The Tree of Life For REAL!!

AMEN

And it all makes sense. Kemi people were so surreal.
The Original Man was unity. Of all of these things liftin up the Most High. I can't get mad at brothers that swear that they are everything... 'cause they are lol.

As a young lady I was rather perturbed with the idea that woman was made for man and vice versa, because I felt like it was such a cop-out, a route to an empty existence. But as a woman I love the fact that I get to be devoted to a GREAT man. My place in it all is love. So that's what I'm gonna bring.

YEP. We'll save the world, just you watch!

the seed.
The conditioned is the flower and the fruit
Knowledge is the branch
and the truth is the root
Look and see where the root is;
happiness shall be yours when
you come to the root
it will lead you to the branch, the leaf, the flower, and the fruit.

Color Chart

Healing Myself I Am! Yay (=
I just bought five books from amazon:


And after watching Sha Bless's AMAZING ALTAR VID:


I've decided to start gathering things for my altar. :-)
(I have already bought an elephant for it)

I also found a color chart at deeptrancenow.com
You know what I think is so amazing about this whole process is that people can call you crazy, but so many sources all say the same thing. And THAT IS THE TRUTH!!

	Red Healing properties: Brings warmth, energy and stimulation, therefore good for energy, fatigue, colds, chilly and passive people. Red energizes heart and blood circulation, it builds up the blood and heightens a low blood pressure. Energizes all organs and the senses hearing, smell, taste, vision and touch. Increases sexual desire and activity. Stimulates ovulation and menstruation. Never treat cancer with red, because this color will stimulate cell growth! Red links with and stimulates the root chakra, at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenalin. This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It loosens, opens up clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions. It is excellent for areas that have become stiffened or constricted. Esoteric/magickal: Deities of love, passion, sexuality and war (to stimulate a healthy portion of assertiveness). Great energy, courage, will-power, determination, speed, assertiveness, aggression, masculinity, independence, physical strength, sports, competition, conflicts, health, sexual attraction and potency, love and passion, fertility. Preference for red: Red is associated with passionate love, sex, great energy, impulse, action and stimulation, assertiveness and aggression, courage, strength and power, adventure, danger, warnings, revolt and revolution. Temperamental and ambitious people with a need for personal freedom. Aversion to red: A person who has an aversion to red may be over-active, too impulsive, hot-tempered, aggressive and egocentric, or have difficulties with people with such characteristics. It can also symbolize deeply hidden fears and rejection of his own assertiveness.
	Orange Healing properties: Orange is warm, cheering, non-constricting. Orange has a freeing action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. Stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm, and helps assimilate new ideas.It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression. Orange stimulates the lungs, the respiration and the digestion. Increases the activity of the thyroid. Reliefs muscle cramps and spasms. Increases the amount of mother milk. Finally, orange links very strongly with the sacral chakra. Esoteric/magickal: Deities of good luck and fortune. Attraction, charm, kindness, encouragement, stimulation, optimism, success, abundance, prosperity, feast and celebration, energy, achieving business-goals, investments, success in legal matters. Preference for orange: Orange represents the warmth of the fire. It brings even more energy than yellow, celebration and great abundance, comfort, enjoyment of the senses. Warm, sociable, dynamic and independent people who dedicate themselves to whatever they do. Aversion to orange: A person who has an aversion to orange may have suppressed sexual feelings or other difficulties with sensual enjoyment of life. The attitude can also be over-sensual, indulgent, or too materialistic.
