, 2005). Rather than using the thought of death as a tool for making the big choices in life, men who are totally ignorant of their own divinity believe the choice is not theirs to make. The choice, they contend, is in the master key. If they don’t possess the master key, certainly they don’t possess the choice. The choice, they contend, is in heaven.

The ancient writing system of Nsibidi.

Contrary to the popular belief that the ancient Egyptian glyphs had been deciphered, I recently read that the glyphs actually have never been deciphered.  I also read that the third and the lowest script that appears on the Rosetta Stone, popularly believed to be classical Greek, is actually a form of Hieratic script that the ancient Egyptian scribes adapted to write down Greek language – Martin Bernal, a Professor Emeritus of near Eastern studies at Cornell University somewhat alluded to this claim in his controversial book, The Black Athena!

In my quest to research this claim, I ran into something else that is just as interesting but not as controversial. I found out about the ancient writing script of the Ekoi/Efik and Igbo people called Nsibidi. “Nsibidi is an indigenous adaptable and fluid writing system of two dimensional signs, three dimensional forms of pictographs and ideographs and pantomimed gestures. It originated as an esoteric form of knowledge understood by a select group of people mostly members of a secret society in Southeastern Nigeria which some sources link to the Ejagham and later spread to Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Efut, Annang and Banyang speaking areas. Some of the signs of the Nsibidi spread to the Caribbean and Brazil during slavery.”

We are all very familiar with the ancient Egyptian scripts i.e, hieroglyphic (Medu Neter), demotic, and Hieratic. However, there are many other ancient African scripts: Ethiopic script (Geez), Sudan script (Meroitic), Bassa script of Liberia, Vai script, and Nsibidi script to name but a few.



Nsibidi used as fracal patterns on an ankara cloth.



Nsude Pyramids

Nsude Pyramids were ten sacred pyramid structures built by the Nri/Ndi Igbo people in Nsude and Agbaja Qwa. Each structure is a step pyramid of 5 circular stacks (why 5?) with decreasing circumference, very similar to the step pyramid of Saggarah in Egypt. The measurement reveals 6o feet circumference base with 6 feet height. The Nri people were great travelers and were also involved in the long distant tran Saharan trade. If the Sahara desert as we know it today was once a tropical rain forest, then we can conclude that it was once populated with people. Thus, the flow of ideas and people from the North East corridor of the planet to the other parts and vice versa is an obvious possibility.




The step pyramid of Saggarah



Nsude pyramid