ARUOKUN-Revelation Of Mystery Of Mount Anubode

I got some emails one of which was that some African Americans in the USA were in the process of writing a compendium of African Religion based on a universal God. Anthropologists have debated the universality of the belief in God. Some applied this concept in their study of African culture. They reached the conclusion that the Africans believed in what they call “an absentee God”. The vital justification for religion has been left out of the debate; that justification is SALVATION.

Explorers came to Africa with the preconceived notion that Africans believed in some fetish God, belief in whom did not lead to heaven. The Africans therefore needed to be saved and led on the path to heaven or Christianity. The missionaries could not do this, unless they could find the synonym of their Christian God in indigenous language. The informants gave them what the informants believed was the name that they missionaries (and later anthropologists) wanted to know. So we have a list which include Osanobua (Osa for short) in /Edo, Olorun in Yoruba, Chuku in Ibo and so on in Nigeria. The people translating the Christian Bible into local languages used these words or their equivalents to translate the God of the Bible.

The first problem with this is that the Africans never had any need for salvation as taught by those who believe in the origin of man as being the garden of Eden. The concomitant belief is the fall of man. The Edo/Benin (as direct descendants of primordial Idu Race) of Nigeria says that the primordial ancestors of humankind descended from adjacent universe. They brought some ingredients and capabilities with them. The ingredients include a sample of soil that they brought in a snail shell. The capabilities include appropriate formulas, sorcery, science, etc. which made everything and anything possible through the WILL. Those dexterous in the application of the combination could leave this world without first dying. We call such deities Osa in Edo language. Attaining Osa is attaining SALVATION. Fall of man is never mentioned or implied. Hence, Africans never had messengers of God to guide them back to God or Godhead.

AYI THE CREATOR OF ALL
We have what is called AYI n’yi Osanobua in Edo/Benin language. The statement means, “AYI the creator of Osanobua“. If Osanobua is really the synonym for God, it would follow that AYI also created God. AYI is not worshiped in any shape or form. No one ascribes any domain as residence to AYI. AYI does not interfere in the affairs of mortals. AYI neither punishes one who does evil nor rewards one who does good deeds. AYI has neither message nor messengers; hence, has no religion.

The diligent anthropologist found out that whoever founded the world withdrew later from the world and handed the administration to lesser beings. Hence, they concluded that although the Africans believed in God, the God is absent because it handed the daily administration of the world to what they call lesser Gods. My query is this: why call whatever God when it has no relevance in the affairs of the world?

GOD AND MORALITY
Some people believe that God alone gives humankind moral code. They reasoned that if there were no God telling people the difference between good and evil, human beings would stray from the path of decency and ethical behavior.

Morality in Religion of the Idu Race rests on the Universal Golden Rule (UGR) which states as follows: “Do only those things, which if everyone were to do along with you, would advance peace, the general well, and happiness. Never do anything, which if other people were to follow would lead to suffering and anguish.” We believe that only those who live by the UGR shall have everlasting life among Osa – those Spiritual Sovereigns (akhas&#7865 who departed this world without physical death.

We believe in judgment of the living, execution of the dead, reincarnation for those who must come to reap what they sowed, and metamorphosis for others who become Osa. Therefore, one reaps on earth, whatever one sows. This is the only sensible position that is compatible with our major thesis of OSAGBIYE. This word is a statement, which means that OSA or Osanobua is coextensive with the universe. Literarily that Osa fill/occupies the whole of the universe. No empty space, nothing exists outside OSA. No regions reserved as heaven or hell, because OSA is not partly hot and partly cold, partly good and partly evil, etc.

You would find common names among our people which remind one of the cardinal attributes of OSA. OSAYANEDE is an example of this; meaning that the day, every day belongs to OSA. Not one day of the week or year. Even more overwhelming is the statement that OSAIGBOVO, meaning that OSA is not jealous.

What then is the true definition of Salvation? Salvation is in one attaining to Osa (lesser Osanobua). Such persons metamorphosed out of this universe into the next (aria ovbehe in Edo), which is the universe of Osa (plural).

Culled from TAKE OVER CONTROL: Without Physical Violence by the author. (See dettails here)