The Dishonorables [4]

By

Sam Abbd Israel

It is difficult at this stage to resist moving away from the analysis of the physical, political, sociological and psychological facts around us into a higher level of analysis of the spiritual reality of humanity. It is very easy for the unenlightened to devote so much attention, energy and effort to the review and analysis of history and contemporary events while looking for the wherefores and whys of human failures without realising that what they are seeing and analysing are mere symptoms of a deeper reality. This writer considers such intellectual exercise a wasteful endeavour because it cannot edify or heal humanity except to buttress the pedigree of such analyst as a member of the intellectual class. This writer will count his labour wasted if it is driven solely by the need to be recognised as one of the ‘bright boys’. The story that heaven has put in my mind to tell Africans is a true story. The story is not a fiction that is designed to entertain readers but it is expected to heal all hearers and readers from the sin of ignorance - the mother of stupidity and foolishness. This heavenly-sent story touched each of us more deeply than we could ever imagine.

However, the history of our world has convincingly showed that there is a pattern, logic, and a purpose in the seemingly unconnected events, circumstances and phenomena that are ceaselessly taking place on earth. It should not surprise anyone if the non-reflecting people find it difficult to see a pattern in the history of the world as such. This writer believes that there is no accident or mere chance event or coincidental occurrence or action in the history of the world. Every circumstance happening on earth is mysteriously interwoven and geared to a particular goal. The goal in question is the birth of utopia on planet earth: the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Simply, it is a divine drive towards the birth of perfection of life on earth.

While reviewing the history - both oral and written - of mankind it has been an uphill task for all analysts to make sense of the recorded chaos, mayhem and absurdities on earth. It is difficult for a lot of brilliant people to see any sense in the design of our universe, in the creation of mankind, or in the creation of other forms of life. These intelligent people cannot be blamed because until heaven opens up the eyes of mankind to see and the senses to understand, mankind is the most stupid of all creations.

The animals might look and act daft to us but they have not lost the instincts that connect them to the creator of life. The animals live according to the eternal programmes designed for them. As for mankind and because of our inflated ego that tends to believe it knows everything, we have since lost touch with our designer and creator many ages ago. It is obvious that our spiritual link with the creator seems to have been disconnected a long time ago. The inbuilt receptor that is present in every living thing that makes it possible to receive information from the creator has gone dead in mankind. For a very long time, mankind has been on its own, carelessly and foolishly groping in darkness.

The case of mankind can be compared to the story of an astronaut sent to the moon by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States of America. No sooner had the astronaut landed on the moon than he lost the radio communication contact with the Space Control Centre on earth. He tried to make contact with earth without any success. The Control Centre could see the astronaut but he (astronaut) could not see or hear them. The Centre watched with pity and sadness as their colleague ran from one pit hole into another while performing many stupid functions and silly activities that could put his life at risk and jeopardise all the elaborate hard work that had gone into the design, planning, and preparation for the moon mission. The solution to the problem is simple; the control centre must send another astronaut to rescue their stranded colleague before he puts his life and the whole moon mission into danger.

This is the true story of mankind. Heaven that created us could see us as we flounder and suffer. Heaven has never desisted from sending messages to us but our spiritual receptor is defective and so it could not pick up the messages. As a result, from time to time heaven has sent teachers and spiritual masters to us to teach and to show us how we can repair our spiritual receptors so that we can be linked up with heaven again. From every generation in the past that had the opportunity to receive any of the teachers sent by heaven all the peoples that listened and hearkened to the teaching of the teachers were rescued from the perpetual mayhem on earth. And as each of these people saw the light that came from the message of love and understood the purpose and the meaning of life, each became a light to his/her family, friends, neighbours, nation, and race as well as the world at large. Unfortunately and to the dismay of heaven, the heavenly sent teachers were often turned into idols of worship by the later generations.

This writer is eager to share with every African this important spiritual trend as it is being revealed by heaven. It is important for us to recognise that heaven is not partial in its ways. When we look at the history of the age that has just gone by, Africa would seem to have been completely forgotten or neglected. We have read about the stories of several teachers that appeared in the Middle East, in India, in China, in Greece and in America. It would seem that these parts of the world had greater favours of heaven more than the Africa region. This is not true since the timetable of programmes designed by heaven for the redemption of mankind is forever steadfast and the ways of heaven are forever just. Moreover, one might suggest that since those who are more seriously sick would require a priority attention and prompt services from the physicians, these parts of the world might have been in more deadly danger than Africa during this period.

