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Commission 152

NACOTCHTANK’S
152d CORPS

بيت مدرسة
בית מדרש

A white pin-back button with a black and white image of Malcolm X. Malcolm X is seen from the shoulders up and is looking to the left. He is wearing a light suit, dark tie, and white shirt. Around the image in an arc is black text that includes the date of the event. The text reads “ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN UNITY, INC. / MAY 19 / MALCOLM-X DAY.” On the reverse are two small, round stickers with the numbers “65” and “1124.” (NMAAHC)

The Preceptory of

The 1st Ecclesiastic College at
Nacotchtank, Ouachita District,
5th International Worker’s Ass’n
and
2nd Organization of Afro-American Unity

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DIVISION OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION (POLITBURO), FLF-DAO

The Governor of the Society of the New Syllabus (NS) at Nacotchtank-on-Potomac (Anacostia) District of Ouachita (Washington, District of Columbia), Furthest West (al-Maghreb al-Aqsa) To All To Whom These Presents Come, Sends Greeting and Peace:

Know ye by these presents that there is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) of people, in the nature of firm league of friendship (FLF), which is engaged in the business of self-education, -operation, and -development (Autodidactus), and that this society (Universitas) is organized into associations (Collegia) constituted by assemblies (Ecclesia) committed to certain trades or subject matters (Syndici). 

(b) There is hereby established the second wave of the Organization of Afro-American Unity for the purposes enumerated by the Most Honorable el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (a.k.a. Malcolm X) (our “Founder”).

(c) The words of our Founder are incorporated herein by reference:

Program of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Malcolm X, et al. (taken from the Malcolm X Museum)

Note: this was originally supposed to be presented on Feb. 15, but since Malcolm’s home was fire-bombed, this was delayed for a week — Feb. 21, [1965] to be exact — the day he was assassinated…

(1) PREAMBLE

Pledging unity…
Promoting justice…
Transcending compromise…

(a) We, Afro-Americans, people who originated in Africa and now reside in America, speak out against the slavery and oppression inflicted upon us by this racist power structure. We offer to downtrodden Afro-American people courses of action that will conquer oppression, relieve suffering, and convert meaningless struggle into meaningful action.

(b) Confident that our purpose will be achieved, we Afro-Americans from all walks of life make the following known:

(2) ESTABLISHMENT

(a) Having stated our determination, confidence, and resolve, the Organization of Afro-American Unity is hereby established on the 15th day of February, 1965, in the city of New York.

(b) Upon this establishment, the Afro-American people will launch a cultural revolution which will provide the means for restoring our identity that we might rejoin our brothers and sisters on the African continent, culturally, psychologically, economically, and share with them the sweet fruits of freedom from oppression and independence of racist governments.

(1) The Organization of Afro-American Unity welcomes all persons of African origin to come together and dedicate their ideas, skills, and lives to free our people from oppression.

(2) Branches of the Organization of Afro-American Unity may be established by people of African descent wherever they may be and whatever their ideology — as long as they be descendants of Africa and dedicated to our one goal: freedom from oppression.

(3) The basic program of the Organization of Afro-American Unity which is now being presented can and will be modified by the membership, taking into consideration national, regional, and local conditions that require flexible treatment.

(4) The Organization of Afro-American Unity encourages active participation of each member since we feel that each and every Afro-American has something to contribute to our freedom. Thus each member will be encouraged to participate in the committee of his or her choice.

(5) Understanding the differences that have been created amongst us by our oppressors in order to keep us divided, the Organization of Afro-American Unity strives to ignore or submerge these artificial divisions by focusing our activities and our loyalties upon our one goal: freedom from oppression.

(3) BASIC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

(A) Self-determination

(1) We assert that we Afro-Americans have the right to direct and control our lives, our history, and our future rather than to have our destinies determined by American racists, we are determined to rediscover our true African culture, which was crushed and hidden for over four hundred years in order to enslave us and keep us enslaved up to today…

(2) We, Afro-Americans — enslaved, oppressed, and denied by a society that proclaims itself the citadel of democracy, are determined to rediscover our history, promote the talents that are suppressed by our racist enslavers, renew the culture that was crushed by a slave government and thereby — to again become a free people.

(B) National unity

(1) Sincerely believing that the future of Afro-Americans is dependent upon our ability to unite our ideas, skills, organizations, and institutions…

(2) We, the Organization of Afro-American Unity pledge to join hands and hearts with all people of African origin in a grand alliance by forgetting all the differences that the power structure has created to keep us divided and enslaved. We further pledge to strengthen our common bond and strive toward one goal: freedom from oppression.

(4) THE BASIC UNITY PROGRAM

(a) The program of the Organization of Afro-American Unity shall evolve from five strategic points which are deemed basic and fundamental to our grand alliance. Through our committees we shall proceed in the following general areas.

(I) Restoration

(1) In order to enslave the African it was necessary for our enslavers to completely sever our communications with the African continent and the Africans that remained there. In order to free ourselves from the oppression of our enslavers then, it is absolutely necessary for the Afro-American to restore communications with Africa.

(2) The Organization of Afro-American Unity will accomplish this goal by means of independent national and international newspapers, publishing ventures, personal contacts, and other available communications media.

(3) We, Afro-Americans, must also communicate to one another the truths about American slavery and the terrible effects it has upon our people. We must study the modern system of slavery in order to free ourselves from it. We must search out all the bare and ugly facts without shame for we are still victims, still slaves — still oppressed. Our only shame is believing falsehood and not seeking the truth.

(4) We must learn all that we can about ourselves. We will have to know the whole story of how we were kidnapped from Africa; how our ancestors were brutalized, dehumanized, and murdered; and how we are continually kept in a state of slavery for the profit of a system conceived in slavery, built by slaves and dedicated to keeping us enslaved in order to maintain itself.

(5) We must begin to reeducate ourselves and become alert listeners in order to learn as much as we can about the progress of our motherland — Africa. We must correct in our minds the distorted image that our enslaver has portrayed to us of Africa that he might discourage us from reestablishing communications with her and thus obtain freedom from oppression.

(II) Reorientation

(1) In order to keep the Afro-American enslaved, it was necessary to limit our thinking to the shores of America — to prevent us from identifying our problems with the problems of other peoples of African origin. This made us consider ourselves an isolated minority without allies anywhere.

(2) The Organization of Afro-American Unity will develop in the Afro-American people a keen awareness of our relationship with the world at large and clarify our roles, rights, and responsibilities as human beings. We can accomplish this goal by becoming well-informed concerning world affairs and understanding that our struggle is part of a larger world struggle of oppressed peoples against all forms of oppression. We must change the thinking of the Afro-American by liberating our minds through the study of philosophies and psychologies, cultures and languages that did not come from our racist oppressors. Provisions are being made for the study of languages such as Swahili, Hausa, and Arabic. These studies will give our people access to ideas and history of mankind at large and thus increase our mental scope.

(3) We can learn much about Africa by reading informative books and by listening to the experiences of those who have traveled there, but many of us can travel to the land of our choice and experience for ourselves. The Organization of Afro-American Unity will encourage the Afro-American to travel to Africa, the Caribbean, and to other places where our culture has not been completely crushed by brutality and ruthlessness.

(III) Education

(1) After enslaving us, the slave masters developed a racist educational system which justified to its posterity the evil deeds that had been committed against the African people and their descendants. Too often the slave himself participates so completely in this system that he justifies having been enslaved and oppressed.

(2) The Organization of Afro-American Unity will devise original educational methods and procedures which will liberate the minds of our children from the vicious lies and distortions that are fed to us from the cradle to keep us mentally enslaved. We encourage Afro-Americans themselves to establish experimental institutes and educational workshops, liberation schools, and child-care centers in the Afro-American communities.

(3) We will influence the choice of textbooks and equipment used by our children in the public schools while at the same time encouraging qualified Afro-Americans to write and publish the text books needed to liberate our minds. Until we completely control our own educational institutions, we must supplement the formal training of our children by educating them at home.

(IV) Economic security

(1) After the Emancipation Proclamation, when the system of slavery changed from chattel slavery to wage slavery, it was realized that the Afro-American constituted the largest homogeneous ethnic group with a common origin and common group experience in the United States and, if allowed to exercise economic or political freedom, would in a short period of time own this country. Therefore racists in this government developed techniques that would keep the Afro-American people economically dependent upon the slave masters — economically slaves — twentieth-century slaves.

(2) The Organization of Afro-American Unity will take measures to free our people from economic slavery. One way of accomplishing this will be to maintain a technician pool: that is, a bank of technicians. In the same manner that blood banks have been established to furnish blood to those who need it at the time it is needed, we must establish a technician bank. We must do this so that the newly independent nations of Africa can turn to us who are their Afro-American brothers for the technicians they will need now and in the future. Thereby we will be developing an open market for the many skills we possess and at the same time we will be supplying Africa with the skills she can best use. This project will therefore be one of mutual cooperation and mutual benefit.

(V) Self-defense

(1) In order to enslave a people and keep them subjugated, their right to self-defense must be denied. They must be constantly terrorized, brutalized, and murdered. These tactics of suppression have been developed to a new high by vicious racists whom the United States government seems unwilling or incapable of dealing with in terms of the law of this land. Before the emancipation it was the Black man who suffered humiliation, torture, castration, and murder. Recently our women and children, more and more, are becoming the victims of savage racists whose appetite for blood increases daily and whose deeds of depravity seem to be openly encouraged by all law enforcement agencies. Over five thousand Afro-Americans have been lynched since the Emancipation Proclamation and not one murderer has been brought to justice!