	Yellow Healing properties: Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It helps awaken mental inspiration and stimulates higher mentality. Thus, it is an excellent color for nervous or nerve-related conditions or ailments. It also energizes the muscles. Dark yellow soothes pains in the nerves (shooting pains) Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and intestines. Speeds up the digestion and assimilation, and the stool. It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred tissue in healing itself. Yellow links with and stimulates the solar plexus, or psychic center. It can be used for psychic burnout or other psychic-related conditions or ailments. Activates and cheers up depressed and melancholic people. Gives lust for life. Esoteric/magical: Elemental air. Deities for trade, travel, knowledge and magick. Life-force, vitality, change, progress, contact, communication, trade, commerce, to persuade with confidence, joy, cheerfulness, learning, knowledge, mental clarity, concentration, memorizing, tests, speaking and writing, traveling, affirmation, visualization. Preference for yellow: The color of the sun, life-force, vividity, vitality and energy. The color of cheerfulness, curiosity, alternation, flexibility, progress, amusement, contact through traveling and communication, learning and practical knowledge. A feeling for writing and speaking. Aversion to yellow: A person who has aversion to yellow may be emotionally disappointed and bitter.May have tendency to rationalize feelings, or to avoid the depth of life by often changing relationships, many superficial relationships and/or constant changing activities.
	Green Healing properties: Green is the color of Nature and the earth. It is balance and harmony in essence and possesses a soothing influence upon both mind and body. It is neither relaxing nor astringent in its impact. Green can be used for just about any condition in need of healing. Green rings psychological and emotional harmony and balance. Green links with and stimulates the heart chakra.Green affects blood pressure and all conditions of the heart. It has both an energizing effect and a moderating or soothing effect. It cures hormonal imbalances. Stimulates growth hormone and rejuvenation. Cleans and purifies from germs, bacteria and rotting material. Harmonizes the digestion, stomach, liver, gall. Has a healing effect on kidneys. Increases immunity. Builds up muscles, bones and tissues. Stimulates inner peace. Strengthens the nervous system. Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth (dark green) and elemental water (blue-green). Nature, fertility, growth, rejuvenation, recovering, healing, harvest and abundance, prosperity, harmony, balance, peace, hope, mother earth, home, herbal magick, plants and animals, counteract greed and jealousy. Preference for green: Green brings peace, rest, hope, comfort and nurturing, calmness and harmony. Interest in nature, plants, fellowmen, children and animals, health and healing, natural and plain life. Longing for a safe home and family-life. A dislike of conflicts. Aversion to green: A person who has an aversion to green may be more interested in independence and self-development than in a warm family-life. May prefer to keep a certain distance in (sexual) relationships.
	Blue Healing properties: Blue is cooling, electric, astringent. Dr. Edwin Babbitt, in his classic, "The Principles of Light and Color," states that "The Blue Ray is one of the greatest antiseptics in the world." Cools down inflammations (don't forget rheumatic inflammations), fever, high blood pressure, stops bleedings, reliefs the bursting headaches, calms strong emotions like anger, aggression or hysteria. Brings tranquility. Anti-itching. Anti-irritation (for instance redness of the skin), anti-stress. Soothes suffering. Blue can be used for any type of ailments associated with speech, communication, or the throat. Excellent forlaryngitis or inflammation of the larynx. Blue links with and stimulates the throat chakra. The throat chakra is often referenced as the "power center" and "the greatest center in the body" because it is the primary center of expression and communication, through speech. Esoteric/magickal: Elemental water and elemental air. Deities of the sea, truth and wisdom. Peace and tranquility, calmness, truth, wisdom, justice, counsel, guidance, understanding, patience, loyalty and honor, sincerity, devotion, healing, femininity, prophetic dreams, protection during sleep, astral projection. Preference for blue: Cool and soothing, dreamy and magical. Peace and rest. For people who keep a certain distance, but give calm and practical help; they are faithful and loyal, have a sense for order, logic and rational thinking. Flying in day-dreaming, ideals or nostalgia when felt mis-understood. Dark blue is more severe and can be melancholic. Blue is also the color of truth. Aversion to blue: A person who has an aversion to blue, may be very disciplined, strong career worker, with an aversion of commentary or restriction. He may have charted out a clear direction for his life and wants to follow that lacelike .
