It is HIM practical and tangible victory against the Italian beast and his works as the Father of Pan Afrikanism that is truly worthy of eternal RAspect.
That being said, INI also appreciaLOVE the mystical aspect of HIM. He was well studied in the ancient Afrikan Mystery System, which may explain some of the "supernatural" stories surrounding HIM.
The Autobiography, My Life and Ethiopia’s Progress, Haile Selassie states,
“At the age of 13, although my physical strength may not have been great, my spiritual and intellectual power began to increase gradually and thus had the entrance to this world open."
Ethiopia it is known that Ras Tafari from a young age could quote freely from the Book of Mets'hafe Kufale,the Book of Enoch, Hermas the Shepherd, Judith, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, the 'Metsahfa Berhan' (Book of Light), the Sixth and Seventh Book of Moses, the Book of Eden (secretly deleted from Genesis during the Dark Ages), and all thirty-one books of the Hebrew Bible including the twenty-one Canonical Books of the New Testament, plus numerous Apocryphal and pseudo-pictographic books. He also made it quite clear that he was well acquainted with the 'Metsahfa Menkusat' and the rare manuscripts of 'Abba Aragaive' and other Coptic Monks, known as the Nine Saints, who entered Ethiopia in 480 AD and founded the first monasteries in Tigre province.
He also revealed that he was acquainted with the occult applications of Urim and Thummim and the Mezuzah, as well as the use of the magic words Gematria and Notarilon in Eygpt, necromancy and also the magical names Adonay, El, Elohe. He exhibited familiarity with the Cabbalistic doctrines and the writings in Gilgamesh. The pagan rituals surrounding the worship of Isis, of the serpent Arwe and of the Abyssinian gods of Earth, (Meder), Sea (Beher) and War (Mahrem), as well as the Arcane of astrology and numerology, but most importantly, Tafari exhibited to the priest his overstanding of the central messages in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Book of Two Ways.
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