Hi Sistrens,
I would love to expand my knowledge about Rastafari especially the role of women/mothers in the movement. I just cannot seem to find a book or website to help me in my quest for knowledge. I think that quite a few of the sistrens here are part of the movement and I was wondering if you would care to share your wisdom with me or point me in the right direction in form of book or website.
Blessings,
Chayil
Empress of Zion.com..
has a book written by and for Rasta Dawtas by the same name "Empress of Zion". I recommend it is inspiring and has actual essays by sistren from all over.
http://www.empressofzion.com/
Respect
Yes Lioness...For The Lioness You Know, For The Empress You Love, For The Goddess You Are!
Greetings Sister!!
LOVE LIFE LAVA!!!
Haile Selassie I First is my example, he has shown me the greatest way to be a Holy woman that lives upright in the ways of The Most High through Empress Mennen! A good Place To Read about Empress Mennen Is Rastaites.com, or Rastafarionline.com, Remember Proverbs 31 is a very straight forward example of Rastafari Woman Perfect in all her ways.
Be Blessed Sistren
Haile Selassie I Will Be Your Guide And May He Bless You With Wisdom and Overstanding !!!!
LAVA!!!
greetings
I was with a white woman yesterday who is apart of the wiccan(witch) movement. She dances African dance, and believes in the power of the Goddess. She also worships the earth. She felt that we would relate because she beleives that because I Haile Selassie First that I am a Pagan. How misunderstood she was. Rastafari is an Overstanding of the Christian Faith,and the African self, Amidst all the movements of the subtle serpent. (rebellious of earth) .It only serves InI TO BE FOUND in Rastafari, if it be your will to be fully considered of Rastafari its easy to get lost in the ocean of movements that do not really represent with the fullness and highest of zion-the habitaion of Rastafari . I began with that example because the experience of day to day living is the knowledge of what Rastafari means to InI as a people. You're right there arent many books because we havent wrote them yet, therefore its most important to know yourself before you get lost. Are you a nubian? a kushite? an ethiopian? Do you know what that means? Do you beleive in the father of Israel, David and Solomon? Your belief is your root. Marijuana also called Kali is for the healing of the nations. Interestingly enough the saddus of India has named their goddess of destruction Kali, It is as a sacred a body of life as you yourself sis use it wisely, I suggest you read the bible and the Kebra Negast while in this place of meditaton. Ras TAFARI means Head Creator in Amharic, a language also spoken in Israel, but be careful many who themsleves are lost or predjudice would consider this word sound to be pagon, unholy and blasphemous because they have only been introduced to English. Your dreads are a covenant between you and the powers of the father-They represent his greatest strength HUMILITY. The world is changing but many will still try to tell you that your hair should not be the way it is. They are antennas carrying messages throughout the earth, the earth which was given unto the meek as an inheritance. So eat from the earth wisely as through your very breath you are constantly giving back to nature and what is natural. LAST BUT NOT LEAST. You will learn that choosing Rastafari to govern your spiritual kingdom is not partial. You are saying that your heart is strong enough to defend the highest good and unafraid to confess the worst of evils. Rastafari is a glorious Kingdom, heavy are the crowns but glory is the reward. If you seek and find the Divinity of Haile Selassie First you will be called of his children and of his kingdom, if and when this happens, seek nowhere and in noone else but your own heart for the answers to life eternal.
One Love.
Repost
I reposted this from a sistren's page this her understanding hope it gives you strength you can visit her my space at http://www.myspace.com/fiyahingel
The Rastaman is the spiritual and physical manifestation of JAH in man. That man will identify who JAH is within the goodness of the king. The lion from the tribe of Judah is the fulfillment of this truth as the highest ruler of this creation. The Rastaman's interest is not within the physical things in life, but the spiritual things, that by dwelling within the spiritual, than he will attain the material things needed to maintain his physical well-being, and that way, he creates a balance so that he doesn't defile his soul through material things. What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul? Seek ye the kingdom of JAH in righteousness, and truth and all things will be added unto thee. It's through exalting Haile I Selassie I, the first of Ethiopia, by humbling ourselves unto HIM, by doing his work that we become successful in life, by walking within his doctrines and council. That by humbling ourselves, we would be exalted by HIM in this world, in which we are despised, scorned, outcaste, and rejected. So the almighty JAH Rastafari takes care of his own as a shepherd watches over his flock, so the king watches all over his people. Babylon doesn't deal with the wisdom of JAH that ones soul will be redeem, but they deal with deception to destroy the souls of them whom is under their yoke, through political science, social science, and biblical science, and therefore control the masses by force, fear, and deception. JAH rules within the eternal, and Satan rules within the physical, which took some to the truth, and mixed it up with lies in order to deceive the world. When you speak and tell the truth, many of them don't want to hear it, but when you tell lies, many will be quick to listen and believe a lie without considering the truth that shall bring to shame. On earth, Satan has formed a false kingdom, the ant-Christ system, which is controlling the minds of the people through education, religions, politricks, money, and material things, and most of all Tel-lie visions. Satan deals with mind control through idol worships like money, sports images, movie images, religious images, and political and social images, is the image of the beast. Mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots. My people has drank the wine of her fornication, whom has become drunk of her ways, whom seeks and fights for justice inna unjust system that portrays to be just. Justice was established in this time through His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile I Selassie I the first of Ethiopia, that through the Emperor, justice will prevail. The builders of this great empire babywrong (Babylon) rejected the king of judgement and truth JAH stone, as the head of the Corner stone. Instead they chose death instead of life, wrong instead of right, and they rejected all the good things that would redeem the soul. Through religions (Legions) Satan has separated the masses through politricks. They have separated the masses and within the communities he has destroyed the families. This is the death that JAH speaks about when one dwells within this mind set, and dangerous minds is what destroyeth the soul, the life within. I give thanks unto the most high JAH RASTAFARI, whom is the keeper of life, and the rock and salvation of I-n-I soul.