An Investment in the Self The New M’TAM Graduates of Year 414
An Investment in the Self
The New M’TAM Graduates of Year 414
Since the year 401, the M’TAM Schools have been receiving individuals who are interested in improving their situation – individuals who are looking for a better alternative to life than the colonial system of education has provided. The M’TAM Schools, as the original system of human education, present to those interested a tried and true way of facing one’s reality as a human being with the knowledge accumulated by men and women who have faced human existence: life, death and resurrection since the beginning of civilisation. In the year 414, the M’TAM Schools of Kebtah (The Earth Center) graduated two more generations of initiates. Those initiates persevered through the first level or what is called the Per-Ankh or House of Life. They are now expected to live as M’TAM Initiates and express a life of integrity as shown to them by their Master and Ancestors. Prophet Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig as the founder and reviver of the M’TAM Schools in the modern territories provided a huge opportunity to the spirits of the planet. Here is an excerpt of him addressing his initiates in the M’TAM initiations.
This is a spiritual class, the M’TAM Schools all over the world has been known for one thing, producing what people call the superior breed of humans. But the problem that the students have with me and me with them is how at the same time I show that much friendship, compassion and understanding, I will always refuse to be dragged on emotional stuff with anyone. For people that is frustrating because that is your reality.
You need to understand that, emotions – just like how we think women are more emotional than men, well maybe that is so they can protect the baby and all of that, which is normal. Emotions are what make you do things when you don’t even think they are right, it’s just because they make you feel a certain way. White man knew that and he made sure to put tons of it on every black person through education. Believe. If you believe, this will happen. While we are talking like this we don’t see that it’s the crusade for raising the emotional approach to life. If I put food on my stove and I don’t turn the fire on, the black man will think if you believe hard enough it will cook. That is how bad and insulting it is to us. We will rather go, believing hard, so hard that the food will cook than just turn the fire [on] and boil it. We don’t see that we put 100,000 times more energy into doing the small thing rather than adding the logical nature of the human being.
We are having a problem in a spiritual school. A lot of you guys, I’m used to the fact that people come and want to learn. However, I don’t have an agenda. I don’t go, like, “I have to graduate them.” I would rather graduate one person that I think fits to do the job rather than to graduate thousands who I think are not worth it. So when I say it’s challenging, it’s challenging. That is how a spiritual life will make you be a higher level of being, by understanding that you will need to transform. The values of depending on each other, if anything, that is the best gift that I’m giving you. By trying to understand that if you stand on one foot you will see how painful it is, if you stand on two feet and it makes it easy. Think with one brain you will see how many mistakes you will make. Think and consult with [another’s] brain and you will see how much you can achieve. Depend on each other. You will have to learn that, the system made sure you don’t understand. When we say you need to start behaving as a family you don’t understand it. It’s like I’m speaking Klingon to you. It kind of makes sense but it doesn’t get there because you have been blocked from that.
Let me tell you, nowadays when you are a young lady, when you grow up and have a child, what can you teach your child that the government won’t teach him? Zero. If you have a wife, what can you give to your wife that this government won’t provide? Already the government told her that you are nothing. For her to feel like a great woman she needs to bring you down. That is how it is made. By the time you have a child who can turn the TV on by themselves, you have nothing to give them that they can’t find anywhere else. At that time you become a useless being, you don’t even deserve to be a parent, because what is a parent for, its to teach a child values. The system told you when you were growing to rebel against that, so you have nothing to teach your child. The system is doing the work. This is how bad, this is how destructive it is.
That is why when we are saying depend on each other. Learn. You are not raised on that, you are a neophyte. You will have to train yourself so that when you are older and you can’t walk, your grandchildren will think you are worth their visit, you’d better start now. If you want to be 100 years old and still be a needed member of the society, you’d better start learning now. You have to have something your government can’t give your children, you need to have what Uncle Sam can’t give your grandchildren so that they will feel like you are a useful part of them.
For how many years you are stuck in the same position, reduced to nothing…? and you are still keeping the illusion that “We are somebody”. This is the price of being somebody. This is what I’m telling you, this frustration, I don’t know, I don’t see many of you that will drop out, but it will be even more challenging than this. I told you the first week I didn’t come to joke, if it’s just to take your money, I’m a writer, an inventor, I can make money other ways. This is not for money, you can’t impress me, the only way you impress me is that this transformation you were looking for, you be serious about it and you work harder and harder to get it and understand.
You have been raised to be a nobody, but you think just by thinking/claiming that you are somebody, standing in the face of this world and [saying] respect me, that is enough for the world to respect you. No it’s not! For the world to respect you, you will have to earn it. You will have to be special; it’s not based on emotion -- special because you can make the difference. Now you have the chance, on the same level training yourself, trying, trying to get out of bondage, trying to live like brothers and sisters, trying to learn how to exercise the 77 Commandments among yourselves. When you try that then you will have something that you will be standing on, so that if someday your child or grandchild, the government tells them your mother/father is nobody, they will say, “Wait, the quality that shines from my father/mother... there is a lot that I can learn.” That is what sets people free.
I was explaining one day that the worst thing that happened to us is not slavery, it’s not colonialism, it’s not all these killings and lynchings, it’s the fact that you can not transmit knowledge to your descendants, that is how you destroy people. They have made sure that you can have a child and basically you are brought down to the same level of your child because you can’t transmit anything to your child. That is the worst thing that has happened to us and is still happening.
It is that Ancestral system of education, and the recovery of our Ancestral values, and integrity the M’TAM Schools provide. Each initiate is challenged with meeting this profound opportunity but few are capable of doing so. The M’TAM Schools around the world, as well as The Earth Center, want to congratulate the graduates of 414 who have proven their seriousness in their self-transformation. We wish to welcome the 31st and 32nd graduating generations of the M’TAM Schools.
The 31st generation comes from the Ouagadougou school. The two victorious, graduating initiates share the spiritual family-name Habzneteri, which translates to “Divine Lantern”. The generation consists of Zouadji or “One who brings prosperity” (formerly N’Do Georges) and Sasebik or “Son of the Neter (God) Sebik” (formerly Esso Bourkane).
The 32nd generation comes from the Chicago school. The two persevering graduates share the generational name of Nimahat which means “Belonging to the Netert (Goddess) Ma’at” (The Goddess who personifies truth, justice and the moral and physical laws of order.) The Nimahat are Ibteni or “Mature heart” (formerly Kevan Crockrel) and Kemeera or “Seeker of the Great God Ra” (formerly Alitra Cartman).
In accordance with Kemetic tradition, M’TAM priests investigated the energies of each individual’s life, history and destiny in order to provide the initiates with their names. Each name represents the quality that each individual must live up to in achieving the destiny their spirit incarnated to achieve. Each member of their respective generation must work together as a family to achieve the destiny expressed in their spiritual family name, leaning on each other and exemplifying solidarity and cooperation.
May the spirit of the M’TAM Schools and the Kemetic legacy live forever. May each graduate take their place within that legacy and fight to push forward the human genius. May all those spirits who are ready, assemble at the doors of initiation in order to take their place in the Kemetic revival and the reclamation of human enlightenment in the current era.
