A Cultivation of Barbaric Slavery
Earth Talk: A Cultivation of Barbaric Slavery
Throughout the course of history, over a diverse range of experiences, the human race has pushed its imagination and abilities, exploring its potential for both severe barbarism and divine quality. We can look into our history and see the times that humanity brought shame on itself in the face of the other species of Earth. We wince at the transatlantic sale of people from Meritah (Africa), the genocide on the tribes of Maanu (the Americas), and the brutality perpetrated on the Aborigines of Australia, among others. Notice what our recent history has done to our self-image and the image we have of the world at large. Today some have divided our species into distinct races, and it is the black race that we have associated with the concept of the “slave”. It is the white race that we have associated with wealth and power. It is the red race that brings on feelings of pity for their failure to keep up with the changing times.
We can also search the historic archives of the cultures around the globe and see which cultures fill us with wonder and amazement for the quality of life they were able to sustain. These cultures serve as lighthouses for our human evolution; their impressive feats continue to inspire us today: Kemet (Ancient Egypt), Ancient Sumer, Ancient (Dravidian) India, Mayan Civilization, Incan Civilization, etc.
They still inspire us today whether we are studying them within our universities and our spiritual schools or just looking in awe at their accomplishments using what is left of them in museums. We study the relics they left behind, we learn what we can about their social and governmental structures and their way of life. Each human society had a division of labour, a royal or authoritative population and a population of commoners. The relationship between master and servant is one that has existed since the inception of human civilization but the specifics of these roles varies throughout history.
According to the Kemetic temples, The Great Book of Divine Ordinances was given to humanity by the World of the Gods. It defines the path to take in order to evolve towards a dignified existence by giving clear restrictions on our behaviour. Our exposure to this Divine model was the doorway for the primitive human being into civilization. Within this holy text, Commandments 63, 64, and 66 present the proper treatment of servants. One cannot deny that servitude is an integral part of human society. (See Primitive Slavery in The Rising Firefly Volume 67).
A human being’s reality is that of service. Man is not the highest form of life on the planet, so he has the task of finding his correct place in the hierarchy of existence and then fitting within it. Man has domesticated some of Earth’s species (bulls, horses, goats, chicken, dogs, etc.), and they serve him. While others have contributed to his enlightenment and education (Neteru, Divinities, Spirits, Ancestors, etc.), he serves and worships them in appreciation.
The Original Code of Human Behaviour as defined in the Great Book of Divine Ordinances contains 77 commandments from Gods for humans. These commandments are why Kemet and many of our Ancestral root cultures remain as inspirations in our spiritual evolution towards Divine qualities. Since the decline of their place within our societies, we can observe, with minimal effort, that the implementation of political ambitions and idealistic principles and philosophies have taken us further and further away from a strict adherence or even a clear understanding of those original commandments.
INTRODUCTION OF ENSLAVEMENT IN EUROPE
History shows many instances where we fell to a level of existence comparable to that of animals, having little or no regard for the safety of others or for the harmony of the species. Appalling behavior existed amongst humans in the harsh conditions of Ancient Europe. Within these ancient tribes, women were the first to be enslaved. The cartoon depictions that Americans see, while growing up, of brutish cavemen dragging women across the ground by their hair after clubbing them over the head is a representation of these early cultures. Cannibalism was also widespread among these ancient cave cultures. The recent archaeological excavations of the Gran Dolina fossils of Europe’s earliest Ancestors prove that human meat was a part of the daily diet. Without any spiritual restrictions, the strong usually ate the weak to nourish themselves. Cannibalism on women and girls was commonplace and only slowed down when Europeans learned that some men of other more refined cultures south of the Mediterranean were open to paying a dowry in appreciation for their daughters.
As Aristotle said,
...among barbarians no distinction is made between women and slaves, because there is no natural ruler among them: they are a community of slaves, male and female. ...it is [only right] that [Greeks] should rule over barbarians.
For whatever reason, Ancient Europeans were disconnected or disinterested in the Kemetic influence on human cultural refinement. Without behavioural rigidity or cultural and spiritual taboos, human behaviour fits whatever form is needed by human ambition. The brutal submission and exploitation of other Europeans would continue within Europe for a very long time with varying methods and styles.
DEVELOPMENT OF ENSLAVEMENT IN EUROPE
By the end of the Homeric period in Greece with the rise of the economic life of the Mediterranean world, the political and material ambitions of the Greeks grew exponentially. Political greed brought expansion. Expansion led to conflict with neighbouring European populations who were often driven off their land and enslaved. Europeans were traded for money: bought, sold and owned. They were beaten, tortured and executed for “escaping”. This was the first appearance of a new slavery based on economic growth and accumulation of wealth, a system of enslavement that directly opposed the Divine Ordinances but would become what drives Western society till today.
Since then, many ethnic groups of Europe were enslaved by cultures aspiring to follow the Greeks in their pursuit of expanding their dominion. A study of European languages exposes such. In the 5th century, according to the Anglo-Saxon language, “Welsh” was the term used for a person who was enslaved because of how common it was to enslave Welsh men and women. The term “slav” would follow, pointing to the Slavic tribes of Central Europe who were the new victims of greed and insatiable desire. This is where our current term “slave” comes from. As notions of nationalism and colonisation grew, slavery became even more “necessary”.
The word “Hellas” and the idea of “being white” were now used to identify those in the nation accumulating power versus the rest of humanity who stood in the way. More and more conquered inhabitants of Europe and neighbouring lands were enslaved in this process. Ironically, history has accounted for more and more of the descendants of these cultures who have adopted the identity of the white “race” and joined in the senseless accumulation of wealth and power.
