ARUOKUN-Revelation Of Mystery Of Mount Anubode

The phenomenon of WITCHCRAFT in Africa includes what they call MAGIC, RITUAL MAGIC, WICA, SORCERY, RELIGION, etc. in the Western World and elsewhere. My focus is on the CRAFT and not on the WITCH. These are all inter-related by one CRAFT.

I shall illustrate the definition of the witchCRAFT; it is based on events recorded under that notion in Nigeria.

I watched a news item on the Network in Nigeria and saw a man being paraded. He bore a clay pot filled with some liquid on his head. Another man, his land lord, brought him to the station to confess to having killed the landlord’s daughter with witchcraft. The man pleaded guilty to the accusation.

The news agent asked him how he did it. His answer revealed the definition – he said that he requested the landlord to give him a bottle of locally brewed gin. The landlord sent his little daughter to collect it for them. The girl obeyed her father and bought the drink. The man drank it after offering PRAYER; the girl died that night. The newsman could not see the connection, so he asked the “wizard” to explain how buying drink resulted in the death of the girl. He answered that that was the “witchcraft”.

The second example is from the same station. A police suspect was interviewed on television. He had killed his father with a hammer.

He explained that the father had four of them as sons. The father asked the eldest of the four to buy for him a goat and a bottle of gin. He did. They slaughtered the goat after PRAYER by the father; they fed on it. The father PRAYED and drank the gin. The son died later that night.

Years after the father asked the eldest son (who was formerly the number two) to buy for him a goat and a bottle of gin; he did. They all went through the same ritual of PRAYING and feeding on the goat; the father drank the gin after offering PRAYER. The son died that night as did the one before him.

The man narrated how his third brother bought a goat as requested for by the father and died. Now the father asked him, the only surviving son, for a goat and gin. “I led him down a foot path. When we were alone, I hit him on the head with the hammer. He died and I reported myself to the police.” The man narrated.

A third example shows another aspect of the experience. A man was paraded on a different TV station. He had reported him to the police after beheading his father. He explained in answer to demand for explanation, that his father had seven children. None of them was progressing; and everyone in the village knew that his father was the wizard who was preventing their progress. “I beheaded him so that my younger ones might progress.”

The major accusation against witches and wizards worldwide is that they prevent success, pregnancy, bumper harvest, etc. That is that they are the main agents retarding the progress and success of individuals or whole communities. Often ignored is the spiritual institution of beings manipulating these people through empowering them. Not that the power is operated through PRAYERS! The CRAFT is the instrument of some gods or God to rule the world. The solution to the problems by these mediums is PRAYER. PRAYERS are prayers, but there are differences.

I had a revelation as I researched to solve the problem of the African that has now become an obsession. I referred to it in my Book (Take Over Control) as presence of a metaphysical black hole in our psyche. The CRAFT as I now know is what we rely on (albeit just as everyone else in other Continents). What is different in our case is failure to identify the beings or God manipulating us through the CRAFT.

Has it happened to you before for example, that a person who had offended you soon had an accident? You caused the accident, albeit inadvertently. Your anger manifested the power that organized the affairs around that person to die. It is not the case that “PRAYERS” are stated in words. It is the same power that emanated from the tenant, the father of the son who bludgeoned his father to death, and the son who beheaded his father.

The solution is for us to align the PRAYER-CRAFT in us with that of the appropriate “God”. The name of the God should be identified, his/her nature understood, and either accepted or rejected. We are divine beings; as such we must refuse to be manipulated as robots. The power within and without can be controlled and directed towards solving the myriad of problems facing us individually, our communities and nations. The gods as such are not to blame, but our failure to refuse to surrender. You must refuse to anoint your head with blood. We must nurture our spiritual capabilities.