The Father of Creation

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Ham, biblical character, one of Noah's son three sons,
the brother of Shem and Japheth, and father of
Canaan. He is described as helping Noah to build
the ark, but after the Flood his son Canaan is
cursed by God for Ham's apparent sin of having
seen 'the nakedness of his father' Noah. This
curse may be an attempt to explain the late
subjugation of the Canaanites to Israel as
resulting from Canaanite sexual perversion.

The idea of primeval deluge destroying the
world and all its inhabitants (apart from a faithful
remnant favoured by God or the gods to survive)
as a consequence of or punishment for human
wrongdoing or sin. This is expressed in mythical
form and is found in Hindu, Ancient Egyptian and
Chinese religion as well as most notably in Judaism
and Christianity in the story of Noah in Genesis 6
and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh

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The idea of primeval deluge destroying the
world and all its inhabitants (apart from a faithful
remnant favoured by God or the gods to survive)
as a consequence of or punishment for human
wrongdoing or sin. This is expressed in mythical
form and is found in Hindu, Ancient Egyptian and
Chinese religion as well as most notably in Judaism
and Christianity in the story of Noah in Genesis 6
and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh

A Babylonian epic poem, partially preserved
in different versions, named after its hero, the
Sumerian King Gilgamesh.
It described Gilgamesh's legendary adventures,
and narrates a story of the Flood that has striking
parallels with the biblical account.

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But the father said to his servants,

Quick! Bring the best robe
and put it ls on him. Put a ring on his
finger and sandals on his feet. Bring
the fatten calf and kill it. Let's have a
feast and celebrate. For this son of
mine was dead and is alive again; he
was lost and is found.

So they began to celebrate.
-Luke 15:22-24, (NIV)

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Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium AD whose
adherents sought salvation through gnosis-knowledge - and mystical experience.
Gnostics were Christians, Jewish, Greco-Roman, Persian, Cathars and there were
even some Muslim Gnostics, and what characterised them all was that the belief
hat the knowledge they studied and believed in gave them direct assess to God.
Gnostics were condemned and persecuted as heretics. The texts which were
sacred to Gnostics come from the traditions of all main religions plus many other
lesser-followed faiths. The most beautiful of the Gnostic texts, such as the Gospel
of Thomas, Phillip, Judas and Mary Magdalene, the Book of Baruch, the Songs of
Solomon, The Ginza, the Mandaean Liturgy and the Gospel of the Secret Supper,
is little-understood branch of the Abrahamic religions.

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The most difficult things to face in this existence are the things you
do not like about yourself. Often we glean it when you observe it
in others, but make excuses for yourself.

Interesting thought...

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- James Baldwin

I am willing to take full responsibility for me. Life's lessons are few: peace, freedom, strength, justice, faith, shame and blame. The longer you ask, the more sincere you are to know, the faster your answers will come.

A wise suggestion...

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- Marcus Garvey

A history of oppression, denial, injustice, and abuse has been the greatest detriment to people of colour. We have listened so long to what we cannot do that we have very little confidence in what we can do.


I Am confident and possess all I need to succeed.

I believe ...

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A wise suggestion...

When everyone is against you, it means that you are
absolutely wrong or absolutely right.

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Interesting thought...

Hate has what lust entirely lacks - persistence
and continuity: the persistence and continuity
of a purposive spirit.

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A relationship is placing one's heart in the hands of another while taking charge of another in one's soul and heart.

Kahlil Gibran's work the Prophet is a beautiful testimony of life in its uncomplicated wisdom and strikingly simple descriptions.

... The the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea.
And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.

Here are the words that cannot fail to inspire in a book that brings to light 'heart knowledge' that lies half-awake within us.

Timeless, poetic and beautiful.

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How could things have been as they are, were there not
an original, inherent principle or order somewhere?

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Every religion and culture since time immemorial has attempted to personify evil in some way, but
Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of Satan from its earliest period. He has
been portrayed as grotesque and beautiful, threatening and helpful, terrifying and comical, playing
a varietry of roles in human existence. In the Middle Ages he was feared and frightening adversary
of humankind, blamed for everything from crop failure to infertility. In the 16th century he was the
supposed master and friend of witches, many of whom were burned, and in the 17th century he was
cast as seducer-in-chief of the devout. Wiith the dawning of the modern age in the 19th century,
Euroope began to lose its faith in the literal ersion of the Bible and therefore Satan himself, but exported
him to all his traqdional aspects to its empires. Then cvia the media of book film, in the 20th century
he made a spectacular comeback as a renewed focus of admiratrion and even worship

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A good practice to be concerned whether or not we are keeping God's Word.
There are stark warnings for those in ecclesiastical circle who try to change
the form of worship God laid down. There is also encouragement for those
who sincerely want to obey.
God and follows His laws.

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A good practice to be concerned whether or not we are keeping God's Word.
There are stark warnings for those in ecclesiastical circle who try to change
the form of worship God laid down. There is also encouragement for those
who sincerely want to obey. God and follows His laws.

When the Lost Word is written on the mind of man, he is then ready to receive
unimaginable power.

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The ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras was a famous early animistic who believed
it is not possible to settle whether God exists or not. He wrote:

About the gods, I cannot be sure whether they exist or not, or what they are like to see: for many things stand in the way of the knowledge of them, both the opacity of the subject and the shortness of life.

Tneists and atheists respond to agnostic challenge in different ways. For believers in God, the key element that agnostic ignored id the revelation of God.

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The ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras was a famous early agnostic who believed it is not possible to settle whether God exists or not. He wrote: Theists and atheists respond to agnostic challenge in different ways. For believers in God, the key element that agnostic ignored id the revelation of God.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far possible , without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

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Religious cults of the Graeco-Roman world, the most famous were the Demeter
at Eleusis, in Greece, but the cults of Dionysus, Isis, and Mithra are also involved
into mysteries. Christain mystics reject the idea common in some other religions,
of the absorption of the individual in to the divine, and retain the distinction between
the in dividual beliver and God. Mysticism takes its place along the devotional aspect
of worship, although many argue as to the relative merits of each.