All students of history would have recognised that the history of civilization of the world moves in a progressive fashion. Among the important landmarks in the history of the world, is a period of a global phenomenon of spiritual awakening and enlightenment that historians have christened as the Axial Age. This is the period between 800 – 200 BCE when most of the teachings that are still making waves today were revealed to the world. Africa was not neglected in this heavenly feast. Unfortunately, we have no written records of our teachers. However, the several deities in Africa are testimonies of some revealed fundamental truth and knowledge of life. The ceremonies and festivals of ancestral worship amongst Africans, I believe, were telltale symbols of the remains of some fundamental revelations. These cultural ceremonies are full of deep-rooted knowledge and of sacred teachings that pertain to the meaning of life. Every African is invited to take a second and a third look again at those ceremonies and festivals that are taken for granted or even ridiculed by the so-called elites of Africa.

Once more spiritual teachers from other parts of the world that left records of their teachings have testified to the universality of the truth of life revealed to them. Although, the human nature and the personality of the teacher might have played a part in the way these teachings were relayed to the people. Also it is possible that the culture of the people that received the message might have interfered with the interpretation given to the universal truth about the creator of heaven and earth and about the nature and purpose of the created. Yet, this writer sincerely believes that all the revealed knowledge found everywhere in the world have some seeds of truth in them but none of them should be taken as the absolute truth.

It is therefore the duty of every seeker to piece together the various segments of these revelations so as to have a complete and unadulterated picture of the truth of life. Africans have no reason anymore to be subservient to any other race in the world. Most of the teachings we mentioned categorically revealed that every life is equal to all others; and that every creation is composed of same properties of energy or power or force of life. Therefore no life is of less importance than any others. It is from this fundamental truth that all enlightened souls understand the sacred need of according equal respect to every life regardless of whether it is a great or small creation.

All enlightened souls understand intuitively that it is the heaven that creates leaders. Leaders created by heaven are the ones the people of the world call the light of the world or the salt of the earth. Through their exemplary lives these heavenly created leaders naturally become pathfinders of new values, beliefs, and goals for the world. The divine intention of these leaders is always to build, edify and lead mankind onto higher level of existence. The heavenly created leaders are neither aggressive nor ambitious, nor greedy, nor ostentatious, nor megalomaniac, nor exhibitionist, nor power loving nor power-crazy. On the contrary, they are naturally humble - preferring to work quietly behind the scene, refusing to draw attention to themselves or their works, creatively intelligent and deliberately against any acquisition, or any display, or any ownership of earthly economic or political power.

The history of the world, as is now being discovered by enlightened thinkers and writers, is an unending saga that is billed to run forever. It has its moments of tragedy as well as its moments of comedy. However, like any well-written play the story of life must have its several acts and infinite scenes – it must have its exciting ups and depressing downs, its triumphant successes and disastrous failures, its many moments of joys and moments of sadness, and it must have its many other forms of life’s dualities as well. The revelations that have appeared here and there across the globe are pointing to a likely perpetual reoccurrence of the story of life. If this is true, what are its implications for Africa and the world in general?

In the spiritual age that is gradually unfolding, there are some teachers that heaven has gladly sent to earth. These teachers started appearing on planet earth from the 14^th century and have either been revealing to the world new gospels or have been demolishing the lies of the old gospels. The truth and knowledge of their revelations have contributed immensely to the present stage of human development. The gospels of Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), of Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), of Galilei Galileo (1564-1642), of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), of John Stuart Mill (1806-73), of Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), of John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) to mention just a few, have done irreparable damages to the conventional wisdom or foolishness of their days.

