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BLACK BUDDHAS Gods of Remote Antiquity Everyplace Appear Negroid

By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT The gods of people of remote antiquity, or primitive groups, were made in their own image, and* the study of the earliest gods and messiahs reveals considerable evidences of the antiquity of the black race. The earliest gods on all continents were black. Archaeologists and research historians have found an impressive amount of material on this subj-ect, which our world knows little or nothing

about.

Messiahs, some of whom lived many centuries before Christ, had lives which parallel the life of Christ. Research historians and .others note that the word Christ comes from Krishna or Chrisna of India, which means “The Black

One”.

Preceding “Jesus of Nazareth”, the Cambridge Encyclopedia en-

lists Buddhas as follows:

“India B.C. 1366, this is the ‘First Buddha’ of the Hindu Pantheon and there are many indications that the date is more or less correct though the mythos evidently belong to les Christnn. This Messiah was foretold by prophets. He was the son of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Maia. He was born in the village town of Rajagriha, and was recognized and worshipped by the Magi and by kings. The messianic star

Osirit of Egypt The ‘next Buddha appeared in Egypt, of him the Cambridge Encyclopedia says as follows: “Egypt B.C. 1350, Osiris was sun-rayed. His complexion was black and his hair woolly. He was included in a slaughter of the innocents ordered by Typhon from which he, of course escaped. His legitimacy was proved by numerous miracles. Some of his doctrines appear in the Book of the Dead. The number of his disciples was ten. He was crucified? on the Vernal Equinox. He descended to hell where he remained three days and nights to judge the dead and rose again and ascended bodily to heaven”. The Cambridge Encyclopedia, in telling of the next Buddha, who appeared in India, says as fol-

low’s :

“India B.C. 1332 Birth of les Christna, the ninth incarnation of lesnu or Vishnu, this Christna like the Christ of Europe, who came nearly fourteen centuries later had a heavenly father (Brah-

ma) and an earthly one (Josa).

His mother was Maryamma, The messianic star appeared at his birth and he was bom among the

cow-herds. He was recognized by three wise men. And^his father

was called on to pay taxes. “Christna’s head shone with a divine effulgence. His complexion

stood "over thTplace" of"his'ns- was black an* his hair woolly Hir

brilliant nimbus of ! do,:tn,le8 CBUSed h ' s betrayal and

BLACK GODS AND MESSIAHS, or their statues and monuments in some forms, dating back to remote antiquity. exist many places in North Africa, southern Europe and southern Asia. Black Africa had an important influence in the colonization of southern Asia, of India and some of the islands of the Pacific, prior to any authentic traditions or 1 ory. The earliest gods of all these areas have marked Negroid characteristics. Upper left, Javanese Buddha; upper right, Buddha with woolly hair in cap design: lower left/ mixed-blood Buddha; and at the right, wooly-haired Negroid Buddha. (Photos courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art and J. A. Rogers.)

tivity and a

light surrounded the holy infant’s

head.

“His complexion was black and his hair woolly. He was prematurely wise and as he grew up his doctrines embodied in the Puranas were promulgated by ten disciples. Though he came to reform man-1 kind and save the world, he was himself persecuted by the reigning king, who caused him to be crucified at the age of thirty-three. To judge the dead Buddha descended into nether-world, where

secuted and eventually crucified

on the Vernal Equinox”. Black Buddhas Everywhere

Godfrey Higgins says (Anacalypsis), “The religion of Buddha of India is well known to have been very ancient. In the most ancient temples scattered throughout Asia, where his worship is yet continued, he is found black as jet, with the flat face, thick lips

and curly hair of the Negro.

“Several statues of him may be met in the Museum of the East India Company. There are exemplars of him brooding on the face of the deep upon a coiled serpent. To what’ time must we allot this Negro? He will have been proved prior to the god Christna (Krishna). He must have been prior to, or contemporaneous with the black empire supposed by Sir William Jones to have existed at Sidon. The religion of this Negro god is found in the ruins of his temples and other circumstances to have been spread over an immense extent of country, even to the remotest

parts of Britain. . . .”

