The Rising Firefly Archive Excerpts: Building The future

RF61: Pilgrim’s Walking Stick

Building the Future

Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig

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Two helical risings before the current one in the year 689 of the Sidereal Calendar, (632 BC in the Gregorian) Cambyses, a Persian who had invaded the Valley of the Nile, was surprised by the ease with which the Africans abandoned their material wealth to him.  The priests of the Nile Valley temples also could not understand that a human being, a being that is considered ephemeral and fleeting because of permanently standing at the door of death, could be so thirsty for material wealth.

Cambyses was nicknamed Oko, meaning (the donkey).  For the African civilization, from the times of the Pharaoh until these days, gold is considered the body of the Gods while knowledge of the Gods and of their activities in space and time is considered human wealth.

Cambyses, or Oko, understood that it was difficult for him to reach people.  So he decided to force his way in the secret knowledge; he was, as we can see, ignorant in his search for glory and power.  For centuries, diverse peoples have built traditions that placed them in antagonistic positions against the Meritan (African) continent and anything that might remind them of it.  While these people were actively preparing for war against black people, black people were passionately building pyramids and temples.  But as the European proverb says, "When one wins without danger, one triumphs without glory."  Even slavery and genocide didn't succeed in discouraging other people from creating cultures based on destruction.  And our so-called modern culture still pushes, despite the fact that other people are still crying loudly that there is no enemy to fight against, and that the self-realization of any culture or individual is not an obstacle to any other people.

In the past, Oko went to the point of killing the Holy Cow (Apis) considered by Kem as the reincarnation of the God of the Dead.  This made him the cruelest person of humanity.

This is what we have done... the victim is dead and the criminal has killed.  We can no longer afford to play either of these positions.  Our responsibility as people of the world is to try to fix what is fixable.  Outside ourselves, there is no enemy to fight against.  This magazine is trying to put humankind on the podium of intelligence and spiritual honesty; a job that has been interrupted for a few millennia due to the emergence of diverse philosophical and dogmatic distractions.  Our goal is to bring to dreams and imagination a dose of philosophical and metaphysical realism.  Every individual whose consciousness is enlightened, enlightens the path that leads humans towards evolution.

My grandfather in the bush of Meritah in Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso told me once that wise people are like stars in the sky.  Together they enlighten the sky and reduce the thickness of the night.  Every individual should make his life the path that leads to the stars.  I spent all my childhood dreaming about stars, and later came to the conclusion that one should die if one wants to become a star.  When, shortly before my grandfather's death, I came to him with the question about what becomes of those who do not succeed in becoming stars, he simply told me, "Be at least a firefly on Earth if you cannot become a star in the sky."  This explains why we decided to call this magazine The Rising Firefly.

We dare to expect from the reader a lot more that just reading this magazine.  We expect from everybody criticism and suggestions.  I personally believe in intellectual honesty, and I think that humanity has grown from its past experiences.  Now we can all join forces to rebuild our future.