(2) The Organization of Afro-American Unity, being aware of the increased violence being visited upon the Afro-American and of the open sanction of this violence and murder by the police departments throughout this country and the federal agencies — do affirm our right and obligation to defend ourselves in order to survive as a people.

(3) We encourage the Afro-Americans to defend themselves against the wanton attacks of racist aggressors whose sole aim is to deny us the guarantees of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and of the Constitution of the United States.

(4) The Organization of Afro-American Unity will take those private steps that are necessary to insure the survival of the Afro-American people in the face of racist aggression and the defense of our women and children. We are within our rights to see to it that the Afro-American people who fulfill their obligations to the United States government (we pay taxes and serve in the armed forces of this country like American citizens do) also exact from this government the obligations that it owes us as a people, or exact these obligations ourselves. Needless to say, among this number we include protection of certain inalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

(5) In areas where the United States government has shown itself unable and/or unwilling to bring to justice the racist oppressors, murderers, who kill innocent children and adults, the Organization of Afro-American Unity advocates that the Afro-American people insure ourselves that justice is done — whatever the price and by any means necessary.

(5) NATIONAL CONCERNS

(A) General terminologies:

(1) We Afro-Americans feel receptive toward all peoples of goodwill. We are not opposed to multiethnic associations in any walk of life. In fact, we have had experiences which enable us to understand how unfortunate it is that human beings have been set apart or aside from each other because of characteristics known as “racial” characteristics.

(2) However Afro-Americans did not create the prejudiced background and atmosphere in which we live. And we must face the facts. A “racial” society does exist in stark reality, and not with equality for Black people; so we who are nonwhite must meet the problems inherited from centuries of inequalities and deal with the present situations as rationally as we are able.

(3) The exclusive ethnic quality of our unity is necessary for self-preservation. We say this because our experiences backed up by history show that African culture and Afro-American culture not be accurately recognized and reported and cannot be respectably expressed nor be secure in its survival if we remain the divided, and therefore the helpless, victims of an oppressive society.

(4) We appreciate the fact that when the people involved have real equality and justice, ethnic intermingling can be beneficial to all. We must denounce, however, all people who are oppressive through their policies or actions and who are lacking in justice in their dealings with other people, whether the injustices proceed from power, class, or “race.” We must be unified in order to be protected from abuse or misuse.

(5) We consider the word “integration” a misleading, false term. It carries with it certain implications to which Afro-Americans cannot subscribe. This terminology has been applied to the current regulation projects which are supposed]y “acceptable” to some classes of society. This very “acceptable” implies some inherent superiority or inferiority instead of acknowledging the true source of the inequalities involved.

(6) We have observed that the usage of the term “integration” was designated and promoted by those persons who expect to continue a (nicer) type of ethnic discrimination and who intend to maintain social and economic control of all human contacts by means of imagery, classifications, quotas, and manipulations based on color, national origin, or “racial” background and characteristics.

(7) Careful evaluation of recent experiences shows that “integration” actually describes the proccess by which a white society is (remains) set in a position to use, whenever it chooses to use and however it chooses to use, the best talents of nonwhite people. This power-web continues to build a society wherein the best contributions of Afro-Americans, in fact of all nonwhite people, would continue to be absorbed without note or exploited to benefit a fortunate few while the masses of both white and nonwhite people would remain unequal and unbenefited.

(8) We are aware that many of us lack sufficient training and are deprived and unprepared as a result of oppression, discrimination, and the resulting discouragement, despair, and resignation. But when we are not qualified, and where we are unprepared, we must help each other and work out plans for bettering our own conditions as Afro-Americans. Then our assertions toward full opportunity can be made on the basis of equality as opposed to the calculated tokens of “integration.” Therefore, we must reject this term as one used by all persons who intend to mislead Afro-Americans.

(9) Another term, “negro,” is erroneously used and is degrading in the eyes of informed and self-respecting persons of African heritage. It denotes stereotyped and debased traits of character and classifies a whole segment of humanity on the basis of false information. From all intelligent viewpoints, it is a badge of slavery and helps to prolong and perpetuate oppression and discrimination.

(10) Persons who recognize the emotional thrust and plain show of disrespect in the Southerner’s use of “nigra” and the general use of “nigger” must also realize that all three words are essentially the same. The other two. “nigra” and “nigger” are blunt and undeceptive. The one representing respectability, “negro,” is merely the same substance in a polished package and spelled with a capital letter. This refinement is added so that a degrading terminology can be legitimately used in general literature and “polite” conversation without embarrassment.

(11) The term “negro” developed from a word in the Spanish language which is actually an adjective (describing word) meaning “black,” that is, the color black. In plain English, if someone said or was called a “black” or a “dark,” even a young child would very naturally question: “a black what?” or “a dark what?” because adjectives do not name, they describe. Please take note that in order to make use of this mechanism, a word was transferred from another language and deceptively changed in function from an adjective to a noun, which is a naming word. Its application in the nominative (naming) sense was intentionally used to portray persons in a position of objects or “things.” It stamps the article as being “all alike and all the same.” It denotes: a “darkie,” a slave, a subhuman, an ex-slave, a “negro.”

(12) Afro-Americans must re-analyze and particularly question our own use of this term, keeping in mind all the facts. In light of the historical meanings and current implications, all intelligent and informed Afro-Americans and Africans continue to reject its use in the noun form as well as a proper adjective. Its usage shall continue to be considered as unenlightened and objectionable or deliberately offensive whether in speech or writing.

(13) We accept the use of Afro-American, African, and Black man in reference to persons of African heritage. To every other part of mankind goes this measure of just respect. We do not desire more nor shall we accept less.

(B) General considerations:

(1) Afro-Americans, like all other people, have human rights which are inalienable. This is, these human rights cannot be legally or justly transferred to another. Our human rights belong to us, as to all people, through God, not through the wishes nor according to the whims of other men.

(2) We must consider that fact and other reasons why a proclamation of “Emancipation” should not be revered as a document of liberation. Any previous acceptance of and faith in such a document was based on sentiment, not on reality. This is a serious matter which we Afro-Americans must continue to reevaluate.

(3) The original root-meaning of the word emancipation is: “To deliver up or make over as property by means of a formal act from a purchaser.” We must take note and remember that human beings cannot be justly bought or sold nor can their human rights be legally or justly taken away.

(4) Slavery was, and still is, a criminal institution, that is: crime en masse. No matter what form it takes. subtle rules and policies, apartheid, etc., slavery and oppression of human rights stand as major crimes against God and humanity. Therefore, to relegate or change the state of such criminal deeds by means of vague legislation and noble euphemisms gives an honor to horrible commitments that is totally inappropriate.

(5) Full implications and concomitant harvests were generally misunderstood by our foreparents and are still misunderstood or avoided by some Afro-Americans today. However, the facts remain; and we, as enlightened Afro-Americans, will not praise and encourage any belief in emancipation. Afro-Americans everywhere must realize that to retain faith in such an idea means acceptance of being property and, therefore, less than a human being. This matter is a crucial one that Afro-Americans must continue to reexamine.

(6) WORLDWIDE CONCERNS

(a) The time is past due for us to internationalize the problems of Afro-Americans. We have been too slow in recognizing the link in the fate of Africans with the fate of Afro-Americans. We have been too unknowing to understand and too misdirected to ask our African brothers and sisters to help us mend the chain of our heritage.

(b) Our African relatives who are in a majority in their own country have found it very difficult to gain independence from a minority. It is that much more difficult for Afro-Americans who are a minority away from the motherland and still oppressed by those who encourage the crushing of our African identity.

(c) We can appreciate the material progress and recognize the opportunities available in the highly industrialized and affluent American society. Yet, we who are nonwhite face daily miseries resulting directly or indirectly from a systematic discrimination against us because of our God-given colors. These factors cause us to remember that our being born in America was an act of fate stemming from the separation of our foreparents from Africa; not by choice, but by force.

(d) We have for many years been divided among ourselves through deceptions and misunderstandings created by our enslavers, but we do here and now express our desires and intent to draw closer and be restored in knowledge and spirit through renewed relations and kinships with the African peoples. We further realize that our human rights, so long suppressed, are the rights of all mankind everywhere.

(e) In light of all of our experiences and knowledge of the past, we, as Afro-Americans, declare recognition, sympathy, and admiration for all peoples and nations who are striving, as we are, toward self-realization and complete freedom from oppression.

(f) The civil rights bill is a similarly misleading, misinterpreted document of legislation. The premise of its design and application is not respectable in the eyes of men who recognize what personal freedom involves and entails. Afro-Americans must answer this question for themselves: What makes this special bill necessary?

(g) The only document that is in order and deserved with regard to the acts perpetuated through slavery and oppression prolonged to this day is a Declaration of condemnation. And the only legislation worthy of consideration or endorsement by Afro-Americans, the victims of these tragic institutions, is a Proclamation of Restitution. We Afro-Americans must keep these facts ever in mind.

(h) We must continue to internationalize our philosophies and contacts toward assuming full human rights which include all the civil rights appertaining thereto. With complete understanding of our heritage as Afro-Americans, we must not do less.

(7) Committees of the Organization of Afro-American Unity:

(a) The Cultural Committee

(b) The Economic Committee

(c) The Educational Committee

(d) The Political Committee

(e) The Publications Committee

(f) The Social Committee

(g) The Self-Defense Committee

(h) The Youth Committee

(i) Staff committees: Finance, Fund-raising, Legal, Membership

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D.R. 01-14: The Fed &c.