Praising Buddhist art of early times as Negro art, Higgins says, “I admit with great difficulty the theory of all the early astronomical knowledge of the Chaldees having been acquired or invented by this race and that the Chaldees were originally Negroes. But this pi’ejudice wears away when I go to the-precursors of the Brahmins, the Buddhists and when I reflect upon the' most beautiful and most ancient sculpture in the museum of the India House and the.knowl-

death. He partook of the last supper with his ten disciples and was condemned to death by Kansa and crucified at Kusinara upon a

tree in the thirty-third year. The 1 edge of astronomy shown fn their sun was eclipsed, the earth shook cycles of stone. That the Buddhists

and ghosts walked”. Buddha of Japan

The next Buddha, according to the Cambridge Encyclopedia appeared in Nippon (Japan). “Japan B.C. 1000, Era of Buddha as in most other images

were Negroes the icons of their

gods clearly prove”.

Higgins is of the opinion that the Buddhist Negroes were the first colonists of Britain. He say!», “in my search for the. origin of the ancient Druids I continually found, 'at last, that my labors terminated in something black. “Thus the oracles of Dodona

CITADEL OF CHRISTOPHE

he is represented with woolly

he remained”three days and nights. | hair—a peculiarity that enable?

Then he arose and ascended bodily this divinity to be traced under am j Apollo at Delphi were to heaven. His sacraments were all disguises names and ca- foumIed by Black D oves> L)o\vis the eucharist and baptism, his epi-, Prices of art . are not oft€n> j he y iexed graphic symbols were the cros? The C ambridge Encyclopedia black 0siris and his Bull

tolls of the next Buddha, who black A1] thp Gods and GoddesS e S i aP «Ta d 1 B.C nd 721, aS >Jra O of : thv ! »' black a, leak, I . was the case with .Jupiter, BaeNatmty of Buddha, son of Maya. ' ch Hercules, Apollo and AmBuddha was born anions the shop- T1 , e ( ; oddMS - Venus. Isis. herds to the aecompumment of H(>cati Jmro M< . tis . Ceres . ( .,. b e!e

and the swastika”.

never were

One by the seer* or Magi. His Xcgins cites several ancient head was rayed. His complexion Q reek wr iters on the black color < v.as black and Ins hail \\ oolh . of. the Greek gods (Anacalypsis, The Buddha of China Dondon 1S36). (Among other The next Buddha appeal ed m wr jj. erg ^ wbo portray the subject i

WESTERN WORLD WONDER BUILT BY A BLACK KING

By A Staff Correspondent hills and jungles of the tropical thousands of <50 pound iron can-

The fitst or second greatest island, lonely, isolated and still non balls were laboriously hauled _ _ _ i

trchitectural structure or edifice impressive. Mariners who come up the mountain on the straining China, of him the Cambridge En- are Inman. “Ancient Fagan and n all the western world, and one iirto the harbor take bearincs from backs of panting, sweating men cyclopedia says, as follows: ^ Modern Symbolism”; Gerald •f the greatest of its kind ever con- the Citadel of Christophe on clear and women, and piled in the im- China B.C. 667, Era of Lao- Book of the Begineived is the Christophe Citadel in days. j mense chambers behind the guns, kuin or Lao-teze. . . . Lao-tsze n i n g 8 ”. j \ Rogers, “Sex and .he Cape Haitien harbor of the A MASSIVE FORTRESS , Ther e were deep dungeons, treas-, was a divine incarnation in human Race ” f Vol I; T \ Buckley,

•sland of Haiti. The structure was Under King Christophe’s super- are chambers, powder magazines, j He was born of a virgin 4» Great cities of ’ :on‘ceived of by black regal rulers vision, engineer Henry B e s s e long corridors of cannon, and b . lack in complexion, and as bea-

»f Haiti and erected wholly by evolved a design whereby the for-i rooms sufficient in emergency, for tlful as J a? P er •

ilack men. The Christophe Cita- tress took the shape of an irregu- the housing of a garrison of 1,000 The next Buddha appeared in

the Ancient

World” and the Cambridge En-

cyclopedia.

