Mystery Message Of Initiation Mount Anubode

Osa or transcendental beings have interceded in the affairs of humankind for millions of years. Each came to remedy prevailing causes of suffering or anguish at any particular age. More will come in the future as the situation will arise. Creation of, and in the universe is continuous. This is part of the theology of our people.

It is being canvassed by some that our religion is called Godianism. They define it as the religion based on direct communication with Osa or God. They include the indigenous religion of the Benins of Nigeria in Godianism. The Benins are descended from Idu Race of Africa. The Benins call themselves Edo. I am an Edo or Benin by birth and live by the MISNAMED religion. I am also an Oboiro; i.e. a diviner and medium among adherents. I write from personal experience and as an authority.

The Benins supposedly pray directly to Osa (which missionaries translated as God) without going through intermediaries (e.g. saints or prophets). I am challenging the claim that we worship and pray to God directly (or indirectly for that matter) without intermediaries; that claim is misleading, because GOD is no synonym for OSA. The Benins do not for example try to manipulate Osa to do those things which those created by God do. They instead rely on other agents (ancestors, spirits, Ebo, and deities) when they seek to INFLUENCE their destiny or fortune. Besides, the aboriginal adherents neither understood nor spoke any version of the English (or European) language; hence, they could not have anticipated the implications of agreeing that God is an English word for Osa.

The claim arising from confusing Osa for God has shut out people (including us) from the world of our religion as I shall show. Shutting outsiders out is bad enough; shutting our real selves out of understanding the religion natural to us has been devastating. We are now confounded! More importantly, our so-called educated people, leaders of thought, and priests are confused and are confusing everyone about what one believes, ought to believe, and what one worships and how.

The confusion arises from the contradictory purposes of having BOTH God or Osa in the same consciousness. Believers in God has only one goal, namely to worship and love God. They leave everything in the hands of God who demands unconditional surrender. “Thou shall have no other God.”Compare that position to the African concept of the purpose of any relationships with the divine or supernatural. The overriding purpose is for one to maintain CONTROL over one’s DESTINY. The elders emphasize that “ese ere Edo zo.” This statement means that the cardinal defining purpose of every religious service is offering sacrifices to appease the ancestors and other spirits.

One is overwhelmed by the observation that African ancestors and spirits were vexatious spirit exclusively, because appeasing them is the preoccupation of everyone. (Part of the goal of writing the book on the new covenant is to liberate the populace from this sort of bondage. The Book will come out soon.) The word often used to describe any interaction or worship was always to APPEASE the ancestors or spirits. The purpose otherwise of interacting with ancestors, gods, and goddesses would be to seek vengeance or to attack. Target could be a deity or an innocent person. The point should be made that it often depends on the agent or medium of attack.

Theology of Believers in Osa (or WAFOSA) did not include any duties or obligations to Osa. It centers on, “We are here to fulfill a personal agenda that one edited as one’s destiny. The agenda requires that one develops appropriate skills and capabilities to achieve or rewrite one’s destiny. The ultimate result is that one realizes the potentiality to overcome death, and move to the next level of being, life, or existence. We will eventually leave this world at the last incarnation for the next without physical death. There is absolutely no role for Osa in the sense of God of Adam in one’s life.

The overriding purpose is to seek protection through alliances if necessary. The need for alliances arises from the hostility of the world. The elders emphasize for example that “ese ere Edo zo.” This statement means that the cardinal defining purpose of every religious service is to influence destiny by offering sacrifices to appease the ancestors and other spirits.

Osa is coextensive with the universe; hence, humanbeings and Osa are never separate. The relationship is not between creator on one hand and those that He created on the other hand. Therefore, if there is no group of the created that is distinct from their creator, the created worshiping the creator does not arise. It follows that we are misunderstood, referring to us as WORSHIPING OUR CREATOR directly. We are not created as far as our cosmology goes; rather we are the extension of our supernatural origin from which we derive the coming into existence of our essence or soul. In other words, we are BEGOTTEN not created. A corollary of this is that we could neither have offended our source of existence nor fallen from its favor.

I had been wallowing in ignorance trying to manipulate Osa as if it were God thereby depriving myself of accessing the powers that sustain us. I was shut out of the religion that sustains me and the theology after which I could have ordered my life. I had what I called a metaphysical black-hole in my soul. (“TAKE OVER CONTROL: p 7)