These true gospels have helped in healing the intellectual and spiritual blindness of tens, hundreds, thousands and millions of seekers of truth in the world. These gospels have cured the collective malignant diseases of spiritual, cultural and intellectual ignorance that have held humanity to ransom for so long. These gospels have exposed the foolishness of every ancient superstition and have driven away the accompanying fears in the lives of true seekers and searchers of the truth of life. Through these gospels humanity was able once again to secure a space of spiritual and physical freedom that was denied it by the tripartite political establishments. These are the institutions of government, religion and mammon that were created and sustained by great lies from the kingly stables of the so-called leaders.

Every seeker and searcher regardless of sex, race and culture who has listened attentively or read sincerely the unfolding revelations from these gospels has found enlightenment, rebirth, freedom, love and peace. In particular, freedom to live according to the specific unique design of the person concerned and not according to the ‘philosophy of men’ in religious cloaks. Each seeker and searcher of the truth of life found that his/her inherited and endemic fears of obnoxious traditions and customs, of the oppressive religious creeds and dogmas of priests, of the non-forgiven jealous Gods, of the temptation-setting and trapping wicked Satan, and of the other such foolish fears were miraculously expunged. Indeed, it was truly a case of knowing the truth and the truth of life setting every seeker and searcher free, just as one of the old teachers said it would.

This is the tradition that heaven has consistently used since mankind was created. The creator of mankind, like the controller of NASA mentioned above, understands the limit of human comprehension and nature. Therefore, contrary to popular religious propaganda, it is the duty of heaven to keep humanity safe from avoidable harms and self-destruction. Heaven understands the depth of our stupidities and the extent to which our foolishness, if allowed to go on unchecked, can ruin this perfect edifice of our universe. It is therefore a duty of love for heaven to keep us safe and away from danger until humanity learns the lesson it ought to learn before it can grow and mature into perfection. In this regard, the timetable of heaven with respect to our training programmes has been progressing in a perfect order.

The journey of life to which each of us was created to perform is a foolproof plan. There is nothing so far that had happened, that is happening or that will happen that is outside this heavenly ordained plan. This is why each of the divine teachers that came before now had spent ample time to correct a host of misinformation about the nature of heaven, the nature of mankind and the nature of the universe. Although a host of these teachings have been codified into religious ‘holy books’ and other cultural artefacts, unfortunately this codification has led to grave distortions, gross misinformation and legendary mythologies that are far away from the sacred fundamental truth that these blessed teachers gave to the world.

This writer shall not shirk away from declaring the truth as the heaven has put it in my heart regardless of whom it hurts. Truth by its nature is expected to hurt all liars and all those that live under the shadow of untruthfulness. Therefore, for any enlightened soul to pander to the rogues and robbers of the world because of the fear of being denied a miserable daily bread or of death or of imprisonment shall be the greatest miscarriage of love and divine justice. When a soul is lit up by heaven it cannot help but to radiate fire, the kind that burns up the crooked dishonourable beings and their ideas, practices and places on earth, that lights up all the darkened places and that reveals every hidden secret in the hearts of all creations. This kind of truth is definitely a threat to the leadership pretenders of our world.

Fortunately, the truth of life that is unfolding to this generation is daily confirming that we are part and parcel of the history of the world. Serious scientists and seekers who refused to be confined by conservative ideas and thinking are proving the truth of immortality and of the reoccurrence of life day by day in researches and revelations. The wise of the world, because of their inquisitive nature, will not take some of these eyebrow-raising revelations lightly. They will naturally be fascinated to learn more and to understand more of what the fools are calling science fictions. These unconventional scientists are revealing that the soul of man is one of the three distinct components that make up the physical phenomenon called human being while the other two components are the body and the mind.

The soul as mentioned by several ancient sages is the core or the nucleus of life while the body is the garment that gives the soul a form or shape. The mind is the network of cells and nerves that are collectively called the brain. Since the soul is a non-physical substance it does not respond to any of the physical measurement of science presently in use. The American Heritage Dictionary (third edition) defines soul as the "animating and vital principle in human beings, credited with faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity." However, since the beginning of the 20^th century the young science of psychology has made remarkable progress in unravelling some important facts about the enigma called the soul. The report of researches and other inspiring books emanating from this particular area of science should attract the attention of every seeker of truth of life.

