...Few Are Chosen

“Many are called but few are chosen...”  Though these words originated with the ancestral traditions of Merita, this saying has become associated with modern religions and contemporary ad campaigns. As a result, those who listen to the plagiarizers of this statement fail to realize its profound meaning.  Though many humans are called to spiritual pursuit, many invest their time, energy and hope in religions whose leaders claim that their religion will help us to achieve the enlightenment or contentment we seek. Many are called but few seekers are aware of the history of these religions, few hear historical accounts that expose the true agendas of the leaders and authors of what are actually political movements that only claim to be sacred.  Few have been exposed to information that will empower them to make the decisions that will keep them out of the hands of those who wish to exploit them.

The late Master Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, founder of The Earth Center, (a cultural organization preserving the oldest documented culture of humanity in its authenticity) would use that phrase to express to new initiates in The Earth Center’s M’TAM School of Kemetic Philosophy and Spirituality how difficult the challenges would be that lay ahead.  “It is not my intention to scare you, but you must realize, this is a school of knowledge.  It can defeat you!”  He did what he could to convey that the honest climb up the hill of knowledge and application is rough and though many are called to start, few have the strength to endure the sharp inclines, fewer have the humility to face a spiritual master, and yet fewer the patience needed to learn appropriately.  He tried hard to share this knowledge, though he could see that these American students romanticized the path of the seeker.  He was right, of course, it was only a few of those he spoke to that day who showed the perseverance to rise after each inevitable fall and the endurance of graduation.

Master Naba spent his life reviving the original M’TAM education system on the global arena.  Having entered that system of education at the age of eight in its surviving, traditional context still available to him in his homeland in the deep bush of Western Merita, he was well prepared.  He stayed in the M’TAM initiations well over twenty years being exposed to sacred texts and artifacts that are heavily guarded by the Dogon priesthood.  He learned thirteen languages, trained in colonial schools and universities and traveled to over one hundred and twenty countries to continue to build the knowledge and experience it would take to secure his goal.  He traveled to many museums and research centers to study Kemetic texts that had been left to him by his fathers, treasures that had been stolen by those wishing to confuse the ancestral inheritance of the human population.  He studied the School of Thebes, the original M’TAM school, as well as the other Kemetic M’TAM learning centers.  With the blessings of his royal authorities and his initiatic masters and elder brothers he came to the United States in 1994.  His mission was to bring the original M’TAM education to the colonial world; To the colonized people who seemed to be trapped, with their attentions held by the glitter thrown by their colonial leaders.  His first stop was the US, a colonial powerhouse and the home of many of the Kemioo who were stolen away from his (and their) motherland.

Inhabitants of America, like the inhabitants of any other colonial territory, are under constant pressure.  Institutions, organizations and ideologies all fight to gain the individual’s attention in order to exploit their time and energy.  Americans are recruited into various agendas that lead them away from what is important.  In this environment of constant pressure,Americans have little time to invest in themselves and can easily forget how that process even looks or feels.  This situation, intensified by the colonial education system and values, made Master Naba’s job much more complicated than he may have foreseen.  He was not welcomed.  People were not waiting to study with him.  Kemetic organizations who had invested years of hard work into researching colonial Egyptology were not open to hearing that their culture had never died, their language was never silenced and the elders had sent one of their own with the philosophy and spiritual tools necessary for a lost people to reclaim their culture.  So Master Naba worked hard to continue slowly building his reputation and a body of work that would speak for itself.

The first class of the M’TAM School on American soil had around forty students.  Of those forty only five would graduate.  Of those five only one remains, continuing to progress through the M’TAM education, studying with elders of M’TAM and building connections with other indigenous elders around the world.  After that initial class, countless classes would begin the initiation, yet disintegrate and produce not a single graduate. The next graduates wouldn’t come until five years later.  There would be two from a starting group of eleven, and their experience was a testament to Master Naba’s words, “a school of knowledge... can defeat you!”  He told those two shortly before their own graduation, “I would rather graduate just one student than end up with a school full of people who’s quality (whose education) I can’t count on.”  Nine graduating generations later, and after the inauguration of four more Earth Center locations throughout the colonial world, the M’TAM School graduates its first student who stands alone.

Though he stands alone at his graduation, he now enters a world-wide family of Kem, all connected by the commitment they have made to their own refinement as guaranteed by their spiritual and intellectual honesty, their ancestral culture and the Original Code of Human Behavior (77 Commandments).  This global community celebrates and congratulates the single member of the tenth graduating M’TAM generation.  His accomplishment will forever be remembered in the Kemetic historical records.  His commitment, his strength, and his success will forever inspire other Kemetic descendants to reclaim their culture.  Other descendants of Kemet who, now disconnected from their ancestral culture, find themselves infected with the culture and values of their slavemasters.  These are descendants who now find themselves unknowingly and unwillingly dirtying their hands and histories with the blood of the Earth’s inhabitants.  In the Kemetic records, this is an important age, on which the integrity of human genius and the survival of our ancestral culture depends.  Whatever energy humans can muster they must put into releasing the destructive culture they’ve been conditioned towards and relearn the ancestral culture they have been conditioned to despise.

On that very pursuit, on the third day of Seret, in the month of Pen Iminhotep in the four hundred and eighth year since the close of the last Divine Year, is when Menibra Zehaikhou (previously Clarence Stewart) crossed the bridge built by his Master, Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, that connects the colonial world to humanity’s traditional, ancestral home in Kemet.  Menibra’s accomplishments and perseverance now stands as an example to other individuals who have been unwillingly recruited by the destroyers of this world and now seek a way out.  We congratulate you, the lone Zehaikhou, and remind you that your journey has just begun.  Remember that the higher you climb the more narrow the path, and the more evident the statement: “Many are called but few are chosen.”  But, Menibra it is your commitment to your ancestors, your descendants and your brothers and sisters throughout the world who depend on your success that has brought you this far and we rest assured that it will continue to push you forward.  For the world (of humans) has no choice but to return to a more harmonious relationship with the natural order; there is truly no other way to get there than by leaving the destruction and oppression we are in and walk the path that leads towards the ancestors...