Israel is
the firstborn of God.
He was born
when he came out of the land of Egypt where he suffered because of chains and
spiritual loneliness.
There he
was a slave.
He lost his
hope dreaming of freedom, he fought every instant to defend his identity and
only through his freedom he achieved his birth.
Running
away in fact he became the protagonist of God’s plan.
After the
escape, the desert was his childhood, the 'child' Israel was educated with the
Law.
It is not
by chance in fact that in the Jewish tradition Mount Sinai is called 'my
mother's house' because just like a mother the Law has provided for this unique
child especially in the first part of his life.
Like a
child in the presence of his father, Israel makes mistakes but also good
things.
Israel is
praised but also punished, he is encouraged and hearten, he is in good health
but sometimes he gets sick. The Lord as a good father also supports him with
physical food. Through the accuracy of the Law and the example of the Patriarchs,
he guides him gradually.
The Lord then
chooses David who will give birth to the kingdom of God on Earth.
This is a
new birth, a father-son election where David is led towards something he does
not know.
Just like
young children who have to rely on their parents because they have no other way
of measuring the world and life itself.
In fact,
David is chosen as a very young man.
He is
educated with promises just as we do with children; he is also severely punished
for his wrong actions just as we would do with our beloved child.
From David
comes Solomon who generates Menelik I and from him the lineage of the true
Israel will begin.
If we look carefully
at Menelik, we can see a son who is far from his father for many years.
Until the adult
age he remains with his mother and dreams and yearns to know his father.
He is
fascinated and intrigued because he is aware of the greatness of his own father.
Menelik
represents the man aware of the greatness of the Father Creator but still too
far from Him, he aspires to Him and is thirsty for His greatness but cannot
reach him yet.
It is no by
coincidence that only when Menelik I will be finally reunited with his father
Solomon then will officially begin the new Alliance with the true
Israel-Ethiopia caused by the moving of the Ark towards the South.
Just like
the human being who re-connect with the Almighty begins a new life, a new era,
a new election.
When Mankind
is ready, God establishes a new birth, no longer through human succession but this
time is God generating God.
The Creator
generates Christ in the fullness of the divine plan, divine power concentrated
in a human person. Divine will and plan are openly manifested through this
birth.
Christ is
born as the element of perfect balance in Creation. He is born among his own
people, among humans but yet close to animals.
This
happened because He reigns over close and distant men, but also on the animal
kingdom.
He is the
hinge between Heaven and Earth. Christ came to share His unique state.
We the
human beings are a bit like Him ... we all are children just like He is a son,
like a big brother He shows us the way to our common Father.
Christ spiritually
generates disciples-children who subsequently enlighten and awaken people by
sharing their Divine filiation and recognize themselves as new men born from
the Word and the Spirit.
Here is a
new birth.
In fact, as
every being needs a seed to be born, here is the Word as the new seed that
generates the new man.
Together
with the Word there is the Spirit that strengthens it and makes it perceptible,
creating a new and regenerated Mankind that can now claim the right to eternal and
divine inheritance.
This new generation
is born from an incorruptible and timeless seed and can finally take part to the
New Creation.
After two
thousand years, the Son of Man returns to earth to fulfil the vital promises:
he comes to establish the moral and physical Kingdom for which he has previously
prepared His sons-brothers.
In the new
birth of His Imperial Majesty Qadamawi Haile Selassie, we contemplate the last
and definitive salvific birth that leads us to Eternity with a new role: Mankind
in fact now is collaborator of God, rules with Him.
Israel, the
ancient child, was once generated, then educated and now has an occupation just
as all adults have. Since the Revelation of His Imperial Majesty Halie Selassie
The First, Mankind works with God for the final edification of His Kingdom.
In the new
Covenant with the new spiritual Israel, namely Ethiopia and the Rastafari Movement,
the Creator sits at the same table of government. This last birth has therefore
generated the last mission for the definitive happiness and wellbeing of the
human race.
With the
Coronation of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie The First in 1930 the final
birth occurred and we know that according to Christian tradition, every birth
has to have a baptism.
In that
occasion the new people were baptized and anointed with the new name. In fact at
the same time His Majesty Ras Tafari Makonnen took on His divine and baptismal
name Qadamawi Haile Selassie, Ian’ I became “the Rastafari” taking on the human
name of our Father.
Ian’I Rastafari
are the living testimony of a mystical, spiritual and intellectual birth, day
after day we remain devoted to celebrate life.
Ian’I are born
again through Word Sound and Power to be a new life every day regenerated by
the Power of the Holy Trinity.
Birth is
the daily experience that we live in every moment, every day the covenant
regenerates us and the Spirit marks our life moments. We are warriors,
protectors of life, confident and sure of the victory of good over evil.
We are like
recipients of birth because through our reflections and meditations we outline
the parameters of the new Kingdom.
We are
children and parents.
Living this
Rastafari Way of Life we manifest and keep alive the Livity. In a sense it is
like we keep generating the Livity every day through our own experience.
At the same
time, we are nourished and we learn from the Rastafari Livity, we are servants yet
custodians of a conduct of life that has the power to redeem and save our very
soul.
This Rastafari
life path becomes our own existence and the regulation of our lives.
We live
constantly in a state of birth, whose joy now no longer ends. We live in an
eternal beginning that flows undisturbed along the lines of time. We are
children and parents at the same time.
With our very
life experience Ian’I generate awareness of the blessings that this life brings
and manifest the righteousness that helps to live better. Every word pronounced
in spirit and overstanding is a new birth for Ian’I and for the listeners too.
When Ian’ I
Rastafari speak and a new brother or sister sights the faith because of our
humble but instrumental words, then we contributed to birth.
In fact, through
our work and commitment in that moment the Almighty make possible for the seed
that is planted in every human being to sprout and become a wonderful flower.
Ian’I can
be simple vessels, humble intermediaries always ready to recognize the birth in
every moment. Ready to see the new heartical way and the new life that reign
over evil and death.
We spiritually
rejoice as parents who every day see their son being born, in observing the
triumph of the Kingdom of God, Ian’I hearts are filled and manifest flowing joy.
Birth is
the maximum fullness of novelty, and novelty is one of the characteristics of
God: to be always new, always regenerated, always present but never old.
Ian’I walks
in novelty and manifests it in all respects.
Our Father
in fact bears a new name, Ian’I prays and speaks a new way, Ian’I read history with
a new interpretation, Ian’I relates to the world with a new awareness and have
a renovated world view, Ian’I also eat in a new way, Ian’I have a new physical appearance
too.
Ian’I live
in the fullness of an original novelty ... ancient but at the same time always
new.
This
novelty was revealed to a new people called to bring back Mankind attention to
the original people of Creation.
Ian’I are
witnesses, interpreters, narrators of the divine joy on Earth, of the constant
vital birth that permeates this planet, of the perennial Christmas in which our
souls and our bodies live.
Selah