	Indigo Healing properties: Indigo is a great purifier of the bloodstream and also benefits mental problems. It is a freeing and purifying agent. Indigo combines the deep blue of devotion with a trace of stabilizing and objective red. Indigo is cool, electric, and astringent. Indigo links with and stimulates the brow chakra (third eye) and controls the pineal gland. It governs both physical and spiritual perception. It can be of great assistance in dealing with ailments of the eyes and ears.
	Violet / Purple Healing properties: These are colors of transformation. They heal melancholy, hysteria, delusions and alcohol addiction and bring spiritual insights and renewal. These colors slow down an over-active heart; stimulate the spleen and the white blood cells (immunity). Bring sleep. Soothe mental and emotional stress. Decrease sexual activity. Decrease sensitivity to pain. They help in detoxification. Leonardo da Vinci proclaimed that you can increase the power of meditation ten-fold by meditating under the gentle rays of Violet, as found in Church windows. Esoteric/magickal: Elemental spirit. Divination and prophecy. Angels. Psychic abilities, divination, counter-acting negativity/black magick, reversing curses, psychic healing, psychic power, inspiration, meditation, spirituality, spiritual power, astral projection, third eye, compassion, counter-acting depression. Preference for violet/purple: Colors for meditation, contemplation, mysticism, spirituality and religion power. A longing to ascend and dissolve polarities (purple consists of the active red and passive blue), to improve the world. Reservation, mystery and dignity. Soft, sensitive people with often paranormal abilities. Aversion to violet / purple: A person who has an aversion for violet / purple may have very serious attitude towards life; and may find it difficult to give dreams, fantasies, vague fears or memories a place in it. May have tendency to rejection everything he regards as unnatural or unrealistic.
	White Healing properties: White is the perfect color; for it is all colors, in perfect balance and harmony. It is the color of the awakened Spirit; the light of perfection; the light of the Cosmic Consciousness,the Divine Light. Just about everyone has heard of surrounding people with the "White Light of Healing and Protection." White light raises the vibration of one's consciousness and the body, bringing harmony in all aspects of one's life. Directing white into to a part of the body that needs healing is one of the fastest ways to bring about healing. Esoteric/magickal: Purification and cleaning on all levels, contact with higher self and spiritual helpers, (inner) peace, aura-healing, truth seeking, consecration, spiritual enlightenment, protection against negativity by raising your vibration, breaking curses, exorcism, meditation, divination, inspiration, clairvoyance, invoking spirits White can be a replacement for any other color your magick requires. Preference for white: White points at innocence, purity, virginity, cleanliness, freshness, simplicity, nothingness, oneness and completion, truth. In certain cultures white is the color of death and mourning. Aversion to white: A person who has an aversion to white color isforemost or solely interested in 'realistic' and tangible things, not in illusions or things that are beyond seeing or understanding. Knows and accepts the own imperfection and does not wish to achieve perfection.
	Magenta Healing properties: Strengthens contact with your life purpose. Stimulates adrenalineand heart activity. Esoteric/magickal: Scorpio-energy. Magnetism, to attract or speed up things, extra power, when immediate action and great spiritual power are needed, life purpose, life path. Preference for magenta: Much energy and activity focused on achieving power and self-realization. Strong but controlled passions and emotions. Daring, ready to fight, willing to give everything for a goal. Can drive things too far and have fixed ideas. Aversion to magenta: A person who has an aversion to magenta may feel overwhelmed by people with strong convictions or heavy emotions like jealousy; also may have difficulties with exposing deep emotions.