Enslavement of dominated populations was such a regular part of early European society that many of the well-known military leaders (like Spartacus) were themselves at one point enslaved. Enslaved Europeans not only provided entertainment to the upper class, as depicted in the Hollywood film Gladiator. They also provided the basis for the population of the extremely profitable sex trade (see Sex As A Choice: Paedophilia & Prostitution in The Rising Firefly Volume 66). Note how important these institutions are in modern Western culture: warfare, entertainment/sports and prostitution/pornography.
The political identity of the Hellenistic period was a drastic degeneration of human spiritual values from that of the Ancient Greeks of the Homeric era, which was greatly influenced by the order of Kemet. The traditions of Kemet, which obeyed the Divine order of the universe and governed men via the Pharaonic throne and local kingships, had been abandoned in the Hellenistic revolution for “practical law” initiated and maintained by “practical men”. The Greek (and later Roman) philosophers always intended to replace the Gods humanity worshipped and served. The Gods of the new religions were creations of these philosophers and fit the mould of their ambitions. These philosophers corrupted the original concept of devotion to the Divine and Ancestral Worlds into worshipping their fabricated Gods and serving their politicians.
Since then, politicians have relied on enslaved people to build up their respective nations. This is true of the overwhelming majority of political movements in our time, especially those disguised as religious movements. Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths all enthusiastically participated in human trafficking during the middle ages. In the late 6th century, Pope Gregory I bought young enslaved English males in Gaul so that they could be trained in Christianity and used to help convert their countrymen. Not until the 13th century, did the Christian church forbid Christians to trade in enslaved Christians; and not until 1890 did it condemn the enslavement of others. This is after the political governments of Europe and Ameri- ca had outlawed enslavement.
The new religions (a product of the political agendas of the modern societies) left room for their collaborators to do whatever they needed to accomplish their goals. The original commandments of the Great Book of Divine Ordinances were abandoned. The Christian Bible reads,
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21)
The Bible’s new testament reads:
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep re- spect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5)
The Quran reads:
Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty. (33:50)
REFINEMENT OF ENSLAVEMENT
Slavery is such a fundamental building block of all aspects of Western “civilization” that one cannot subscribe to Western values without validating slavery. This society progresses only by first enslaving its own members. The leaders of Western culture have always refined slavery to advance their political, social and economic agendas.
In 1200, agricultural slavery was renamed serfdom to hide it. The European royalty realized that there were too many obstacles to profit from overt enslavement, such as rebellions, revolts and the maintenance of this institution. These leaders were now enslaving men and women who lived under their rule, rather than conquering foreigners. They could offer some privilege they knew the enslaved couldn’t afford or resist and use that contract to bind them to servitude (i.e. indentured, contract labour, knight service, etc.). They could afford to grant them some apparent autonomy because that autonomy fit within the context of their rule (i.e. vassalage, suzerainty, etc.). These forms of servitude were far cheaper for the aristocracy; if men and women are made responsible for their own livelihood but still destined to give all of their energy to toiling on a farm and feeding their enslavers, such men or women would be less trouble to dominate. There have been many terms used synonymously with “slave” to disguise the essential place that the institution of human enslavement has in Western development: peasants, plebs, servants, workers, employees, taxpayers, etc.
One method used in Great Britain was known as enclosure. Violent politicians now usurped land that families had farmed for centuries. These lords built fences to enclose families on the land. The families continued to live and farm the land, but the yields now belonged to the aristocracy, and only a percentage would be left to the enslaved. The implementation of these new systems was accompanied by political distractions. Leaders made sure that important ideas of democracy and freedom were perpetuated on a social level, giving the enslaved citizens pride in their new, perceived freedom.
Proof of this illegitimate progress came when agricultural slavery was revived by “necessity” after the Black Plague hit Europe between 1347 and 1350. This disease wiped out one third of Europe’s population. Without any spiritual taboos, the level of barbarism used to achieve one’s goals is dependent only on the level of desperation motivating one to achieve. Throughout history, we see humans fuelled by desperation cooperate to legitimise the evil they are willing to employ.
In the 15th century, the Vatican took a sharp turn that led to our current concept of slavery. In 1441, a Portuguese ship commanded by Antam Goncalez captured 12 people in a raid on the Atlantic coast of Meritah (Africa). These enslaved Meritahwi were brought back to Lisbon, Portugal as gifts for Prince Henry the Navigator. He then sent word to the Pope asking permission to lead more raids. The Pope responded, “To all of those who shall be engaged in the said war, complete forgiveness of all their sins.” One cannot support modern religions without simultaneously supporting slavery.
The millennia-old institution of dehumanising slavery reared the European and birthed the modern world and yet somehow, today, the slave has become almost exclusively associated with the descendants of Kemetic civilization. The evil that conquers the human soul eludes us with its tendency to transform its identity. Out of desperation, the victims of evil tend to justify their own reactions and often employ evil to create new victims. The European continent, after suffering the evil of slavery for millennia, turned the same evil onto others. The trade in humans from Meritah as an institution is not even 600 years old, yet its impact on the world is monumental. This is also not exposed in the West, so we will cover this in depth in the next issue of Earth Talk.
Until then, may those of us fighting for the dignity of humanity realize the context that our history has set for our present day. May we wake up from the slumber that our politicians work tirelessly to keep us in. Let us take our destiny out of their hands and return it to our Ancestors who directed us long ago towards the path of our spiritual survival. If we do not -- Gods forbid -- a modern day plague spurring the reversal of the legislation that transformed slavery into its current form; or worse, those in the role of victims today following the victims of yesterday in perpetuating this undiscriminatory evil. Like any other species on Earth, our survival is based upon our awareness, honesty and adherence to the natural principles of our environment. The evil that has used the process of enslavement to make victims out of humans for millennia, take no losses when we turn on ourselves, (our own species), mislead into a battle of flesh and blood.