Volume 1, Issue 14

Special Edition on Political Economy

Contents — Art. 1. …On the FedArt 2. Charter F.A.Art. 3. …Consol DAOArt. 4. Notes from the DAOArt. 5. …XArt. 6. Culture…

Article 1

Notes on the System:
On the “Federal Reserve”

Comp. Ed. by Antarah Crawley | Last Modified 11/28/2023 at 9:40 PM

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, provides the nation with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system.

Banner of the Official Website of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as of 27 Nov. 2023
The old clubhouse, Jekyll Island, Georgia. (Courtesy of Tyler E. Bagwell)

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Book of Isaiah, Chapter 9, Verse 2

Introductory Editorial Note: It is economic, social, and political suicide to question the legitimacy or constitutionality of the System (just ask Ezra Pound, Mr. Mullins, and Chairman McFadden). Notwithstanding that unfortunate circumstance, we must educate the public as to its mechanisms.

Preamble

[…] the Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves, and is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate. From November, 1910, when the conspirators [U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich of the National Monetary Commission, his secretary Arthur Shelton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury A. Piatt Andrew, Senior Partner Henry Davison of J.P. Morgan Co., President Frank Vanderlip of the National City Bank of New York, President Charles D. Norton of the First National Bank of New York, Benjamin Strong of J.P. Morgan, and Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.] met on Jekyll Island, Georgia, to the present time machinations of the Federal Reserve bankers have been shrouded in secrecy. Today [1991], that secrecy has cost the American people a three trillion [now 33 trillion] dollar debt, with annual interest payments to these bankers amounting to some three hundred billion dollars per year, sums which stagger the imagination, and which in themselves are ultimately unpayable.

[…] American history in the twentieth century has recorded the amazing achievements of the Federal Reserve bankers. First, the outbreak of World War I, which was made possible by the funds available from the new central bank of the United States. Second, the Agricultural Depression of 1920. Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall Street of October, 1929, and the ensuing Great Depression. Fourth, World War II. Fifth, the conversion of the assets of the United States and its citizens from real property to paper assets from 1945 to the present, transforming a victorious America and foremost world power in 1945 to the world’s largest debtor nation in 1990. […] Will Americans act to rebuild our nation […] or will we continue to be enslaved by the Babylonian debt money system which was set up by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to complete our total destruction? This is the only question which we have to answer, and we do not have much time left to answer it.

Eustace Mullins, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1991; Forward to “Secrets of the Federal Reserve,” Author’s Special 70th Birthday Edition: Bankers Research Institute: Staunton, Virginia: 1993. (Emphasis mine.)

Primary Sources

Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. The Federal Reserve banks are the agents of the foreign central banks. Henry Ford has said, ‘The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.’ The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States by the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks.

Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the U.S. House Banking and Currency Committee, June 10, 1932. (Mullins 153-154.)

Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with the crime of having treasonably conspired and acted against the peace and security of the United States and having treasonable conspired to destroy the constitutional government in the United States. Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized and directed as a whole or by subcommittee to investigate the official conduct of the Federal Reserve Board and agents to determine whether, in the opinion of the said committee, they have been guilty of any high crime or misdemeanour which in the contemplation of the Constitutions requires the interposition of the Constitutional powers of the House.

Chairman McFadden, January 13, 1932, introducing a resolution indicting the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for “Criminal Conspiracy,” on which no action was taken. This, and the Chairman’s December 13, 1932, motion to impeach President Herbert Hoover was the last nail driven into his political coffin. (Mullins 154.)

I wrote into the bill which was introduced by me in the Senate on June 26, 1913, a provision that the powers of the System should be employed to produce a stable price level, which meant a dollar of stable purchasing, debt-paying power. It was stricken out. The powerful money interests got control of the Federal Reserve Board through Mr. Paul Warburg, Mr. Albert Strauss, and Mr. Adolph C. Miller and they were able to have that secret meeting of May 18, 1920, and bring about a contraction of credit so violent it threw five million people out of employment. In 1920 that Reserve Board deliberately caused the Panic of 1921. The same people, unrestrained in the stock market, expanding credit to a great excess between 1926 and 1929, raised the price of stocks to a fantastic point where they could not possibly earn dividends, and when the people realized this, they tried to get out, resulting in the Crash of October 24, 1929.

U.S. Senator Robert L. Owen, testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Currency, 1938. (Mullins 157.)

The Federal Reserve Bank is an institution owned by the stockholding member banks. The Government has not a dollar’s worth of stock in it.

W.P.G. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, testifying in 1921. (Mullins 157.)

The people did not know the Federal Reserve Banks were organized for profit-making. They were intended to stabilize the credit and currency supply of the country. That end has not been accomplished. Indeed, there has been remarkable variation in the purchasing power of money since the System went into effect. The Federal Reserve men are chosen by the big banks, through discrete little campaigns, and they naturally follow the ideals which are portrayed to them as the soundest from a financial point of view.

U.S. Senator Robert L. Owen, testifying during the Gold Reserve Hearings of 1934. (Mullins 161.)

At the moment, 1934, we have 900 million dollars excess reserves. In 1924, with increased reserves of 300 million, you got some three or four billion in bank expansion of credit very quickly. That extra money was put out by the Federal Reserve Banks in 1924 through buying government securities and was the cause of the rapid expansion of bank credit. The banks continued to get excess reserved because more gold came in, and because, whenever there was a slackening, the Federal Reserve people would put out some more. They held back a bit in 1926. Things firmed up a bit that year. And then in 1927 they put out less than 300 million additional reserves, set the wild stock market going, and that led us right into the smash of 1929.

[…] The money of the Federal Reserve Banks is money they created. When they buy Government securities they create reserves. They pay for the government securities by giving checks on themselves, and those checks come to the commercial banks and are by them deposited in the Federal Reserve Banks, and then money exists which did not exist before.

Benjamin Anderson, economist for the Chase National Bank of New York, testifying during the Gold Reserve Hearings of 1934. (Mullins 161.)

The Board of Governors opposes any bill which proposes a stable price level, on the grounds that prices do not depend primarily on the price or cost of money; that the Board’s control over money cannot be made complete; and that steady average prices, even if obtainable by official action, would not insure lasting prosperity

Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1934–48), in “Memorandum on Proposals to maintain prices at fixed levels,” Monday, March 13, 1939. (Mullins 163.)

The Government controls the gold reserve, that is, the power to issue money and credit, thus largely regulating the price structure.

[…] The Federal Reserve Board has the power of open market operations. Open-market operations are the most important single instrument of control over the volume and cost of credit in this country. When I say “credit” in this connection, I mean money, because by far the largest part of money in use by the people of this country is in the form of bank credit or bank deposits. When the Federal Reserve Banks buy bills or securities in the open market, they increase the volume of the people’s money and lower its cost; and when they sell in the open market they decrease the volume of money and increase its cost. Authority over these operations, which affect the welfare of the whole people, must be invested in a body representing the national interest.

Chairman Eccles, testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Currency, 1935. (Mullins 163-164.)

The cash [of a Federal Reserve Bank], in truth, does not exist and has never existed. What we call ‘cash reserves’ are simply bookkeeping credits entered upon ledgers of the Federal Reserve Banks. The credits are created by the Federal Reserve Banks and then passed along though the banking system.

Congressman Wright Patman, “The Primer of Money,” p. 38. (Mullins 164.)

The trick in the Federal Reserve notes is that the Federal reserve banks lose no cash when they pay out this currency to the member banks. Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in anything except what the Government calls ‘legal tender’—that is, money that a creditor must be willing to accept from a debtor in payment of sums owed him. But since they are really redeemable only in themselves … they are and irredeemable obligation issued by the Federal Reserve Banks.

Peter L. Bernstein, “A Primer On Money, Banking and Gold,” Vintage Books, New York, 1965, p. 104. (Mullins 165).

The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government bonds from the United States Treasury, lending money into circulation at interest, by bookkeeping entries of checkbook credit to the United States Treasury. The Treasury writes up an interest bearing bond for one billion dollars. The Federal Reserve gives the Treasury a one billion dollar credit for the bond, and has created out of nothing a one billion dollar debt which the American people are obligated to repay with interest.

[…] Where does the Federal Reserve system get the money with which to create Bank Reserves? Answer. It doesn’t get the money, it creates it. When the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money. The Federal Reserve is a total moneymaking machine. It can issue money or checks.

Congressman Patman, “Money Facts,” House Banking and Currency Committee, 1964, p. 9. (Mullins 165.)

There is still another and more important element of public interest in the operation of banks beside the safekeeping of money. One of the most important factors to remember in this connection is that the supply of money affects the general level of prices—the cost of living. The Cost of Living Index and money supply are parallel.

“A Day’s Work at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York” (pamphlet), 1951, p. 22. (Mullins 165.)

If I deposited $100 with my bank and the reserve requirements imposed by the Federal Reserve Bank are 20% then the bank can make a loan to John Doe of up to $80. Where does the $80 come from? Is does not come out of my deposit of $100; on the contrary, the bank simply credits John Doe’s account with $80. The bank can acquire Government obligations by the same procedure, by simply creating deposits to the credit of the government. Money creating is a power of the commercial banks … Since 1917 the Federal Reserve has given private banks forty-six billion dollars of reserves.

Congressman Patman, Congressional Record, March 21, 1960. (Mullins 167.)

ECCLES: The banking system as a whole creates and extinguishes the deposits as they make loans and investments, whether they buy Government Bonds or whether they buy utility bonds or whether they make Farmers’ loans.

MR. PATMAN: I am thoroughly in accord with what you say, Governor, but the fact remains that they created the money, did they not?