	Pink Healing properties: Heals grief and sadness. Restores youthfulness. Brings you in contact with your feelings. Esoteric/magickal: Softness and tenderness, romance, caring, nurturing, for children, youth, peace, friendship, femininity, emotional love, emotional healing. Preference for pink: Regarded as a feminine color. Pink symbolizes softness, sweetness, innocence, youthfulness and tenderness. Soft and kind people. Aversion to pink: A person who has an aversion to pink may have a challenge with expressingsoft, tender, female side.
	Turquoise Healing properties: Increases intuition and sensitivity. Works disinfecting and antiseptic. Tones the general system. Builds the skin. Relaxes sensations of stress. Esoteric/magickal: Alterations, intellectual and intuitive insights, technique, inventions, originality, renewal, brotherhood, humanism. Preference for turquoise: Just like the wide turquoise sea you don't want to feel restricted and you don't immediately bring to the surface what goes on in you; emotions can remain hidden. A color for non-triviality, renewal, innovation and inventions, progressive technics, alternative ways of living together, humanity. Aversion to turquoise: A person who has an aversion to turquoise may be looking for solidity and security in society, especially in marriage. Also, may be reluctant to think originally or to walk new paths.
	Brown Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth. The planet-spirit Saturn. Stability, grounding, conservation, protection of household, family and pets, healing animals, finding lost objects, material constructions (buildings etc.), material increase, to make relationships solid, to increase decisiveness and concentration, attracting help in financial crisis. Preference for brown: An earthly color for practical people with a preference for natural, tribal and primitive things, solidity and simplicity. Brown can be warm and cosy but also depressing. Family-life persons, stable people, loyal friends. Aversion to brown: A person who has an aversion to brown may feel an aversion against normal, boring, trivial life; may not feel connected with his roots (home-land, family, etc); may experience instability in health and attitude.
	Grey Esoteric/magickal: Neutralizing negative influences, erasing or cancelling situations, causing stalemates Preference for grey: Very neutral and indifferent, non-expressive. It can be deliberate, but also lifeless, fixed, depressed and apathic. Reserved, cool people; unwilling to expose themselves or to have obligations. Grey can be refined and tactful. Aversion to grey: A personwho has an aversion to grey may prefers to be straight to the point, no time for political and tactical attitudes. Demands clarity, a knowing where one stands.
	Black Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth. Deities of the underworld. Repel/banish evil and negativity, protection, banishing, binding, breaking free from bad habits/addictions, deep meditation, opens up deep unconscious levels. Preference for black: Symbolizes seriousness, darkness, depression, death, mourning, mystery, secrecy, occultism, a standing apart from or revolting against triviality, provocation, underground, underworld, things that have to remain hidden, nothingness as the great source of all creation, the need to keep your energy with you. Black is a color for extremes, everything and nothing. People who foremost trust themselves. Aversion to black: A person who has an aversion to black may have fear for the unknown, or fear for the abuse of power. Desires to become free from all kinds of dependency, blockages, hindrances; to throw off shackles.
	Gold Esoteric/magickal: Absolute authority, (self)confidence, creativity, perfection, solar energies, male energy, financial riches, investments, luxury, winning, worldly power, magickal power, overcoming bad habits/addictions.
	Silver Esoteric/magickal: Female energy, cycles, rebirth, reincarnation, healing of hormonal imbalances, emotional stability, remove or neutralize negativity, intuition, dreams, psychic abilities and psychic workings.
	Copper/Bronze Esoteric/magickal: Love and passion, for positive relationships in love, friendship and business, career promotions, negotiations.

