‘Yard Roots Journal’, Caribbean Media and Community Resources, Oakland, California, 1984. This publication covered the Caribean for an anarchist perspective.
venomous-elegance-2 asked: What would the Gnostic understanding of the Tower of Babel resemble?
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There is a wonderful text entitled The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, wherein the following definition of Babylon is given: “Humanity in her un-regenerated state; the
world of fashion, superficiality, animality, and intellectuality
without spirituality. The world of superficial Knowledge,
self-conceit, and ignorance, living in externals, and being
attached to illusions.”
Furthermore, the text goes on to explain: “To know the things that belong to the higher regions of thought, we must be able to raise ourselves to those regions; and as there are few who have the power to do so, the consequence is that as
soon as we begin to speak of such things, misunderstandings arise. Nearly all the theological and philosophical quarrels and disputes among men arise from a misunderstanding of the meaning of terms.
So long as men speak of things that can be perceived by the external senses, and which therefore
come within everybody’s experience, human language is sufficient to enable men to convey their ideas
to each other; but when they attempt to build the tower of their ideas into the higher regions of
thought, and to speak of things which are beyond the grasp of their intellectual comprehension and
beyond their experience, then the Babylonian confusion begins, because each man forms a conception of
his own regarding such things differing from the conception of others; and while all use the same
words yet every one interprets its meaning in a different way.”
sharrie9 asked: Hello I saw on Facebook that Emmet Hennesy was trying to find a living relative of Flt. sgt. James Hyde. I see from your post he is your great Uncle. perhaps you would like to contact Emmet. this is his post " Flight Sgt. James Hyde of San Juan, Trinidad & Tobago, a spitfire pilot in WW2, just one of our local, unsung heroes! Any family still alive who remember him? (locals please share.)"
Hey, thanks a lot for your message. Yup, he’s my grandfather’s brother. I just contacted Emmet. Thanks again.
Palais at rest- A quiet night at the Egbe Onisin Ile Omo Orisha Matura, in North Trinidad. The shrine was set up by the late drummer, dancer and Babalorisa Onisere Sango Jeffery Biddeau. The shrine hosts a big Saraka every year for Emancipation. #Trinidad #Orisa #Shango
Malcolm X at a meeting in Paris, November 23, 1964
White interviewer: If it was our white ancestors who bought you and enslaved you, we are their children. We are the new generation. Why don't you call us your brothers?
Malcolm X: A man has to act like a brother before you can call him a brother. You made a very good point, really, that needs some clarification. If you are the son of the man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in the position of economic strength that they are is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay. For over 400 years we worked for nothing. We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat. It was your fathers who did it to our fathers, and all of that money that piled up from the sale of my mother and my grandmother and my great-grandmother is what gives the present generation of American whites [the ability] to walk around the earth with their chest out; you know, like they have some kind of economic ingenuity. Your father isn't here to pay his debts. My father isn't here to collect. But I'm here to collect and you're here to pay.