ECCLES: Well, the banks create money when they make loan and investments.

Before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Currency, June 24, 1941. (Mullins 167.)

MR. PATMAN: How did you get the money to buy those two billion dollars worth of Government securities in 1933?

ECCLES: We created it.

MR. PATMAN: Out of what?

ECCLES: Out of the right to issue credit money.

MR. PATMAN: And there is nothing behind it, is there, except out Government’s credit?

ECCLES: That is what our monetary system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.

Before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Currency, September 30, 1941. (Mullins 167.)

ECCLES: I mean the Federal Reserve, when it carries out an open market operation, that is, if it purchases Government securities in the open market, it puts new money into the hands of the banks which creates idle deposits.

MR. DEWEY: There are no excess reserves to use for this purpose?

[ECCLES]: Whenever the Federal Reserve System buys Government securities in the open market, or buys the direct from the Treasury, either one, that is what it does.

MR. DEWEY: What are you going to use to buy them with? You are going to create credit?

ECCLES: That is all we have ever done. That is the way the Federal Reserve System creates money. It is a bank of issue.

Before the U.S. House Committee on Banking and Currency, June 17, 1942. (Mullins 167-168.)

MR. KOLBURN: What do you mean by monetization of the public debt?

ECCLES: I mean the bank creating money by the purchase of Government securities. All money is created by debt—either private or public debt.

MR. FLETCHER: Chairman Eccles, when do you think there is a possibility of returning to a free an open market, instead of this pegged and artificially controlled financial market we now have?

ECCLES: Never. Not in your lifetime or mine.

Hearing before the U.S. House, 1947. (Mullins 168.) (Emphasis added.)

Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions. Congress cannot Constitutionally delegate its legislative authority to trade or industrial associations or groups so as to empower them to make laws.

U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Schechter Poultry v. United States of America, 29 U.S. 495, 55 US 837.842 (1935), ruling the National Recovery Act (NRA) unconstitutional. (Mullins 168.)

The Congress shall have Power to borrow money on the credit of the United States … and to coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.”

Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America. (Mullins 168.)

The money that began to appear in circulation a week ago, December 21, 1942, was really printing press money in the fullest sense of the term, that is, money which has no collateral of any kind behind it. The Federal Reserve statement that ‘The Board of Governors, after consultation with the Treasury Department, has authorized Federal Reserve Banks to utilize at this time the existing stocks of currency printed in the early thirties, known as ‘Federal Reserve Banknotes‘. We repeat, these notes have absolutely no collateral of any kind behind them.

Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek Magazine, January 4, 1943. (Mullins 169.)

GOVERNOR ECCLES: The currency in circulation was increased from seven billion dollars in four years to twenty-one and a half billion. We are losing some considerable amounts of gold during the war period. As our exports have gone out, largely on a lend-lease basis, we have taken imports on which we have given dollar balances. These countries are now drawing off these dollar balances in the form of gold.

MR. SMITH: Governor Eccles, what is the objective that the foreign governments are after in this projected program whereby we would contribute gold to an international fund? [Referring to the Stabilization Fund, known after 27 December 1945 as the International Monetary Fund (IMF)].

GOVERNOR ECCLES: I would like to discuss OPA [Office of Price Administration], and leave the stabilization fund for a time when I am prepared to go into it.

Senate Hearings on the Office of Price Administration (OPA), 1944. (Mullins 169.)
An OPA poster

Modern Implications

Fractional-reserve banking predates the existence of governmental monetary authorities and originated with bankers’ realization that generally not all depositors demand payment at the same time. In the past, savers looking to keep their coins and valuables in safekeeping depositories deposited gold and silver at goldsmiths, receiving in exchange a note for their deposit (see Bank of Amsterdam). These notes gained acceptance as a medium of exchange for commercial transactions and thus became an early form of circulating paper money.[1] As the notes were used directly in trade, the goldsmiths observed that people would not usually redeem all their notes at the same time, and they saw the opportunity to invest their coin reserves in interest-bearing loans and bills. This generated income for the goldsmiths but left them with more notes on issue than reserves with which to pay them. A process was started that altered the role of the goldsmiths from passive guardians of bullion, charging fees for safe storage, to interest-paying and interest-earning banks. Thus fractional-reserve banking was born.[2]

If creditors (note holders of gold originally deposited) lost faith in the ability of a bank to pay their notes, however, many would try to redeem their notes at the same time. If, in response, a bank could not raise enough funds by calling in loans or selling bills, the bank would either go into insolvency or default on its notes. Such a situation is called a bank run and caused the demise of many early banks.[1]

These early financial crises led to the creation of central banks. The Swedish Riksbank was the world’s first central bank, created in 1668. Many nations followed suit in the late 1600s to establish central banks which were given the legal power to set a reserve requirement, and to specify the form in which such assets (called the monetary base) were required to be held.[3] In order to mitigate the impact of bank failures and financial crises, central banks were also granted the authority to centralize banks’ storage of precious metal reserves, thereby facilitating transfer of gold in the event of bank runs, to regulate commercial banks, and to act as lender-of-last-resort if any bank faced a bank run. The emergence of central banks reduced the risk of bank runs which is inherent in fractional-reserve banking, and it allowed the practice to continue as it does today.[4] where it is the system of banking prevailing in almost all countries worldwide.[5][6]

During the twentieth century, the role of the central bank grew to include influencing or managing various macroeconomic policy variables, including measures of inflation, unemployment, and the international balance of payments. In the course of enacting such policy, central banks have from time to time attempted to manage interest rates, reserve requirements, and various measures of the money supply and monetary base.[7]

History of Fractional-Reserve Banking (Wiki)

As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020.  This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.

Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, “Reserve Requirements,” From, Policy Tools. federalreserve.gov. (Emphasis added.)

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced technical details related to reserve requirements for depository institutions, which will remain zero. The annual adjustment and publication of the reserve requirement exemption amount and low reserve tranche is required by law and does not indicate a change in depository institutions’ reserve requirements.

Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, “Federal Reserve Board announces annual indexing of reserve requirement exemption amount and low reserve tranche for 2024,” November 27, 2023. federalreserve.gov.

Concluding Editorial Note: The Fed’s inception at Jekyll Island circa November 22, 1910, the signing of the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, and its subsequent clandestine operations follow exactly the plot and themes of The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900). 

Article 2

Charter of Free Association

By Antarah Crawley | Last Modified 11/28/2023 at 9:25 PM

NACOTCHTANK, OD — The Governor of the Society of the New Syllabus (NS) at Nacotchtank-on-Potomac (Anacostia) District of Ouachita (Washington, District of Columbia), Furthest West (al-Maghreb al-Aqsa) To All To Whom These Presents Come, Sends Greeting and Peace:

Know ye by these presents that this decentralized, autonomous and freely associated Political Bureau of Education (Politburo), to wit, NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C. (N∴S∴), is the founding member of the brain trust of the international association of working people (“workers”), free thinkers, truth speakers and light workers united in a firm league of friendship in the nature of a decentralized autonomous organization (5th IWA—FTLU—FLF—DAO), from the 1st Ecclesiastic College at Nacotchtank, Ouachita District (153d CORPS).

TWAP PARTY PLANK NO. 5: The producer of goods shall be the owner of such goods less the interest per cent held by capital investors in the production of such goods. 

Charter of Free Association (F.A.)
of

בית מדרש

B’T MDRS
(“(al) Beth/Bayt (ha) Midrash/Madrasa”),
being the

Office of Preceptor of the Student Body,
House of Studies, F.A., Political Bureau of Education,
153d CORPS, FLF-DAO;

Also known in the African tradition as Hogon of the Sanctuarie de Binou;

Also known generally as the Preceptory at Nacotchtank in the trust of the Governor and Company of NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C. (NS)

Nota Bene that faith and belief are not a source of revenue, but trust may be a such a source provided it is not usurious as to the change of venue; NS to receive quarterly dividends from/interest pmnts x% of principal trust res for routine (“regular”) educational and administrative services rendered to DAO student body (“the public”); therefore trust res held for benefit of members of any student body of the decentralized autonomous organization of the working people associated and free thinkers, truth speakers, and light workers united in the nature of a firm league of friendship (5th Int’l Ass’n, WFTLU, FLF-DAO); and Trustee N∴S∴ obligated to perform “regular” services; LLC to vest membership interest in trust to receive dividends/returns on N∴S∴ commercial operations such as BLK MKT (“the Press”) and Production Dept. of Audiovisual Media (“the Media”); ergo symbiotic economic relationship. 

Model A: In exchange for up to 49% interest in itself, N∴S∴ to receive trust dividends/disbursements of 12% annually. 

Model B: N∴S∴ to sell 33% private equity in itself to Rothschild & Co., London, for $33 million in equal parts gold and silver bullion, English government bonds, United States Treasuries, United States dollars (USD), and Classical, Italianate or Moorish-style real estate; then vest these proceeds according to Model A.

Although a Labor government nationalized the Bank of England in 1946, The Great Soviet Encylopaedia points out (vol. 1, p. 490c) that the Bank of England continues to pay 12% dividends per annum, just as it had done prior to the nationalization. The “Governor” is appointed by the government, in a situation similar to that in the United States, where the Governors of the Federal Reserve System are appointed by the President. However, as is pointed out in the Encylopaedia Americana v. 13, p. 272, ‘In practice, the governors of the Bank of England have not hesitated to criticize and bring pressure on the government in public.’

Mullins, Appendix I of “Secrets of the Federal Reserve,” p. 181.