SOME INTERESTING STUFF I READ TODAY ON "CONSCIOUS AFRICANS"....


When one thinks of the word "king" or "kingship", images of a dominating and imposing male may likely flood the mind. This guy will probably be dressed in elaborate royal garments with a golden, jewel-encrusted crown in this vision. Our understanding of a "king" as a representation of power is solidified in films as kings are portrayed as virtual living-Gods with a royal court displaying their willing fidelity to this deity. Yet as is the case with most things in life, truth may be far different from what Hollywood, the media, and the establishment will have us beLIEve. As far back as 350,000 years ago, the earliest of ancestors held the mother-goddess in the highest regard as most indigenous people practiced a matrilineal culture. In these flourishing societies it was the woman who held the supreme power of rule. Her decisions were final, and it was SHE and ONLY SHE who decided who the king would be. Let us examine this interesting topic at greater length. Ready? Great!


"I am Nature (Netjer), the Universal Mother, mistress of all elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. My nod governs the shining heights of Heaven, the wholesome sea-breezes, the lamentable silences of the world below." This hymn of the goddess Auset (called Isis) was recorded in ancient Philae and is a testament to the homage that the ancients paid to the goddess. Many ancient cultures accepted an understanding that the well-being of the entire nation, community, or tribe was directly associated with the desires and/or will of the mother-goddess. The king, who was subservient to the queen, DID NOT have seniority in matters relating to the state or the people in general. In fact, failure to provide adequate representation or responsibility often meant the king was removed and replaced with a younger, more capable king who was full of virility. It has been the cultural practice of various ancient peoples that this "removal" of the old king was done in a ritual sacrifice. Understanding the significance of the ritual, many records indicate that the "victim" was often willing to go to the sacrifice with the acceptance that it would restore prosperity in all aspects of the nation. There are also records which suggest that some of the "ritual sacrifices" of the out-going king was a "symbolic" ceremony where he was laid upon an altar where an elaborate drama took place. Many of these rituals have trickled down to the ceremonies of various Masonic orders.


As late as the year 1810 C.E., the wives of the kings in the land we now call Zimbabwe, strangled their husbands to death every four years at the moon temple. It was said that this predetermined ritual was carried out because the queen needed the "refreshment" of a new lover in periodic phases, just as the phases of the moon are replenished or "refreshed." In the African country of Nigeria, ancient kings were strangled after it was determined that the queen was pregnant. This allowed him the opportunity to fulfill the tradition of begetting "one royal offspring." Even among the peoples of Crete do we find that the Cretan kings were "never allowed to grow old", yet they "always" died in the dew of their youth. Because of these cultural practices, it was not at all uncommon for the queen to have multiple husbands. A queen with many strong and wise husbands was highly respected and feared. It was known that her power was absolute, and few dared to challenge her authority.


Thanks to a Eurocentric presentation of history, we often hear about the kings of Africa without the understanding that the true power resided in the queens. One of the most famous civilizations to spring out of Africa is that of ancient Khemet (called Egypt). This was a PURELY MATRILINEAL society with the mother-goddess as the center of worship and rulership. Perhaps one of the largest misconceptions about the ancient Khemetu is that the word "pharaoh" refers to a "male" ruler. Well, this is not accurate as the kings in ancient Khemet were called "ngu" or "nsw." According to the ancient African oral tradition as taught in esoteric circles, the term "pharaoh"is a Greek derivation of the Khemetic term "per aa", which means "high house" or "great house." The ancients of Khemet were referring to the "female" as the "high house" which was the earthly representation of the head of the royal family and the people. Evidence of this is prevalent in the temple depictions of Queen Hatshepsut and Hat-Heru (called Hathor). Even the most celebrated of Khemetic goddesses, Auset (called Isis) shows proof of her placement above her brother/husband Ausar (called Osiris). Her iconography in Medu Netjer (called hieroglyphics) is the vulva and the royal throne; the latter is often seen placed above her head as she is mostly depicted in her "position of power" standing "behind" Ausar. This is the true origin of proverbial sayings such as "the woman is the backbone" or " 'behind' every strong man is a strong woman." To think that because one is "in front" they are the "head" or "leader" is quite irresponsible thinking. One only needs to consider the game of chess where the expendable pawns are "in front" of the queen who holds the greatest power.


The ancient people of Ghana were governed by a matrilineal succession where power was passed through to a king by a sister's son. This practice was considered a divine right and is still practiced in some parts of Ghana today. A powerful African people known as the Lovedu were said to be ruled by a FEMALE "king" who took a series of lovers yet always left the power of government to one of the young princesses. The mighty Ashanti people of Africa were ruled by queens up until the British Protectorate in 1895. One of the most famous queens of the Ashanti was Yaa Asantewa, who fought valiantly against the British invaders to her death. Invasions seemed to alter the matrilineal practices of Africa as Angola was ruled totally by women until the Portuguese arrived with their torture and white male- gods. Other African nations who also honored the matrilineal pattern of governing were Abrons of Loango,Daura and the people of Ubemba. The queen of Ubemba was referred to as "Mamfumer" which means "mother of kings." This power women held over men was prevalent in ancient Babylon as well. One ruler, Shamash-shum-ukin said he was chosen for kingship by a goddess under her title Erua, which means "queen of the gods." In Assyria, King Esarhaddon said he was "beloved of Queen Ishtar, the goddess of everything." Failure to pay homage to Ishtar meant the arousal of sudden destruction to these ancients.