Without an understanding of what the truth of life is, mankind cannot make progress further than the current mayhem of war and bloodshed. The collective ignorance about the reoccurrence and the repetition of life is behind the foolishness called modern civilization. The conventional belief that was sold to the world by Jewish priests and later over flogged by western religious philosophers and lately by bigoted fundamentalists tends to see life of mankind on planet earth as a one-stop affair. This philosophy of slave owners is the greatest error of faith that the sellers of ignorance have bequeathed to the world. Since life is a one-stop affair, then the need to be successful as quickly as possible and in the perverted sense promoted by lovers of power can be easily understood. The most important commandment handed to every aspiring youth is: accumulate monetary and material wealth as much as you can, as quickly as you can, and by any means as you can. The modern prophets of mammon are saying, since monetary and material wealth is central to life then if any person cannot cultivate and accumulate wealth in high amount that can put the word ‘greed’ to shame then that fellow should count him/herself a failure in life.

Under this climate of conventional global foolishness, created and promoted by London and New York, is it still a wonder why the fools of the world would go to any extent to secure the most essential commodity of life as propounded by the gurus of our world? The desire to be successful in monetary and material terms is the singular motivation that gives meaning to the life of every modern man. To be rich and famous are the twin goals that keep every aspiring youth awake and focus and the only purpose that keeps many fools alive. The gurus of our world, because of a lack of true knowledge, have completely turned a divine advice upside-down. Yeshua [Jesus] says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things [food, drink, clothing] shall be added to you." Today, the London and New York gurus say to their slobbering followers all over the world, "Seek first the kingdom of mammon and its wickedness, and all these things (political power, material properties, grand positions of honour and fame, etc.) shall be added to you." The complete philosophy of life of the modern man is a perversion of reality and a negation of the truth of life.

In this essay we have briefly mentioned the method and the manner by which the pretenders to the leadership positions of our world came by their powers. We have carefully demonstrated that without a good dose of hate and wickedness in the hearts of all lovers of power no earthling could have waged wars of attrition on truth and on the lovers of truth and peace as the power grabbers of our world had done. We have also seen that the reigning descendants who inherited the booty and loot of war from their wickedly industrious and ruthlessly enterprising ancestors are today feeling unconcerned about the atrocities recorded against the names of their forefathers. Now, we observe that the spoiled brats feel very comfortable as they continue to paint the town red in their inherited stolen properties, honour and wealth. We notice their arrogance and ill manners both to their elders, betters and those they call the downtrodden of the world. We also observe their total lack of knowledge about the history of their fudged inheritances. Unfortunately, ignorance is not an excuse under the natural law of justice. This new class of elites of Africa are wrong if they try to claim innocence concerning the acts of brigandage committed by their ancestors. In as much as they refused to denounce and to reject the unearned privileges and unjust rights passed down to them, they have wittingly put their signatures of approval to the misdeeds of their heartless and stupid ancestors.

Fortunately, like one adage says, there is always a silver lining in the cloud. The group of Africans who occupied and fouled the seat of civic and political powers all over Africa have succeeded in stimulating deep reflection among the enlightened souls in Africa. This writer like many other Africans with commonsense has been forced to ruminate on the circumstances of Africa. Without living through this sad experience, I believe, I would not have been set on a trail that desires to seek answers to the question of the truth of life. Personally, the Dishonourables of Africa did me a favour. It was their perversions that helped me onto the path of a seeker of the truth of life. And it was because of their decadence that I have been able to discover the divine light of the truth of life.

All along while living in Africa I was aware that there was reluctance in my soul that intuitively rejected the reality under which I was born and raised. In as much as I tried to be a part of the madness in Africa, there was an instinctive resistance that denied me a free entry into the ‘civilized society’ of Africa. I am sure I am not alone. The realisation that I am not alone is the salient reason that dictated the need to write this essay. It is my desire to reach out to other potential redeemed souls who are facing similar problem of self-denial into their perverted societies.

This essay is therefore genuinely aimed at helping this group of spiritually worried Africans to rediscover who they are. The true leaders as mentioned by the ancient Sages are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. As light, the true leaders are the revealers of fundamental truth of life; they are the medium of enlightenment to the weary world; they are the teachers of the poor in spirit; and they are the healers of the spiritually blind, deaf and dumb and the comforter of the broken-hearted. And as salt of the earth, they are catalysts that hasten positive change in societies and nations and the true spice of life to the listening members of their generation. Just as salt is used sparingly to improve the flavour of food, so also true leaders are created in small numbers to enliven the life of their contemporaries.