In the Anacalypsis, Higgins

Mexico A. D. 722, “Quetzalcoatl , says, “We have found the black

According to native tradition, in • • • was recognized as the Mes- complexion or something relating

walls s * ab by seers and astrologers. His to

lei is larger and more massive liar square, with walls ranging in i men. .han the Tower of London. height from 8i> to 1"<i feet, and

Emperor Dessalines of Haiti be- in thickness from 20 to 30 feet, the great section of the very walls siah by seers and astrologers. His to it whenever we have apr an the structure in 1804 and it The Citadel is at the summit of that Christophe had caused to be ^mplexiou was black His . preached theV^rigin of nationi. vas completed bv King Christophe a dangerous trail, reached after a erected, there was ample room for “air was woolly. He performed • The Alma Mater, the Goddess Mulifteen years later. Several hum- strenuous Three hours climb to banded iron treasure-chests con-1 numerous miracles He fasted , timamnna the founders of the ired men worked ft i the edifice dizzy heights. And in spite of the taining millions upon millions of; 1°.^ i ay8 ’ ^ was tempted by the | orades; the Memnon or first idols

iver this entire period of time, difficulties engendered at the time,! American and English gold coins.; ie. e res s e , t iis built on the crown of an im- a battery of 365 huge bronze can- And tradition has it that in the sr^gnable mountain peak. It E non was dragged up the precipitous great vaults under the lowest duni massive castle fortress, that j slopes of the mountain. These geons there was a national treasiven from twenty miles at sea cannon were placed in strategic ure in gold of more than

ooms majestically in silhouette i positions commanding the entire 830,000.000. igainst the sky. Deserted for more country side from the cone like

was per- ! were always black”.

There were free Negroes in the United States long before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and the population of free people of color was constantly increased from several different sources. The first free Negroes were recruited from the class of indentured servants. Until slavery was fixed by law when Virginia led the way in 1682, and other states followed, Negroes were brought into the country as indentured servants, the same as white indentures. They served for a definite period of seven, fourteen or twen-ty-one years, after which they were free. There was a close relationship between the white servant and the Negro slave—they were of the same social and economic status. Being thrown together socially, naturally there were some inter-racial mar- * riages, and a good deal of miscegenation out of wedlock. According to the old Roman law of bondage, the child followed the status of the mother; therefore, the Negro child of a white indentured woman and Negro slave man was free. A slave was manumitted sometimes because of some benefit he had bestowed upon the community. He might be given his freedom by his master, or he might be purchased by public subscription and emancipated. Slaves sometimes discovered cures for some epidemic that menaced the health of the community, and the community would set them free that they might have more opportunity to give to others the benefit of their discovery. Others were so thrifty, and were so determined not to be slaves that they would work nights, Sundays, and holidays until they had earned enough to purchase their own bodies. Men would sometimes purchase their wives and children after first purchasing themselves. Then a slave could always win his own freedom by reporting plans of a slave revolt, of which slavocracy had a great many. Freed men in Colonial Era There were masters who came to the conclusion that it was wrong to hold human beings as chattels, and set their slaves free. The Grimke sisters of South Carolina inherited an estate, including slaves, which they set free, then went to a free state and joined the Abolitionist Movement. They are examples of other slaveowners whose conscience would not permit them to hold their darker brothers and sisters in bondage. The American Revolution with its doctrine of the natural rights of man. embodied in the Declaration of Independence added to the free Negro population of the country. People saw’ the inconsistency in holding that all men are created equal, and at the same time holding a part of the population in slavery. They were so much in earnest that they decided .that something had to be done about it. The result was that ten thousand slaves were emancipated in Virginia alone during the Revolutionary period, and there were other manumissions in all of the slave states. The slaves themselves saw the inconsistency in the rights of man on the one hand and the institution of slavery on the other. They grew more restless and discontented, and there were r open revolts all through the thirteen colonies. The Lowly Status of Freedmen Before slavery had been finally and firmly established in the English colonies,