In many cases, a sacred or symbolic marriage to a goddess or queen was necessary for a man to become king. This was the origin of the term "holy matrimony" called "hieros gamos" by the Greeks. Many married people are unaware of the origins of their most honored institution. The word marriage comes from the Latin term "maritare" which means, "a union under the auspices of the Goddess Aphrodite-Mari." From the earliest of times, the union between man and woman was always an event encouraged or inspired by the female. It is deemed to be an institution "ordained by god" in Christianity and other bible-based religions. The irony of this is that when Christianity was being invented and established, the early Church Fathers spoke harshly of marriage as the suppression of the feminine principle sowed the seeds for the male-dominated (dumb-inated?) dogma to spread worldwide. Origen declared that "Matrimony is impure and unholy, a means to sexual passion." The so-called "Saint" Ambrose said marriage was a crime against god because it altered the original state of virginity that we all were born in. (Damn! Wearing clothes must be a crime against this god of his too, huh?) Another so-called "Saint" named Jerome said one of the most imperative purposes of god was to "cut down with an axe of Virginity the wood of Marriage." Clearly we see an overt attempt by the Christian Fathers to replace the old guard of the moon- goddess with the chauvinistic, male-dominated sun-god energy.


Although the Church doesn't readily admit to it, goddess worship is still prevalent in the traditions that have come to be accepted as "Christian." One such tradition is the celebration of Easter, a fertility holy day beyond any shadow of a doubt. Many accept it to be the day a cat named Jesus rose from the dead, an actual historical account. This could NEVER be the case as Easter NEVER falls on the same date each year as it would were it a historical event. The "day" of the week will change, but never the "date." We would mock someone as a liar if they claimed "new" birthday each year. Yet the Christian myth flies under the radar of scrutiny as beLIEf takes the place of sound reasoning. Easter is ALWAYS the FIRST SUNday AFTER the FIRST FULL MOON that FOLLOWS the spring (or vernal) equinox. The celebration was heralded centuries before people even heard of that Jesus guy, let alone Christianity. The goddess Ester, Esther, Ashter, Ishtar, Aesteroth, or Easter was known to many cultures as a symbol of re-birth and fertility. The bible also gives a hint of the true nature of the goddesss-queen in the book of the Acts of the Apostles (8:27) where it speaks of Queen Candace of the Ethiopia. This Queen Candace was actually from a line of powerful Ethiopian queens called the "Candaces." They were known for their benevolent and flourishing queendoms.


As we have seen, the vital role played by the queen in history has had great implications on the term we know of as king. Even in the modern era of the British Monarchy, we see the queen holding higher power than the king or prince. In fact, Prince Phillip has to walk a few paces behind the queen in public and formal ceremonies. His failure to do so might earn him some form of reprimand. This power is prevalent in many relationships today as the word of the mother is final and irrefutable. When growing-up we would ask pops if we could go out and play. His resounding answer still lingers in the mind today; "Go ask your mother." Now that's REAL power! Before we depart, let's absorb this ancient Khemetic proverb from the book of Ani which is a testament to the power of the queen-mother in a time long removed. "Do not order your wife around in her house when you know she keeps it in excellent order. Do not ask her "where is it" or say to her "bring it to us" when she has put it in the proper place. Watch her carefully and keep silent and you will see how well she manages. How happy is your house when you support her. There are many men who do not know this. But if a man refrains from causing strife at home, he will not see its inception. Thus, every man who wishes to master his house must first master his emotions."


Divine love to you all!! HOTEP!! HOTEP!! HOTEP!!


-Akhenamen, from the Heartical-Article series, 2008