Concluding Note: Per the sunnah (way, tradition, praxis) of Kogard, it is most prudent for our Honorable Society, not to engage in labyrinths of credit and debt but, to arrive at the very source of all money.

Article 3

Free Trade Monetary Policy:
Toward a Consolidated DAO Council on High Finance

By Antarah Crawley

NACOTCHTANK, OD — Toward an Act to establish a Consolidated DAO Council on High Finance (the “Consol”):—

ADVERTISEMENT: DAO INTERNATIONAL COMMAND—SEEKING PARTNER(S) TO CAPITALIZE TRUST IN WHICH TO VEST UP TO 49% INTERESTS IN DIVERSIFIED F.A. INVESTMENTS AND HOLDINGS; SUCH PARTNER TO BE ADMITTED TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DAO INTERCOM BY SIMPLIFIED RITE OF FRIENDSHIP.

DAO BANK BONDS NOTES & BILLS

A trade acceptance instrument, negotiable, having a face value, expiry/maturity date, and discount value backed by the DAO brain trust, representing a promise to pay or otherwise discharge an obligation between freely associated (F.A.) producers and providers of goods and services. 

This is preferable to the present system of the national credit monopoly buying government bonds on which the American people owe the principal and interest for NO MONEY DOWN. It is an open book for which the People are liable on the ledger of a private trust. 

Open book accounts only name a debtor on an outstanding account payable. The Fed amalgamated all the credits on the open books of American businessmen by urging the exchange of trade acceptances and “creating money on the basis of debt” (Eccles). 

Bill of Exchange, a negotiable instrument:

Seller => Draft–Demand4Pmnt => Buyer

Buyer => Acceptance=Promise2Pay=> Seller

Time of expiration = date of maturity

May endorse to bank at discount rate

Trade Acceptances

Explanation (from, CitiBank) [The “accepting” company is replaced with X]:

  • A draft, also known as a “bill of exchange”, is a traditional, long-standing trade instrument which has been used across the globe for hundreds of years; it is recognized by trading partners and financial institutions as a means of payment.
  • When a draft is drawn on a Buyer/Drawee it’s considered a Demand for Payment. When “Accepted” by the Buyer/Drawee it becomes a Trade Acceptance. The Acceptance adds X’s irrevocable payment promise to its Supplier/Drawer; to pay the accepted draft amount upon maturity.
  • Most countries have common laws governing Trade Acceptance (typically covered by negotiable instrument law).
  • The discount rate charged to suppliers is commensurate with the X’s credit rating, which is most often lower than the interest rate associated with the Supplier’s other forms of financing (Note: Pricing is provided on the needed cover letter. See the “Process Flow” tab ).
  • Trade acceptances are globally recognized, readily marketable, and easily transferable by simple endorsement.
  • Highly leveraged and/or smaller suppliers categorically benefit from low cost finance

Application & Benefits:

  • Once the Buyer has placed its acceptance upon the draft, the supplier may request:
    1. To sell the X Accepted Draft, at a discount, to Citibank, N.A., or
    2. Citibank, N.A. to hold it, until its maturity.
  • X’s suppliers do not have to become clients of Citibank, N.A. nor sign any upfront legal agreements for either a. or b. above. When suppliers want to request Citibank, N.A. to purchase the X Trade Acceptance, they merely endorse the draft to Citibank, N.A. and complete the warranty statements located in Section 9 of the required Document Transmittal Form / Cover Letter which is required with each presentation.
  • The Supplier gets short term funding without recourse, at attractive rates (based on the X’s credit rating), and without using their own credit lines.

Exchange, in the international financial world, means the transactions in money or securities, or simply, the “exchange” of the values of these securities. It is necessary that this “exchange” take place where the values can be established, and this place is the ‘City‘ in London.

London was established as the primary center of exchange because of the ‘Consols’ of the Bank of England, bonds which could never be redeemed, but which paid a stable rate of return. Henry Clews writes, in The Wall Street View, Silver Burdett Co., 1900, p. 255, ‘The Consolidated Act of 1757 consolidated the debts of the Bank of England at 3%, which were kept in an account at the Bank of England as is the great bulwark of its deposits.’ By ostentatiously ‘dumping’ ‘Consols’ on the London Exchange after the Battle of Waterloo, in a pretended panic, Nathan Meyer Rothschild then secretly bought up the Consols sold in the panic by other holders at a low rate, and became the largest holder of Consols, and thus won control of the Bank of England in 1815.

Mullins, Appendix I of “Secrets of the Federal Reserve,” p. 181.

Article 4

Notes from the DAO

Comp. Ed. by Antarah Crawley

Our present society is founded on the exploitation of the propertyless classes by the propertied. This exploitation is such that the propertied (capitalists) buy the working force body and soul of the propertyless, for the price of the mere costs of existence (wages), and take for themselves, i.e., steal, the amount of new values (products) which exceeds this price, whereby wages are made to represent the necessities instead of the earnings of the wage-laborer.

As the non-possessing classes are forced by their poverty to offer for sale to the propertied their working forces, and as our present production on a grand scale enforces technical development with immense rapidity, so that by the application of an always decreasing number of human working forces, an always increasing amount of products is created; so does the supply of working forces increase constantly, while the demand therefor decreases. This is the reason why the workers compete more and more intensely in selling themselves, causing their wages to sink, or at least on the average, never raising them above the margin necessary for keeping intact their working ability.

Whilst by this process the propertyless are entirely debarred from entering the ranks of the propertied, even by the most strenuous exertions, the propertied, by means of the ever-increasing plundering of the working class, are becoming richer day by day, without in any way being themselves productive.

If now and then one of the propertyless class become rich, it is not by their own labor, but from opportunities which they have to speculate upon, and absorb the labor-product of others.

[…]

What we would achieve is, therefore, plainly and simply,—

First, Destruction of the existing class rule, by all means, i.e., by energetic, relentless, revolutionary, and international action.

Second, Establishment of a free society based upon co-operative organization of production.

Third, Free exchange of equivalent products by and between the productive organizations without commerce and profit-mongery.

Fourth, Organization of education on a secular, scientific, and equal basis for both sexes.

Fifth, Equal rights for all without distinction to sex or race.

Sixth, Regulation of all public affairs by free contracts between the autonomous (independent) communes and associations, resting on a federalistic basis.

Whoever agrees with this ideal let him grasp our outstretched brother hands!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Fellow-workmen, all we need for the achievement of this great end is ORGANIZATION and UNITY.

There exists now no great obstacle to that unity. The work of peaceful education and revolutionary conspiracy well can and ought to run in parallel lines.

The day has come for solidarity. Join our ranks! Let the drum beat defiantly the roll of battle, “Workmen of all lands, unite! You have nothing to loose but your chains; you have a world to win!”

Tremble, oppressors of the world! Not far beyond your purblind sight there dawns the scarlet and sable lights of the Judgment Day.

“To the Workingmen of America” (MANIFESTO OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING PEOPLES’ ASSOCIATION), 1883.

I have tried to use administrative procedure against these criminals, but they don’t get the message, so this is the message. If they want to perjure their oaths of office and engage in TREASON and SEDITION, and BREACH OF TRUST, and other crimes to numerous to list, against Me, that they BETTER be prepared to go ALL THE WAY, and MURDER Me as well, because by the time I am done with them, (I will do it all within the law), they will wish they had MURDERED Me. It is My patriotic duty to come after them to My last dying breath, and I will file commercial liens against them, I will liquidate their bonds, I will file criminal complaints against them and their bosses, I will seize their assets, and I will not rest until I see them do that little dance they do at the end of a common law rope, and even then, in the next life, I will be DEMANDING Justice before the judgment BAR of God, to make sure they get to spend the rest of eternity receiving their just reward. Also, after I am dead and gone on to the next life, because this is on the record, these criminals will be hunted down, just like the NAZI war criminals that are still hunted down this day. Furthermore, these criminals are hereby put on NOTICE that with criminals like them in this world, I have a DEATH wish, because this world is NOT big enough for both of us, so go ahead and make MY day, the sooner I am out of here the better, and I shall exercise My God given RIGHT to resist their unlawful arrest with lethal fource, if necessary, and then they will have an excuse to MURDER Me, so go ahead criminals, MAKE MY DAY!

Glenn Winningham (usually self-styled as “Glenn Winningham: House of Fearn”): Winningham v. Canada (30 November 2010) Lethbridge 1006 00907 (Alta. Q.B.), leave to appeal denied (Alta. C.A.), as cited by Associate Chief Judge J.D. Rooke in Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, pp. 41-42.

Article 5

“Something called ‘X'”

From, Wikipedia

On pages 95 and 96 of The Road We Are Traveling, under the heading of “Free Enterprise into ‘X'”,[16] [Stuart] Chase [(March 8, 1888 – November 16, 1985)…American economist,[1] social theorist, and writer.[2]] listed 18 characteristics of political economy that he had observed among[17] Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain between 1913[18] and 1942. Chase labeled this phenomenon “… something called ‘X'”.[16] Characteristics include the following:

  1. A strong, centralized government.
  2. An executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms.
  3. The control of banking, credit and security exchanges by the government.
  4. The underwriting of employment by the government, either through armaments or public works.
  5. The underwriting of social security by the government – old-age pensions, mothers’ pensions, unemployment insurance, and the like.
  6. The underwriting of food, housing, and medical care, by the government.
  7. The use of deficit spending to finance these underwritings.
  8. The abandonment of gold in favor of managed currencies.
  9. The control of foreign trade by the government.
  10. The control of natural resources.
  11. The control of energy sources.
  12. The control of transportation.
  13. The control of agricultural production.
  14. The control of labor organizations.
  15. The enlistment of young men and women in youth corps devoted to health, discipline, community service and ideologies consistent with those of the authorities.
  16. Heavy taxation, with special emphasis on the estates and incomes of the rich.
  17. Control of industry without ownership.
  18. State control of communications and propaganda.