and while there was as yet no clear distinction between white servitude and Negro slavery, the free Negro, whatever his social status may have been, seems to have enjoyed all the rights and privileges of white men. But as slavery advanced toward a more complete inclusion and subjection of the Negro race the social and industrial privileges of the fiee Negro were gradually curtailed. Before the Civil War this process of curtailing the rights and privileges of the free Negro had continued until he was but little better off than a slave. He owned his body and that was about all, many of them found it very difficult to get employment as all the work was done by slaves. It was felt that his very presence made the slaves restless and unruly. After each attempt at open rebellion among the slaves, no matter whether free Negroes were involved or not they w’ere further restricted, and in many instances required to leave, the community or be sold into slavery. The purpose of the American Colonization Society was to rid the country of the free Negro and thus make slavery secure. The slave codes of the slave states applied almost in toto to the free Negro as well as to slaves. They were according to these codes forbidden to carry or keep any gun, powder or shot, any cl«b or weapon whatsoever defensive or offensive. In some states Negroes were prohibited by law from owning a horse or even to keep a dog. The reason being that a horse made them too independent, and the dog would not be well fed by the Negroes, and would therefore be a menace to the sheep of the white planters of the neighborhood. In 1805 a law was passed in Maryland allowing a free Negro to keep one dog only, by a yearly license from a justice of r the peace, and making any free black who should go abroad with any firearms, liable to forfeit the same to an informer, and to pay all cost, unless he has a certificate from a justice renewable yearly, that he was an elderly and peaceable person. In some places they could not purchase property except that descended to some slave other than husband or wife, or children. They could not testify in court against a white person, and in many places were denied the right of trial, by jury except in case of offenses punishable' by death. Some States Banish Freedman After John Brown’s Raid in 1859, Arkansas passed a law w’hich required all free Negroes to leave the state before January 1, 1860 or be sold into slavery. Following in the wake of Nat Turners Insurrection in Virginia, in 1831. a number of the slave states required all free Negroes to leave, or be sold as slaves unless some white person could certify that they w’ere persons of good behavior. Fearing that there would be a rush of Negroes to the free states because of these harsh measures, several northern and midwestern states called special sessions of their legislatures and passed law s prohibit,: ing free Negroes from coming and settling within those commonwealths. So the poor free Negro w’as like a man w’ho does not believe in heaven nor hell, and dies and has no place to go. Despite these harsh measures against free Negroes, many of them made progress, and furnished the pattern for further racial advancement after Emancipation.

;han one hundred and ten years summit of the mountain, t broods above the shouldering Hundreds of casks'of gunpowder.

The Citadel was erected mainly as a refuge against t|ie invasion of the French, who claimed owner-

Father Divine Is Mystery Man of the Modern World

CRISPUS ATTUCKS MARTYR TO NATI ON’S BIRTH

A reincarnation of God to his followers and an enigma to everyone else, Father Divine is, in his own w’ay, one of the mystery men of the modern world. Where did he come from, who is he, what is his

preaching. In the years that have followed he has spread his influence and his auxiliary “kingdoms”

over the nation.

Where he came from and who he is cannot be answered. What his

power and, most important to offi- i power is, is as hard to define. His cialdom, where does he get his appearance is against him—only money? Father Divine doesn’t four foot six, chubby and addiet-

“The Boston Gazette” carried a notice in 1750. concerning a slave who had run away from his master in Framingham, a suburban community near Boston. There was nothing unusual about this notice as such were familiar to American

the “Boston Massacre” marked the beginning of the end of British rule over the American colonies. On Boston Commons, the British soldiers by insolence, and overbearing attitudes so angered the citizens that they decided that they would endure it no longer. Crispus

answer questions and if any of his Angels or Brothers know the answers, they aren’t talking. Father Divine’s first known appearance on this earth w’as in 1920, when it has been revealed that he settled in Sayville, L. I., at the humdrum, un-godly occupation of employment agency manager. He refuses to disclose anything before that time, and to all questions from nosey reporters that he might be George Baker from an island off the coast of Georgia, he is

silent.

It was in Sayville that he discovered his gift for holding masses of people spellbound with his

felt"

CLOSING A GAP OF 20,000 YEARS; Left to right, two Grimaldi carvings of about 15,000 B.C- These show the steatopygy or development of fat on the buttocks (also see picture at bottom of page 3) ; center, Venus Kallipygos, or the celebrated Hottentot Venus of the Eighteenth Century, from a model of her in the Museum d’Ethnologie, Paris; right, a living Hottentot woman of<the Kalahari. South Africa. Note that carvings or art in both pictures are related in detail, adding a link to the theory that ~the Grimaldis of southern Europe must have been ancestors of the black race which once spread all the way across southern Europe and Asia. (Photos courtesy Museum d’Ethnologie, Paris and J. A. Rogers.)

ship of the island and its people. But eventually it became only the tomb of Christophe. According to tradition he died at his own hand with a golden bullet, during an uprising of 1820. The Citadel is near a perpetual monument to the constructive genius of black men of the western world.