In real life, leaders of household, community and nation are on the average less than five percent of the population. In that sense if we check through social organisations and political institutions of every country we shall likely discover that only about 5% of the elites across the board can safely be called leaders. This could translate to mean that only 5% of the members of parliament; 5% of the cabinet ministers; 5% of teachers; 5% of civil servants; 5% of scientists; 5% of industrialists and manufacturers; 5% of Christians; 5% of Muslims, etc. are true leaders. In arithmetic proportion or in statistical aggregates it means that about 95% of the population of African so-called elites are pretenders and therefore they are pathetic liars.

Naturally, the principle of duality of life is a proven commonsense phenomenon. All creations in life tend to appear in pairs – positive and negative; male and female; good and bad; black and white; short and tall; light and dark, day and night etc. Nature does not seem to function or act in singles. Nature loves to be in partnership with its opposite counterpart. Therefore, it is unlikely that the good can exist without the bad just as the male in creations cannot exist or continue to exist eternally without the female. The important lesson to be drawn from the history of the evil leaders of our world is that the good leaders of the world who were supposed to be the counterpart partner and the check and balance against the innate atrocities of the bad guys have allowed themselves to be marginalized and suppressed since the time the bad guys captured political powers on earth. Again, like there are seasons in weather, it may also mean that the period of life that has just gone by was the allotted season for the bad guys. And since darkness in nature is programmed to disappear when sunshine appeared in the horizon, similarly we must accept that the bad guys have been programmed to disappear into the oblivion as soon as the good guys begin to wake up from their age-long slumber.

The message of this writer shall serve as the alarm call that the good guys have long been waiting for to arise from their age-long life of rest, apathy, pacifism, and consensus with evil. The battle for good life for all is about to begin and heaven has strategically placed every soldier of light in every corner of the globe. The spirit of truth shall alert you if you belong to this group because that is the only reason why you are here on this planet at this historic moment. The eternal spiritual chips of your life that stored the memory of your divine intentions in this life shall become active as soon as it hears the summons of heaven.

The true leaders are here and they will soon take their places to begin the sacred work of demolition, reconciliation and reconstruction in Africa. Every crooked value, idea, philosophy, structure, institution, and person must go. There shall be great demolition work in the length and breadth of Africa. Africans shall be healed from their foolishness and fears and they shall be reconciled with the author of life – the creator of heaven and earth. After the heavenly controlled ruin, destruction, demolition, reconciliation and reconstruction a new Africa shall emerge to serve the genuine physical and spiritual needs of the truly redeemed souls. Dear Seeker, you must believe this revelation because it is a practical fact that ‘you cannot make an omelet without breaking an egg’.

Is this writer talking, thinking, promoting or supporting violence? Not at all, the true leaders are never friends of violence. They are peaceful and peace loving people. They can never be associated with physical arms and weapons. They have weapons quite all right, but these are spiritual weapons. The weapons they will adopt for their spiritual operation of cleansing Africa shall be nothing more than the power of love, truth and knowledge. Again you better believe it, ‘Truth is mightier than lies’ just as ‘Love is mightier than hate’ as well as ‘Knowledge is mightier than ignorance’. This writer is talking about the coming revolution on planet earth and it is starting with you and me. It is a revolution of values, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and behaviours or ways of life – in short, a spiritual revolution. Our values or believes are the invisible psychological software that have the capacity to influence the direction and the limit of the intellectual, cultural and social development of a people or race. Therefore, it will follow naturally that obnoxious vulgar values cannot produce anything else but decadence. Consequently, a society that takes its operating values from a belief in the ‘might is right’ philosophy cannot go beyond the ethos of war, self-defence, ruthless competition, narrow national interests, prejudice and xenophobic fears of others. Whereas a society cultivated on the operating values that are derived from the dictum that says, ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ cannot do otherwise than to bear the fruits of love, peace, charitable cooperation, friendship, tolerance and enlightened global interests.