Article 6

Culture & Style

Please enjoy this musical selection from Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda:

© MMXXIII BY NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

[bulla] Full Assurance

Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the World; He is the deliverer from all human wretchedness, and He has redeemed us from death and sin; how could He be all that, if the world must languish perpetually in the shades of ignorance and in the bonds of passions? It has been already very clearly predicted in the Prophets that the time of the Redemption of His people, the first Sabbath of time, will come. Long ago ought we to have acknowledged this most consolatory promise; but the want of the true knowledge of God, of man, and of nature has been the real hindrance which has always obstructed our sight of the great Mysteries of the faith.

Karl von Eckartshausen, The Cloud upon the Sanctuary, Letter IV

Jesus Is Our Surety

“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.”
[Hebrews 7:22]

INTRODUCTION

  1. This morning we studied the judgment seat of Christ, for it is the horrible and certain end of all men.
  2. But tonight I want to remind you of our glorious Mediator and Surety with God, the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE DEFINITION

  1. Surety. A person who undertakes some specific responsibility on behalf of another who remains primarily liable; one who makes himself liable for the default or miscarriage of another, or for the performance of some act on his part (e.g. payment of a debt, appearance in court for trial, etc.).
  2. We have surety bonds, performance bonds, bail, and bond to guarantee legal, financial, and professional obligations, such as with construction and insurance companies.
  3. When we need to borrow more than our credit allows, we appreciate a surety; if we were arrested for something, we would appreciate the surety bond that lets us go free.
  4. Judah became a surety for Benjamin to his father Jacob (Gen 43:8-1044:30-3442:37).
  5. Aaron became a surety for Israel in their sins and stood between them (Num 16:41-48).

THE SURETISHIP

  1. Jesus, a High Priest after the order of Melchisedec, was made the Surety of His people.
    1. God chose Jesus from among the people to be the mighty Surety (Psalm 89:19).
    2. He was made Surety by God’s oath at His ordination as our Priest (Heb 7:21).
    3. Jesus did the will of God perfectly as our Surety for our salvation (Heb 10:5-14).
  2. Being a surety means paying debts and performing, where the needy cannot pay or do.
    1. The wages of sin is death, which God’s justice pays; but Jesus died (Rom 6:23).
    2. Only the undefiled enter heaven, so He lived faultlessly for us (Jude 1:24-25).
  3. Jesus was necessary as a surety, for the justice of God must surely be paid (Rom 3:26).
  4. He is the Testator, for it was by His death that He put the covenant in force (Heb 9:15).
  5. We see Him under the strain of the Surety engagement in Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-44).
  6. No man in heaven or earth could approach the throne, but only our Surety (Rev 5:1-14).
  7. If this is not a Surety, successfully finishing His work, what is it (Isaiah 53:4-12)?
  8. The doctrine of representation by the Second Adam reveals our Surety (Rom 5:15-19).
  9. The Lord Jesus tasted death for every one of His children to deliver them (Heb 2:9-17).
  10. How else can we look at the Book of Life, but as the list of His Surety engagements!

THE BENEFITS

  1. The Lord Jesus fulfilled the righteousness of the law on our behalf (Rom 8:3-4), so that we are righteous in God’s sight with His perfect obedience (Eph 5:25-27Col 1:21-22).
  2. The Lord Jesus paid the penalty for sins by His death for us (I Pet 2:24), so that there are no more sins against our charge when we stand before Him (John 1:29Heb 9:28).
  3. He lives to make sure we are absolutely, completely, and eternally saved (Heb 7:25).
  4. There is an abundant entrance into heaven waiting for the children of God (II Pet 1:11).
  5. Since Jesus is our Surety, it is impossible for God to withhold blessings (Romans 8:32).
  6. His death reconciled us to God, but He still lives to be an eternal Surety (Romans 5:10).

THE APPLICATION

  1. There is no fear in the proper knowledge of Christ Jesus our Saviour (II Timothy 1:12).
  2. The LORD will show us His secret and covenant, if we fear and seek Him (Ps 25:14).
  3. We must learn to trust Him. He has done it; He is in heaven for us; He will receive us.
  4. It is simple: “Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed” (Rom 9:3310:8-11).
  5. A woman was healed and had her faith commended, when it was weak (Mark 5:25-34).
  6. Those who lack faith and assurance, I ask how many minutes you spend seeking Him.
  7. And you should consider long and seriously His faithful words “no wise” in John 6:37.
  8. We should seek and receive the benefits of the covenant in our hearts (Eph 3:14-19).
  9. Let us bring forth the fruit of righteousness with far-sighted vision (II Peter 1:9-11).

CONSLUSION

  1. The Lord’s supper is a memorial feast of our Surety’s covenant death for us (I Corinthians 11:23-26).
  2. Let us partake of the Lord’s supper tonight with the joy that His suretiship should put in our hearts.

CITATION


I AM THE L.O.R.D. THY G.O.D.

Drafted by Antarah

I AM the Land Owner Record of Deeds, thy Grantor Of Dominion. My body is the Land and I AM the Owner of Record on the Deed of my Live Birth Certificate. I have granted unto thee the use of my Dominion over the earth, the sea, and all that therein is; for thou art a corpus (“dead corporation”) who is in want of my natural right which I have through the sacrifice of my Savior. My life secured and bonded by the LORD my GOD, let thy presentment pass over me and return unto thee; for said presentment is hereby ACCEPTED FOR VALUE AND HONOR WITHOUT PREJUDICE. I hereby attest and assert my equitable title over the landed estate (“person”) named on the instant presentment. Any obligation of such person is an obligation discharged to and held by the United States as evidenced by the signatures of its Treasurer and Secretary of the Treasury on Federal Reserve Notes, these officers being the de facto fiduciary agents of the estate __________________. All debt is prepaid by the blood of Our Sovereign Lord in Christ for relief by recovery upon acceptance for value under House Joint Resolution 192 (1933).


AUTHORITIES AT LAW AND EQUITY

1. GRANTOR OF DOMINION.

[Genesis 1] [26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

2. DEMAND FOR EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT.

[Psalm 17] [1] Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. [2] Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

3. THE DAY OF THE LORD.

[Psalm 118] [1] O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. [8] It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man [or princes]. [14] The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. [17] I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. [19] Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord: [22] The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. [23] This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. [24] This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. [26] Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD […].

4. ACCEPTANCE FOR VALUE.

[Matthew 5] [25] Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

5. THE TAX RETURN.

[Matthew 22] [17] […] Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? [18] […] Jesus […] said, […] [19] Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. [20] And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? [21] They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. 

6. A WORKER IS DUE HIS WAGES.

[Luke 10] [5] And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [6] And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. [7] And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

7. GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS.

[Romans 2] [9] Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil…; [10] But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good…: [11] For there is no respect of persons with God. [12] For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

8. THE LAW IS BINDING BUT FOR THE REMEDY OF FAITH.

[Galatians 3] [9] So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. [10] For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. [11] But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. [12] And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

9. MINORITY (INFANCY) AND MAJORITY (MATURITY).

[Galatians 4] [4] [T]he heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; [2] But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. [3] Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: [4] But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, [5] To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. [7] Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

10. SURETYSHIP.

[Hebrews 7] [22] By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

11. FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH.

[Hebrews 10] [19] Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, [20] By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; [21] And having an high priest over the house of God; [22] Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.


AUTHORITIES AT EXCLUSIVE EQUITY

Hebrew 10

[22] Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Isaiah 32

[1] Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. [17] And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Acts 17

[31] Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Ruth 2

[12] The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

Ps. 17

[1] Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. [2] Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. [3] Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Ps. 24

[1] The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. [2] For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters.

Ps. 98

[9] …[T]he Lord … cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Is. 11

[4] With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth.

Matt. 22

[37] Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement: thou shalt nor respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.  

II Chronicles 19:6-7

Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

Heb. 7:20, 22, 25

And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:…The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec: By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.


EQUITABLE SUBROGATION

Subrogation is the process where one party assumes the legal rights of another, typically by substituting one creditor for another. Subrogation can also occur when one party takes over another’s right to sue.  

For example, when an insurance company compensates a policyholder for an injury, the policyholder’s right to sue the person responsible for the harm may be subrogated, meaning it is transferred from the policyholder to the insurance company.  

[Last updated in June of 2024 by the Wex Definitions Team]

Surety’s subrogation rights

A surety who pays off the debts of another party may be entitled to be subrogated to the creditor’s former claims and remedies against the debtor to recover the sum paid. This would include the endorser on a bill of exchange. The surety will then have the benefit of any security interest in favour of the creditor for the original debt. Conceptually this is an important point, as the subrogee will take the subrogor’s security rights by operation of law, even if the subrogee had been unaware of them.

Wiki: Subrogation

Did you subrogate to the chattels as the surety (or waive your sovereign natural rights in security interest as estate-heir-beneficiary by acquiescing to the color of the court and merging with the NAME of the principal debtor)?

Amyr Samah El, as amended

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“WHAT IS A SURETY SHIP?”

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📜BRIEF IN EQUITY📜

A presentment made without express contract presumes the recipient to be the trustee for a dead person’s estate without surety and not a living Cestui Que. An estate may, however, be entrusted to a “person” (corporation) for the use of a living spirit who may “possess property” in the nature of equitable use title not legal title.