OLDEST AMERICAN ‘GOOD WITH HOE’ VIDALIA, Ga.—The oldest person in the United States reached h 4 .s 119th birthday on May 15,1944. He is James Walter Wilson, born a slave in 1825 in Jefferson County, Ga.. He has spent more than a century in the same state. He succeeded to the title of “oldest American” on the death of Mrs. Mariah

Knox at 126 in Dazell, S. C.

Wilson told interviewers he credited his long life to temperate living and obedience to the laws of nature. At the time of his birth, records show that he was the property of the Pleas Walden family. Ernest Taylor, with whom he lives, said the centenarian is not at all feeble. On the contrary, he is “good with the hoe” and is an

expert at raising tobacco.

ed to display in his clothes, there is little about him to command attention. He recites his messages to his flock in a loud, high, singsong voice. Nor is the content of his speeches very original. Yet this is the man who can throw a multitude into hysterics, and whose slightest movement is watched w’ith a sort of hunger by , his

followers.

Where does the money come from, with which Father Divine spreads munificence in his wake? He says that it is no secret— the money comes from God. “The spirit of the consciousness or the principle of God is the source of ail supply and will satisfy every desire. I have the keys to the pleasure of the earth. I have all the noney I need.” Brother Lamb, his white secretary, was amused by the furor Father Divine’s money caused among newspaper men and Federal Internal Revenue agents. “They simply can’t undvstand,” he once said, “where and how he gets his money. But w£ who believe in the Father understand perfectly.” He didn’t explain what they understood but w’ent on to say, “We always pay cash for everything. There are no bank accounts. We pay in bills of big denomination and the banks—” here he tittered—“always think they’re counterfeit.” Brother Lamb squashed the simplest explanation when he said that no collections were ever taken at meetings, and that all donations sent through the mail were prompt-

ly returned.

But men in the real estate agencies and the big insurance companies of New York think they know the other face of the coin. Many of the Angels at the various Heavens have owned property in or near New York and they have sold their homes before going into the Heaven. It is the same way with insurance—it is cashed in before their entrance.

readers during the colonial period

for, wherever slavery existed, lib- Attucks. a Negro patriot, led the erty-loving men and women have attack on the soldiers. Seizing a run away from its horrors. Fugi- club, he cried: “The way to get rid lives from slavery were known in of these Red Coats is to strike at the ancient world of Greece and the root”; he charged. The charge

was met by a vollej* of shots from the red coats’ muskets; and three Americans lay dead on the ground. One of these was this Negro, who had become one of the first to shed his blood in defense of Amer-

Rome. But there was something unusual about this fugitive from American slavery, little did the casual reader think at that time, that 20 years later the name of this fugitive would again be in

the Boston papers. The second , ican liberty, time his name appeared in the Hunortd By People papers, he was a sailor in the serv- There were many lines of arguice of a Captain Fowler. He was ment Attucks might have used to in Boston when the citizens of that < justify his remaining out of the city were indignantly resenting the fight. He could have easily conpresence of British soldiers in their i ipced himself that it was a white midst. j man’s controversy which did not The Boston Massacre concern him, and so gone his way, On the night of March 5, 1770 i and lived, perhaps many years

longer. His resentment at the institution of Negro slavery, which existed even in New England at that time, might have chilled his tongue into silence and paralyzed his hands into hopeless inactivity. Had he taken such an attitude, his name perhaps would have been forgotten. No schools today would proudly bear his name, and orators would not have eulogized him ever since on all occasions, when the feeling of patriotism and the love of liberty are at flood-tide. Attucks identified himself with the American cause, and so set the examples for those who come after him. His attitude and actions are worthy of emulation by the Negro in America today. Negroes in America today are working for an Allied victory, and the liberation of oppressed people everywhere. In so doing they are following in the footsteps of Crispus Attucks, determined to prove that Attucks and those who fell with him did not die in vain.

But even this explanation seems inadequate when you think of the continued high expenses of the Heavens. Those members who have given all to the cause and become Angels (disciples) live and eat in the Heavens free of charge, while others who are not so close to the movement pay two dollars a w’eek. Every day there are two large banquets*, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. These meals often run from forty to eighty courses. The follow’ers must be clothed, Father Divine’s fleet of glittering limousines must be kept up, and the dozens of Heavens must be bought, repaired, serviced. All in all it i$ a large order, but so far Father Divine has been more than competent. “Peace, it’s wonderful.”

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