I am sure you must be getting bored with this rhetoric. I feel there is a need for a bit of explanation here in order to make the thrusts of this essay clearer and more understandable. As I said earlier, this work is about healing and not for the promotion of myopic intellectualism, as such. Intellectual endeavour without a strong purpose towards the cultivation of spiritual development of the student of life is a wasteful exercise. Intellectual development that failed to lead to a spiritual enlightenment and the rebirth of a person is the type that breeds narrow-mindedness, prejudice, bigotry, intolerance, arrogance, fanaticism, fundamentalism, superiority complex and snobbishness. An educated snob is a first class spiritual illiterate - the type of people under the focus of the essay. Where then is this discourse leading?

The first task facing each African seeker is the sacred and spiritual need for a self-discovery or self-identification. Who am I - a leader or a follower? Am I a good leader/follower or a bad leader/follower? The answers to these questions have to be sought and searched for by everyone with a living soul. They are not issues that anyone can stumble into accidentally; they are the fundamental issues that each person must consciously confront before a spiritual evolution or rebirth can take place. The leadership talent is not a cheap commodity, as the executive management propagandist schools will like to make us believe. It cannot be bought in the education market as it is being alleged by the education systems of the world. The leadership talent is the result of an evolutionary development of the soul. Each soul in its eternal life journey grows and matures until it attains enlightenment. Therefore, until a soul has fully matured and becomes reborn in a particular physical life, the body or the carrier of the soul known as a person cannot be a true leader.

In other words, true leaders are those who have been reborn by knowledge, truth and spirit. It is only the spirit of truth that has the divine duty to nurture a soul into maturity. Until the spirit of truth gets involved with the education and training development of a person, the best that most articulate and educated persons can achieve is book education. Book education or certification is not synonymous with wisdom. Book education or certification can make a person cleverer, craftier, sleazier, more ingenuously brilliant and more extraordinarily mendacious but it does not make a person wise. Wisdom, and I mean true wisdom, is a gift of Heaven. It is only Heaven that bestows this precious gift to those who are worthy to receive and protect it and who can use it judiciously.

Therefore, self-identification starts from an intuitive awareness that you are a lost soul in the journey of life. Each person must come to a point of consciousness that things are not really normal in the world as they should be. The next step a person whose soul is uncomfortable with the world and eager to be re-born will take is for the mind to raise questions and to begin the true search for answers. It could just be simple questions like: What is wrong with the world? Why is anything wrong with the world? How can anything be wrong with world? When did it start going wrong, if anything is wrong with the world? Who is to be blamed for what is wrong with the world? How can the wrongs in the world be righted? And, who shall be responsible for the task of correcting the wrongs in the world?

These question and answer processes will likely lead the person far and wide. It will definitely raise issues about creation, about the creator, about the purpose and the goal of life. These and several other questions shall be begging for answers. The desire to know is the only invitation the spirit of truth needs to get closer with a seeker and to begin the fruitful task of teaching and revelation. The procedure will normally vary from one individual to another since each person is uniquely designed and created. Each divine training manual is normally individually designed for each enquirer and seeker of the truth of life. This is the only procedure that can hasten the evolutionary development of mankind.

However, the age of a soul will also affect the speed of rebirth of a soul. It is a biological fact that a child must crawl before he/she can walk, must grow teeth before he/she can chew and must attain puberty before he/she can become a parent. Similar growth processes also take place with respect to the soul. The growth of each soul takes many life cycles to mature. Each life cycle deals with particular segments of the training and education of the soul that will eventually lead to the final goal of creation. This is the bringing of every creation in life into a state of perfection.

The result of the last few millennia on earth has convincingly shown that the mature souls on planet earth seem to have reluctantly refused to take control of our world. Or they have, in their desire to teach some valuable lessons to the immature souls, allowed a host of the so-called leaders who belong to the baby souls to take control of the wheel of the journey of life for a season. As a result of this intentional divine plan by the senior souls, the baby souls succeeded in hijacking powers and the leadership positions of our world. Since they are foolish and immature, they have recklessly led mankind unto the path of destruction. And unless these baby souls in their spiritual nappies are ‘checkmated’, the apocalypse prophesised for planet earth by a host of ancient wise men and women shall eventually come true.