There is sufficient precedent in Roman, Papal, and English law to presume a human body to be chattel property (i.e., a dead person or a mere human creature without soul or spirit) unless otherwise established to posses a soul from God. The cestui que who is presumed dead or lost at sea MUST EXPRESSLY STATE that they are indeed the living cestui que to be given standing as one of the three Chancellors in a Court of Equity and Chancery deciding the matter of an estate (dead person). The common law, as it pertains to the military jurisdiction of the public, cannot abrogate a matter of equity respecting a living free man or woman on the land.

Statue of Mortmain prohibits possession of property by the “dead hand” of a corporation (such as the Church); therefore a “person” (dead in the eyes of God) cannot possess property; rather it reverts to the feudal lord.

The Remedy is that the cestui que (beneficiary) possesses equitable title by nature to the property as a living child of god, but never holds the legal title of the trustee which is the feudal lord or its agent, including any person who is a citizen of the jurisdiction.

There is precedence in Germanic law that a man who holds property on account of to the use of another is bound to fulfill his trust.

Furthermore, precedent is found in the Institutes of Justinian at 2.23.1-2: “… it is required that the one heir is duly appointed and is committed to his trust (Fideicommissum) to transfer the inheritance to another; otherwise the testament in which no heir has been duly appointed is void; the words which are properly and commonly used to install a fideicommisum are I beg, I ask, I wish, I entrust…” This doctrine was brought to England by “foreign ecclesiastics” (ministers and consuls) in order to evade the Statute of Mortmain by making the Church cestui a que use le Feoffment fuit fait.

In sum, cestui que use confers the benefit of use of property to another (a minister or consul) without the legal ownership and attendant duties and obligations to the lord and crown as trustee. Compare to usufruct, or right of use of fruits (interest, profits, etc.) of property.

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The Memphite Creed

Qadosh Adonai Sebayot

Toward the profession of wisdom, to profess a love of wisdom, because wisdom is that which gives knowledge to practice, use of good judgment and upstanding righteousness;

To love wisdom is to do that which is good for the sake of its goodness, which is, to discern good from its opposite, to partake of the good and forsake the evil;

To know and commune with the divine living nature animating all matter in the universe;

Toward an objective, materialist language that does not multiply words, and which provides for every natural phenomenon a proper name;

Adoration to those of the School of Men Nefer, from whose wisdom all doctrine proceeds, for they first established this wisdom at the Nome of the White Wall, the place in which the north and south are united, the life of the Two Lands, enduring and beautiful. 

Adoration to our Noble and Beloved Ancestors, who preserved this wisdom at Men Nefer, and at many nomes, and under many names*, that it would be neither lost nor wholly corrupted to those who had ears to hear and eyes to see, that it should be a testament of the antiquity of our learned society, and a witness to the glory of God the Material Universe, by whom all that was made was made, forever, world without end. Amen. 

*Including our native Khemennu, Iunu, Waset, Djedu, Ipet-Isut, Akhenaton, Axum, Carthage, Timbuktu, Bantu-Kongo, Ife-Yoruba, Dogon, Akan, Barbary, Fez, Al’Maghreb Al’Aqsa, Olmexica, and beyond. 

Instruction to the Aspirant to the School of Men Nefer

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is when friends assemble together in union. It is like when Heru and Set settled their conflict and united the Two Lands in the name of Tenen. The Two Lands of the North and South were united, as above, so below. Then our Ancestors ministered in the following of Heru who united the bicameral house of Ptah at the place of Men Nefer, the Life of the Two Lands, in which the North and South were united. Long ruled our Beloved Ancestors, United in the House of Ptah. Then they received their disciples into the Temple to learn them in the Ancient Doctrine. Whosoever may enter the Temple [of Self Knowledge], let them declare their innocence, that we may bear witness to their virtue, and judge them fit to study, according to their deeds.

[Place the right hand to the heart, and make a right angle with the left arm; place the feet together, then step the left foot forward] Hetep Ankh Udjab Seneb di maa’kheru Ma’at di.ef peret heru medu: Ur Ma’at Ur Ma’at. I have come now to speak, truly, bearing witness to my heart, that I have followed in the straight path in the practice of Ma’at, for I have Seven Virtues as valuable as fine jewels, which mark my character, and I will say them unto you:

[Place the left hand in the right hand and say] Friendship means to dwell together in union and extend a helping hand to those in need. 

[Drop the left hand to the side and place the right hand over the heart and say] Love means to treat others as oneself; to extend good will toward all humanity. 

[Place the right hand over the eyes and say] Truth means that which accords to reality; to vouchsafe your trust in the divine process of nature. [Now drop the right hand to the side and assume the tantric position of Adoration, extending the hands equidistantly, and recite:]

Ink ii em Hetep, I am one Who Comes In Peace, for Continentia (Temperance) means to exercise restraint; self-control, self-mastery; soundness of mind.

Ink Djedi, I am one Who Is Established, for Fortitudo (Fortitude) means to exercise courage and strength.

Ink Udjat Useer, I am one Who Seeth Clearly, for Prudentia (Prudence) means to exercise discernment; wisdom; Sophia; sapientia.

Ink Maa’khru, I am one Who Speaketh Truly, for Iustitia (Justice) means to exercise equity and righteousness; or that which concords with the law.

[Now bring the hands together over the heart and say] Wherefore, before thou, [O Honorable Scribe], I hereby swear to duly guard the Practice of Ma’at, and to do Ma’at on Earth, as it is in Heaven, in nomine Pater Noster Ptah Notjeru. Amen.

The Oath of Ma’at, to be sworn by the Aspirant before a scribe or other learned and pious officiator of the School of Men Nefer anywhere in the World. Axe.

Wherefore, Comrades, let us profess the doctrine of “Memphis” this day. Let us first proceed to the matter of Heru and Set, being the Mystery Drama on the origin of conflict and unity. Next let us turn to the Greater Mystery on the Work of Creation.

“WAKE UP, MR. WEST”: The Return of the Rap-Pagan, Part I

[Paragraphs marked * were written c. January 2014 and slightly revised]

[Note: this essay contains racial language used for socio-analytical purposes. The NS identifies only one Human race and does not discriminate or condemn any individual solely for their personal, cultural, or religious practices. The NS does not, however, condone the thematically-exploitative historical practices of certain homogenous groups.]

Hip-hop music was once the voice of the urban Afrakan of the Diaspora (Black people), spoken by poor righteous teachers to inform us of our circumstances. In the era of Rakim, Tribe, Wu-Tang, and other 5%ers, Hip-Hop preached the pagan sun-gospel and the resurrection of the black body from the Wilderness of the North American ghettos.

Hip-hop was so effective at its initial mission to “wake up” the Black people that the Powers-That-Be, who were invested in keeping the Black population ignorant and depraved, thereupon infiltrated the ranks of our culture, poisoned our message, and created the genre of “Rap.” Rap was promoted by the Powers-That-Be into becoming the dominant mode of entertainment for Black youth. As such, it has been seeded with those same vices which our old-head teachers said would keep us subservient to the system: drug abuse, misogyny, glorification of violence, and the pursuit of empty riches.

This is not the first time that the Powers-That-Be have infiltrated the ranks of natural Culture. It happened over 2000 years ago in Lower Kemet, and it has been happening for the past 1000 years all over the indigenous world. In Ancient Kemet, the Powers-That-Be [Greece, Rome, Hyksos-Semites] conquered, stole, and corrupted the pagan science of nature into the abrahamic mystery religions. Hence, without intending any anti-Semitism, it is appropriate to call the originators of modern Hip-Hop culture Rap-Pagans, and the parasitic trap-rappers and cronies of the music industry, Rap-Jews.

Kanye West, a talented young producer who appeared on the scene at the end of the 90s just as the Rap-Jews were beginning to take over, presents an interesting model of a music artist in an age where the Black consciousness is torn between cultural piety and cultural exploitation. It is as if Kanye had begun his career wanting to reclaim Kemet for his people, but he was ultimately consumed by Babylon. In Part II of this essay, we will see how Kendrick Lamar, proud King Kunta Kinte, represents the alternative, true, inner Kanye West, the Kanye who succeeded in beating the system, instead of getting beat by it.

*Mr. West’s most recent album, Yeezus, which many lament and many praise, is not all boast. I believe that Mr. West is the divine prophet of the rap music industry, the chosen son of our god Gil Scott-Heron, and he has come to die for all the sins of his fellow Rap-Jews, who are mired in the vices above described.

*We may separate Mr. West’s career into Old and New Testaments, on opposite sides of the dramatic upset in his style between Graduation and 808s and Heartbreak. Graduation having been released in September of 2007, and his mother having died in November of that year, we may credit Mr. West’s emotional shift to that event which he has said proved to yield a devastating affect in his life.

*College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation—the Old Testament of Kanye West—exemplify his affinity for classic soul samples, the guilt he sustained from not completing college and letting his mother down, and his struggle to find his place in the rap world.

*In the Old Testament, we find verses from Talib Kweli, Common, Mos Def (the rapper currently known as Yasiin Bey), Lupe Fiasco, and other Rap-Pagans of this era, to an extent and quality that we find lacking in the latter period of Mr. West. We find West acknowledging and often lamenting the reality that he sees his people so mired in—how the institutions of white America passed down drugs, guns, and disease to break a people intent on trying to pull themselves up (see “Crack Music”)—as well as grappling with his image and his internal struggle between desiring the flashy luxurious toys that the Rap-Jew covets and being an upstanding role model for a younger generation (i.e., providing an image of the black male that is not steeped in lust-driven, gang-oriented, rags-to-crack-to-riches ideology). This internal conflict is epitomized in College Dropout, but also well-evoked in Late Registration:

How we stop the Black Panthers?

Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer.

You hear that? What Gil Scott was “Heron”

When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroine.

Crack raised the murder rate in D.C. and Maryland;

We invested in that, it’s like we got Merrill lynched.

And we’ve been hanging from the same tree ever since.

Sometimes I feel like music is the only medicine,

So we cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it, sell it,

The fiends cop it, nowadays they can’t tell if

That’s that good shit, we ain’t sure, man;

Put the CD on your tongue, yeah that’s pure, man.

This that crack music, nigga,

That real black music, nigga.

From the place where the father’s gone, the mothers is hardly home

And the Madigons lock us up in the Audy Home [a Chicago-area juvenile prison];

How the Mexicans say, We just tryin’ to party, holmes;

They wanna pack us all in a box like styrofoam.

Who gave Saddam anthrax?

George Bush got the answers.

Back in the hood it’s a different type of chemical–

Arm & Hammer baking soda raised their own quota

Right when our soldiers ran for the stove ’cause,

‘Cause … dreams of being Hova

Went from being a broke man to being a dopeman

To being the president, look there’s hope, man;

This that inspiration for the Moes and the Folks, man,

Shorty come and see his momma straight overdosin’

… And this is the soundtrack;

This the type of music that you make when you round that.

Our father, give us this day our daily bread,

Before the feds give us these days and take our daily bread.

See I done all this ol’ bullshit,

And to atone, I throw a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ on the pulpit.

We took that shit, measured it, and then cooked that shit,

And what we gave back was crack music.

And now we ooze it through they nooks and crannies,

So our mommas ain’t got to be their cooks and nannies,

And we gon’ repo everything they ever took from granny.

Now the former slaves trade hooks for Garmmys.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

Those who ain’t even black use it.

We gon’ keep baggin’ up this here crack music.

*I reproduced “Crack Music” from Late Registration here in its entirety because I think it’s the most revealing of West’s Old Testament songs. Even when he is making a song in the spirit of the Rap-Jew, elaborating upon past drug-work and showing how one made it “out the ghetto” because of that occupation, he is being pointedly ironic. He is representing this type of degenerative rap as crack in and of itself. Music that glorifies the drug-life is poison for the people who have to experience this reality every day, and yet rappers continue to glorify this occupation at the behest of parasitic music industry executives who think that this image is what will sell records. Mr. West is pointing out that the Black community’s drug problems were and are imposed upon them by the Powers-That-Be in order to break them, in the same way that “crack music” is imposed upon young Black ears in order to keep those youths in a position where they will be swiftly cast off into the prison industrial complex and be out of America’s white hair. The way in which chemical warfare was executed in the Iraq War was the same way it was executed in the urban centers of America.

*Mr. West is trying to say that being a dopeman is no longer something that Black youths in city slums have to take as their given future; they have further options, and the later election of President Barack Obama in 2008 was a well-timed reinforcement to this sentiment. Despite the ironic ending to this song, Mr. West aims to instil hope in his listeners, or at least an awareness of the system in which they find themselves at the bottom. There are other options, he says; Black youths don’t have to look up to Hova (Jay-Z) as one of their sole role models because rap and professional sports are not the only options for black youth … which brings me to my next point.

*In this era we see Mr. West revere Jay-Z as a Yahweh figure, a mentor, even though Ye laments that the superstar did not give him much of a thought during the early part of his career (exemplified in “Last Call” on College Dropout, “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” on Late Registration, and “Big Brother” on Graduation). That would change in the New Testament, however, when Mr. West would inflate his ego in order to prove himself to be a contender for Jay-Z’s throne as the Greatest Rapper on Earth Alive Today and the Greatest Of All Time (the GREAT GOAT).

*At the end of the Old Testament, we see the death of the Graduation Bear, that figure which served as a logo and branding marker for Mr. West’s early career; that image makes its last appearance on the cover of Graduation, signifying a moving-away from the college motif (i.e., the “student” persona) and a rebirth in musical spirit (i.e., the development of the “master” persona).

*808s and Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Cruel Summer and Watch the Throne (for our purposes), and Yeezus, signify the New Testament as it stands presently. [This paragraph was written prior to the release of Life of Pablo.]

*808s introduced us to the new sound of Mr. West—autotune and synthesizers as opposed to soul samples and MIDIs. This likely occurred as a result of the recent death of Mr. West’s mother and his inability to express his deepest feelings through rapping alone. Fans were, of course, skeptical at first, but whenever Mr. West sets a trend, it catches on. After its release, autotune became a staple in radio-rap music.

*My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, arguably Mr. West’s magnum opus, solidified his place as a tier-one musician—not only as a rapper—but as a bona fide composer, a musical genius of our time to rival Bob Dylan in his, and Mozart before him. But we see no more of the pagan consciousness of Mos Def and Talib Kweli. West adopts a whole new entourage—Rick Ross, Kid Cudi, Pusha T, Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj, Big Sean, old Wu-Tang members, and his idol—though not for long—Jay-Z himself.

*In MBDTF, Kanye proved himself to be the equal of Jay-Z, if it were not the case that Mr. Carter was already falling off in terms of his lyricism.

*In Watch the Throne, a War in Heaven that Milton would have applauded, Mr. West effectively toppled Jay-Z from the GREAT throne: he kills his god.

*Prior to MBDTF and into the aftermath of the battle for the Throne, Mr. West surrounded himself with a following of rappers—the G.O.O.D Music crew—as his disciples, and released countless megahits, further solidifying his position as rap’s new father figure.

*Through it all, however, Mr. West never lost the awareness of his Blackness and the role he was expected to play by white America and the parasitic Rap-Jew music industry. Although he is aware of the internal conflict, he seems at loss to correct it, to harken back to a time of Kemet, a time of Zion. He appears, in the mid-New Testament, to be consumed by and assimilated into Babylon:

Inter-century anthems based off inner-city tantrums

Based off the way we was branded,

Face it, Jerome gets more time than Brandon,

And at the airport they check all through my bags

And tell me that it’s random.

I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS:

I won’t be satisfied till all my niggas get it (get it?)

As long as I’m in Polo smiling they think they got me,

But they’d try to crack me if they could ever see a black me.

I thought I chose a field where they couldn’t sack me

If a nigga ain’t shootin’ a jump shot runnin’ a tack meet …

(“Gorgeous”)

You know white people, get money don’t spend it,

Or maybe they: get money, buy a business;

I’d rather buy eighty gold chains and go [ignorant]!

I know Spike Lee gone kill me but let me finish …

(“Clique”)

*Finally, Mr. West reveals himself as rap’s Jesus in the album of near-the-same name, released just earlier this year [2013]. It is profound and accomplished in its lyricism, arrangement, production, and intent. The sample of Nina Simone’s “Strange Fruit” in “Blood on the Leaves” alone speaks volumes. Many have said that Mr. West simplified and vulgarized his previously-verbose lyricism on this record, but I think he is simply more controlled and as outspoken as ever:

My momma was raised in the era when

Clean water was only served to the fair of skin.

Doin’ clothes you would have thought I had help

But they wasn’t satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.

You see it’s broke-nigga racism, that’s that “Don’t touch anything in the store”

And it’s rich-nigga racism, that’s that “Come in please buy more.”

What’you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond ring?

All you black want all the same things.

(“New Slaves”)

*If these are not the sentiments, the biting satire and scathing truths, of a deeply-conflicted and internally split Black man, then call me Lena Dunham. Because Mr. West is able to express such blunt and directed remarks on a record that will reach tens of millions of American ears, we must acknowledge that he is an artist in control of the message he wishes to spread, that he is learning about himself even as he is telling us about ourselves, and that we as a country are most definitely no longer in the 20th Century.

Given the above analysis [which was written 3 years ago], it remains that during this late-New Testament period Mr. West was slowly loosing control of his Self. It seems now that the maximal inflation of West’s ego during the Yeezus era was bound to be trailed by a decline into near-insanity. Furthermore, the Rap-Jew in Mr. West seems to have gotten the best of his Rap-Pagan at this time, and whether or not the Kardashians, MK Ultra, and the Entertainment-Propaganda Industrial Complex had a whole lot to do with it is anyone’s theory. But I think that the man had simply lost his way, forgot who he was in the midst of fame, had begun praying to mystery gods, and had begun to maintain self-destructive practice.

This analysis of Kanye West illustrates two things for the purpose of our essay’s theme, the return of the Rap-Pagan. The first point is that while the Rap-Jew has reigned on the radio from ~2000AD-present, Mr. West has staged a front-guard against the forces of ignorance which seek to destroy the consciousness of the Black people. Secondly, while this may be the case, he has ultimately [at this time] failed to carry through the mission himself, and his position in the conscious Black community is nullified until he divorces Kim Kardashian.

While the Gospel of Kanye West may or may not be over and done with, the advance-guard of the Rap-Pagans may be just beginning. I tell you—when I heard Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80 in 2011, and the future King Kunta rattled off Rigamortis—I tell you—the Trumpence of Revelations sounded and I discovered that the body undergoing the rigor mortis referred to in the song’s title was the dying body of the Rap-Jew Conspiracy and the white supremacy national complex. I think that Kendrick will reclaim Kemet for the People, if they don’t do him like Pac first!

Stay tuned for the next installment to hear about the significance of staying “Humble” in:

KING KHEM: The Return of the Rap-Pagan, Part II.