Historical Context
ETHIOPIA
– Cradle of humanity. Our beginning. (~200 000 years ago)
– 2nd Israeli royal lineage through king David and the queen of Sheeba. (~900 BC)
– Early island of Christianity. (3rd century)
– Early Islam and large Christianity and -Islam in harmony. (7th century)
– 1st enlightenment, through Zera Yacob, proving it as a fruit of longstanding Christian culture. (1600’s, decades before Christian European enlightenment)
– Only African country to never be colonized.
HIM Haile Selassie I – The Authority of the Holy Trinity – king of kings and lord of lords and the conquering lion of the tribe of Judah
– Embodied this eternal lineage and consciousness. Truly the ’ancient of days’ in modern times.
– Warned about and condemned fascism (1937 at the League of Nations), to ridicule, long before the West took the threat seriously. Shaped post-war global philosophy, consciousness and institutions. Inspired the Rastafari movement.
– First attacked physically by fascism (world war 2) and later de-placed through modern Marxist tactics (1974).
Berhane ’Bob Marley’ Selassie – The Light of the Holy Trinity
– A boy from Nine Mile, Saint Anne Parish, Jamaica.
– Through Trenchtown to 56 Hope Road.
– Strong identification with Haile Selassie I as (I’n’I) personal father.
– Representing and evangelizing the message of RastaFarI through reggae.
– One LOVE
P.S. The ring on his left hand’s long finger is gifted from Haile Selassie I and has the “conquering lion of the tribe of Judah” on it.