This is why this particular period in history is a revolutionary crucial moment for the world. It is the season of a great changeover, of revaluation and rewriting a host of values, beliefs and attitudes. There are going to be earth-shaking changes from warfare to peace-fare system, from injurious attitude of hate to a caring attitude of love, from ruthless competition to friendly cooperation, from racial prejudice to universal tolerance, from proud patriotic nationalism to humble selfless universalism, etc. Those who are to be involved in setting the pace and standards for the revolution have already been positioned by heaven at designated places in the length and breadth of planet earth. In case you are one of the elected ones, the revelation in this essay shall open your eyes to the filth under which you were born and raised, shall hasten your awareness about the unnatural state of our world and shall quicken your understanding as to what your personal role shall be in the work of redemption that is about to begin.

The elects or the enlightened or the redeemed that are indeed the true leaders of this generation have been foreordained by heaven to lay the foundation of spiritual and social revolution on earth. The task ahead shall start from the review of the various conventional global philosophy of life presently in place. The philosophy underpinning religious practices, economic and political institutions, societies, cultures, social organisations, education and of every other gamut of beliefs must attract the attention of these true leaders. Particularly, the true leaders shall reject the entrenched popular concepts and practices of leadership that sowed the seed of idolatrous belief that the redemption of mankind/society can depend on one prince or knight in shining armour or in any other tyrannical attire.

The history of our world has shown time after time that every scoundrel in the world rode into power under the illusion of being a self-appointed social redeemer. Any African by now who cares to use his/her senses ought to have realised that the power lovers of this world are never friends of freedom, equality and justice. The lovers of power are only happy when they are the one offering the precious gift of freedom to others, when they are the one making the laws for others and when they are, implicitly or explicitly, held higher up above everyone else in the polity. Any proposed social, political and economic arrangements that are different from these are rubbished and portrayed as undemocratic, unrealistic and inapplicable.

In the distorted logic of power lovers, democracy can only mean government of themselves by themselves and for themselves. They understand power sharing to mean, when the whole polity is forced or conned to come under their leadership as servile subordinates or powerless citizens or as oppressed subjects. They cannot bear to share power as equals because of their sick obsession with a larger than life ego. All power lovers live and prosper in darkness and wickedness. They are experts in double-speak with a classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality. They are the natural born chameleons of every civilized society. They cannot bear the light of truth because their motives are driven by a visceral hatred of other beings and their works are designed to perpetuate superstition, fear and evil.

In short, the Dishonourables are the psychopaths - the type that "fits into cluster B, the group which includes antisocial, histrionic and narcissistic personalities." These are the personalities found among all lovers of power (priests, monarchs and politicians), all lovers of money, and all lovers of naked force. Every person, regardless of social class or vocation - husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, friend, etc. - that desires to dominate others or derives pleasure when others are dominated either within a family or a community is also of this dangerous breed.

Therefore, as lights of the world, the true leaders are bound to shine their lights into every manifestation of darkness as they rebut the irrational, oppressing and dominating fears of the man-made superstitions and of the fruits of ignorance in their worlds. And as salt of the earth, the true leaders must endeavour to enliven and to quicken their societies for the spiritual and social revolution at hand. The task ahead shall entail gigantic challenges of teaching and debating the true meanings of the truth of life, as well as confronting at every level the lies, the hypocrisy, the wickedness, and the selfishness of the Dishonourable of our world.

The true leaders must be prepared to lay bare the antics of the Dishonourable so that even the most pessimistic doubting Thomas can see and understand their ruinous shenanigans. They must teach the simple hearted to recognise and to distrust forever the spin and con artists’ tricks of the Dishonourable and their followers. They must reveal and display the identities of the Dishonourable of every society in their true colours so that these vagabonds would no longer have easy free ride into our hearts, our lands, our pockets, and our souls anymore. This writer will like to mention that the hosts of heaven are promising this generation that the age-long powers of the Dishonourable that were born of brutality and wickedness against fellow mankind shall soon be taken away from them forever. However, heaven in its characteristic merciful disposition is ready to help any repentant Dishonourable who is prepared to learn new basic values that will accord genuine respect to other fellow human beings. Heaven shall also give any penitent Dishonourable a new spirit that shall naturally and willingly embrace the virtues of humility in thoughts, words and deeds. These are the challenges ahead of the elects, the redeemed and the enlightened - the true leaders of Africa.

The true leaders elected by the spirit of truth should be advised not to be in a hurry concerning the big task ahead. It should be becoming obvious that these are not challenges that can be rushed through. The true leaders need time for self-discovery, time to package the seeds of revolutionary ideas, time to prepare the nurseries where the seeds shall be bedded and allowed to germinate successfully with minimum loss, and time to transplant the growing seedlings of knowledge, truth and love into the new sanctified hearts of those already designated by heaven as soldiers of light.

The soldiers of light are the youths of today. The selection of the youth by heaven, I believe, was based on the fact that the bulk of the present generation are irredeemably lost and they can no longer be reached. Not because it is impossible to redeem them but it is because they have blatantly refused to accept or to acknowledge that they are ill and needed the help and attention of physicians. The sages have said that unless a person knows and accepts that he/she is ill, it is difficult for such a person to receive healing. Such people have been called the greatest fools, because they are the ones that do not know that they don’t know. It is on the basis of this fundamental truth that the true leaders shall be compelled to work with the youth. The genuine and honourable leaders shall find their ways into the hearts of the institutions of education of their societies where they shall have greater opportunities to reach out and to touch the younger generations with selfless devotion and loving care.

This writer believes that heaven has specially prepared these younger generations with new improved hearts before they were sent to planet earth. The reflective minds must have noticed a unique characteristic common to the children born from the 1980s. These children have remarkable habits that consistently refuse to accept abrupt ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer from their parents when they asked fundamental questions about life. These children are the ‘Why-Babies’! Since their arrival on our planet they have kept their parents alert and on their toes with incessant why-questions. Every unsatisfactory answer from the parents attracts a volley of, whys? Truly, I love these children; they are the precious gifts of heaven to this generation.

These children are the hopes of the future of the physical world. Without them, the apocalypses foretold by the prophets of old would have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But with these children around, once again there is hope for the world. These children are created to expose the foolishness in the life of their parents; to challenge the unquestioning attitudes of their parents that accept all hideous traditions and customs of their society as sacrosanct; to challenge the gullibility of their parents that always seem to endorse every murderous scoundrel as leader of their society; and to challenge the historical man-made fears and superstitions that the hoodlums of the world have used to justify and maintain immoral, unethical and unjust powers over the economic and political thrones of societies. These New Age children shall shatter every value and culture of slavery in place in our world. And of course, charity shall begin at home. Therefore, let every parent in Africa and the world too be warned.

Hence, let the elects of heaven, the enlightened souls, and the true leaders that have discovered who they are in the plan of heaven concentrate all their efforts on the younger generation. You must allow the older generation to perish in their foolishness since their case is a foregone conclusion. Pass them by since they are beyond redemption or loving. This generation believes it has already found the answers to all life’s questions in mammon and that is why the Dishonourable of every society and the unthinking followers are unwilling either to listen to new philosophical ideas and theories or to consider alternative socio-economic and political practices. They have refused to accept or to acknowledge that there is something wrong with our world. Since they think and believe they are on top of the world, therefore, they have adopted a motto of life that says: Let the music plays on and may the status quo remains forever. In their conservative arrogance, they have relentlessly waged war on anyone that suggests a need for a fundamental change of values, beliefs and practices that will usher in a universal regime of welfare for all and not for the few in societies.

Please, let all the elects and the true leaders be warned, you must pass these lots by. With their heinous nature they are ready to slaughter, murder and take the life of the true leaders if you give them the slightest opportunity. They may look modern and sophisticated they are still the same barbaric and murderous personalities as of the ancient times. The seed of evil is still running fresh in their veins. Pass them by as you focus your love, attention and energy on the generation of tomorrow. Our children are the hopes of the future of planet earth. Through these precious materials, we can rebuild Africa and make it new again with the aid of the ever true, yet untried and untested values of divine love. Finally as you proceed on your divine assignment as a leader of your world, please always remember the words of wisdom from Lao Tzu of China: